Book Talk: Suck It up

Suck It Up
By Brian Meehl

Morning McCobb just wants to grow up to be some kind of superhero. The problem is that he not only is he the scrawniest, least superhero looking boy around, he won’t ever grow up past the age of sixteen because that’s how old he was when he became a vampire. However, he is not your average vampire. Morning has never tasted human blood. He’s kind of a vegetarian vampire and drinks a soy based blood substitute called blood-lite.
Morning is the teenage vampire at school whom people make fun of and pick on all the time. Then one day Morning is picked to be the first vampire to “out” himself and show us mortals that vampires are just another minority with special needs. The Vampire League wants to have a Worldwide Out Day, but they need Morning to be an ambassador first so that everyone will believe there are really vampires, but no one needs to be afraid of them. To make things even more complicated, a group of old-school vampires who want to keep things the old way where they scare and feed off of human mortals. Morning has to survive attacks from them and pass the most difficult test of all-Portia. If he can withstand the temptation to bite and drain the girl he sees all the time and likes, it will prove to the world that vampires can be the harmless creatures Morning says. Will morning be the ambassador who gets vampires and humans to live peaceably with each other? Will he pass the ultimate test with Portia and be the superhero vampire he wants to be? To find out read Suck It Up by Brian Meehl.

Book Talk: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

The Adoration of Jenna Fox


By Mary Pearson

Jenna is in the middle of the ultimate identity crisis. She just woke from a year long coma after a terrible car accident. Why did her parents move to a place where no one would find them? Slowly she remembers bits and pieces of her life, and she hears the voices of her friends calling to her for help. She doesn’t understand why she hears their voices, especially after she learns they died in the accident! Why didn’t she die too? What did Jenna’s scientist father do to keep his daughter? As Jenna slowly unravels the story of not only who she was and is now, but “what” she is, she’s not sure she wants to be that. Will she live two more years or two hundred? To find out read The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson.