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Jekel Loves Hyde
by Beth Fantaskey (Harcourt)
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Jill Jekel is a very shy, unliked girl. To make matters
worse her dad was slaughtered in an empty parking lot. At
her dad's funeral, no one was th
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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books)
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My Summary
Imagine yourself, a loser in middle school with loser
friends. At every opportunity to get the girl you like to
like you, it never ha
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Master of None
by Sonya Bateman (Pocket Books)
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Gavyn Donatti has a family he doesn't even know exists
until the day Jazz, the mother of his two year old son,
tells him he has a child with her.
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Center Field
by Robert Lipsyte (HarperCollins)
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This book is a mystery, and a romance, and a adventure all
in one. I really like this book because of the way the
author told the story. I recommend
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The Circle of Friends: Book V
by L. Diane Wolfe (Dancing Lemur Press)
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Heather Jennings is a committed assistant college
basketball coach at Clemson for the Lady Tigers. Her job
eats up most of her time and having t
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Hourglass
by Claudia Gray (HarperCollins)
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When Bianca and Lucas escape the vampire school known as
Evernight, they hide out with the vampire hunters of Black
Cross. When Bianca joins Black
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Out of My Mind
by Sharon M. Draper (Atheneum Books)
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Imagine having a photographic memory, imagine being
extremely smart..... Well that's exactly how eleven year old
Melody is except there is one prob
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Shadow of the Dragon
by Kate O'Hearn (Kane Miller Publishing)
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Shadow of the Dragons has a little bit of everything,
romance, mystery, adventure, and more.
Kira and Elspeth are the main characters that are lea
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Meanwhile
by Jason Shiga (Amulet Books)
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"Meanwhile" by Jason Shiga is one doozy of a graphic novel.
The main character is a boy whose journey starts out with
ordering ice cream. Readers
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Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher (Dial Books)
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What would you do if you found out that there was a key that
unlocked a secret world? Well there is a secret world but
its a prison but you can call
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Shadow Blade
by Seressia Glass (Pocket Books)
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Kira Solomon, is a shadow chaser. Bernie is like a father
to her. Bernie has one of the most powerful daggers in the
world. That dagger is the "Da
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Boys Without Names
by Kashmira Sheth (Balzer and Bray)
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Running away from the law seemed difficult for Gopal and
his family. Money in their meager Indian village was
tight, and when his family couldn't
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Counterfeit Son
by Elaine Marie Alphin (Graphia)
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As the son of a serial killer, Cameron Miller has had a
very
troubled life. Trapped in a cellar for days at a time, he
reads the haunting newspape
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Growing Wings
by Laurel Winter (Sandpiper)
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"Growing Wings" by Laurel Winter follows an eleven-year-
old girl called Linnet on her journey one summer. Her
mother refuses to cut Linnet's hair
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Your Life, but Better
by Crystal Velasquez (Delacorte)
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"Your Life, but Better" by Crystal Velasquez is a clever
little book. It follows a twelve-year-old girl around one
day at the mall with her frien
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Woods Runner
by Gary Paulsen (Wendy Lamb Books)
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Samuel, a thirteen year old boy, lives on the frontier of
Pennsylvania with his parents. One day, Samuel was out
hunting and he saw smoke above th
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Green
by Laura Peyton Roberts (Delacorte)
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Lilybet Green is known as a bug-eyed freak. She is new in
Providence, California and she has to deal with the death
of her grandmother, Gigi. On
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Captivate
by Carrie Jones (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
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Captivate, by Carrie Jones, is the second book in a series
that follows Zara and her friends as they fight the nasty
pixies. It turns out Zara is
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Conspiracy 365
by Gabrielle Lord (Kane Miller)
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On December 31st, fifteen year old Callum Ormond heard his
name being called by a stranger he didn't even know.
Before he could run away he shouts
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Beneath the Skin
by Adrian Phoenix (Pocket Books)
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After Dante killed someone in their own home, Gillispie,
Emmet, and Merie, FBI agents, are trying to find Dante and
his friends and kill them for
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Hearts At Stake
by Alyxandra Harvey (Walker Books)
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Solange Drake isn't a vampire yet, but she will be soon.
