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“A Walk To Remember” by Nicholas Sparks
In North Carolina Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan live in two different worlds. Landon, the popualar rebal in which everybody loves to hate, and Jamie, the priest daughter who cares for everything and everybody. But, whent there two worlds collide and Landon finally needs someone to help him in his life, JAmie is the only one he feels he can confided in.
Any person who loves a good romance novel can read this extremely touching story. If you want to roll up in a corner and have their self a good cry as you see what true love is. Five stars… all the way.

“Maximum Ride” by James Patterson
Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, The Gasman, and Angel. Six ordinary kids with not so ordinary traits. The six grew up as experiments in labs called “Schools” where they were transformed to the erasers- wicked wolf like creatures- and the scientists needs. Today they travel around with 98% human DNA and 2% bird DNA~ completing them with powers and wings. But when the erasers capture Angel, the youngest member of the flock, the rest of the kids must help to save her- while finding there past along the way.

Adventure, adventure, and more adventure. This action packed book is filled with twists, turns, loops, and flips any teen, child, or parent can enjoy. Once again… five stars hands down.

“Twilight” By: Stephenie Meyer

When Belle Swan moved to the murky town of Forks, Washington and meets the mysterious Edward Cullen, her life takes an exhilarating and petrifying turn. His porcelain skin, golden eyes, alluring voice, unforgetable smell, and astounding supernatural gifts, Edward is captivating and impenetrable. Once Bella is able to uncover the secret that Edward is a vampire, everything changes. The closer she gets to him, the more she puts herself and everyone she loves in danger. This is a story of love, drama, vampires (the good and bad), and a girl who always has and always will run into trouble.

By far, “Twilight” is the best book I’ve ever read. I could not stop reading. It had me riveting right until the very last page. Whenever I read the book, my heart was numb from the remarkable characters and decriptions. Even if this book is about 500 pages long, it won’t seem like that (believe me!). From the very first word to the very last letter, I was compelled into “Twilight.”

Be sure to read “New Moon” (2nd book), “Eclipse” (3rd book coming out on August 7th), and “Breaking Dawn” (4th book coming out in the fall of 2008).

Happy reading,

Kaitlyn S.

“In Search of Eden” By: Linda Nichols

Fifteen-year-old Dorrie had her newborn baby stripped from her arms before she ever even found out whether the child was a boy or a girl. Years later she can’t seem to stay in one place or form any attachments. When her controlling mother dies and leaves a single clue as to where Dorrie’s babymight be, she embarks on a quest that will change her life.

Police Officer Joseph Williams is on his own quest to answer a few questions. When a woman with no past settles in his town, he is immediately suspicious of her and her interest in his family. It isn’t until he finds a photograph of his niece in her possession that many things become clear.

Beautifully written and agonizing, this tale of broken bodies, lives, and families paints a portrait of reunion and new beginnings. This story explores so many aspects of family and the things that bring us together…and tear us apart. Linda Nichols wrote a moving tale that will be long remembered.

A must read story,

Kaitlyn S.

“Peeps” By: Scott Westerfeld

After an encounter with a mystifying woman one night, Cal Thompson’s life is changed for good. He’s was infected with a devious parasite. Now don’t get scared just yet! There are good and bad parasites. You’ll learn plenty about them throughout the book. Anyways, he’s only a carrier (still sane) without the worst symptoms. Although, Cal has infected all of his previous girlfriends. They all have turned into what Cal calls peeps (parasite positives). We all call them vampires. It’s Cal’s job to find them before there are even more of their kind.

Note: Just to let you know, there is no magic, flying, turning into bats or rats, or any of that kind of stuff that you’d think there is. The only thing I can say is this: all it is, is a disease.

I’ve learned many things, about many things. Beware of cooked meat that’s still red, wash your hands thoroughly, and please do not swim in tropical rivers. Believe me, you’ll make sure of all of these things and so much more. “Peeps” is very imformative though. I’m really glad I read it, and I know you will be too!

All in all a great, fast-paced story,

Kaitlyn S.

Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld
This series is about a girl named Jessica and her new friends in Bixby, Oklahoma. It all starts when Jessicas dad looses her job and so her family moves to Bixby. Normal, right. Nope. strange things happen in Bixby but it is all a secret, except to the people it happens to.
At midnight, everynight, there is a secret hour in which only Jessica and her friends can rome abou. Oh yeah, these things called darklings can, but they usually don’t cause problems, until jessica comes.
This book is a must read and i would recommened it to anyone who likes mystery, fantasy, or adventure.

Tess

“In Her Shoes” by Jennifer Weiner

Rose is a thirty-year-old attorney with a secret passion for romance novels.she’s going to start exercising next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses and say she’s beautiful.

