Manga Overview: New Manga That You Need to Add to Your Shelves

The one section in my library that gets routinely plundered is the manga section. My teens will check out 8-10 novels at a time, and they don’t want to wait until the other parts of a series to come in from other libraries for them. They want it NOW. Needless to say, a lot of…

Review: The Prince and the Dressmaker

The Prince and the Dressmaker Jen Wang This is a book I’ve been eagerly waiting for since I heard about it about a year or so ago. Its cover had beautiful inking and luscious colors, and the premise drew me in immediately. Frances is a hard working seamstress, dreaming of making it big as a…

Book Review: Thunderhead [no spoilers]

Thunderhead Neal Shusterman Normally, I don’t like sequels. Most of the time, they only serve to draw out and build up the final book in a trilogy. Thunderhead is a glorious exception that lives up to the atmosphere and expectations set by Scythe. Scythe Anastasia, also known as Citra Teranova, has shaken up the scythedom with…

Book Review: The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Starr Carter lives a double life it seems. Born and raised in the predominantly black and poor community Garden Heights, but sent to Williamson, a private prep school where she’s one of the only black girls, she switches between the two almost effortlessly. But one night after a party,…