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
has many friends and girlfriends that impact him. He thinks many people are
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
The Land of Stories: Wishing Spell is a book about
two twin siblings who get stuck in the book of
fairytales provided by their grandmother. The
book takes us through their journey as they
explore the new world and face completely unknown
dangers of the book. I highly recommend this book
for young kids, especially those in middle school
since that is the age of the characters in the
book. Personally, this is one of my favorite
A beautiful story, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab takes you away to a new
world--one where a girl named Addie makes a deal with the “devil”. The book takes you on an
adventure as Addie tells her story of how she lives to hundreds of years old, experiencing wars,
corruption, and success--and finds love within it. Schwab’s writing style of building off of mainly
flashbacks draws readers tightly into the story, with its ups and downs and chapters full of
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab is one of the only sequels that I thoroughly enjoyed and am content
with the ending. Just like its prequel, Vicious
and turns that you would never expect. Throughout the story, Victor is on a mission to treat his
pain and illness, which limits his powers and increasingly weakens him each day. Mitch and
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
A Torch Against The Night is the second installment in the Ember in the Ashes trilogy.
Rebel Laia and her former enemy and now savior Elias must escape soldiers in the
subterranean tunnels of the Empire. Ultimately, they must somehow make their way to the
dreaded prison of Kauf, where Laia’s brother, who possess important information, is imprisoned
More Than This features Seth, a teenager who crushed his skull while he was drowning.
However, he soon wakes in an isolated copy of Earth and believes it to be “Hell”. Seth
desperately tries to remember his memories of his life- of his little brother, his group of friends,
his secret relationship, and of his parents before the tragedy and to understand where he is- the
afterlife or a hidden part of life? Unfortunately, a being known to be the Driver or even Death
