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.

Black Book of Secrets By: F.E. Higgins

This book was one of the best I have read. I couldn't put it down. By looking at the cover you might think it is about dark thoughts(goth). It's not, it about proving that everyone has a secret. This book is also about trust. This book is based off some accient texts that in parts you couldn't evn read. There is proof that those stories could have been true. Make no mistake this is non-ficiton, someone had to fill in the missing parts.

Ludlow escapes the deadly fate his parents had planned for him. When he reaches the place he has come upon, he meets a mysterious man(Joe Zabbidou) who is arriving on the same night. Joe Zabbidou makes Ludlow his aprentice. Together they help many people. To find out the rest read the book,(I got it from the school libary) besides my blog entry probably dosen't do it justice.

The Owl Service Page 120-End

Page 120-End

The ending of this book is terrible on the surface. To relize what the author was getting at you have to look at the deeper meaning. Ithas you make alot of assumptions. You kinda pick your own ending.

It has Gywn leaving his mother to decide his own future. Allison becomes ill as the 'force' combines with her soul. Her stepbrother Roger saves her by telling her that she is flowers, not owls. Flowers fall from the ceiling and the cycle ends.

The Owl Service By: Alan Garner

Pages 1-120

I have only read half of this book so far. From what I have read this book is amazing, the plot is so wild and imangitive. Something you have never seen before. The tittle makes more sense as you go farther and farther into the book.

A newly joined family are taking a vacation at the daughter's (Allison) house. While the are there they find a dnner service that has owls on them. These plates tur their lives upsid down. When Allison traces the owls off the plates they disappear when no one is looking.

1,000 Reasons Never to Kiss a Boy By: Martha Freeman

The title of this book makes it sounds stupid. It is actually very good and hilarious. Of course it isn’t a book for boys. This book is about a 16 year old girl that over the summer has her very first boyfriend. It all ends when she walks in on him and one of her co-workers making out in the walk-in fridge.

She doesn’t know how to get over it. The ex-boyfriend, Elliot, clearly has. Plus she just can’t stop blaming her mom and the nosey next door neighbor for the break up. Meanwhile her house has been under renovations for almost a year and a half. If that isn’t enough, her parents are divorced. Then she finds out the genius kid next door has a crush on her. What is she to do? Want to find out more, read the book.

Found By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

This is Haddix’s best by far. She maybe known for her creepy stories but this on had me looking over my shoulder the whole time through out the book. Now I know my explanation of this book is cheesy, it doesn’t do it justice, just read it and you will see that. So here it goes, I’ll try my best.

This book starts out with a plane appearing out of nowhere. They go to see why they landed at the wrong gate and discover 36 babies and no adults on the plane. Not even a pilot. When they get the babies off the plane the plane disappears into thin air. 13 years later all of these kids have been adopted, and they are receiving creepy letters in the mail like “you are one of the missing”. After that all these weird things happen to them and their real story unravels. They are the ‘missing children of history’. I won’t say anymore to ruin it for you, but this book is awesome and you have to read it. It is the first booking the series called The Missing.

Brisinger By: Christopher Paolini

This book is amazing. It is by far the best of the Inheritance Cycle. There are many twists and turns in this book. Not all of this turns are for the best either, and announces the end in book four that is currently in the works. It is a bit lengthy it being 748 pages. Don’t let that stop you though the pages just fly by and you don’t want it to end.

This book recently came out in the end of September. For those of you who have read the first two and where surprised by the title, it all starts to make sense toward the end. This book is amazing, but I wouldn’t suggest it unless you have read the first two, Eragon and Eldest. Without the first or second the third just will not make sense. I won’t say much more for those of you currently reading it and those who are planning on reading Brisinger, I wouldn’t want to ruin this magnificent novel.

Let Me Go By: Helga Schneider

Let Me Go, is a magnificent nonfiction novel. I usually hate nonfiction, but this book kept you hooked till the end. It is a bout a girl at the age of 4 is (brother 16 months) abandoned by her mother so she can join the SS. She and her brother bounce from one family member to a next. As you may have figured out the daughter is the author, Helga Schneider. This book proved to me that not all nonfiction is boring or not interesting. I recommend this book to everyone, it makes the war come alive again, with some truth of what happened.

She tracks down her mother after 30 years so she could meet her grandson. Though she ignored her grandson, she tried to bribe her daughter to love her with the gold taken from the Jews in the camp. After that they broke off all contact again. Helga gets a letter 27 years later from her mother’s only real friend. It says that her mother has memory loss and is not in a good physical state. It stated that if she could see her one last time before she died; maybe they could work some things out. But what her mother is proud of 100’s of deaths by her hand, she is just horrified. Her mother dies 3 years later in 2001, she was 92.

Before I Die, By: Jenny Downham

Before I Die is an amazing book. It sounds really sad, and is a little at the end. Overall though it is a hilarious book based off the phrase “grab the bull by the horns”. I really recommend the audio book. It takes place in England and the audio book helps you with the pronouncing of certain words that have a British ascent to them.

This book is about a girl who has been battling leukemia for 4 years (since she was 12). They find out that nothing is really helping. So she makes a list of things she wants to do before she dies. It sounds depressing but this book is truly hilarious, with some truth and sorrow mixed in. It is like nothing you have ever read before.

This book relates to the world in a way. It tells you of how someone with leukemia lives and how drastically theirs and their family’s lives change when diagnosed. It shows that they are regular people with an unfair disease. This really helped me understand more, without making me have a break down of tears. I recommend this book to everyone, the author did an amazing job, of mixing real life, with fiction in this novel. If you are someone who cry by the thought of hearing of cancer, and you hate a little bad language, this book isn’t for you. If you don’t read this book you will surely not know what you are missing.

Platinum (squel to Golden)

This book by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is one of my many favorites. It is about a girl who has the perfect life until she meets her new cousins. She thinks their freaky "sight" talk is all make believe. Until she gets the sight too. Some advice though the description on the back makes it sound really boring, but if you read it, you will find the book is the complete opposite.


This book brings fiction and real life together. At the end you almost wonder if it was fiction. I also advise you to read Golden first otherwise it will make no sense at all. It a quick read just over 200 pages.


Platinum is so amazing you can total hates usual books in this Genre and still love it. If nothing else try it. Looking forward to some comments. I hope read if not, well you miss out then i guess.