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Toy Story

By John Lasseter
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 12, 2025

Toy Story is the first ever feature length 3D computer-animated film, a classic that must be watched by everyone at least once in their lives. The movie still holds up today even though the film dates back three decades. Toy Story tells us about the secret life that toys live when humans are not present and looking. The story starts when Andy (the kid that owns the toys) gets a new toy called Buzz Light-year.

Teen Review
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Two Dark Reigns

By Kendare Blake
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2025

“I suppose it does not feel the same without her . . . Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.” 

The wait is over, and Katharine wears the crown. But does she really? More queens seem to be popping out of the woodworks, and she has the sneaking suspicion that her other two sisters continue living, and that they will return to take the throne. 

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Three Dark Crowns

By Kendare Blake
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2025

“Three dark queens

 Are born in a glen, 

Sweet little triplets 

Will never be friends 

Three dark sisters 

All fair to be seen, 

Two to devour 

And one to be Queen” 

Once a generation, triplet girls are born to the queen. Separated from birth and taught the unique type of magic they each possess, they will meet again on their 16th birthday, when they fight to the death for the right to their throne. 

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The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2025

“It is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.” 

Teen Review
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Sorcery of Thorns

By Margaret Rogerson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 11, 2025

This book follows Elizabeth Scrivener, a curious teenager who grew up among the books and grimoires of her town. Abandoned at the Great Library as a baby, she was raised in the enormous building with the books of magic and mischief. The books are so magical, in fact, that they can even transform into monsters, depending on how powerful they are. Elizabeth is an apprentice librarian when she becomes a suspect in sabotaging the library. Outraged, she teams up with Nathanial Thorn, an insufferable sorcerer who claims he can help clear her name.

Teen Review
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The Davenports

By Krystal Marquis
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Mar 11, 2025

The Davenports is a historical romance novel set in 1910s Chicago, following the lives of four young Black women navigating love, ambition, and societal expectations. The story is about the wealthy Davenport family who built their wealth through a carriage business and was one of the few Black elites of the era. Olivia Davenport, the eldest daughter, is expected to marry well but finds herself in love with a civil rights activist. Helen, her younger sister, is more interested in mechanics than debutante balls.

Teen Review
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If the Sun Never Sets

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Natalie C.
Mar 11, 2025

It is a second-chance romance, where the two main characters have matured since they have last met. In If the Sun Never Sets, the story is between Blake and Farrah, and when their paths cross five years later. They are both successful businesspeople with different career paths. They reunite through Blake’s friend when he contracts Farrah to be Blake’s new interior designer. Blake gets a second chance with the woman that he has loved since he met her.

Teen Review
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Allegiant

By Veronica Roth
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Victoria O.
Mar 11, 2025

Allegiant by Veronica Roth is the third and final book in the dystopian Divergent series. Tris’s entire world has changed, everything she once believed has changed, and now, it is up to her to discover the truth. Her city is bordered by a fence, keeping them in, and everyone else out.  Together, with the help of their few remaining loyal friends, Tris and Tobias devise a plan to escape the city and see the world outside the fence. Unfortunately, the world outside the fence is just as corrupt as inside the wall.

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