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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
Overall Rating: 9/10 This book is the next in the throne of glass series. It is about Celeana, the new kings Champion and assassin. She...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 7, 20231 min read


Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken
Overall Rating: 7/10 Sequel to The Darkest Minds, Never Fade picks up as Ruby begins her work for the Children's League, a black-ops...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Overall Rating: 8/10 Bird Box describes a words where "creatures" prey on humans and through connecting with sight can cause humans to go...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Overall Rating: 10/10 The Help is about three strong female characters who come together for a common cause of highlighting the...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Overall Rating: 9/10 This book is about an assassin who has to compete against others to become the king's champion. There is more going...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Overall Rating: 5/10 Anne Frank's Diary is about history and what happened to the Jews in WW2, specifically Anne's family's experience of...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Overall Rating: 8/10 Maddison is practically allergic to the world and cannot leave the house. But her world flips upside down when Olly...
Britt Ratzburg
Mar 2, 20231 min read


Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Overall Rating: 8/10 It's WW2, at the height of the Nazi regime, and Lida has been taken from her native Ukraine to be an Ostarbeiter in...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 21, 20231 min read


The Golden Compass
Overall Rating: 7/10 The Golden Compass is a fantasy adventure about a young orphan girl with abilities she doesn't know she has. Lyra is...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 21, 20231 min read


The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Overall Rating: 6/10 "Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 15, 20231 min read


The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Overall Rating: 5/10 "Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words. 'I will never fire a gun,' he devised. 'I will not...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 15, 20231 min read


Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Overall Rating: 9/10 Shadow and Bone is about a girl that discovers she has a special power that changes not only her life, but the...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 15, 20231 min read


Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Overall Rating: 10/10 1930's Mississippi is not a safe place to be Black - a lesson that Cassie Logan and her brothers are just beginning...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 15, 20231 min read


Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Overall Rating: 9/10 In Monkey Beach, the main protagonist Lisa tells the story of her past and cultural heritage living in Kitimat, BC...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 15, 20231 min read


River's End by Nora Roberts
Overall Rating: 8/10 Hollywood comes with beautiful things...but also with devastation. A young girl grows up sheltered from the horror,...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 8, 20231 min read


Trigger by N. Griffin
Overall Rating: 8/10 All Didi wants to do is make her father happy. But all he wants is a prodigy. One thing I liked about this book is...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 8, 20231 min read


The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Overall Rating: 8/10 When a virus wipes out 98% of America's children, the ones left behind develop strange powers. Scared of their new...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 8, 20231 min read


Partials by Dan Wells
Overall Rating: 8/10 This novel presents a terrifying dystopian future in which nearly all Earth’s population has already been wiped out...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 3, 20232 min read


The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Overall Rating: 9/10 Inspired by Hungarian history and myth, this novel follows Évike, the only woman in her secluded pagan village that...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 3, 20231 min read


Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
Overall Rating: 9/10 Juniper and Thorn is a gothic retelling of the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, "The Juniper Tree." Marlinchen is the...
Britt Ratzburg
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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