by WeldonNgetich | Jan 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Ignacio “Iggy” Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian-American teen whose world is spun around when he bumps into Marisol at school. As he stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his...
by WeldonNgetich | Jan 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) No phones. No internet. No social media at all. That’s what it’s going to take to finally get serious about school and focus on exams. Nova, Vin and Lotus even rented a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere so they won’t get...
by WeldonNgetich | Dec 1, 2023 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) A trans teen is swept up in a whirlwind friendship with lethal consequences in this taut thriller. Before: Newly-out trans guy Max is having a hard time in school. Things have been tough since his summer romance, Danny, turned into his bully. This...
by WeldonNgetich | Dec 1, 2023 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Set against the backdrop of the tempestuous political eras of the 1960s and ‘70s, this novel features Ray Elias, a precocious but withdrawn 16-year-old growing up in an affluent suburb of New York. When Ray chances upon a documentary about Minnesota...
by WeldonNgetich | Dec 1, 2023 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) Wesley Mackenzie is failing senior year — thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. Then he meets and gets an instant crush on ballet dancer Tristian...
