Category Archives: Teens

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Perfect Escape

From Stephanie Bunce
Title:  Perfect Escape
Author:  Jennifer Brown
I won this book in the raffle and am so glad I did. What a wonderful story about the pressures of a “normal” girl with a brother who has OCD. Some wonderful insights into what it’s like to have a mental illness, as well as what it takes to love someone with a mental illness. It was a very poignant book and I recommend it highly!!

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The Mortal Instruments, Book 3: City of Glass

From Stephanie  Bunce 
Title:  The Mortal Instruments, Book 3: City of Glass
Author:  Cassandra Clare
This book was AWESOME!! I love how she kept the action going from almost the beginning of the book. There were twists and turns, heartstopping action, and pulse-racing love sequences. I devoured this book. It is one of the few trilogies that satisfied to the very end, without me being overly disappointed that the book was over, as I often get at the end of many series. Highly recommended.

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Abduction!

From Ken Chan
Abduction!
Author:  Peg Kehret
Abduction is a story of great suspense. Abduction is a book is about how a boy named Matt leaves to go to the bathroom and never comes back; he got tricked into going with a man who is his ex-stepdad, Denny. Denny lives a life of gambling and due to that, he is in great debt. He plans to use Matt in order to get money. Matt goes on an adventure while his family is in search of him.
I find this book very heart racing and exciting. It shows every characteristics of a 5/5 star book.

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The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills

From Jamie Kauffman
The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills
Author:  Joanna Pearson
 The book The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills is a great book for teen girls. Its about a nerdy anthropologist, Janice, and all of her observations on the life of a high schooler. Throughout the book she discovers how strong her friendship with her best friend, Margo, needs to be. Once the Miss Livermush pageant comes up, (which is the most exciting thing in Melva) everything and everyone seems to be changing in ways her anthropology research cant explain. This novel was an exciting and addictive read.

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Bloody Horowitz

From Kyle Teen Book Reviewer
Author:  Anthony  Horowitz
Bloody Horowitz 
I read the book Bloody Horowitz by Anthony Horowitz. This has 12 different stories in it that do not have happy endings. One of the stories in this book was about a guy named Henry who accused Darren Shan of stealing his story and rewording parts of it in his own words. Then Henry tries to murder Darren Shan by sending him a letter with poison on the envelope. Henry hopes Darren Shan will open the letter and lick the poison off the envelope before sending him a letter back. Darren Shan receives Henry’s letter in the mail. It is all over the news that Darren Shan was murdered by licking poison off an envelope that one of his fans sent to him. You have to read the story to find out what happens next.

 This was my favorite story in this book because I thought it was weird how someone would try to murder another person by putting poison on an envelope. This was a scary, yet very interesting and fun book to read. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a bunch of different scary stories without happy endings.

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Draw the dark

From Carson Teen Book Reviewer
Author:  Ilsa  Bick
Draw the dark 
This book is about a seventeen year old boy named Christian Cage. Both of Christian’s parents disappeared when he was little. Due to Christian having no mother or father, he got to live with Uncle Hank, the town Sheriff. Christian’s mother left clues behind for him. These clues led to Christian’s development of the idea that his parents are trapped in a place called “the sideways place.” In school, Christian Cage is considered to be an outsider who doesn’t fit in with the rest because people believe that he caused the near death of his first-grade teacher years earlier. Christian spends extremely great amounts of time drawing images of the sideways place. In the beginning of the story, he discovers that in his sleep he has painted the official emblem of the Nazi Party on a prominent citizen’s barn.  After that, he begins to have nightmares. In his nightmares, he sees violent incidents from the past from the perspective of a young Jewish boy. This scares Christian, so he researches Winter’s history for an explanation, and there are World War II-era events involving a camp for German prisoners of war. Christian also researches and tries to find out about how he is able to draw the thoughts and nightmares of those around him. With Christian in Winter, Wisconsin, the town will not be able to ignore or forget what actually happened where they live. I’d recommend this book to people who like reading books that are mysterious, intense, and creepy. The whole idea of this book is so unique that it will be one memorable book. However, I would not recommend this book to little kids because the writing style can be random at times and hard for some people to get through.