Jennifer Hubert's Blog, page 39
June 20, 2009
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Fifteen-year-old Isabel, aka "Belly" has spent almost every summer of her life with her mom, her older brother Steven, her mom's best friend Susannah, and Susannah's two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Susannah has always been like a second mom to Belly, and Conrad and Jeremiah like another set of brothers. Belly loves the weathered [...:]
June 15, 2009
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Columbine. A word that has become synonymous with terror, pain and sadness. So what compelled me to read and review a book about the worst school shooting America has ever known? Well, for much the same reason that most adults who work with teens want to read it: to try and understand WHY. Author Dave [...:]
June 10, 2009
The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko
What would you do if your doppleganger suddenly walked up to you and offered to show you the parallel universes that existed right outside the thin fabric of your reality? One day when Ohio teenager John Rayburn heads to the barn to do chores, he is confronted by an identical man who claims he is [...:]
June 5, 2009
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
An eight-legged thousand-ton iron frigate that moves like a deadly giant spider over a frozen wasteland. A flying eco-system battleship made up of a sperm whale, bees, bats, falcons and hydrogen gas. These are just two of the amazing creations you will discover within the pages of Westerfeld's startling new steampunk series. It's the Austrio-German [...:]
May 30, 2009
Fat Cat by Robin Brande
Catherine Locke is determined to crush the competition in Mr. Fizer's torturous A.P. Special Topics in Research Sciences class, especially smug Matt McKinney, her ex-best friend and science fair rival since 6th grade. Each student must randomly choose a picture from Fizer's dreaded Stack of science photos and devise a secret year long research project [...:]
May 25, 2009
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
Seventeen-year-old football quarterback Cody Laredo never considered himself a good student. He maintained grades just high enough to keep his butt off the bench, hoping that a college football scholarship would be his ticket to the NFL. But now that he's blown out his knee, lost his gorgeous upper-crust girlfriend Clea to boarding school and [...:]
May 20, 2009
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
Micah is a liar. That is a fact. And the only thing you can be absolutely sure of in this dark, sexy thriller from Aussie author Larbalestier. For Micah, lying has become second nature, a way to distract herself from her outsider status, her parents' indifference, the tiny NYC apartment that feels too small for [...:]
