Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi, is a fantasy book with a gripping plot. Zélie is a
young girl living in Orïsha, a fictional country where magic exists. Zélie is a maji, a group of
outlawed people born with magic. All magic was destroyed when Zélie was just a child. For her
entire life, she has faced discrimination due to her magic. However, when runaway princess
Amari finds a magical scroll, Zélie unlocks her powers for the first time in years. Together, the
Chain of Gold, by Cassandra Clare, follows a group of shadowhunters,
descendants of angels whose main goal is to kill demons, in 1903 London. Cordelia
Carstairs is a young shadowhunter moving to England with her family. While there she
reunites with her childhood love, James Herondale, his sister and Cordelia’s best friend,
Lucie, and a host of new characters. While Cordelia gets acclimated to her new home, a
Taylor Greer has spent her entire life in her small town in rural Kentucky. Wanting
desperately to get out of her repetitive, lonely life, she leaves her mother to make a trek across
the country. As she searches for a place to call home, she comes into possession of a little girl
named Turtle. The two form an unlikely bond as they find themselves in Tucson, Arizona. While
meeting new people, such as single mother Lou Ann and her disaster prone son, Dwayne Ray,
or immigrant couple Estevan and Esperanza, who find a place in Taylor’s heart, Taylor and
Summary: Amelia Griffin became best friends with Jenna Williams after her father left and her
family fell apart. They bonded over their love of books their favorite ones being a series called
the Orman Chronicles. They are very excited to be able to meet the author at a book festival the
summer before college. However, not everything goes as planned. While Amelia is in the
bathroom, Jenna gets to meet the author, N. E. Endsley, who is having a panic attack. Jenna is
able to calm him down but he leaves and Amelia never gets to meet him. When Amelia finds
Summary: This book is about a girl who sneaks off to her grandparent's house with a dead
phone for a while. She then realizes that the town has been evacuated and she has been left
behind in a ghost town. Now she has to stay alive surviving off of canned food and her only
company, a dog.
Summary: This book takes place in a world where magic exists. Common magic is available to
anyone who can buy spellrings however, you can only use high magic if your family wins a
tournament that fights to the death. Every 20 years, each of the 7 families names one champion
that will fight for them in that tournament. When someone mysterious writes a book exposing
the tournament, the fight is now public to everyone after being a secret for centuries. Now the
question is who will get the high magic after this year's tournament, and will it be the same as
The Ballad of Never After picks up right where the first book, Once Upon a Broken Heart, left off.
Apollo is still under a curse and Evangeline is determined to cure him on her own. However,
after he unexpectedly wakes up, she realizes he is now under two other curses: a curse where
he will continuously hunt her against his will, as well as a curse where he and Evangeline are
Stephanie Garber’s Once Upon a Broken Heart stars Evangeline Fox, a young, optimistic,
hopeless romantic girl with rose gold hair. After learning of her step sister’s engagement to her
first and only love, Evangeline seeks out the assistance of the notorious Prince of Hearts, Jacks,
known for killing people with a single kiss. In exchange for stopping the wedding, she will owe
him three kisses of which he will choose the time, place, and person. After her plans go south,
Secret Service is about a boy named Ben Ripley who is an undercover agent trying to
find out who is trying to assassinate the president. When things take a turn and Ben has to go on
the run, he must rely on his most loyal friends to gather evidence and avoid his enemies. I liked
this book because it had a crazy turn of events and lots of laughs. My favorite part is when Ben
walks in on the president’s daughter while she is going to the bathroom. I would recommend this
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie is a mystery novel. Set in the English
countryside, the case of Emily Inglethorp, the wealthy mistress of Styles Court, is a peculiar one.
At a party with friends and family, Mrs. Inglethorp is found in her bedroom poisoned. The list of
suspects is extensive, but fortunately, it includes the famous Belgian detective we all love. Will
the beloved detective be able to piece together the puzzle, or will he, too, be left in the dark?
