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**__The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau__**

 *  The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic book made  by Jeanne DuPrau. It is about a city built underground , and the only way  they can see  is by the light bulbs  they have . The story take splace  about 240 years later , and all the supplies  are low . The main characters  Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow start  off with their new jobs  at only  12 years old . Lina soo nfinds <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a message <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that seems important <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to her. Later <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lina asks <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Doon to help <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> her find <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> out what it means <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. They find <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> out that it is instructions <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> out of the city <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. So they decided <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to follow <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the instructions <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and hope <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> they will get out <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. I thought it was an amazing book and i hope other people will like it too. - __Tyler Vargas__ **

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Contagion **__**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> by Robin Cook **

The medical thriller __Contagion__ by Robin Cook tackles corporate greed and widespread illness. Its main character, Dr. Jack Stapleton, is a medical examiner who is distressed by the death of seemingly healthy people. While trying to find the cause of death, Dr. Stapleton uncovers the dark underworld of corporate health care. If you enjoy any type of suspense, then you will most likely enjoy this book. Beware! After reading this book you will question how much hospitals //really// value your life...- Hayley Shaver

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Set in the present day, the Yanakakis’ go on a family trip. Unfortunately, a nuclear attack cut it short, so their dad brought them all to a luxurious fallout shelter that he built, three stories underground. One, Eli’s twin brother and his grandmother didn’t make it in time. The door has a time lock, it will only open 15 years after being shut. His dad is keeping secrets...important secrets. Like, being able to connect to the internet. When Eli finally manages to get on, he talks to the people he though have been dead for 6 years, his brother Eddy and his Gram. He discovers there was no nuclear attack, this whole thing was a sham created by his fathers near insanity, which puts them all in very real danger. They have to find a way to open the door 9 years early, and only his half-sane father knows the code. --Written by Carrie Cowart =====

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** __Compound__ ** =** Eli has been living with his parents in a compound for six years. The compound is a nuclear bomb shelter his father spent a lot of money to build in order for his family to be safe during the nuclear strike. The plan was to stay in the compound for fifteen years until the radiation goes away completely. Eli has had the hardest time adjusting to the life in the compound. In his six years he has distanced himself from everyone in his family. He still maintains a strict schedule of exercise, studying, chores, and reading. He feels very lonely from the fact that not everyone in his family made it into the compound. The nuclear strikes will really test the families connection with each other because things are about to get rough! -Ibrahim Anbar **=

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__THE DEAD__ ****<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charlie Higson **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">The book that i have read is called “The Dead.” The type of book this is would be post-apocalyptic. The world has been plagued by sickness everyone over the age of 14 become pretty much zombies. There are these kids that are fighting for their lives and to get to a safe place which is london. My favorite part of this book is when the kids get attacked by a bunch of these zombies and i t really shows the real leader of the group. I would say Ed is the leader because he was trying to round up all the kids together so they can escape and just be safe. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes action, suspense, a little gore, and just likes to read. This book was a great book and kept me on my toes. I didn’t know what to expect next and just a thought how would you react in their shoes? -Mitchell Hogan **

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Hunger Games, By Suzanne Collins__ **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//The Hunger Games// is about a young girl named Katniss Everdeen who chooses to take her sister’s place in the Hunger Games. She is taken to the capitol city where the dictator lives and under goes rough training and learns skills for surviving in the wild. Katniss then ends up fighting 23 other kids to the death from the 12 camps. Friends become enemies, alliances form between the strongest, fights, fires, and death. However only one teen can emerge victorious over the others. Join Katniss on her suspense filled fights in the hunger games. -Andrew Butzow ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunger Games Traile **

The Hunger Games by: Suzanne Collins <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To begin with, there’s this girl named Katniss Everdeen, who lives with her mother and her sister Prim in Panem. In Panem, they hold “ The Hunger Games” in which children fight for food and fame. From each of the twelve districts, Effie Trinket chooses a boy, and a girl to participate in the games. They have mentors, who teach skills to survive in the games. Katniss’s sister is the first one chosen, and Katniss volunteers to take her place. Later on Katniss meets a boy named “Peeta Mellark”, who then becomes her lover. Also, Katniss meets up with a girl named Rue, which was her companion. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite part of the book is, when Katniss and Peeta Mellark meet each other. They are both brought together in the hunger games. When they are together, romance is the key to their survival. I recommend this book for readers who have sympathy for starving people and them fighting each other for survival. What if your sibling had to fight others in order to get food? Would somebody volunteer to do it instead of your sibling? Justin Vargas


