Someone Named Eva

Reviewed by: Bianca

Publisher: Joan M. Wolf

This book is about a ain named Eva, and she is living around the Holocaust time, and she is taken away from her family to train for Hitler youth. She is adopted into a new family, and her name changes. After living with her new family for a while, she friends her real mom and lives with her. Her original name was Matilda. Some things I liked about the book was it was very captivating. it really took you in the book. My favorite character was the main character, Eva, because she was very brave. Some things i disliked were that I was expecting the book to go in a different direction from what I thought. In general, i thought this was a good book. You get mixed emotions when reading, you're happy, sad, relieved and more. 

Rushed

Reviewed by: Kristie

Written by: Brian Harmon
Publisher: Brian Harmon 


A normal guy randomly started getting "Nightmares" in the middle of the night and would wake up with the extreme desire to head somewhere. He had no idea where he would be going because he would always forget the dreams when he woke up. 2 nights of this, he decides to actually go with his random dream and set blindly towards a barn. Arriving at this barn set off the weirdest thing that ever happened in this guy's life in a strange adventure through dimensions. Whoever likes creepy horror. If you're extremely religious, you probably wouldn't like this book as much.

The White Bicycle

Reviewed by: Karli 

By Beverley Brenna

Red Deer Press

216 pages

The White Bicycle is a book about Taylor Simon, a teenage girl with Asperger's Syndrome. Taylor lives with her mom and her mom's boyfriend in Paris for the duration of the summer of her 18th year. Her mother's boyfriend is an artist, who sells most of his paintings freelance. While Taylor is in Paris she builds a friendship with the most unlikely of neighbors. Ninety-two year old Adelaide becomes Taylor's closest friend and mentor during the duration of her stay. She uses her rusty white bicycle to find her way to Adelaide's for afternoon tea and garden walks. Adelaide has a beautiful butterfly garden that calms Taylor when she feels anxious or frightened. She doesn't mind living in Paris, but at first it is hard for her to adjust to her new living situation. Along her journey, Taylor makes many friends and discovers many things, making the transition to Paris much easier on her. This is a great book for young people that are still trying to figure out their identity.

The Call of the Wild

Reviewed by: Tanner

Written by: Jack London
Published: 2008
231 Pages

This story is about a dog named Buck. Buck doesn't know what the real life is about. He has to quickly adjust to the brutal weather up north and being on his own. When Buck is on his own it was kill others and be brave or be killed by others. Now that he is all alone, he needs to abandon all of his house thoughts and start thinking about surviving in the wilderness. Read this book and you will find out if he survives or if he gets murdered by other savage dogs.

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic

374

In the Capital of Panem, twelve districts are maintained to control the rebellions. Each district has its own purpose to serve the capitol. Every year twelve boy tributes and twelve girl tributes are chosen to participate in the annual televised event called the hunger games. During these games, only one tribute can survive. Throughout this book, Katniss Everdeen is put to the test to see if she will be the winning tribute. 

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

 by: Rick Riordan

Miramax Books

337 Pages           

This story starts when a young teen is taking a field trip to a museum in New York City,  Three witches try to attack the teenager named Percy Jackson, until his professor protects him by killing these three witches. This scared Percy so he demanded answers. He later found out that he was a demigod, a half normal kid and half son of a god.  Turns out that his father was Poseidon, the god of the sea. Later he is blamed for stealing Zeus' sacred lightning bolt, even though there is no proof he had taken it, so who took the lightning bolt and what are the intentions of this? I prefer this book be read by people who are into Greek Mythology and are willing to learn a new story about a fictional story about the Demigod, Perseus Jackson 

Tiger's Curse

Reviewed by: Amanda 
by Colleen Houck
456 pages

       I read the book Tiger's Curse.  This book is about a girl named Kelsey who lives in Oregon and has a part time job at a circus. Kelsey met a white tiger named Ren. From the moment Kelsey saw Ren she knew that he was different. Ren was different; he was a human.  When he was kid he and his brother had a curse set on them to be tigers. When Ren got to turn human again he knew Kelsey was the key to break the curse. With that Kelsey and Ren set out on an adventure to find his brother and break the curse.
      This book is good for people who love animals, magic, mystery, adventure,  and suspension. If you don't like any of those things then this book is not for you.