The City of Ember By: Jeanne DuPrau

The City of Ember is an excellent book about a city that’s having technical difficulties with their lighting. They have no Sunlike Earth but they have street lamps they rely on to light up their city and when the lights start flickering in the city it’s up to Lina and Doon to save the people but they can’t tell anyone what they have found before they’re secure and until they’ll believe them. The mayor is very dirty and mean so it’s going to take a while before they can pass the word around. Find out what happens and how they find out how to solve the whole city’s problem.

 

 

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Sundays at Tiffany’s

The book starts of with cute nine-year-old girl, Jane, and her imaginary friend, Michael, playing the Jane and Michael game in a fancy New York restaurant. Later, Michael, who was sent to guide Jane to become who she is supposed to be while living with her celebrity mother, has to tell Jane that he is leaving and that she will forget him come tomorrow morning like all his kids do. Jane, however, is stubborn and refuses to forget him and now, about twenty five years later, she and Michael run into each other while she is producing her movie Thank Heaven about a nine year old and her imaginary friend. Michael has never met one of his children as an adult before and other unusual events begin to unfold. Michael and Jane fall in love, but will their realationship last? And why has Michael found her again?

The Final Warning

As the fourth and last installment of Patterson’s popular Maximum Ride series, this book is action packed and will send you for a ride. With new obstacles to overcome Maximum Ride and her flock must come up with new tricks to avoid everyone in league with the school, even if it means a trip to Antartica. This is a great ending to a really good series.

The Notebook

As a teenager travelling to North Carolina for the summer, Allie finds true love. When she leaves, she must leave her love behind as well. Set about fifteen years later, Allie is engaged to a wealthy lawyer in her home state. Though Lon is a great social match for her, Allie cannot forget about Noah, the North Carolina boy she knew years ago. So she travels back to North Carolina to determine once and for all if what they had was real. Does she find him? Do they fall in love again? Who does she choose? You’ll find out in the ending that will bring you to tears.

My Sister’s Keeper

This is a unique story about a girl who files a lawsuit against her parents for the right to her own body. The story gets interesting when we learn that winning her case would mean sentencing her sister to death. Thirteen-year-old Anna fights hard to win this case though she keeps her motives hidden until the very end when Picoult delivers a dramatic twist that will bring you to tears. This book is truly about the special bond between sisters and their role within a family.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

This book is actually a play, and since I’m reading it for school I’ll try not to give too much away. It is mostly a true story, the main characters actually existed in Salem village in the 1600s. The witch trials are all real of course, and the author bases most of the characters on the documents that have been found about them from Salem. Abigail was a paid servant girl for John Proctor, who is married. They had an affaiir, but he and his wife ended it by firing her. She wants revenge, and eventually accuses his wife of witchcraft. Her accusations also cover up the fact that she attempted witchcraft in the woods with a group of girls.

Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson

Sundays at Tiffany’s was a unique love story. Jane’s professional imaginary friend, Michael, leaves her on her ninth birthday with the promise that she will forget all about him, as his kids always do. However, this never happened for her, and years later we find her producing a movie about her years with him called Thank Heaven . Then he finds her again as an adult, and they fall in love. Why did he come back? How did he find her? You’ll find out in the end.

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

This book by Jodi Picoult, like all her other books, is fascinating and brings up interesting human issues and relationships. However, this book is especially interesting because she is writing about Amish culture and that puts a whole new twist on her book. She actually spent a week on an Amish farm so that she could accurately depict their way of life. When Ellie goes to her Aunt Leda’s house to take a break from her difficult job as a defense attorney and from a faulty relationship, she doesn’t expect to find the biggest case of her career. Her aunt convinces her to defend and Amish girl, a cousin that she didn’t even know that she had, for a charge of first degree murder of her newborn. The book spirals around the relationship that develops between Ellie, an outsider, and Katie and the rest of the Amish community. As she begins to understand the Amish way of life, Ellie questions Katie’s innocence or guilt. This story is a great ride, and like all of Picoult’s books, watch out for the twist at the end.

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

Nina is a prosecution attorney. She sees child molesters go free more often than not. She knows that when they are convicted they’re often out of jail sooner than the victim is out of counseling. She knows that most young children can’t remember enough details to help themselves, or are so terrified of testifying against someone who is sitting only a few feet away that they are traumatized for years. So when she finds out that someone molested her five-year-old son, she takes the law into her own hands. Can she get away with it, and should she? The man she suspected is a perfect match. The DNA anywhere in your body should match all your othe DNA, and his blood matched the semen found in her sons underwear, but as the madical report says, there is a one in 6 billion chance that he is not the man. The very unique exeption to the rule is a successful bone marrow recipient (most often a treatment for leukemia) whose blood DNA will not match other DNA in his body. Was the suspect innocent, and if so what will happen to the real perpetrator?

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

Faith is an ordinary 7 year old girl when her parents get divorced. Suddenly she claims she is seeing a female god, and her hands and sides bleed with the stigmata. The media swarms her house, and although her father gave custody to her mother, he now wants her back. Her mother loves her, but has had been suicidal before, right after the last time she found her husband cheating on her. Her father loves her to, but is newly married, and with another baby coming. Can he make room for her in his life? Which parent is the best choice?