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Freshman year is hard. Especially when you’re alone. Especially when not only you’re alone, but you’re alone and everyone else hates you. Well, that’s Melinda’s situation. The only one who relates to her is her art teacher Mr. Freeman. She used to have friends, until the end of 8th grade summer. There was a party- and she ended up calling the cops. In seconds, all the “friends” she had were gone. Melinda never told her parents- or her friends- why she called 911. And she promises herself to lock that secret away. When she reaches the end, will she break? Or will she finally find the courage to speak?
(K)I loved loved loved this book. I liked the style in which it was written, i liked the characters, and the conflicts. My only downfall was the predictability of it. Not much was surprising to me. Maybe i read to much- never mind. That’s no possible.
(A) This book may have been predictable, but it shows the chilling truth of people who are really, truly alone. Of secrets.
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Ally’s Rating: 9.8/10
Kaitlyn’s Rating:9/10
Lia doesn’t care. She’s down to 90. Almost to her goal. But in truth, once she reaches 80, will it ever be enough? Yesterday, an old friend of hers was found alone in a motel room. When Lia finally glances at her phone, she learns that the night Cassie died, she called Lia. Lia who didn’t answer the phone. Lia who didn’t help her. Lia who missed 33 phone calls from a now dead friend.
33 calls.
Cassie left messages, asking for help. 33 times, she asked- begged for help. 33 times Lia didn’t help her. But she doesn’t care doesn’t care doesn’t care so it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters but the scale.
How long can Lia lie to herself before shes forced to face the truth?
Before its too late..
I really like this book and this author. You might have heard of the very popular Speak, which was also written by Anderson (review coming soon!) I like Anderson’s writing style. She gives you the character’s thoughts in the form of facts its a helpful insider and i like it a lot lot lot.
Ally’s Rating :9.5/10
Kaitlyn’s Rating: 9.3/10
Repost, because of the awesomeness of this book.
Wow- words cannot describe how both of us feel about this book. By far the best book I have ever read- and I have read a lot of books. I literally could not put it down, and reread it often.
This is the story of a teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster. At age 13 she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and the cancer has spread to her lungs. She has never been anything but terminal, and thinks of herself as a ticking bomb- ready to explode suddenly at any moment. Her life isn’t much more than her parents, her cancer, and America’s Next Top Model- her favorite show. Her mother forces her to go to a support group for cancer, saying “Hazel, you deserve a life.” Hazel fails to see how that constitutes as a life, but goes to make her parents happy. As Hazel says in the book, “..the only thing worse from biting from cancer when you’re 16, is having a kid who bites it at 16.”
Her parents are easily her two best friends- until she meets a drop dead gorgeous boy named Augustus Waters. Augustus shows her more to life and she quickly falls for him. Both Augustus and Hazel are obsessed with this book, An Imperial Affliction, by the reclusive Peter Van Houten. The book is Hazel’s favorite, and offers no closure to the lives of the characters, as it ends in the middle of a sente
The Fault in Our Stars is not a Cancer Book- it is a book about two young kids who happen to have cancer, and how they handle the knowledge they will inevitably die and be forgotten, and to a bigger extent, the inevitability of human oblivion.
This book will have laughing on one page, and crying on the next. A mustread. I’m a huge fan of John Green, and I encourage you to be too. Learn more about him and The Fault in Our Stars on his you tube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?ob=0&feature=results_main
Ally’s rating: 11/10 stars.
