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Dear Spencer by Danielle Keil Everyone at Ryder High knows what it means to have a teal envelope taped to their locker on the first day of the month. Spencer Matthews assumes the Secret Admirers game is on pause, since it’s June and school is out for summer. Then a teal envelope with her name on it arrives in the mail. Spencer is eager to play, but her Secret Admirer makes her work for her clues by playing a trivia game app he created. Her spreadsheet of suspects is color coded, and Spencer is confident she knows who her admirer is after only the first two clues. But something goes wrong, threatening the future of the game. Will Spencer be able to continue playing? And if so, will her guesses still be right? My Review: Mood?  lighthearted Pace?    medium  Plot- or character-driven?  a mix Strong character development?  yes Loveable characters?  yes Diverse cast of characters?     It's complicated Flaws of characters a main focus?  N/A My...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family". But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag...