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I am Malala. A review by Willie Fowler I am Malala is an autobiography written by the Malala Yousafzai. For some brief background information, Malala is a Pakistani woman born in July 17th 1997. Being the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the second Pakistani, she has solidified her role as an activist for women and girls in Pakistan. The story begins with a prologue. It's Malala describing her surroundings at home. Her own room that has an unmade bed, people playing Cricket outside her house, her school uniform, among other things. After eating a quick breakfast and saying a quick prayer because of her upcoming exam, she departs to school on a bus. Suddenly, the bus is stopped by 2 white-robed men, who jump onto the bus and ask "Who is Malala." This generates lots of tension. This ends on a cliffhanger and advances onto some more background knowledge on Malala; we don't know what happens to Malala next until we read more of the story. In the following ...

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              Marie Lu is an amazing writer, and she demonstrates that in her novel, Warcross . Warcross is about a poor 18-year-old, Emika Chen, living on the streets of New York. Much of her income comes from hunting down players in the Neuro Link. The Neuro Link is a way to play Warcross by creating a virtual reality. Warcross is a mix between Overwatch and League of Legends. Anyways, she is essentially a virtual bounty hunter with an incredible ability to hack through and understand the code of Warcross. However, desperate for money, she exploits into a Warcross match to try and steal a valuable powerup, a buff, that can be sold money; however, her coding backfires and she spawns into the game. Because of the attention that this brought Emika, the founder of the Neuro Link, Hideo Tanaka, decides to hire Emika because of her ability to hack. Hideo decides to have Emika go undercover and find information on Zero, a noto...

  Review does contain spoilers. Enjoy The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a book written and illustrated by Henry Selznick, published January 30th, 2007 and adapted into a movie just 3 3/4 years later on November 23rd, 2011.  Summary: The story takes place in the 1930s in Paris, France, following our young protagonist, Hugo Cabret. Hugo is a young, and depressed orphan living within the walls of a Paris train station, stealing whatever he can in order to barely scrape by. Ever since his father died in a fire, and his Uncle Claude had died after getting too tipsy, he has been steadily looking after a broken "automaton." A mechanical device mimicking that of a human, where it could write, draw, perform, and do much more. He does this so he can find his father's final message.  Hugo secretly steals parts from a toymaker to fix the automaton, but gets caught, loses his important notebook used to fix the automaton, and tries to earn it back from the old toymaker by helping out in ...