Teen and Staff Reviews

Raina is a nervous kid bites her nails and tends to stress over everything. When 5th

grade starts, Raina finds out that she is scared of throwing up. Sbe has to see a therapist and

she doesn’t tell any of her friends because she doesn’t want them to think she is weird. When

Raina’s enemy ends up in the hospital, she must decide if she wants to make things right. I

enjoyed this graphic novel because it was funny and had a good message. My favorite part is

when Raina gets her own room. I would recommend this book to 5th graders.

Strike the Zither was an amazing read that had multiple plot twists I didn’t see coming. I love

how the author incorporated Chinese history, and the portrayal of Chinese culture was very well

done. For a majority of the book, I could not put it down. There were other parts that did drag a

bit for me, which is why it is four and not five stars. This story is also gender swapped, meaning

In this third iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we get to see the

formation of the greatest power duo that the literary world may have ever been faced with:

Horace and Halt. This book is an interesting new style from the author where it switches back

from a princess and a ranger stuck in slavery (their names are Will and Evanlyn: I hope you can

tell which one is the princess) and a prince stuck with a former battleschool student (just kidding,

In this second iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we revisit our

beloved character Will. Now marked with fame by his contest against the Kalkara and his rescue

of his even more famous master Halt, he is sent on a mission in preparation for war against the

exiled lord Morgarath. But this falls to pieces when Will, accompanied by Halt’s former

apprentice Gilan and his friend Horace, finds the neighboring lands of Celtica deserted, a lost girl

In this first iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, a boy named Will

become-though this may come as a surprise to some people-a ranger’s apprentice. Will, a

scrawny fifteen-year-old boy finds himself learning the ways of rangers after being taken in by

the famous and rather grim ranger Halt after being rejected from battle school, the one thing he

had always wanted in life. This is a result of believing that his father had died as a knight and

The story is set in present day America and is about the 13 year old demigod Percy

Jackson and his friends Annabeth and Tyson. They must go on a quest to rescue their friend

Grover and retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Cyclops Polyphemus to save Camp Half-Blood

from being destroyed by monsters and titans. On their quest many people and monsters will try

to stop them from succeeding. The main characters are Percy, the son of Poseidon, Annabeth,

the daughter of Athena, and Tyson, a cyclops. The author describes the characters well so you

As Harry leaves the Dursleys’ for the last time to set off to find all of Voldemort’s

horcruxes, they get attacked by multiple Death Eaters and Voldemort, who tried to kill Harry but

his wand fended him off. They camp in the woods, with no idea where to go or what to do, when

Harry sees a silver doe patronus leads Harry to where the real Sword of Gryffindor was kept,

which they could use to destroy the Horcruxes. Harry then accidentally says Voldemort’s name,

When Victor Vale and his roommate Eli Cardale propose the idea of “E.O’s” - ExtraOrdinaries,

people who possess powers seemingly from birth. However, the two boys are determined to

prove that EO’s are made from near death experiences, by having near death experiences

themselves. Consequently, a research project soon results in one man in jail for unjust causes and

the other free, with a thirst for killing EO’s as they were seen as unnatural in his eyes. Ten years

When Alex Easton is invited to his sick friend’s manor, he is a bit nerved by the haunted

landscape that surrounds what seems to be an even more haunted house. What’s even stranger

are the hares that roam the lands, animals that don’t run off but instead maintain a walk that

resembles a stiff human. Easton then meets with Roderick, who is overcome with nerves for his

sister, Madeline. He also meets with an American doctor who is supposedly tending to her

Five months ago, PhD student Dani Brown and her best friend had their routine witchy

requests to the universe. Dani, looking for a casual rebound after a failed relationship, wished

the universe would show her who to pursue next. Several months later, when a video of former

pro rugby player turned charity founder and security guard Zafir carrying her out of her

university building goes viral, it seems like a pretty big hint. Except Zafir asks her to fake-date