Gossamor by Lois Lowry

Whoops! I forgot to blog about a book that was simply delightful! If any has read The Giver by Lois Lowry, they will immediately have a clue of the structure of the series. However, if you haven't, you might have time to pick the way things are a bit. That is one thing I feel the author could have done a little bit better, because every one hasn't read The Giver, and Gathering Blue. Moving right along then! Two dream-givers are watching over people who are connected through a blood bond, or just friends, the point is, they give them dreams! But not the bad ones, good ones. The people, or 'things' rather, that give nightmares are rather scary [but that's my opinion]! The touching story is some thing anyone would enjoy,so read it!

-->Tracia Banuelos

We beat the Streets

This book describes the childhoods and growing up of three doctors and their friends. The three doctors wrote this book to show that, no matter where you came from, or how much money you have, you can do almost anything that you work hard for.

--Mary Alice

The Host

The Host is by Stephanie Meyer. She is also the author of the Twilight series. The Host is a VERY different book from the Twilight books, it doesn't have vampires, but it DOES have love and romance, and two people who can't be together fall in love. The host is about "souls" who choose a planet, and recieve a host, or body, to live in. Once the Host dies, souls recieve a new host or, like Wanderer, move on to a new planet. Wanderer's host, Melanie, refuses to give up full control of her mind. What starts out as a rivalry, becomes a good and close friendship. Melanie leads Wanderer to the safe house here crazy uncle Jeb created, and they discover something much different form what they expected. This book is 619 pages long, but don't let that scare you.

Homecoming

Homecoming is a book about a small group of kids who are abandoned by their mom in a parkinglot. In this book they adventure across the East Coast to find a place where they can live. They go through many hardships, and they travel on foot very far. They finally found one of their extended family members and decide to live with her. When they get there, she is very mean, and they become afraid. But after a short period of time, they realize she is becoming nice. In they end they live happily with her. The whole book goes through a long series where they are trying to find their very rich aunt. But on their way they find a much better home, and live there forever. It turns out that they would've hated living with the aunt, and they are very happy with their other aunt.

--Mary Alice

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is by Charles Dickens. If you have not read the original story buy Charles Dickens, (NOT THE MICKEY MOUSE SUMMARIZED VERSION!!!!!) you really should. I will not lie to you, it can get boring if you are a slow reader, but definatley worth the time. Charles Dickens really brings out the best in Scrooge in this book, and there is nothing better than a happy ending for a good Christmas story. Christmas Carol will make you laugh, cry, become happy and mad, but it will not bore you.

--Mary Alice

Tex

Tex is by S.E. Hinton. Tex is a book about a kid who lives life in poverty and around drugs. This book is full of action and exciting twists. He deals with drug dealing and fights, as him and his brother struggle to pay the most basic bills. Texas is a good boy, who avoids the dangers of the streets and adores horses. He is very much so a cowboy at heart. This book is a quick and easy read, that everyone can enjoy.

Ugly Guide: To the Uglyverse Ugly Guide One

Oh My! This is one of the greatest books of history. Its so raddd, I dont even believe it has page numbers. When I was scanning through my reading log, I discovered that all the novels I read, were, hardcore novels, and I needed to spice that up a bit. This fun loving book is written and illustrated by David Horvath& Sun-Min Kim. The pictures and context a none other than amazing. Being an ugly doll REALLY shows us that the outside really doesnt matter, because these guys are Halarious. My favorite characters are Ox & Wedgehead! Simply put, they are classic theives with a purpose! THroughout the book, you'll catch these guys at local social events, crashing and bashing, along, with the other uglies. This book cost me $5.99 at the book fair, but the Uglydolls are so popular you can probably purchase it at Barnes and Nobles! The book has a way of writing that it will make you smile when you are bored, entertain a younger siblin [or perehaps older] and just plain fun(; You heard [read] it from me!!!


-> Tracia Banuelos

Another one

It is 448 pages and written by Karen Traviss. It is about a terrorist group that attacks Courascant

Teh Bachman b00ks

dis is a 4 part b00k written by Steve King n it has about 5-600 pages and is about peepl gettin mad n goin on killin spr33s.

haha! i found another twilight book to blog about!!!! yay 4 meeeeeeeee

this book is called midnight sun. it was by stephenie meyer and i have nooooo i dea how many pages it has because heres the thing: its....................uhm.......erm..........not acctually published yet? um yeaaaa........................ bu ti promise it is ABSOLUTELY LEGAL!!!!!!!!! she put it on her website: stepheniemeyer.com and its not finished yet cuz ppl were illegally posting it all over the internet and then she jsut gave up. she doesn't kno if shes going to finish it but srsly she put it on her site and its legal! ok so {garrett will like this} it is exacltly the same as twilight. but its EDWARD
'S XD pov! so yea because its EDWARD'S point of veiw it has lotws of extra stuff in it and not any of the stuff bella does when edwards not like totally stalking her. so anyways it has all his feelings and i totally didnt kno he went and got the guy that almost raped her in port angeles arrested!!!!!!! bella doesnt watch the news and edward obviously does so thats my point is that you get all his personal feelings and those of the ppl around him because he reads minds so yupp its kul



