You, Arthur Penhaligon, are the new kid in school with no friends and no real hope of making any. Because you are asthmatic you can’t hang out with the jocks. You can’t hang out around the nerds either because you aren’t the smartest kid in school. And this is just the beginning. Soon a...
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The Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday
The Maze Runner
Thomas wakes up in a box in an elevator shaft. The only thing he can remember is his name, his first name. When he reaches the top, over fifty boys his age, about 16 years old, pull him out and introduce him to new people and new places in the Glade. He learns about the...
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The Merchant of Death
Do you believe in other worlds? Do you wish you could travel to those worlds? Bobby Pendragon didn’t until his Uncle Press knocked on his door one day and ordered Bobby to come with him. From there, Bobby and his uncle drove to an abandoned subway station where they arrived at a door, an...
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Freak Show
To say that Billy Bloom is a drag queen is a understatement of the highest degree. He would much rather refer to himself as the more professional term: gender obscurest. “Billy Bloom…what are we to do with him? He expects kids at school to find him approachable, when he prances around in stilettos. He’s...
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Twilight
When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist...
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The Scorch Trials
The maze was supposed to be the last puzzle. Escaping the maze had left Thomas and the other gladers emotionally and physically drained; their rescue had been a relief, the end. None of the gladers knew what is outside of the maze but they figured it had to be better than the glade. They...
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Movie Review: I am Number Four
“Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship...
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The Summoning
“Still, it was pretty dark. I’m afraid of the dark.I had some bad experiences as a child, imaginary friends who lurked in dark places and scared me. I know what sounds weird. Other kids dream up playmates- I imagined bogeymen.” In The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong, Chloe Saunders used to be a normal girl,...
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Being a teen is difficult enough. When you add in a mysterious, unlabeled package filled with tapes containing the voice of a girl who committed suicide two weeks earlier, suddenly ready to tell her story, life goes from difficult to downright confusing. Hannah Baker died two weeks ago from a prescription drug overdose; she...
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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Cammie Morgan attends a spy school for girls. As far as she knows it’s the only school like it. But soon she finds that there are going to be some guests, and it will put all of her knowledge to the test. After a long winter break Cammie Morgan is back in school and...
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