Reviews

Staff Review

The Radleys a novel by Matt Haig


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
May 6, 2011

The Radleys is a story of an all American disfunctional family with 2 parents 1 daughter and 1 son. The parents want to deny who they truly are, and so do not tell the children who they really are.

Staff Review May 6, 2011

Louis Zamperini was a spirited youth who found his groove in running. So good was he that he decided he was going to run in the 1936 Olympics -- just a couple of years away. That's a lot of determined training. And he did it. The determination and self discipline required for this accomplishment would serve him well just a few short years later.

Teen Review

13 Reasons Why

By Jay Asher
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by Kate M.
May 6, 2011

So yesterday I was reading at the gym, and I am just about to the end of my book and something horrible happens. It starts with a little catch in my throat, then I can feel my eyes starting to fill up...and I realize that I am about to cry over a book in public. And not just anywhere, at the gym, in front of all the ladies going to zumba and the body builders lifting weights.

Staff Review

Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell


Rated by Library Staff (not verified)
May 4, 2011

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell Ree Dolly is only 16, yet is responsible for her 2 younger brothers and her “crazy” mother. Her father, has left, eluding the law because of charges of running a crystal meth lab. Ree sets out to find him in order to save the family home, which will be lost if he does not show in court. Ree’s perseverance is inspiring.

Staff Review

Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross


Rated by Michelle H.
May 4, 2011

Ross’s novel begins as many mysteries do, with a murder. David Pepin’s wife suspiciously dies from anaphylactic shock after having eaten peanuts, and we reader’s are led to believe that David may be to blame. From this beginning the novel develops into a fascinating and tender portrait of a complicated marriage, albeit under the guise of violence.

Staff Review May 3, 2011

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend time behind bars in a maximum security prison?  Award winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca knows exactly what it is like to be in prison.  A Place to Stand is Baca's memoir of his troubled early life, subsequent incarceration in prison at the age of 21 for selling drugs and how he turned his life