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The Hate U Give book cover. Starr Carter is holding a sign that reads The Hate U Give.

Book Review: The Hate U Give

Ryann Jorgensen, Staff Reporter September 21, 2020

After reading The Hate U Give, it is clear how the book became a number one New York Times best-seller one week after its release and then a critically acclaimed film less than two years later. The Hate...

English department uses Holocaust literature to teach tolerance

English department uses Holocaust literature to teach tolerance

Nadine Loureiro and Sydney Wolfe November 15, 2018

Literature is the key to learning different aspects of life, including the past. Sophomores in regular English classes were tasked with reading one of the works of Markus Zusak, The Book Thief. The novel...

Wonder Book Review

Megan Linden, Staff Reporter November 29, 2017

There are not many books out there that openly talk about serious conditions such as facial deformity. Wonder is a story about a 10-year-old boy named August Pullman who was born with a condition called...

Lost in a Book adds new twist on classic fairy tale

“Lost in a Book” adds new twist on classic fairy tale

Katie Duford, Staff Reporter April 27, 2017

Lost in a Book, published in Jan. 2017 and written by Jennifer Donnelly, is a spin-off of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Donnelly writes from Belle’s point of view. The story begins at a chess...

Fifth installment of the Throne of Glass series keeps reader in suspense

Fifth installment of the Throne of Glass series keeps reader in suspense

Katie Duford, Staff Reporter February 17, 2017

Empire of Storms, published in Sept. 2016 and written by Sarah J. Maas, is the fifth book in the Throne of Glass series, but is not the last. The next book in the series is due to come out in May 2017. The...

Powerless never was so powerful

Powerless never was so powerful

Katie Duford, Staff Reporter October 25, 2016

There is power and strength inside every person. For some it is deeper than others, but it is always there, just waiting to break free. Powerless, published in June 2015 and written by Tera Lynn Childs...

The Glass Arrow pierces readers to the heart

The Glass Arrow pierces readers to the heart

Katie Duford, Staff Reporter September 26, 2016

People are never meant to be treated like property. Animals are property to be sold and bartered for, but girls and women never should be. The Glass Arrow, published in February 2015 and written by...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Katie Duford, Staff Reporter August 30, 2016

After hearing all about “the new Harry Potter book,” I was persuaded into reading this new book by one of the greats. I, however, have not read any of the books in the previous Harry Potter series,...

“Milk and Honey” book cover conveys the novel’s simplistic nature of following the maturity of Rupi Kaur.

“Milk and Honey” offers unfiltered, genuine reflection on life

Lauren Neilsen, Staff Reporter May 18, 2016

In the spirit of the graduation and the soon-to-be-moving-on period that has consumed campus, I figured a review on Rupi Kaur’s “Milk and Honey” prose novel would be fitting. In her poems, and the...

The arguably most popular meme from Hyperbole and a Half, the clean all the things meme was illustrated and created by Allie Brosh.

Laughing out loud

Lauren Neilsen, Staff Reporter February 2, 2016

How do I begin to describe “Hyperbole and a Half?” The obvious words come to mind; funny, heartwarming, clever. But in truth, I found Allie Brosh’s to be more than what those few descriptive adjectives...

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