Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

by J. K. Rowling
Summary:
YOU-KNOW-WHO? NO, Harry doesn’t know, actually. After his parents died in a car accident, Harry’s lived with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and his cousin Dudley Dursely. They all hate him, and when Harry receives a mysterious letter [which his uncle immediately rips into pieces] they’re [...]

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All But My Life

All But My Life
by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Summary:
BIELITZ IS a small town twenty or so miles from Cieszyn. During WWII, it’s invaded by Germans and all the Jews are eventually shipped to concentration camps. Gerda recounts her experience from separation from her brother and parents, friends dying, to concentration camps and their conditions. Her brother [...]

A Day No Pigs Would Die

A Day No Pigs Would Die

by Robert Newton Peck
Summary:
PINKY IS a pig that Rob gets for helping his neighbor’s cow birth a calf. The story follows his life as a twelve-year-old Shaker boy on a Vermont farm, exploring his relationship with his pig, as well as to his father, a farmer-slash-pig slaughterer. It comes [...]

I Am America (And So Can You!)

I Am America (And So Can You!) 
by Stephen Colbert
Summary:
STEPHEN COLBERT gives his opinions on everything from gay marriage to the future to himself. With “facts” he makes up, “people” who agree with him, and strange games, Colbert gets his point across.
Review:
This was one of the strangest books I’ve ever read. It was funny at times, [...]

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Summary:
MRS. REED hates Jane Eyre, the niece that her husband made her promise on his deathbed to keep as if her own child. Orphaned at an early age, she was, in Mrs. Reed’s opinion, rather dumped on her quite unwillingly. Jane is neglected by her aunt and bullied by her three [...]

Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why 
by Jay Asher
Summary:
THEY SAY dead girls don’t talk, but that’s where they’re wrong. They talk, but most people are too scared to listen. Hannah’s dead. Two weeks after Hannah Baker’s death, Clay Jensen hears her voice one last time- on a “Baker’s dozen” of cassette tapes she made. Seven double sided tapes with [...]

Runaway

Runaway
by Wendelin Van Draanen
Summary:
HOLLY IS a twelve-year-old runaway. She’s run away before, but this is the first time she gets away-far away to LA, Beverly Hills and along the way she tells the story of her mother’s death and how foster care put her on the run. Holly writes in a journal given to her by [...]

The Year of Living Biblically

The Year of Living Biblically
by A. J. Jacobs
Summary:
A. J. IS an agnostic, though he was raised loosely Jewish. He decides that his new quest, after reading the full Encyclopedia Britannica for his last book, is to read the Bible and, as the extended title says, “follow the Bible as literally as possible.” He assembles a [...]

Breaking Dawn [contains spoilers]

Breaking Dawn

by Stephanie Meyer
Summary:
ISABELLA SWAN is now Bella Cullen. After their great white wedding they’re off to Isle Esme [a gift to Esme from Carlisle]. Bella finally gets her chance to sleep with her now husband, and discovers something totally unexpected…she’s pregnant. It’s a fast, painful, draining pregnancy, in the middle of which the [...]