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Book Review: love & leftovers Sarah tregay

Love and LeftoversLove and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title – Love & Leftovers
Author – Sarah Tregay
pages 451
date December 21 , 2011
rating 5 out of 5
summary Love and Leftovers” is a powerfully written debut novel that chronicles one teen’s journey navigating family, friends, and love.

Review – I am really getting into contemporary books and this was a cute one in verse it’s about Marcie her mom finds out that her dad is gay and they take off to new Hampshire Marcie thinks it’s only for the summer but she soon finds out that there staying for good which Marcie is not happy about because she’s leaving her best friend katie and her boyfriend Linus and the leftovers the unwanted but Marcie makes a friend J.D and they start to become more than friends which isn’t good because Marcie has Linus who she cares deeply about but she feels a very strong attraction for J.D which ends up with an unraveling of drama when she ends up moving back home with her dad and his boyfriend Danny .

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Book Review : Anna and the French kiss Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Anna and the French kiss was the most adorable novel I’ve ever read I was sucked into the world of Paris I wanted to be right there with Anna . This book is about Anna and her dad thinks she needs culture so he sends her to Paris Anna is mad because it’s her senior year she had a good job a best friend and a crush on the verge of becoming more but she makes friends Meredith Rashami josh and Entinene st. Claire a hot English American boy who happens to have a girlfriend this book makes you laugh and cry and I loved ever bit of it.
5 out of 5

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Book Review : Ten things we did sara mlynowski

Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)Ten Things We Did by Sarah Mlynowski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title – Ten things we did (and probably shouldn’t have)
Author – Sarah Mlynowwski
pages 368
release – June 7th 2011
Publisher haper teen

Summary -2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn’t have.

If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Throwing a Crazy Party” (#8), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.

In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time.

Review – When April’s Dad and Step mom tell her that she’s moving from Connecticut to ohio she is not pleased she would be loosing her boyfriend her friends and her life but then she subjects that she could live at Vi’s house for Junior year but it turns on that Vi’s mom is doing a play in Chicago so they lie make fake emails and mostly cause allot of drama April’s boyfriend Noah starts to act weird she befriends vi friend Hutson who so likes her and Vi tells april she’s a virgin and decided to have sex with Hutson’s brother Dean which is not good because Dean likes vi and vi isn’t looking for a boyfriend but when April finally sleeps with Noah things are still weird cause something bad happens and it ruins there relationship and Dean and vi get together which is so cute cause they finally admited it and hutson kisses April aw so cute and for senior year april moves to paris with her mom.
5 out of 5

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Book Review : cryers cross lisa mcmann

Cryer's CrossCryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title – Cryers cross
Author Lisa Mcmann
Release date- February 8th 2011
Publisher – Simon Pulse
Page 233
Summary -he community of Cryer’s Cross, Montana (population 212) is distraught when high school freshman Tiffany disappears without a trace. Already off-balance due to her OCD, 16-year-old Kendall is freaked out seeing Tiffany’s empty desk in the one-room school house, but somehow life goes on… until Kendall’s boyfriend Nico also disappears, and also without a trace. Now the town is in a panic. Alone in her depression and with her OCD at an all-time high, Kendall notices something that connects Nico and Tiffany: they both sat at the same desk. She knows it’s crazy, but Kendall finds herself drawn to the desk, dreaming of Nico and wondering if maybe she, too, will disappear…and whether that would be so bad. Then she begins receiving graffiti messages on the desk from someone who can only be Nico. Can he possibly be alive somewhere? Where is he? And how can Kendall help him? The only person who believes her is Jacian, the new guy she finds irritating…and attractive. As Kendall and Jacian grow closer, Kendall digs deeper into Nico’s mysterious disappearance only to stumble upon some ugly—and deadly—local history. Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried

Review- In the Small town of Cryer’s Cross no one ever thinks anything can ever go wrong but the summer before senior year a girl named tiffany disappeared people looked and looked but she was no where to be found and now senior year is a little different without tiffany Kendall and her boyfriend Nico go and see that there are two new kids a brother and sister Jacian and Marlena kendall heard over the summer Jacian was questioned for tiffany’s missing which then she starts to think maybe but then her boyfriend Nico he starts to act weird the usually call each other every night but then nothing they find his car at the school but he is to be found missing to now everyone thought this was a safe little town what happened to cause this Kendall is very sad because she is ocd and couldn’t tell Nico that he was her boyfriend but she did love him the soccer team gets canceled she starts to hang out with Marlena and Jacian and then something happens she starts to get atracted to Jacian (i mean really he’s supper hot and he had no shirt on *swoon ) but she can’t do anything cause of Nico what would people think and then she looks at Nico’s desk and there is writing on it and then she starts to hear voices it’s Nico’s but is it what is happening .
5 out of 5

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Book Review: robot dreams sara varon

