Showing posts with label Supernatural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supernatural. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2013

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Kiersten White’s book, Supernaturally, is a work of fiction. Sixteen year old Evie has not lived an easy life. While she was at the International Paranormal Containment Agency she fell in love with a prisoner named Lend. Eventually the situation at IPCA started to get complicated and Evie and Lend left. Together with Lend’s family they begin living a normal life. Unfortunately, Evie’s Fairy ex-boyfriend comes back revealing things about her past. She soon is told there is a war going on between the Fairy courts and Evelyn is the only one who can prevent the chaos. Evie does not know from where she came and she has been told she was not born but rather, she was created by fairies.  After that she learns when she was born a Prophecy was also written. She thought she had left the International Paranormal Containment Agency and her own paranormal activities behind but she was wrong. This book has it all; from Vampires to Werewolves to Faeries to Shape Shifters and true love. Now she has to make a choice. She has to decide if she wants to stay in the normal world with the love of her life and eventually die or go back to the paranormal world and live. If you want to find out if the Prophecy comes true,  I recommend you read this book.
Jenny G.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Num8ers by Rachel Ward

Rachel Wards book, Num8ers, is a work of fiction. If you enjoy reading stories that involve hidden secrets and adventures, then Num8ers is a perfect choice. 

Jem is a teenager who is in school and has a hidden talent; a talent that is not so great to have because of many reasons. Jem has the talent of being able to look into people’s eyes and see how long they have to live. Her talent does not show how it happens or where it happens; it simply shows a number in the eyes of people. 

In the beginning of her life, when she first discovered her talent, she did not understand why she saw numbers. Every day she would look into her mother’s eyes and see a number that simply did not change. As she grew older, the number in her mother’s eyes seemed to appear as a date. 

One morning, Jem woke up and went into the kitchen where a box of cereal and a bowl would normally be. This morning neither of the items needed to make a bowl of cereal were there. Jem was shocked and confused. The entire house was filled with silence so Jem went to check where her mother was. As she entered her mother’s room she realized her mother was clocked out, otherwise dead. Jem then realized the numbers she sees are dates for when people will die. 

As the book continues, she meets a boy (Spider) with whom she becomes close, falls into trouble with him and then realizes the boy now has a number in his eyes. This book has many twists, some you can see coming and others happen out of the ordinary. Read Num8ers to find out about the adventures of Jem.

Victor A.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Doppelganger by David Stahler

David Stahler’s book, Doppelganger, is a fictional book based on a shape shifter who changes into a 16 year old named Chris who is the football star at the local high school. He tries to be Chris and live his life but he only has so long to do this. I think it was a pretty cool book because when the doppelganger takes over Chris’ body, he has to act exactly like Chris would act without even knowing him. It’s kind of crazy to think somebody can just change into anybody they want because how are you really supposed to know to whom you’re talking. I suggest reading this book because it keeps you on the edge and wondering what’s going to happen next.

Cam K.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

5 Cool New Books (if you have the time)

You want to know the number one comment that most librarians get about their job? "Man, I wish my job was to read books all day." To which, I usually reply, "Yeah, me too." Reading is certainly part of the job of a school librarian, but like most jobs (including being a high school student), you don't always get to do the fun parts as much as you would like. My reading wish list could fill a book (yeah, I said it).

Here are five recent books that are on my list to read one day...when I have time. They sound awesome. Hope you like them too.


F Bray,L 
Bray, Libba. The Diviners.  
The year is 1926. Evie O'Neill gets kicked out of her small town in Ohio when she uses her psychic powers a little too often, but she is thrilled that she gets to move to New York to live. The only problem is that she has to live with her Uncle, a curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult. She thought she was going to hang out in speakeasies and hang out with Ziegfield girls (look it up), but she soon finds herself working with her uncle on a rash of occult based murders.

F Hautman,P 
Hautman, Pete. The Obsidian Blade.
Soon after strange disks of shimmering air appear in air above his house one day, Tucker Feye’s parents start acting strange. Then one day both of his parents disappear. He suspects the disks are somehow involved and soon he embarks on a time-twisting journey that involves the death of an ancient prophet and a shadowy sect of priests.

F Rosoff,M 
Rosoff, Meg. There is No Dog. 
Here is an idea for you. What if God is actually a teenage boy named Bob? Yeah, he made the Earth and everything on it (including cute girls). But mostly, he just likes sitting around eating junk food, being moody (that's why we have natural disasters), pining after girls and ignoring Earth. That is, until the day he meets a beautiful and irresistible girl named Lucy.

