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Contributed by: Lea Gysel, Switzerland
Hello! I’m a guest from Switzerland. I work in Switzerland, more precisely in a high school library. I’m attached at the Jurong Regional Library for an internship for 6weeks to learn about great customer service and the what the people behind various library projects do.
I like
to discuss with my […]

Hello all Manga fans
Do I need to elaborate? Let’s take a sneak peek at what will be available on the shelves of Jurong Regional Library very very soon!

Series Title: Castle in the Sky
Author: Hayao Miyazaki
Synopsis: Inspired by Gulliver’s Travels and set in the legendary days of the first flying machines in the 19th century, Castle in the Sky […]

Reviewed by: Kathleen Tan, 18
Y.O! blogger 
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
Y.O! blogger 
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
Y.O! blogger
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
Y.O! blogger
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
Y.O! blogger
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
Y.O! blogger
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
Y.O! blogger
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 […]