By Rishi Chousalkar 11A

Author - Madeline Miller

Genre - Mythological fiction, Fantasy fiction

Rating - 4.5/5

Circe, a daughter of Titan Helios, is highly dissimilar from all her siblings and cousins: she does not have amazing good looks, a great singing voice, and apparently no powers. After spending a long, ignorant childhood of false love and feeble bonds in her father’s halls, however, she comes to realize that she has a great skill - witchcraft. She experiments with her immature powers to find trouble and is exiled to an island forever. Away from the protective bubble she had so far resided in, she learns through experience the harsh reality of the world. Here, amid enthralling adventures and onerous trials, lies her quest for true happiness.

Reviewed By: Abhiram,7A

       To Kill a Mockingbird is a North American classic written by the unparalleled Harper Lee. Using her graceful prose, Ms. Lee introduces critical problems that plague the society and explores them through the eyes of an innocent young child living in the Southern United States during the great depression.

In Maycomb County, a quaint town in Alabama, every family that indulges in anything has a streak, whether it be a peculiar streak, a morbid streak, or something more serious. Here, young Scout Finch as along with her brother Jem, and Dill Harris as they try to make Boo Radley come out of his house. Boo is the son of the Radley family, who hasn't come out of the dilapidated family house for over thirty years, probably due to his shy ways. But the children prefer another explanation, that Boo is a boy who eats raw animals and was locked in the house by his own relatives. But Scout’s life changes when her father, Atticus, takes up a case of a black man charged with rape, whose trial deeply affects Scout Finch’s irregular education in a crucial way.