Maggie is twenty-eight and drop-dead goregous.Although her stardom hasn’t progressed past her hips apperance in a music video,she dreams of fame and fortune.

These two sisters claim to have nothing in common but DNA, a childhood tradgety, and a shard shoe size, but when they’re forced into cohabination, they just mey learn that they’re more alike than they ever imagined.

I havn’t finished this book yet but I can’t turn the pages faster. Until this book, Inever used to read at home but this book has given me time to have that chance.

Now a movie!

Cut   Patricia McCormick

When she arrives at Sea Pines, Callie is self-destructive, unresponsive, and withdrawn. Her parents and doctor have placed her in the “residential treatment facility” after discovering that she cuts herself. Callie refuses to talk to anyone, including her psychiatrist. But slowly, through compelling first-person narrative, the event that traumatized her comes to light. Callie reveals that her brother Ben nearly died from liver failure while in her care. Her mother was unavailable and her father was at a bar. Although their absence is evidence of a deep family dysfunction, Callie blames herself for the crisis. When the threat of expulsion from Sea Pines precipitates a cutting incident that frightens her, Callie finally begins her healing process. She opens up to the girls around her and surrenders to her therapist the compass she’s been using to cut herself.

This was a great book and by far this is my FAVORITE author. It hardly talks about the blood and I can’t stand blood but this is one of the best books I’ve read this year.

3 Thumbs Up!

I Am The Messenger Marcus Zusak

Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That’s when the first Ace arrives. That’s when Ed becomes the messenger. . . .

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary), until only one question remains: Who’s behind Ed’s mission?

I read this a while ago and I was mad when I finished it because I loved this book and I wished it was longer. If you get a chance to read this book you will probably love it just like I did.

Also one of the best books I’ve read this year

“City Of Ember” by Jeanne DuPrau

When the builders of Ember planned the underground city, they provided a storehouse of goods for the residents’ survival and a power plant to supply light to the town. Now, generations later, the supplies are dangerously low, and the lights are beginning to flicker. Ember is a socialist society, where even jobs are randomly assigned to residents. Nobody knows what lies without the walls, and everyone is too frightened to find out. Although directions on how to exit the city were entrusted to the first mayor of Ember, they were misplaced until Lina, an orphan and descendant of that mayor, finds a torn and mangled paper. Lina enlists fellow twelve-year-old Doon to aid in putting together the pieces. They are surprised to discover the missing instructions. After the teens are falsely accused of illegal activities and hunted by the police, they decide to elude capture by following the directions and leaving Ember. It will not take readers long to discover that Ember is a city-size bomb shelter and that a whole other world exists outside its walls. While Ember is colorless and dark, the book itself is rich with description.

That pretty much explains it all. Great book though.
“People of Sparks” (2nd Sequal)
“Prophet of Yonwood”(3rd Sequal)

“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” Ann Brashires

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She’d love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants — and the most memorable summer of their lives — begins.

If you’ve seen the movie, read the book because the book leaves out so many things. I loved it and I’m reading the second one now!

Coraline  Neil Gaiman

Coraline’s often wondered what’s behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her “other” parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help, Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures.

If you like creepy novels such as “Goosebumps” or “Michigan Chillers” this book is so much better. It will make your skin tingle and keep your eyes open at night. I give this book a HUGE thumbs up!

“Anne Frank:The Diary of a Young Girl”

This startling new edition of Dutch Jewish teenager Anne Frank’s classic diary-written in an Amsterdam warehouse, where for two years she hid from the Nazis with her family and friends-contains approximately 30% more material than the original 1947 edition. It completely revises our understanding of one of the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. The Anne we meet here is much more sarcastic, rebellious and vulnerable than the sensitive diarist beloved by millions. She rages at her mother, Edith, smolders with jealous resentment toward her sister, Margot, and unleashes acid comments at her roommates. Expanded entries provide a fuller picture of the tensions and quarrels among the eight people in hiding. Anne, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, three months before her 16th birthday, candidly discusses her awakening sexuality in entries that were omitted from the 1947 edition by her father, Otto, the only one of the eight to survive the death camps. He died in 1980. This crisp, stunning translation provides an unvarnished picture of life in the “secret annex.” In the end, Anne’s teen angst pales beside her profound insights, her self-discovery and her unbroken faith in good triumphing over evil.

This book has made me think about how good I have it and people who have to suffer these things and she was 15 when she died just because of her religion and her race. People who are racist absolutly discust me and the same thing happened with slaves but anyways she was just a little girl and she talks like you or me and boys can read this too this is not just a girly book. I am loving it and I hope you will too!

Maximum Ride 3: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson

Maximum Ride (see previous entries) continues in this final volume in this spell binding trilogy.

