Teen and Staff Reviews

Heart Bones, by Colleen Hoover, is a romance novel and a stand-alone book.

The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket, is a mystery novel and the fifth book in the series, A

Series of Unfortunate Events.

A Promised Land, by Barack Obama, is a nonfiction autobiography and the first of a two-volume

series.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard is a dystopian novel. Mare lives in a world which is separated

by blood. The Silvers have powers and are rulers and royals, while the Reds are villagers. Mare

starts working in the Silver Palace and she discovers that even if she’s red-blooded, she holds a

deadly power. The Silvers fear Mare, so they disguise her as a long lost Silver princess. Knowing

she will die if the silvers find out, Mare secretly starts working with a group named the Red

At the young age of six years old, Jennette McCurdy had her first acting audition. Not because

she wanted to, but to live out her mom’s dream. Before this, Jennette had grown up in a poor

household, and when she was a toddler, her mom developed a cancer that threatened to kill her.

Jennette loved her mom more than anyone else, and would do anything to make her happy. So, in

order to please her mom, she began an acting career to be a child star, despite not enjoying

Avery Kylie Grambs is a normal 17 year old girl. She doesn’t exactly have money, but all

she wants is to have a good normal life with a normal job and good pay. But when she inherits a

billion dollar inheritance from philanthropist Tobias Hawthorne who has died recently, her whole

life turns around. More people start targeting her death, her love life suddenly goes up, and

people she didn’t even know start admiring her. Avery believes there’s a reason for her

This adventure fiction book by Adam Silvera was definitely one of the best books I have ever

read. It all begins when two total strangers get a call from Death Cast saying they are going to

die in the next 24 hours. Both download an app that finds them a best friend to live out the last

hours of their life. They set out on a mission to live a lifetime in one day together. This is a

wonderful book told by many different perspectives that merge into one plot for one amazing

book

Love and Other Words is a sweet romance following Macy after running into the former

and sort-of current love of her life, Elliott, on her commute from her pediatrics job. It’s the first

time they’ve seen each other in the past eleven years. Something devastating broke them apart,

but it seems like fate has brought them back together. Except that Macy’s happily engaged to

someone else - and she still blames Elliott for what happened so long ago. They met when they

After a tragic accident, two very close sisters have to learn how to maintain their

closeness through a traumatic experience. Roo, the older sister, crashes her car and gets

“locked-in syndrome” where she can see and hear everything but cannot respond verbally or

physically. She and her younger sister, Tilly, have to figure out how to communicate with each

other again. The book talks about dealing with guilt and how traumatic events can make

relationships between people even more complex. It depicts a lot of real emotions: anger,

Banter that makes you giggle while swinging your feet back and forth. Witty comebacks

and relatable characters. Book Lovers is most likely one of the best contemporary romances I’ve

read this year.