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If you dream of a summer full of adventures, you will love this book.  Jane wants nothing more than an exciting adventure.  She gets them once after another in this book, from a hot-air balloon ride, to a faith healing preacher, three possible sightings of her father, a rescue at sea, to name just a few.  You will love the characters in this book!

Reviewed  by Debbie Gibson, librarian

Comments Off on My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath

This is a well written fictional account of how depression effects not only the person with the illness, but her family and friends.  Written from the sister’s viewpoint, the book takes you through the beginnings of Dora’s depression and her ultimate hospitalization.  A moving novel about a family in crisis.

Reviewed by Debbie Gibson, librarian

Comments Off on Black Box by Julie Schumacher

If you like video action games you will love this book.  It takes place in the future where the government, every year for entertainment purposes, takes 12 of its young citizens from different districts and pits them against each other ‘to the death’.  Katniss, the main character, has lived a life of survival, hunting beyond the fence, to feed her family.  She has been picked to do battle against  the 12 others.  Will she win?  Will she return to her family?  And how does her other combatants figure into all of this?

Reviewed by Debbie Gibson, librarian

Comments Off on The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This was my favorite book read over the holidays.  I think the main character, Antsy, is my favorite main character of all time.  Antsy finds out that a friend of his only has 6 months to live so Antsy comes up with the idea of ‘giving’ him a month of his own life.  It just gets stranger after that.  Antsy dates his friends older sister, becomes famous, pours water on the wrong person and on and on.  Read it, you’ll love it!

Reviewed by Debbie Gibson, librarian

Comments Off on Antsy does Time by Neal Shusterman

If you like sports books, you will love this one about a middle school basketball player who makes the high school team and her sister Callie, the best Cheer leader in the world.  Both want to excel, do they need more than their own talents?  You’ll see!

Reviewed by Debbie Gibson, librarian

Comments Off on Boost by Kathy Mackel

The main characters are Bella, Edward, Charlie and Alice. The setting is in Forks, Washington and Arizona. In Forks, it is raining and cold. The confliect is that vampires want to kill Bella. Edward moves, Bella spends a lot of time with Jacob. Bella’s life is very boring without Edward. Things get interesting when Edward moves back.

Reviewed by Vyvyana

Comments Off on New Moon by Stepanie Meyer

Zinny Taylor is an adventurer! Zinny Taylor is but one of six children. She has a crush on Jake and it seems that he likes her too, but she is convinced that he is using her to get to her elder sister, May, like all the other boys. She deals with this and the recent death of her aunt and the old death of her cousin as she clears the trail she feels she must uncover.

Reviewed by Dashaun

Comments Off on Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

This is an action filled book. The characters are Quint, Raff and Maris. The setting is in a floating city. Quint enrolls in the knight’s academy and the gate keepers rebel against the Academics.

Reviewed by Seth

Comments Off on The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart

Eliza Doolittle is a poor flower girl in early 20th century London. Henry Higgins, alternatively, is a rich phonetics professor. When Prof. Higgins meets Miss Doolittle, he decides he would make her his next project and turn her into a proper lady (with the help of his friend, Pickering, of course). Prof. Higgins falls in love with his project but does she love him or is there another man in her life?

Reviewed by Dashaun

Comments Off on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The book is about a boy named Crispin who is framed and considered a wolf’s head. Crispin runs into a man named Bear and Bear becomes his new master. They go through a lot of adventures. It really isn’t my type of book, but if you like adventure, you would like it.

Reviewed by Sierra

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