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The Girl in The White Van
This is definitely a well known book at PFMS, when last year in book madness some people got a little upset because this book got runner up by one vote. ONE VOTE!!!
The Girl in the White Van is about a 16 year old girl named Savannah, who gets kidnapped after her Kung Fu class, (in a white van.) (I know, I know, calm yourselves down. Who would have guessed?!) which she went to after having a fight with her mothers current boyfriend. He then locks her up in an old trailer space. But she, and another girl named Jenny who has been there for 10 months, need to find a way out, without dying from a dog waiting outside, that is purposely meant to kill anybody his leader tells him too.
I obviously give this a 5/5. I can’t even explain it, besides the fact that I couldn't stop reading it.
We Were Liars
Cadence struggles to remember what happened on her fifteenth summer, and her family is told it is just better to let her remember it on her own. Even though she is on a private island with her cousins and a boy named Gat, all she can ever think about is what happened that summer.
I would personally give this a 4/5. I’m sorry!! I know this is a popular book, but for me, it was a little bit boring in the middle. I like books where you don’t have one moment where you want to put it down since you are bored. The reason I gave this a 4/5 is because even though it was a little boring, I really enjoyed the ending, and I never would have expected that ending.
Shatter Me
I don’t think this is a super known book at PFMS, but it is on Booktok!! I usually don’t do sci fi books…but there I was!
Shatter Me follows a 17 year old girl named Juliette, who can kill somebody… just with her touch. Nobody knows how or why, and to her it feels like a curse. But the Reestablishment sees it as a gift and an opportunity. And when she recognizes a boy, she finds along the way that he might make things a little easier, even though life is hard for her.
For me, this book is a 4.5/5. I don’t know. I feel like this book is more than a four, but I don’t know if it would be a 5/5. But don’t get me wrong, because this was such an interesting read, and I definitely wasn’t disappointed with my first sci-fi book. And I would still definitely recommend it! I loved the unique use of crossing out words and sentences as if it was a journal or a diary!
The Running Dream
The Running Dream is about a 16 year old girl named Jessica who loves running, but lost her leg in a car accident, and needs to learn how to keep running, but this time with a prosthetic leg. With her track team helping her along the way, and a new unexpected friend, anything can eventually feel possible.
I give The Running Dream a 5/5. I remember really liking this book, and I loved how this book really got me thinking about how amputees and people with prosthetic legs are incredible and fascinating. It was written very well.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Laura Jean keeps 5 love letters in a hatbox (that her mother had given to her), whenever she’s done liking them. But one day those (private) letters are mysteriously sent. She doesn’t know how they got sent, and she didn’t even know they were sent until one of the boys that got a love letter confronts her about it in gym class! And to make a boy jealous, does fake love turn into real love?
I give this book a 4/5. I really liked this book, and thought it was nice for a romance book to have a little something different than person meets person, they like each other, they date.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Every Summer, Belly stays at the beach house. Summer’s are the best for Belly. Winters are meant for counting down how many more weeks until she gets to be with family friends Susannah, Jeremiah, and Conrad. They have been like a second and third brother, and her crushes, to her since her first summer at the beach house. But this summer is different, in an amazing and weird way…
This book was a pretty good book, so I’m going to give it a 4/5. It was really good, but there are other books that I like better, but I will still definitely recommend this book to anybody!