Franchise killer. A good read for writing students, as this was the rough draft that Lee submitted to the publisher, who directed her to write the back story for this book, which ultimately became "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Great dialogue, witty; great premise, climax and resolution was somewhat predictable.
Engrossing tale of a person that is either hiding or trapped in a virtual reality game, where Nixy is sent to retrieve him. They run into action-adventure obstacles that may give reader's nightmares and may kill them.
2/3 of this book is about suicide. In the epilogue Forman discusses the need for someone suffering from depression to seek help, but if someone is suffering from depression, they might not finish the book before seeking to end their own life.
An amazing read. As the last moments tick down on the game clock, you'll learn how each player went from being a kid who loved to shoot hoops to a powerful force in one of the most important games of the year. Which team will leave the Superdome victorious? The conclusion is hurried; otherwise, I would have given the book five stars.
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father's fist), $3.84, and a secret. He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can't make him forget what he left behindhis mother, who is still trapped with his dad, and his ex-girlfriend, who is keeping his secret. At least so far. Worst of all, Jace realizes that if he really wants to move forward, he may first have to do what scares him most: He may have to go back. First-time novelist Swati Avasthi has created a riveting and remarkably nuanced portrait of what happens after. After you've said enough, after you've run, after you've made the splithow do you begin to live again?
The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
A junior girl in a Boston area high school dramatically bemoans the daily events in her life, and she believes her life is tough until her birth mother re-enters her life, which sets in motion several plot twists, such as dating, love, and dying.
Interesting psychological analysis of why people behave the way they do.
Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love. The ending is more trite than heart-wrenching.
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college football dreams, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search. The ending is too abrupt, but the intriguing puzzle will have readers racing through the pages, and it is Cody himself whom readers will remember after the puzzle is solved.
Much exposition. Not as much action. Cliffhanger of ending begs you to read the third and final book: Mockingjay.
Great job of depicting how the institution of schools often unknowinly creates cliques, which lead to bullying. Climax and resolution seemed to be tidied up to quick and neat.
Book is better than the movie. Duh, aren't they always.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.
Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger on a voyage from England to America in 1832, must take serious matters into her own hands when she learns that the captain is murderous.
Written in poetic verse, from multiple point of views, this book captures the realistic hurdles teens often must overcome that usually get overlooked in other novels.
Good storyline. Female protagonist. Abrupt conclusion.
Funny up until the end. I didn't like the ending, but I don't like the endings of many books
Every important lesson a golfer needs to learn is given in this fictional account.
Good plot twists throughout will keep YA readers guessing as to what will happen next.
