Summary Amazon.com “Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang’s intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stuck for something to read? Exhausted the books suggestions at the library? Want to take a walk on the wild side? Then check out Patrick Ness’s “top 10 ‘unsuitable’ books for teenagers” (here) where he give you suggestions for all those books that make reading wild and dangerous. hmmmm, has he read […]
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 […]
Just wanted to update you on Nerds Heart YA. There was a little snafu with my judging pairing. I am now actually only paired with Parenthetical. Great blog!! However, please still jump over and check out The Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic. Great blogs to get you thinking, and reading!
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 […]
I am a judge! Woo-hooo.This is my first year being a judge for the Nerd Heart YA 2011 (which has been around for two years) and I have been nominated to judge for the first and second round. (how exciting!) My judging partner for the first round is… Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic My […]
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 […]
Starring Will Smith – Robert Nevill Alice Braga – Anna Charlie Tahan – Ethan Dash Mihok – Alpha Male Summary Robert Nevill is the only survivor of a virus which wiped out all of man kind. There are only a handful of people who were immune to the virus but […]
I just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 at school and we just finished watching the movie today and the last scene of the movie got me thinking. What happened was the “Book People” are walking around reciting the books which they had committed to memorize. If you have read the book […]
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What is this TV show about? This movie is about a girl named Buffy Summers who from her first day at her new school was having problems. Her mother and her moved to this new town to get away from the last school which she burned down. On her first […]
Summary Teenager Clary witnesses a murder. A murder of a person covered in tattoos and she cannot report the murder because no one else can see the person and the body vanished. She learned that the teens were called Shadowhunters (teens who kill demons and monsters.) But these Shadowhunters will […]
Review I am not doing a summary of this book because to do a summary of this book would be too hard for me. I would give the whole book away. Just to look at it in a nutshell it is about a fireman – in the future – when […]
Summary It is a normal Monday morning and Emily Snow is going to work to earn what money she can after her parents “died.” As she was passing an alley, she witnessed a battle between creatures which were not taller than her knee. This is because Emily can see into […]
As the holiday season gets into full swing it seems that everyone is compiling their list of Best Books of 2010 or Gift Book lists. It is always interesting and fun to see what others are reading and recommending. So without further ado here is this years Best Teen Books […]
This is what you all have been waiting for. The Cat Pictures of Lenore’s 2 kittens she will be getting and Emmy, the older cat. Well here they are and I hope they are as cute as you all hoped they would be. Read the full interview below. Enjoy! If […]
Summary Wow! Dan Brown has created yet another enthralling novel. This is the second one in the series with Robert Langdon (Angel’s and Demons being the first.) In this thrilling book Robert Langdon is called in to decipher a code written on a dead mans body(!). The weird thing is […]
