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The following titles used to be in my Books section. I'm trying to keep that page populated with the most current books that I've read.
Names Will Never Hurt Me by Jamie Adoff It's been exactly one year since Jake Stiles was murdered in the 3rd floor
bathroom. Will anything happen in school? Follow four students, the
principal, and a reporter as they go through the school day.
Storm
Catchers by Tim Bowler One stormy night in Cornwall, Ella is kidnapped from her family's home, and
her brother Fin blames himself because he left her alone and went to visit a
friend. While the family searches for Ella, Ella learns some deep dark
secrets from her kidnapper that will affect her family for the rest of their
lives. Calwyn has lived all her life with the ice priestesses of Antaris. One
day, while renewing the ice wall around the compound she comes upon a man.
An Outlander. Lying injured across her path. She brings him back to
the compound and he tells them that the man chasing him wishes to be the Singer
of All Songs. In a land where magic is worked by singing, this would give
him power over all types of magic. It is up to Calwyn and the Outlander
Darrow to stop him. Theora and her little brother Verb are staring at the lake for Theora's
science project when a submarine surfaces. It belongs to world famous
scientist Dr. Ubermind. who takes them to his lab. While there, Verb and
Theora get kidnapped by giant cockroaches disguised as humans, and Theora is
recruited for the intergalactic beauty pageant, to be held on Neptune.
During the pageant, she also comes upon a plan to take over the galaxy's pop
charts. Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
Matt is being punished for a crime he didn't commit. As an alternative sentence, he is sent to live with Mrs. Deverill in Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. Something weird is going on in Lesser Malling, and people who befriend him keep dying or disappearing. An ancient evil is about to be released at the site of a former stone circle, and Matt is to be sacrificed. Born to Rock by Gordon Korman Leo Carraway is the president of the Young Republicans with a full scholarship to Harvard. One day, he is accused to helping a classmate cheat and he loses the scholarship. He finds out that his biological father, Marion X. McMurphy was the lead singer for Purge, the most popular punk rock band in the 80s, and decides to ask him to pay for Harvard. So he joins the road crew for Purge and learns some surprising things about himself, his biological father, and his best friend, Melinda.
Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling American Gwen and Irish Findabhair are two cousins who have always been
obsessed with Faerie. One summer they go backpacking across Ireland, and
dare to spend the night in a Faerie Mound. Findabhair is kidnapped by the
King of Faerie and it's up to timid Gwen to rescue her.
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean Bloody Jack by Louis A. Meyer Orphaned by the plague, Mary Faber lives on the streets of London with a gang
of other children. One day, she hears that the ships are recruiting ship's
boys. She goes, pretending to be a boy, and is recruited because she can
read. Over the next two years she encounters pirates and storms and
tropical islands, and her secret is almost revealed several times. Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn by Sarah Miller An anonymous girl finds herself in the mind of a new boy at her exclusive prep school. Crystal Doors by Rebecca Moesta and Kevin J. Anderson Gwen and Vic are twin cousins. Their fathers were twin brothers and they were born hours apart. One day, Vic's dad brings Gwen and Vic to an ocean park, and Gwen is chosen to feed the orca. The orca attacks her, and while Gwen is shaken, it seems to stir her uncle into some kind of action. That night, Gwen and Vic find Vic's father in the solarium surrounded by crystals, and when they walk in, they are surrounded by blinding light and pass out. When they wake up, they are in Elantya, and they learn that the medallions from their mothers bear powerful Elantyan symbols. Who were their mothers? How will they get back home? Will they even survive the war between the Elantyans and the Merlons? |