Although I haven’t completely finished this book I will still give it the five stars it deserves for what I have read. This story has even more adventure, battles worthy of multiplex movie screens, and enough humor to continue through and through. Unlike the other M.R. books this even has a little romance thrown in. Read it! I dare you!!

~Haley

“How to Be Popular~ A Novel” by Meg Cabot

Steph Laudry wants to be popular. End of story. And she’s decided she’ll do anything to get there. So when she stumbles upon a book entitled- what else?- “How to Be Popular” in her soon-to-be-grandma’s attic while cleaning out her best friends soon-to-be room(who she spys on almost every night from the comfort of her own bathroom) she takes things into her own hands.

I love this book! I was so depressed when it ended. This is definatley a summer read. This could completely happen in real life, without a doubt. Read, read, read! Five stars!

Summer of Fear- By Lois Duncan

Everyone loves Julia except Rachel.
Julia is Rachel’s perfect cousin. Julia’s parents and a girl who worked for them die in a tragic accident so Julia go’s to live with Rachel and her family. Julia steals Rachel’s boyfriend, her best friend, and her room. About a week after Julia lives in the Bryant household she screams something like ” Get away ugly varmen” to Rachel’s dog Trikle after he bit her. (Julia). Trickle had never even growled before Julia came. Strange, a few days later Trickle becomes sick. One night while stumbling through the dark Rachel finds odd, slightly evil looking things in Julia’s luggage. After a few more myterious events with Julia Rachel tries to convince her parents Julia isn’t exactly human, but they say she is just jealous. Rachel isn’t jealous, she’s afraid.

“Counting On Grace” by Elizabeth Winthrop

1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a “doffers” on their mothers’ looms in the mill. Grace’s mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she’s left handed and doffing is a right-handed job. Grace’s every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons from their teacher. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in Pownal. A few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board. Grace’s brief acquaintance with Hine and the photos he takes of her are a gift that changes her sense of herself, her future, and her family’s future.

I just started it and already LOVED it! I read The first page, that’s all I needed to get into it!
♥Taylor C♥

“Megen Meade’s Guide to the McGowen Boys”
By: Kate Brian

It is about a girl named Megan(duh!) I’m not sure if she is sixteen or seventeen. Anyway, her parents are both in the army, so of course, she is an “Army Brat”. Megan has been moved around all her life, and this time her parents are being stationed to Korea. Megan decides to stand up, and refuse to move to Korea. She has two choices, move to Korea with her parents for two years, or bunk with her fathers old college roomate and his family…….and their seven sons.

Read and find out what happens!
(The title gives it away! Oh well)

Delanie

“A Rose For Melinda”- Lurlene McDaniel

Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia.

Melinda has been a dancer all her life and now she is sick. Follow her through happy and sad times.

If your up for a good tear jerker read this book!

I have read it “a million” times.
Hope you like it!

Alexis

“Hit and Run”- Lurlene McDaniel

If no one meant for it to happen, should someone be guilty?
As the lives of people who never wanted to hurt others intersect, harsh realities of choices that cannot be changed are explored.

Here’s an excerpt from the book:

Analise: She knows the roads and feels secure riding her bike.

Laurie: When asked out by Quin, Laurie is happy. Then his car hits something. Later, Laurie realizes there is a way to get Quin to date her.

Quin: Because Quin is athletically gifted, his father expects him to get a scholarship. Nothing is to get in his way of college, athletics, money, and success. When he realizes what has happened, he decides he must not let it ruin his future.

Jeremy: It’s been the perfect relationship with Analise. Little does Jeremy realize that the beautiful wood he carves will be used for something for Analise.

This book is really sad. BUT super amazingly good!

~Alexis

‘Vampire Academy’ by Richelle Mead

I do not own what I type for the review….the book is very hard to describe….

Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi Princess: a mortal vampire with an un-breakable bond to the earth’s magic. She must be protected at all times from the Strigoi-the ones who never die.

The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa best friend, maskes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who have their mind sets on making her one of them.

after two years of ilicit freedom, Rose and Lissa are dragged back to St. Vladimir’s Academy , hidden in the deep forest of Montana. Rose will continue her dhampir education. Lissa will go back to being queen of the elite Moroi social scene. And both girls will resume breaking Academy hearts……

It sounds cheesy and dumb, but I found myself hooked within the fisrt several chapters. I read half the book in one day!

Delanie O.

Delanie,

I finally have decided to try reading “Vampire Academy.” I just have to get the book first. We’ll see how it goes…

Kaitlyn S.

Hey, how is The Host I’m debating if I want to buy it or not.

Tess

Tess,

I haven’t finished “The Host” yet. I’ve…paused…for a while. I’m on the 6th chapter, and so far it’s strange. I’m gonna finish sometime though. I will…

Kaitlyn S.