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In this blog, I will be sharing Small Spaces by Katherine Arden. It is a thriller/horror fiction novel written in 2018. I read this book in the summer of 2020 with a group of students together and I thought the plot was both intriguing and fascinating. I hope you enjoy reading the review! The story is about a group of students that goes missing on a school field trip to a farm. During their time at the farm, everything goes well until it is time to get onto the bus and leave. We get a first person perspective from the main characters, Olivia, Coco, and Brian, as they realize that the other students are being taken away by a mysterious being. They wander off the bus into a very heavy dense fog into the field realizing that the bus is no longer a safe space for them to stay in. The dense fog makes it incredibly difficult for them to see anything while wandering around the farm. As they are scavenging to find their lost friends, they realize that Olivia’s watch which her mother left for

Animal Farm I read this book for the Banned Book Project last year, and I loved how the book was written, so I decided to share this book with you. :) Animal Farm begins as Old Major, the most prominent porcine figure (pig) on the farm, announces to all the animals on the farm that he had a dream of living in a world without humans. He claims that all animals should strive to create this utopia. He teaches the animals a song called “Beasts of England.” Shortly after, Old Major dies and Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer develop the main ideas of Old Major’s speech and name the idea Animalism. One night, Mr. Jones, the cruel farmer of Manor Farm, comes back completely drunk and falls asleep without feeding any of the animals. The starving, enraged animals organize an uprising and break open the doors of the barn. Alarmed, Mr. Jones and his workers wake up and come outside to see what is happening. Upon finding that their animals had all escaped, they grab their weapons and force the anima