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Kids Book Review

Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher

Reviewed by: by Sheryl Cherian, 8th Grade

Incarceron is a vast prison that was created hundreds of years before the book begins, for putting all the bad people and rebels. It was an experiment to supposedly create a perfect society within the prison.

The two main characters are Finn and Claudia. Claudia lives Outside, in an era where people are trying to recreate a past age. She comes from a fairly rich family. She lives in a manor, and her father is the Warden of Incarceron. She is engaged to marry the prince, which she is not too happy about because she dislikes him and his mother, the queen.

Finn is inside Incarceron, and when we first meet him he is with a gang of criminals. He cannot remember where he came room, and he sees visions, often of the stars, which cannot be seen in Incarceron.

Throughout the book, Finn and his friends are trying to escape, and Claudia is trying to discover Incarceron’s secrets, and to find a way in. I really liked this book for many reasons, including that it has many shocks, is fascinating, and that it is just a very good book. I am looking forward to reading the sequel, Sapphique.

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Kids Book Review

My Boyfriends’ Dogs
by Dandi Daley Mackall

Reviewed by: Leah Kaufman, 9th Grade

My Boyfriends’ Dogs by Dandi Daley Mackall is a sweet and innocent teen novel about the twists and turns of first love and all the emotions that unfortunately come with it. Bailey Dailey, the principal character, is trying to find the one. She hasn’t had a boyfriend and longs for one as many do. Enter Went Smith, the perfect guy. Just newly transferred from California, blond, tan, and utterly breathtaking Bailey is head over heels and it just might be that Went feels the same way. But what Bailey doesn’t know is that there is a lot more to learn about Went and it might take her a while to finally come to terms with it. Now enters Adam. No--not another boy--but a furry, white, adorable dog who happens to belong to Went and who Bailey falls utterly in love with. This book follows Bailey, her best friend Amber, and her positively crazy mother, a few boys (some good but mostly bad), and a couple lovable dogs through the painful and exciting years of first love.

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