January 6, 2012 at 6:51 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY MELISSA H.
If you are interested in teenage girls finding true love, then this is the book for you! In “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood,” the pants help Bridget, Carmen, Tibby, and Lena with their relationships. These girls all live in different parts of the world. This book is a sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” so you have to read the first book before you read this one. If you loved “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” you would love the sequel!
January 6, 2012 at 6:27 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY JENSEN P.
Get ready for an epic tale about a young boy named Percy Jackson, who finds himself falling into a world full of roman gods, demigods, wolf people, and a whole lot of monsters. With the help of his new found friends Percy heads off to the land beyond the gods, to go help save the hands of death from a terrible monster lurking within the earth. When you first pick up this book, you won’t be able to put it down till the very last word. This is the second book in the new electrifying series called The Heroes of Olympus. Be ready to be amazed!
December 16, 2011 at 3:49 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY ISABEL S.
Have you read Savvy, and are begging for more? Well Scumble is the perfect book for you, Scumble is about a boy who comes to Wyoming and gets into major trouble! He just can’t help breaking stuff, the worst thing is that he’s under the spell of his worst enemy. I recommend Scumble because it sucked me in and I read it nonstop until I finished, I was never bored it was really exciting and great! I hope that when you read this book you to will be enticed and have the same thrilling experience as I did.
December 9, 2011 at 6:48 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY TIMMY L.
Meet Salamanca Tree Hiddle, a young, country girl with a cunning heart. After unwillingly picking up and moving fromBybanks,Kentucky, she has found herself residing inEuclid,Ohio. Here she is miserable. There are no trees, no swimming hole, no animals, and tiny little houses that are exactly the same lined up in rows. AlthoughEuclidseems to be the most boring place on earth, Sal has yet to learn about, and get mixed up in, the strange world of Phoebe Winterbottom and the lunatic.
December 6, 2011 at 3:43 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY MICHAEL B.
Are you a maphead? Author and “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings is a self-confessed maphead, sleeping with his Hammond world atlas every night when he was little. In this non-fiction book, he guides readers through the halls of the Royal Geographic Society at the London map fair, the map division at the Library of Congress, and what is personally my favorite place in Washington, the Washington Plaza hotel and the headquarters of the National Geographic Society during the National Geographic Bee. He interviews former University of Miami professor David Helgren, geography bee champion Caitlin Snaring, and many other mapheads while discussing map collecting, road geeks and map rallies, fictional maps and countries, spatial ability, geocaching, and much more. Ken shares many personal anecdotes in this well-written book that is on Amazon.com’s list of best non-fiction books of the year, and is a must-read for any maphead or geography nut(and is still a good book if you aren’t).
December 2, 2011 at 5:13 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY KEVIN G.
Travel back through time to the 19th century where a scientist creates a device that can move through time. Referred to simply as the time traveler; when his machine takes him to the year 802,701 A.D., he falls under the illusion of a perfect, disease free world, inhabited by the Eloi which are a human subspecies about four feet tall, frail, childish, and a helpless group of seemingly carefree people, but they have one fear; the dark. Soon the time traveler discovers the presence of the Morlocks which are ape like troglodytes which work underground, but can only come out when the sun goes down wreaking havoc on the Eloi and feeding on them. When the Morlocks mysteriously steal the time machine all seems grim for the time traveler because he becomes trapped in this dark time.He sets out to recover his precious machine and get back to a familiar time.
October 17, 2011 at 12:50 pm (Historical Fiction, Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY BROOKE M. ORANGE
Joey is a beautiful red bay horse sold from his master Albert, whom he mutually loves, into the British cavalry during WWI. On his first charge, Joey and a horse he met, Topthorn, are captured by German forces, but this group of fighters is nice, and the troop is enchanted with Joey and he and Topthorn become the heroes of the group. They pull ambulances across a small farm where they meet a young girl named Emily who lost all her family except her grandfather to the war. Emily is overjoyed by the two hoses that stay in her stables, and the kind Germans let Emily and her grandfather keep Joey and Topthorn when they move on. But then an uncaring group of different Germans takes the pair of horses away from Emily and they are used to drag heavy artillery. When shells send everyone running for cover, Joey gallops away. Wandering in no-mans-land without Topthorn, Joey wonders If the war will ever end. And if it does, will he ever find Albert again…or is it to late?
War Horse is a great book from a horse’s perspective in World War I.
June 10, 2011 at 5:33 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY JAMIE M.
The book, Peak, by Roland Smith, is an amazing book about a fourteen-year-old boy named Peak. Peak is not an ordinary fourteen year old; he is always getting caught climbing buildings in New York City. After he is sentenced to community service for climbing a skyscraper, his biological father offers Peak a chance to climb Mt.
Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Of course, Peak accepts the offer and the next day he is on a plane to Nepal. Throughout Peak’s journey up Mt. Everest he encounters many new people and a lot of challenges. One more thing: if Peak makes it up before his fifteenth birthday he will be the youngest person to stand above 29,000 feet. There’s nothing like a little pressure.
June 10, 2011 at 5:32 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY AISLINN B.
Yellow Star is an intriguing book written in poem form by Jennifer Roy. It follows Sylvia, one of the only twelve children to survive the Lodz Jewish Ghetto during the Holocaust in World War 2. This true story takes you back into the time of the Holocaust and will make your heart ache once you read about the difficult childhood Sylvia had to go through. Yellow Star not only tells what it was like to be a Jewish child in the ghettos, but also talks you through the importance of friends, family, and being able to stick up for your self and for what it right even if it may be hard.
June 10, 2011 at 5:31 pm (Uncategorized)
RECOMMENDED BY ELLA M. PERIOD 8 PURPLE
Here’s another one of Sarah Dessen’s fantastic realistic fictions. Experience the life of a seemingly average teen girl on the outside, but has missed out on social and some mental development. Auden, a confused teen that in one summer will be forced into social gatherings, making friends and riding a bike, all unfamiliar concepts to Auden. She’ll have to rely on Eli’s ‘step-by-step childhood plan’ and her natural instincts. The summer in Colby when she thought she’d be studying for exams, she found herself learning how to catch up on her childhood. With Sarah Dessen’s unique way of writing as if you were there, you automatically want to be friends with this perplexed character. You’ll cry, laugh and cringe at this humorous novel sharing the shelf with other lovable characters from This Lullaby, What Happened to Goodbye, Keeping the Moon, and Dreamland, along with many more!
