February, 2008

24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley

Reviewed by Kayla Alves24girls.jpg

This book was amazing! It’s about this senior guy who hasn’t had much luck with the ladies. His friends post a very embarrassing ad in the school newspaper which gets him swarming with tons of replies! He has a ton of dates but he takes a while to find someone he really likes. When an unexpected girl replies, his whole attitude changes.

Find 24 Girls in 7 Days in the Fiction section under FIC Bra.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

speak.jpgReviewed by Luci Sanchez

This book is about a girl who goes to a summer party and meets a cute guy and when they sneak off together he ends up raping her. She calls the cops and ruins the party. So when she enters high school as a freshman, everyone hates her for ruining the party, but they don’t know why she did it.

This is a really great book! It’s touching, inspiring, and life learning. It will put you in her place and help you understand her. It’s awesome!

Find Speak in the Fiction section under FIC And.

Blue Bloods by Melissa De la Cruz

bluebloods.jpgReviewed by Tysha Bowling

Schuyler spent most of her life with her head stuck in the clouds.  She had no idea that her life was about to change.  By her 15th birthday, she finds out that she is a “Blue Bloods” also known as a vampire.  And something is killing Blue Bloods.  She must discover her history and set out to find out what is killing her kind.

Find Blue Bloods and the sequel Masquerade in the Fiction section under FIC DeL. 

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

bloodandchoc.jpgReviewed by: Tysha Bowling

Vivian’s a werewolf, and her love for her human half is not as strong as the love she has for her four-legged side. Not until she meets Aiden, a human boy who she thought understood what she felt like when she would change. But it turns out when she shows him her true side – the side that loves to run in the dark under the moon – he wasn’t sure. There’s more to the story, but if you want to know, then you have to read the book!

Find Blood and Chocolate and Annette Curtis Klause’s other hit The Silver Kiss in the Fiction section under FIC Kla.

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Reviewed by Lucia Sanchezwalktoremember.jpg

This book is about a religious and innocent girl and a total reject who fall for each other. Later she tells him she has a deadly sickness called lukemia. He tries to find a way to save her but finds out she isn’t taking her medication. The moral is she changes a non-caring guy into something better. He actually realizes what his life is about and becomes goal-oriented. This book is so emotional. You will love it. It has romance and everything.

Find all Nicholas Sparks book in the Fiction section under FIC Spa. If you like A Walk to Remember, you might also like Lurlene McDaniel’s books under FIC McD.

Dead Girls Do Not Write Letters by Gail Giles

deadgirls.jpgReviewed by Nancy Orozco 

Sunny is a 14 year old girl who takes care of her mom.  She feeds her, makes sure she takes her medication, and she even pays the bills.  Ever since her sister Jasmine died in a fire, she has to act like the parent at their house.  Then a letter arrives and it was sent from her dead sister Jazz.  It explains what happened and that she is coming home.  Once Jazz arrives, everything falls back in place.  They start cleaning the house and making food for her.  Sunny’s mother comes back to live and her father stops drinking.  But they soon learn, that’s not reallyJazz.

This book is really good to read.  You will not want to put the book down.  If you read this book, you might like to read Shattering Glass, another book by Gail Giles.

Find all of Gail Giles’ books in the fiction section under FIC Gil. 

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Reviewed by Nancy Orozco 

A vampire named Louis gives an interview to a man, telling him everythinginterview_with_the_vampire.jpg that has happened to him.  After becoming a vampire, Lestat, Louis’ master, makes a little girl a vampire so that Louis won’t leave him.  As the years pass by, the little girl starts to realize that she will never grow up and become a woman.  She finds out that Lestat is the one who made her a vampire, so she tries to kill Lestat. Louis and the girl go to London.  There they meet other vampires at a theater and their leader Armand.  The vampires in the theater find out about the little girl vampire and plan to punish her in a horrible way.  This book is fun and I liked reading it.  If you like this book, I suggest you read the rest of the Vampire Chronicles in the library.

Find all Anne Rice books in the Fiction section under FIC Ric. 

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

golden_compass.jpgReviewed by Elizabeth Gutierrez

Set in Oxford, England, The Golden Compass is one that’s a roller coaster of adventures and emotions.  Lyra, a girl who’s been brought up by a preist and then adopted into a life that has a destiny for her to fulfill, but there are others who know that the fate of the world lies with her.  I give this a 5 out of 5 stars.

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman

Reviewed by Elizabeth Gutierrezshadow.jpg

This book is the second book of the Sally Lockheart series.  In this book, Sally is faced with hard decisions and heartbreak when she’s pulled into an investigation of an investment gone wrong and a man who does staged illusions.  One big question pops up: is this investment gone wrong and is this illusionist part of a deadly plan?

The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

Reviewed by Nancy Orozco

This book takforetelling.jpges us to a time where there are thieves, barbarians, and bandits. In a land where there are only women and no men and women rule. Rain is a young woman born from a mother who does not like her. Rain’s mother was raped by 50 men and out of those 50, one was her father. Their lands are always threatened by men who either want the land or want the women. These women are trained to kill and to defend what is theirs. Since Rain is the daugther of the queen, she will be the next to take the throne. Little by little she starts to discover she doesn’t want it.

Her mother gets pregnant again. Will she have a boy or will she have a girl? If she has a boy, it will be killed because no men or child males are allowed. This is an exciting book that you can’t keep your eyes off of for an instant. If you like this book, you should also read Blood Red Horse.

Find The Foretelling in the Fiction section under FIC Hof.

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