The Outsiders

Beautiful creatures

Beautiful creatures

Lockdown 3/ Death Sentence

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Out of Sight, Out of Time

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John Flanagan

John Flanagan


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Unbroken

By: Laura Hillenbrand

An epic story on world war 2. With love, loss, war, tragedy, friendship, hatred, revenge, forgiveness, addictions, and survival. Louie Zamperini has to deal with all of it.

Louie Zamperini at first always got last at track. Then his older brother Pete motivates him and he becomes a track star. After training and beating his PR(Personal Record) time and time again he qualifies for the Olympics, but before he knows it the Olympics are cancelled and world war 2 starts.

Once Louie finds out about the Olympics cancelling he is devastated. Right when everything was going well for him, the Olympics are cancelled. He had a great career ahead of him, but instead of waiting for the next summer Olympics to start he decides to join the war. 

Once he joins the army he meets a man named Phil. Phil is a pilot and Louie has been assigned to his plane, along with a couple other people. He is assigned as the bomber. After several practice flights they finally got the plane under control. Before Louie called it "The Flying Coffin" Because it was so unreliable. After practice bombings and shootings the crew is ready for action. 

On there first several missions they are successful but eventually the Japanese find them... If you want to find out what happens I suggest you read the book. Even if you don't want to know what happens I still suggest you read the book.(If swearing offends you then you probably don't want to read it. It swears a lot in the middle section of the book)

This is a very well written book with tons of facts and description. It is really interesting and I hope you all read it. There are a lot of side notes that explain in more depth what is happening. Those are often interesting. So I suggest you read this book!

 

Gregor the overlander

By: Suzanne Collins 

When you think of Suzanne Collins you normally think of The Hunger Games but she does have more than just one book series. This book is almost like an Alice in wonderland mix. It is really interesting.

In the book there is a boy named Gregor who lives with his grandma, his mom, and his two sisters, Boots and Lizzie. His dad had disappeared two years ago so his mom has to work.  His mom wont let him go to camp like all his friends are doing because Gregor has to babysit his sister Boots for the summer while his mom is at work. While babysitting his sister, he sees a strange smoke coming from the laundry room. His sister falls into the smoke and he follows. They fall for a while and when they land they are surrounded by giant cockroches. The cockroaches take then to strange people who then tell gregor that there is a prophecy about him there. They go on this big mission, killing rats, going underground and flying on bats. Read the book to find out what happens. 

 

I normally don't like a lot of fictional books but this one was really interesting. It had a lot of things i like in books. Mystery, action, and mystical things. I hope you will enjoy the book like I did. Like the bats would say "Fly you high, overlander fly you high."

Lois Lowry

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The Selection

 

The Selection

By: Kiera Cass

“. . .true love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

      America Singer was just your typical five. She didn't have a lot of money, she played her violin at restaurants for small amounts of cash, and she really couldn't decide her destiny. The one good thing in her life was her two year boyfriend Aspen Ledger. Nobody knew about their relationship. Technically it was against the law to be together. They knew they would have a happy future together though.  That is until the Selection came into America's life. The Selection is every girl's dream in Illea. It gives them the chance to be Prince Maxon's true love and move up castes. It could change their life forever! America only thought it ruined her chances with Aspen and she thought Prince Maxon was a boring stuck up man. She was not going to sign up! That is until Aspen said she should. America, listening to her love, signed up thinking she would be eliminated on the first day and maybe not even make it in at all. Little did she know a big future with Maxon was ahead. She is going to have to face the hard decision of choosing Prince Maxon or Aspen to love for the rest of her life. 

    The setting of this book is truly magnificent! It takes place in the palace of Illea. Kiera Cass is very good at describing it through her writing. She explains that it is very extravagant, bright, large, lonely, comforting, and full of secrets. She takes us readers to secret rooms/libraries, lavish gardens, and very formal dining halls. All of which take us through the dramatic ride known as the Selection.

    I highly recommend The Selection to any reader that loves romance with a little humor mixed into it. I love how by reading the relationships grow in this book it just makes me want to be there to tell them what to say or do! I really got involved in who I wanted with who because the characters/relationships were so well described! I also enjoyed that Cass gave me some laughs to go along with the drama and romance! I have to say that I am really rooting for Prince Maxon to win America's heart!

Kingdom Keepers: Disney after Dark

Have you ever wanted to go inside Disney parks after-hours? In Ridley Pearson's realistic Kingdom Keepers series, you can! Finn Whitman got a job being a "Disney Host Interactive", or DHI. DHIs are holographic projections that lead guests through the park. Finn is not quite so happy about his job when there are unexpected side effects to the technology. After dark, he ends up in the park as his hologram self! Could it be real? Or is it only a crazy dream? Then he meets Wayne, an Imagineer who tells him that the park is in grave danger. Only Finn and the other DHIs can save it!

This book has a wonderfully descriptive setting. When you read, it almost feels like you're in the park! It has high technology and Disney bits scattered throughout. Adventure abound, if you like books such as The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner, you will love this book. I loved this book, and if you read it, you will too! 

Maze Runner

The Maze Runner

 The Maze Runner

Thomas arrives in the glade on with no memory. He soon has to become part of the gladers, and work. he soon finds out that he is trapped in a maze with no way out. the gladers have sent runners out every day for two years but there is no way out. Thomas dose not know why, but he needs to be a runner and find a way out. 

there are many twists in this book that keeps you reading. 

"The Ending is here" : Theresa

I like that quote because it is loaded with so many questions and is really deep. It is a turning point in the book.

The setting seems really interesting to me. They are trapped in a maze with no way out. There are spots where the huge walls close at night, and the one in the middle is the home of the gladers. There are monsters in the maze at night so if you are out of the glade you are dead. it would be a weird and scary place to live.

