TEEN BOOK REVIEWS

Summer 2009

Worth
By:  A. LaFay
                She’s a great author, the book kept my attention.
Eddie Vanscoy, 12 yrs. Old

Generation Dead
By: Daniel Wates
                The dead come back to life and Phoebe falls in love with one named Tommy and he also falls in love with her. But the ‘panceew’ toy and to kill all of the dead kids.
Ashlee Papineau, 12 yrs. Old

Anyone but You
By: Jenifer Crusie
                This book shows a love you don’t hear about very often… A woman and a man fall in love but she is his senior by ten years. It is a really cute story but short.
Kayla Childs, 17 yrs. Old

Stotan
By: Chris Crutcher
                It was funny and entertaining. The story was taken mostly for a boy’s perspective.
Marta Rambosek, 18 yrs. Old

Wicked Lovely
By: Melissa Marr
                It was a really good romance about a human girl not knowing that she was destined to be a
Summer Fairy Queen.
Marta Rambosek, 18 yrs. Old

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By:  J.K. Rowling
                Because Harry gets married his scar starts burning at the end. Harry has three kids. Harry repels Valdermort’s curse.
Russel Pratt, Jr., 15 yrs. Old

Undead and Unwed
By: Mary Janice Davidson
                The book was funny, a lady dies and then she finds out she is a vampire, and a vampire queen. Her name is Betsy, which is funnier for a vampire queen. She finds out about a bunch of stuff through mess ups and screw ups.
Kayla Childs, 17 yrs. Old

Dance with a Vampire
By: Ella Schreiber
                Raven and Alexander got Daisy and Jaggee to leave but their little brother Valentine games and toys to kill Raven’s little brother Billy.
Ashlee Papineau, 12 yrs. Old

Vampireville
By: Ella Schreiber
                Because on some pages it left me on the edge of my seat, it left me wondering and no matter what how many times I read it I’m still in love with the book!
Ashlee Papineau, 12 yrs. Old

Fast Women
By: Jenifer Crusie
                All these women are in relationships and are having rough times though they get through them together while having some laughs and talking about China sets.
Kayla Childs, 17 yrs. Old

Untamed
By: P.C. Cast
                In one week Zoey goes form having three boyfriends to none. Her friends end up leaving her. Well they don’t trust her anymore. But one of them one of them turns back into a woman and the other died, but Nefret brought her back as a blood-sucking monster.
Ashlee Papineau, 12 yrs. Old

Eclipse
By: Stephanie Meyer
                It is a good book. Edward and Jacob are fighting over Bella but they end up working together to save her.
Russel Pratt, Jr., 15 yrs. Old

How not to be popular
By: Jennifer Ziegler
                It is a story about how important it is to be you, also how important friends are, and to not be afraid to stand up for something good.
Lizzie Rambosek, 17 yrs. Old

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By: J.K. Rowling
They are missing some of the fire of the past books. But I like Dobie, he is a funny elf.
Russel Pratt, Jr., 15 yrs. Old

Vampire Kisses
By: Ella Schreiber
                Alexander Steeling moves up on top of Benson Hill and he invites Raven up to his house on the hill. But when they went to the snow ball, her enemy Trevor decides to ruin everything for her.
Ashlee Papineau, 12 yrs. Old

Teen Library Council 2009-2010

Science Fair
By: Dave Perry and Ridely Pearson
                It is about a school that is having a science fair and the price is $5,000. Toby figures out the rich kids are cheating and their projects might be dangerous. There are lots of other things going on like Star Wars freaks stealing a collection and not-so-bright people from Krpshtskan to make a terrorist attack. It is very, very, very funny and the best realistic/science fiction book ever!
Reece Hickman, 13 yrs. Old

IraqiGirl: diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
Edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field; developed by John Ross.
                Iraqigirl is very emotional collections of a blog of a young teenager in Iraq during this war. She faces many problems in her everyday life that is ‘normal’ for her Unnormal life to us. She encounters family deaths and bombs near her house and school every day. If not for her older sister and her baby niece, she does not know how she would have survived to this day. I encourage everyone to pick up this book and read it so you can have the same insight I have now on the life in Iraq.
Maddy Davis, 17 yrs. Old

House of dark shadows
By: Robert Liparulo
                There is this family named Kings that moved to this house that has many strange secrets about it. Xander and David Kings find a secret room that have more than one door that are portal that lead to many different worlds with different times of the past. Then Xander and David’s mother is taken by a mysterious creature that takes her to another world. This family has only been in this house one day and mysterious things are already happening.
                Read more of this story to find out if the Kings family ever find their mom, and learn more secrets that are about to be revealed.
Marta Rambosek, 18 yrs. Old

Go Ask Alice
By:  Anonymous
                Go Ask Alice is a heart wrenching, gut twisting, soul searching book about a young girl who dabbles in the life of drugs. She realizes soon that it is not all it is cracked up to be and quickly tries to find a way out while the world pulls her deeper and deeper in. Go Ask Alice kept me up late at night, making me wonder what would happen to this poor girl next. I recommend to everyone to find it and read this book.
Maddy Davis, 17 yrs. Old

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
By: Rick Riordan
          Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a good book because there is adventure in every turn, and a mystery everywhere.
Benjamin Rodriquez, 14yrs. Old

Fruits Basket
By: Natsuki Takaya
                A sweet, yet slightly sad series about a family with a curse and a native girl. Lots of twists and turns, you usually don’t see the turns in the plot that are thrown at you. Helps keep the book from getting boring.
Janie Brown, 15yrs. Old

Ella Enchanted
By: Gail Carson Levine
          The day Ella was born, fairy Lucinda bestowed Ella a gift. Lucinda’s gift was obedience. A gift became a curse. Ella would follow every order given to her. Her life was in danger. This book was okay to me.
Praew, 17yrs. Old

Artichoke Hearts
By: Suzanne Supplee
                I hated this book. The main character was pathetic. She ate rotten mayonnaise so she could puke to get skinny. This book is a terrible influence on girls. She only cheers up in the end because she’s losing weight. Don’t pick up this book unless you want to be disgusted.
Brandi Tilley, 14yrs. Old