May 20, 2007
Free Online Books
This website: http://www.wowio.com/index.asp provides free online books.
Posted by LS at 1:13 PM
December 25, 2006
Looking for a Good Book? Try one of our Teen Picks!
What's your favorite book? We now have a ballot box in the Teen Room for you to submit your favorite books. Teen Picks books will be starred and put in a special display. Not planning on coming to the Teen Room any time soon? E-mail me with your choices!
Posted by at 2:31 PM
August 17, 2006
"A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life" by Dana Reinhardt
Simone has never cared that she looks like an outsider in her blonde blue-eyed adopted family, or that her birthmother Rivka gave her away when she was only 16. She's got a pretty good life. She's starting her junior year of High School, has a great group of friends, and is crushing on the cute boy with glasses from the coffee shop who spends all his time with another girl. But Simone's life is turned upside-down when Rivka comes back on the scene and suddenly wants to be a part of Simone's life. What does Rivka want all these years later? And why should Simone care?
Posted by at 10:25 AM
"Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson is back at Camp Half-Blood, a special camp for the modern-day children of the Greek Gods. But upon his return he finds the camp is overrun by monsters. If that weren't bad enough, his best friend Grover has been kidnapped by a ravenous Cyclops and Percy is the only one who can save him. Percy and his best friend Annabel soon embark on a quest to find Grover and to try to stop the evil force out to destroy their beloved camp. Chariot races, sword fights, killer birds, and other crazy adventures ensue. I love this book! If you haven't read The Lightning Thief, you should really read that one first, just so you get the backstory, but this book is awesome.
Posted by at 10:14 AM
July 12, 2006
Book Recommendations From YOU TEENS!
Looking for a good book to read? Here are some books that members of our Teen Summer Reading Club have liked:
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Mikey and Me by Dan Gutman
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
Ink Heart by Cornelia Funke
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
TTFN by Lauren Myracle
The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman
Posted by at 11:11 AM
April 4, 2006
Down the Rabbit Hole: an Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams
Welcome to Echo Falls.
Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid Levin-Hill, super sleuth,
never knows what will happen next.
Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. Getting them back means getting involved in a murder investigation rivaling those solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes, and Ingrid has enough on her plate with club soccer, school, and the plum role of Alice in the Echo Falls production of Alice in Wonderland. But much as in Alice's adventures down the rabbit hole, things in Ingrid's small town keep getting curiouser and curiouser. Her favorite director has a serious accident onstage (but is it an accident?), and the police chief is on Ingrid's tail, grilling her about everything from bike-helmet law to the color of her cleats. Echo Falls has turned into a nightmare, and Ingrid is determined to wake up. Edgar Award–nominated novelist Peter Abrahams builds suspense as a smart young girl finds that her small town isn't nearly as safe as it seems.
Posted by at 5:39 PM
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by Dave Lubar
What would you put in your how-to-survive-high-school manual?
Starting high school is never easy. Seniors take your lunch money. Girls you’ve known forever are suddenly beautiful and unattainable.The guys you grew up with are drifting away.And you can never get enough sleep. Could there be a worse time for Scott’s mother to announce she’s pregnant? Scott decides high school would be a lot less overwhelming if it came with a survival manual, so he begins to write down tips for his new sibling. Scott’s chronicle of his first year of bullies, romance, honors classes, and brotherhood is both laugh-out-loud funny and touchingly wise.
Posted by at 5:36 PM
Invisible by Pete Hautman
You could say that my railroad, the Madham Line, is almost the most important thing in my life. Next to Andy Morrow, my best friend....I guess you could say that I'm not only disturbed, I'm obsessed.
Doug is the type of guy who is invisible in his high school. Not like his friend Andy. Andy is very popular. He's on the football team, and has landed the lead in the school play. Andy doesn't talk to Doug much in school, choosing to sit with his popular friends at lunch. But late at night the two are always sitting by their bedrooms windows talking, since their houses are right next to each other. In the past, Doug and Andy have had some bad luck with lighting fires, but not anymore. Doug's behavior in school is starting to frighten the other students, but he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. Surely you don't think it was Doug who called in that bomb threat. Soon we learn that there is a lot more to Doug and Andy's friendship than Doug is letting on.
Posted by at 5:28 PM
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
How far would you go to save your sister's life?
Would you go so far as to give up your own?
This is actually an adult book, but it was SO good I am recommending it to you older teens. Anna was genetically engineered to be a perfect match for her cancer-ridden older sister Kate. Since birth, the 13-year-old has been in and out of the hospital even though she isn't sick, so that she can donate platelets, blood, bone marrow etc to lengthen Kate's life. Now Anna's parents have decided that she will donate a kidney to Kate in a desperate last attempt to save her life. But Anna has had enough, deciding to hire a lawyer to sue her parents for the right to make her own medical decisions. The narration of the story alternates between Anna, her lawyer, her parents, her troubled older brother, and her court appointed guardian. Fascinating and thought-provoking.
Posted by at 5:24 PM
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevon
Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It’s quiet and peaceful. You can’t get sick or get any older. In fact, everyone here is getting younger everyday.
Liz has just been killed in a car accident, but this book isn't the typical sad-somebody-died-book. Liz finds herself on a cruise ship on her way to Elsewhere. Elsewhere is where people go when they've died before they are reincarnated and sent back to earth. Unlike the other residents of Elsewhere who lived long full lives, Liz was only 16 when she died and didn't get to experienve things like driving, going to prom, etc. Liz refuses to participate in her new "life" in Elsewhere and instead spends most of her time missing her family. But when she gets caught trying to illegally go back to Earth, everything changes.
Posted by at 5:12 PM