You may all know the amazing story of Hannah Baker in Thirteen Reason Why and the great novel The future of Us, both written by this featured author Jay Asher. Both books have a very different style of writing to them. They have a way of writing that attracts the teen age group to...
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Featured Author: Jay Asher
Yours, Mine and Ours
Admiral Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen Beardsley (Rene Russo) are high school sweethearts. After high school they went their separate ways and married different people. Later on they find each other on dates at a fancy restaurant, but not with each other. Come to find out both Frank’s wife, and Helen’s husband had died...
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Running Loose
Realistic Fiction Chris Crutcher Reviewed by Sean Bigelow Rated 5 out of 5 stars Louie Banks has it all. A great life, a starting football spot, a wonderful girlfriend, and it are his last year of high school. It seems as if nothing could make his life better. Until his football coach decides to...
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Lock and Key
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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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 Maze Runner
Imagine waking up in complete darkness. You have no idea where you are or how you got here, all you can remember is your name. This is the exact feeling Thomas felt before entering the Glade. When the doors crank open, Thomas is surrounded by a group of boys who welcome him to the...
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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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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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The Bellmaker
“Urgan sits in Gael’s Royal House, Warriormaid and Warriormouse, Say hasten, and give aid.” Dandin and Mariel, two warriors from Redwall, have wandered four seasons before they find themselves in the land of Southsward. This country was once peaceful, but has been conquered by the Urgan Nagru, his mate Silvamord, and their foul...
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