“The Compound,” by S. A. Bodeen is a chilling science fiction story about a rich family living in a specialized bomb shelter designed to help them survive a nuclear war.
Eli Yanakakis and his family entered the Compound six year ago, when they learned that a full scale nuclear war was about to begin. When your father is a billionaire he can afford anything, even a multi-million dollar bomb shelter with enough supplies to outlast a nuclear winter. The bomb shelter has rooms full of supplies, a kitchen, a gym, a music room, and even a small church. But what it is missing is Eli’s twin brother Eddy and his grandmother. They didn’t make it into the shelter in time. Read the rest »
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Rating: 4.3/5 (4 votes cast)
“Welcome Home or Someplace Like It,” by Charlotte Agell is a realistic fiction novel about a young girl who finds herself living with her grandfather in a small town in Maine.
Aggie B. Wing and her brother Thorne aren’t particularly excited about moving to Maine. After living in Port Chester, New York they are sure that Maine will be rather dull in comparison. But their famous mother, a writer of romance novels, is determined to drop them off for the summer to live with their ninety-one-year-old grandfather.
Ludwig, Maine has a population of 159 and one general store with a sign that says “Ardis’s Quikstop.” Read the rest »
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Rating: 2.0/5 (2 votes cast)
“Burn,” by Suzanne Phillips is a powerful realistic fiction novel about a boy who is being bullied at school.
Cameron Grady is a high school freshman. Once he used to get good grades, and he had friends at school. Now he finds it hard just to work up the nerve to go to school at all. Teachers pester him about missed assignments and failing grades, but none of these things matter to Cameron. He is far more worried about avoiding being bullied.
It all started when Cameron began ninth grade. One small but deadly mistake destroyed his school reputation forever. Read the rest »
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Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)
“Seekers - Smoke Mountain,” by Erin Hunter is the third book in the Seekers series, about a group of bears on a quest to save all bearkind from human damage to the environment.
In “Seekers - The Quest Begins” and “Seekers - Great Bear Lake” Erin Hunter introduced readers to Kallik, an orphaned polar bear; and Lusa, a black bear who escaped from a human zoo to find Toklo, a grizzly bear cub. The fourth bear in this diverse group, Ujurak, is truly unique. He is shapeshifter who can take on the form of any other animal. However he prefers to be a small bear cub. Read the rest »
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Rating: 4.0/5 (7 votes cast)
“Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love,” by Lauren Tarshis is the wonderful sequel to “Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree.” In this second book of the series Emma-Jean will attempt to use her rational, scientific approach to unravel the mysteries of seventh grade romance.
Those readers who have already experienced “Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree” know Emma as a girl who is highly intelligent. She takes a logical approach to everything in life, but that technique doesn’t always work when she tries to understand the social dynamics of William Gladstone Middle School. Read the rest »
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Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)
