The book Virtuosity is about a girl, Carmen, who found her true self in playing the violin, her mother and her opponent Jeremy. Carmen never lived a normal teenage life. She spent most of her childhood rehearsing and playing in competitions. Her only real friend was Heidi, her manager. When Carmen participates in the biggest…
Laurel was only sixteen years old when her world was turned upside down. Her parents were killed instantly in a car accident along with her brother. The driver of the car was the father of her bad boy neighbor David Kaufman and David’s mother was also killed in the accident. But David’s dad is in…
Cassel has loved one girl his entire life, Lila. Bu he knows that she will never love him back. Cassel just wants to be like a normal human and live a normal life. It’s not that easy for him though, because he belongs to a worker family that is much worse than most worker families…
I’ve just finished the book Exposed, and there are quite a few things about the book worth mentioning. Exposed is a book about a sixteen-year-old girl named Liz who has a passion for taking photographs, and plans to make photography her career. Liz gets into a fight with her best friend, Kate, during a sleepover,…
In the novel Chime by Franny Billingsley, a 17 year-old girl named Briony, who lived in Swampsea had a terrible secret. Briony was a witch who believed that she had killed her stepmother, and had poisoned her twin sister Rosie’s mind. Briony’s secret is not to be told to any human being; not unless she…
In the novel Where the Streets Had a Namewritten by Banda Abdel-Fattah, a 13 year-old girl named Hayaat goes on a wild adventure in order to save her grandmother’s life. Hayaat had believed that a handful of soil from her grandmother’s ancestral home in Jerusalem would cure her from her terrible illness. However, the obstacle…
Miles from Ordinaryis about a thirteen-year-old girl named Lacey who is just starting her new job at the library. Her mother also gets a job at a grocery store because they are running low on money. The mother used to have problems with ghosts and her daughter is hoping that they will leave her alone…
The book A Monster Callsis about a thirteen-year-old boy named Conor. The book starts with Conor expecting a monster from his nightmare but it doesn’t come. Instead, a new monster appeared after his mother, who is very ill, starts to have treatments to get better. Three kids named Harry, Anton and Sully always bully Conor…
This book is about a seventeen-year-old boy named Cullen Writer who lives in a small Arkansas town. A birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a woodpecker that was thought to be extinct in the early 1900s. After that, Cullen’s town starts to get really weird. People are getting woodpecker haircuts and eating Lazarus burgers,…
Beatrice Prior lives in dystopian Chicago where society is divided into five factions. When she turns sixteen, Beatrice has to choose a faction. When the day comes, she surprises everyone by choosing the faction of bravery instead of the faction of selflessness. She then goes through many adventures. My favorite character is Beatrice because of…