![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
Book: Clockwork Princess
Author: Cassandra Clare
Rating: 10/10
Price: $14.92 hardcover from Barnes and Noble
Clockwork Princess in the final book in the trilogy, The Infernal Devices, which is the prequel series to the popular Mortal Instruments series. It takes place in 1800’s London, where a girl named Tessa Gray travels there from New York to live there with her brother. She arrives to find her brother missing, and is taken captive by the Dark Sisters, who work for the Pandemonium Club, a downworlder cooperation. Tessa learns that she herself is a downworlder with the rare ability of being able to transform into other people. She also discovers that the Magister, the sinister downworlder who runs the Club, wants Tessa’s power for himself. Tessa finds refuge from the Dark Sister and the Magister at the Institute, joining forces with the shadowhunters, and finds herself torn by love for both Will and James.
The third book finds Tessa and Shadowhunters of the London Institute facing an enemy by the name of Mortmain, who is creating an army of automatons in order to destroy the shadowhunters. When she is captured by Mortmain, the shadowhunters rush to her aid, but Tessa finds that perhaps the only person that can save her is herself.
I waited a long time until I could read this book, and was finally able to get my hands on it over the summer. The wait was definitely worth it. Every single page was packed with action and suspense. I was definitely not expecting the ending, and I literally started crying when I read the epilogue. This book was absolutely amazing! I would recommend this trilogy to anyone who has already read the Mortal Instruments series, and even anybody who has not read it yet can read this trilogy because it’s a prequel. There are a ton of references in the Infernal Devices trilogy and you will see that Cassandra Clare makes connections to characters and other references that appear in the Mortal Instruments series.
