Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is an amazing, captivating novel. If you like suspense, and vampires then you will surely fall in love with this book. The characters are interesting and make you want to keep reading with just the simple words that they think and say.

To tell you the truth, I never really liked reading until my best friend recommended it to me. After that, I was instantly attached to this series and it took me a total of two weeks to read all four of these amazing books. I read all day almost non-stop because it keeps you literally wanting more. I was afraid to stop.

Finally when I was on the last book Breaking Dawn I thought that it was going to take awhile just because of all the pages, but when i got to the last chapter, I wanted to stop reading. I didn't want to finish it so soon, I didn't want it to end. I hope that Stephenie Meyer will never stop writing, she is an amazing writer. I wouldn't believe someone who wouldn't want to read this book if it is leaving me sad to see it end, that is how amazing this book is. This was my Ecstasy, the simple thing making me suddenly addicted to reading; a true miracle for me.

Red Glass by Laura Resau

Sophie lives with her British mother, her Mexican step-father, and her, rather crazy, Bosnian refugee great-aunt in Arizona. Soon after the story begins, Sophie's family takes in an orphan, Pablo, whose parents died while trying to cross the desert from Mexico to the United States. After a year they find Pablo's family deep in Mexico, and decide to go there to see if Pablo wants to stay with them. With her parents unable to come, Sophie journies with Pablo, her aunt, her aunt's boyfriend, Lorenzo, and his son, Angel. It's the start of an adventure, filled with fear, wonder, and discovery.

This book is all about Sophie and the people around her, the world around her. At the beginning of the book, she's afraid of almost everything. . She's a hypocondriac and is scared to death at the thought of losing her parents. So she's invisible, staying out of everyone's way, and yet, even though she's afraid of what people think of her, she's even more afraid of being alone. This story is about Sophie finding herself and letting other people know her, too, maybe enough to fall in love.

Girlbomb

Soon after Janice's thirteenth birthday she realizes how fed up she is with her mother and her boyfriend or actually her boyfriends. She walks out of her house and is left alone in the streets of Manhattan. Finding herself at a shelter for all girls, she is traumatized by how scary these girls are. But she promised herself she would make it on her own just to prove a point to her mother. After her mother accepts that she is no longer a part of her or her little brothers life, she sends money so that Janice is able to live in a real house with other kids and go to a real school. Along the way Janice deals with many things; friends, boyfriends, school and teen issues.

Read this book to find out what happens to Janice and if she makes it to her graduating day.

Blue Bloods By Mellisa De La Cruz

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Posted by AMarie

Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave who attempted to kill her four children, succeeding in murdering one. In this book, the protagonist, Sethe, also kills one of her four children in order to save the baby from slavery. The baby comes back as a ghost to haunt the house that Sethe and her daughter, Denver, live in, and after a while they tolerate the damage the ghost does. When the ghost comes back reincarnated as a nineteen-year-old woman, she will do anything to get Sethe's love.
I wouldn't recommend this book to just anyone. It has a lot of mature subjects, and also is a challenge to read. But if you're a good reader; don't mind a bunch of murder, sex and violence; and like Faulkner and the slave narrative tradition, this is the book for you! I particularly enjoyed how Morrison leaves gaps in the story for the reader to figure out. Sometimes you understand what you read 100 pages later, and sometimes you have to guess what she means.

Books by Michael Crichton

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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

When I first read the description for this book, I didn't think I'd like it. But I loved Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin's first book, so I decided to check it out. I was in a Meg Cabot-like book mood at that time, so it sat on my floor for weeks until one night I was so bored I decided to read it. And, boy, was that a mistake, because I couldn't put it down. I should have known that the book would be that good. It wasn't even so much the plot that drew me in, it was the strength of Zevin's writing that made me relate to her characters, understand them, even though I was nothing like them. When I finished the book, I knew that I wasn't in love with the story, but that it was some of the best writing that I had ever read. This book is an amazing example of the Young Adult genre.>