2011 Reviews by: Clintonville
between shades of gray
Lina and her family live in Lithuania before World War II breaks out. This is a not a story about about how the Germans treated the Lithuanians but what the Russians did to them. It is a horriifying story about their journey to Siberia. Lina has love and hope on her side, will it be enough? A gripping story that is not for the weak of heart.
Holes
It's a story about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two boys bcome best friends in probably the worst place ever! Read and find out.
The Clique
Clair is the new girl in town. She moved from Orlando, Florida to Winchester, New York. To make things worse Massie is just plain mean. Can Clair learn to fit in? or, Will she be doomed to a life of being hated by Massie?
When your life is a maze, you need wings.
At age fourteen, Rick Walker's life is a maze of dead-ends. He had been shuffled along from foster home to foster home. After age ten your chances of being adopted are zip. Nobody wanted him. He had escaped from Blue Canyon Detention Center, and found himself in the middle of nowhere. He hid in the back of a truck trailer and after a long bumpy rid, he found himself in the middle of nowhere again! But this Middle of Nowhere had a name, The Maze. It was a mass of canyons, and stark red-rock spires, and slick-rock. He was in the camp of a bird biologist who was releasing fledgling Californian Condors back into the wild. Later when the biologist is gone, two men and a dog in a beat up Humvee drive into camp. Un aware of Rick they start talking.... Rick soon realizes that the Biologist, his birds, and himself are in grave danger.
Interesting...
First of all I only suggest this book IF you have already seen the movie. The reason for this, being, all of the art work and the book itself. The lay out of the book is drawings, and pictures, then explanations. For example, they have several drawings of their ideas for Blackbeard’s flag. Then there are pictures of ideas they had before filming, like sets and towns, characters and how the Fountain of Youth was to look like. All in all, if you’re a fan of the movie, I’m sure you will find this book very interesting.
An ALA Best Book
Trouble is Cloyd’s middle name. At age fourteen he has missed the last four years of school. Where was he all that time? Hiding in the canyons of Utah. He had run away from the group home he had been placed in. He wished people would just leave him alone to live with his grandmother and their goats. Now he was being taken to a farm in Colorado, to help an old man with some jobs. Cloyd didn’t know what they were, and he didn’t care. As soon as he got there, he was going to run away. He was going back to Utah, to live in the canyons again. But when he got there, something changed his mind. Something that he found that would change his life, and the old man’s. Something that seemed so small.
I really liked this book, it was filled with adventure and vivid incidents. I give it a four out of five star rating.
It was supposed to be a carefree vacation...but it would change his life forever
For years mom has wanted to go on a trip to Mexico, and now it's finally happening...except dad isn't going. He has been apposed to this trip ever since the idea was formed. So it's just mom, Travis, Jennifer, and Teddy. The story is narrated by the oldest, Travis. His family goes down to Mexico, and at first it's great. Then his mom starts acting strange. Jennifer, fourteen, is constantly worrying about her, and the family. Then there's Teddy, he's running around trying to saved endangered sea turtles. Not that Travis cares. He's just waiting to meet some beautiful stranger that also happenes to be on vacation, and start a relationship. But then everything changes. For the worse.
I read this book practically non-stop, and it took about five hours. I REALLY loved it. This is another book that goes on my "favorite books" list. Five exploding stars.
The Last Little Blue Envelope
In Maureen Johnson's newest masterpiece, a sequel to 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Ginny finds herself back in England to get the last envelope that was stolen from her previously. Oliver, a man living in England, bought her bag (containing her envelopes) from the theif and tracked Ginny down. So, Ginny goes to England over Christmas break to get the promised letter in the envelope. But, when Ginny and Oliver met, Oliver wouldn't give her the letter. He did tell her, however, that there was one remaining art piece her Aunt Peg wanted her to put together. What she didn't know was that she had to collect three objects and put them together to create the final piece. Oliver did know this and only agreed to give Giiny the letter back if he came with and got half of the final profit from the art auction. After this meeting, she went to see Keith, her boyfriend that she met last time she was in England.
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