Defriended by Ruth Baron

Summary: A friend request from beyond the grave...

Jason has met the perfect girl. OK, so maybe he hasn't actually MET Lacey yet, but they talk online all the time. Yet despite spending most nights chatting, Lacey makes excuses to not meet up in person. Jason starts googling her one day, and his cyberstalking leads to a shocking discovery: According to multiple newspapers, Lacey died a year earlier.

Soon, Jason finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing mystery. Has he found a way to iChat with the dead? Or is someone playing a dangerous trick? Or is she alive and doesn't want to be found? Either way, Jason has to discover the truth before it's too late. You can't put up away messages from beyond the grave...

Review: This book put me at the edge of my seat trying to figure out the mystery at hand. It creeped and crawled its way into my mind and won't leave. Its a mystery that doesn't want to be solved, but we can't give it what it wants! I loved this book while it chilled my to the bone.

Review by Mallorie

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Summary: According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.

Review: The Outsiders is a book that delves deeply into the hearts, minds, and stories of a group that had no voice, and to the rich was nothing but a chew toy. It is a sad, heart-warming story that has invigorated teenagers to be more than people expect of them. It has taught and filled an understanding between kids for almost 60 years and now has captured my heart. I feel that I really know the troubles that Ponyboy went through, and know him personally because he has some problems we all have to live with or battle through. This is a book that everybody should put on their bucketlist.

Review by Mallorie*