I enjoyed this book a lot mainly because there were lots of questions and weird things happening. you wanted to know the answers to all the questions and wanted to see if they live. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes an adventure book. I liked it a lot 

Insurgent

 

Insurgent

by Veronica Roth

“"Insurgent,' he says. 'Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.'”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent 

Insurgent is the perfect way to describe Tris Prior. She is a rebellious Divergent who lives in the dystopian society of future Chicago. Insurgent is the second book in the Divergent Trilogy and is in the action genre. It picks up right where the first book (Divergent) leaves off--at the start of a war. 

The setting of this book is a dystopia. The society that Tris lives in is separated into groups or factions. There are five factions, each faction focuses on a different quality. There is Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Erudite (the intelligent), Candor (the truthful), and Dauntless (the brave). Tris was  born in Abnegation but switched over to Dauntless in the first book. Tris is a very unique person, she is Divergent. Divergence is when a person has an aptitude for more than one faction. Tris has an aptitude  for three factions, Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. With Divergence comes special talents, among these is being immune to simulations, but it also comes with danger. If she doesn't fit into the faction she choose she will find herself exiled by society and living homeless with the factionless. The factionless become important in Insurgent.

Tris's allegiance to her chosen faction is put to the test when Erudite attacks Abnegation with simulation controlled Dauntless in the first book. Now Dauntless is a broken faction. Half of the faction members are traitors (allied with the Erudite) and the other half are refugees. Tris and a few of her friends take refuge in the Candor headquarters. While with the Candor, Jeanine Matthews (leader of the Erudite), threatens to kill an innocent person every day until a Divergent turns themselves in to Erudite Head quarters. Tris may have switched to Dauntless but she is still Abnegation (selfless) to the core. She turns herself in. I don't want to give what happens next away, so lets just say it includes near death experiences, betrayal by allies, and the potential destruction of priceless information that may hold the secrets of the entire society and what is outside the city wall.

I absolutely loved this book. It was fast paced, but didn't go so fast that you were confused. It has unexpected twists that help the book not be cliched. It also has gripping romantic sections in the breaks of and during the intense action sequences. I was left at the edge of my seat at the end of each chapter, and couldn't put the book down. I recommend this book to anyone who likes action and adventure, and those of you can't refuse a good romance. But you have to read the first one (Divergent) before you start on this one!  

Bull Run

By: Paul Fleischman  

This book, Bull Run, is written in the perspective of sixteen different characters. Colonel Oliver Brattle, Shem Suggs, Flora  Wheelworh, Toby Boyce, Virgil Peavey, Dr. William Rye, Judah Jenkins and Carlotta King are the Southern characters. Lily Malloy, Gideon Adams, James Dacy, Nathaniel Epp, Dietrich Herz, General Irvin McDowell, A. B. Tillbury and Edmund Upwing are the Northern characters.

Each person tells their side of the story at the battle of Bull Run. They rotate each chapter so every person has their own chapter to tell what happens, but they each get more than one turn. Toby Boyce said in one chapter, "I was eleven years old and desperate to kill a Yankee before the supply ran out." Since he was only eleven, he wasn't allowed in the army, so to have any chance to kill a Yankee, he joined the army's band and played the fife for them. 

There's people like Toby and then there's people like Gideon Adams, an escaped slave. He tried to join the army but wasn't allowed to because of the color of his skin, black. His mother was white but his father was black so he just looked like a white person, just a little bit darker so they almost let him in but then they saw his hair. Then the army realized he was black so he cut his hair and dressed up as a white man. And he joined the army. He says, "To be a Negro living in the midst of whites, unknown to them, is to be a ghost spying on the living." 

That is just a couple little things showing who some of the characters really are and what their lifestyle is like. This book is great, it is the Civil War time period and this is the very first battle of the Civil War. At first, I didn't really think I would like the book to be honest. But I ended up really enjoying it. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes this kind of stuff. I like it a lot. 

The Amaranth Enchantment

The Amaranth Enchantment 
Julie Berry
Julie Berry's The Amaranth Enchantment wondered me with it's epic plot of good and evil, it's awesome adventure, and charming romance.

Here is a taste of the romance:
“I don't suppose you believe love could last forever."
I'd hurt him. I looked away, chagrined.
"You're mistaken," I said. "I do believe it could. But it would depend upon the lovers."
He folded his arms and watched me, forcing me to return his gaze. Oh, those eyes.
"And what kind of lovers must they be?" he asked.The You-and-Me kind?” 

Lucinda's parents were killed in a suspicious carriage accident, leaving her to the mercy of her step aunt and her kind uncle. Every day is the same in her uncle's low end jewelry shop, until out of the blue, something happens. A handsome debonair man, and a mysterious young woman happen to enter in to the lowly jewelry shop, changing Lucinda's life in to what it once was. The man is the prince of the realm, and the woman is the evil Amaranth Witch. This throws Lucinda's life into chaos as she discovers who is the 'good guy' and who is the 'bad guy' not to mention two men fighting over her.

The Amaranth Witch is misunderstood for what she really is, like the Salem Witch Trials. Something bad happened on the  day this other-worldly creature emigrated from her world through a well, and people blame her for a simple mistake. She is falsely accused, and almost killed, fortunately she didn't end up like the 18 hanged Salem Witches. Everyone fears her for the wrong reason, since she is powerless in this world without her stone that holds her 'soul'.

This book was really interesting, and I couldn't put it down! I recommend this for girls that like romance, adventure, and watching a character emotionally grow while discovering hunting secrets of her past.

Rick Riordan

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Catching Fire

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