Review This was the most amazing and one of the saddest books which I have ever read. This was probably one of the most powerful too. It is up there with Night by Elie Wiesel. In the story a 6 year old girl, Rachel, was diagnosed with leprosy. She is immediately quarantined and removed […]
“[Readers] will be sucked in and taken on a roller-coaster ride…teens who are enjoying Anthony Horowitz’s and Ally Carter’s books will get a kick out of Jade and Rich as well.” – School Library Journal for Death Run Summary In the latest installment of the series involving the British Chance […]
Summary “Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from. […]
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Summary “Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and […]
I started reading this book a few years back – when it first came out – and I never got past the second chapter. This is because when I read that they were going to kill each other I really did not want to read this book. But a few […]
This was the other book Parenthetical and I read for the Nerds Heart YA. Summary “Working through the many meanings of “tall story,” first-time author Gourlay slam-dunks this tale of a towering boy from the Philippines and the pint-size, basketball-crazy half sister with whom he has recently been reunited. Told […]
“Three Are Dead. I Am Number Four.” I wanted to see the movie I Am Number Four but didn’t make it to the movies in time. I need to get the DVD and Netflix has a long wait for it. So, I decided that if I couldn’t watch it just yet, […]
Summary *From Amazon.com Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. But danger lurks around the corner, forcing her to return to India where she embarks on a second quest–this time with Ren’s dark, bad-boy brother Kishan, who […]
From Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider Website – Click Here STORMBREAKER This was the book that introduced Alex Rider, the world’s most successful 14-year-old spy. Here he’s fighting Herod Sayle who has invented the amazing Stormbreaker computer. But there’s something nasty hidden in the software… POINT BLANC The second Alex adventure […]
Somehow Tenderness Survives ~ Stories of Southern Africa Selected by Hazel Rochman These are stories of Southern Africa. Not about the vast continent with the ranging sky, mesmerizing wildlife, beauty that defies the imagination. These are stories of a sad history, of […]
“For fans of The Hunger Games.” – Publishers Weekly Imagine a world where New York City does not exist. Where Freaks roam around town. Where people live underground and have not seen the sunlight for many generations. That is what the world is like in Enclave. The cause of the […]
From The Vault Summary Moose Flanagan has just moved to one of the most secure places in the world. Alcatraz. His dad had just got a job there as an electrician. His mother is hoping to send her autistic daughter Natalie to a special school there. But when Natalie is […]
Who Was Ben Franklin? By Dennis Brindell Fradin Illustrated by John O’Brien Late winter and spring is the time in school when many students read biographies of famous people. Starting in the lower grades youngsters scramble trying to find someone who is interesting enough to read about and write an […]
Summary Danny knew not to open that door. He knew that this house was deserted, but something inside was telling him what was beyond that door might be a vault and a vault with lots of money. Danny is a common thief. But one day he decides to rob the […]
“How the Americans outspied the British and won The Revolutionary War.” In school we are studying The American Revolution and our teacher assigned us a project to research an aspect of the Revolutionary War (tactics, a person, weapons, etc.) and write a 4 page paper on it. I was originally […]
Summary Nora Grey just cannot find the right boy for her. But what does she care. Right now she wants to graduate High School with stellar grades so she can get into a really good College. But when she is put next to a boy named Patch, she realizes that […]
Summary Kelsey did not think that she would be working at a circus with Tiger’s. That was the last thing that she expected. But when the Tiger is bought and she is offered to go with him to India, she does not pass up the opportunity. Ren, the Tiger, and […]
20 pages. That was all that I read. This was because of what was in the book. You can read the review here. But since I did not read the book I do not know much about the story but I am going to tell you this from what I […]
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davies MLCWO Rating: 4/5 Opinion: A fast paced witty book about teens and their impressive hacking ability. Summary “Danny is a freelance IT specialistthat is, a hacker. He and his pal Omar are both skilled at parkour, or freerunning, a discipline designed to enable practitioners to […]
Summary In this 114 year old novel, Bram Stoker tells the horrorfying story of a century old vampire terrorizing Mina Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan, and many others. This story is about the fight of the fittest. The fight between the Immortal and the Mortal. Between the Dead and the un-Dead. With Dracula loose in town there […]
