Reviews by Category: Fiction

The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, is a dramatic teenage-romance book that spawned several

others in the genre.

Flannery Culp, high school student and murderess, is going into her senior

year, and she’s got a huge crush on the student choir leader, Adam State.

She writes him letter after letter, but never knows how he truly feels.

Other than Adam, Flannery is also dealing with other unwanted attention.

Meanwhile, her endearingly pretensious group of friends are having

troubles of their own, and Flannery gets entangled in quite a few of them.

I didn’t love the book at first. The beginning is kind of slow, and it

The Hive by Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden

Spy School Revolution by Stuart Gibbs. Genre: Fiction

Read previous books in the Spy School series before reading this review.

If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

Fudge-a-Mania is a fictional novel written by Judy Blume. Peter Hatcher,

who is a fifth grader in New York and he takes a vacation to Maine. He has to

share a vacation house with his enemy, Sheila Tubman. Peter has to come to

terms with this, and his teen age while growing up when dealing with Sheila, and

his younger annoying brother, Fudge. He tries to make this situation better with

his friends, but it turns into problems. Things get better between them, and they

The Catcher in the Rye is a fictional novel written by J.D. Salinger. This novel

is about a 16 year old named Holden Caufield. He gets expelled from his prep

boarding school. He is confused about how to make a way in the world. He feels

as if it is his against the world, as he struggles with his past and present, as well

as future. His parents play a major role in what he thinks about himself. He also

The protagonist is a 12-year-old named Willow Chance. She is highly gifted and

fascinated with medicine, plants, and the number 7. After a teacher accuses her of cheating

on a test she scored perfectly on, she starts meeting the school counselor, Dell Duke, who is

inspired by her intelligence. While meeting with Duke, she also meets two Vietnamese

siblings, Mai and Quang-ha Nyugen, whom she befriends and even learns Vietnamese for.

Willow also befriends the taxi driver she calls to bring her from school to Dell’s office, Jairo

Credence is an exceptionally written romance

mystery novel written by Penelope Douglas. It

takes us through the life of a young girl

whose parents mysteriously died and so she is

sent to live in the mountains with her step

uncle whom she has never met before. Overall

the storyline of the book is interesting due

to all the different perspectives outlined in

the book. I would not suggest this book for

young readers as it contains several mature

themes. I also feel as if the ending of the

This book was recommended to me by a close friend and I’m glad that I read it. It was not the kind of

mystery novel I was expecting but I still ended up enjoying it. You meet Kya, who is known as the “marsh

girl” in this story, because she lives alone in the marsh. In the book, it switches between time periods in

different chapters as it alternates from the present, where a murder case was being investigated, to the

past, where you can see Kya’s childhood and history. Each chapter slowly unravels different parts of the