Can we have more than 1?
I've read so many good books...
Book Theif.
Markus Zusak.
"It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is
The Grave Digger's Handbook, left with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down.
In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time."
Taken from the back of the book...Aboslutely awesome book. Finished it in one day because I couldn't put it down. It's kinda told by the Angel of Death I guess or however you call it, which makes it 10 times more interesting.
The Rope Walk
Carrie Brown
"The Rope Walk brings us the dazzling story of a pivotal summer in the life of Alice, a redheaded tomboy and motherless girl who is beloved and protected by her five older brothers and her widower father, a professor of Shakespeare. On Memorial Day, her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before. Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer. Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to a convalesce with his middle-aged sister. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and, almost as quickly, they find themselves drawn into the orbit of the magisterial Kenneth.
When the children begin a daily routine of reading aloud to the artist, who is losing his eyesight, they discover the journals of Lewis and Clark and decide to embark on their own wilderness adventure: they plan and secretely build a "rope walk"through the woods for Kenneth and in the process learn the first of many hard truths about the way adults see the world, no matter that they are often wrong."
Also taken from the book. It's kind of boring at the beginning and hard to get into but as you get further into it, it is an amazing story. It's also very sad.
Dramarama
E. Lockhart
"Before she meets Demi, Sadye is just Sarah, a big-nosed, five-foot-ten supersonic, hydrophonic, gigantic person, only no one could see it. The only time she ever feels alive in her boring as Cream of Wheat hometown of Brenton, Ohio, is at Miss Delilahs School of Dance. Sarah loves to dance, sing and watch musicals, but her real life is seriously razzle-dazzle deprived. When the announcement is made that Wildwood Summer Institute will be holding auditions, Sarah knows it could be her ticket out of town. She chops her hair in the style of Liza Minnelli and goes on a shopping spree for mini-skirts, knee-high boots and glitter sweaters.
At the audition, she meets Douglas Howard, aka Demi. Demi also goes to Brenton, but she has never seen him like this --- decked out in a skintight silver shirt over red workout pants and a bowler hat. Demi is a spirit made of equal parts ambition and razzle-dazzle. He also feels out of place at school, especially because hes gay and black. They instantly hit it off and become friends. Demi calls Sarahs look Gawky-sexy. And that means that you are not Sarah. They rename her Sayde. A star is born! Demi and Sadye are inseparable for the rest of the school year and are thrilled when they both get accepted into Wildwood.
But at Wildwood, everything is different. Boys and girls dorms mean that Demi and Sadye wont be as inseparable as she expected. Sadyes roommates are Iz, who goes to a specialized arts high school in San Diego; Candie, who has no filter and is obsessed with the oddball musical Jekyll & Hyde; and Nanette, who has been on Broadway since she was seven. Sadye realizes that being accepted into Wildwood is just the first part of the process. There will be another audition and then they will be placed in their selected plays and roles.
While Demi shoots to stardom and popularity at camp, Sadye finds herself in a not-so-glamorous spot and begins to feel out of place. Is she as razzle-dazzle as she had thought?"
Taken from
www.teenreads.com.
I completely fell in love with this book and have though about checking it out of the library again.
Definately for those interested in theater and musicals.
Life as we knew it
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Everything was normal until the moon was knocked out of orbit.
Asteroids hit the moon all the time, but the one scheduled to hit at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18 is one of the largest ones yet. To Miranda, the impending asteroid can only mean one thing: more homework. More homework on top of her best friends fighting, her dad's newly pregnant wife, and the fight with her mother over whether or not she can return to ice skating after a serious injury. With all of this on her mind, Miranda goes outside with her family to watch the asteroid hit the moon.
This asteroid however creates worldwide disasters. The moon is responsible for many of Earth's environmental controls, and when the orbit of the moon changes, so does the environment. Tidal waves destroy coastal cities, killing millions of people. Thunderstorms knock out the electricity in Miranda's school. None of it seems quite real to Miranda, even when her mother sends her and her brothers on a grocery run to buy all the canned soup, aspirin, vitamin pills and toilet paper they possibly can. Gas climbs to $5 a gallon, then $7, and pretty soon it's $35 for three gallons, and you can only get three gallons at a time.
Throughout the nuclear winter caused by volcanic eruptions, Miranda tries to live life as normally as possible. She goes to the pond to ice skate for as long as she can breathe. She visits her friends, who are not the same people they were before the disaster. The question is, how long can Miranda and her family survive with minimal water, a dwindling food supply, no heat or electricity, and subzero temperatures?
When so many people are giving up hope, starving, and dying of diseases we rarely get, Miranda is still clinging to normality. She still wants to date Dan, her swimming teammate, and she fights with her mother about her father and brothers. During this time of disaster, though, Miranda's best qualities come to light. Her determination helps her family survive a bout of deadly flu. Even though she fights with her mother, Miranda never gives up on loving her. Miranda might not know how long they will survive, but she does know that by working together they stand a chance"
Again taken from
www.teenreads.com (Love this website...)
Very sad book, but so addicting to read, it's another I couldn't put down.
Great story.
I've got many others, but I'll just keep it those for now. =)
isenchanted princess
but kinda sad anyways....
