Twilight

Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Reviewer: Erin
Summary: Bella's mom gets remarried to a minor league baseball player and the new family has to move around a lot. Bella decides to go and live with her father, Charlie, in forever cloudy Forks, Washington. Charlie had already bought her a car and enrolled her into Forks High School. At lunch on her first day she sees the Cullens. Something is different about them and she wants to find out what. In biology, she finds she will be sitting next to Edward Cullen. He acts weird the entire class; sitting as far away from her as possible, staring at her and holding very still. Bella sees his eyes are as black as rocks. Soon she will find out that he's not normal and some old Indian legends might actually be true. Is Edward dangerous? and can Bella find out his secret? Find out!!

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Sea of Monsters

Title: Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Jason S.
Summary:
Percy Jackson has just found out he is the son of Poseidon and is in deep trouble. Camp Half Blood's protective tree has been poisoned and the camp is under attack by monsters daily. Percy Jackson's enemy, Clarisse, has just been granted a quest to save the camp, but can she do it alone? Percy and his friends decide to sneak off and try to save the camp themselves. Will the mysterious taxi driver's location lead them to the treasure or to their death's?Will the camp ever be safe......

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Clash of the Demons

Title: Clash of the Demons
Author: Joseph Delaney
Reviewer: Jack P.
Summary: When Tom Ward receives a letter from his mom that she is coming home from Greece and needs to meet her at the house where he grew up he heads right to his former home with his master John Gregory where he finds his mom, a clan of witches, and Bill Arkwright (a spook from the north) asking him to come to Greece with them to fight the one of the most powerful monsters in the world, the Ord, who lives in a massive castle called the Ordeen. Along the way they will face the most powerful forces in the world. This book is full of intense battles, impossible situations, amazing destinations, and surprises that will make you never want to stop reading.

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Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Katie

Summary:
Tally Youngblood will be turning 16 soon, which means she will become a pretty! But before her birthday she finds a new friend, Shay, there birthdays are on the same day so they can turning into pretties together. But Shay doesn’t want to be a pretty, so she runs away to a place called the “Smoke”, a place where uglies live, out in the wild. Its there birthday but Tally can’t be turned into a pretty yet because she has to go find Shay or she will never be a pretty. She follows Shay’s clues to the smoke and gets there safe. Dr. Cable gives Tally a locket which has a tracking device in it, that needs to be set off so the “specials” can find them. Tally meets David, a guy who has never lived/ been in a city before, Tally starts liking him so she wants to stay at the smoke, and she throws the locket in the fire which sets it off. The “Specials” come and capture everyone but David and Tally. Shay, Az and Maddy, and all the others get locked up. David and Tally try to rescue them without getting caught. They find them and figure out that David’s dad Az was killed. Maddy found a way to cure the “bubbleheads”, pretties. So tally had a plan, she would go and turn into a pretty and then give her the cure to see if it works before they give it to everybody else. So Tally and Shay go to the pretty town to try and get Tally caught. A hover car came flying over them and noticed that Tally was an ugly and then Tally said “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.”
The End!!

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The Lightning Thief

Title: The Lightning Thief

Author: Rick Riordan

Reviewer: John K.

Percy Jackson has been on a lot of field trips but this field trip turns out to be an exiting one when one of his teachers turns into a giant bird thing and tries to kill him. Luckily his Latin teacher throws him a pen that turns into a sword. The bird then runs away at the sight of the sword. Then Percy’s friend Grover takes him to camp Half Blood where Percy finds out he is the son of Poseidon the god of the sea. Next Chiron one of the camp counselors gives Percy and his friends Grover and Annebeth a quest to recover Zeus’ masterbolt. Will Percy and his friends find out who stole the masterbolt or will they fail like the ones before them?

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Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Alud
Tally Youngblood is about to turn sixteen, and is excited. In Tally's world when a boy or girl turns sixteen, they are given an operation that turns them from "ugly" to a "pretty".
Tally befriends with a girl named Shay, who is also an "ugly". They both discover they have so much in common. They were the best of friends. Tally would always talk about someday becoming "pretty". But Shay isn't sure if she wants to become "pretty". She'd rather stay "ugly" and live in the forest. Shay told Tally that she was running away to the Smoke (a place in the forest where "uglies" runaway to live) and asks her to come with. Tally decided that she wanted to stay and have the operation. Shay was sad, hurt, and understood that Tally wouldn't go. Shay asked Tally no to tell anybody that she was going to live at the Smoke, Tally promised Shay. They both said their good-byes.

