Graphic Novels:
Card Captor Sakura omnibus vol. 2 -- The beautiful new teacher in Sakura's class, Kaho Mizuki, soon reveals that she's a shrine maiden with magic powers of her own. But as always, the struggle to capture the Clow cards is woven together with the mysterious - and complicated - threads of love and affection between Sakura and all the people in her life. Will her heart be strong enough as she faces the one who will judge her worthiness to master the cards at last?
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, adapted by Dragon Leigh and illustrated by Emma Vieceli -- Runaway vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Hero Tales vols 1-3 by Hiromu Arakawa -- Legend speaks of seven heroes, each one bearing the power of one of the stars of the Big Dipper. Two of these stars are constantly in conflict, destined to battle and throw the world into chaos...these are their tales!
Slam Dunk vol. 17 by Takehiko Inoue -- the much anticipated game between Ryonan High and Kainen High is heating up, but then word reaches Captain Akagi that Coach Anzai has collapsed!
Possessions vols 1-2 by Ray Fawkes -- Gurgazon the Unclean (demon or little girl?) is determined to escape once she becomes part of Mrs. Llewellyn-Vane's collection of captured spirits and ghostly curiosities. Or will her spirit finally be broken by offers of ice cream and friendship?
Flight vol 8, edited by Kazu Kibuishi -- a visual feast of short stories, beautifully illustrated and fascinating to read.
Fiction:
Hidden by Helen Frost -- When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
There's No Place Like Home by Jen Calonita -- bk. 6 of Secrets of My Hollywood Life -- Seventeen-year-old Kaitlin Burke is back in Los Angeles after her brilliant run on Broadway, but her new sitcom is such a success that she finds herself again wishing for a normal life when a bad run-in with aggressive paparazzi puts her boyfriend Austin in danger. (The rest of the series is on order)
Brother/Sister by Sean Olin -- Told in alternating perspectives, Will and Asheley relate the events of the summer and explain how their lives became violently out of control.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Recent Reads
I just finished reading "The Girl in the Steel Corset" by Kady Cross. It's a steampunk adventure-mystery, in which Finley Jayne, a young woman with a secret, finds herself in the company of a band of misfits, led by Duke Griffin King. Griffon recognizes in Finley the same sort of magical powers that he and his friends possess, and sets out to discover how she acquired them. At the same time, the Machinist begins to execute a deadly assassination plot against Queen Victoria. Only Griffin, Finley, Emily, Sam and Jasper stand in his way -- if they can remain loyal to each other!
I really enjoyed the Victorian-steampunk setting, which used elements from H.G. Wells and other classic pieces of literature, as well as all the expected accoutrements of steampunk. Finley was an enjoyable heroine, and her romantic quandary was believable. I could never quite decide whether I liked Griffin or Jack Dandy, the handsome ne'er-do-well, better. And the fabulous scenes of conflict were great - battles against robots for life and limb! I'm waiting for the sequel quite eagerly.
And tonight, I'm taking home the third Agatha Heterodyne graphic novel: The Circus of Dreams... it should be a fun read!
I really enjoyed the Victorian-steampunk setting, which used elements from H.G. Wells and other classic pieces of literature, as well as all the expected accoutrements of steampunk. Finley was an enjoyable heroine, and her romantic quandary was believable. I could never quite decide whether I liked Griffin or Jack Dandy, the handsome ne'er-do-well, better. And the fabulous scenes of conflict were great - battles against robots for life and limb! I'm waiting for the sequel quite eagerly.
And tonight, I'm taking home the third Agatha Heterodyne graphic novel: The Circus of Dreams... it should be a fun read!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
New YA Books
Graphic Novels:
Bad Island by Doug TenNapel - Lyle, Karen, Janie, and Reese must find a way off an island while they dodge strange and dangerous things on the island.
Fiction:
Power of Six by Pittacus Lore -- sequel to I Am Number Four -- In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
Reaching Through Time by Lurlene McDaniel -- Three tales of teenagers experiencing the inexplicable. What's happened to me? -- When the clock chimes -- The mysteries of chance.
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead -- When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.
