Teen and Staff Reviews

Summary: Hotel Rwanda is a movie about what happened in the Rwandan genocides back in 1994. This movie aims to bring those events to life on the big screen so that people will be able to know what happened in Rwanda during those times. The conflict was between two different groups, the Hutus and Tutsis. These two groups despise each other because of their physical differences and power inside of the government. Paul Rusesabagina is the main character and he is a Hutu.

Summary: Food, Inc is a documentary about the food industry. Specifically taking a look at the meat industry and focusing on how things are grown, packaged, and distributed. The movie aims to expose what is really happening inside the meat industry and bring the bad things going on to the light of the world. In the documentary, we can see how the industry is controlled by 5 main companies, and at the grocery store, it is actually misleading what company is selling a product.

Summary: Jesus Revolution is the account of what the 1970s were like in California during what is famously known as the “Jesus Movement”. The movie follows a young man named Greg Laurie and his life as a teenager. We also learn about a church called Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa with a pastor named Chuck Smith. The movie starts to take climb when Chuck Smith’s daughter introduces Chuck to Lonnie Frisbee who was a hippie. Lonnie Frisbee was a very strong believer in God and she wanted her dad and him to speak.

I’m the Girl immediately sucked me into its plot. Once I started reading, it was hard to put
down. I enjoyed how the author, Courtney Summers, wrote this book. She truly made this book
feel dramatic and tense, which was perfect.

If you love upbeat books, this one may not be for you. It is very heavy and depicts
serious issues. There are not many happy moments. However, I do believe this tone set is very
useful in the context of the book.

The Inheritance Games is a super fun book and has a great premise. I thought the
storyline was enjoyable. I did, however, find the book a little too repetitive. I felt that the
relationship with the love interests was a bit bland. But still, I found the book intriguing.
 

I never expected to read Gone With the Wind. It was a classic and extremely long– but
that was about all I knew. My grandmother one day recommended that I read it, and so I
impulsively decided to. This book is extremely detailed, but not too much so. It treads the line
very close, but I feel the detail is what makes the book good.
 

I started reading Normal People by Sally Rooney because one of my friends
recommended it to me. I had no clue what to expect other. When I first started reading it I was
intrigued by how unique it was written. There are no quotation marks to mark dialogue, which
differs from most books I have read. Little differences like this kept me reading more and more.
 

Katniss and a team of rebels prepare to bring the fight to the capitol, to change the fate of Panem and get rid of president Snow. 

Katniss discovers district 13 after destroying the Hunger Games arena. She joins the rebellion as a figure of hope and courage, under the leadership of President Coin, hoping to find and rescue Peeta from the capitol. 

Third-year Ph.D. student, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in relationships whatsoever. However, to convince her best friend Anh that she’s dating someone, she kisses the first man she sees which just happens to be professor Adam Carlsen (a very unliked person on campus). However, to keep up the act Olive needs Adam to pretend to be her secret boyfriend to which he agrees. But, when Olive starts catching feelings all of a sudden the fake relationship doesn’t seem to be fake anymore putting her own heart at risk.