F Stiefvater,M 
Stiefvater, Maggie. The Raven Boys.
Blue Sargent was born into a family of psychics, but she has no powers of her own, though her presence strengthens the abilities of people with the gift. When she meets Gansey, a Raven Boy, as the students at a nearby private school are called, she can’t get him out of her mind. Soon, he and his friends rope her into a dangerous scheme to unleash a long dormant supernatural power.

F Vizzini,N 
Vizzini, Ned. The Other Normals. 
Fifteen year old Peregrine “Perry” Eckert would spend every moment playing Creatures & Caverns (a Dungeons & Dragons like game) if he could because that is where he feels most at home. But his parents are worried about his game playing and, well, his lack of social skills. So they send him off to summer camp instead. He thinks he is in for the worst summer of his life until he gets to camp and stumbles into the World of the Other Normals. There he meets one of  the creators of Creatures & Caverns. Here the mythical creatures from game are real. Suddenly, Perry finds himself embarking on a real quest to save a princess. The only problem? He will have to deal with actually have to learn how to deal with people in his own world too. Yikes.



Thursday, September 20, 2012

Recommended Reading: If you're done with the Twilight series...

Have you read all the Twilight books (twice) and seen all of the movies?   Or are you sick of vampire books? Either way, if you are looking for something new, you might like these series.

F Clare,C 
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. 
New Yorker Clary Fray just wanted to go have a good time at the Pandemonium club. She never expected to witness a murder committed by three other teenagers with strange tattoos and unusual weapons. Also, the three teenagers were invisible to everyone else and there was no body or even blood to report to the police. Clary later learns that the other teens were called Shadowhunters, a secret society dedicated to killing demons. In the next twenty-four hours, she is attacked by a demon herself and mother ends up missing. With the help of the gorgeous Shadowhunter Jace and his friends, she learns of a whole new world that has always co-existed with ours.

 F Marr,M 
Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely. 
Rules #1-3. Do not stare at invisible faeries, do not speak to them, and definitely don't draw their attention to you. Aislinn has always been able to see faeries, but these rules have always kept her safe, until now. Everything changes when Keenan, the Summer King, chooses her as his mate. She is now involved in the 900 year old struggle between Keenan and his mother, the Winter Queen. If Aislinn refuses him, summer will cease to exist and mortals and faeries will all die. If she accepts, she will lose her own humanity.

F Noel,A 
Noël, Alyson. Evermore.
 Since the car accident that killed her family but spared her, sixteen year old Ever can see other people's auras, hear their thoughts and know their life story by touching them. She goes out of her way to avoid contact with other people until she meets the mysterious. Damen Auguste. She feels an instant connection with him. When she is with him, the noise and chaos in her head subsides. He doesn't have an aura and he always seems to know what she is thinking. But she doesn't really know who, or what, he really is.

F Stiefvater,M 
Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver.
Grace has watched the wolves outside of her window every winter for years, but she had always been drawn to the mysterious yellow eyed one who seemed to take an interest in here too. What she doesn't know is that these wolves turn into their human form during the summer months. When she meets a boy with the same yellow eyes, she knows somehow that it is him, her wolf. As they start fall for each other, she learns when winter comes again, and with it the change, this could be last year as a human. He will lose Grace and himself forever.

F Taylor,L 
Taylor, Laini. Daughter of Smoke and Bone.
 Karou is a beautiful young art student in a Prague boarding school. Her natural bright blue hair and her sketchbook is filled with pictures of horrible monsters, drawings of the only family she has ever known, the Chimaera, She speaks many languages, not all of them human. She occasionally runs errands for the devil Brimstone, a wishmonger and father figure who has her collect teeth from around the world, especially human ones. You can understand why she doesn't know who she really is or where she came from. One fateful day she meets the seraphim Akiva with whom she feels an instant connection, she finally starts to get the answers she seeks, even if it means the end of her life as she knows it.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

See Laini Taylor Speak on Wednesday September 28th

National Book Award Finalist Laini Taylor will be at WEGO on September 28th during periods 7 and 8 to talk about her newest book Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

Check with your English teacher to see if your class will be attending or feel free to sign up here. A field trip form will be required for attendance. Copies are available in the LRC.

Student Sign Up Form: Sign Up






A description from the publisher:


"Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.

When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?" -Hachette Book Group
More Resources
Laini Taylor's Blog
Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Official Website

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

I, like a lot of other girls, am a big fan of the Twilight movies. A lot of people told me the book is so much better than the movie. So, I figured it would be great for me to read the book since I loved the movie so much. The movie was great, but after reading the book, I realized a lot was left out in the movie. Things in the movie were changed where as in the book it was better. The movie left out a lot of key moments in the book and had some confusing parts. The book explained more things in detail. I think other students would like this book because it is 20 times better than the movie. It keeps you wanting to read more and more even though most likely you get the jist of what is going to happen because of the movie. Even after watching the movie more than once I still got stuck to the book, staying up all night reading it and not wanting to put it down. I think this book would get the same reaction from other students as the reaction I had. I love the book and I think others would too. Like me, others would want to keep reading the series and still watch all the movies.

