Following district-wide budget cuts proposed on Jan. 14, 2025, the DVHS library will lose librarian Allison Hussenet, as the motion passed on Feb. 25 reduces the teacher librarians each at Dougherty and...

Literature has always served as a mirror to society. Therefore, as the world evolves, the literature exposed to students should as well. To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, and Romeo & Juliet are...

As a new school year ushers in, SRVUSD and every other school in the district of California are all too eager when introducing its students to a plethora of new reading material. When students reach their...

In the era we live in, high school students have so many external circumstances making it difficult to focus on one thing. With so many distractions, it’s easy to understand why high school students...

The American Library Association (ALA) recorded more book removals and challenges in 2022 than in over two decades, with the increased backlash against books concerning sexuality and gender identity impacting...

On the first day of junior year, my (Sylvia) AP Literature teacher broadcasted a poem by Emily Dickinson on the classroom projector and asked for volunteers to read it to the class. I was one of them....

In his heart-wrenching debut novel, “Nights When Nothing Happened,” author Simon Han illustrates the convoluted and intricate dynamics of a Chinese immigrant family in Plano, Texas. Han explores the...

Karen McManus’s widely anticipated YA mystery novel, “The Cousins”, falls flat with a dragged-out plot, convoluted romances, dramas and an unclear mystery. McManus’s first book, “One of Us...