Category: Teen
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The Scorch Trials, book two of the Maze Runner series by James Dashner, picks up immediately after the events of the first book. Thomas, Teresa, Minho, Newt and the rest of the gladers are staying at the shelter where they have just been taken when weird things start happening. Teresa disappears in the middle of…
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Attack of the Fiend is the fourth book in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Picking up a few months after the previous book we see Tom, Alice and the Spook back in Chipenden where Tom continues his apprenticeship. When the Spook receives a visitor, who he also claims as a friend, Tom and…
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The Activist is the fourth book in the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham. It continues the story of young Theo as he works on figuring out local politics. The state government wishes to build a bypass around Strattenburg to save time for local shipping. However, to do so they must imminent domain a surprisingly…
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Sword and Pen is the fifth and final book in the Great Library series by Rachel Caine and it finishes the story of Jess and his friends. The previous book ended with their successful overthrow of the Archivist and their subsequent takeover of the library. Now the group must work on stabilizing the library’s power…
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The Magician by Michael Scott is the second book in the series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. It picks up with our group now in Paris having narrowly escaped the forces of Dr. Dee in Ojai. They find themselves in what appears to be a basement room that they quickly discover is in…
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The Maze Runner is the first book in the aptly named Maze Runner series and is an interesting if somewhat disturbing teen dystopian novel by James Dashner. It opens with Thomas, a teenage boy who wakes up in what seems to be a dark black box with no way out. He also seems to have…
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The Son of Neptune is book two of The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan and it circles back to Percy Jackson. In the previous book we had learned that Percy had mysteriously disappeared and no one knew what had happened. This book opens by revealing that Percy had also lost his memory and was…
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Night of the Soul Stealer is the third book in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney and continues the adventures of young Thomas Ward during his apprenticeship with the Spook. Winter is coming and with it their move to Anglezarke and the Spook’s winter home. Shortly before their move the Spook receives a letter…
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The Accused is book three of the Theodore Boone series by John Grisham and continues the adventures of young Theo. As the city of Strattenburg prepares for the retrial of the murder case from the first book Theo seems to be having a run of bad luck. Every time he turns around the tire on…
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Smoke and Iron is the fourth book in the Great Library series by Rachel Caine and with it we see the continuation of the open rebellion. Jess is posing as his brother Brendan in Alexandria in an attempt to gain intel from the Archivist Magister and the library in general. Meanwhile, Morgan is back in…