Category Archives: YA Fiction

Ruby Red

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Gwyneth Shepherd’s life is not at all normal. For one, she can see ghosts. Two, her mom lied about her birth date, and three, she can travel through time. When Gwyneth finds out that has this time travel gene that should have gone to her sister her world is warped. Nothing is ever the same again.

Since she has the gene she is required with a secret society that uses the people with the time travel gene to help complete their goal of ridding humankind of any disease or so they say. Gwyneth believes that they have other goals and objectives because the leader of the group chocked her without using his hands. To add to her problems there is another time travel person named Gideon.

Gideon is hot to put it simply. In addition to being hot he is also annoying. Gideon is always going around acting like he is so much better than Gwen. He acts like Gwen is extremely stupid. How will Gwen survive in her new world? Read the book to find out.

Review

I would give this book a 7.5 out of 10. It was very exciting, but at times the story seemed to be moving very slowly. Other than that this book has everything a good book needs. This book is the first the Ruby Red Trilogy. The second book is Sapphire Blue. The third and last book is Emerald Green. This is a great series, and a great read.

I’d Tell You I Love You, but then I’d Have to Kill You

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Cammie Morgan goes to Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women.The school might claim to be your typical all-girls school, but if the school teach chemical warfare, hacking into the CIA, and the latest martial arts I highly doubt it. The school is actually a school for spies. There is one thing the girls of Gallagher Academy can’t do. Act like normal people. Always on guard, they suspect everyone and everything. The ones who blend in the best, who go unnoticed are ‘pavement artists.’ They can stand right next you and you wouldn’t see them.Chameleons is what they are.  Cammie is a ‘pavement artist’ along with that she is can of speak 14 different languages fluently and kill a person seven different ways with her bare hands.

Things get complicated when Cammie falls for a normal boy named Josh. Spy training doesn’t teach you how to deal with boys who really like you. Every night  she risks her life to meet him. To make matters worse her mom is headmistress of the school. If the daughter of the headmistress is rebellious what will other people think. Wait, things get even worse. Joe Solomon the new extremely hot teacher at the school. He knows how Cammie’s father died. He has also ben a spy for aver ten years meaning Cammie has to be double careful. Can Cammie keep a relationship running as a spy and a girl? Can she be ordinary?

Review

This book is absolutely amazing. Being a spy now sounds both good and bad. Its not all just adventure. There is so much more involved. I give this book a 10  It has so many questions, mysteries, and cliffhangers. The book itself ends in a cliffhanger. The book is the first in the Gallagher Girl series. It features Cammie Morgan and her adventures. So far I’ve only read the first three books and I love them. I know I am going to enjoy the last three. Apparently the last book has a little novella that follows it. You can find it online at allycarter.com/books/. Read the books and remember to.. Enjoy!

I Funny

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I am the Crip from Cornball. Also known as Jamie Grimm. I live with the Smileys in Smileyville a place where no one smiles. I  am funny or so everyone says.  Everyday after school I go to my Uncle Frankie’s Diner and work at the cash register. When a person orders I tell them a joke and ring them up. This is how the I Funny business started.My Uncle Frankie thought I was funny enough to compete in the Planets Funniest Kid Contest. He was WRONG. I have three problems. One, I am in middle school. Two,  I am in a wheelchair. Three, I am NOT funny. 

The Contest was the least of my problems. You see there are two girls that I really like. One is Gilda Gold. She is just as funny, and she is a girl who is very pretty. The other girl is Cool Girl a.k.a Suzie. She extremely smart and yet she is knockout gorgeous. The whole world is watching me. Two girls like me a lot, and I am NOT funny. Can things get any more horrible.

Review

The I Funny series is hilarious. It has the all the problems of an average middle schooler and so much more. It is very easy to connect with and is great if you like to laugh. I wrote the synopsis in a way that shows both my view and the character’s view. I told the story in a different way, but in my own words. I gave this book a 7. For one as funny it is the      book  does not have that much adventure. While others might like that I am a person that just craves adventure. The I Funny book is in a series. The second one is I Even Funnier, and the last one is I Totally Funniest. They are all absolutely amazing.