It was finally Tally's sixteenth birthday and was ready for the operation of becoming "pretty". Tally's operation did not proceed. Instead she was at Special Circumstances. Dr. Cable (a cruel beautiful "special") met with Tally and told her that they know about Shay running away to the Smoke. Tally was suprised. Dr. Cable told her that she becomes a spy for Special Circumstances to betray Shay, arrest the people living in the smoke, and have the operation, or, refuse to be their spy for Special Circumstances and stay as an "ugly" forever. Will Tally betray Shay and the people living in the Smoke, or, refuse and stay an "ugly" for the rest of her life? Read the book if you want to find out what happens next.
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Luna Bay Weather or Not

Title: Luna Bay Weather or Not
Author: Francess Lantz
Reviewer: Katie S.

Luna Bay is about three girls who are on a vacation in Florida for a surfing contest. Kanani is the main character. She and her friends, Luna and Rae, hit the surf on their first day on the Sebastian Inlet. Where they meet a sweet surfer named James. He flirts with Kanani and asks to go on a walk with him that night. Kanani thinks she likes James so she agrees to go. Kanani has a great time. But then the next day Rae comes back to the campsite in the morning saying she’s been on a walk with James too! Kanani gets furious with Rae. The next time Kanani goes out with James he takes her into the mangroves with jet skies where the endangered manatees live when he’s been told many times that it is very dangerous to the manatees survival, and he could get fined serious money for breaking the law!

Just when things are getting very heated up between Kanani and Rae, a hurricane comes toward the inlet. James told Rae he was going out in the storm to catch some serious waves. Both girls get very worried about James. Can they get over what happened between them in time to save James? Will one of the girls win the surf contest? Can the girls ever become friends again? Will the manatees survive the jet skies? You’ll just have to read the book and find out yourself!

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Raven's Gate

Title: Ravens Gate

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Reviewer: Austin

Matt lives in London and his only friend is a troublemaker so Matt got caught stealing and had to go live in the country-side as a punishment. He had to live with someone named Mrs. Dervill. Ever since he got there it seemed suspicious. So then he finds out that everyone there is going to try to kill him in order to perform a ritual. People try to save him but they end up dying. Then Matt finds out he has special powers and escapes. A man named Richard finds him almost dead far away from the country and he takes care of him while Matt tries to find a new life.
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The Supernaturalist

Title: The Supernaturalist
Author: Eoin Colfer
Reviewer: Luke G.

Cosmo Hill, a boy who was found on Cosmonaut Hill with no parents, lives at Clarissa Frayne Institution, a place where they test a variety of products. Sometimes the products are food, injections, and gases. As time goes on, Cosmo gets tired of his life, runs away and escapes. Three kids, Mona, Ditto, and Stefan take him in to their headquarters where
he finds out that they can see blue creatures, parasites, too. They tell him about the creatures and how they suck the life out of people. Cosmo joins them and starts to fight the parasites with them. But, at a gang fight in downtown, they are captured by the Myishi Corp. and are held there. The leader of Myishi tells them that the parasites are actually good for people who are going to die. The parasites help ease the pain and theynever die. When the leader tells them about her plan to use the parasites to power the satellite and the city, the supernaturalists are outraged.

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Sample Post

Title: Bridge to Terabithia

Author: Katherine Paterson

Reviewer: (Your name here) The summary below is from the back of the book...you are NOT allowed to do this.

"Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boys' side of the playground and outruns everyone.

That's not a very promising beginning for a friendship, but Jess and Leslie Burke become inseparable. It doesn't matter to Jess that Leslie dresses funny, or that her family has a lot of money--but no TV. Leslie has imagination. Together, she and Jess create Terabithia, a magical kingdom in the woods where the two of them reign as king and queen, and their imaginations set the only limits. Then one morning a terrible tragedy occurs. Only when Jess is able to come to grips with this tragedy does he finally understand the strength and courage Leslie has given him."

Katherine Paterson's Website: http://www.terabithia.com/

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