Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

maximumride3_110Max is no ordinary 14-year-old girl.  For one, she, along with 5 other kids, were created in a lab to save the world.  So having wings can only help, right?  Well, that’s partially true, except that this means the lab the kids escaped from are constantly tracking them down to capture them again.  It doesn’t help that she’s basically homeless, either.  One day she comes back from scouting for a home to find her flock completely gone.  All except for Fang, that is.  Now it’s her job to get them back.

This book is a page turner.  It has problem after problem.  It’s really exciting and of course has romance!  [The SpaceCowboy]

The Angel Experiment

tmaximumridetheangelexperimThis book is amazing.  It’s about kids who have avian DNA, so they are 98 percent human and 2 percent bird.  They have to run for their lives because Erasers are chasing them.  Erasers have lupine DNA (wolf).  They are bloodthirsty and can kill them.  They are all part of an experiment, and Angel, the 6-year-old, gets taken away with the Erasers.  Max, Fang, and Nudge try to save her.  I LOVE this book, it’s the best.  [Chilicheese]

The Girl Who Could Fly

thegirlwhocouldflyPiper McCloud is a small town girl, but she has always been different. Ever since she was a baby she has had the ability to fly.  She has never gone to school; she has never interacted with kids.  So what happens when she goes on her first social outing and she’s determined to catch the ball?  She flies for it.  Well, that doesn’t go so well with the rest of the town.  The next morning her house is infested with the media and some government folks.  They offer her a place to be with other kids, to control her gift.  She takes the offer, leaving everything she has ever known behind.  But what if the school isn’t really what it seems?  Will her only enemy become her only ally?

This was a really great book. It doesn’t have much romance, but it’s really sweet. You can’t help but admire Piper’s honest personality.  [The SpaceCowboy]

The Secret Hour

In this town, time stops at midnight.  Well, it only stops for a hour, but when the time stops, the city is controlled by evil people!  There are people to protect them though … these people are called the Midnighters!!

Jessica has lived in LA all her life.  Now she is moving to this small town.  When time freezes, Jessica doesn’t.  Is she a Midnighter?  Will she get any friends in this small town?  [SpiritGirl29]

Catching Fire

Katniss and Peeta are back with a lot more problems.  The people of Panem are rebelling, and the Capitol does not like that.  You might ask, who do they blame?  The girl on fire, Katniss.  President Snow is threatening her.  He is threatening her family.  Somebody must put a stop to the rebelling, or Katniss will suffer the consequences.  Well, what if the rebelling is good?  Is it time to stop the country, or join them and their leader?  This book is SO exciting.  This book has it all: a love triangle, action, violence, you name it.  The ending is a jaw-dropper.  I absolutely could not put this book down.  [TheSpaceCowboy:P]

The Hunger Games

This was the best book ever!!  It was so suspenseful and had so many twists!  The main character, Katniss, lives in the future in the ruins of North America.  There are 12 districts: 1-6 are the richest, and the closer you are to the capitol, the richer your district.  Katniss lives in district 12 and his sister is called to the Hunger Games, which is basically a battle to the death on live television.  They pick 1 girl and 1 guy from each of the 12 district.  They do this to enforce the law, basically scaring people into submission.  In the games Katniss meets Peeta, who confesses his secret love for her!  She pretends to love him back to survive.  She befriends Rue, who reminds her of her younger sister.  This was a very “violent” book, there were plenty of details, and YES, I would sooooo recommend it! It’s so addicitve!  I was so obssesed with it, I carried it everywhere!  The Hunger Games is awesome!  [lennlenrox!]

The City of Ember

cityofemberThe City of Ember is heated and lighted by a generator.  When the generator starts acting up, someone’s got to fix it.

After you finish school in Ember you get a job.  Lina really wants to be a messenger, but she gets Pipeworks.  Doon thinks he knows how to fix the generator, but he will need to get a job with Pipeworks to do it.  Doon gets messenger.  Lina and Doon switch jobs.  Will Doon fix the generator?  [Fireflies19]

Airman

airman1Conor Broekhart was born in a hot air balloon.  He resided on Great Saltee, a prosperous kingdom ruled by King Nick.  He is taught the still-vague science of aeronautics by a French scientist, Victor.  But his happiness comes crashing down when a traitor kills the king and his teacher, and he is the only witness.  And Conor gets framed for the entire thing.  Now he’s on Little Saltee, Great Saltee’s prison.  If he hopes to survive, he must throw his former life away.  If he wants to escape, he must fly!  This is by far one of Eoin Colfer’s greatest books – I give it a 4.5 out of 5.  [Fullmetal]

Life As We Knew It

lifeasweknewit_110This is a creepy book. So this girl Miranda hears on the news that an asteroid is going to hit the moon. Everyone thinks this is super cool until it happens.  The asteroid was bigger than anyone thought and it knocked the moon off its course.  Now the moon is really close to Earth.  This is causing terrible things to happen!!  [wild-sports-loving-animal-loving-girl]

Unwind

In a world gone mad, three teenagers must fight for survival.  When every part of them is supposed to be harvested and used for other people, what is there to do?  Risa, Connor, and Lev must fight or be unwound.  Connor, the mysterious troubled delinquent, is being unwound because he is just too much to handle.  Risa is being unwound because the orphanage has to cut costs.  Lev is being unwound because he is a tithe, and is happy to be unwound … but not everything is as it seems.  [KittyKAT!]

