BOOK TALK-MISTY GORDON AND THE GHOST PIRATES

Misty Gordon and the Mystery of the Ghost Pirates

By Kim Kennedy
Flying diaries! Glasses that let you see ghosts! Crystal balls! Radios that talk to you on their own! Misty Gordon is in the middle of all of it all! When she and her friend Yoshi learn that their small New England town was settled long ago by pirates posing as the English colonists, Misty and Yoshi set out to find the treasure they were looking for. The treasure happens to be a dangerous and powerful one. The treasure is three statues of the Greek gods, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Whoever has the Golden Three will be able to control their world as they know it. Now the ghosts of the pirates are coming to get the treasure back, and descendants of the three pirates have just died and are after the treasure and Misty too! Can Misty find them before the ghosts pirates? Read Misty Gordon and the Ghosts Pirates by Kim Kennedy.

BOOK TALK- FORGIVE MY FINS

Forgive My Fins

By Tera Lynn Childs

Lily has a secret. Letting anyone know would endanger her whole kingdom. Lily is a mermaid! Lily’s mom was human, and her dad is king of the merfolk under the sea. Lily wants to know what it’s like to live in the modern day human high school world. She must “bond” with her special guy before her next birthday, or she will lose her right to rule the mer kingdom after her father. Lily has know for three years, that popular, good looking, Brody is the one for her, and she just needs to get up enough courage to tell him. Just one problem: next door neighbor biker boy Quince seems out to do nothing but torment her and ruin all her plans for happily ever after with Brody. Why? Sometimes Lily wants to go after him with her father’s trident, but is she too blind to see the truth? Who is her real “mermate?” Will she choose to give up her merkingdom and live on land? Read this modern day version of The Little Mermaid, Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs.

BOOK TALK- THIS DARK ENDEAVOR

By Kenneth Oppel

Sixteen year old Victor Frankenstein will do anything to save his sick twin brother, Konrad, but can he save himself from his own dark thoughts and desires? Elizabeth is a distant cousin who was raised with them as a sister, but now they are older. Which twin will Elizabeth love? Elizabeth, the twins, and good friend Henry discover a hidden library of alchemy and other things, and they are determined to find the ingredients for the Elixer of Life, to save Konrad’s life. They endure great danger to acquire the first two. Then, Victor even gives up two of his fingers for bone marrow to save his brother only to find out the evil alchemist, Polidori was only using the three to get the ingredients so that he could take the Elixir of Life for himself. Can they survive and get the Elixir of Life to Konrad before it’s too late? Will it even work if they do? Read, This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel.

Bootalk-Scat

Scat

By Carl Hiaasen

Help! Mrs. Starch is missing! When their biology teacher disappears on a class field trip to Black Vine Swamp in the Florida Everglades, Nick and Marta have to find out what’s happened. Everyone thinks the class troublemaker, Smoke, had something to do with it, and he does-just not in the way they think.
There is way more going on in the swamp than anyone knows! Nick and Marta have to deal with an eccentric eco-avenger,a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, a singing substitute teacher, and why is that Florida panther in the swamp so ticked off? Nick and Marta find out a company is doing some illegal activity in the swamp that will destroy part of the natural environment and home for so many wild creatures there. Can they stop them in time? Does this have anything to do with Mrs. Starch’s disappearance? To find the answers, read Scat by Carl Hiaasen.

Booktalk-Unwind

UNWIND
By
Neal Shusterman

It’s a world gone mad! Unwanted teenagers are being harvested for body parts. The government and other adults are calling it being “unwound,” which sounds much nicer. Conner, Risa, and Lev are all from different backgrounds and are being unwound for different reasons. They are brought together by chance, and must help each other to escape their fate. If they can survive till age 18, they can’t be unwound. They make a harrowing cross country journey to a safe place only to be betrayed and taken to a harvest camp where they will be unwound.
What is it like to be unwound? No one knows the answer to this medical mystery because the harvesters aren’t telling! Will they really still be alive through their body parts helping other people? Will Connor and his friends survive? To find the answers, read the thought provoking story, Unwind by Neal Shusterman.

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.