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Review: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
~Summary~ Stevie Bell has just been accepted to the elite Ellingham Academy, a boarding school located in the mountains of Vermont. The school was founded by Albert Ellingham in the 1930’s. Shortly after the school’s opening however, his wife and daughter were kidnapped, the only clue to the kidnapper being a mysterious ransom letter signed,…
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Review: My Fine Fellow by Jennieke Cohen
~Summary~ Helena and Penelope are firm friends and Culinarians in their final year of school. They are now turning their attentions to the final projects they must complete before the end of the school year. Penelope has decided to showcase non-European cuisine in honor of her Filipino heritage and Helena has just found the opportunity…
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Review: The Darkening by Sunya Mara
~Summary~ Vesper Vale lives one bad day away from her city being swallowed by the ever encroaching Storm. The Storm her mother chose to walk into instead of facing execution. And now after twelve years, the same people who forced her mother into the Storm have caught up to her father. They’re after the book…
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Review: Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
~Summary~ Jani will do anything to keep her sister Zosa safe, so when Zosa earns a job working for the elusive Hotel Magnifique, Jani sees it as an incredible opportunity for them both to escape their poverty stricken lives. At first the hotel is a dream come true and everything that Jani could have hoped…
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Review: Love and Other Great Expectations by Becky Dean
~Summary~ The story follows Britt, an American teenager, who has just been told that her soccer career, which was her ticket into college, is over. With no backup plan and her last days of high school winding down, Britt doesn’t know what she’s going to do. That’s when she gets an invitation to take part…
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Review: Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
~Summary~ When Harristan became King after the assassination of his parents he was thrust into leadership of a kingdom on the brink of disaster. A disease ravages the land and the only way to keep rebellion at bay is to rule with an iron fist. Meanwhile, Tessa Cade, who is an apprentice apothecary, is watching…
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Review: The Extinction Trials
~Summary~ “Betrayal. Sacrifice. Survival.Welcome to the Extinction Trials In Stormchaser and Lincoln’s ruined world, the only way to survive is to risk everything. To face a contest more dangerous than anyone can imagine. And they will do anything to win. But in a land full of monsters – human and reptilian – they can’t afford…
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Review: Six Crimson Cranes
~Summary~ Shiori, Princess of Kiata, holds forbidden magic which hasn’t been seen in her land for centuries. When she loses control on the day of her betrothal ceremony it catches the attention of her stepmother, Raikama, who also possesses magic, but of a darker kind. When Shiori witnesses her practicing her magic, her stepmother banishes…
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Review: Internment
~Summary~ It started when the new president announced all Muslims to be a threat to America. After that it wasn’t long before Layla and her family are stripped of their freedom when they and thousands of other Muslim Americans are taken and forced into an internment camp. But while her parents and others are willing…
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Review: Skin of the Sea
~Summary~ Simidele is a Mami Wata, a mermaid whose job it is to collect the souls of the dead from the sea. But one day she finds a boy, and he isn’t dead yet. Faced with a choice she decides to save the boy and as a result incurs the wrath of the Supreme Creator.…
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