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.
Moon Bear is about an 11-year old boy named Tam who moves to the city to earn money for his family after his father dies. While he is living in the city, he has to work at a bear bile farm. A bear bile farm is a place where the workers extract bile from bears to sell it as medicine. After a while he meets a special type of bear, a nearly endangered “Moon Bear” also called the Asian black bear. Tam recognizes this bear from when he encountered it earlier in his village. He had met this bear when he went hunting with his best friend Noy, the village chief’s youngest son.
This book takes place in the 1700’s, with a group of different supernatural beings fighting for the chance to call New Orleans home. Fans of the show would rejoice in this prequel to the television show but would be disappointed to find that even hundreds of years earlier their favorite trio of vampires are facing the same problems.
Maggie the magpie (spare the cynical comments, please) has always lived a peaceful, if boring, life at the Triple bar T ranch. The reputation of a magpie - empty-headed chatterboxes!
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.
The Rise of Renegade X is about a teenager named Damien Locke trying to find his place in a world split between superheroes and supervillains. The reader soon discovers that Damien is half superhero and half supervillian, and he must eventually choose one side to forever be apart of. As he was raised in a home with a supervillian mom, he outwardly acts like a villain; however, it later becomes evident that Damien has tendencies to think like a superhero, which makes it hard for him to fully live his life for one or the other.
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.
