The Possibility of Fireflies By:Dominuqe Paul

This book was amazing from cover to cover. It is a quick read, i read it in about 3 days. This book is about a 9th grade girl whose parent's recently got a divorce. Since their dad left Ellie's sister Gwen's personality has flip flopped. She does drugs, smokes and hangs with the wrong crowds. Another reason for that would be that their mom is "taking a vacation from parenting", she parties all night and often Ellie and Gwen are left out of the house.

Ellie is desperate to get away fro mher mother. In the end after Gwen's been almost killed by their mother, Gwen runs away to New York. A couple hours later Ellie sets off for her Dad's house hoping he will want her there. When she gets there her Dad starts crying for her mother stopped him from seeing her and Gwen about 2 or 3 years ago. This book was not what i expected, but it was amazing anway.

The Night My Sister Went Misssing By: Carol Plum-Ucci

Who shot Casey Carmody?

A pistol shot, a teenage girl falling from an abandoned pier, a police interrogation, Coast Guard searches. Casey Carmody is missing. Was she shot? Is she playing a practical joke? Where is her body?
Seventeen-year-old Kurt Carmody, Casey's older brother, tells the police he heard Casey laugh after the sound of the gunshot, but testimonies differ and no one heard a splash. As Captain Lutz says, "We've got no body, no blood, and a whole lot of people claiming to have heard a pistol shot from a gun no one claimed to fire."
The teens at the scene were the Mystic Marvels, residents of Mystic Island, a small beach community on an island barely wide enough to be inhabitable. These high school students are "not too bad, not too good, not too smart, not too dumb, not too rich, not too poor, just 'marvy all around,'" as Casey would say. It seems as if the group is relatively inclusive, but it becomes apparent during the interrogation that this may be a witch hunt, a group's attempt to go after an outsider.
The witchy gossip and jealousies conspire against the reputation of Stacy Kearney, the new girl at school. Her too-sure-of-herself personality is just the kind that a coven of teenagers would like to bring down. And her family connections to old money in the town don't help. The conformist, group-minded Mystic Marvels don't marvel at Stacy; she is someone they love to hate. And it was Stacy who brought the gun to the party on the pier. What was the sense in that?

Oh My Goth By: Gena Showalter

Jade Leigh is a goth. She is the minority at her school. The teachers and other students pick on her because of her choices. When her math teacher makes a reference about her being a vampire in front of the whole class, Jade erupts in anger. Unable to control her reaction, she continues to push her teacher’s buttons until her expels her from his class. When she arrives at Principal “Hammy’s” office the next day, her father and Mercedes Turner’s mom are talking to Principal Hamilton. Jade and Mercedes are arch rivals. Mercedes is Miss Popularity at school, but she also disregards the rules and stands up to authority figures. The door opens to Hammy’s office and the girls are ushered inside and told their fate. Their parents have decided to work with Principal Hamilton and allow her to perform an experiment on them. They drive to a dilapidated building in a bad neighborhood. Both girls are strapped to a table by medical professionals and injected with sedatives. They are told they will be put into a virtual reality game to learn their lesson. The next thing Jade knows she is in her own bed. She wonders at first if it is all a bad dream. But as soon as she goes downstairs she knows something is wrong. When she arrives at school, Goths are everywhere and the Barbies are the minorities. All her bestfriends are now the Barbies and won’t talk to her. Jade is disgusted by the thought of everyone looking the same as she does. She doesn’t want to hang out with Mercedes’ friends. Working with Mercedes, they look everywhere for Principal Hamilton. The longer they stay in the game, the more Jade starts to like Mercedes’ life. How popular she is, how respected she is, how much the new boy in school likes her. Suddenly she realizes, the things Mercedes likes are not so wrong. In fact she likes them too when she is on the receiving end. Jade starts to stand up for the Barbies. She begins to fall for the new boy Clarik and she hopes he will still like her when the game is over. Jade and Mercedes start trying everything for a way to escape. Jade confides in Clarik and he tells her he is in the virtual reality game too. He’s a very talented hacker and he promises to help Jade and Mercedes reverse the procedure and send them home. After they find a way out of the game, Jade and Mercedes remain friends. Clarik still cares for Jade. At the conclusion, Mercedes and Jade see Principal Hammy confronting another student and telling him she will teach him a lesson.

Crank By: Ellen Hopkins

Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into “Bree” after she “shakes hands with the monster.” Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, “convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I’d want to be.” When Kristina goes home, things don’t return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over, leaving her “starving for speed” and for boys who will soon leave her scarred and pregnant.

The book is written in verse. The poems paint painfully sharp images of Kristina/Bree and those around her, detailing how powerful the “monster” can be. The poems are masterpieces of word, shape, and pacing, compelling readers on to the next chapter in Kristina’s spiraling world. This is a typical page-turner and a stunning portrayal of a teen’s loss of direction and realistically uncertain future. This book looks really thick, but it is written in verse so it takes no time at all, I read it in one day.

Prom Queen Geeks By: Laura Preble

The Queen Geek Social Club is in full force. Becca’s ideas never seem to wane and her latest idea may be the biggest of them all.

It is prom time at Green Pines High and the student government is set to sell outrageously priced tickets to the Junior/Senior Prom. The Queen Geeks manifest the idea to have their own prom, Geek Prom! Becca not only wants to invite the students from Green Pines to the Geek Prom, but she wants people from all over the world to be invited, in a world wide cyberific Geek Prom night!

Shelby is torn once again between Fletcher and Becca and the Queen Geeks. She wants to help Becca out with the Geek Prom, but she also wants to attend the “real prom” with Fletcher.

Dead Girl Walking Book:1 By: Linda Joy Singelton

DEAD GIRL WALKING is the first book in a new YA series, described as Quantum Leap meets Touched by an Angel. This is a humor/paranormal/mystery genre.

17 year old Amber Borden has such a bad sense of direction, that after an out of body experience, she lands in the wrong body--of a wealthy, gorgeous and popular girl who has just attempted to commit suicide.

When Amber tries to tell the truth, her new "family" thinks she's crazy. And her real family is planning her funeral, preparing to donate her organs.

With help from the other side (including her dead dog) Amber searches to discover secrets about her new identity and races against time to return to her real body before it's too late.

Earth-Shattering Poems Edited by: Liz Rosenberg

This book is really interesting. It is full of assorted poems about many different things. Many different authors and they are all from different time periods. Some have even been transleted from many different languages.
It is a really short read only 89 pages long. Alot of the poems are very deep in meaning and others are coplicated. Especially the Haikus. But I usually hate poetry and all together this book wasn't that bad.