Reviews by Category: Fiction

Teen Review
To Kill a Mockingbird book cover

To Kill a Mockingbird

By Harper Lee
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Victoria O.
Mar 18, 2024

To Kill a Mockingbird is a historical fiction book by Harper Lee. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. The book is from the perspective of Scout as she and her older brother Jem learn about racism and prejudice through their father's defense of a black man accused of rape. They witness the injustice of the legal system and the racism of their community. 

Teen Review
This Boy

This Boy

By Lauren Myracle
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Lucas F.
Mar 18, 2024

This Boy is a roughly written attempt to relate to a teenage audience about sex, teenage life, and addiction. In this book, Paul goes through high school with his faithful friend Roby Smalls and falls in love with a girl, Natalia, while coming through age and suffering through the teenage experience.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 18, 2024

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott.Fitzgerald is a novel set in the roaring twenties in Long Island, New York. The narrator, Nick Carraway meets Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who throws extravagant parties. 

Teen Review
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Victoria O.
Mar 15, 2024

National Treasure: Book of Secrets by Jon Turteltaub is a historical adventure movie that is a sequel to National Treasure. The movie is about Benjamin Gates and his friends Riley and Abigail as he sets out to clear his family's name by uncovering the truth behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Along with his team, Gates travels around the world to decipher clues and solve puzzles that lead them to a hidden city of gold.

Teen Review
National Treasure

National Treasure

Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Victoria O.
Mar 15, 2024

National Treasure by Jon Turteltaub is a historical adventure movie. Benjamin Gates is a historian and code-breaker that sets out with his friend Riley to steal the Declaration of Independence. They are trying to protect the Declaration from being taken by other treasure hunters who want to take the Gates’ family treasure for themselves. Ben and Riley, with other historians that join them along the way, they work together to decipher historical clues that will eventually lead to the treasure.

Teen Review
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mahad Z.
Mar 14, 2024

Summary: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen follows the lives of the Bennet family, particularly the second eldest daughter, Elizabeth Bennet, as they navigate the social norms and expectations of 19th-century England. The novel explores themes of marriage, class, and gender roles. The arrival of the wealthy Mr. Darcy in the neighborhood sparks both attraction and disdain, leading to a series of misunderstandings and romantic entanglements.

Teen Review

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Aditi R.
Mar 14, 2024

Summary: A dystopian novel set in a future society where everyone undergoes a surgery at the age of 16 to become “pretty” and move on to live in a perfect world. Tally Youngblood, the protagonist, can’t wait to turn 16 and become pretty until she meets a girl, Shay, who wants to remain “ugly” and live outside the city. Shay runs away before her surgery, forcing Tally to find her and bring her back to the city. During her journey, Tally discovers the truth about the surgery and the dark secrets that the government has hidden.

Teen Review
1984 book cover

1984

By George Orwell
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aditi R.
Mar 14, 2024

Summary: In the gripping novel, 1984, we meet a future totalitarian society where the government, known as the Party, controls every aspect of people's lives. The protagonist and member of the Party, Winston Smith, begins to question the authority of the Party and its leader, Big Brother. Winston's rebellion against the Party leads him to a forbidden love affair and a dangerous journey to uncover the truth about the Party and their methods of control.

Teen Review
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

By William Shakespeare
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Neil
Mar 8, 2024

Romeo and Juliet is a popular play written by Shakespeare. In this story set in medieval Italy, there are two families in the city of Verona who have a long enmity between them, the Montagues and the Capulets. However, one day, Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, see each other and instantly fall in love. They marry in secret and plan to secretly meet each other without their parents ever knowing, as if they did they would punish them.

Teen Review
Legend by Marie Lu

Legend

By Marie Lu
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Gia-Dat P.
Mar 8, 2024

Set in the future, the United States is now divided into two: the Republic and the Colonies. Constantly at war with its neighbor, the Republic has adopted a highly militarized state where kids are trained to be soldiers from a young age. June, a military prodigy from an elite family, has everything set for life. Day, a homeless kid trying to keep his poor family alive, happens to be the most-wanted criminal in the Republic.

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