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Blend a detailed lesson on discovering your personality/learning type with Marie and Law’s first hand knowledge of 82 possible colleges/universities majors and enviroments from across the spectrum and you see the potential their text Find the Perfect College for You has for students who just don’t know where to start their college search. Every high . . . → Read More: Find the Perfect College for You This biography of this well-known writer is excellent in that it is direct and factual. Inspiration for so many of Myers’ books is from his life. The subtitle of this book, Urban Fiction Author, emphasizes the main focus of Walter Dean Myers’ writing. He writes to speak to the unrepresented, disillusioned, struggling teenager that has . . . → Read More: Walter Dean Myers Bianca struggle for self-control is edgy and probably a bit too sexy for a school audience in Kody Keplinger’s The Duff (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). The storyline is pretty predictable but the redeeming value is Bianca’s reflective, smart, sometimes in-your-face voice as the narrator. Bianca is best friends with two girls she believes are much . . . → Read More: The Duff Authors of this self-help book are both Harvard graduates who have crafted a fine book of guidelines for parents, students and school staff for how to succeed in all the many aspects of college/university choice and acceptance. Any student in 10th or 11th grade ought to examine this book with their parents at their side . . . → Read More: Get Into Any College: Secrets of Harvard Students Michael Carroll’s success with his Quantum Prophecy series continues to spill over with this second book of a trilogy that is a prequel to the 1st series. The evil Krodin was gone, or so the superhumans Roz, Abby, Lance and Thunder thought 3 weeks earlier when walked away into their separate lives again. But overnight . . . → Read More: The Ascension: a Super Human clash Flyaway grabbed me from the start and I didn’t stop until the final decision was made. Stevie is a junior in high school with too much on her figurative plat and very little on her real plate. Her mother’s “profession” gets her harrassed at school and her mother’s personal choices keep Stevie’s mind racing as . . . → Read More: Flyaway Private Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American HistoryThe honest, evenly balanced research and writing of Denver Nicks in Private Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History is refreshing. Nicks assessment of situations, inferences from thousands of both email transcripts and personal interviews, and wry writing style give a fair critique of both t Manning and the . . . → Read More: Private Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History Pinned presents a refreshing twist on the girl meets boy theme – overcoming disabilities. Autumn is the only female on the wrestling team. Autumn has no confidence in her academic ability and is working below grade level. Autumn’s parents take her off of the wrestling team because her grades. She can pin an opponent . . . → Read More: Pinned by Sharon Flake Piper knows she’s cynical. Falling in love is not something she aspires to do. In fact, she usually walks away before she can every really get to know a guy. Enter her two best girlfriends with a love potion plan to find boyfriends by Feburary 14th. The fact that her single mother of three owns . . . → Read More: Love? Maybe The cover, featuring a handsome shirtless lifeguard, gives the reader the impression that The Lifeguard will be a romantic beach read. But the reader may be disappointed. The characters are poorly defined; for instance the reader learns next to nothing about the lifeguard, Pilot, other than that he is handsome and has supernatural healing powers. Sirena, . . . → Read More: The Lifeguard Shift is the sequel to Shade and is the second book in the Shade Trilogy. Shift takes up two months after Shade ends and continues the story of Aura, her dead boyfriend Logan, and a new love interest Zachary. This paranormal love triangle romance is full of action, dangerous and sexy entanglements with twists and . . . → Read More: Shift The final book in the Avatar Chronicles trilogy, Edda‘s story follows immediately upon the previous books, Epic and Sage. As very little back story is presented in Edda, it is best read after the first two books. The main character, Penelope has known no world beside the video game universe of Edda her entire life. . . . → Read More: Edda The sequel to Trickster’s Girl, Traitor’s Son continues an intriguing adventure story, full of non-stop action and interesting characters, including a likable teenaged hero. Blending magic and science with Pacific Northwest Native mythology, this fantasy novel will appeal to teenage readers. The introduction explains Democracy and it’s various elements, with an well done chronology of the evolution of democracy. Readability is good and the book is divided into components explaining various aspects of democracy with solid examples provided. There are interesting historical references to the development of the Bill of Rights, Amendments, and the Athenian Model. . . . → Read More: Democracy Hook, line and sinker, this reader went for Monarchy because of the cover. The young Elisabeth with her coronation garb made me want to read about her. No wonder my double take after the 1st chapter when I realized that the rest of the book would be about the history of monarchies, as the title . . . → Read More: Monarchy How brilliant to connect socially motivated young people with adult leaders, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, who have actually achieved recognition for making change happen. Peace Jam is an inspiring look at the work of the Nobel Laureates and how that work can also be accomplished by young people all over the world. Motivated individuals can . . . → Read More: Peace Jam “Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time for your main event.” So begins Patrick Jones’s 60 page chronological tour of the “sports entertainment” genre known as professional wrestling. The first 16 pages offer up an interesting historical timeline of the key match ups over the 100+ years of “entertainment” wrestling. The second chapter basically gives . . . → Read More: The Main Event: The Moves and Muscle of Pro Wrestling The last year of Rose Hathaway’s life wraps up her typical dramatic flare in Last Sacrifice, the final installment of the Vampire Academy novels. Rose is on her way to becoming her best friend Lissa’s guardian when the unimaginable happens – she is accused of murdering the queen, which is also her boyfriend’s aunt. Well . . . → Read More: Last Sacrifice Shelley Coriell, noted romance writer, has entered new territory with Welcome, Caller, This is Chloe, her debut novel. Strong in voice, characters, plot, topics, and emotion, Coriell takes readers into the engaging world of Chloe Camden, junior at Del Ray High School in Southern California, as major changes are shaking her life. Chloe loves vintage . . . → Read More: Welcome, Caller, This is Chloe Curtis Jackson III, aka 50 cent, surprises music fans and readers alike with Playground, a one-of-a-kind story about fitting in and the paths people take. In 13 year old “Butterball’s” world, every day is a new battle: dodging the glares of his classmates, eating lunch alone in the bathroom stall, wishing his weight would stop . . . → Read More: Playground Thomas Fleming freely admits that there will be confusion as he tries to explain the philosophical shifts in the theory of socialism in his book of the same title from Marshall Cavendish’s Political Systems of the World series. Classical definitions of socialism, communism and liberalism will are used, which means that a liberal believes that . . . → Read More: Socialism The factual, informative style of “Inside the Industry:Entertainment” by Marcia Lusted is a useful resource to determine the practicality of a career in entertainment. Many of the kinds of employment available in this industry are behind the scenes and are as creative and dynamic as the “star” roles. By investigating the requirements of each job, . . . → Read More: Inside the Industry Entertainment Tyger, Tyger is the exciting first book in the Goblin War series by Kerstan Hamilton. High school teenage angst of the 21st century is entwined with primordial struggles between goblins and humankind of Irish/Celtic mythology. Danger and excitement build as Teagan learns about her mother’s true identity and the role she is thrown into in . . . → Read More: Tyger, Tyger Book #5 in the Vampire Academy novel series, Spirit Bound, takes Rose Hathaway on a quest to free her imprisoned true love, Dimitri Belikov, who also happens to currently be a Strigoi, an evil undead vampire. Strigoi are always hunting Moroi. but Rose has discovered a way to change Dimitri back into the Moroi he . . . → Read More: Spirit Bound Azael Arevalo is a gangster who loves to do his tagging artwork. He is loyal to his MS13 homies, a Mexican gang in Houston, Texas, because his own family life is so tragic. So it’s no surprise to the reader as they learn that the alternating then and now chapter subtitles refer to Az’s life . . . → Read More: The Knife and the Butterfly |
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