In Ally Condie’s Matched, sixteen-year-old Cassia Reyes is anxious about one of the most important days of her life: her Match Banquet. In this society, officials decide who you are destined to fall in love with, what your profession will be, and when you will die. […]
In the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, a young teenage boy writes letters to a stranger to share his life through his first year of high school. […]
Monster, written by Walter Dean Myers, takes place in present day Manhattan, New York. Monster is a suspenseful fiction book about a teenage boy convicted for a crime he did not commit. […]
Looking for Alaska by John Green is a realistic fiction novel set in present time. It tells the story of a teenage boy’s new life in a boarding school in Alabama and the struggles he faces while he is there. […]
Terminally Human, a chapbook written by Barry W. North, a St. Charles Parish author, is a collection of twenty-three poems that capture various moments in a human’s life. […]
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter living in the rubble and remains of Earth after World War Terminus. Rick strives to maintain some semblance of sanity and peace on the mostly-deserted planet. […]
Up from the Cradle of Jazz by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones, is a chronicle of music and musicians from the 1940s to the late 2000’s. […]
The non-fiction novel Last Days of Last Island was a very informative account of the 1856 hurricane. […]
The Hound of the Baskervilles, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, is a classic mystery crime novel set in England. It was published between August 1901 and April 1902 as a serial story in The Strand Magazine. […]
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