Spotlight: “I Am J” Book

Darian Saal, Staff Reporter
March 28, 2012

“I Am J” by Cris Beam is a book about a transgender individual who is trying to find himself, just as many people do at some point in life. J always felt he was a boy mistakenly born as a girl. He grew up and started to look more femine. J stopped praying to wake up a boy and started covering... Read more »

Catching Fire has Caught Fire

Darian Saal, Staff Reporter
October 19, 2011

Warning! Spoiler Alert! The second book in the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins is Catching Fire. In the second book teenagers Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have finally survived the 74th hunger games just to find out their fate isn’t any better than before. A quarter quell is about... Read more »

Let the Games Begin

Daniel Counterman, Entertainment Editor
March 25, 2011

Violence, politics, teen angst, the moral dichotomy of entertainment, and a few healthy doses of science fiction are the winning, eclectic formula that made “The Hunger Games” series of novels so endearingly popular. It is a proverbial “diamond in the rough” when it comes to young adult... Read more »

The Monster That Is Methamphetamine

Daniel Counterman, Entertainment Editor
March 14, 2011

More often than not, when it comes to popular books, the subject matter is usually light and excessively accessible almost to a fault. This is not the case with “Crank” written by Ellen Hopkins. The novel deals with a girl who is introduced to crystal meth by newfound friends and focuses on how her... Read more »