Dragon's Oath by P.C. Cast -- In early 19th century England, long before he's a professor at the Tulsa House of Night, Bryan Lankford is a troublesome yet talented human teen who thinks he can get away with anything -- until his father, a wealthy nobleman, has finally had enough and banishes him to America. When Bryan is Marked on the docks and given the choice between the London House of Night and the dragon-prowed ship to America, he chooses the Dragon -- and a brand new fate.
Across the Great Barrier by Patricia Wrede -- Frontier Magic bk. 2 -- In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities -- and those of her twin brother -- to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Rip Tide by Kat Falls -- Dark Life bk. 2 -- Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
Lost Crown by Sarah Elizabeth Miller -- In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution.
The Midnight Gate by Helen Stringer -- sequel to Spellbinder -- Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents, once again teams up with her classmate Steve, whose mother has suddenly disappeared, when they are given a dangerous assignment by a ghostly monk involving a return to the Dark Times.
Bad Island by Doug TenNapel - Lyle, Karen, Janie, and Reese must find a way off an island while they dodge strange and dangerous things on the island.
Fiction:
Power of Six by Pittacus Lore -- sequel to I Am Number Four -- In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
Reaching Through Time by Lurlene McDaniel -- Three tales of teenagers experiencing the inexplicable. What's happened to me? -- When the clock chimes -- The mysteries of chance.
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead -- When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.
Dragon's Oath by P.C. Cast -- In early 19th century England, long before he's a professor at the Tulsa House of Night, Bryan Lankford is a troublesome yet talented human teen who thinks he can get away with anything -- until his father, a wealthy nobleman, has finally had enough and banishes him to America. When Bryan is Marked on the docks and given the choice between the London House of Night and the dragon-prowed ship to America, he chooses the Dragon -- and a brand new fate.
Across the Great Barrier by Patricia Wrede -- Frontier Magic bk. 2 -- In an alternate frontier America, Eff must travel beyond the Great Barrier and come to terms with her magic abilities -- and those of her twin brother -- to stop the newest threat encroaching on the settlers.
Rip Tide by Kat Falls -- Dark Life bk. 2 -- Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
Lost Crown by Sarah Elizabeth Miller -- In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution.
The Midnight Gate by Helen Stringer -- sequel to Spellbinder -- Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who lives with the ghosts of her parents, once again teams up with her classmate Steve, whose mother has suddenly disappeared, when they are given a dangerous assignment by a ghostly monk involving a return to the Dark Times.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Reading Club Drawing Coming Soon
We are happy to announce that the Teen Reading Club for 2011 has concluded, and we will be drawing final winners for the iPod Shuffles in the very near future.
We're still moving and settling into our new temporary location at 1603 Washington Avenue, so please bear with us if it takes a little while...
We're thrilled with the number of reviews that were submitted! If you want to read reviews, remember they're all posted right here in this blog.
You can even comment on your reviews, or those made by others.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
New YA Books
Graphic Novels:
Batman. Bruce Wayne : the Return Home -- Bruce Wayne may have been missing, but Gotham City's criminals and crime-fighters kept the action alive in his absense! Now that he's made a long return trip to the land of the living, Batman finally gets a chance to reunite with those characters closest to him. Featuring Batman's greatest allies and enemies, friends, foes and loved ones, these eight interconnected tales connect Bruce Wayne's past to Batman's exciting future!
Nonfiction:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: a friendship that saved the world by Penny Coleman-- A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
Fiction:
Boyfriend Season by Kelli London -- Three girls in Atlanta fall in and out of love. Now, each has an invitation to the tottest teen society party of the year. Can they handle the pressure of getting everything they think they want?
Silhouetted by the Blue by Traci Jones -- After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Escape Velocity by Mark Walden -- The Higher Institute of Villainous Education is in grave danger. It's learder, Dr. Nero, has been captured by the world's most ruthless security force. It's up to Otto to save Dr. Nero, but first Otto must escape Nero's sinister replacement and H.I.V.E. itself. Will Otto be able to break into MI6 as no other villain has ever done?
Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson -- After a fire damages his boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex and his friends move to the girls' school across the lake, where supernatural happenings are disturbing the peace, and in the meantime, more Van Helsing family secrets are revealed.
Batman. Bruce Wayne : the Return Home -- Bruce Wayne may have been missing, but Gotham City's criminals and crime-fighters kept the action alive in his absense! Now that he's made a long return trip to the land of the living, Batman finally gets a chance to reunite with those characters closest to him. Featuring Batman's greatest allies and enemies, friends, foes and loved ones, these eight interconnected tales connect Bruce Wayne's past to Batman's exciting future!
Nonfiction:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: a friendship that saved the world by Penny Coleman-- A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
Fiction:
Boyfriend Season by Kelli London -- Three girls in Atlanta fall in and out of love. Now, each has an invitation to the tottest teen society party of the year. Can they handle the pressure of getting everything they think they want?
Silhouetted by the Blue by Traci Jones -- After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Escape Velocity by Mark Walden -- The Higher Institute of Villainous Education is in grave danger. It's learder, Dr. Nero, has been captured by the world's most ruthless security force. It's up to Otto to save Dr. Nero, but first Otto must escape Nero's sinister replacement and H.I.V.E. itself. Will Otto be able to break into MI6 as no other villain has ever done?
Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson -- After a fire damages his boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex and his friends move to the girls' school across the lake, where supernatural happenings are disturbing the peace, and in the meantime, more Van Helsing family secrets are revealed.
Summer Review
Title: Rapunzel
Author: Bernadette Watts
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? Germany
Review: a tale of a fair but imprisoned maiden kept prisoner by an evil, but maybe envious as well, witch. Originally told by the Brothers Grimm. So the story we all know bears an interesting twist that Disney never mentioned!
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Bernadette Watts
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? Germany
Review: a tale of a fair but imprisoned maiden kept prisoner by an evil, but maybe envious as well, witch. Originally told by the Brothers Grimm. So the story we all know bears an interesting twist that Disney never mentioned!
Reviewer: K. D.
Summer Review
Title: Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? England and on all the seas
Review: A crazy sea captain takes three men prisoners of his underwater submarine. Exploring underwater coral reefs, taking treasures and sinking ships, til the captain goes mad and tries to drown his crew...
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Jules Verne
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? England and on all the seas
Review: A crazy sea captain takes three men prisoners of his underwater submarine. Exploring underwater coral reefs, taking treasures and sinking ships, til the captain goes mad and tries to drown his crew...
Reviewer: K. D.
Summer Review
Title: Breathless
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? Southern Alabama
Review: A champion diver, Travis, develops bone cancer and two years pass and it gets worse, and he decides to tell his friend Cooper to help him die, and makes it look like an accident. Darla, his girlfriend, and his sister Emily find out about Travis' plot, but will it be too late for them to stop Travis?
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Lurlene McDaniel
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? Southern Alabama
Review: A champion diver, Travis, develops bone cancer and two years pass and it gets worse, and he decides to tell his friend Cooper to help him die, and makes it look like an accident. Darla, his girlfriend, and his sister Emily find out about Travis' plot, but will it be too late for them to stop Travis?
Reviewer: K. D.
Title: In the Camps: Teens who survived the Nazi Concentration Camps
Author: Toby Axelrod
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? Europe/ Germany
Review: The horrors of the Holocaust are retold through the eyes of a regular teen. These miraculous stories are each different, but the same in a sort of sense. Very good book!!!
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Toby Axelrod
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? Europe/ Germany
Review: The horrors of the Holocaust are retold through the eyes of a regular teen. These miraculous stories are each different, but the same in a sort of sense. Very good book!!!
Reviewer: K. D.
Summer Review
Title: Time Stranger Kyoko, Volume 3
Author: Arina Tanemura
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Tokyo
Review: In the last volume of Kyoko, shocking confessions are made that might just change the entire future of Kyoko and the gang
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Arina Tanemura
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Tokyo
Review: In the last volume of Kyoko, shocking confessions are made that might just change the entire future of Kyoko and the gang
Reviewer: K. D.
Summer Review
Title: Peach Girl: Sae's Story, Volume 3
Author: Ueda Miwa
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Tokyo
Review: So far Sae thinks she has found Mr. Perfect, but has Mr. Perfect been dating her for ALL the wrong reasons? Will Saefinally realize Mr. Perfect is closer than she thinks?
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Ueda Miwa
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Tokyo
Review: So far Sae thinks she has found Mr. Perfect, but has Mr. Perfect been dating her for ALL the wrong reasons? Will Saefinally realize Mr. Perfect is closer than she thinks?
Reviewer: K. D.
