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A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel to The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins tells the story of Panem a few years after the war. Coriolanus Snow, whose...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 18, 20201 min read
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The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury, one of my favorite writers, certainly has a way with words! I don't think there's any writer as adept at capturing the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 13, 20201 min read
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Lantern's Ember
Jack is an immortal "lantern" in New England. He's skeletal and carries his spirit around in a pumpkin as he guards a portal to the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 6, 20201 min read
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
When Pippa Fitz-Amobi started her AP Capstone project, all she wanted to do was show that there was a possibility that Sal Singh did not...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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Wilder Girls
Ever since the Tox broke out at the Raxter School for Girls on Raxter Island, its students and teachers have become sick and deformed in...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 20, 20201 min read
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Feyre didn't realize that the large wolf she killed in the woods while hunting was actually a fairy, creatures that had once enslaved...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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Field Notes on Love
Hugo Wilkinson is the youngest of the Surrey Sextuplets. He and his siblings are about to start college locally thanks to a scholarship...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 7, 20201 min read
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The Lost Kingdom
The year is 866 A.D., a brutal time in England as Viking raiders pillage practically every city in the hopes of taking over the fertile...

Suzanne Severns
Aug 31, 20201 min read
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The Marsh King's Daughter
Helena was born in a shack in the isolated wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is only when she's twelve that she learns her...

Suzanne Severns
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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Little Monsters
When Kacey moves in with her father’s family due to irreconcilable differences with her mother, she’s worried that she’ll never fit in....

Suzanne Severns
Jun 23, 20201 min read
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The Way You Make Me Feel
Clara Shin loves a good joke, but her and her friends' prank at the prom, an homage to Stephen King's novel Carrie, causes a fire, and...

Suzanne Severns
May 15, 20201 min read
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Little Fires Everywhere
Shaker Heights is a meticulously planned suburb, from the Norway Maple at the front of each house to the types of house materials that...

Suzanne Severns
May 5, 20201 min read
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Monday's Not Coming
When Claudia's best friend Monday doesn't show up for the first week of school, Claudia begins to worry. She and Monday have always been...

Suzanne Severns
May 1, 20201 min read
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The 57 Bus
Journalist Dashka Slater relates the true story of two teens of different classes and races whose lives intersect on the 57 bus in San...

Suzanne Severns
May 1, 20201 min read
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On the Come Up
Following the success of her first novel The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas has penned another urban fiction masterpiece that is certain to...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 27, 20201 min read
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The Boy in the Black Suit
Matt Miller is going through a difficult time. His mother recently passed away from cancer, and his father has resorted to drinking...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 20, 20201 min read
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Funny, You Don't Look Autistic
Comedian Michael McCreary writes this entertaining memoir about what it was like for him growing up with Asperger's Syndrome and then...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 6, 20201 min read
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With the Fire on High
Emoni Santiago starts her senior year as the single mom of a toddler living with her grandmother in Philadelphia. She loves to cook, and...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 4, 20201 min read
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
In this moving work of nonfiction, Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative recounts his work as a lawyer on one of...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 23, 20201 min read
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Twenty-nine-year-old Eleanor Oliphant is the epitome of social awkwardness. She chooses her wardrobe based purely on practicality, always...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 17, 20201 min read
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