Category: Young Adult

  • Fat Kid Rules the World (Book Review)

    Fat Kid Rules the World (Book Review)

    *Synopsis* Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout guitar genius, the stuff of which Lower East Side punk rock legends are…

  • The Sun is Also a Star (Book Review)

    The Sun is Also a Star (Book Review)

    *Synopsis* Daniel is a first-generation Korean-American. His parents are doing all they can in hopes of providing him and his brother Charlie with a better life. Daniel has an interview that could determine the course of his future. Getting into Yale is the first step to becoming a doctor, the…

  • Booktubeathon Wrap-up

    Booktubeathon Wrap-up

    This year’s reading challenges were: 1/ Let a coin toss decide your first read. 2/ Read a book about something you want to do. 3/ Read and watch a book to movie adaptation. 4/ Read a book with green on the cover. 5/ Read a book while wearing the same…