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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is a YA fiction novel about adventure and romance. The main plot is about a group of uncouth thieves who get sent on an impossible mission to retrieve a high value target for a small fortune. This book is set in Ketterdam, a city inspired by the Netherlands. It’s in the same universe as her other series, Shadow and Bone. A band of thieves named the Crows led by Kaz Brekker are the most feared band in Ketterdam. One day, Kaz is convinced to break into the Fjerdan Ice Palace and capture scientist Bo Yu-Bayur for a large sum of money. Councilman Van Eck believes Bo Yu-Bayur will use the drug he created to make an invincible Grisha army, despite the side effects of the drug. However, Kaz only decides to do it because of the small fortune he’s offered, which he can use to defeat the local gangster that killed his brother, Pekka Rollins, with.  Six people in the crew tell the story from their various perspectives, which really adds to the depth of the story...

       Akata Warrior is the sequel to Akata Witch, a book everyone (besides transfers) read last year. I and many others disliked the book due to its poorly-written ending and overall plot. To recap, the book is about a girl named Sunny who discovered the leopard world (kinda like wizards), she meets some friends and they are tasked with defeating black hat Otokoto, who sacrificed himself to summon an evil spirit named Ekwensu. Akata Witch ended with Sunny's spirit face randomly appearing and destroying Ekwensu with minimal context. We never get to know why Sunny's spirit face, which was mentioned two or three times, is able to defeat Ekwensu when everyone else struggles to do so. I did not have good hopes when I started reading Akata Warrior, and my feelings were proven right quickly.     Akata Warrior is set a year after Akata Witch  and it tells the story of Sunny and her 3 friends fighting Ekwensu a second time after it escapes from the spirit worl...

  Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson struggles with the challenges of divorced parents and the hard summer trips from New York to northern Canada to visit his father. However, his view of hardship transforms dramatically when the pilot of the plane he's in suddenly suffers a heart attack, leaving him alone at 70,000 feet with no guidance or idea of his location. Following the survival of the crash, Brian's story evolves into a story of struggle to survive. With a hatchet from his mother and stripped down to only essentials, he makes a life in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness. Through a 54-day struggle, he battles starvation, faces off against nature's formidable creatures, and learns how to survive through these experiences. His journey includes making critical mistakes that almost cost him his life, yet slowly he evolves into an experienced and skilled survivalist A tornado tears through Brian's camp, presenting a critical choice between life and death. The unexpected ...

       The Summer I Turned Pretty by: Jenny Han is a coming of age novel written about the main protagonist Isabel (Belly) Conklin and her summer experiences. Every summer, Belly, her mom Laurel, and her brother Steven  all take a trip to Cousins Beach where they spend their time with Laurels childhood friend Susannah (Beck) and her two sons Conrad and Jeramiah Fisher. This book is mainly about Belly navigating her life through her transition of becoming a young woman and creating new relationships with people. This novel reveals the themes of romance, friendships, childhood, and personal growth. For Belly, she is caught in a tough situation. She has always had a crush on Conrad Fisher who has always been there for her however, this summer is different. Conrad is distant because of his parents divorce and because of health complications with his mother. He always idolized his father but now he doesn't know how to feel about the situation as it is sudden for him....