Summer Review
Title: Teen Idol
Author: Meg Cabot
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Indiana
Review: Jenny Greenly is keeping a secret. Teen hearthrob Luke striker is researching a role at her small town school, and Jenny Greenly is assigned to keep the celeb a secret. When his cover is blown, he wants Jenny to make a change in her school for the better. The problem is that Jenny doesn't feel ready to do that.
Reviewer: K. D.
Author: Meg Cabot
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? Indiana
Review: Jenny Greenly is keeping a secret. Teen hearthrob Luke striker is researching a role at her small town school, and Jenny Greenly is assigned to keep the celeb a secret. When his cover is blown, he wants Jenny to make a change in her school for the better. The problem is that Jenny doesn't feel ready to do that.
Reviewer: K. D.
Monday, August 15, 2011
New Books!
Graphic Novels:
Naruto vol. 51 -- At Hokage's Resolve Sasuke finally takes on Danzo, the leader of Konoha, determined to interrogate him about the Uchiha clan and what really happened between the political factions of Konoha and his brother, Itachi.
Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 25 -- As Greed and King Bradley continue their battle, the mysterious homunculus “father” makes his move under Central City. In order to achieve his objectives, he will need to force Mustang to make an unthinkable choice. Meanwhile, Alphonse has the chance to regain his own body, but the sacrifice to do so may be too much. (Only 2 more to go!)
Olympians Volume 3. Hera : the Goddess and her Glory -- Introduces Hera, Zeus's wife and goddess of air, sky, and the heavens, and the only thing Zeus is afraid of.
Girl Genius Vol. 4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams -- Agatha Heterodyne's damaged aircraft comes roughly to rest in the Wastelands where she encounters a traveling circus and proves her mettle by destroying a massive spider-clank as it attacks. Meanwhile, a frustrated Baron Wulfenbach dispatches his son Gilgamesh and deposed pirate queen Bangaldesh DuPree to capture Agatha, whose very existence threatens the peace.
Ray Bradybury's The Martian Chronicles: the authorized adaptation -- The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war.But eventually earthmen wake to find they've been conquered by the martians, at a terrible cost.
Fiction:
Spoiled by Heather Cocks -- When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.
Twisted by Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars #9 -- Now seniors in high school, Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria's friendship has been torn apart by new lies and stress, but they are drawn back together when anonymous messages threatening to reveal their secrets resume.
Dark Parties by Sara Grant -- Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies and deceptions.
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Haines -- In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother, who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business, since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
Ripple by Mandy Hubbard -- Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. Each day, she goes to school like a normal teenager, and each night, she must swim or the pain will be unbearable. She is a siren -- a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After a terrible tragedy, Lexi shut herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But can she?
Margrave by Catherine Fisher -- Relic Masters bk. 4 -- Their quest to find a secret relic with great power leads Master Galen and his sixteen-year-old apprentice Raffi into the Pit of Maar and the deep evil world at the heart of the Watch.
Addie on the Inside by James Howe -- In this verse novel, outspoken thirteen-year-old Addie Carle learns about love, loss, and staying true to herself as she navigates seventh grade, enjoys a visit from her grandmother, fights with her boyfriend, and endures gossip and meanness from her former best friend.
Babysitter Murders by Janet Young -- Imaginative Massachusetts seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon confesses she has been troubled by thoughts of harming Alex, the little boy she loves to babysit, triggering gossip and a media frenzy that makes "Dani Death" the target of an extremist vigilante group.
The Implosion of Aggie Winchester by Lara Zielin -- Sixteen-year-old Aggie feels compelled to investigate rumors that her cancer-stricken mother, principal of her small Minnesota high school, has rigged the prom queen election to keep Aggie's best friend Sylvia, a pregnant Goth, from winning.
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright -- Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Edda by Connor Kostick -- Avatar Chronicles bk. 3 -- in the virtual world of Edda, the ruler decides he wishes to invade another virtual world, embroiling Edda, Saga and Epic into a massive war.
Always a Witch by Carolyn Macullough -- Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Naruto vol. 51 -- At Hokage's Resolve Sasuke finally takes on Danzo, the leader of Konoha, determined to interrogate him about the Uchiha clan and what really happened between the political factions of Konoha and his brother, Itachi.
Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 25 -- As Greed and King Bradley continue their battle, the mysterious homunculus “father” makes his move under Central City. In order to achieve his objectives, he will need to force Mustang to make an unthinkable choice. Meanwhile, Alphonse has the chance to regain his own body, but the sacrifice to do so may be too much. (Only 2 more to go!)
Olympians Volume 3. Hera : the Goddess and her Glory -- Introduces Hera, Zeus's wife and goddess of air, sky, and the heavens, and the only thing Zeus is afraid of.
Girl Genius Vol. 4: Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams -- Agatha Heterodyne's damaged aircraft comes roughly to rest in the Wastelands where she encounters a traveling circus and proves her mettle by destroying a massive spider-clank as it attacks. Meanwhile, a frustrated Baron Wulfenbach dispatches his son Gilgamesh and deposed pirate queen Bangaldesh DuPree to capture Agatha, whose very existence threatens the peace.
Ray Bradybury's The Martian Chronicles: the authorized adaptation -- The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war.But eventually earthmen wake to find they've been conquered by the martians, at a terrible cost.
Fiction:
Spoiled by Heather Cocks -- When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.
Twisted by Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars #9 -- Now seniors in high school, Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria's friendship has been torn apart by new lies and stress, but they are drawn back together when anonymous messages threatening to reveal their secrets resume.
Dark Parties by Sara Grant -- Sixteen-year-old Neva, born and raised under the electrified Protectosphere that was built when civilization collapsed in violent warfare, puts her friends, family, and life at risk when she tries to find out if their world is built on a complex series of lies and deceptions.
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Haines -- In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother, who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business, since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
Ripple by Mandy Hubbard -- Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. Each day, she goes to school like a normal teenager, and each night, she must swim or the pain will be unbearable. She is a siren -- a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After a terrible tragedy, Lexi shut herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But can she?
Margrave by Catherine Fisher -- Relic Masters bk. 4 -- Their quest to find a secret relic with great power leads Master Galen and his sixteen-year-old apprentice Raffi into the Pit of Maar and the deep evil world at the heart of the Watch.
Addie on the Inside by James Howe -- In this verse novel, outspoken thirteen-year-old Addie Carle learns about love, loss, and staying true to herself as she navigates seventh grade, enjoys a visit from her grandmother, fights with her boyfriend, and endures gossip and meanness from her former best friend.
Babysitter Murders by Janet Young -- Imaginative Massachusetts seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon confesses she has been troubled by thoughts of harming Alex, the little boy she loves to babysit, triggering gossip and a media frenzy that makes "Dani Death" the target of an extremist vigilante group.
The Implosion of Aggie Winchester by Lara Zielin -- Sixteen-year-old Aggie feels compelled to investigate rumors that her cancer-stricken mother, principal of her small Minnesota high school, has rigged the prom queen election to keep Aggie's best friend Sylvia, a pregnant Goth, from winning.
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright -- Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Edda by Connor Kostick -- Avatar Chronicles bk. 3 -- in the virtual world of Edda, the ruler decides he wishes to invade another virtual world, embroiling Edda, Saga and Epic into a massive war.
Always a Witch by Carolyn Macullough -- Sixteen-year-old Carlos Duarte is on the verge of realizing his dream of becoming a famous make-up artist, but first he must face his jealous boss at a Macy's cosmetics counter, his sister's abusive boyfriend, and his crush on a punk-rocker classmate.
Summer Review
Title: Lion at Lunch Time
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this Book take you? To Africa, where the wild animals lived
Review: I like this, which guided me to an idea of how animals lived and they also lived by connected to each others.
Reviewer: J.P.
Summer Review
Title: June B. First Grade Boss of Lunch
Author: Barbara Park
Rating: 2 stars
Where did this Book take you? It took me to know how delightful June B is.
Review: this book is actually okay. It gave me some facts and entertainment, which is good.
Reviewer: J. P.
Summer Review
Title: Cruel Love
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Atherton Pryce Boarding School
Review: As the final book in the series, it was Awesome. Perfectly tied everything together in a dramatic ending. Really loved this one! But I'm sad it's over.
Reviewer: G. L.
Summer Review
Title: Pure Sin
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this Book take you? Atherton Pryce Boarding School
Review: After knowing how far Ariana has come, you want her to succeed. When Lexa Green threatens it all you can't wait for Ariana's response! Loved this book!
