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      The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina follows the story of Yui who’s grief never left her after she lost her mother and 2 year old daughter to the 2011 tsunami. Set in Japan, this book is based on real events of the March 2011 tsunami. During work at her radio studio, Yui hears about the wind phones used to talk to people's lost loved ones. These phones are disconnected but it is believed the words spoken there will be carried by the wind to their loved ones and help people cope with their losses.  Yui decides to go to the phone booth at Bell Gardia to see if she can find relief there. On her journey there, she meets Takeshi who is also visiting the wind phone. Yui learns that Takeshi lost his wife in the same tsunami and though his daughter survived, she hasn’t spoken a word ever since her mother’s death. When the two of them arrive at Bell Gardia, Takeshi uses the phone booth but Yuri does not. Ever since, the two have started to go t...

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a book about Edward Tulane, a self-absorbed china rabbit who would be extremely offended if you called him a bunny. Edward’s owner, a girl named Abilene, loves him and dresses him every morning. It was Abilene’s grandmother, Pellegrina, who had him made and ordered all his fancy clothes. Near the beginning of the book, when Ablilene’s family has decided they will go to London on a ship called the Queen Mary, Pellegrina tells Abilene and Edward a story. It’s about a princess who doesn't care about anyone but herself and gets turned into a warthog and eaten. While Pellegrina is telling the story, she looks at Edward, and at the end of it, she whispers to him, “You disappoint me.” Edward just thinks the story was stupid and pointless. The Tulane family packs up and gets on the ship to London. *SPOILER* On the ship, two boys take Edward and toss him around and he gets thrown overboard. Edward gets passed around from place to place over many y...

  This week, I finally had the chance to read a book I've heard so much about for years— named The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All — that I have been begged to read. I've read enough manga and comic books to know that their general style is not usually something that catches my eye, as often they're quite fast-paced and tend to have many cliches, but I found this book to be very different from those I have already read. In The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All , the name is quite self explanatory. It follows Mitsuki Koga and Aya Osawa— two high school students with very different lives. Mitsuki Koga is a quiet, anxious introvert who isn't particularly good at social interaction at school, but helps her uncle run a music shop that acts like her safe haven. Aya Osawa is outspoken and loud in her interests, even when her friends find her weird for it. Despite the two not seeming to have anything in common at first, that changes when Aya, b...

     I was introduced to the Percy Jackson series when I was in the third grade by my best friend. at the time, and later that same year we started reading the first novel in class. However, my comprehension skills were not that great at the time. But earlier this year, I was cleaning my bookshelf and noticed the series basically sitting there for the purpose of gathering dust, and I decided it was finally time to give this series a fair trial. And I am very glad that I did so, as it is now one of my favorite series of all time.  Summary:      Percy Jackson and the Olympians follow a dyslexic and ADHD troublemaker named Percy Jackson, who is just trying to make it through one school year without getting expelled. And to make it even worse, terrifying figures from Greek mythology seem to be attacking him twenty-four-seven. And for the cherry on top, Zeus's master lightning bolt is stolen, and Percy is the number one suspect. And if Percy and his friends...

  Ok so first off let’s be real— The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins is a series that is loved by so many for a reason. With its unique and intense dystopian setting, unforgettable characters, and powerful messages, it’s captured the hearts and well minds of many many readers, including mine! Whether you’ve just opened the first book for the first time or have re-read the trilogy countless times, this series stays with you long after the last page.  Here’s why The Hunger Games , Catching Fire , and Mockingjay are so amazingggg—and why I have so much to say about them!! The Setting: Panem Okay so the story takes place in a country called Panem —a nation made up of a controlling Capitol who is very wealthy, and 12, well formerly 13 districts that are basically forced to obey it. So, every year, the Capitol reminds the districts who is in charge by hosting the quite horrifying Hunger Games , where children—yeah, children—are forced to fight to the death on live TV. The C...