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Become a Book Review Blogger!

Do you enjoy reading and writing? Become one of the library’s teen bloggers and help other teens find out about books you love. You can be a volunteer at home!
Must be 12-18, in 7th-12th grade and be able to write in a conversational way with minimum grammar and spelling errors.

Teen Volunteer Application

Book Reviews by NBPL Teens

Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare
Tags: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Magic
03/08/2021 9:58 am
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Tags: Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction
03/05/2021 1:54 pm
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Tags: Classics, Allegories, Dystopian
03/05/2021 1:41 pm
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Tags: Kidnapping, Adventure, Fairies
02/06/2021 3:31 pm
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Tags: Supernatural, Fantasy, Cemeteries
02/06/2021 3:20 pm
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Tags: Boarding School, Realistic Fiction, Suspense
02/03/2021 10:21 am
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Tags: Love, Mental Illness, Friendship
02/03/2021 10:05 am
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Tags: Booksellers, Biographies, Jeff Bezos
01/26/2021 11:48 am
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Tags: Fantasy, Bank Robbers, Gangs
01/26/2021 11:44 am
Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Tags: Chess, Coming of Age stories
01/26/2021 11:38 am
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tags: Fantasy, Classics
01/13/2021 2:58 pm
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Tags: Holocaust, Persecutions
01/13/2021 2:54 pm
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Tags: Fantasy, Good and Evil, Princes
01/13/2021 2:47 pm
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Tags: Fantasy, Robbers, Magic
01/13/2021 2:34 pm
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Tags: Funny Stories, Science Fiction, Aliens
01/13/2021 2:22 pm
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: Classics, African American Women, Self-Realization
01/13/2021 1:49 pm
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Tags: Classics, Literary Fiction, Realistic Fiction
01/13/2021 1:30 pm
Instructions for a Secondhand Heart by Tamsyn Murray
Tags: Death, Romance, Contemporary
01/13/2021 1:24 pm
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
Tags: Fantasy, Social Classes, Revolutions
01/13/2021 1:12 pm
The Captive Kingdom by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Tags: Fantasy, Brothers, Pirates
01/13/2021 12:16 pm