Arely R.

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The author, Stephenie Meyer, wrote the Twilight series including Twilight New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. I read the last book, Breaking Dawn. This book is about Bella and Edward finally getting married. It’s the gossip of the town, Forks. Some people say they are getting married because Bella is probably pregnant or they say they are getting married because they truly love each other. After the wedding Bella and Edward go on their honeymoon to Isle Esme, an island in the Atlantic Ocean near the equator. Edward finally overcomes his fear of hurting Bella while making love to her. Bella and Edward finally make love to each other. Then, suddenly something unexpected happens; Bella starts getting sick. What could it be? Edward finally finds out what’s wrong with Bella. She’s pregnant. Edward wants to kill what’s growing inside of Bella because whatever it is it’s killing Bella. Bella doesn’t want to kill it, whatever happens to her happens; she wants the baby to live at all cost. When they finally fly back to Forks Bella tells her dad, Charlie, she caught a disease on their honeymoon and she won’t be able to see him for awhile. Jacob gets desperate because he thinks Bella has become a vampire. When he goes to visit Bella he gets a huge surprise when he sees Bella with her big crooked, unshaped stomach. Finally, Bella has her baby girl, Renesmee, a name combined together after Bella’s mom and Edward’s mom. When the Volturi, the leaders of the vampire world, find out they come to destroy the baby. Since they want to destroy the baby a war is about to begin. The Volturi then decide not to kill Renesmee. How will their lives be now? How does it end? Find out by reading the entire book.

Mary R.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Heart-Shaped Box

If you like ghosts, the paranormal and rock music, Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill is just the book for which you’ve been looking. This novel is a horror novel that will keep your hands clutched to the hard covers, fingers ready to turn the page and your mind fixed on crazy thoughts of ghosts.

Heart-Shaped Box starts with the introduction of Judas Coyne, a washed up rock star with a strange fetish for creepy gizmos and gadgets. This fetish is what basically tells the story. Jude and his assistant, Danny Wooten, stumble upon what seems to be a hoax on eBay but without hesitation, Jude says “buy it”. What he thought was a silly hoax actually turns out to be a suit encased with a trapped soul. This is no ordinary poltergeist either. It has murderous intensions.

When I was searching for a book to read, I couldn’t find one that particularly caught my interest. But once I read the words "Heart-Shaped Box" on the spine, I got the strange feeling this book would be good. Personally I am one who is interested in the paranormal and the unseen so this book was intensely fascinating. I would highly recommend Heart-Shaped Box for the people who want to give their imagination a thrill but I would not recommend reading this book if you are one who is afraid of things that go bump in the night.


John M.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Red Rider’s Hood by Neal Shusterman

Neal Shusterman's book called "Red Rider's Hood" is a written work of fiction. If you enjoy reading fiction books, you will enjoy reading this book because it talks about gangs and different decisions you make in life, the good side or the bad side.

Red comes from a family in which his grandparents were werewolf hunters. His grandpa died after getting bitten by a werewolf, so he killed himself to avoid hurting his family. His grandma is still alive. After his grandparents killed all the werewolves in the past, a grandson of the leader comes back to make his own gang, "The Wolves". In real life they are truly Werewolves at the full moon. The Wolves lock Red's grandma in the basement. Red goes in the house and gets tricked and they steal his grandma's money and Red's car which he loved a lot. In order to get revenge, Red becomes a Wolf pledge to find out how he can defeat them. However, he becomes one of them and sees himself as part of the pack. In the end, he has two choices; betray his family and become a full Wolf or end everything to keep people safe from the Wolves. So he decides to help out and exterminate the Wolves.

Oraldo P.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Sweep, #1 - "Book of Shadows" By Cate Tiernan

Morgan is just an average teenage girl, going to school and experiencing life. But she isn't the ordinary girl she believes herself to be. She lives with her mom and dad and younger sister Mary K. She has two best friends, Robbie and Bree. She meets a handsome guy named Cal Blair who is automatically drawn to her. She finds she possesses an unknown power and her life begins to change.

She begin to like Cal Blair as he is nice and friendly. But when she is invited to a circle of Wicca to celebrate the holiday Mabon, she learns she has this ability to make magic and this sparks Cal's interest in her. He ends up creating a rift between her and Bree. At the last Wicca circle, Cal forms a coven with the group, naming it Cirrus. At this Wicca circle, Morgan discovers she is a blood witch.

