Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, October 2019
Lou Brown was your average high school student. She had one friend from the swim team who was everything to her. The day of the race Lou’s heart was racing. It was the last race of the year before summer. The starting gun went off and she dove into the water. When the race was over, Lou realized that she hadn… Read more
Reviewed by B. Ullsvik, October 2019
Imagine being in a high school where they pick out the prettiest and ugliest girls of each grade, the week before homecoming. That is exactly what it is like at Mount Washington High, and each girl deals with the news in their own way. Danielle is the ugliest freshman, and she doesn’t know how her boyfriend will… Read more
Reviewed by R. Yelk, October 2019
13 year old Anna Fitzgerald has only one purpose in life. To donate whatever her older sister, Kate, needs. Kate is dying from acute leukemia and becomes in desperate need of a kidney. But Anna is tired of always giving Kate a part of her and having no one think of her own health. Since she doesn’t want to give up her… Read more
Reviewed by C. Prestidge, August 2019
P.S. I Still Love You is a sequel to the book To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Laura Jean got a job at a retirement home and is busy taking over Margot’s spot in the household. Laura Jean and Peter get back together but Peter’s ex Genevieve is making their relationship difficult. So when Laura… Read more
Reviewed by B. Wentz, August 2019
Coraline is a fantasy book with twists and turns throughout it. The beginning seemed ordinary but the climax was hit in the middle of the book where she lost her parents. She has to find them on the other side of the door, which is a parallel universe where cats can talk, Humans have buttons for eyes, and… Read more
Reviewed by W. Erickson, July 2019
Main character Cate attends an isolated boarding school on an island where the internet is very difficult to access and there isn’t much to do around the area. So, among the students at the school there is a tradition, a game called Killer is a tradition only few are selected to play. Members who are chose to play… Read more
Reviewed by D. Elsing, July 2019
The story Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs is the first book in the FunJungle series. The story picks up in the middle of the zoo the FunJungle where we meet the main character Theodore (Teddy) Fitzroy causing trouble by giving monkeys water balloons. Teddy is a strong headed, twelve year old who suspects that when… Read more
Reviewed by D. Elsing, June 2019
The story The Release by Tom Isbell is the final book in The Release trilogy. In The Release it picks up a couple of weeks after the events of the second book as the Less Thans try to survive a harsh winter up in the mountains. The three main characters come off as odd in this book as the second book… Read more
Reviewed by A. Klink, May 2019
In the novel What She Wants Cathy Kelly’s humor follows four diverse women linked to the quaint Irish town of Redlion. Hope Parker, “Mrs. Tracksuit Bottom,” is the mother of two, and a wife of Matt, who is an ad executive/closet novelist and beneficiary of his uncle’s cottage in Redlion. Hope fears she… Read more
Reviewed by A. Klink, February 2019
The daughter of alcoholics who left her orphaned at 17, Jolene “Jo” Zarkades found her first stable family in the military. She’s served over two decades, first in the army, later with the National Guard. Now Jo’s stationed at home, taking care of her two daughters, Betsey and LuLu. Jo’s life is completely the… Read more