Every Summer After is a romance book written by Carley Fortune. Backstory: Persephone Fraser is from the big city but one summer her parents bought a lake house in Barry’s Bay. That’s when she met the Florek brothers, Sam, and Charlie. She and Sam became fast friends and were inseparable. Eventually they become more than friends. However, in the present Percy and Sam had a huge falling out that ruined their friendship.
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter features a life-altering secret that spans two decades and changes the lives of all the characters. Norah and David Henry are happily married with a baby on the way. However, on the stormy night that Norah gives birth to unexpected twins, David realizes that their daughter has Down Syndrome.
(500) Days of Summer has to be one of my favorite movies to exist. The movie starts off by showing the viewers the main character, Tom. Tom is looking for love, but he hasn’t had much luck. He meets one of his co-workers, Summer, and immediately falls in love. Summer is very independent and does not believe in love. The movie shows us the 500 days that they were together, and their weird relationship.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian novel about a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in the poorest region of her country, District 12. Every year, her country holds a competition called the Hunger Games where people are randomly selected and asked to fight to the death to win the games. Katniss is chosen to participate in the games for her district, along with a boy named Peeta. She must leave everything behind, including her friend Gale, to go fight in a game she might not live through.
Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer is the best book you will ever read!!! Ever!!! Although it’s in the fantasy genre, it has everything- fantasy, adventure, romance, action; it’s every reader’s dream book!!! I’ll give this book five out of five stars, but I’d give it six in a heartbeat if I could!
This was a very interesting, insightful book that centers on a fatal car crash and the aftermath of the incident. When Reggie, a college student in Utah, drives & kills 2 rocket scientists, he is faced with life-changing consequences. This book follows the aftermath of that crash and how Reggie changes from it. The book also includes many science experiments to really show what may have happened at the time of the crash. Was Reggie distracted & texting? Or was it just an unfortunate accident?
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black is an entrancing book about finding your place. This fantasy adventure YA book tells the story of Jude Duarte, a 17 year old girl living in Elfhame, a faerie realm. Things are never easy for her as she navigates this new life, always shamed for being normal where normal wasn't normal. Jude Duarte hates being seen as inferior and all she wants to be is a knight so she can prove her worth.
Ruin and Rising is the grand finale of the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and if you haven't read Shadow and Bone (first book) or Siege and Storm (second book), I would highly recommend that you read them first.
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People is the eighth book in Dav Pilkey’s hilarious and imaginative series. In this installment, George and Harold accidentally travel to an alternate universe where everything is backward. Instead of their usual friend Captain Underpants, they encounter the evil Captain Blunderpants! George and Harold must figure out how to escape this strange world and stop their villainous doppelgängers before it’s too late.
After a plane crash leaves a group of adolescent boys stranded on a deserted island, they must figure out how to survive. Their initial methods are civilized and orderly, but as the struggle for power takes over, a man’s darkest parts are revealed. With the added obstacles of a terrifying monster and lost hope, will the boys survive?
