The Eccentric Bookshelf

Tag: Friendship

  • The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart

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    Wondrous, glorious, magnificent. Three words that mean the same thing, but would all perfectly describe The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart. The novel is about a boy named Ravani, or Rav, Foster. Rav lives in the small town of Slaughterville, aptly named for its infamous slaughterhouse, the town’s main source of income. Most of the…

  • The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson

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    The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson is an extraordinarily unique novel about a girl named Lydia. Ever since her parents’ sudden disappearance, Lydia has been living with her Uncle Lem in the Paper Museum. Lydia lives in a world where paper is a rarity and most people use “Aer Readers”, a phone that you…

  • Miracle Season by Beth Hautala

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    Miracle Season by Beth Hautala is a beautiful, warmhearted novel about a girl named Persephone Pearl Clark who lives in Coulter, Wisconsin. Persephone, just like her name suggests, has the power to make plants grow. However, after her brother, Levi’s, near-death experience that put him in a coma, Persephone has started to lie more and…

  • Tin by Pádraig Kenny

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    Tin by Pádraig Kenny is an absolutely stunning work of art about a boy named Christopher. Christopher is content being the only “proper” boy in a shoddy engineer, Absalom’s, workshop, surrounded by mechanicals, robots that can feel and speak. However, one day, Manda, a mechanical made to look and be like a little girl, loses…

  • A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin

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    A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin is a compelling story of friendship about a kid named Max. Max’s friend, Will, has recently fallen into a deep coma after their friend, Joey convinced them to head to the roundhouse inside the reservation, or “res”, to check out the graffiti there even though they all knew it…