Eleanor is the new girl who is finding it hard to get a comfortable seat anywhere in life – in the bus, in her new school, even in her family. Park is the boy who wants nothing to do with Eleanor. The status quo dictates the rules of his hierarchical, hormone-induced teenage universe and in this case,…
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What if there was a drug that allowed humans to never need to sleep, and what if that drug had never been properly tested? To make matters worse, what if the guy who created the drug was your dad? Sleepwalking is the debut young adult novel by one of Lip‘s favourite writers and book reviewers Raelke Grimmer….
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins It’s safe to say the only thing currently rivaling Twilight delirium is the insatiable appetite for The Hunger Games (I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself). After my unfortunate experiment in reading Twilight, I had decided not to read The Hunger Games. I thought it was going to be in…
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There’s no denying vampire fever – the beautiful ageless undead have their fangs sunk into pop-culture, with no sign of sunlight threatening their reign. We all know the fundaments of ole’ basic vampire lore: they are ageless, sunlight turns them to dust, they are repelled by garlic and holy water, don’t have a reflection, you…
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I started reading the infectious Sweet Valley series when I was little. I started out with Sweet Valley Kids, and graduated through to Sweet Valley University when I was about twelve. I remember reading a SVU book during a silent reading class, and my grade seven English teacher looking at me, sighing and saying, ‘Oh,…
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