 * //The Hunger Games//, by Suzanne Collins **

Imagine living in the wastes that was North America, divided into districts run by a cruel government, living with the thought that there is a chance you can be taken away and thrown into a battle to the death for the pleasure of the main government known as The Capital. This is the position of Katniss, a young 16-year-old girl, living in the wasteland of district 12. Katniss finds herself bound into the participation of the hunger games only to save her sister. She is forced to fight other young adults and even friends, where only one will remain standing in the end. This story hands out a great deal of suspense to the reader and keeps you on your toes for the entire duration of the reading. If you like to read creative and eventful stories that would describe your own life in a different dimension, and characters that can be related to in situations that would make your heart stop, you would enjoy The Hunger Games. -Jon Goerke


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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> One girl and boy between the age 12-18 will represent their district in the Hunger Games. They got to fight and kill each other and the last person standing wins. Katniss took her sister’s place in the games. Katniss has to win for her sister and so she can return to District 12. Katniss needs to find out some tips which she can use to her advantage from Haymitch. Throughout the games, Katniss needs to overcome impossible odds in order to have a chance of winning. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite part is where Katniss and Peeta are getting ready for the games. They ride in a wagon down a path with crowds of people on the right and left. Katniss and Peeta were both dressed in black outfits and had what appeared to be real flames on them. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I recommend this book to anyone who enjoy stories with action and violence you will love this book.Will district 12 ultimately have a winner? Who will live and who will die? Kasey Kralik

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">The country <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of Panem is split <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> into thirteendistricts <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">; they became <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> enraged with the Capitol and tried <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to rebel. District 13, and it was destroyed <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> when the Capitol to put <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> down the rebellion <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Every year <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to punish <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the districts <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> for rebelling <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the Capitol hosts the Hunger Games and 24 tributes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">; kids <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> between the age <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of 12 and 18, one boy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and girl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from each district <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the Capitol forces <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> them to fight <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to death <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> while the rest <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the country is forced <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to watch <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">. **

**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite part <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is when the competition begins <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> because of how muchhappens <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in a little be. 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I would recommend <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to anyone who enjoys reading fantasy books <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and books <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that have <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a lot <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of action <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Normally <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the tributes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from district <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 12 do <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> not survive <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> beyond the firstfewdays <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">, but things may change <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> for the forty-seventh hunger games <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">. ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrew Butzow **


 * SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE HUNGER GAMES, WAIT UNTIL YOU READ IT TO READ THE REVIEWS FOR BOOKS 2 & 3...**

__Catching Fire__, by Suzanne Collins (Book 2 of Hunger Games trilogy)
The dystopian Fiction, __Catching Fire__, written by Suzanne Collins. Catching Fire is an intense thrill ride, full of twists and turns, great for anybody with a strong stomach. In the first book Katniss was chosen to be in **the Hunger Games** with Peeta and 22 others. These games are basically kids fighting to the death for the Capital’s sick entertainment. Peeta falls for Katniss and Katniss uses Peeta as a strategy, not knowing he wasn’t doing the same. The only reason they both could win, is that the Capital loved them together and couldn’t stand to see them apart. This little change impacts many of the districts, starting an uprising. Through out the second book Katniss is faced with many new obstacles, mourning, love, and leading an uprising. Can she handle it? I thoroughly enjoyed this book; the cruel words could make Hitler cringe and the imagination could make Dr. Seuss feel like an under-achiever. __Catching fire__ is a mind-bending experience that is recommended to all. - Katie Wilyat


 * // Mockingjay //, by Suzanne Collins (Book 3 of Hunger Games trilogy) **

// Mockingjay // continues the story of Katniss Everdeen after the Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Taking place right after the last one left off, the Quarter Quell has ended and there is no more District 12. Panem is in complete chaos as rebellion is hanging in the air. The girl on fire has lit a spark and fire is spreading. In order to keep up the rebels, Katniss must keep up her image as the Mockingjay from District 13. While she does this though, she is separated from Peeta, who has been captured and taken prisoner by President Snow. As more districts join the rebel army, Peeta is even more in trouble. As the war goes on, lives are lost and feelings are hurt beyond repair, but only one side can claim victory. Faced with the arena setting more than twice now, how will the victors cope? I absolutely loved this book as well as the rest of the series. If you love action and a love story, you will love Mockingjay. Down with the Capitol! -Miranda Bowers

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//Mockingjay//, by Suzanne Collins

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the book //Mockingjay//, Katniss Everdeen is now living in District 13 and is about to go to war with The Capitol. When the book begins, Katniss is in a hovercraft, healing from the Quarter Quell for the Capitol’s entertainment. She is on her way to District 13. She and her family, along with Gale and his family, are now living in District 13 and are getting ready to go to war with the Capitol. The Capitol is already having some uprisings and is sending troops there to stop them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite part of the book would have to be when she was in the Special weapons room. Beetee was showing her new bow and arrows to her and giving Gale a new weapon as well, because they are going to need a new weapon to use. //Mockingjay// is a very good book for anyone who wants to read a good book and be on the edge of your seat while reading it. -Jordan Dennis

