If You Could Be Mine – Read It and Rate It

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan LGBTQ Realistic Fiction Romance Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) This book was really, really, really, really, really GOOD!!!! I actually had to read this book for school even though I read in the summer anyways, but I have a feeling that I would have stumbled onto it anyways. The story plot is a little straight forward when it is described, but it still really … Read more

Out of Sight, Out of Time – Read It and Rate It

Out of Sight, Out of Time Gallagher Girls #5 by Ally Carter Suspense Thriller Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) The main character of this book is Cammie Morgan. Cammie is a spy who goes to a spy school.  Cammie runs away and nobody knows where she is. When they find her she does not remember anything. So Cammie goes on a trip with her roommates to figure out some secrets. The Circle (bad guys) are trying to get Cammie. … Read more

Matched – Read It and Rate It

Matched Matched #1 by Ally Condie Dystopian Romance Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Set in a dystopian society, the main character lives in a world where nothing is left up to chance. Everything is chosen for her and people live under the illusion that all is perfect. When the main character is “matched” at the age of 18, she finds that she is actually matched with 2 people! One she knows … Read more

Revelations – Read It and Rate It

Revelations Blue Bloods #3 by Melissa de la Cruz Fantasy Supernatural Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) The book “Revelations” includes blue, red, and silver bloods. The red bloods are the humans, the blue bloods are vampires, and the silver bloods are vampires that used to be blue bloods, but their minds got corrupted by the devil and hurt the blue bloods and the devil got released from hell by a girl … Read more

Dork Diaries: Tales from the Not-So-Smart Miss Know It All – Read It and Rate It

Tales from the Not-So-Smart Miss Know It All Dork Diaries #5 by Rachel Renee Russell Realistic Fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) In order to thwart Mackenzie’s evil plans (and in order to spend more time with her secret crush), Nikki takes a job at the Lacklester school newspaper. Sometimes Nikki makes bad decisions (like sneaking out of the house on New Year’s Eve), but like a real kid she is trying to … Read more

Breaking Dawn – Read It and Rate It

Breaking Dawn Twilight #4 by Stephenie Meyer Fantasy Romance Supernatural Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) Bella and Edward get married. On their honeymoon she finds out she is pregnant with a half-vampire child. It makes her weak and is slowly killing her. She ends up living through the delivery and is changed into a vampire. But the baby is not like others, and the Volturi gets involved. 

Maximum Ride: Forever – Read It and Rate It

Maximum Ride: Forever Maximum Ride #9 by James Patterson Adventure Romance Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) The Maximum Ride book “Forever” is the 9th book in the series. This book is about what happens after someone releases a virus and destroys the world with a bunch of “natural disasters.” Maximum and her flock (Fang, Angel, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, Dylan) try to find survivors and defeat the doctor that started … Read more

Scorpio Races – Read It and Rate It

Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Fantasy Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Puck Connelly lives in a world that might seem unreal to another’s eye, but is part of Puck’s normal life. She lives on an island far off the shore of America that hosts an infamous horse race every November called the Scorpio Races. These races seem like any other normal race except…for the fact that the horses they race on seem … Read more

Afterschool Charisma – Read It and Rate It

Afterschool Charisma Manga series #1 by Kumiko Suekane Manga Science Fiction Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) “Afterschool Charisma” volume 1 is an introduction to the story of Shiro Kamiya, a supposed non-clone in a school full of famous people’s clones. Being the only human is hard for Shiro when on top of being different his father is one of the professors at the school. In this volume, Shiro helps his crush Marie Curie get … Read more

The Huntley Area Public Library will be closed Thursday, November 28, 2024, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Additionally, we will be closing early Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. Our exterior book drop will be closing on Wednesday, November 27, at 5:00 p.m. as well. All online resources will be available during this time. The library and exterior book drop will reopen Friday, November 29, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.