Once she turns sixteen her life will change forever,
literally. As the only female "born" v
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What I Wore To Save The World
by Maryrose Wood (Berkley Trade)
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Morgan needs to figure out what she's going to do with her
life, and fast! Her senior year is coming up and she has
nothing planned out. She doesn
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Love in Translation
by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga (St. Martin's Griffin)
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Celeste Duncan has lead a hard life. She never knew her
father, her mother died when she was young, she moved from
foster home to foster home all
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The Shadowmask
by R.A.Salvatore and Geno (Mirrorstone)
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The story of a boy's adventure is the only thing keeping
him alive. A pirate that will kill him if he doesn't tell
his tale has captured Maimun. S
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The Giant-Slayer
by Iain Lawrence (Delacorte)
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This book is both fantasy and adventure. Laurie, the main
character of the book is a adventurous, smart, imaginative
girl. She has a friend named D
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The Dragon Book
by Jack Dann (Ace Books)
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In this book, The Dragon Book by Jack Dann, dragons come
alive in many countries. Twenty-one of our young adult
writers wrote these short stories
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A Faraway Island
by Annika Thor (Delacorte)
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In 1936, during Hitler's reign, two Jewish sisters who
live a wealthy life in Vienna have no choice but to be
shipped off to Sweden for their own
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Girls Acting Catty
by Leslie Margolis (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
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Girls Acting Catty was a great book to read. In this book,
Annabelle is a new girl in town and Rachel is a mean girl
who makes it hard for Annabell
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The Youngest Templar
by Michael P. Spradlin (Putnam)
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The Youngest Templar is an intriguing story about a young
squire during the Crusades who has been tasked with
returning the legendary Holy Grail t
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Lockdown: Escape From Furnace
by Alexander Gordon Smith (Farrar Straus Giroux)
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Alex Sawyer convicted of a murder he didn't commit is now
in "Furnace" an underground prison for young felons. He is
now a "New Fish" at Furnace
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Tempted
by P.C. Cast (St. Martin's)
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There is five other books of this series, the House of Night. It is a romance, a
mystery, and a thriller. I loved everyone of the books for the seri
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Prince of Stories
by Neil Gaiman (St. Martin's)
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Prince of Stories is an analysis, a record, and a
celebration of the numerous works by acclaimed author Neil
Gaiman. The book accounts Gaimans wor
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Bitter Night
by Diana Pharaoh Francis (Pocket Books)
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Max used to be a normal person. She went to college, she
had a brother and sister, she had a life. That all
changed when witch named Giselle tur
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A Real Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson (Delacorte)
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Science, to many school-aged children, seems boring and
difficult. Most do not realize how extremely important and
amazing it really is. Bryson ex
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Rebound
by Bob Krech (Marshall Cavendish)
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At Franklin High School, if youre black you play
basketball; if youre white you go out for wrestling. Its
not a rule, but its the way the stu
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Sistrsic92 (Meg)
by Cheryl Dellasega (Marshall Cavendish)
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When Cara's eating disorders get out of hand her adoptive
family gets upset.
Meg, Cara's half sister, thinks Cara's T2P2 (The
Totally Perfect Pe
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Flash Burnout
by L.K. Madigan (Houghton Mifflin)
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Blake is an average sophomore boy who loves photography,
making people laugh, and his girlfriend. His perfectly
normal life doesn't remain calm wh
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Front and Center
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Houghton Mifflin)
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D.J. was the star of the girls' basketball team and the
only girl football team. When she finally started going
back to school, after her brother'
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Saved by the Music
by Selene Castrovilla (WestSide Books)
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Saved by the music was about a fifteen year old girl named
Willow. Her mom kicks her out of the house for the summer,
so she has to go live with h
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Metamorphosis
by Betsy Franco (Candlewick Press)
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This book follows a boy named Ovid through his junior year.
All of Ovids classmates have changed over the summer. Ovid
draws pictures and writes p
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The Dust Bowl
by Martin W. Sandler (Walker Books)
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The Dust Bowl: possibly one of the United States's greatest
tragedies, in which the entire bread basket of the nation
ceased to exist. The Dust Bo
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The Indigo Notebook
by Laura Resau (Delacorte)
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Fifteen year old Zeeta and her eccentric mother, Layla,
travel the world hitting a new country every year. From
Italy to Guatemala to Australia to
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Dweeb
by Aaron Starmer (Delacorte)
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This book is about five intelligent and talented young men
(Denton, Wendell, Eddie, Elijah, and Bijay) who undergo many
common obstacles. One of th
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Fat Cat
by Robin Brande (Knopf)
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Catherine Locke has always been overweight. It's hard for
her to stay away from those candy bars, Diet Cokes, and
chips. But when she has to do a
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The Golden Shrine
by Harry Turtledove (Tor)
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Harry Turtledove's third and final installment in the
Opening of the World series is as exciting as the first
two. At the start, Count Hamnet Thy
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Eat Fresh Food
by Rozanne Gold (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
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This is a cookbook geared toward teen cooks. It has many recipes in
different categories, such as bread, butter and breakfast or bowls: soup
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We Were Here
by Matt De La Pena (Delacorte)
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This is the best book I have ever read in my whole life.
Matt de la Pena, made the book connect with readers and had
a very interesting story behi
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Akira
by Katsuhiro Otomo (Kodansha Comics)
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This book is a science fiction manga. Manga is a type of
Japanese graphic novel that is typically black and white.
In the story, Tokyo was destr
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Everything I Need To Know I Learned From A Children's Book
by Anita Silvey (Roaring Brook)
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An inspirational collection of essays from leaders,
artists, authors and even comic book writers who recall
their favorite children's book and the
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