One of the many wonders of literature is how stories can tell about situations that aren’t possible in real life by any stretch of the imagination, yet still allow the characters to provide sensical insight and valuable life lessons. The young adult novel Every Day features a character who is going through such a situation…
Every Other Day is a book about the fantasy of a normal 16 year old teenager’s life. Kali D’Angelo is a cheerleader in high school and has to attend pep rallies to support her school. That’s a life of a normal human. This happens every day, call it “A” day. Based on the novel’s title,…
The novel, The Pledge, is a fictional first person piece that takes place in Ludania. The female protagonist, Charlie, describes her country as a dangerous, strict and violent place to live. It is segregated into classes that each speak a different language. If one person in any class speaks in the native but forbidden language,…
Things were hard for his family but he and his family could handle it. Wahoo is just a boy. A boy who solves all of his dad’s problems. His dad got a new job. This job is a TV show that has to deal with animals, but the wildest of all, like snakes, bats and…
Gabe has a passion for DJ-ing. He has an amazing relationship with his mentor John. Gabe is a transsexual. His birth name is Elizabeth but he calls himself Gabe. He knows society won’t accept him all the time. He is in love with his best friend Page. But before he confesses his love, he has…
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick is an action packed thrill ride. Perry Stormaire has to take a foreign exchange student living with him, Gobija Zaksauskag, to the prom. He thinks it will be a disaster, and he is correct. It turns out Gobi, as she likes to be called, is a Lithuanian secret agent who…
In this book, Greg and Earl are trying to make Rachel feel better about her acute myelogenous leukemia. So he and Earl are trying to make her confident to fight her leukemia. My favorite character is Rachel because she continues to be Greg’s friend even when he stopped talking to her shunned her. Another character…
When Jane, her brother Marcus and her dad inherited a house, Jane thought the house would be “boring.” In fact, the house was anything but boring. It was older and and scarier than the other houses, and when they went inside, the shelves were all crammed with pictures and statues, including a carousel pony chained…
This book is about a boy named Doug Swieteck. Doug and his family moved to Marysville, known as “The Dump.” Everything is bad to Doug. The library is owned by a crabby old lady with glasses that loop around her neck, and she detests him. A girl named Lillian Spicer constantly embarrasses Doug. To top…
In the book Dodger, a boy named Dodger is trying to protect a young lady who was harassed. The young lady’s name is known as Simplicity and Dodger has to outwit Simplicity’s killers to protect both of them. My favorite character was Solomon, Dodger’s guardian, because he is wise and has seen much of the…