It was truly a beautifully written story about a few weeks old baby that was left at a lovely couples house by a woman. They named her Ulla and took her as their own. At the age of 14, she decided to move out and worked as a babysitter at a house…
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Newton Teen Book Review Project - Summer 2020
Reviews submitted by teens in the Newton area, participating in the teen book review project. Teens read advance copies of books (not yet published) and write reviews, which then gives them volunteer hours.
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- This book is backed with 3 stories that continue one after another and are full of suspense. In the beginning the reader is introduced to Boddy Mitchum a navy academy drop-out from NEW York state, he is single, and has a brother is is a dope dealer…
- ‘Instant Karma’ by Marissa Meyer portrays a hilarious, but cheery and heartening romance. It all starts off with the absolute perfectionist and A+ student, Prudence Daniels. She hates peoples who are lazy and arrogant, and had alway hoped that karma…
- Buried Beneath the Baobab, by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, was a painful, heartbreaking story, yet It held my attention with a potent grip. This story encircles a true story of a young girl whose dreams of pursuing post-secondary comes to a grand halt…
- Reading Monday’s Not Coming, a novel by Tiffany D. Jackson, is like diving into an overwhelming pool of emotions. I admire the way Tiffany D. Jackson narrates the sad reality of many black and brown girls going missing without anyone noticing. At…
- SToday Tonight Tomorrow” by Rachel Lynn Solomon is a cute romance novel following high school senior, Rowan Roth, and her ultimate academic rival, Neil McNair, battle it out one last time on a city-wide scavenger hunt. The novel takes place over the…
- This is a bewitching, captivating retelling of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. Kemmerer puts a modern twist on the fairy tale we all know and love. This retelling takes place in the cursed Kingdom of Emberfall, where Prince Rhen is…
- PLOT SPOILERS Long paragraph ahead! Shelby Mahurin’s fantasy YA novel, ‘Serpent and Dove’, was a ridiculous and lengthy disappointment crammed with apparent problematic themes that still infuriate me. The book is set in a historical France-like…
- It is a good book.This is the sequel book to Crown of Coral and Pearl. The book starts off with nor coming back to her hometown. She learns that the food situation has gotten bad and that a lot of villagers have started to hate her family. The…
- Our main character is Nor. Her whole life has involved her own beauty. In her village of Varenia. A city in which all the girls must look there best and prepare to become the wife of the king of Ilara. This is the goal of all the girls in the whole…
- What if it’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera can only be described as amazing. The story revolves around two teenage boys, who happen to meet at a post office within the city of New York. The reading perspective within the novel tends to…
- I can honestly say that I loved the novel, The Wayward Son, as much as I did for the first one. I believe that it was a great second installment for the series. I almost tore through it with how quick I was going through the book and how entertained…
- I liked the fact that this book was ok with death. It kept me on my toes. In some books you will always know that your main characters will be fine and safe but in this it feels like that is not there. It is more thrilling this way. In some books I…
- The first book in Holly Black’s ‘The Folk of Air’ trilogy, ‘The Cruel Prince’ is a page-turner packed with all the drama, action, suspense, and mystery you could wish for. Jude Duarte is forced to witness the murder of her parents at a young age,…
- It was not a fairly intense book, but it was still a good read. The main character is Ulla Tulin a troll that does not know much of her family. She was an orphan that was adopted by the Tulins. She lived with them for 14 years in a town called…
- SOME PLOT SPOILERS Alice Oseman’s contemporary YA novel, Radio Silence, realistically depicts a diverse group of teenagers and how they confront the pressures of friendship, school, identity, love and fandoms. In present-day England, Frances Janvier…
- Frankly in Love” by David Yoon follows Frank Li navigate high school love under the watchful gaze of his Korean immigrant parents. In order to keep his white girlfriend a secret from his family, he and fellow Korean American Joy Song decide to…
- This book has easily become one of my all time favourite books and I have quickly gained an appreciation for both this novel and the brilliant author behind it. It is not what is typically expected and presented within young adult novels. The Hate U…
- “Saving Beck” by Courtney Cole is an insightful yet saddening novel following Natalie and her son, Beck. The novel illustrates Beck’s downward spiral from star quarterback on his high school football team to a drug addicted street urchin while…
- WARNING PLOT SPOILERS V.E. Schwab’s book, Vicious, not only explores the universe of heroes and villains but questions what exactly is good or evil in a modern world. The author takes on flawed, compelling anti-heroes and a dark, intriguing plot…
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