Sarah Dessen Realistic Fiction Reviewed by Hannah Williams Rated 4 out of 5 Stars Ruby Cooper is eighteen years old. She’s been living with her mom for almost her whole life, just the two of them together. Out of the blue, Ruby’s mother abandons her, leaving Ruby alone to...
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Lock and Key
Uglies
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful” Tally Youngblood was the last of her friends to turn sixteen. She was counting down the days till she could receive the surgery that would turn her beautiful. In Tally’s world, set three hundred years in the future, every teen receives cosmetic surgery to...
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The Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
“Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire, the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death” Percy Jackson, the son of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon, is finally reunited with his girlfriend Annabeth when the Greek warship...
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The Morganville Vampires: Black Dawn
It was a shock to you when you first moved into a town full of vampires. Obviously it was not a typical college town as you expected. You’re stunned, but soon after, you become comfortable with it. Friendships are built and romances spark. Then a new surprise comes; the draug. They are creatures that...
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Wherever Nina Lies
Nina was living life big with her younger sister, Ellie, until one day she just never came back, disappeared, gone, and lost. Ellie then began trying to forget all about her loved sister, but she couldn’t. She knew there had to be a purpose for her sister’s disappearance. She was going to get to...
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Unenchanted
In Chanda Hahn’s novel, “Unenchanted”, Mina Grime, a teenager in high school, is very clumsy, unlucky and unpopular. However, her social status skyrockets when she surprisingly saves her crush’s life on a school field trip. Although Mina is now the most popular girl in school, an old family curse has come to taunt her...
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Light: A Gone Novel
Action/Drama Michael Grant Reviewed by Peter Ortu 4.5 out of 5 stars It all happened so suddenly. One second everyone was living their lives so normally, the next everyone over the age of 15 in Perdido Beach vanished. The remaining children left in their town quickly learned they were trapped inside of a giant...
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The Lucky One
Does luck exist? When fighting in Iraq, US Marine Logan Thibault finds a picture of a beautiful woman. He doesn’t know why, but he keeps it in his pocket at all times. Shortly after, Thibault begins a lucky streak, winning poker and surviving countless explosions. Thibault’s luck gets to the level where his fellow...
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Lock and Key
Ruby is the definition of independence. She doesn’t need help or sympathy from anyone. When Ruby’s mother abandons her without warning, She lives on her own in her house, working her mother’s job, paying as many bills as she can, cooking for herself, and trying to go to school. Ruby doesn’t tell anyone that...
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Insurgent
One choice can transform you, or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves along with herself. While grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. War...
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