Boyhood (2014)
Reviewed by Emi Weiss (Library Staff) This original film chronicles the life of a boy played by an actor who is filmed throughout his life. The fact that the actor grows up and the fictitious boy grows...
View ArticleThe Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Reviewed by Jane Oliver-Purton (Library Staff) This well-written book on basketball and life was the 2015 Newbery Award winner, and its win is justified. It’s the story of Josh Bell, nicknamed Filthy...
View ArticleVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana...
Reviewed by Anonymous (Library Patron) What do you remember of the Chernobyl accident of 1989? I remember it was a big event, tragic, but life went on. Not for those millions affected by the Chernobyl...
View ArticleThe War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Burbaker Bradley
Reviewed by Jane Oliver-Purton (Library Staff) A beautifully written story of Ada, a club footed child, hated by her mother and forced to stay in their dingy London flat. She and her little brother,...
View ArticleBridge of Spies (2015)
Reviewed by Jennifer Rude Klett (Library Staff) Bridge of Spies is an outstanding but underrated film by director Steven Spielberg that is based on true events during the Cold War in 1957. Even though...
View ArticleBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Reviewed by Katy Zignego (Library Staff) Every so often, a library patron presses a book into my hands and says, “You must read this NOW.” I want to turn the tables and press Between the World and Me...
View ArticleHamilton (2015) by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Reviewed by Emily Terasa (Library Staff) Since it will probably be years until I can see the smash-hit musical Hamilton (with it seemingly being sold out for forever!), I decided to check out the...
View ArticleThe Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Reviewed by Judy B (Library Staff) Well written story with murder, deception, women’s subjugation, dysfunctional families, science and a “dash” of fairy tale all wrapped around the art of lying. It won...
View ArticleNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Reviewed by Anonymous (Library Patron) I think that this is a great book. It has a good story-line that is about a young Jewish girl that lives in Denmark when the Nazi’s invaded. I really liked how...
View ArticleAmadeus (1984)
Reviewed by Zach S (Library Staff) Love, betrayal, selfishness, passion, and above all, music! These are the themes that form the core of Milo’s Foreman’s 1984 Academy Award winning classic “Amadeus.”...
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