Kaitlyn’s rating: 15000/10 stars
Colin Singleton, noted child prodigy, has a type when it comes to relationships. Only his type doesn’t have anything to do with personality, or even looks. Its all about names. specifically one: Katherine. Every person he’s ever dated was named Katherine, spelled like that. And every Katherine he’s dated has dumped him. After Katherine 19, 19 heartbreaks from 19 Katherines, he decides he has to move on. So he packs his things, convinces his Judge Judy-loving best friend, Hassan, to go with him, and leaves. On a road trip going anywhere. There come across a town named Gutshot, where the Archduke Franz Ferdinand-whose death was the supposed spark of World War I- is buried. They stay with Hollis and her daughter Lindsey, who is dating- get this- a boy named Collin(nicknamed The other Colin by Hassan and Collin)Colin, being border line genius when it comes to math(though he won’t admit he is a genius), decides to come up with a formula to determine the outcome of relationships. He names it The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability. Him and Lindsey grow closer and closer… But she’s not a Katherine. But Colin is depending on the Theorem to prove he can be more than just a washed up child prodigy who reached his academic peak early… And maybe he can be a genius.
As always, we think highly of John Green as an author and you can get to know him better on his YouTube channel: vlogbrothers
Ally’s Ratings: 8/10
Kaitlyn’s Rating: 7.7/10
John Green and his new #1 New York Times best-selling novel: The Fault In Our Stars.
Currently a series of four books, the fifth and final coming out in December of 2012. The Touch Series is about a young girl-named Camelia after the chameleon- whose life is turned around when a mysterious boy suddenly saves her life. She is inexplicably drawn to this mysterious boy who would rather pretend she does not exist. She slowly gets to know the boy, who is rumored to be a murderer. She learns things that she wishes she never had to know.
The sudden twists in plot will leave you stunned. Just when you think you have it all figured out, you turn the page and realize how terribly wrong you are. Laurie Stolarz is a great author. She has a way of forcing you into the story, and you have no choice but to be in the characters shoes.
Learn more about Laurie Stolarz and her books here:
http://www.lauriestolarz.com/bio.html
Ally’s Rating: 7.5/10
Kaitlyn’s Rating: 7/10
Ah, yes. Another amazing book by John Green.
This book made me cry and laugh and scream and throw the book across the room- Then run to go get it.
This is the story of Miles Halter(aka Pudge.) He is done with his safe life at home. Pudge is also obsessed with famous people’s last words. He doesn’t really know why. Maybe because it tells something about how they lived, or at least how they died. A famous poet, Francois Rabelais, had the last words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Miles says he wants to go to boarding schools so he doesn’t “have to wait until [he dies] to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” So he moves from his town in Florida to the scorching hot Alabama. This is where he meets Alaska. Alaska, the smoking, drinking, prank-master, sometimes bitchy, and amazingly hot girl who is good friends with Pudge’s new roommate, Chip Martin(or “the Colonel”.) But as it turns out, Alaska is not the adventure loving girl everyone knows- shes hiding everything. Alaska “pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.”Alaska seems to be exactly what Pudge is looking for, but he has to work for it. The hunt is on.
Alaska seems to be searching for something, as well. One night, everything changes. Can Pudge, the Colonel, and their friend Takumi solve the mystery that is Alaska?
This book, I found very touching. It shows the way we base time on important events. It also shows an in depth look into the teenage psyche-the want to do extraordinary things, and their relationships with others. John Green’s first novel will make you frustrated and sad and ecstatically happy.
Looking for Alaska is the winner of the Micheal L. Printz Award
Ally’s Rating: 9.357/10 Stars
Kaitlyn’s Rating: 9/10 Stars
[MAY CONTAINSLIGHT SPOILERS,SORRY.]
The Great Gatsby- a classic? Yes. So it’s long boring uninteresting? NO! This book is spectacular- and very easy and fun, yes fun, to read critically.
I am going to leave this review to New York Times best selling author John Green. John? (This was all said in a video on his video blog, in 2011)
Read his critical thoughts here: http://nerdfighteria.info/index.php?title=Gatsby%27s_American_Dream:_Reading_The_Great_Gatsby_Critically,_Chapter_1
I can’t really describe it better.
Even if it’s just for a school assignment, i would say you HAVE to read this book. The Great Gatsby is a very captivating book that makes you really think. It does have a few difficult words in it, but then again, it WAS written in 1925.
Ally’s Rating: 10/10 Stars.
