Icebreaker, by Hannah Grace is a college romance about a figure skater named Anastasia Allen and the hockey captain Nathan Hawkins. As both main characters strive for success and to do the best for their future, an incident results in the two teams sharing the same ice rink.
Madeleine L'Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is a story about a teenage girl named Meg who had a hard time fitting in at school and also had a father who was missing. Meg’s curiousness about her father led her to go on a quest to rescue him. Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe went off on a magical adventure to another dimension in the hope to rescue their father. The book follows their journey of traveling through time and space and encountering many difficulties along the way.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a thrilling dystopian novel that follows the story of Thomas, a young boy who wakes up in a mysterious glade surrounded by a massive ever-changing maze with no memory of his past. He joins a group of boys who have been trapped in the Glade, trying to survive and find a way out. As they navigate the deadly maze, they face terrifying mechanical creatures known as Grievers and uncover unsettling secrets about their existence.
After just surviving their first game of Caraval, the Dragna sisters planned on traveling with the Caravel crew and taking their positions as spectators for the next game. Donatella had other plans. Turns out, she’s been secretly in contact with an anonymous thief who can track down their long-lost mother. The catch: she’s going to have to win the next game.
Taking place post-apocalyptic, this story follows a father and son’s journey to the sea, in an attempt to find something or someone who could help them. This was an interesting read, as McCarthy has a unique writing style with this book: no chapters, no parts, just ill-grammar words. Although those very aspects made it not my favorite read, it was vital in defining the story’s atmosphere.
Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns is a tale of two Afghanistani women named Laila and Mariam who got married to the same man. Maraiam a teenager from Herat was forced to marry Rasheed after her mother passed away. Laila was born almost a generation after Mariam and had to marry Rasheed after he rescued her when her home was rocketed and her family was killed. It follows the story of the two women living through the wars in Afghanistan.
The Only One Left offers an exciting premise- Kittredge “Kit” McDeere was suspended from her job as a caregiver as many authorities, including her own father, believe she played a part in killing her sick mother who had overdosed on fentanyl which had been left in the room, a clear breach in caregiving protocol.
In this novel, the two main characters’- Marie-Laure Leblanc and Werner Pfennig- stories are followed until they intersect in Saint-Malo, in August of 1944.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a thrilling dystopian sci-fi novel set in the year 2044, where most of humanity seeks escape from their bleak reality through a massive virtual reality universe called the OASIS. When the creator of the OASIS, James Halliday, passes away, he leaves behind a challenging Easter Egg hunt within the virtual world. The first person to find the hidden Easter Egg will inherit Halliday's vast fortune and control over the OASIS.
The Hunger Games is a story about a dystopian society of Panem, where two youngsters from each of the twelve districts participate in the Hunger Games. The players must kill each other and survive in the wilderness until only one remains. The story follows Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen year old girl who volunteers to participate in the games instead of her younger sister, Prim. The other tribute from District 12 is a boy named Peeta. Katniss lives in District 12 with her mother and sister.
