Category: Teen

  • Review of “The Castle In The Weeds”

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    The Castle In The Weeds by M.w Morganson is a somewhat typical but also somewhat odd tale of growing up. It follows a group of five friends in the small town of Westborough where everything is ruled by Baron Malsham and his fertilizer factory. A place where everything fun and adventurous is outlawed. Having received…

  • Review of “The Titan’s Curse”

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    As many of you are aware The Titan’s Curse is the third book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the halfway point. Both in terms of the series but also in terms of the character’s timeline as it is the only book to not take place over the course of a…

  • Review of “Hurt Go Happy”

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    Some books are just heartbreakingly sad and yet you still find yourself almost compelled to read them. Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby is one of them. It tells the story of Jess, a young girl who is about thirteen when the story starts. Jess is mostly deaf after an incident when she was seven…

  • Review of “Nothing But The Truth”

    Today’s book is one that I found really fascinating but one that is also rather disturbing in some ways. Nothing But The Truth is a teen novel by Avi and tells the story of Philip Malloy. It opens with Philip finding out that he is unable to try out for the high school track team…

  • Review of “Raising Dragons”

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    Today’s book was honestly a bit of a surprise for me. I found it when browsing the young adult section at a local library and it kind of jumped out at me because of the name. Raising Dragons is the first book in the Dragons In Our Midst series by Bryan Davis and it tells…

  • Review of “Virals”

    Accidental genetic mutation. That is the driving factor in Virals, the first book in the series of the same name, by authors Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs. This book is the first adventure of young Tory Brennan, great-niece to Temperance Brennan. It opens on her and a group of friends being curious and getting into…

  • Review of “A Map of Days”

    At the end of the third book of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, The Library of Souls, we saw Jacob finally return to the U.S. In the fourth book, A Map of Days, we see him and his friends continue their adventures in the world of the peculiar but in the U.S instead of in Europe.…

  • Review of “The Sea of Monsters”

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    As I stated in a previous post I am working my way through the original Percy Jackson series having finished The Trials of Apollo. The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the iconic series and it chronicles the adventures of Percy’s second summer as a half-blood. It opens with Percy finding out that…

  • Review of “The Library of Souls”

    We are once again returning to the land of the peculiar with today’s book. The Library of Souls is the third book in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. It opens on Jacob and Emma having narrowly escaped the hollows and wights but having been unable to rescue their fellow peculiar. Luckily,…

  • Review of “The Lightning Thief”

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    For those of you who follow me, you’ve probably already read my reviews for The Trials of Apollo series. Having finally been able to read those I was inspired to go back and start at the beginning with The Lightning Thief, book one of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It opens on Percy Jackson‘s field…