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**//The Knife of Never Letting Go//** (Book One: **//Chaos Walking//**) by Patrick Ness

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This book is about town full of men, called Prentisstown. In Prentisstown everyone can hear the thoughts and feelings of the people around them. Todd, the only “boy” left in the town, ventures to the Swamp one day and he finds a place where there is no noise. Todd is forced to learn the secrets of the “New World” and he is forced to run from the “Men” in Prentisstown. How can you run from someone who can hear your every thought? Find out in this amazing dystopian and action filled book! ~Elizabeth Dujmovich

__**Life As We Knew It**,__ **by Susan Pfeffer** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a huge number of cases many people either take for granted or don’t appreciate what they have. Simple things such as the food they eat every day, the water they drink, the clothes they wear, and several other necessities. In this case a small family in Pennsylvania has to survive against drastic changes when a meteor crashes into the moon. This story is told by Miranda’s point of view in which her whole life turns upside down and instead of worrying about crushes with boys she now has to worry about her next meal every day. She has way bigger problems now such as wondering if she and her family will ever see sunlight again or if they will be able to survive with the dramatic temperature changes. The book shows how important the moon is and also how much everything a person owns really means. Life As We Knew It Book Trailer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Miguel Cortez

** __The Maze Runner__, by James Dashner **


 * In the beginning, the book introduces us with the main character, Josh, who has no clue where he is. We’re not given any background information from what had happened earlier in his life either. He is put in what they call the “Maze”. He has no clue where he is, how old he is, what his name is, or how he got there. Once he meets all his friends and he gets used to living at the Maze, he finds out that he’s more than just another regular kid living with the other guys. He learns that he was the start of the end of this “game”. The next day after he arrives at the Maze, they find out, from another new kid, that there is something big about to happen. And they need to figure it out or they’re all going to die. After Josh stays outside the Maze and he survives the machines that try to kill him, he makes it back to the Maze and starts planning out what they need to do in order to figure out a way to survive the deadly animals and go back home. Every night the animals would come and take one kid from the homestead and it would kill them or it would take them back to wherever they had come from. After they finally found the code in order to make it out, they go to war with the animals. They surprisingly made it out alive, but lost some people along the way. The only thing they have left is each other, the code, and how their own knowledge of how they are going to get out, and hopefully they make it out alive. -Irene Bolis **

** __Uglies__,by Scott Westerfeld ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">The book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> i read <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> for this book report was <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “ Uglies," <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a dystopian novel. The book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is about a young girl named <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tally, about to turn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> sixteen. Unlike our world <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> today she does <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> not get <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a car <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> or maybe <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> money for this birthday <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">, she gets plastic surgery <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. When a boy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> or girl turn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the age <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of sixteen they get <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a special operation turning <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> themselves into what they call <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “pretties”. Becoming more perfect <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the way <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to go <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. The pretties have <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a life <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of pure <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> partying all the time <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. At first <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tally can not wait <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to become pretty <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and join <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> her best friend <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paris who was older <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> than her and already transformed <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Tally meets <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a girl named <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Shay. Intrigued, Tally starts hanging <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> with her. Shay teaches <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tally the truth <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> behind this operation <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and how being <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a rusty <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the way <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to go <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. In that she shows <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> her a group <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of secret people <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> who resist <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the operation <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and live <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in a place <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> they call <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Smokies. Resisting is a dangerous thing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to do <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Tally can not get caught <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. ****<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite part <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in the book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “ Uglies <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">” is when Shay shows <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tally how to use <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> a hoverboard which is a floating <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> skateboard type machine <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. I wish <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> our world had <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> that technology <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. It is a cool way <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to get around <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> as a teenage myself i would much enjoy <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> it. Sneaking around <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> on the hoverboard has risks <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> though because they stop working <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> if you go too <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> far away <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> from the location <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of everything. I found <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this part <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> of the book funny <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">, exciting <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">, and dangerous <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. ****<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">I found <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> to be quite enjoyable <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">. If you are a teenage girl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and you likeadventure <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and suspense you will love <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this book <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “ Uglies <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">” by Scott Westerfeld. I’d recommend <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> this booktoo <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> all girl <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> teens from ages <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 12-18. I mean <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> what would you do <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> if when you turnonly <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> sixteen you must be transformed <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> into something you are not? Would you try <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and resist <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;"> without gettingcaught <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #191c1e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">? ** ** Michaela Donner **