'Legacy' by Shannon Messenger is the eighth book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities Series. Since this a series, I'm going to give you a quick run down of the series. Basically, Sophie Foster is a long lost elf who was hidden away with humans at birth. As an elf, Sophie has a special … Continue reading Keeper of the Lost Cities: Legacy by Shannon Messenger (anusree Iyer)

Gloria Whelen’s Homeless Bird is a gripping novel that won the National Book Award for Young People’s Fiction in 2000. It centers around Koly, a 13-year old Indian girl who is about to enter an arranged marriage with a boy named Hari. Once the two marry, Hari dies from tuberculosis and Koly is left widowed … Continue reading Gloria Whelen’s Homeless Bird

Tom Angleberger’s The Strange Case of Origami Yoda is a novel released in 2010, and is the first in a series of origami themed Star Wars books with wonderful puns like “Darth Paper” and “ART2-D2.” The book centers around a group of students at McQuarrie Middle School. One day, a boy named Dwight, who is … Continue reading The Strange Case of Origami Yoda – Tom Angleberger

Chitra Banerjee's The Forest of Enchantments tells the story of one of the greatest epics in the Hindu religion: The Ramayana. This is the story of one of the most strongest, and revered woman of Hindu mythology- Sita. It is the story of a woman with unconditional loyalty and love, daughter of the earth, who … Continue reading The Forest of Enchantments by: Chitra Banerjee

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a classic novella popularly read for both leisure and in English classes around the nation. It tells the tale of Manor Farm in England, in which a negligent farmer named Mr. Jones overworks and mistreats his animals. Eventually, the animals get fed up, and Old Major, a boar, expresses how … Continue reading George Orwell’s Animal Farm

For context, Red Queen is about a world in which some humans have silver blood, and with it, the ability to manipulate specific items, elements, or even people around them. However, people with Red blood still exist, and they do not have any powers. As a result, the "Reds" are heavily oppressed by the "Silvers." … Continue reading Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

To provide some context, the book consists of 101 chapters in which each chapter composes the author’s personal experience that teaches the readers a lesson. Furthermore, there is a page at the end of each chapter that has a quote that sums up and most importantly reminds the readers of the moral of the section. … Continue reading “Unlearn” by Kanwar Singh (Humble the Poet)

William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies centers around the challenges that a group of boys faces trying to survive and maintain order while stranded on a deserted island. After a plane crash during wartime, Ralph finds himself stranded on a Pacific island with a boy named Piggy. Ralph finds a conch shell and uses … Continue reading William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Louis Sachar’s Holes is a classic young adult novel, published in 1998, that centers around Stanley Yelnats (whose last name is just Stanley backwards). Stanley is a boy who is wrongly accused of stealing a pair of shoes that belonged to a famous baseball player. He is sent to Camp Green Lake as a result, … Continue reading Louis Sachar’s Holes

Scarlet is the second book in the Lunar Chronicles, and boy, is it a good one! The book follows Scarlet Benoit, Linh Cinder, and occasionally Emperor Kai. Everyone's life just continues to go down hill during this book, and its probably a bad time for me to be reading it, since there's an outbreak going … Continue reading Scarlet by Marissa Meyer