Teen and Staff Reviews

Girl, Serpent, Thorn features teenager Soraya, who’s veins are filled with poison due to a

curse that her mother caused by making a deal with a Div, a magical creature in their medival

Persia. Desperate to rid of her grim “power”, Soraya and Azad, a young soldier who is not afraid

of her, seek to meet a Parik named Parvaneh, who claims she can stop Soraya’s curse with the

aid of a feather from a heavenly bird. Upon pricking her finger with the feather, she realizes her

It follows the four Mirabal sisters who were very different from each other, but have the desire

for change in common. In a time of dictatorship and uncertainty, they found the courage to start a

revolution. Despite the risk of being imprisoned or killed by Trujillo, the dictator in the

Dominican Republic in the mid 1900’s. The Mirabal sisters have left a lasting impact on people

to this day including the importance of speaking out against repression, which is apparent in

Pip and Ravi have started a crime podcast and Pip is sure that her investigating days are

behind her but when her friend Jamie Reynolds goes missing and the police fail to do anything

about it Pip decides to take matters into her own hands with the help of Ravi Singh they start to

investigate the case the more they look the more clues they find and the deeper this case gets.

I loved it. This book is almost better than the first one which you don't often see in prequels.

This story follows Keena whose boyfriend died five years ago and she takes full blame upon and

does time in jail for his death. While Keena is awaiting jail time she finds out she is pregnant

with a girl, she makes the decision to have her boyfriend, Scotty's parents, raise her child. Due

to the circumstances Keena has her rights to see her child removed. After being released from

jail Keena goes back to the town where the tragedy struck to try to reunite with her daughter

Ugly Love follows Tate Collins, a registered nurse who moves to San Francisco to live with her

brother, Corbin to continue her studies as a nurse and also work in a hospital there. There she

meets Miles Archer, an airline pilot, and a close friend of Corbin. Tate is immediately attracted to

Miles but Miles makes it clear that he isn't looking for a serious relationship with Tate and Tate

It Ends With Us follows Lily Bloom, who travels to the city to pursue her career shortly after her

fathers funeral. There she meets Ryle Kincaid, a wealthy ambitious neurosurgeon. Everything

seems to go well for Lily until she meets Atlas Corrigan, her ex boyfriend and first love. As past

memories seem to rise up again and her relationship seems to take an abrupt turn, Lily has to

The Outsiders is a lovely short coming of age book. We read from the point of view of

Ponyboy Curtis who lives with his brothers Sodapop and Darry. Ponyboy’s family and

others from his part of town are a part of a gang called “Greasers”. And have a Rivalry

with the Socs who are more richer, sophisticated and snobbish then the Greasers. The

Socs and the Greasers are constantly at war due to their differences. One night

In Chloe Green’s small town of False Beach, Alabama, the golden girl has disappeared.

Shara Wheeler, principal’s daughter and queen bee of Willgrove Christian Academy kisses

Chloe in the school elevator - and then vanishes, leaving only a trail of pink note cards with

confusing messages on them. To figure out this strange mystery, Chloe teams up with star

football player Smith and resident mysterious guitar-player Rory (both recipients of kisses from

Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster lives in the normal human city of

San Francisco, but she is anything except normal. After she hit

her head at age five, she gained telepathic abilities, which

means she hears the thoughts of others. She became known as

a child prodigy, because she also gained a photographic

memory. But one day, a boy shows up, and takes her to a new

world, where she finds out that all the things humans thought

were fables and myths, are actually true. She discovers that she

After digging up their parents’ time capsule from 35 years ago, Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and

Marcie discover hidden secrets along with a bloody knife with a note. Soon enough, the friend

group begins to question their loyalty to their parents. Could one of their parents have killed

someone? It all started in 1986, where their parents all had secrets of their own, and the missing

friend in their group who still hasn’t turned up. However, soon after contacting news experts,