Teen and Staff Reviews

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie is a murder mystery novel. When Raymond

West gifts his favorite aunt, Miss Marple, a vacation in the Caribbean, she encounters a man with

a fascinating story. He apparently has met a murderer and has photograph evidence.

Unfortunately, Miss Marple never gets to see it because the very next morning she finds him...

dead. She has to figure out who it is the major saw and what connection he has to his murder. So

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is the first book in the series. The case was

closed 5 years ago and everyone knew who the murder was and what happened. Sal Singh

murdered Andie Bell and then killed himself. If Pippa Fitz-Amobi knew Sal at all, she would

know he would never have done such a thing. She chooses to “re-solve” the murder for a school

project. As she finds more clues, she finds out that Sal wasn’t the murderer at all. Instead, the

Love & Olives follows main character Olive, who goes by Liv. Liv’s dad left

her and her mom when she was little, leaving them with next to nothing.

Now, it’s the summer before her last year of highschool, and suddenly her

dad wants to reconnect with her. But Liv is a different person than she used

to be. She never mentions her dad, and tries her best not to think of him.

Now Liv is taking a trip to Greece to see him. But even in beautiful Santorini,

This book is truly amazing. The Sun Is Also a Star is written from two

different perspectives; Natasha and Daniel. Natasha is less of a dreamer,

more of a realistic thinker. She’s just trying to keep her family from being

suddenly deported to Jamaica. Daniel, on the other hand, is a poet of all

that’s good in life. He’s been trying to live up to his parents expectations his

whole life.

As Dumbledore stops by the Dursleys’ to pick up Harry, they stop on the way to recruit

Horace Slughorn to teach at Hogwarts. While shopping for books, Harry overhears Draco

Malfoy threatening that Burgin fixes an unknown object. At school, Dumbledore announces that

Snape will be the new D.A.D.A teacher. Since Harry forgot to buy a potions book, Professor

Slughorn lets him use an old book from someone named, “The Half-Blood Prince”. Inside of the

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder takes place in Fairview, Connecticut where Pippa

chooses to investigate a closed-case murder in her hometown for her senior

capstone project. Pippa has a suspicion that the believed murderer of Andie Bell, Sal

Singh is innocent. Despite the overwhelming majority of the town believing that

Andie’s boyfriend murdered her and then committed suicide, she continues her

This book hooked me from the start. I love it when a book can immediately

draw you in, and this book did just that. Love & Gelato is full of so many

loveable characters, and it’s so heartwarming to watch them bond. While I

did feel that for a romance book it did take a while to fully uncover the whole

romance, it is very well written, and has many other factors other than just

the main romance. We learn more about the main character's distrust with

Most people know this book series from the tv series made after the books. I

know a lot of people who watched the show first, then read the books.

Personally, I would never do that. I hate watching the remaking of books as

shows first, just because when you do go to read the books, your entire

perspective is altered due to the show. So as soon as I discovered the show,

and the books it was created for, I went out and got myself a copy of the

books first. Me and my best friend read them together, and when we both

This book is amazing. Although the title is pretty cheesy, this book really

does show what a true relationship can look like, full of ups and downs. Sick

Kids in Love is written from the perspective of main character Isabel. Isabel

isn’t your average teenager, which adds so much more to the book. She has a

hard home life, which is explained throughout the book. Not only that, but

she deals with rheumatoid arthritis on a regular basis, something that most

Spy School Goes South is about a boy named Ben Ripely. He is asked to trail one of his

former friends who agrees to lead him and his friends to SPYDER, the group of terrorists that

Ben continuously thwarts. When things go sideways and Ben ends up in a crocodile infested

river, he must rely on his friends to track down his enemies and save the day. I really liked this

book because it had things I didn’t expect and the characters had good senses of humor. My