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Have you ever read a fairytale, or remembered a favorite fable from your childhood, and wished for more? More characters, more backstories, and more truth. The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani, tells the story of two girls, Sophie and Agatha, who grow up in a dull, dreary village. Sophie’s greatest desire is to become a princess and escape from her father and his new wife’s family. Agatha lives in a graveyard with only her mother and cat for company.
The moment Juli saw Bryce for the first time, she flipped. She fell in love, and she was not subtle about it. Bryce did not feel the same. He would do anything to keep Juli away from him. That is, until Bryce’s grandfather moved in with his family. After seeing how wonderful and kind Juli really is, Bryce flipped too. Will Juli and Bryce finally see each other? Will their middle school romance bud into something more? Read to find out!
The Maze Runner film is a movie adaptation of the dystopian novel by James Dashner. The plot of this film follows a boy named Thomas, who finds himself transported to a place called the Glade, a small area surrounded by tall walls and filled with other boys around his age.
“Across the white immensity of an eternal winter, from one end of the frozen planet to the other, there travels a train that never stops.”
The prequal to the original series, this French graphic novel covers an apocalyptic future where the remainder of the human race lives on a never-ending train to avoid the desolate wasteland outside.
Summary: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future where Earth is devastated by nuclear war, and most of the population has emigrated to other planets. The story follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with "retiring" rogue androids that have escaped to Earth. The novel explores themes of empathy, identity, and the blurred line between humans and artificial beings.
The Giver is a science fiction movie based on the book by Lois Lowry. Jonas receives the Assignment, job, of Receiver of Memory. The old Receiver of Memory, otherwise known as the Giver, is giving Jonas the memories of the world. The Giver begins by giving Jonas happy memories. Memories of sledding and sunshine. But, the Giver must also give Jonas the memories of pain, memories of war, starvation, and death. Jonas knows that there are many
Saroo was just a 5 year old little boy when his life was turned upside down. Saroo was running around a train station in India with his older brother Guddu when he got on a train and ended up thousands of miles from home. Frightened and panicked, Saroo ended up in a juvenile detention center. While there, the woman in charge found a home for Saroo in Australia. Saroo starts this journey in Australia and grows up there. Twenty-five years later Saroo seeks out to find where he grew up before he got lost.
Before Laura Jean’s mother passed away, she gave her an empty hatbox to put all her secrets in. Laura Jean chose to put letters to the 5 boys she has loved. She never meant for these to be sent, but then all of the sudden the boys she wrote to are showing her the letters. Laura Jean has too much to deal with, with her sister Margot moving away, helping at home, and now sorting out her love life! The question is, what will the boys she wrote to think about the letters? Maybe there will be some relationships starting for the wrong reasons.
The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis is a historical fiction novel written about Beth Harmon, a young orphan with prodigious chess skills. Throughout the course of the story, she grows from that orphan to a young woman with barely any purpose in her life but chess and a crippling aptitude for self-destruction. The audience follows Beth as she matures, both as a person and at chess.
