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Feature Article
By Brandon The school year is coming to an end. And so is the YAAB (Young Adult Advisory Board). We had lots of fun reading books and writing reports in hopes that you would have just as much fun reading them. The library was very kind in letting us be apart of this program although Stacy because some of took the privilege for granted most of us enjoyed and are thankful for it. And I as a member of that group would like to thank the library, the librarians, and especially the custodians for cleaning up after us. I would also like to give a special thanks to with out her the YAAB would not have been so much fun. The YAAB is saying good-bye for now but we plan on being back next year with more book’s, new idea’s and a whole lot more fun. See you soon, the Young Adult Advisory Board. Book Reviews
Fiction Blue Highways
By William Least Heat-Moon If you’ve ever thought of taking a road trip- this could be your book. Following the trips continental journey of William Moon, the book visits several hundred cities around America, seeking treasures- the weird and the wonderful. Centered mostly around the people he meets at each stop, the book provides a detailed narrative of an unimportant moral- the need to be free and to be an individual. One of the few required reading books I actually liked, I’d recommend this book to anyone, especially high schoolers. You may just learn something very important about yourself. Reviewed by Emily
Jason and the Escape
From Bat Planet!
By Gery Greer and Bob Ruddick Jason Hark is back in his third out-of-this-world adventure. Now the intergalactic troubleshooting team is tacking off on a rescue mission to face the bad bats of Bluggax. Cooper Vor, the team’s leader has a plan… sort of. This book is not
scary, but is interesting and kind of funny. Enjoy. Reviewed by Amanda Over the Water
By Maude Casey Over the Water is about a girl named Mary and her mom. Her family travels to Ireland every year because that is where her parents home land is. Mary is 14 and cannot even stare in her mother’s eyes because her and her mother are not at all close. When her family goes to Ireland her and her mother are struggling. They can’t talk to each other. They are locked in a struggle that is threatening to tear them both apart- unless they can learn from their family’s past. Reviewed by Margaret Survival! Earthquake
By
K. Duey and K.A. Bale This book is about two kids who have no parents. There is a boy and girl. The boys name is Brendon O’Connot and his parents have died, he lives in the back of a warehouse. He works as a deliver pastries boy. He saved up $15 in a leather pouch and hid it in a loose brick at his church (St. Mary’s). The girls name is Li Doi Yue she works at her uncle’s shop her parents are dead. Her uncle said some mean things to her and she ran away. Also her uncle was forcing her to marry an old mean man named Chow Yee. She almost gets trampled by Brendons horse. He asks her if she was all right when the ground starts to shake! Will they survive the fires, looters and the chaos? And will Brendon be able to talk Doi Yue to go with him to safety? Solders are out now and are going to shoot the looters. Brendon and Doi Yue are so bungly Brendon goes to get some food and finds a crate of organs he comes and hears horse hoofs, is it a solder? Or a friend of Brendon’s? And will they survive the crumble buildings and the whole earthquake together? Read it to find out. I like how it was only chapters to get to the good parts and it was about kids and disasters, which I like a lot. It was also very interesting. Hope you enjoy it! Danielle After the Bomb: Week OneBy Gloria Miklowitz This is the second book in a series and was very exciting, I haven’t read the first one yet, but this book was still very good. “Maybe its because I’m not that picky”. The book starts at 24 hrs. after the bomb the dropped on Los Angeles by the Russians, supposedly by accident. A boy named Philip was in his basement with his brother Matt, and their mother was up stairs when the bomb hit, so the boy’s took their mother a helicopter to be transported to a hospital that was still standing, and now the real troubles start, they have to travel miles by foot not knowing what new surprise the next step would bring. What are they going to do? How are they going to find their father? And is the president going to declare war? To find the answer I suggest you read this book. Reviewed by Brandon The Dark Side of NowhereBy Neal Shusterman Jason Miller thinks his hometown, Billington, is a Norman Rockwell painting. Boring! Then strange things start to happen. One of his friends supposedly dies from a burst appendix. He receives a mysterious glove from a stranger. He gets a painful shot every month. His parents have been keeping something from him his whole life-a deed, dark secret. Read this book to find out who-or what-Jason, his family, and his friends really are. Reviewed by Kathryn
MattimeoBy Brian Jacques Mattimeo is a book in the redwall series. It
begins at Redwall abbey a day before mid summers day feast. A band of slavers
lead by Slagar the cruel, a fox who wears a mask, to disguise them selves as
traveling entertainers and go into the abbey in the middle of the feast. Slagar
dances on the table and in the process drops sleeping powder into everyone’s
drinks. When everyone is asleep they take the labor worthy children and head
out of abbey.
When the Redwallers realize what happened they send a party out to get the children. Led by the Redwall warrior Mattias whose son was taken with others from the abbey. A few weeks after the search party leaves, birds from the north come to capture Redwall abbey! Will Mattias and the rest find their children? Will the other redwallers banish the birds? Read this book to find out. This book was the first one I read in the series. When I read this book I was captured by the adventures and the way the book was so well written. Whenever I check out a new Redwall book, I always think it won’t be better than the rest, but somehow I’m always wrong. Reviewed by: Angie Sabrina the
Teenage Witch
By David Weiss When Sabrina starts popping in and out of books and TV she knows something is wrong. First she thinks it is the quizmaster giving her a pop quiz, but when she meets the quizmaster in her handbook she automatically knows it is not him. She then remembers her evil cousin came in that mourning and she is almost positive that she did it to her. So when she gets home she questions her. Meanwhile her Aunt Zelda is coming up with an age stopping potion. When she tries it something happens. To find out hat happens to Sabrina and what is wrong with the potion read the book. Reviewed by Katie The X-Files Book of
the Unexplained Volume 1 & 2
By Jane Goldman
Sure it might be icky, squirmy, creepy, and weird but there is truth. And it’s out there. And it makes for some great reading. Based on the series plot lines in the first through third seasons, these books really do present the truth. All but written by a believer, the books are unfomative and really interesting. The books take an optimistic point of view toward everything, and present the full scope of dananoumal activity under the assumption its true. If you weren’t a believer in aliens before you touch these, you will leave with no acceptance of ant skeptical argument. Each chapter takes on a new debate from the existence of ET (what would an X-files book be unthought that) to urban legends. Weird nature, Possession, Entitles from beyond the Grave and so on. This book will keep you reading- into cut out the entire boring aspect of every subject- but you may have nightmares for sometime- or at least, you’ll sleep with the lights on. Reviewed by Emily A Publication of
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