Ender’s Game

Title: Ender’s Game

Author: Orson Scott Card

By: Alec J.

The I.F. (International Federation) is looking for geniuses. When they find one they send them to a kid's battle school in space to train to be commanders to defeat the buggers. When they pass this battle school they go to another battle school for older people to become commanders. The I.F. thinks Ender is the chosen one who will save mankind. Ender was brilliant and never lost in his battle school. They had him play a video game where he was commanding ships to fight the buggers. In his final battle to see if he would go to the next school he had a couple hundred ships and the buggers had a couple thousand. Ender won, then blew up the planet. Everyone around him was in joy, Ender wondered why. The battle school teacher came up to Ender and told him that it was not a video game, but that he was commanding real people. Ender defeated the buggers. Ender saved mankind.

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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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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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Cryptid Hunters

Title:Cryptid Hunters

Author:Roland Smith

Reviewer:Mike

The book "Cryptid Hunters" is about twins, Grace and Marty O'Hara. Their parents are world class photographers that go missing in the Amazon when their helicopter crashed. With their parents missing they are sent to live with their uncle they never knew they had. Their uncle Wolfe studies Cryptozoology. He searches for animals that have not been proven real. He plans to leave for the the Congolese jungle to look for a dinosaur that killed his wife. Wolfe isn't the only one who is looking for the dinosaur. Dr. Blackwood is looking to make money off of it. On the plane trip to take the kids back to their school for a month until summer vacation,the twins fall out of the plane with the provisions that Wolfe was going to use in the Congo. They have to dodge Dr. Blackwood's men and wait for Wolfe. Not everything goes as planned. You will have to read the book to see what happens.

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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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