Columbine, by Dave Cullen, is a factual story about the events that lead up to and took place at the Columbine shootings. In this story, Cullen tells us about the killers’ motives and earlier life before the killing. Both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were bright young men with promising futures. Looking into the...
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“The dog only a family could love.” Oogy, a white male pit-bull, was found abandoned bleeding to death on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with part of his face ripped off. He was only minutes away from death. Oogy, the two month old, was unfortunately used as a bait dog. (A dog that can...
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Percy Jackson is a 16 year old, amnesiac, demigod. The only thing Percy can remember is one name: Annabeth. For days, Percy has been chased by two monsters known as Gorgons, the sisters of Medusa. No matter what he does, he can’t seem to kill them. Every time he tries, they fall apart into...
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Fiction By: Laurie Halse Anderson Reviewed by Maddie Meagher Rated 5 out of 5 stars“I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my...
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Ashley has been waiting forever to say three little words “I guess so”. They might not sound all that important, but when you have been searching for a family to call your own practically your whole life they can mean a whole lot. Ashley was only three years old “the day they stole her...
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World War II, the war against religion, has begun. If you are Jewish you must go into hiding, never to venture outside while the war is in progress, or go to a German concentration camp where you will die a long, painful death. Anne Frank, her mother, father, sister Margot, their friends Mr. and...
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Aibileen Clark, a black woman from Jackson Mississippi, is a maid that raises children. She raised 17 children only one her own. In 1962, blacks used different bathrooms, busses, libraries, grocery stores, and even lived on different sides of town. Miss Skeeter Phelan, a white upcoming writer, and Aibileen have never spoken outside of...
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“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.” In this New York Times bestselling autobiography, Emmy and Grammy winner Steve Martin tells the story...
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Twenty-five years ago, at age 6, Sarah Walsh and her twin sister, Kim, were kidnapped. They were locked in a cold basement for nine days with very little food and water. They were chained and unable to reach each other. Now Sarah doesn’t only have to live with being the only survivor of this...
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Mitch, author of the story, went to Brandeis University. This is where he met his favorite professor of all time Morrie Schwartz. Fifteen years after Mitch had graduated Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and he was going to die. Mitch, on the other hand had started his life. He got a job...
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