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young adult fiction

Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart

November 24, 2009

Beth Kephart’s Nothing But Ghosts follows Katie D’Amore’s struggle to recover enough to live after the death of her mother, but her mother’s ghost is not the only spirit present in this novel.  Lost loves, mysterious socialites locked inside their estates, and other specters haunt these pages.  Kephart’s narration from the point of view of [...]

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Daniel X: Watch the Skies by James Patterson & Ned Rust

November 12, 2009

I’ve been a bit busy reading, but I have some reviews from my mom, Pat, to share.  Today, my mom is going to share her thoughts on the latest young adult book from James Patterson.  Please give her a warm welcome. James Patterson and Ned Rust’s Daniel X:  Watch the Skies is the next book [...]

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

October 7, 2009

Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins follows up where The Hunger Games (Click here for my review) left off. In this novel, Katniss discovers that her final act in the arena had unintended consequences and she must now decide whether to run and hide with her loved ones or [...]

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MAX by James Patterson (audio)

July 21, 2009

James Patterson‘s MAX on audio is chock full of sound effects, drama, and thrills. MAX is the fifth book in the young adult Maximum Ride series, which centers on winged kids that range from ages 6 to 16. Max leads the flock of winged children, and in this novel, they attempt to find Max’s kidnapped [...]

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

July 10, 2009

Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is a young adult novel set in the future after the collapse of the world and its rebuilding by The Capitol. To maintain order, The Capitol hosts The Hunger Games each year in which 2 tributes–a boy and a girl–are chosen from each of the 12 districts to compete to [...]

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T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte

July 9, 2009

What I Saw (From T4, Page My visualSenseWas soStrong. If A breezeShookThe leavesOn A treeIWouldShriekWithDelight. IfPeopleRan fastPast meIt lookedLikeA tidalWave. EvenThe motionOfA handWavingGoodbyeStartledMe. Ann Clare LeZotte’s debut novel, T4, uses free verse to provide a powerful look into the impact of the Nazi regime on German nationals, particularly those deemed unfit to live. T4 (Tiergartenstrasse [...]

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MAX by James Patterson

June 6, 2009

Welcome my mom’s (Pat) review of MAX by James Patterson; she was kind enough to read this one a month ago, and I’m just catching up on posting some of her reviews. MAX, the fifth book in the series, features the bird kids–Gazzy, Angel, Fang, Nudge, Max and others–after they join forces with the coalition [...]

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Breaking Dawn

August 18, 2008

Stephenie Meyer‘s Breaking Dawn is the last book in the Twilight series and is a jam packed book of 750 pages. Edward and Bella are some of the best characters I have come across in a vampire series in some time, and Jacob just rounds out the group. The supporting characters in the series are [...]

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To Adore

July 30, 2008

To Adore: to worship or admire as divine or as a deity; to be very fond of Mary E. Pearson‘s The Adoration of Jenna Fox begins with a teenager who wakes up from a coma to discover she has no memory of her life or her “accident.” But the story is much more than Jenna’s [...]

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Solar v. Lunar Eclipse

October 12, 2007

The third installment in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, does not disappoint with even more action and drama than the last two over an even greater length of pages–629 in the volume I picked up at Borders. I tried to slow down and take in the entire book, but found the pages flying [...]

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New Moon Rises

October 6, 2007

The second book, New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, is read. Yes, in a day and a half. I have uncovered another passion for an author and these characters. I can understand her passion for her characters and their voices like a writer should. ***SPOILER Alert*** Edward and Isabella reunite in this book, but their world [...]

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Not the Twilight of Your Life

October 4, 2007

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer has to be one of the best vampire books I have read in a long time since giving up on Anne Rice and her vampire series. I won’t disparage Rice’s work in this entry, but I will praise Meyer for a job well done. It has been several months since a [...]

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