Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline
Reviewed by Caleb Chang

REVIEW: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

ISBN#: 9780804190145

THE STORY: 

Ready Player One takes place in the future where virtual reality has taken over everyone’s daily lives, called the OASIS. Halliday, one of the creators of the OASIS, has just passed away and has left no one inside his will. Instead, he started the “egg hunt” inside of the OASIS. The rules are simple, there are three keys and three gates, and the first one to find the keys and pass the gates wins Halliday’s entire fortune. One riddle, for the first key, is announced to the public.

The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer

Reviewed by Anshika Yetchina

Fall 2021

REVIEW: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
ISBN#: 978-0-689-85222-0
REVIEWED BY: Anshika Yetchina


SUMMARY:
Matteo Alacran was conceptualized in a glass plate, and birthed by a cow. He isn’t boy or machine, but he still is scorned on all the same. A clone of the twisted but great El Patron, Matt was raised in the Big House, in the intersection of the United States and what used to be Mexico, by a servant named Celia and branded with “Property of the Alacran Estate" on his foot.

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Reviewed by Harvy Chang

Fall 2021

REVIEW: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

ISBN#: 978-0-307-88743-6

THE STORY:

Wade Watts, a young man, lives with his aunt in the mid-southern United States in the mid-2040s. In this time period, Earth is trashed, and people turn to the OASIS, a massive multiplayer metaverse, for an escape from the Earth. After the death of James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS, Wade is dedicated to finding the easter egg Halliday hid deep inside the metaverse before his death. Wade starts the search for the Copper Key, the first of six steps to finding the egg.

Counting by 7s

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Reviewed by Jocelyn Chern

Fall 2016

REVIEW: Counting by 7s By Holly Goldberg Sloan

ISBN # : 978-0-14-242286-1

THE STORY:

Willow Chance, a African-American, twelve year old girl, is different than the rest of her school. She is a genius. She is interested in everything, but medical conditions and plants interest her even more. She was adopted by a set of parents and never met her blood parents. Willow was a exuberant girl, living her own happy life, and taking care of her garden, with her new parents, but one day, when her school counselor, Dell, brings her home, after some ice-cream with her new friends, Mai and Quang-Ha, she realizes that her

Lord of the Flies

By William Golding

Reviewed by Chandan Somani

Fall 2016

REVIEW: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

ISBN#: 9781573226127

THE STORY:

A group of boys are left stranded on an island after surviving an airplane crash. Ralph, who is one of the oldest boys, is elected chief. Ralph tries to organize the boys to make it easier to become rescued. Piggy, a chubby boy with glasses, always concurs with Ralph when it comes to keeping a lit fire to attract ships and is also the most sensible one out of all the boys. Ralph’s most substantial problem is Jack, a strong and powerful boy who competed with Ralph to become chief. In one incident, instead of keeping the fire lit like

The Darkest Minds

Alexandria Bracken

Reviewed by Richard Zhang

Fall 2016

REVIEW: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

THE STORY:

When a disease known as IANN hits America, many of the youth die, leaving only a small percentage of children as the next generation. These remaining children are not normal, as they seem to have been given freakishly powerful traits and abilities. Each group of children is organized into red, green, orange, yellow, or blue, some being more dangerous than others. To control the remaining youth population, rehabilitation camps have been created, but the public doesn’t know the truth