It's Kind of a Funny Story

    Ned wants to commit suicide, but doesn't have the courage to throw himself of the bridge, so he commits himself to a hospital instead. Ned had studied all summer for a test to get into a special school where all the "smart" kids go. Not taking any breaks, when he went to the beach, to get ice cream, to a friends house he brought studying material. He gets into the school with a  perfect score, but when the school years starts, he finds out that they got grades confused and it goes downhill from there. In the ward Ned learns that good grades aren't the most important thing. He realizes that life is to do what is enjoyable, not what gets you a good grade. This novel is funny, authentic and has just been turned into a movie, so when you finish reading you can watch the movie (which is also really good).

Incarceron

     Incarceron by Catherine Fisher is a book about a society that threw all of the rule-breakers into a living prison called Incarceron and closed it off forever. That society lives without technology and prefers to live in the illusions of protocol, constantly stiffened by it. Inside Incarceron, it is a constant brutal fight for survival where people are forced to kill, just to stay alive. Outside the world is no different, imprisoned instead by protocol. Finn a son of the prison and a starseer (able to see into the future),tries like all of the prison's children to Escape and find the Outside. Outside Claudia the daughter of the warden is trying to release everyone from a different type of incarceration. This book is about what it means to be imprisoned and what we devolve into when we have no of escaping.

The Maze Runner

     The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a thriller, dystopian novel about a group of kids that wake upon top of a gigantic maze with no recollection of their past, all they can remember are their names. They quickly realize that this is a challenge, a challenge to see if they can make it out. Thomas is the newest member of the group having just arrived via lift and he learns about their lifestyle and what has to be done to retain their society. Everyone in the society has a job, Thomas takes the job of a maze runner, running through the maze and looking for a way out. Inside of the maze there are monsters called grievers, disgusting creatures made of flesh and metal that eat anything they can find. These are the last attempts of a society that was doomed to a seemingly inevitable destruction. This book is an exciting and thrilling novel as you learn the secrets about the maze and what it truly was created for.

Thirteen Reasons Why

     This novel is a masterpiece written by Jay Asher and it is a sad story about why a girl committed suicide. Clay gets tapes from Hannah, a classmate that recently committed suicide in the mail, the tapes contain the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide. Each person that played a part in her death is sent the tapes and if they try to destroy them someone will release the information to the public. Clay listens to the stories of Hannah's abuse and begins to understand why she did the unthinkable. This book helps us  understanding why some people commit suicide and it is a extremely unique book because of it.