Divergent

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Dauntless, Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Erudite. Divergent. Beatrice ‘Tris’ Prior lives in a world of where only perfection is accepted. If you don’t fit in you die. It’s quite simple. You can only be one thing. You can be brave, selfless, peaceful, truthful, or knowledgeable. You can’t be brave and selfless. You can’t be more than one thing. If you are guess what happens to you. Death. Tris is more than one or divergent. She is from Abnegation, but decides to become Dauntless. Dauntless shows absolutely no mercy for those who are Divergent. She’s probably as good as dead.

Luckily, she doesn’t die, but many others do. The Erudite have gotten greedy for power. They plan to use the Dauntless to kill all the Abnegation using a simulator for mind-control. Thankfully, the serum that they inject doesn’t work on Divergents (this makes Tris happy because he boyfriend, Tobias, is also Divergent).

Anyway let’s skip over all the unimportant deaths and go on. Tris’s mother and father dies. Tobias and Tris shut down the mind-control program. Oh, and their whole “country” is in chaos. Half the population is dead, the other is alive, confused and scared. The Erudite are angry and even more determined to have full rule. What a happy ending.

Review

This is a book of greatness. It has romance, action, adventure. It has everything a good book needs to have. I give it an 8.5. It is  a story unlike The Hunger Games whose whole idea is “Peeta or Gale.” This book gives the ups and downs or real and fake lives. Absolutely Amazing are the words that come to mind when you read the book, and it is absolutely true.

Only Time Will Time Tell

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” I object.” The two words that put Harry’s life and marriage down the drain. Harry Clifton is the son of Maisie Clifton and Arthur Clifton, or  so he thought. Harry lives in Bristol city a place for all kinds of people. The people there all now war with Hitler is unavoidable, they can see the signs. The thing Harry actually had a pretty good life. Let me explain.

His childhood was amazingly lucky. Harry was one of the few poor boys who got into the most prestigious academies and universities. He was bright, clever, inquisitive, polite, funny. HE was also a great singer. As life went on Harry found true love with Emma Barrington- sister to his best friend , Giles Barrington-  the daughter of one of the richest people in Britain. His life was perfect, that was, until a big bombshell was dropped. Someone had accused Harry of actually being the son of Barrington. The thing is Harry never thought of that at all he was always the son of Arthur Clifton. How was Harry going to fix this problem? Read the book to find out.

This book is the first in a series called the Clifton Chronicles. If you enjoyed this book than you can read the rest of the series. There are five other books. Enjoy!

Review

I love this book. It has so much excitement and conflict. The are so many things that you have to pay attention too and makes you want to keep reading. The end of the book is an absolute cliffhanger. Another thing hat you need to know is that I think this book is only for kids ages 11 and up. There might be some inappropriate content for younger children. Overall, this book was absolutely enjoyable. I give it a 9.7 out of 10. Amazing and Mind-blowing are two words I find most helpful in describing this book.

The Fault in our Stars

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Hazel Grace Lancaster is a time bomb. From a young age she has had cancer. To Hazel the world is quite drab, well until she met him. Augustus Waters is a rebel. People tell him to not use cigarettes, he does. Augustus also has a fake leg. The two are so different and yet the same. Every week Hazel attends a support that meets in “The Heart of Jesus.” One of her friends, Issac brings Augustus to one of the meetings. Issac is half blind. He has one good eye and one glass, but the doctors decided to make him blind. Augustus Waters is Hazel’s dream boy. He is funny, sarcastic, smart, stupid, passionate, and amazing. The point is Augustus Waters fell hard for Hazel Grace. 

All cancer kids get a wish. Gus (short for Augustus) had saved his, and decided  to use it on Hazel Grace. He wanted to take her to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, the author of Hazel’s favorite book. The problem was that Peter Van Houten was an idiot. He become a drunkard, recluse, and cruel. The thing is Peter Van Houten had lost someone to cancer. The loss made him bitter. Nevertheless, Hazel and Augustus enjoyed their trip. A few days before leaving Amsterdam Gus told Hazel that he was dangerously sick. Hazel doesn’t what to do and she can’t bear to lose someone. There’s a new time bomb in Hazel’s life.

Review

This book is an eight. If you like romance than this is the book for you. There is also a lot of bad words. The thing it also really realistic. It shows more than just the bad part of cancer, it shows life. Life is never was easy and never will be. It’s a really enjoyable book that seems more appropriate for grades 6-12, but it i your choice. I hope you get this book at your library or from a retail book store.