The Break-Up Artist is a high school legend. He…or she…breaks up couples for a small fee, payable through PayPal, and he or she guarantees results. The techniques used vary according to couple, but the Break-Up Artist has never had an unsatisfied customer. Read More »

Tris and Tobias are struggling to deal with the fact that everything they thought was the truth was not. Life outside the city is not what they have been led to believe their entire lives, and the city itself is the biggest lie of all. Divergents are the genetically pure, not the pariahs that the factions have labeled them, and the factions are actually the damaged. Read More »

Life on the streets was hard, but for 17-year-old Kalli, it was a better option than returning home. After her father left, supposedly to find a better job and provide for the family, her aunt from India moved in and decided that the best way to save the family was to marry teenaged Kalli off to a rich man. Her aunt let the men “sample the merchandise” and her mother did nothing to stop the abuse, so Kalli ran. Then one night, Kalli was attacked and beaten in an alley. Gravely wounded, she was carried away by a handsome stranger whmo she thought was an angel. Read More »

Everyone knows the story of Romeo and Juliet, but have you ever wondered about the other characters in the famous story? The premise of the fabulous Prince of Shadows provides that background, as well as a few other twists. Benvolio Montague narrates the tale of his life with his younger cousin, Read More »

Because It Is My Blood picks up shortly after the first book in Gabrielle Zevin’s Birthright series, All These Things I’ve Done. Anya Balanchine’s sentence at Liberty is coming to an end, and she finds out that her nemesis, Charles Delacroix, has something to do with the easy time she has received there. Although she promised to stay away from his son, that becomes impossible when an anonymous donation lets her back into Holy Trinity. Read More »

Thea is a waitress at the Telephone Club. One night, she meets a boy named Freddy. Freddy takes an interest in her, but he cannot bring himself to tell her the real reason he was supposed to seek her out. Freddy brings back people from the dead, but really cannot say what happens to them after he does. Read More »

A future where chocolate and coffee are banned could be pretty bleak, and if your family is the US’s top exporter of chocolate, that means your family is a bunch of criminals—a mob, actually. This is the predicament that sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself in. As if she does not have enough trouble keeping track of her older, mentally-challenged brother and her spunky, younger sister while their guardian, their grandmother, is on life-support, she is accused of poisoning her ex-boyfriend with chocolate. Read More »

Young Zayn has powers that are uncontrolled and unpredictable but offer her supernatural strength and speed. Her Mother has always protected her and kept her safe, living a quiet life in the village. After a devastating chain of events, she is rescued by a stranger who offers her a chance to learn how to control her powers and seek revenge on the ones who brought her to ruin. Zayn must become an Assassin, but in doing so, she will also become the enemy of the Knights Templar and her only childhood friend. Read More »

Chloe has gone to her dad’s house, and once there she realizes that she is now a prisoner. While dining with Trevor one night, he decides to tell her the truth-she was deliberately created to help Trevor. Read More »

Imagine two dimensions sharing one world. At one time in the far-away past, the world was shared by both populations, but one took the road of science and technology while the other held tightly to the natural order of the elements. With the help of the elements and magic, a portal to another dimension was created and the Djen left and soon their very existence was remembered only through myth and legends about genies, elves and fairies. Read More »

Avaline Hall was forced to take a job at the Triangle Waist Factory after her mother Evangeline’s suicide, and narrowly escaped the tragic fire that killed over one hundred young women. Ava was saved by a young man whom she believed had sprouted wings and caught her as she fell off the ladder while escaping the flames. Her belief in the young man, and her statements to hospital personnel, ended with Ava being confined to a mental hospital for five months, until her grandmother located her and forced the doctors to release her. Read More »

Chloe is bored at her dad’s. She asks for a tutor, and right away she gets Oscar, who plays guitar and helps her catch up on her schoolwork. Trevor announces that he is having a party to introduce Chloe to his friends. The first guest is the only one Chloe cares about right now-Oscar. As Chloe walks by the restroom she overhears women talking about what is going to happen when Chloe turns sixteen. Chloe runs. She is so close to freedom, and by the fence is Drew. Read More »

Chloe and the other vampire hunters are suffering the aftermath of the vampire attack on them. Many hunters have been wounded, loved ones murdered. Their peaceful community is no longer peaceful. Chloe feels that it is her fault, and she does not want to put them in danger anymore. She thinks she has the solution: to go to her father, Trevor. She leaves the safety of her grandfather’s home to go find her father. Read More »

It is Chloe’s first Christmas without her Mom, and she is with her new family. She asks Drew to take her to her mom’s grave. While there, they meet Sostrate, the daughter of Artemis. She promises to guide Chloe since her mom is gone. Sostrate gives Chloe a beautiful bow and arrow set, reminding her to fight not for vengeance, but for love. Read More »

Chloe begins her new life when the people that saved her bring her to her grandfather’s home. There she meets Drew, who is eighteen and will be training Chloe to be a vampire hunter. Chloe has no idea how important it is to train, but she will. Once she sees Drew kill a vampire, she realizes this is real, and she needs to train in order to protect herself. Read More »

Chloe is woken in the middle of the night by her mom, who shoves Chloe into her closet and telling her to stay, no matter what, and that she loves her. Suddenly, fourteen-year-old Chloe’s bedroom door is slammed open. Men have come for Chloe. The men are working for Chloe’s Dad, Trevor, who Chloe thought died when she was a baby. Read More »

Movie Review by Renee George

I want to start this review by saying I’ve read the entire Divergent series. No spoilers here, but I know how it ends. That being said, when I went to opening night of the Divergent movie, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My date for the evening was my fifteen-year-old teenage girl, who, along with a whole theater full of teenagers, was dying to watch premiere event… on a school night!
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Darius is the son of a vampire mother and a normal father. His vampiric nature is kept suppressed by a daily dose of a pill called Reds provided by the government that his mother is paid a subsidy for until he reaches the age of 18. Then, he is free to choose whether to continue on the Reds or transform into a full vampire. A musician and goth kid, he does not really fit in at school and is continually bullied by football jock Bao Chang. Everything changes when, despite being nearly beaten senseless, he stands up to Bao and gains the support of his fellow students. Bao insists on a Read More »

Theia Alderson has sacrificed everything for true love. Now that she is back at home and no longer imprisoned in Under, she is struggling to fit back in to her normal life. Cursed with demon blood by Queen Mara, ruler of Underworld, she fights to control her hunger for souls. It all seems worth it, though, being able to finally be with Haden, her true love and Queen Mara’s son. Read More »

With the death of her troubled mother, Lucy Walker is making a fresh start. Life in Chicago is a bit different; she is living with her loving uncles, making friends, and enjoying a flirtation with her hunky upstairs neighbor. As Lucy settles in, though, she learns that there is much more going on than she ever knew. Lola, her deceased grandmother’s pet raven, is missing, and Lucy must recover her in order to receive the full legacy of her blood line. Read More »