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Teen Book Review: I Killed Zoe Spanos
A book I read this winter is I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick. This book is about Anna Cicconi getting a job as a nanny in a town that’s the Hamptons of Herron Mils. But this town is where people are trying to forget the past of a dreadful event on New Years Eve.
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Teen Book Review: Paper Towns
I read “Paper Towns” by John Green this winter. It was recommended to me by my reading teacher and follows the story of a high school student and his friend named Margo. The genre of this book is mystery, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much.
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Teen Book Review: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy is not a book you would typically expect to find in the hands of a teenager, but it is as beautiful as it is simplistic, and it is entirely universal.
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Teen Book Review: Patrick Mahomes
I read Epic Athletes: Patrick Mahomes by Dan Wetzel. It is a biography about Patrick Mahomes. It tells his life story from when he was a baby to now. The book has many interesting facts and quotes from his career like his experiences at college.
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Teen Book Review: One of Us is Next
I have been reading the series by Karen McManus. One of Us Is Next is the one that I just finished and it is a really cool mystery and I like the way it unfolded.
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Teen Book Review: Winter Holiday
This winter I read the book Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome. It is in the series Swallows and Amazons. It is about two families that go to live at a lake house with an island during the breaks. The kids are very imaginative and go on lots of adventures.
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Teen Book Review: Unbroken
I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. It’s a true story about an Olympic runner (Louis Zamperini) who gets sent off to war and was captured by Japan and then became a prisoner of war.
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Teen Book Review: Our Violent Ends
I read Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong. It’s the second in a duology called These Violent Delights. I would give the book a 4/5 because although most of the time it was very good and exciting, there were moments that were really boring and slow.
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Teen Book Review: Frankenstein
This winter I read Frankenstein--outside of school, just for fun. I thought that it was really good. It was interesting to me to see how Shelley made such a depressing story so interesting.
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Teen Book Review: Empire of Storms
Empire of Storms is the fifth book in the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas. This series is very long and can be slow at times. This book was slow to begin with but was more exciting toward the end. I almost gave up on this book but was glad that I stuck with it.
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Teen Book Review: The Unwanteds
“The Unwanteds” by Lisa McMann is set in a dystopian world called Qwill where people are split into three categories at the age of 13, wanted, necessary, and Unwanted. If you were one of the lucky wanteds you went to university.
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Teen Book Review: The Hunger Game
I read The Hunger Games. I am not a huge reader but this one caught my attention. I loved the action in the games and how much strategy was involved. The whole back story about why the games had to happen was a bit weird, but I guess there had to be a reason for all the drama.
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Teen Book Review: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
I read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. This was a page-turning mystery about a man named Aiden Bishop. He wakes up in a forest not knowing who he is or remembering anything from his life.
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New Nintendo Switch Games for the Teen Room
The Nintendo Switch system has a few new games ready to be played! Come try them out Monday nights during the Your Space drop-in program from 5-8pm in the Teen Room, and keep an eye on the events calendar for more opportunities. Want to suggest games for purchase?
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YA Reads: Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer
Brigid Kemmerer is one of those authors that I find to be very reliable in that her writing is always consistent, no matter what genre she tackles. I’m partial to her contemporary fiction, but recently have decided to explore more of her fantasy series.