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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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