The Darkest Minds

I recently finished the book, The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken. It is about a 16 year old girl named Ruby. She is taken to a government "rehabilitation camp" where kids who survived the disease called IAAN are taken. These kids, as a result of IAAN, have super powers. The Green are extremely smart, the Blue can move things with their mind, the Yellow can control lightening, the Reds can control fire, and the Orange can control minds. Ruby is an orange. After escaping camp, she runs off and joins a group other escaping kids who are looking for East River, a safe haven for all the colors. The kids names are Zu, Chubs, and Liam. Liam and Ruby have an instant connection. The group becomes an inseparable group of friends that always stick by each others side. They are willing to sacrifice their own future for one another. There are two books after this one: Never Fade and In the After Light.


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Speak

Speak is about a girl named Melinda who is a sophomore and is having a rough time emotionally in school because she got raped at a party she went to by a senior. She has a hard time going through school because many people look down, and make fun of her because of what happened. Since she doesn't really have any friends she gets herself into trouble by stealing late passes because she can't bear to be around people. People try and help her but she just won't speak. The book is ultimately about her struggle through school. I enjoy this book because she started off so weak and gained confidence day by day and that's something that I admire. She had a lot of struggles to go through but she got herself out and re-gained happiness.

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Skeleton Creek: The Crossbones

Skeleton Creek: The Crossbones

Ryan and Sarah have solved one mystery... only to find themselves trapped by another. At first it seemed that the Crossbones was a secret society limited to Skeleton Creek. But now new facts are being unearthed -- with new dangers attached. Ryan and Sarah encounter a man named Old Joe Bush, who is supposed to be dead. But, When Ryan and Sarah are in the Gold Dredge in Sumpter Valley, Oregon, the ghost of Old Joe Bush pushed Ryan through a Railing and hurt him. Everything else is explained in the videos of the hyper link. Have fun watching Skeleton Creek: Crossbones.

Sword of the Rightful King

Newly crowned King Arthur rules the kingdom, but not the peoples hearts. until he proves his worth this power will be in question. Too many people want him to be dead, and treachery is everywhere. So the wizard Merlinnus secretly creates a test for King Arthur. A sword in a stone is discovered a stone that bears a legend promising that whoever draws the sword shall rule England. If all goes according to the plan King Arthur will draw the sword from the stone (with the help of Merlinnuses magic of course.) and then the people will at last hopefully rally around the young king.sword of the rightful king link

QB1 by Mike Lupica Justyn Segarra

This awesome book is about a football loving family who literally lives the game of football. Throughout their ancestry, many great grandparents of the Cullen family were known for being excellent NFL quarterbacks. Jake and his all-star brother Wyatt are both great QB's following the footsteps of their father Troy Cullen. With his father favoring Wyatt all of the time because of his record breaking play, Jake begins to feel a sense of exclusion as Wyatt is and always has been Troy's favorite QB. This pushes Jake to become as good, maybe even better than Wyatt as Wyatt begins to struggle in college.  Jake then single handedly takes the Granger Cowboys (Texas) to victory in the state championship. Because of this, Troy Cullen starts to even out the favoritism and realizes he's been almost neglecting Jake for most of his childhood. Because of this,  their family is unified greatly and both Jake and Wyatt Cullen become two of the best QB's of all time, surpassing their father's footsteps and becoming football legends.

Claws Of The Crocodile

 In the book, Claws Of The Crocodile, by Bear Grylls a boy named Beck Granger follows a strange clue to the town of Broome in Northern Australia where he finds out a secret about his life that changes the way he looks at most of the things around him. This is just the beginning of an adventure that will force him into some of the hardest survival challenges he has ever faced.  The search for the clues take Beck into outskirts of Australia where he has to fight raging storms, dangerous crocodiles and savage civilians that would stop at nothing to stop him, and to find the man with the answers to all of these clues and Beck's questions.  This is a gripping Australian adventure packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn.

Return To Paradise

             Return To Paradise, by Simone Elkeles is a romance novel about two seniors in high school who are on and off with each other and their relationship together. "Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything". Everyone thinks Caleb hits Maggie while driving drunk but that is not the truth. The two teens are surprised to reunite with each other again after the accident. They reunite together at a RE-START program, which is for teenagers. It is a month long program where teens talk about the ways their lives were and/or have been changed because of reckless driving. Everyone wants to keep them apart, but when they end up in a van together for the first time in a year,with four other kids and a program counselor, things start to become worse. Only Maggie and Caleb know the real truth about what happened the night of the accident. When they tell everyone the truth about what really happened, no one believes that Caleb's sister really did it. They still think he was the one that did it.http://simoneelkeles.com/