Robot DreamsRobot Dreams by Sara Varon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Title – Robot Dreams
Author – Sarah Varon
Release date- August 7 2007
Publisher – First second
Summary -This moving, charming graphic novel about a dog and a robot shows us in poignant detail how powerful and fragile relationships are. After a Labor Day jaunt to the beach leaves the robot rusted, immobilized in the sand, the dog must return alone to the life they shared. But the memory of their friendship lingers, and as the seasons pass, the dog tries to fill the emotional void left by the loss of his closest friend, making and losing a series of friends, from a melting snowman to epicurean anteaters. But for the robot, lying rusting on the beach, the only relief from loneliness is in dreams.
Review- A friendship with a dog and a robot but one day they go to the beach and robot rusts and dog doesn’t know what to do other the months dog tries to replace him with other friends ducks penguin and snowman but no one helps fit the slot of robot so when summer comes again robot gets rescued and becomes a radio and dog finds another robot and there both happy.
3 out of 5

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Book Review: Anna’s ghost vera Brosgol

Anya's GhostAnya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title – Anya’s ghost
Author – vera brosgol
Release date – June 7 2011
Publisher – First Second
Pages- 224
Summary- Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn’t kidding about the “Forever” part . . .

Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century.

Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya’s normal life might actually be worse. She’s embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and she’s pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs.

Or so she thinks.
Review – Anya feel like a loser she has a crush on guy she knows she’ll never have but then she falls down a hole and has a life changing experience she meets a ghost name Emily who seams to be sweet and nice cause after she gets out of the hole helps Anya in school and with her crush but she finds something about Emily that isn’t to nice and now Emily is trying to hurt Anya and her family .

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Book Review: Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets j.k rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Title Harry potter and the chamber of secrets
author J.k rowling
publisher scholastic
releases date September 1st 2000
pages 341

summary -The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts Schools of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart; a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls’ bathroom; and the unwanted attention of Ron Weasley’s younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone—or something—starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects . . . Harry Potter himself

Review –
Harry potter is excited for school to start but it goes off not so well he has to deal with a house elf telling him not to go back to hogwarts and stole his letters from Hermione and ron and now his uncle has locked him in but ron saves him and he’s back with the Wesley’s and they have some trouble getting back to school but then some strange stuff starts to happen people are getting petrified and the chamber of secrets has been open again harry finds a diary of someone from 50 years ago and the diary takes him 50 years back and the diary belongs to Tom riddle hagrid is taken to azkaban and dumbledore is taken away and when Hermione is petrified also and ginny is taken in the chamber Harry has to stop it but when he finds ginny he also finds out that Tom Riddle is Voldemort .

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Book Review: glass house Rachel Caine

Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Title – Glass Houses
Author Rachel Caine
Release date – October 3 , 2006
publisher – NAL Jam
pages – 248
Summary- College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don’t show many signs of life, but they’ll have Claire’s back when the town’s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood

Review –
this book is about Claire Danvers and she is a very smart girl but she is tortured by girls at school and one bad day she ends up at the glass house where she meets Eve and Eve is worried about her especially since she’s beaten up she tells her to come inside and then she meets Shane “who I have fictional crush on ” Shane and Eve are both great Character Eve is sweet and goth and Shane is kind of a smartass but really cute and treats Claire like a little sister when Eve tells Claire she could move in but only if Michael lets her she falls asleep and meets Michael who isn’t to sure of letting Claire move in because she’s a minor but Claire needs to live there because she doesn’t feel safe at the dorm this is her only option so she finally convinces Michael and she gets to know the town and the rest of them and finds out people actually believe Vampires live in the town well Claire thinks that’s nuts until she meets a vampire Brandon and she also finds out Michael secret he’s a ghost this book was amazing there is allot more like there is this big important book that vampires can’t read I did see some problems with it , it was okay I probably won’t continue on.

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Book Review: crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick

Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2)Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title- Crescendo
Author – Becca Fitzpatick
release date- October 19th 2010
publisher – Simon & schuster
pages – 427

Summary -Nora Grey’s life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn’t pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it: a mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But, despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He’s more elusive than ever and even worse, he’s started spending time with Nora’s arch-enemy, Marcie Millar.

Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadnt been acting so distant. Even with Scott’s totally infuriating attitude Nora finds herself drawn to him – despite her lingering feeling that he’s hiding something.

Haunted by images of her murdered father, and questioning whether her nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death, Nora puts herself increasingly in dangerous situations as she desperately searches for answers. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything – and everyone – she trusts.

Review – Nora and Patch are going great until he protects marcie and other than that she told patch she loved him and he didn’t say anything and other things are happening Vee gets a boyfriend Rixon Pach’s friend Patch and Nora broke up Patch is with Marcie Nora finds some things she doesn’t want to she receives a package a ring from the black hand Rixon tells Nora that’s Patch’s nickname but is it Patch tell Nora Scott is Nephilem he’s imortal can’t die and he’s apart of something bad but when Nora is stuck in a sticky situation and finds out who killed her dad it surprise her .

