Pat Schwartz on March 11th, 2010

Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle (good)
A Well-Timed Enchantment by Vivian Vande Velde (interesting)
Keeper of the Grail by Michael Spradlin (love historical fiction)
Jerk California by Jonathan Friesen (just started)
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Hannah on March 8th, 2010

Luce has always seen shadows that nobody else could see.  After the accident that killed her boyfriend she was sent to Sword & Cross boarding/reform school where she meets several odd individuals.  On day one at the school she meets two intriguing boys.  The first, Daniel,  tries to make her stay away, even though she [...]

Continue reading about Book – Fallen by Lauren Kate

Debra Stombres on February 24th, 2010

This is the current winner of the Newbery Award. If you are a fan of Madeline L’Engle and/or A Wrinkle in Time, you will get a kick out of this fast read. Hints about the future sort out the present as a young teen, Miranda,  grapples with the drama of her world. Her mother is [...]

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Hannah on February 7th, 2010

This is the story of a nearly 18 year old city girl named Ronnie who, with her little brother, goes to live with her father on the beach of a small town for the summer.   Being pulled away from city living to spend the summer with a father that left her family Ronnie doesn’t want [...]

Continue reading about Book – The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Hannah on February 7th, 2010

Percy Jackson is a normal middle school-er with dyslexia and ADHD and then he finds out that monsters are real and he is no longer the normal kid he thought himself (and apparently he has never been normal).  His best friend has the legs of a goat and a giant bull walking on two legs [...]

Continue reading about Book – Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Hannah on January 18th, 2010

Lyn has grown up knowing only Glad culture.  Her mother has tried to talk her into becoming a Glad wife like her, but Lyn doesn’t want to watch 7 husbands die in the arena.  She is a pacifist and wants nothing more than to leave the Gladiator lifestyle behind her.  But when her 7th gladiator [...]

Continue reading about Book – Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines

Hannah on January 12th, 2010

Five kids across Europe disappear in one night, never to be heard from again.  A few years, later five teenagers show up in New York at a party and will soon attend the best high school there.  Their governess Madame Vileroy is not as she appears to the outside world.  She gives the teens special abilities [...]

Continue reading about Book – Another Faust by Daniel & Dina Nayeri

Hannah on December 13th, 2009

When Cody’s girlfriend gets shipped off to boarding school in New-England and he gets hurt playing football Cody decides there is no reason for him to be in school anymore and drops out.  Soon after he finds out that his ex-girlfriend Clea has gone missing.  Knowing that he still loves her he drives across country [...]

Continue reading about Book – Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

Hannah on December 9th, 2009

Nora is a girl who has never fallen for a guy at her school, but when the coach, who teaches her science class, switches the seating chart and she ends up partners with the new guy Patch she starts to feel an attraction for the broody insulting boy who keeps hitting on her and making [...]

Continue reading about Book – Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

Angie on December 1st, 2009

Maggie is the victim of a hit-and-run accident that irrevocably changes her life, and it’s her best friend’s brother, Caleb, who does it. He also lives right next door. And his bedroom window faces hers. How much worse can it get? Then, he goes to work for her boss and they’re thrown together on a [...]

Continue reading about Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles