This story is about Harry Potter, a normal 11 year-old boy, who lives with his aunt’s family on 4 Privet Drive. He is mistreated horribly by her son, Dudley, along with everybody else. Harry thinks that his life will always be the same, that he will have to go to bed hungry and be yelled at all the time. But one day everything changes and Harry discovers that his parents were famous wizards who died from a horrible disaster caused by a evil wizard. Harry alone survived this and gained a lighting scar on his forehead.

He is soon taken to Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches, where he learns magic and makes friends along with enemies. While in Hogwarts, Harry discovers that the evil that gave him his scar may still be alive and in his school searching for the right moment to come back. It is up to Harry Potter and his friends to prevent this from happening. And along the way, Harry must learn to become a wizard and accept his parents’ legacy. With much adventure and thrilling events, J.K. Rowling provides her readers a story based on today’s world but with a twist of magic.

Have you ever wondered how life would be if Greek gods existed and impacted people’s lives? This book is exactly that but with children of the gods and humans, called demigods. Percy Jackson, a 12 year-old boy, has always had mysterious, and weird events happen to him. But after one disastrous day when his human mom is taken away from him, he finds out that he is a demigod. He is sent to Camp Half-Blood and learns about the world of Greek gods. With his newfound powers and friends, he is sent on a quest to return Zeus’s thunderbolt which has disappeared mysteriously causing chaos between the gods. In addition, Percy is determined to save his mother from harm no matter the consequences. While on this quest, he and his friends discover there is a new, dark evil starting to form and its goal is the destruction of the Greek gods. Will Percy make it through his difficult quest with his friends’ help and save his mother? Read this book and find out. Also, get ready for some sarcastic and funny comments made by the characters in the book, especially Percy Jackson.

“The Girl With The Louding Voice” by Abi Dare showed a world many people refuse to see, a world of poverty, rape, abuse, and more. This book is set in Nigeria where the culture there is different than other places and they value men over women and this is apparent during the novel. Adunni, a 14 year-old girl, displays a lot of strength through very difficult times in the story where her role as a female caused others to harm her mentally and physically. Her hope to a better future relied on having a education which was hard for her to obtain. She aspires females to strive towards larger goals in life especially in some parts of Nigeria where women are thought to be only married off. She values education very much and that gives her hope for a better life. This book provided awareness too because when an average person compares their life to Adunni’s, they realize how very fortunate they are and how they should be thankful of their education. Even though this book is fiction, it has most likely happened to many young girls like Adunni and the world needs to help people like them. Overall, “The Girl with the Louding Voice” by Abi Dare demonstrated how the world can be cruel to people whether mentally or physically and people need acknowledge this and try to help them.