Teen and Staff Reviews

In the nonfiction novel Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari takes

the reader on a journey through the human experience from the homo genus’s creation until

now. He accomplishes this by focusing on how the three principal revolutions-—cognitive,

agricultural, and scientific—came to be and how they shaped our development. The first of

them, the cognitive revolution, touches on how we developed our trademark intelligence. The

In the previous book, A Good Girls Guide to Murder, Pip chooses to look into a murder case for her

senior capstone project and eventually, she learns the truth about the case. After finishing her

senior project investigating the Andie Bell murder case and releasing a true-crime podcast

documenting all her evidence and explanations someone Pip knows goes missing. Jamie

Reynolds, the brother of her close friend Connor goes disappears the night of the town's memorial

Awkward is about a middle schooler named Pepi Torres. She has three cardinal rules for

surviving middle school. On her first day as the new kid at Berrybrook Middle School, she

makes a mistake that haunts her for the next few months. When she has to get science

tutoring with a boy that she can barely talk to, she must face her fears and break the awkward

silence, I like this book because it is relatable to middle schoolers. My favorite part is when Pepi

Every one hundred years, an island appears and the six rulers of the different races race

to defeat the curse which has devastated their kingdoms for centuries. It is Wildling ruler Isla’s

first Centennial, as well as the first time she is allowed out of her protective cage by her

guardians who have been training her for this moment her entire life. However, she harbors a

dangerous secret and a plan far from what her advisors have recommended. But surrounded by

The book, The Alchemyst by Michael Scott, follows Nicholas Flamel, and Sophie and Josh

Newman, on their quest to stop the evil Dr.John Dee from stealing the book of Abraham to end

the world. They plan to awaken Sophie and Josh’s magical powers and escape to Paris.

Though it won’t be easy, because John Dee is determined to stop them, as he raises an army

and attacks Nicholas, Sophie and Josh. They are only able to awaken Sophie's powers at the

It’s the 1970s, in a small Ohio town. The Lee family’s daughter, Lydia, is dead.

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson is the third book in the series. The book starts out with Pip

in a very bad place. She still has trauma from Stanley's death in the second book. We find out

that she’s secretly buying sleeping pills from Luke, the drug dealer from the last two books. Pip

is about to head to college but a person keeps threatening her. The threats keep getting worse

Proof that a good series can always take a sharp downhill turn, the Mockingjay book truly

depresses me being the final book of the series. With so much potential lost on this book, it is

hard for me to recommend it. The book might not have been so bad had it been followed up with

the hunger games of the capital’s children, its ending truly sucked. Also, I will never forgive the

author for having killed off the best character in the series, Finnick. I wouldn’t recommend this

The only challenger to the seat of the best book in the series, Catching Fire is another amazing

book by Suzanne Collins in which we get to see Katniss and Peeta thrown back into the arena,

this time with the victors from other districts. Filled with intrigue and suspicion and political

instability, this truly does rival the first book-one of the few books that ever does. You also get to

The Hunger Games starts off the three (four now) book series that took the world by storm as it

beautifully ripped off the classic Battle Royale. In this book, you get to see the United States far

in the future where a small part of the population lives cushioned lives built off the backs of

starving people that might as well be slaves. In this book, you will watch a sixteen yea old girl by