Reviews by : Waupaca Area Public Library
Great book for teens just learning what they like to read
"The accident was over a year ago. I've been awake for two weeks. Over a year has vanished. I've gone from sixteen to seventeen. A second woman has been elected president. A twelfth planet has been named in the solar system. The last wild polar bear has died. Headline news that couldn't stir me. I slept through it all."
Jenna Fox has just woken up from a coma. She can’t remember where she is, who her family is, or even who she used to be. While her personal memories are blank, she can remember the facts of the world she left behind. From the moment she woke up, she has been given disks to watch. These are disks of her past life containing moments from birth to the year she entered her coma. As she watches the disks, she learns so much about a girl she is supposed to be. In reality, she is just trying to figure herself out in a world that may not be what it seems. Can she trust these people she calls Mom and Dad? Can she even believe in herself?
Read more»Wisconsin Connections
Felton Reinstein makes phenomenal changes in Stupid Fast: He goes from joke to jock, slow to fast, skinny to barbarian, hairless to hairy. He comes to these self-realizations through a difficult summer when his dysfunctional family is at it's most vulnerable. Maybe it all started when, at age 5, he found his father had committed suicide in the garage. This book has very funny, honest and realistic glimpses into being sixteen and discovering new things about the world. There's romance, sports, humor, mystery..... something for everyone. Wisconsinites can get a mental image of Plateville, WI when reading Stupid Fast. Geoff Herbach will be a featured author at the Waupaca Book Festival on October 13, 2012. Read this book and come meet the author.
Marvel-ous Book
All Just glass takes place within a 24 hour time period. The reason why is there is a vampire hunt going. There are witches and vampires. There are three main characters, Adia, Zach, and Sarah. Adia and Zach; are witches and Sarah used to be a witch but was changed into a vampire. So now all the witches are after Sarah. In the middle Sarah turns herself in and after awhile something bad happened. Then in the end Adia stabs Sara, but Sarah lived. Now the Vampires and Witches are on a truce. The book was really good.
Marvel-ous Book
Picture the Dead is about a girl named Jennie Louell. Jennie experiences strange events. Jennie wanted to know if her love was dead or alive. So Jennie went and acted like a spy. She ends up getting engaged to Will's brother Quinn. But in the end Quinn and Jennie don't marry because Quinn ended up pushing Jennie in the water and he knew she didn't know how to swim. But she ended up surviving and made it back home. Then when she did she said she wanted to leave the house. So she has a place of her own now. Quinn was just using her to get more wealthy. It was a really good book.
Marvel-ous Book
Death: At Death's Door is a comic about a goddess named Death. In the book Death's brother Dream goes after his lost love and to fight Lucifer. When that all happens, all the dead people come to Death's house. Plus Death and her two sisters catch strageleres. Then after a while the dead all go back to where they came from. The book was really good.
Marvel-ous Book
Leviathan is about a prince that parents died and he has to get away. The other part is about a girl that pretends to be a guy to join the army. They are enemies the prince is from Austria and the girl is a darwinist. They meet up after the darwinist crash and the prince gives them supplies. When the Leviathan is ready they went up and got away from the enemies but the prince got them with his two other men. I really liked this book. I recommend this book to people who like fantasy and adventure.
Imagine a 7 mile column ...
Imagine a column the size of a picnic table that stretches 7 miles up from where you are right now. That column is filled with the carbon dioxide that you are responsible for creating (in the things you use every day). Without too much doom and gloom, this book offers hope and useful solutions to what others call a dire future for planet Earth. Filled with individual stories and lots of great information on ways to find out more, you will really get inspired by this book.
Is it a biography or a mystery?
Most recognize Jane Austen as the famous author of Pride & Prejudice, Emma, and Sense & Sensibility. But did you know that very little is actually known about her personally? This biography is attempt to unearth the little known facts about what Jane's real life was really like. Did you know that she wrote Sense & Sensibility first as a series of letters between two main characters? And, that she was 18 when she published them? Wow! Austen wrote about 3000 letters, but only 160 survive. Just in case I ever do anything notable.....save my letters! This was an interesting biography of a woman born much before her time.
