by Christopher Elford | Jul 6, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue Book Review Julianne Chen Let me just be completely honest, I am literally starved of aromantic and asexual representation. So when a friend on the internet...
by Christopher Elford | Jul 6, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira By Cynthia Kadohata As much as books can be an escape from reality for a lot of people, sometimes it is refreshing for a book to not have the perfect happily ever after. That is exactly what the book Kira Kira by Cynthia...
by Christopher Elford | Jul 6, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo Shadow and Bone book review Julianne Chen Following the release of Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games, the young adult (YA) genre exploded in a mess of aesthetic worldbuilding that varies in quality, snarky female...
by Christopher Elford | May 17, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly Stepsister Book Review By: Julianne Chen When we were children, most of us loved the tale of Cinderella. Many of us knew it by heart: a pretty girl is repeatedly tormented by her stepfamily, she gets a makeover from her fairy godmother,...
by Christopher Elford | May 14, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Book By: Julianne Chen Imagine having your entire life planned out for you. Exactly where you were going to work, exactly where you were going to live,...
by Christopher Elford | May 10, 2021 | Book Reviews by Teens
Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly Everyone knows the tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Most would say the tale is about an evil queen who kills her stepdaughter. However, others would think that it is about how fear consumes our hearts until there is nothing left....
by Christopher Elford | Oct 6, 2020 | Book Reviews by Teens
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of hypocrisy, cruelty, irony, and human nature following the maturation of a young girl during the Great Depression. Lee introduces a wide array of well-developed and unique characters...
by Christopher Elford | Sep 24, 2020 | Book Reviews by Teens
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov This futuristic, dystopian mystery novel truly exhibits Asimov’s knack for writing about robots and how he envisioned humans would progress in relation to improving technology. Asimov paints a bleak and vast world where humans live...
by Christopher Elford | Sep 24, 2020 | Book Reviews by Teens
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin The dispossessed is one of those books that ends up changing your perspective on how you view the world and your place in it. The plot focuses on a physicist who lives in the future where humans have...
by Christopher Elford | Sep 24, 2020 | Book Reviews by Teens
IT: A novel by Stephen King Stephen King lives up to his reputation of amazing horror in this masterpiece of a book. It brings whole new meanings to disturbing, disgusting, and disheartening as it tells the tale of a group of kids called the Losers Club that are...