Book Reviews

Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

Author: Julia Walton    Published: 2017 Genres: YA and Contemporary By: Ella Julia Walton captures a unique angle on Schizophrenia starring Adam, a teen boy who has Schizophrenia. Through diary entries to his therapist and a new drug trial this book shows Adam struggling and accepting his illness.  When he starts his new school, he meets Maya, and he will do anything to stop his illness being known. This captivating read is a brilliant example of finding the comedy in tragedy, self-acceptance, first love, and the strange … Continue reading Book Review: Words on Bathroom Walls

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: Across the Universe (Series)

Author: Beth Revis    Published: 2011 Series: #1 Across The Universe, #2 A Million Suns and #3 Shades of Earth Genres: YA, Sci-Fi, Dystopian and Romance By: Nicole How would you react if you woke up on a generational ship fifty years earlier than planned? Seventeen-year-old Amy wakes up on the ship, Godspeed, fifty years before landing on the destined planet. Amy must find out who pulled her plug before her … Continue reading Book Review: Across the Universe (Series)

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: The Potion Diaries (Series)

Authors: Amy Alward     Published: 2015 Series: #1 The Potion Diaries, #2 Royal Tour and #3 Going Viral Genre: YA, Fantasy and Romance By: Nicole The princess of Nova accidentally falls in love with her reflection after poisoning herself with a love potion meant for her crush. A nationwide hunt is held, and potion makers are travelling around the world to find the ingredients. The ingredients needed are very rare and can only be found … Continue reading Book Review: The Potion Diaries (Series)

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: Fire

Authors: Kristin Cashore     Published: 2009 Series: Graceling Realm #2 Genre: YA, Fantasy and Romance By: Ashlin Fire is beautiful – far too beautiful for her own good. She is part monster and this allows her to reach into minds, warp them, control them and use them in any way she wishes. But she doesn’t wish to. That was what her father did, not her. Fire only ever enters others’ … Continue reading Book Review: Fire

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: Five Feet Apart

Authors: Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis     Published: 2018 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Nicole Stella Grant is a high school student suffering from cystic fibrosis, who also runs a YouTube channel where she educates people on CF. Having spent her whole life going to hospitals and missing out on school events, Stella wants nothing to get in the way of a … Continue reading Book Review: Five Feet Apart

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: Looking for Alaska

Author: John Green   Published: 2006 Genre: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Coming-of-age By: Ashlin Miles – a scrawny, nerdy, law-abiding boy who loves last words – is searching for his Great Perhaps. Alaska – a crazy, emotional and unpredictable girl stuck with many vices – is looking for a way out of her labyrinth. Can the two of them unintentionally give the other the answers they are so … Continue reading Book Review: Looking for Alaska

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: The Hate U Give

Author: Angie Thomas   Published: 2017 Genre: YA, Contemporary By: Nicole Starr Carter’s life balances between two completely opposite worlds, the poor neighbourhood and the private school she goes to. It’s hard to move between the two, but when she witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, get shot in front of her, it gets harder. Starr knows that Khalil was unarmed. Starr knows that the policeman shot him. … Continue reading Book Review: The Hate U Give

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: The Institute

Author: Stephen King    Published: 2019 Genre: Thriller/Suspense, Horror, Mystery By: Katie The Institute revolves around a boy called Luke Ellis who is a child prodigy and has mild telekinetic abilities. One night while his family was sleeping, intruders break into his home and silently murder his parents before kidnapping Luke and forcing him into a black SUV. He eventually wakes up in a room that is just like his own except that there is … Continue reading Book Review: The Institute

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Book Reviews

Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Author: Sarah J. Maas     Published: 2015 Genre: YA, Fantasy By: Ashlin In this book, Sarah J. Maas creates a world where faeries and humans live alongside each other, but a war from centuries ago means that their relationship is far from friendly. Feyre, a human girl who trudges through each day only thinking of how she can save her family, has broken the law. She … Continue reading Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment
Uncategorized

Māpuna Summer Reading has begun!

School’s Out! This year Māpuna Library has run a Summer Reading programme where our students filled out a questionnaire and our Library Staff picked them ten mystery titles! It has been popular and the summer reading books and bags flew off the shelves! Thanks to all the student librarians who helped recommend books and to all the students taking part, we hope you enjoy our … Continue reading Māpuna Summer Reading has begun!

Unknown's avatarmapunalibraryLeave a comment