Victoria Grace Howell

A Book Review of the Queen’s Resistance by Rebecca Ross

    Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she’d just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet another challenge: acceptance by the MacQuinns.   But as Queen Isolde Kavanagh’s …

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Writing Lessons from Video Games: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess vs. Okami

    Twilight Princess is my favorite Legend of Zelda game, but one other game that was recommended to me because I like that one is Okami. Both are very similar in concept. They both have wolf protagonists with plucky companions who want to save the world from a great darkness. I’ve wanted to play Okami for over ten years and …

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A Book Review of The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal

    It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the …

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A Book Review of Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

  OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.   Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five …

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