Reviews by Category: Humor

Teen Review
The Breakfast Club movie cover

The Breakfast Club

By John Hughes
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Isabella
Nov 20, 2023

Five teenagers from different backgrounds end up in Saturday detention for misbehaving in The Breakfast Club.  Despite their differences, they gradually open up and form a genuine bond of friendship. The film shows that connection and understanding can occur even among people who seem vastly different from one another which is a relevant topic even in today's society. They have to write an essay about themselves and their aspirations as part of their punishment.

Teen Review
Slacker book clover

Slacker

By Gordon Korman
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 29, 2023

Slacker by Gordon Korman is a novel that centers on Cameron Boxer. Cameron is your average teenager who hates homework and plays video games.  Except, he might be hating homework a bit too much as he does not even bother to do it and instead plays video games for most of his free time because he wants to become a championship gamer. This lifestyle comes to a screeching halt when he is grounded.  He almost let his house burn down trying to focus on a game and beat his nemesis.

Teen Review
Holes

Holes

By Louis Sachar
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Owen C.
Jul 20, 2023

Stanley, a 14 year old boy was wrongly accused and sent to Camp Green Lake. Camp was not how it was expected to be, Every day he had to do holes six feet deep and six feet wide for no reason. There, he becomes friends with Zero to break the 150 year old curse on his family. 

Teen Review
Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

By Talia Hibbert
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Ken
Jul 6, 2023

Get a Life, Chloe Brown, written by Talia Hibbert, tells the tale of a girl who was involved in a car crash that almost killed her. She then makes it a goal to make a life for herself. She comes up with six items for her to get a life, but she needs assistance along the way. So she asks a handyman named Redford (Red) Morgan, who she has known for quite some time, with assisting her through this journey. But will she catch feelings for him along the way? 

Teen Review
Hoot

Hoot

By Carl Hiaasen
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Owen C.
Jul 3, 2023

Hoot is very well written by Carl Hiaasen. Roy Eberhardt moves to Florida, is the new kid at school, and meets a strange kid named Mullet Fingers. At school he gets bullied and learns about the burrowing owls that would get destroyed if the new Pancake House gets built. During the course of the school year Roy learns new things about himself. 

Teen Review
Born a Crime

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

By Trevor Noah
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
VP
Jun 2, 2023

This was such a fun book! Although, not in a very fun situation. Trevor Noah grows up as a mixed child during the apartheid laws in South Africa, so he was quite literally born a crime. This book describes Noah’s childhood, lifestyle, iconic stories, and the challenges he faced with his background. Here’s the most important aspect of the book: it’s funny. It seems contradictory, but Trevor Noah, as an adult comedian today, used humor as a coping mechanism in his life.

Teen Review
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

By Roald Dahl
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Owen C.
May 30, 2023

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about Charlie who is the son of a poor household. Charlie loves chocolate and soon gets an offer he can’t refuse. He then faces a set of “challenges” to determine the one to own the factory. In the end, Charlie makes the right decision and stuns the candy maker. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of my favorite books because it is by a very famous author, it is very exciting, and very funny.

Teen Review
My Life as a Meme

My Life as a Meme

By Janet Tashjian
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Owen C.
May 17, 2023

My Life as a Meme is a great book. It is part of the My Life Series. It is about the main character, Derek who loves memes but soon realizes how it feels to be on the other side of it. Derek gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Derek learns that there are always two sides to things. I like this book because of the sudden plot twist, this makes it very exciting. Other readers might like this book because it is part of a series and the author does a good job on keeping the reader interested.

Teen Review
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Nihanth D.
Apr 24, 2023

Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. It’s a story
about how love makes us do ridiculous things and this is a topic that Shakespeare revisits in his
later plays. Much Ado About Nothing is about how a young man from war falls in love with a
nobleman’s daughter, which is the complete opposite of his friend’s annoyance with the

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