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Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?

By Pam Pollack
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Rishi Tek
Apr 11, 2025

Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson? tells the story of a famous scientist who loves space. It talks about his life, starting from when he was a young boy growing up in New York City. As a kid, Neil loved looking at stars and visiting the planetarium. The book explains how Neil worked hard in school and studied science to follow his dream. It shows how he became a well-known astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium.

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None of the Above

By I.W. Gregorio
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Gaby
Apr 11, 2025

Gregorio's novel None of the Above follows Kristin Lattimer, a teenage girl who has it all: many caring friends, a loving boyfriend, and a promising athletic career. That is until Kristin discovers that she is intersex, causing her to spiral into a full-blown identity crisis while she also suffering from the discrimination of her classmates. This novel contains scenes of sexual assault, and discrimination against queer identities which may be triggering for some readers. 

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Who Is Travis Kelce?

By Ellen Labrecque
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Rishi Tek
Apr 11, 2025

Who is Travis Kelce? about one of the best football players in the NFL. It tells about his childhood in Ohio and how he loved playing sports when he was young. It also talks about his close relationship with his family, especially his brother Jason Kelce, who also plays in the NFL. The book shows how Travis worked very hard to become a famous football player for the Kansas City Chiefs. It talks about his funny and friendly personality and how much he loves football.

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Aurora Rising

By Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Apr 11, 2025

None of this should have happened. If Ty, golden boy, and top student at the Aurora academy hadn’t decided to go for a midnight flight the day before he was supposed to pick his squad. He wouldn’t have seen the distress beacon or found Aurora, a girl who was a passenger on a ship that went missing 200 years ago. If he hadn’t decided to play the hero, he would have had the pick of the top graduates for his team instead he got stuck with the bottom of the barrel. 

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Oblivion

By Jennifer L. Armentrout
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Apr 11, 2025

Daemon wasn’t particularly happy when new neighbors moved in next door. He was even less happy when one of them was a girl his own age. And when that girl ended up being gorgeous? Well, unhappy didn’t really cover his feelings on the situation. He had secrets to keep, namely that he wasn't human. That secret would quickly become far harder to hide if humans moved in next door. He needed to scare her off. If she stuck around, it could hurt him and his sister, but the more time he spent around her the harder it was to stay away.

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Daimon

By Jennifer L. Armentrout
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 9, 2025

Daimon by Jennifer L. Armentrout is a short story prequel to the covenant series. It follows Alexandria and her mother who have escaped to the mortal world. They try to live their normal lives, forgetting that life already has plans for her. As the child of a mortal and a demigod, Alexandria must live by the Covenant, even if that means getting into danger. But that danger finds her, and Alexandria is back to the Covenant without the protection of her mom.

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Obsidian

By Jennifer L. Armentrout
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Apr 9, 2025

Katy Swartz moved to West Virginia expecting a new start, but her new town is far odder than expected. Within the first few days, she meets her new neighbors, a bubbly girl named Dee and her annoying and annoyingly attractive brother Daemon. Everything should be normal in her new town and for the most part, it is but there are still small, weird things it's hard not to notice. And her new neighbors? They might be right in the middle of the strangeness.

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14 Ways to Die

By Vincent Ralph
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 9, 2025

14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph follows Jessica, a 17-year-old girl who just became the star of a new YouTube reality series: The Eye. The show follows five different people, each with interesting stories to tell. Each day of the week, a participant live streams their days, using the time to tell their stories. Jessica wants to help solve her mother’s murder, but instead of solving her case, Jessica becomes the new target.

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Dating and Dragons

By Kristy Boyce
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Zaida A.
Apr 9, 2025

Dating in Dragons follows the shy new girl Quinn Norton as she starts at her new High School. Quinn is nervous about making new friends because her past friends weren’t kind to her, but she stumbles upon a group of kids on her first day and they happen to share a love of Dungeons and Dragons. However, Quinn soon finds out this friend group is also a very well-known group of D&D streamers, and they have strict rules for joining their campaign.

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Who is Richard Branson?

By Michael Burgan
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Rishi Tek
Apr 8, 2025

Who is Richard Branson? tells the story of a famous businessman and the founder of the Virgin Group. It talks about his childhood in England and how he had a hard time in school because of dyslexia. But he never gave up. He believed in himself, worked hard, and used his creative ideas to become very successful. The book shows how he started small businesses like a magazine and a record store.

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