Star Wars Tales

This book is awesome with lots of action.  It’s about different Star Wars characters and what they run into.  My favorite part is when they make the laser for the Death Star.  It’s a book worth reading if you want some excitement.  [Tx]

A Flying Birthday Cake

At midnight, Marvin couldn’t sleep because yesterday was Nick’s birthday and he ate too much cake and drank too much punch.  Then he went to his backyard.  Suddenly, the earth started to shake.  He heard a noise.  Something was in the sky that was bright green and it looked like Nick’s birthday cake.  He wasn’t sure.  Was it a flying cake or something else?  The next morning, a new student came to Marvin’s  school.  His name was Joe and he was from Chicago.  Find out what happened with Joe and Marvin.  [Nick]

School’s Out – Forever

maximumride2_110Max and her flock are not normal.  They are human-avian lab experiments that escaped.  Now they are on the run from Jeb, Arie, the Government, the World – you get the picture.  After an attack from the labs’ new version of erasers (weird wolves with wings), Fang gets hurt, and after trying to tend to his wounds on the beach a jogger finds them and directly dials 9-1-1.  Gulp, that’s not good when you’re trying to run away from the world.  Soon their little secret is out and they have to try to live with this human named Anne.  But things start to get strange – strange with the new school Anne puts them in, strange with Max’s voice in her head, and even strange with Anne!  What happens?  If you like action, adventure, and suspense you have to get this book. :)   (I think it’s even better than the Twilight series.)  [Sue]

Daniel X, Alien Hunter

danielx_110A boy with blond hair who can do anything he  wants with his imagination creates family and friends using his head.  He is hunting alien criminals like a bounty hunter.  He lives in Tokyo.  [Adam]

How I Learned to Fly

howilearnedtofly_110This book is about a boy named Jack who knows how to fly and tries to show his friends, but every time it always rains.  One day he woke up, looked out his window, and saw the sun shining in his eyes.  He said, “Okay, today is the day to show my friends I can fly!”  He called his friends Wilson and Maie and told them to meet him at the park.  When he got there, he challenged his friend Wilson to a race, and Jack guaranteed him that he was going to win this time.  [John]

The Supernaturalist

supernaturalist_110Cosmo Hill is an orphan at Clarissa Frayne, an orphange where boys are used as tools to test dangerous products. Most orphans don’t make it to adulthood, and Cosmo doesn’t expect to. But after an unbelievable stroke of luck, he finds he and his friend Ziplock running from Marshal Redwood, a guard at Clarissa Frayne.

After falling from a building and Ziplock’s death, a blue creature climbs onto Cosmo’s chest and begins sucking the life out of him. He thinks he has no chance until he’s saved by a group of kids called the Supernaturalists. When they find out he can see the creatures, called Parasites, they ask him to join the group.

This was a great book with a lot of action and adventure. Definitely one of Eoin Colfer’s best.  [John]

George’s Secret Key to the Universe

georgessecretkey_110George wants some adventures in his life. That is how a kid thinks when his parents are, well …  freaks about global warming. They love the Earth so much they march around town and call themselves eco-warriors. Anyways, George is thinking he’ll never be able to have some real fun when his pig runs away. Freddy, the pig, runs right through a fence and into … the Next Door. His parents have forbidden him, but you know he goes in anyway. The place is a jungle, but that jungle is only the first part of his adventure. As George looks for his pig he comes to the house that has been empty for years, but it isn’t empty anymore. If you like pigs, the universe, and the name George, as well as action, read this book.

Seriously, read the book.  =)  [Japjyot]

New Book Haiku

escapethemask_110ocean cage — don’t drown

gather shards, obey jailers

seize chance to escape

Escape the Mask
by David Ward

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Epic

epic_110New Earth is a place governed by a game called Epic.  The only problem is to decide on an agreement, you have to fight Central Allocations players, who are pretty much invincible.  But Central Allocations starts to get uneasy when players from a small town called Hope slay a dragon, a feat only pulled off once before.  And now these Hope players realize that this government isn’t fair for real people other than Central Allocations.  So they’re going to try to make some changes that will not only affect the game, but the world!

- John

True Talents

truetalents_110When Trash wakes up, it all comes back to him.  The robbery, the man he killed, the experiments.  He has to get out!  When he does break out, he finds he’s in Philadelphia.  After he gets out, he immediately tries to contact Martin.  But Martin’s dad answers, and immediately hangs up.  So he goes back to his parents’ house, and finds them gone.  But then he finds a newspaper clipping, and it says Trash is dead.  At this point, Trash is freaking out.  The people who experimented on him faked his death.  What else are they capable of?

- John