Teen and Staff Reviews

The Name of the Wind is a beautiful and amazing story about a wizard, musician, and legend

with a world called Temerant hidden with mysteries to unravel by Patrick Rothfuss. Kvothe, the

main character, is an innkeeper telling his life story to a chronicler of how he grew up and

learned the ways of science and magic on his quest to learn at the University. The University is

a famous school where Kvothe hopes to find knowledge of the mysterious evil group of villains

Stardust is an intriguing and truly fantastical novel by Neil Gaiman. Its about a boy name Tristan

Thorn who was born from an unusual circumstance in an unusual town. A wall on one side

blocks his town from the world of the Fae. While being in love with a girl, he believes if he finds

her a star in the faerie land he’ll finally have her become his wife. What comes next is a

fascinating, dark, and whimsical adventure with talking trees, tinkerers, and powerful witches

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This story follows the life of Jude Duarte, an individual whose life took a very drastic turn of

events, very quickly. One minute she was living happily with her parents, twin sister, and elder

sister, the next, a strange man comes into their lives, kills her parents, and takes her and her

sisters away to a strange land, in which magic exists. Jude and her sister Taryn are humans, they

have little to do with this new land of Faerie apart from keep themselves safe from it, but

Rowan Roth is an overachieving, high school student. She studies, volunteers, works, has a

million leadership positions, and is involved in just about every club at her school. It is finally

the last day of the school year and the only person stopping Rowan from becoming Valedictorian

is none other than her academic rival of the last four years, Neil McNair. Rowan and Neil have

been at each other's throats for years, to the point where several recounts of their student council

All Your Perfects follows the relationship between Quinn and Graham, two individuals who

found themselves next to each other the night they found out that their significant others had

cheated on them with each other. The story is told from the point of view of Quinn in two

different timelines. One timeline is from when they first began dating, and the other takes place a

few years into their marriage. Quinn, struggling with infertility, feels that she is bringing nothing

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Pippa Fitz-Amobi is an ambitious senior at Fairview High School who is tasked with an

individualized project that every senior at their school has to complete. Pippa, being the curious

student that she is, chooses to solve the mystery behind the murder of Andie Bell, a student who

previously attended Fairview and was rumored to have been murdered by her ex-boyfriend Sal

Singh. For Pippa, what initially began as a project to take another look at the closed case has now

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The Book, It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover, follows the life of Lily Bloom. For most of her

life, Lily has had to deal with her abusive fathers action towards her and her mother--who she

believes to be too weak to safeguard her own life. When she finally decides to escape the

shackles that her unfortunate childhood has put her through, she moves to Boston to have a new

Frankenstein is a gothic/science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that takes place in the 18th

century. The main character is Victor Frankenstein who is a aspiring scientist who plays with the

elements of life, and creates a living monster in his ultimate science experiment. Though Victor

had achieved his dream of creating a living person, he had failed to see consequences of his

actions and pays a very harsh price for his doing. The creature is rejected by his creator and

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian is an exciting finale to read with dark themes and raw

action by Rick Riordan. The stakes are higher than ever as the fifth book in the series is about

Percy Jackson preparing for and entering the fight to stop Kronos and Luke from destroying

Olympus. What power is necessary to defeat a Titan? Percy embarks on a dangerous

adventure which all leads to a last stand with his friends Nico, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson and

Percy Jackson and the Battle of Labyrinth is a exciting book to read with darker themes and fun

action by Rick Riordan. The fourth book in the series is about Annabeth Chase and her friends

Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson in a quest to find the inventor of the infamous Labyrinth

when they discover its role in a dark plot against the camp by Kronos' Army. The Labyrinth is

sprawling with powerful monsters and is the toughest challenge Percy has to face yet.