Teen and Staff Reviews

Lucy and Joshua are coworkers, both assistants to the two CEOs at a publishing

company. Though the word coworkers implies some cooperation and amiability, that’s nowhere

near the truth. Their mutual loathing, which began from the moment their two companies

merged into one, has been dubbed the Hating Game. It’s just another pretty normal workday for

Lucy (begins with staring hatefully at Joshua and ends the same way), when for some reason

he kisses her in the elevator. This, combined with a new promotion opportunity, an agreement

When Monique Grant, a background writer at Vivant gets offered an interview with the Evelyn

Hugo, she’s rather perplexed. Why would such a famous person meet with a writer like her?

Adri is perfectly on track to become the lawyer that her parents have always wanted her to

become. Through academic excellence, hard work, and sacrifice, a summer internship represents

the final bridge between her and her parents’ dreams. The problem is, she wants nothing more

than to get away from the internship, especially when she gets the opportunity of a lifetime.

Courtesy of her best friend Elena, Adri gets tickets to go to Solstice, a life-changing getaway

Jude Duarte is now seneschal, an advisor to the High King of Elfhame, who is Cardan

Greenbriar. She wants to keep Cardan and Elfhame in control until her brother, Oak, is finally of

age to become King. However, the Queen of the Undersea is threatening Cardan to marry her

daughter or else she will attack his kingdom, which makes Jude’s plans more difficult. So Jude is

trying to protect Oak, Cardan, and Elfhame, but unfortunately she gets captured by the Queen of

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a complete guide to A-Z magical creatures and

their characteristics. Not to mention their classification scale from 1-5, with five being a known

wizard killer and impossible to domesticate. I find this book guide to be very fascinating as it

offers insight into familiar and unfamiliar creatures from previous books and films. I highly

recommend this guide if you are looking to watch the Fantastic Beasts films or want more

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth and longest book in the Harry Potter

series, with a whopping 896 pages. Despite the long read however, it has many enjoyable

moments as Harry and his friends make it their mission to help the Order of the Phoenix in their

quest to thwart the return of Lord Voldemort. It is here in this book that Harry also learns the

dark truth between him and Voldemort that would change the course of the Harry Potter series

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling is the finale and culmination of the

seven-book Harry Potter series, and by all means, it is a good one. Harry, Ron, and Hermione

are entrusted with destroying the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes, but without Dumbledore’s aid, this

comes as no easy task. The trio quickly realizing the toll this would take on them but

nevertheless striving all the more to defeat Voldemort’s greatest strength: Immortality, and

The Polar Express is a fantastic Christmas movie about a young boy who boards a magical train

headed to the North Pole. On his way, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery on whether he

truly believes in the Christmas spirit or not. The animations in this movie are so crisp and clean

that you almost feel you’re onboard the train with them, and Tom Hanks acting as the train

conductor was phenomenal all the more. Besides a few creepy scenes, this movie is perfect for

The book We Are Not Free is a historical fiction by the Author Traci Chee. In the book, they

provide the perspectives of fourteen different characters - Minnow, Shig, Yum-Yum, Bette,

Frankie, Stan, Aiko, Yuki, Mary, Kiyoshi, Mas, Keiko, Twitchy, and Tommy - who are all

Japanese-American teens affected by the Pearl Harbor incident. All the characters (other than

Kiyoshi) lived a peaceful and carefree life together as friends in Japantown, where they lived

Britta Flannery is a girl in Malam who is disliked for her Shaerdanian origin on her

mother’s side. Her father was a bounty hunter who was recently murdered, so she wants to find

his murderer and avenge him. However, things aren’t so black and white when she finds out that

her best friend, Cohen, wasn’t the one who actually murdered her father, despite the evidence.

So, she sets out to find the real murderer, but realizes dark things about her past and the King of