~kinz~

STAR WARS REPUBLIC COMMANDO: HARD CONTACT

This book gives us the untold story of the clones and how hard and how awesome the commando's job is. It is written by Karen Traviss and is 340 pages. It is cool to know that clones actually have a life and some are mistreated.

breaking dawn

and finally im to the end of the series. this book has a whopping 768 pages!!!! now i kno u guys have read books with aloooot more pages than that, but idc! so this book has a bit of innappropriate info in it: we r not allowed 2 read it at school without a permission slip now {>>}!!!!!!!!! oh well no big deal to me i have already read it! so skipping the bad parts they have a child {canya guess y we need permission??? lol but no details i swear} and the crazy part is its part human. then the Voltori find out and a H~U~G~E fight begins to take place. personally, i didn't like the way the stephenie meyer {i didn't sya before but thats who wrote it incase u didn't guess from the fact taht DUH SHE WROTE THE OTHER THREE} wrapped up the series. but its too {again} H~U~G~E to reveal. {shaddup garrett and mary-alice!!!!!}




~kinz~

Eclipse

hello ppl!! are yu guys getting tired of my twilight posts yet? if no: good ur awesome! if yes: TO BAD GET OVER IT!!!!!!! XD ok now about eclipse. it is the third book in teh twilight saga and it is soooooooo action packed {just like the other three in the series} but thats not the only reason its good. it is very sad and happy at the same time. bella has never been good at making desisions, and she just got handed the biggest desicion of her life! ah the typical male on male quarrys over girls. this book was written by stephanie meyer, and has 629 pages. READ IT fur cerealz =}

TWILIGHT

Title: Twilight

Author: Stephanie Meyer

Pages: 544

Twilight is a romance book series about a vampire guy who falls in love with a mortal girl. Personally, I didn't like the series but that's not what everybody else says. I got tricked into reading it. The book is a lot like most books you read these days because good things always happen to Bella and good always prevails.

-Garrett Jacobson

8th grade

New Moon

this book is the sequal to Twilight and i don't care if you don't care!!!!!!!!!! you should read it ANYWAYS.!.!.!.!.! ok so it has 563 pages and it was written by stephenie meyer and it is a totally ROCKSOME sequal to twilight. its VERRRRRRY heart breaking. about jacob vs. edward and itS ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL edwards fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and jake is such a sweetheart, then he turns into a jerk when edward comes back after realizing that he shouldn't have left and it is REALLY totally ACTION PACKED and i luuuuuuveeeeeddddd iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


in case you didn't figure it out yet.......................
~kenzie~

Home of the Braves

On the 30th of November, I finished the book Home of the Braves by David Klass. This 312 page novel has no comparison with his book You Don' Know Me, written at a later date. When I checked this book was published in 2002. The story begins with a preface of the school being haunted and all of other detail that will really pull the reader in, however, the book doesnt follow through with those details. I was hoping for a fast on the edge novel, where the main character Joe, would solve some sort of mystery linking the new kid, and the mysteries of their high school's legacy, however, the details skipped around. I am in no way saying that the book isn't well written, I was disappointed. The story takes plae in New Jersey, focusing on the life of Joe Brickman, when all of a sudden, a new Brazilian soccer star comes racing forth, stealing glory, helpping out the popularity of the soccer team, but making things hectic. Maybe some where in my reading I missed the point of where Brickman made some sort of connection but I didn't find one.

But one thing is for sure, when Klass gets down to the craving mischief, and bumping throwdowns teens love, he does it well. As I read, I found myself, ready for more action, standing up, screaming, and well, thats just my wild TRACIA-ness factor, but do you get what the point is? I am telling you, rather, COMMANDING YOU, to at least give the book a chance. Even though I was let down, I am one person, with her opionion [sp?], so check it out.


-->Tracia Banuelos

The stand

Hi everyone! just got done with The Stand. it has around 750pages, is written by stephen king, and is about the u.s. military making a "SuperFlu" that kills 99.4 percent of the world. the remaining .6% converge in america where the good and evil people make different cities and declare war on each other, finally leading to the evil side getting a nuke and accidentaly blowing them selves up:) not for anyone who doesn't like detailed death, cussing, and scariness.
-jeremy

When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

This is a book written by comedian George Carlin. Like much of his stand-up, this book also deals with his religious and political outlooks. In terms of his other books, this book is more darker and more critical. This book is also focused mostly on euphemisms used in advertising and politically correct language. It is about 200 pages long and you could find it at any bookstore. This book is not for the easily offended.

-Derek

Me Of Little Faith

The author of Me Of Little Faith is comedian Lewis Black. In this book, he shares his opinions about all religions. He also describes what life was like being raised Jewish. Me Of Little Faith also includes some of his most famous stand-up material. This book is very funny and it makes you think about what's going on in life. This book is about 300 pages long and you could find it at any bookstore. I defenetely recommend this book for anybody who likes political/religious humour.

-Derek