Category Archives: BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review: Tonight the Streets are Ours
Tonight the Streets are Ours by Leila Sales By La’Rissa Dunn Arden Huntley is a seventeen year old teenager that’s in her senior year. One special thing about her is that she is recklessly loyal. She’s always loved and is
Book Review: Cracker by Jacci Turner
Have you ever approached a book, whether it be in a library or bookstore, that looked interesting, yet you were a bit afraid to read? That’s what Cracker initially was for me, and I’ll explain why. Cracker is the story
Book Review: The Melting of Maggie Bean
Book Review: The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn Review By: La’Rissa Dunn The Melting of Maggie Bean by Tricia Rayburn features an overweight girl with dreams and a family in the midst of a money catastrophe. Maggie can’t
Book Review: Girls Dinner Club
Book Review: Girls Dinner Club By: Taylor Sanders Girls Dinner Club is the kind of book that shows the power of friendship, loyalty, and love. The author Jessie Elliot depicts the three main characters wonderfully as young girls growing up
Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Brandee Craddock Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult “My Sister’s Keeper,” is a novel written by Jodi Picoult that centers around a family going through the hardships of having a child that is terminally ill. The main character,
Short Book Reviews from the Palisades Teen Book Club
This Star Won’t Go Out by Esther Earl I always look through the new books that come in before I put them out, try to read a few chapters of each; this was one I just couldn’t put down! Fair
The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson
Book Review: The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson By: Jasmin Christian The Other Side of Blue, written by Valerie O. Patterson is a coming of age story with a twist. Cyan, a fifteen-year old girl, is a
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Rachel Kersey Originally published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved American tale, The Great Gatsby, has been adapted for computer games, books, television shows, theater, music, radio, opera, and of
He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander
Book Review: He Said, She Said by Kwame Alexander by Rachel Pyfrom Genre: Romantic Dramadey Book summary: Beauty and Brains meets the blown-up Braun. Omar “T-Diddy” Smalls is named the high school Mr. Football of North Carolina. The biggest question
