About enemies with two legs and friends with four, and pesky little sisters and cranky old men, and an unexpected lesson in kindness delivered with a slice of pizza. Illuminae by Amie Kaufan and Jay Kristoff. This afternoon, her planet was invaded. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.
But their problems are just getting started. Legend by Marie Lu. What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers.
Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers.
A communications blackout with Earth hits, and all of Perses is on its own for three months. But they never prepared for an attack. Landers, as the attackers are called, obliterate the colony to steal the metal and raw ore. Now in a race against time, Christopher, along with a small group of survivors, are forced into the maze of mining tunnels.
But can they survive? Need by Joelle Charbonneau. The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan.
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They have always scared him in the past—the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied. Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: But then tragedy strikes- and Fern feels not only more alone than ever, but also responsible for the accident that has wrenched her family apart.
All will not be well. Or at least all will never be the same. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Stop all that quivering. Eragon by Christoper Paolini.
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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire. The Maze Runner by James Dashner. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.
Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Two brothers will need all their wilderness skills to survive when they set off into the woods of Wyoming in search of their absent father. Jake and Taylor Wilder have been taking care of themselves for a long time.
Their father abandoned the family years ago, and their mother is too busy working and running interference between the boys and her boyfriend, Bull, to spend a lot of time with them. Thirteen-year-old Jake spends most of his time reading. Eleven-year-old Taylor likes to be outside playing with their dog, Cody, or joking around with the other kids in the neighborhood.
But one night everything changes. The boys discover a dangerous secret that Bull is hiding. And the next day, they come home from school to find their mother unconscious in an ambulance. Knowing they are no longer safe and with nowhere else to go, the Wilder Boys head off in search of their father. They only have his old letters and journal to help them, but they have to make it.
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To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden away. Sylvie and Jules, Jules and Sylvie. Jules is devastated, but she refuses to believe what all the others believe, that—like their mother—her sister is gone forever.
At the very same time, in the shadow world, a shadow fox is born—half of the spirit world, half of the animal world. She too is fast—faster than fast—and she senses danger. And when Jules believes one last wish rock for Sylvie needs to be thrown into the river, the human and shadow worlds collide. If you want to know how to make extra money, search for: Thank you so much! I am curious how you built a culture that has kids reading and thinking at this level.
It is definitely a year long adventure as well as one built upon the hard work of the teachers that come before me. I wrote extensively about how we do it both on this blog and in my book Passionate Readers. These where a great books and a great prefrence to read. I pinned half of these to my Pinterest reading list and bookmarked your blog. Thank you for sharing. Is there anyway for me to recommend a book? This was from my own students so no vote, just what they declared.
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Which book would you recommend? I want to read Wonder because last time in 5th grade my teacher read it and it was fun and interesting. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content May 13, May 15, Pernille Ripp. Girl gets boy back… …sort of. But from the start, everything goes wrong. When Amanda turns in for the night, glad to have her birthday behind her, she wakes up happy for a new day.
Her birthday seems to be repeating itself. What is going on?! And how can she fix it? Only time, friendship, and a little luck will tell. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window.
The monster in his backyard is different. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd— whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself— Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
Into the Wild Warriors: And that she must run. In the year , reality is an ugly place. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives.
Along the way Max discovers from her old friend and father-figure Jeb—now her betrayed and greatest enemy—that her purpose is to save the world—but can she? Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other.
What will it take for them to find each other? This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose. Wait Till Helen Comes: Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather.
Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. World War II is raging. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth. But Michael has a secret. He and his parents are spies. Michael despises everything the Nazis stand for. Including… his own life.
Some choices change everything. Scarlett chose to run. And the consequences will be deadly. Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett was lucky enough to eventually escape her captor. There are cute boys, new friends, and the chance to finally have a normal life. Her first day on the job, Scarlett is shocked to discover that a girl from the park has gone missing.
Old memories come rushing back. And now as she meets her new coworkers, one of the girls seems strangely familiar. When Scarlett chose to run all those years ago, what did she set into motion? And when push comes to shove, how far will she go to uncover the truth. Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair—it will take all his know-how and determination, and more courage than he knew he possessed, to survive. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.
Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. Believe is the profoundly moving story of Eric LeGrand, the former defensive tackle for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights football team, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury and was left paralyzed by a crushing on-field tackle during a heated game with Army. A Long Walk to Water: The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in and a boy in Pedru longs to kill the lion that mauled him and strengthens himself to be ready for the hunt.
But when the opportunity arises, will Pedru have the strength to turn his back on revenge? Tia lives with her mom in a high-risk neighborhood in New Orleans and loves singing gospel in the Rainbow Choir with Keisha, her boisterous and assertive best friend. The loss prompts her to start asking the people in her community hard questions—questions everyone has always been too afraid to ask. The only way to learn the secret. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch.
Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Clay is one of them. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night.
When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her. Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon — her best friend, Libby, who lives.
Trenton Colman is a creative thirteen-year-old boy with a knack for all things mechanical. But his talents are viewed with suspicion in Cove, a steam-powered city built inside a mountain. In Cove, creativity is a crime and invention is a curse word. Kallista Babbage is a repair technician and daughter of the notorious Leo Babbage, whose father died in an explosion an event the leaders of Cove point to as an example of the danger of creativity.
Working together, Trenton and Kallista learn that Leo Babbage was developing a secret project before he perished. They soon discover that what they are building may threaten every truth their city is founded on and quite possibly their very lives. Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. To figure out who he is again. If only Mike will listen. For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan.
At least, not until Patch came along. With his easy smile and probing eyes, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth more unsettling than any feeling Patch evokes. For Nora stands amid an ancient battle between the immortal and those who have fallen—and choosing the wrong side will cost her life. Fear Street is cursed. And how Fear Street became the evil place it is today. This New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial.
Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr.
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Omalu was new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria. After retiring in , Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. Toward the end of his life, he was living out of his van, tasering himself to relieve his chronic pain, and fixing his rotting teeth with Super Glue. How did this happen? How did a young man like Mike Webster end up like this? Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town?
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Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. He wants to fail. So he tries his best to do his worst — and fails at failing. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger?
Overwhelmed with fear, Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one big mistake in her attempt to find her brother. In a chilling climax on a Washington State ferry, Bonnie and Matt must outsmart their abductor or pay with their lives. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1.
Life on the Refrigerator Door: Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you—but We are not you. We have powers you dream of having. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books— But we are real. They caught Number One in Malaysia. His team struggles as their own members fall victim to the virus in a race to discover a vaccine.
Colonel Kinnick rushes his paltry forces into the rocky passes of Colorado to hold the dead off long enough for a vaccine to be found. If he fails, the Vice President will burn the entire Western Seaboard into the blazing inferno of a nuclear holocaust.
In the epic third installment of The End Time Saga, Daniel Greene brings the brutalized remainders of humanity even closer to the edge of defeat. The dead have been ravaging the planet for months. All their attempts to stem the tide of the dead have failed. The fringe West Virginians are teaching him a valuable lesson in the new rules of the apocalypse.
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The mountain folk are as resilient as they are ruthless and Steele must find a way out to save his people. In a desperate gamble to stop the virus, retired Air Force Colonel Michael Kinnick has been entrusted with finding Dr. Outside of Pittsburgh, Dr. As the military quarantine disintegrates around Pittsburgh, death marches closer, and time is running out. Steele is forced to go further than he ever imagined in order to save his loved ones, but when he is done, will anyone still recognize him? Will he recognize them?
And will he recognize himself? In this thrilling sequel to End Time, Daniel Greene continues his fast paced and gripping apocalyptic saga. The Breaking, transports us to a near future composed of death, honor, destruction and hope as the United States falls and lives crumble before a devastating zombie virus. Daniel Greene has written one of the most thrilling post-apocalyptic books of Protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa.
Civil war erupts and people tear each other apart in the streets of the African capital. An overwhelmed US Department of State dispatches a team of elite counterterrorist agents to bring their besieged people back alive. Agent Mark Steele leads the team of gritty operatives, who have been trained for anything.