This is a book about Jessica and her friend Izzy Williams. Jessica freaks out when her arm disappears during class. Izzy tries to help her control the disappearing, but it turns out that Izzy is also becoming invisible. They try to help each other through their new super powers. In the process, they make some new friends and learn the true meaning of friendship.
The book that I am reviewing is Autumn Falls by Bella Thorne. It’s a very good book and it kept me reading! There is a moderate amount of mature content like swear words and talk about puberty and dating. I would recommend this book to people in grades 8 and up.
The main character in this book is Autumn Falls. She, her older brother, and their mother just recently moved to Aventura, Florida from Maryland after their father died in a car crash. Autumn starts school in the middle of the year which is hard for her, as you could imagine.
Searching for Silverheels is about a thirteen year old girl named Pearl. She loves the legend of Silverheels, a beautiful and kind dancer girl who appeared in the early 1860s. She appeared at a gold mining camp and nursed the men when an outbreak of smallpox erupted. Unfortunately, suffragette Josie Gilbert believes the opposite, that Silverheels was a thief and a liar. When Josie challenges Pearl to a bet, she accepts. Pearl is determined to win so Josie won’t campaign in her family’s café and scare off customers.
Bethany is forced to go to a fat camp called Camp Utopia. She does have a bit more flesh on her bones but fat camp? Only to make things worse, her best friend TJ is auditioning for American Envy, a talent show. How will Beth ever make it through this summer? Bethany knows that the only way to get out of fat camp is weight loss, so she tries out the Forgiveness Diet. At first, it seemed simple enough in the infomercial. But soon, her arch-nemesis delivers the final blow and Bethany decides to run away and start her real summer adventure.
Haley has sworn to never fight again until one night she is needed to step in and help West for both her sake and his. After that, they both went their separate ways until fate brings them back together. West has transferred to Haley’s school after being expelled from his last school for fighting. On his first day, West has accepted a challenge that he has no idea what he’s in for. Not knowing the danger of the challenge, he believes he can win somehow although Haley has different thoughts. Without any idea on fighting, he is going to lose.
Are there actually mystical creatures in the world around you? One summer Aly, the main character, began working in her grandmother’s garden and suddenly her whole life transformed in many unexpected ways. Aly finds out that her grandmother didn’t want her to work for her, but she wanted to train her to become the new guardian of light elves that until now Aly had never seen before. Since Aly had come of age, now she can see thousands of creatures from Norse Mythology all of the time. This is great news until she finds out that some of these creatures are extremely dangerous.
Please note that this is the thrid and final book of the Bright Young Things trilogy. Starting where Beautiful Days leaves off, this book continues the stories of Astrid, Cordelia and Letty in the everyday struggles of their glamourous lives as up and coming stars and bootleggers. Astrid is questioning her hasty marriage to Charlie Grey, as she grows more and more attracted to her bodyguard. After a horrific event leaves her reeling she has to face both men in her life, and make choices that could possibly leave one of them dead.
Written by Jakob Krane with art by Timothy Decker, Lies in the Dust is an informative and haunting work of historical fiction in the form of a short graphic novel. Lies in the Dust is set fourteen years after the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. It provides its reader with an artistic perspective on Ann Putnam Jr.'s public apology for her part in the trials as she expresses shame and remorse for her actions.
Stella Mills has a secret! Every night, she goes outside to write. Though Stella fears that she’ll never be a good writer, she likes seeing her words on paper. But what is there to write about in the sleepy, segregated town of 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina? Dark inspiration comes when the Ku Klux Klan begins to hold meetings by the river after years of uncomfortable peace.
