The Hunger Games

             

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Pages: 374

             There are boys and girls as young as twelve prepared to kill others until one person is left in the arena. It’s all a “game” for entertainment. Katniss Everdeen was drawn from the reaping ball to compete against 23 others in the Hunger Games, an event established after the Dark Days when the thirteen, now twelve, districts rebelled to keep them reminded that the Capital is in charge. Two from each district are picked and her district partner is Peeta, a boy who saved her life five years before. Who will come out of the arena alive? 

Alan and Naomi

Alan and Naomi

Myron Levoy

Pages: 192

Milkweed

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

Pages: 208

            There are Jackboots marching down the road lined with bombed out buildings, followed by tanks while one boy thinks it is a wonderful parade. In Milkweed  by Jerry Spinelli, that boys name is Misha, an orphan and gypsy, who meets a little girl named Janina and becomes good friends with her. When every Jew and gypsy moves to the Warsaw ghetto, he steals food for her family and himself when Janina starts, too. When the trains come to the ghetto to take the Jews to work camps, Janina gets lost in the crowd and goes to the work camp, leaving him alone. Misha is very arrogant at the beginning when he wants to be a Jackboot and part of that “wonderful parade.” If I were Misha, I would have taken Janina very far away, without her knowing, so she couldn’t go to the trains and to the work camp.

The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic

Jane Yolen

170 Pages

The Son of Neptune

The Son of Neptune

Rick Riordan

513 Pages

Percy Jackson? He’s too loyal to his friends. He can’t give them up, not for anything.” Mars, the Roman god of War, explains. The Son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan, is about a teenager, Percy Jackson, and his two new friends, Frank and Hazel, who all go on a quest to save the Roman demi-god camp, Camp Jupiter. The quest is to free Death and kill the giant Alcyoneus to stop everything from regenerating after it dies. Before Percy arrived at Camp Jupiter, he lost his memory and spent most of his quest getting it all back. Percy is very loyal to his new friends, and, as Mars said, can’t give them up for anything. If they have a movie for this, I hope it follows the story closely because it is too good to change!

Rain Haiku

Tapping, snapping, POP!

White as snow. Tiny as pebbles.

Hail! From the cloudy sky.

Pendragon: The Pilgrims of Rayne

Number of Pages: 547
The Pilgrims of Rayne is the eighth installment of the Pendragon series and has a great plot. In this new territory, Bobby finds people that he's not sure if they know a lot about technology or not and sails away from the island of Ibara with the Jakills to find out. What he finds is even more important, that this territory is Veelox, only 300 years in the future! He realizes that Saint Dane is planning an attack on Ibara, and Bobby mixes the territories to prepare for the battle. Will this new, not to mention, risky, tactic help save Veelox, or make it worse?
Read the book to find out!