Teen and Staff Reviews

Kate Williams is a 17 year old up and coming actress and has decided to pursue

acting as a full time career, but it will come at a cost. Whatever cost her parents end

up charging to rent her childhood bedroom. Kate needs a job and her best friend’s

brother Ky has a job for her, filing documents at a law firm that his father runs. One

night when working, Kate starts to see some suspicious behavior between a lady in

another office and her assistant. Days later, she witnesses a double murderer. Can

A memoir of the ICarly and Sam and Cat star Jennette McCurdy shares her path to stardom and

the struggles that came with it. Starting at the age of six Jennette’s mother wanted her to

become a star so she started doing acting auditions. At a very young age her mother would do

things like put her on diets and restrictions and do cosmetic routines on her like tinting her

eyelashes which led to eating disorders and addiction. She shares that her mother had all

To start this off, I absolutely loved this book, it's now one of my favorites ever. I’ve read the

entire shatter me series and this is by far my favorite. It continues the story of Juliette and her

journey to take down The Reestablishment. Warner is my favorite book boy out of any book I’ve

ever read. She now has to rely on him, someone she never thought she’d even like to begin

with. Along with simply such an interesting plot, the romance in this book is just to die for.

This book got me out of one of my worst reading slumps I’ve ever had. Filled with faeries, the

human world, ideas of patriarchy and power, and more, this book is more than anything I

could’ve asked for or even expected. An enemies to friends to maybe lovers, admiration from

afar, all of which are some of my favorite tropes personally. The two main characters, Jude, a

human living in the Faerie world, and Carden, the youngest son to the High King of Faerie.

After Lily’s abusive father has died she meets a surgeon that she is interested in. Lily and the

surgeon, Ryle start a relationship but find that their goals for life do not match up. They part

ways but find eachother again and their relationship progresses until he lashes out on her

reminding her of the abusive relationship her parents had with each other. Although Lily told

herself that Ryle was nothing like her father. Lily marries Ryle and is looking forward to starting

The book follows a senior in highschool, Maverick. Maverick has been in a gang since he was

12 and has started selling marajuana to earn some extra money and to help his mom pay for

bills. Maverick finds himself with a son that he did not know that he had and now has to raise on

his own. Throughout the story you see Mav deal with becoming a new father while trying to

make the ends meet. Maverick’s ex-girlfriend comes to him saying that she is pregnant and

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