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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

My Rating: 5 stars We don’t know where he’s from, we don’t know his real name and we don’t who he is writing to, but we know his whole life. A teenage boy under the alias of “Charlie” is writing letters to a “friend” who he knows will listen to his problems. He talks about […]

From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

My Rating: 5 stars *Don’t read if you haven’t read the previous book* After everything that happened last year with her sister, Kasey, Alexis thought life in her new home would be easy. And obviously, she was wrong. Kasey starts her first year of high school, and right away she makes a new group of […]

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

My Rating: 5 stars *Rated PG-13 She had everything. She was a fashion model who had the perfect boyfriend, best friend and the career she had always wanted. Then a sudden accident leaves her face disfigured and incapable of speech, everything goes downhill. She goes from being the center of attention, as a model, to […]

Karma by Cathy Ostlere

My Rating: 5 stars On October 31st, 1984, a fifteen year old girl who is half Hindu and half Sikh is travelling to New Delhi, India from Canada with her father. She only has two things with her: a new journal and her mother’s ashes. On the night Maya and her father arrive in New […]

The Right Track, Baby

Lady Gaga. What do you think of when you hear that name? What comes to mind when someone says those two simple words? I think of the exotic outfits, the pieces of art she calls clothing. The group dance numbers, forever fun and refreshing. I think of her promotion of equality and loving yourself. The […]

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

My Rating: 5 stars The face that was once behind the circular glasses and brandishing a wand at the evils of the Wizarding World is now up on a Broadway stage wearing a suit and an electric-blue bowtie. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, known as the “Boy Who Lived”, on the big screen adaptations […]

Linger by Maggie Steifvater

My Rating: 2 stars **If you haven’t read previous books, don’t read!** To be honest, I only got to about page 100 of this book. It failed to grab my attention from the first page. I think one of the problems was that every chapter – and sometimes in the middle of the chapter – […]

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

My Rating: 2 stars Okay. So, I didn’t read this whole book. I got to about 120 pages into the book and completely lost interest. The only thing I kind of liked about the book was the plot. The book was about a girl who had this kind of “sixth sense” of detecting the dead. […]

To Kill a Mockingbird

My Rating: 5 stars I don’t think I can describe how much I loved watching this movie. I got to watch it in school, and I feel like some of the kids didn’t enjoy the movie as much as I did. The movie was almost exactly like the book, but with few plot changes to […]

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

My Rating: 5 stars Just when Mia thinks everything is going somewhat okay, her life ends…literally. In a terrible car accident with her parents and younger brother, Mia thinks she’s okay at first; that she is the only one who survived. But then she sees the paramedics carrying her body away. As she is in […]