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Reviewed by: Kathleen Tan, 18
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When Holly’s husband Gerry passes away, Holly is so devastated that she practically stops living. She refuses to move on and wallows in her grief through the rest of her days meaninglessly.
When Holly discovers that Gerry has specially left twelve letters for her, she begins taking her first step towards […]

Reviewed by: Kathleen Tan, 18
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Can you imagine what it is like to survive on scraps of food you dig out of the garbage bin every day, be beaten to near-death and even poisoned by ammonia which your mother forces you to swallow while the rest of your family watches on helplessly for years?
This was […]

Reviewed by: Kristi How, 18
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Brick Lane by Monica Ali, is a book about a Bangladeshi woman, Nazeen, sent to marry a man she does not know in England by her father. At first, Nazeen is rather fatalistic in the way she views the world and would rather leave things up to God than take things […]

Reviewed by Zenn Wong, 14
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This book revolves around the life of 15 year old Roberta Ritter, with a deceased mother of an unsolved murder case. Left to fend for herself by her negligent father, Roberta longs to escape the routine humdrum of life working at an arcade with games fraught with violence and racism. She […]

Reviewed by: Gale Wong, 16
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This story is about 2 teenage girls of age 17, being the best of friends at school. They often felt bored in their hometown, Orange Country and decided to drive up to L.A.’s bright and busy night scene to hang out and relax. The girls met 2 rich guys, who […]

Reviewed by: Zenn Wong, 14
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An avid reader of books, I have decided to post about a moving story about a young Korean girl called Young Ju Park. At the tender age of four, with an abusive father, Young Ju hears of a magnificent place called “Mi Gook” (America). Fuelled by her grandmother’s tales of heaven, […]

Reviewed by Gale Wong, 16
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Art Geeks and Prom Queens is a very interesting and humorous book to read especially for the teenage girls out there. The story is about a teenage girl, Rio Jones, of an age of 16, moving from her hometown at New York to Southern California where she had to study […]

Reviewed by Yong Xin Hui, Nanyang Girls’ High School
Another story involving a schoolboy, another book with various twists and turns guaranteed for readers to lose themselves in, another seemingly simple, innocent book with the main character infatuated with a spider — with a vicious twist. Literally. With teeth, blood and gore (in sparing amounts, at […]

Reviewed by Nicole Ann Law, 14
What if every time you read aloud, the characters in the book would come alive? Well, that’s exactly what happens to Meggie, daughter of bookbinder Mo.
Both father and daughter share this rare and mystical power to make seemingly dead and unreal characters spring out from the very pages of the […]

Reviewed by Nor Hafiza Mehad, 17
Have you ever encountered a vampire?
Or have you ever found yourself trapped in strange events that you could never believe with your own eyes?
Well you would feel these mystical happenings when you read “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer.
The book was about a girl named Bella Swan who moved from Phoenix to […]