Tag: Book Reviews
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THE STARBOARD SEA by Amber Dermont
“Bellingham Academy: everything you always wanted in a prep school and less.” Boarding schools have always been a setting that immediately intrigues and captivates me. Generally, young adult literature is criticized for its lack of adult or parental figures, primarily because it doesn’t accurately reflect life as an adolescent. Sure, teenagers may feel as though…
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Book Review: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Author: Andy Andrews Number of Pages: 112 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers Release Date: August 31, 2010 “The decisions you make and the way you treat others have more impact than you may ever realize. This title presents a story about a decision one man-made over a hundred years ago, and the ripple effect it has had on us individually,…
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Book Review: THE SUN ALSO RISES
Author: Ernest Hemingway Number of Pages: 251 Publisher: Scribner Release Date: 1926 “A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of…
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Book Review: THE SILENT HISTORY
Authors: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett Number of Pages: 528 Publisher: FSG Originals Release Date: October 1, 2012 “Sometime right around now, doctors, nurses, and—most of all—parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among children. Children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech; they don’t…
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Book Review: NICK & NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST
Author: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Number of Pages: 183 Publisher: Ember Release Date: May 23, 2005 “Nick frequents New York’s indie rock scene nursing a broken heart. Norah is questioning all of her assumptions about the world. They have nothing in common except for their taste in music, until a chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to…
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Book Review: SKIPPING CHRISTMAS
Author: John Grisham Number of Pages: 177 Publisher: Arrow Release Date: 2001 “Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the…
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Book Review: THE SECRET ADVERSARY
Author: Agatha Christie Number of Pages: 400 Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: 1922 “After WW1, childhood pals Tommy Beresford and “Tuppence” Prudence Cowley, lack money and prospects, become adventurers for the British Government. Rich American Julius P. Hersheimmer, powerful Mr Whittington, and an evil mastermind’s conspiracy all seek Jane Finn, given papers vital to peace by an agent at…
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Book Review: TEN LITTLE ALIENS
Author: Stephen Cole Number of Pages: 305 Publisher: BBC Books Release Date: 2002 “Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death. They are the empire’s most wanted terrorists, and their discovery could end a war devastating the galaxy. But is…
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Book Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Author: Ransom Riggs Number of Pages: 352 Publisher: Quirk Release Date: January 1, 2011 “A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific…
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Book Review: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Author: Jonathan Swift Number of Pages: 306 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 1726 “Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters – with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos…
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