5 out of 5

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Book Review: awakened p.c cast

Awakened (House of Night, #8)Awakened by P.C. Cast
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Title : Awakened
Author : P.C Cast + Kristen Cast
Release date : January 4 , 2011
Publisher : St. Martin’s griffin
pages: 290
Summary :My love, speak to me. Tell me everything.” Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.
“What would you have me say?” He didn’t meet her eyes.
“Zoey lives.” Neferet’s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.
“She does.”
“Then you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.” She started to walk away from him.
“Where are you going? What will happen next?”
“It is quite simple. I will ensure Zoey is drawn back to Oklahoma. There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.”
Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either…
And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?
In the pulse-pounding 8th book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?

Review – This book was heartbreaking action packed it took place after Burned , Zoey is back and her soul is not shattered Stark is still trying to get his energy back but him and Zoey are happy and in love but when heartbreak goes down at the house of night Zoey and Stark must go back home Stevie Ray is still hiding her Rephaim from her friends Nefert is fooling everyone on the council that’s she’s so nice and good but when they have to do the funeral for jack and everyone is so sad that’s when madness takes part but it ended on a clifhander like always it was sad but I can’t wait until Destined .
5 out of 5

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Book Review: Dream dark kami garcia

Dream Dark (Caster Chronicles, #2.5)Dream Dark by Kami Garcia
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title dream dark
Author kami Garcia & margaret Stohl
Pages 75
Publisher little brown books
Summary –
When Link joined his best friend, Ethan Wate, on a quest through a mysterious network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, he knew the journey would be dangerous. But returning home to Gatlin, South Carolina was just the beginning…

Wounded during a climactic battle, Link discovers that tending his injuries won’t be as simple as visiting a doctor and that healing his arm should be the least of his worries. For being bitten by a Supernatural does more than break the skin — it changes a person, inside and out, turning Link into someone more and more like the dark creature who injured him.

Review- This is link’s story and this story link in trying to deal what happens now that he’s a a quarter incubus but it’s hard when you can’t eat normal food that your mom cooks for you and thinks that your on steroids. Ridley and link are going out even though she doesn’t think they’ll work but when Macon gives Link a package to give to a friend of his this trip comes with a price.
5 out of 5

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Book Review: Beautiful Darkness kami Garcia

Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles, #2)Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Title : Beautiful Creatures
Author : Kami garcia & Margaret stohl
Release date – october 12, 2010
Publisher : Little brown books for young readers
Pages – 503
summary -Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful Supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.
Sometimes life-ending.
Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Review – In this book Ethan has to face many things that his girlfriend Lena might turn dark because if she choses light all the dark people in her family will die and and if she chooses dark all the light will die. and now she’s become depressed because she thinks that she killed her uncle Macon and she’s just so sad all the time and Ethan doesn’t know what to do Ethan got a job at the library and there is a new girl liv but when Liv meets Leana she’s jealous in a different way girls should be but in the end they just decide to break up also Ridly is back and she brought a new guy john breed Lena runs away with John and Ridly so link Ethan and Liv all go to find and save Leana allot of things happened in this book and I can’t wait until beautiful chaos.

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Book Review : Spirit bound Richelle Mead

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Title – Spirit Bound
Author Richelle Mead
Release date – May 18,2010
Publisher – penguin/ razorbill
pages – 489
summary -Salvation has its price.
The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. “You’re lying. What you’re describing is impossible. There’s no way to save a Strigoi. When they’re gone, they’re gone. They’re dead. Undead. Forever.”

Robert’s next words weren’t directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. “That which is dead doesn’t always stay dead….”

After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It’s graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside of the Academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won’t join him, he won’t rest until he’s silenced her…forever.

But Rose can’t forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose’s prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. In the end, is true love really worth the price?

Book review – After the craziness of Blood promise we were wondering what was going to happen next after we found out Dimiri wasn’t killed by Rose and we now found out that there is sapose to be a way to save strigoi from not being strigoi anymore but there was only way of getting that info was releasing a criminal who was related to him Victor Dashkov. But Rose also has her trials that she passed but her dad showed up he was sitting next to her boyfriend Adrian Ivshkov who I so love them together and Lissa and Christian are still broken up blah that is so aggravating I don’t think I screamed more in a book ever espeshilly when rose was arrested for killing the queen oh we also found out that lissa has a half -brother or half -sister oh my freaking god this book was amazing can’t wait to read The last sacrifice the final book in the vampire academy series.

5 OUT OF 5 OF COURSE



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Book Review: percy Jackson and the lighting their Rick Riordan

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary : After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Review – This book is about 12 year Percy Jackson who is a troubled kid, who keeps going from school from school because of strange things always happen to him so at one school trip when fury almost attacks Percy and then his classmates don’t even remember this teacher so at the end of the school year his best friend grover tells him the truth he’s a half blood and he’s in for an adventure . and he’s going to camp half blood he kills a minatar hades took his mother this was an amazing book if you love greek mythology read this book we find out percy is son Poseidon the sea god and there is going to be a war if someone doesn’t return Zeus lightning bolt .

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