Share Your Book Reviews with Nesmith Library
❤️ Love to read? Have opinions? We want to hear them!
Teens in our community, including members of our Teen Advisory Group (TAG), can submit book reviews to be featured on our Teen Book Reviews page. Just fill out our Teen Book Review Form to get started!
You don’t have to be in TAG or come to our programs to share a review (but we’d love to have you join!). TAG members help plan teen events, suggest new ideas for our space, and make the library more awesome for everyone. And an added bonus -- Y participation in TAG meetings and projects as an official member counts towards your service hours’ requirements!
Got questions or want to get involved? Email Molly, our Teen Services Librarian.
You can also find teen reviews featured on our Nesmith Library Goodreads page!
✨ Check Out What Other Teens Are Reading
Browse our Nesmith Teen Book Reviews below and see what looks good! You can search our catalog to place holds or swing by the library to pick up your next great read.
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💬 Teen Book Reviews
Nesmith Library's Teen Book Reviews
Reviewer: Katharine G., 11th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "The Underground Railroad is a fictional novel about a slave girl, Cora, who runs away from her plantation and heads north on the 'Underground Railroad', depicted in this book very lit...
Reviewer: Olivia C., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Ng opens with a bang in this novel—the Richardson’s house is burned down, and the prime suspect is the youngest daughter, Izzy. But she has fled the scene along with Mia and Pearl, a moth...
Reviewer: Isabelle D., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "This book is quite well written, Neil Gaiman retells many famous norse mythos from the creation myths to Ragnarok and everything in between. The stories are easy to understand they are ...
Reviewer: Marin H., 7th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Set in the mysterious mountains of Vermont, Truly Devious is an intriguing and page turning book. Stevie Bell is accepted into a private school with a treacherous past and a murder mystery ...
Reviewer: Rebecca S., 10th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Jenny Han’s, Always and Forever, Lara Jean, is the third and final book in the to the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before series that tells about young Lara Jean’s quirky love story. In t...
Reviewer: Rebecca S., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "The Sun Is Also a Star is a romantic tale about Natasha, a Jamaican teenager who is about to have her life as she knows it turned upside down, and Daniel, a Korean teenager who doesn’t k...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 10th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson follows four people with distinct personalities as they spend the summer in a haunted house trying to track paranormal activity. They soon ...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 9th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Fangirl is a book about a girl who is obsessed with the Simon Snow fantasy series. She spends all of her time writing Simon Snow fan fiction. She neglects to make friends or engage in ac...
Reviewer: Stephanie W., 10th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "I really loved reading this book. When starting the book, I wasn't really sure if I was going to like the book because the main character, Clara, was not really a character that I cou...
Reviewer: Isabelle D., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "This book is very well written and very engaging. It brings you through the life of the main character as she tries to discover the truth of the world ending and how her thought on it e...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "My Plain Jane is a modern retelling of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The titular Jane Eyre leaves the dreary Lowood school to become a governess at Thornfield Hall. It is there that she...
Reviewer: Sylvia S., 9th Grade "Set in Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse, Six of Crows starts in the lively streets of Ketterdam, "where anything can be had for the right price." Kaz Brekker, a criminal prodigy, is offered a chance of a lifeti...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 9th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "This Profound story is about living and letting go, and how the living and the dead each have their own stories, though they often intertwine. I really enjoyed this book because it had ma...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 9th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "This Profound story is about living and letting go, and how the living and the dead each have their own stories, though they often intertwine. I really enjoyed this book because it had ma...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 10th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "This story set in a manor house in a remote area of Scotland about a nanny who is charged with the death of a child in her care was suspenseful and fast paced. The mystery was unique in...
Reviewer: Rebecca S., 9th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is an outstanding book that tells the story of racism, sexism, and teaches about the danger of making assumptions in 1930s Alabama through the perspectiv...
Reviewer: Olivia C., 8th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Wintergirls is an emotionally moving novel centered on a girl's struggle towards recovery. It first introduces us to Lia Overbrook and Cassandra Parrish who spent their middle and high sch...
Reviewer: Olivia C., 8th Grade ✪ TAG Member ✪ "Who Killed Christopher Goodman?, by Allan Wolf, tells of the events preceding a seventeen-year-old’s death and its rippling effects on the people around him. The numerous coincidental even...
Reviewer: Stephanie W., 10th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "I really liked reading this book. It might be because I have an asian heritage, but I loved all the asian culture that this book exposes. This book was just really fun to read. Americ...
Reviewer: Emerson C., 9th Grade, ✪ TAG Member ✪ "After her Mother's sudden death, Ruth moves back to her hometown of Anchorage Alaska, to live with her father and stepmother. When she arrives, she learns that her best friend has gone m...
