Book Reviews

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The following books have been read and reviewed by the library media specialist. Reading the reviews may help you find a book to read. 

Peak by Roland Smith Mar 1, 2024

Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman Apr 20, 2022

Bluebird by Sharon Cameron Mar 21, 2022 

Stand Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell Mar 10, 2022

To Fly Among the Stars by Rebecca Siegel Mar 10, 2022

Enduring Freedom by Jawad Arash and Trent Reedy Aug 16, 2021

A Single Light by Tosca Lee May 5, 2021

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book by Kate Milford May 5, 2021

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch Mar 5, 2021

Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael Feb 2, 2021

Bluescreen by Dan Wells Feb 2, 2021

Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden Dec 14, 2020

On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law by Carlton F. W. Larson Dec 8, 2020

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume Oct 10, 2020

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue Sep 29, 2020

Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff Sep 29, 2020

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy Mar 4, 2020

On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis Oct 1, 2019

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts Sep 27, 2019

Grenade by Alan Gratz Sep 6, 2019

Fad Mania: A History of American Crazes by Cynthia Overbeck Bix Sep 6, 2019

The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman May 21, 2019

To Kill a Mockingbird: The Graphic Novel by Harper Lee, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham Apr 9, 2019

Live in Infamy by Caroline Tung Richmond Mar 28, 2019

The Danish Resistance by David Lampe Mar 21, 2019

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe Mar 8, 2019

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour Dec 7, 2018

Another Brooklyn by Jacquline Woodson Oct 19 2018 

The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr Aug 15, 2018

Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien Jul 31, 2018

An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet Jun 19, 2018

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller Jun 5, 2018

Ten Days a Madwoman by Deborah Noyes Apr 27, 2018

Break No Bones: A Novel by Kathy Reichs Jan 3, 2018

Into the Wild: A Novel by Sarah Beth Durst Dec 6, 2017

Beastly Bones: a Jackaby Novel by William Ritter Nov 3, 2017

23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde Sep 13, 2017

Infinityglass by Myra McEntire Jul 17, 2017

The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb Jun 19, 2017

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower Apr 11, 2017

Fairest: Levana's Story by Marissa Meyer Feb 14, 2017

Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Sep 21, 2016

Hourglass by Myra McEntire Sep 21, 2016

Ashes by Ilsa Bick Mar 31, 2016

On the Volcano by James Nelson Mar 31, 2016

Cinder by Marissa Meyer Dec 15, 2015

The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry Nov 30, 2015

Jackaby by William Ritter Nov 20, 2015

A Plague Year by Edward Bloor Oct 23, 2015

Devine Intervention by Martha Brockenbrough  Jun 28, 2015

A Long, Long Sleep by Anne Sheehan Jul 17, 2015

The Port Chicago 50 by  Steve Sheinkin May 18, 2015

Bridge Apr 23, 2015 by Patrick Jones

Cold Awakening series by Robin Wasserman Mar 6, 2015

Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill Dec 5, 2014

Numbers by Rachel Ward Oct 29, 2014

Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith Oct 9, 2014 

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein by Aug 18, 2014

The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots by Carolyn Meyers Jul 15, 2014

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers Jul 1, 2014

Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor Nov 11, 2013

Coma by Robin Cook Dec 5, 2012

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene Nov 24, 2012

The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins Nov 12, 2012

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Nov 9, 2012

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo Nov 2, 2012

Across the Universe by Beth Revis Oct 25, 2012

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick Jun 7, 2012

Draw the Dark by Ilsa Bick Aug 20, 2012 

Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything by Dr. Michael Oist Mar 19, 2012

Strings Attached by Judy Blundell Jan 19, 2012

White-out by Walter Sorrells Dec 13, 2011 

The Entitlement-Free Child by Karen Deerwester Oct 24, 2011

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Aug 24, 2011

A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux Jul 25, 2011 

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer Jul 25, 2011

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead Jul 15, 2011

Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford Jul 22, 2011

Room by Emma Donoghue Jun 23, 2011

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West by Dee Alexander Brown May 4, 2011

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan May 4, 2011

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen Mar 24, 2011

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas L. Friedman Mar 6, 2011

The Fortunes of Indigo Skye by Deb Caletti Dec 15, 2010

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libby Bray Dec 3, 2010 

The Chosen One: A Novel by Carol Lynch Williams Nov 17, 2010

The King's Rose by Alisa M. Libby Oct 12, 2010

Liar by Justine LarbalestierLiar by Justine Larbalestier Nov 4, 2010

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Oct 25, 2010