pickThe Glass Castle is an autobiographical novel about the author, Jeannette Walls, and her less-than-perfect childhood. The book follows the unbelievable events of Jeannette's life as she re-tells with the same cadence as one would read off a grocery list, while we as the reader slowly understand how dysfunctional her life and family truly were, and how such traumatic events were interpreted through her eyes as a child.
pickWynd is a young boy living a quaint life in the last fully human civilization, Pipetown, protected from the dangerous magical beasts outside its walls. However, there‘s one problem, he isn‘t human, and would surely be killed if anyone found out. During a plot to allow the magical “weirdbloods” to live safely in Pipetown, Wynd‘s identity is exposed, forcing him to leave Pipetown, and abandon everything he‘s been taught about the world around him.
pickThe Song of Achilles is a beautifully written retelling of Homer's Iliad: The story of Greek hero Achilles, and his companion Patroclus. Patroclus is a young prince, who is exiled after he accidentally causes the death of another king's son. Stuck between banishment and execution, he is sent to Peleus, where he meets its prince, Achilles.He is the son of the sea nymph Thetis and predicted to become the next greatest warrior. (Rest in comments)
pickClary Fray believes she is a normal teenage girl, until her fifteenth birthday that is. She begins seeing unexplainable things like something out of a fantasy novel until it is finally revealed to her, that all the stories are true. She is thrust into the world of the Nephilim, otherwise known as the Shadowhunters, humans with angel blood tasked with secretly protecting the mundane world from demons and monsters.
pickAfter an agonizing journey to find salvation in Haven. Todd and a wounded Viola stumble into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, who has the entire city under his control. Todd and Viola are immediately separated. While Todd is grudgingly growing closer to the sinister mayor every day, Viola is forming an alliance with the secretive Mistress Coyle. (Rest in the comments)
One theme present in the novel is “the loss of innocence”, throughout the book Jeannette is routinely forced to adapt to problems and situations that no child should ever have to go through, and the novel further explores the coping mechanisms she resorts to.
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