Teen Reviews
Attention Homer Township teens! Let the world know what you’re reading and your opinion of the book! Steps: 1.Choose a topic. 2.Click on the topic’s reviews link. 3.Leave your review! Reviews are monitored for appropriateness.
Teen Reviews
Attention Homer Township teens! Let the world know what you’re reading and your opinion of the book! Steps: 1.Choose a topic. 2.Click on the topic’s reviews link. 3.Leave your review! Reviews are monitored for appropriateness.
Topics
- biographies
- books for guys
- chick lit
- classics
- fantasy
- harry potter a read like
- horror
- humor
- historical fiction
- multicultural
- mystery
- nonfiction
- poetry
- realistic fiction
- romance
- science fiction
- short story collections
- suspense
- westerns
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Gregor the Overlander
This is a VERY good book!
The Spiderwick Chronicles
by Holly Black and Tony D.
These books have been very entertaining. If you're looking for a fast read, this is the perfect book!
Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting is a great book! It was about a young girl who wanders into the woods and finds a family that drank some "magic" water and will never die because of it. She travels with them for a long time and when she finally gets home it turns out they need her help, so she has to sneak out in the middle of night. I definitely think you should read this book to find out the whole story!
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (adult fiction)
In the series the main character Thursday Next works for SpecOps (Special Operations) in the Literary Detectives has to save the classic of Jane Eyre, from the notorious Archeron Hades, by heading into the book itself. Last time she used an invention of her Uncle Mycroft's the Prose Portal, but now she'll have to read her way in. Once inside the book world, she is drafted into Jurisfiction, the government inside books, and apprenticed to Miss Havisham (yes, that Miss Havisham, the one from Great Expectations). Will she be able to save Jack Schitt for Goliath, save her husband, and make her fictious court date?
This book, the second in the series, is my favorite of the four that have been released. I love learning more about Jurisfiction and the book world, and Thursday's world amuses me to no end. The thing I most love about this book, however, is the villian. I'll try not to give away too much, but the villian is quite formidable, and has the most unique way of trying to kill Thursday. But who is this foe, what score do they have to settle, and what is their power? You'll have to read and find out.
Midnighters: Blue Noon, Scott Westerfeld (young adult fiction)
Westerfeld certainly doesn't fail in his dramatic conclusion of the Midnighters trilogy. In the Midnighters series anyone born at midnight who lives in Bixby, OK gets an extra hour a day. Sounds great, huh? Everyone wants an extra hour, but these kids don't use that time to finish their homework, they're too busy saving the world. While everyone else is frozen, completely oblivious to the midnight hour or "blue time", creatures are all over the place, creatures who exist only inside the blue time. But those creatures, darklings, are getting ready to hunt. So when the blue time suddenly occurs at times other than midnight the teens are forced to investigate and find a way to stop the darklings from getting their way.
This book was fantastic, admittedly not my favourite of the series, but still great. It brings a great close to the series, but also leaves it open if Westerfeld decides to continue it. I really hope he does because this book got me to pay attention to math more, keep an eye out for tridecagolisms, and make me wish I could visit the blue time. And I couldn't put it down, not even for sleep; a great book for the dark hours.
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
This is the first book in the Gideon Trilogy. Peter and Kate are two teenagers who barely know each other. Kate's dad is a scientist. When Peter and Kate visit Kate's dad's work, they are accidently sent back in time. Nobody knows that they were sent back in time! They think they've run away. Kate and Peter must find the machine that sent them back in time in order to come back to the present day. In the process they meet a strange variety of people, including Gideon who has his own interesting story.
Eragon, a book full of surprises, action, suspense, and fantasy. It starts with a young farmboy named Eragon who finds a strange rock in the forest that he later finds to be one of the last three dragon eggs left in Algaesia. When his uncle is killed by the strange creatures of the Ra'zac, Eragon feels the need to seek revenge on the Ra'zac and leaves his home village with a mysterious storyteller and his dragon named Saphira. Along the road Eragon trains as the new dragon rider and the only one known in Algaesia to fullfill his destiny of killing the evil ruler Galbatorix who killed all the riders and their dragon except for three dragon eggs. Along the road Eragon fights a small army of Urgals and saves an elf named Arya, eventually going to the dwarf city which is preparing for a very large battle.
A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Libba Bray
(and historical fiction)
Gemma is forced to attend a girls school after her mother dies. Gemma is new to England, she grew up in India. At the bording school she learns of her secret powers and forms a cult like group with a few of her classmates. They discover different realms and a secret the school has been trying to hide. In the end, one of the girls will be lost.
Valiant by Holly Black.
Holly Black is a coauthor to the Spiderwick Chronicles. The Spiderwick Chronicles are written for grade school kids by this book, Valiant, is for teenagers.
In Valiant, Valerie decides to runaway from home after finding her own mother has betrayed her. She meets these kids that live in the in a subway tunnel. These teens work with faeries, distributing fairy dust. The faeries in the city are dying, one by one, and everyone has suspisions on who is murdering them.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis is one of the best fantasy series I have ever read! It is about several kids who get brought to the world of Narnia. There they must join with the Centaurs, Fauns, Talking animals etc. to save Narnia. There are seven books in all. My favorite one is The Lion, the Whitch and the Wardrobe. I would recommend this to anyone who likes fantasy.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Bella moves to a new town and meets Edward, a strangely fasinating beautiful boy. Something is odd about Edward by Bella can not figure out what that odd thing is. There are rumors about Edward and his family. Though Bella is warned to stay away, there is something that makes her want to get closer.
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Max is a bird-human. When she was younger she was taken to the lab where the inserted bird dna into her. She and her friends have wings and other special talents. These children are trying to make it on their own even though these scary “Erasors” are trying to capture them. There’s a lot of action going on in this book.
Magyk by Angie Sage is about an adopted girl who lives in a family of wizards, and is secretly a princess. Being a princess is great and all, but not when everyone hates the royal family and people are out to kill you. Sage put together a great storyline and used amazing detail, you'll never want to put the book down! Magyk is definetly in my top 10.
A certain slant of light.
The main character of this book is a woman who is now "Light." She passed away when she was in her 20s and has been haunting a human for the last 100+ years. Obviously, Light means ghost.
One day, she meets a human who can see her. It turns out that he used to be light but now has taken over someone's body.
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