The Hunger Games

     The book I read was the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book is futeristic. I choose this book for a few reasons. One reason I choose this book was because I had heard by a lot of people that it was a awesome book. Another reason why I choose this book is because a teacher had recommended it to me
     The reaping was coming up soon and everyone in all 12 districts were putting on their most fancy cloths for this event. During the reaping one boy and one girl from each district had to be given to the capital. There names would be drawn out of the reaping ball. Katniss, around thirteen years old, wore her mothers old blue dress. When the name drawings began Katniss'es sister was drawn and so was another boy from her district, Peeta. Katniss could not let her sister go into the Hunger Games, a fight to death. Katniss had voulentered for her sister. Not many people did volunter. Katniss and Peeta along with many others from other districts were soon to aboard a train and go to the capital. Were at the capital they would meet their styilists, Cinna and Portia. The styilists would make Peeta and Katniss starts when they were first presented. All the cameras were focused on them. Later they would start there training sessions. During training they could learn many skills from snares to weapons. On the last day of the training sessions each tribute had a change, in private, to show the gamemakers what they knew most. Katniss of course showed them archery. She was an excellent archer. They would all later before the games began recieve a training score. Katniss recieved an eleven. When the games started they were to reamin on a platform for sixty seconds. When the time was up Katniss was distracted by Peeta and missed her chance to gather the much needed supplies at the center. Slowly one by one tributed were killed off. The killed were each shown at the end of the night lighted up in the sky folowing by the anthem. It came down to that one pair, due to a twist in the game, that one. Read the rest of the book to find out the rest.
     I liked many things about The Hunger Games. One thing was how you were left in suspension a could of times. Another is that the book was hard to put down at times. This is appropriate for the age group of 11-adult. It would require a medium reading level. I would recommend this book to a friend. If you like mystery and suspension i would recommend this book to you.

Maximum Ride Volume 1

Recently I read a book called Maximum Ride by James Patterson.  This book was phenominal and i couldnt stop reading it.      
          This book was mainly about a girl named Maximum (Max for short) who was trying to save her little sister named Angel.  But Maximum and her sister are not normal people.  They are creatures and they have wings.  That is why they captured Angel.  Max and her brothers ans sisters go to look for Angel and at one point they get split up.  Her sister and brother stay in a cave while Max continues to look for Angel.  They go through many hardships and finally overcome their challenge with getting their sister back.  But meanwhile when Max is looking for her brothers and her sisters they get attacked by this one person who tries to deystroy them.  She always overcomes it and in the end she finds her brothers and sisters.  They decide to stay in the cave so they do not risk getting killed.  That is where the book ended.
              Three things I liked about this book was it was a quick read and the pictures were wll drawn.  I also liked that it was suspenseful.  Three things i did not like was that at times it got confusing and it was sad.  Last I disliked that it was too short anad it left you hanging, I think this book is reccomended for ages 10+.  I would reccomend this book for anyone who likes anime.               

North

North was written by Donna Jo Napoli. North is a fictional story. I chose to read this book because I was looking for a suspenseful story.

In this story, Alvin wants his overprotective mother to leave him alone. So when she has Mrs.Keeys walk Alvin to school when Alvin was 12 years old. That's when Alvin realizes that he cant deal with that any longer. So he leaves....

I liked that this book had such a good plot and very good characters. I don't like that Alvin left his mom at the age of 12. This book is appropriate for ages 10+. If you like suspenseful books then you will defiantly like this book.

Scrawl

The book I read was Scrawl by Mark Shulman. This book is about a boy who is a bully and has to write about himself and why he bullies people. I chose this book because I like reading about bullies and seeing what they have to say for themselves.

Tod doesn't want to write about himself but he has to because his teacher is making him write why he bullies other students and about his life.

One thing I liked about this book was that it was very descriptive and it also was the book for me. Theres nothing I didn't like about this book. This age group is appropriate for 13-any age. I think any people who have big hearts would like this book.

The Scorch Trials

I recently read a book called The Scorch Trials by James Dashner. The bopoks genre is science fiction. I read this book because I just read the first book in the series, The Maze Runner.

Thomas and the rest of the Glader wake up to find that thier rescuers are dead. Teresa is missing and in her place is a boy named Aris. They find out that they have to cross the Scorch, the hottest, dryest and most deserted place on the planet. If they reach the safe haven in time they will be rewarded with the cure to the flare, which they now know for sure they have. Will they make it to the safe haven and get the cure to the flare?

There were a lot of things that i liked about the book. On thing is that there is a lot of detail. I also liked that the chapters were mostly short. This made the book easier to read. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes adventure and suspense.

Beautiful Creatures

The book I read was "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I read this book because my favorite genre is realistic fiction or mystical romance. I would recommend this book to anyone that liked the Twlight Saga.

In the small town of Gatlin Ethan Wate is haunted by nightmares of a beautiful girl he's never met. His mother died about the same time the dreams started and ever since his father never leaves his house. One day a new student arrives at school, Lena Duchannes, and she happens to be the girl Ethan is always dreaming about.

Mamma Ethans house keeper is a card reader and is very superstitious. She doesnt want Ethan to see Lena because she believes she has to do with dark magic. She makes things to keep Ethan safe from dark spirits, but little does Ethan know she knows more about Lena than she is telling him.

Lena Duchannes moves to the small town of Gatlin to live with her uncle, Macon Ravenwood. Everyone believes she is a witch because Ravenwood Mannor is haunted and who would go to live with someone who has never left there houe in years? No one likes her at school and after she breaks a window, with her powers Ethan discovers she has later on but no one knows she has, they try to ban her from school.

Two things i liked about this book is how well it leads into the main events, it doesnt rush but also doesnt take to slow. The author gave you enough infrmation to explain what was going on but made you want to know more.

One thing i didnt like was seeing parts of the past, it helped you understand why things were happening but i felt it was a waste of time. I would recommend this to anyone who likes spooky things. The age group that this book is appropriate for i'd say it 13 and up.

A Northern Light

I read A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. This book is about a girl's dream to become a published author. I chose this book because it sounded interesting to me.

Mattie Gokey wanted to go to college and become a published author, but after her mother's death it seems impossible. Mattie's mother made her promise never to leave her brother, three sisters, and her father. Then Mattie's brother Lawton left after having a fight with her father. All of Mattie's dreams are slowly just becoming dreams and no longer becoming a reality. She has the everything she needs, the money, the acceptance letter, even a place to stay, but it is all worthless due to that promise and the disapproval of her father and Royal, the man Mattie plans on marrying. When she gets a job at the Glenmore hotel, a women named Grace Brown asks her to burn a pile of letters. Later that day Grace Brown's body is pulled out of the river after she supposedly drowned. Mattie reads the letters and finds out the true story of Grace's death. Mattie must decide whether to leave her family, the man of her dreams Royal, and everything she has ever known and go to college, or stay knowing the real story of Grace Brown but never being able to let it out.

One of the things I liked about this book is the suspense. I also liked all the unexpected turns the book takes. One of the things I didn't like was that it ended kind of suddenly and I wished the author had continued to write. Another thing I didn't like was it got confusing at times because it kept going from the present back to Mattie's past. I think this book is appropriate for anybody over the age of 12 because it is very graphic at times and the author doesn't hold back at all with her descriptions of certain things. Also this book contains a lot of big and confusing words so you have to be able to understand them in order to understand the book. I would defiantly recommend it to a friend or anyone who likes books that take place in the late 1800s and early 1900s.