“Sunrise on the Reaping” by Suzanne Collins

 In a dystopian North America, a boy is pulled into the competition of a lifetime. The winner is guaranteed to never go hungry again, but the losers never make it out alive. The 50th Hunger Games have arrived, and sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy must go into the arena to fight for his life.  Suzanne Collins takes […]

“Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix

Reviewed by Jess Burtis  At a maternity home in rural Florida, a teenage girl finds herself abandoned by her family and far from her life in Alabama. Fern is pregnant. It’s a transgression shared by the other young, unmarried girls at the Home for Unwed Mothers. There, in the sweltering summer of 1970, Neva learns […]