Reviewer: G. L.
Summer Review
Title: Perfect Mistake
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Atherton Pryce Boarding School
Review: With all the drama in this book you feel intense emotion for Ariana. Definitely not a filler book!
Reviewer: G. L.
Summer Review
Title: Sweet Deceit
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Atherton-Pryce
Review: The competition was fierce, and the drama was intense. Always kept me on my toes! Loved this book!
Reviewer: G.L.
Summer Review
Title: Beautiful Disaster
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this Book take you? Easton Academy
Review: I loved this book. I loved the suspense! Kate Brian is truly an amazing author!
Reviewer:G.L.
Summer Review
Title: Privilege
Author: Kate Brian
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Easton Academy HS, and the Brenda T. Trumbull Correction Facility for Women
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It was thrilling, full of suspense, and written extremely well. It was good enough to make me buy the rest of the series!
Reviewer: G. L.
Summer Review
Title: Two Girls of Gettysburgh
Author: Lisa Klein
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Gettysburgh, Richmond, during the Civil War
Review: a story of two girls torn apart by the Civil War with one yearning for her love while the other is haunted by love's past.
Reviewer:V. M.
Summer Review
Title: The Bad Queen
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this Book take you? Austria and France during revolution
Review: An interesting, insightful book that makes you realize Marie-Antoinette wasn't all that bad.
Reviewer: V. M.
Summer Review
Title: Devilish
Author: Maureen Johnson
Rating: 1.5 stars
Where did this Book take you? Providence, Rhode Island
Review: A kooky yet slightly macabre book that was hard to understand in some parts but suspenseful and clever in others.
Reviewer: V. M.
Summer Review
Title: Goddess of Yesterday
Author: Caroline Cooney
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? Greece, then Troy during the Trojan War
Review: A very compelling tale of a girl who witnesses important events of Ancient Greece, and even finds love on the way.
Reviewer: V. M.
Author: Caroline Cooney
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you? Greece, then Troy during the Trojan War
Review: A very compelling tale of a girl who witnesses important events of Ancient Greece, and even finds love on the way.
Reviewer: V. M.
Summer Review
Title: Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Rating:5 stars
Where did this book take you? On an exciting journey as Katniss fights for her life.
Review: Great book! Exciting fast paced story as Katniss tries to stay alive.
Reviewer: K.K.
Author: Suzanne Collins
Rating:5 stars
Where did this book take you? On an exciting journey as Katniss fights for her life.
Review: Great book! Exciting fast paced story as Katniss tries to stay alive.
Reviewer: K.K.
Summer Review
Title: Dead is the New Black
Author: Marlene Perez
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you? on the trail of an energy vampire
Review: It's a mystery. A girl and her boyfriend try to find a vampire that is attacking the High School's cheer squad.
Reviewer: K. K.
Author: Marlene Perez
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you? on the trail of an energy vampire
Review: It's a mystery. A girl and her boyfriend try to find a vampire that is attacking the High School's cheer squad.
Reviewer: K. K.
Summer Review
Title: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? to the feeling of not knowing anything of relevance
Review: It was a book about an "It Girl" who lost her memories of high school and how she came back from the memory loss.
Reviewer: K.K.
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? to the feeling of not knowing anything of relevance
Review: It was a book about an "It Girl" who lost her memories of high school and how she came back from the memory loss.
Reviewer: K.K.
Summer Review
Title: What Happened to Cass McBride
Author: Gail Giles
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? a small box in the ground
Review: It was a fast-paced, life-and-death story about what happens to different people after a student commits suicide.
Reviewer: K.K.
Author: Gail Giles
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? a small box in the ground
Review: It was a fast-paced, life-and-death story about what happens to different people after a student commits suicide.
Reviewer: K.K.
Summer Review
Title: Hex Hall
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? To a school of fairy-tale creatures
Review: A good book. Sophie ais always in trouble as she tries to find the person who is draining her cousin's blood.
Reviewer:K. K.
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Rating: 4 stars
Where did this book take you? To a school of fairy-tale creatures
Review: A good book. Sophie ais always in trouble as she tries to find the person who is draining her cousin's blood.
Reviewer:K. K.
summer review
Title: Plague
Author: Michael Grant
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? It took me inside chaos
Review: Great book, must read first three first! Modern version of Lord of the Flies
Reviewer: K. K.