I recommend anyone who likes magic and romance stories to read this book. I loved it. It was suspenseful and it’s the first book of the series that includes fourteen books.


Colleen C.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

This book is about a girl named Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta. Paski's cartoonist father returns to Taos, New Mexico, from a business trip wearing designer sunglasses and a velour Juicy men's track suit. She knows her life is taking a turn for the worse. Paski and her father move to Southern California where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie. Since he can't serve as head of the animation team from their home in bohemian Taos, he and Paski are moving to Aliso Viejo, California. Paski will have to leave her grandmother, a practicing psychic, who encourages Paski to nurture her own abilities as a seer along with her best friends, Emily and Janet. Emily and Janet are convinced Paski's life will be just like "The O.C.", complete with great clothes and cars. But Paski cares more about having to leave her friends and family. She arrives at Aliso Niguel High School, a home and a lot of expensive cars. She meets a very cute boy named Chris, who is into motocross, and a cutthroat popular crowd called "the haters". One of the queen bees of the junior class is nationally ranked motocross champion, Jessica Nguyen, who is also Chris's girlfriend. Jessica makes it clear from the start she wants Paski out of her life. Paski would be happy to keep her distance if it weren't for the disturbing vision she's having. Jessica is in traction or maybe a body cast and Paski can hear ambulance sirens. Paski's grandmother encourages her to use her gift of sight to help Jessica.


Oriana M.

The After Life By Gary Soto

The story I read was interesting because it was about a kid who was about 17 years old when he was murdered in a bathroom of a club. So, after his murder, he is living as a spirit who wonders around the whole city. He is able to see what other people do but they can't see him. Also, he meets a girl who died too but the only problem is they can't be normal like other people. Because both of them are dead, it is just their spirits flying around. This book is really interesting. I would recommend it to anybody.

Ismael S.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Doppelganger by David Stahler,Jr.

This book was about an alien creature who kills humans because that is what he was born to do. He ends up falling in love with a girl and he trys to tell her what he is.

Cody

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Twilight By Stephenie Meyer

Twilight is about a teen named Bella who moves in with her father and starts life over in a small town called Forks. While there, she falls for a mysterious boy named Edward Cullen who is one to be desired. Edward and Bella get close and she later finds out he is a vampire and his entire family are also vampires. Later in the book, Bella is endangered by another group of vampires and Edward's family must fight to save her. I would recommend this book to anyone because of the action packed ending and the suspense left on every page. It was a great read and I think boys would even enjoy the book even though it is quite gushy.

Anonymous

New Moon By Stephanie Meyer

New Moon is the second edition in the Twilight series and by far the worst one. I did not like this book particularly because of the lack of action and the new love Bella takes on. However, this book is a necessity to understanding the third book, Eclipse. The book is not a total bust but it is definitely not as good as Twilight. I would reccomend this to anyone who wants to read the Twilight series because it gives you more insight into issues in Eclipse but be prepared for some moments of boredom throughout the book.

Sarah C.

Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephanie Mayer is a continuance of the story between Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, who is a vampire. Bella fell in love with Edward in the first Twilight book; Eclipse is the third book in the series. This particular book is about vampires who hunt Bella and endanger her and her family. Throughout the book Bella and Edward run into obstacles that create problems and danger for numerous people but through it all, Edward and others prove to be the strongest and no one is seriously hurt. I would recommend Eclipse to girls who like the mushy gushy romance and to guys who like action because Eclipse has both. It leaves you on the edge and leaves you dying to read more.

Sarah C.

Friday, November 14, 2008

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

I thought Twilight was a good read because it kept me on the edge of my seat. Not only was it exciting but it had some romance in it which kept it intriguing. I think other kids would like this because it has romance and also has some action. You won't be dissatisfied with the book. It also deals with vampires; so if you're a fan of that, then this is a must read!


Daniel D.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

This is the second book in the Twilight series. So far this book is my favorite because it has a lot more action in it than other vampire relationships. I think students will love reading this book because they will be so caught up in Twilight they will have to read the next book. Also, in the second book you learn about the vampire’s archenemies and Bella's relationship with them!

Stuart S.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

At first glance this book may come off to be a "chick flick" kind of book. But once you get through the thick of the basic love story, the book is acually interesting. It is full of action and adventure, while making you want to become a vampire yourself. I think other students will like this book because it is one the most popular teenage books in the market right now. Also, it is one of those books you just can't put down becauseeach page leaves you wanting more.

Stuart S.