Author: Michael Grant
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? It took me inside chaos
Review: Great book, must read first three first! Modern version of Lord of the Flies
Reviewer: K. K.
Summer Review
Title: The Knight at Dawn
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you? It takes me to feel the aroma of the old dark castle.
Review: I always love about the knights, especially the knights' story. What I can tell is the book told me MORE about knights.
Reviewer: J. P.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you? It takes me to feel the aroma of the old dark castle.
Review: I always love about the knights, especially the knights' story. What I can tell is the book told me MORE about knights.
Reviewer: J. P.
Summer Review
Title: Thanksgiving on Thursday
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? It took me to view about life and festivals of the Pilgrims as they prepared for Thanksgiving.
Review: this book are full of history and incredible story. The book gives me knowledge about the American original Thanksgiving. I've had so much of it.
Reviewer: J. P.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you? It took me to view about life and festivals of the Pilgrims as they prepared for Thanksgiving.
Review: this book are full of history and incredible story. The book gives me knowledge about the American original Thanksgiving. I've had so much of it.
Reviewer: J. P.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Summer Review
Title: Dolphin at Daybreak
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you: It took me to see how beautiful an ocean is.
Review: I learn what a true friend is in this book. And how lovely two dolphins can be. I also was scared when the hammer shark came, so it is exciting to read.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 3 stars
Where did this book take you: It took me to see how beautiful an ocean is.
Review: I learn what a true friend is in this book. And how lovely two dolphins can be. I also was scared when the hammer shark came, so it is exciting to read.
Summer Review
Title: Midnight on the Moon
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: It take me to the future of outer space, where the moon shines.
Review: I learned so much in the adventure book. It gave me an idea how the real astronauts and scientists live. Sometimes I wish to go somewhere, it's this book that lead me to.
Reviewer: P. J.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: It take me to the future of outer space, where the moon shines.
Review: I learned so much in the adventure book. It gave me an idea how the real astronauts and scientists live. Sometimes I wish to go somewhere, it's this book that lead me to.
Reviewer: P. J.
Summer Review
Title: Midnight on the Moon
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: It take me to the future of outer space, where the moon shines.
Review: I learned so much in the adventure book. It gave me an idea how the real astronauts and scientists live. Sometimes I wish to go somewhere, it's this book that lead me to.
Reviewer: P. J.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: It take me to the future of outer space, where the moon shines.
Review: I learned so much in the adventure book. It gave me an idea how the real astronauts and scientists live. Sometimes I wish to go somewhere, it's this book that lead me to.
Reviewer: P. J.
Summer Review
Title: Earthquake in the Early Morning
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you: it take me to California. During a time of Earthquake in April 1906
Review: I like this book. After I finished reading it, I realized that it actually brought me to that time of earthquake.
Reviewer: P. J.
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Rating: 4.5 stars
Where did this book take you: it take me to California. During a time of Earthquake in April 1906
Review: I like this book. After I finished reading it, I realized that it actually brought me to that time of earthquake.
Reviewer: P. J.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J. K. Rowling
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: Hogwarts, all over Britain
Review: The last book in the seven book series of J. K. Rowling's fascinating story about a boy, Harry Potter, finally coming face to face to the dark wizard Lord Voldemort.
Title:The Devil Wears Prada
Author: Lauren Weisberger
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: Into the crazy life of Andy Sachal in New York City
Review: Andy Sachal, wanting a job as an editor, got a job as the assistant of a strict, devil-like lady Miranda Priesly. A good book about hard work and comedy.
Summer Review
Title: Skybreaker
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Rating: 5 stars
Where did this book take you: to the sky
Review: 4 adults go looking for the ghost ship called the Hyperion and find strange creatures and pirates so the end up snagging blueprints for inventions.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Novels in Verse
Do you like novels-in-verse? Have you ever read one? They're usually quick to read, but can carry a powerful emotional punch.
Here's an Australian website called YARR-A (Young Adult Reader Reviews - Australia) which has a fabulous list of these wonderful works of art. So if you like them, explore here...
Here's an Australian website called YARR-A (Young Adult Reader Reviews - Australia) which has a fabulous list of these wonderful works of art. So if you like them, explore here...
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