Stuck on Earth

Title: Stuck on Earth Author: David Klass ISBN: 9780374399511 Pages: 227 pages Publisher/Date: Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux, c2010. “Please don’t eat me,” he whispers. “I have a rash and it’s highly contagious, so if you eat me you’ll catch it and die.” “I have no plans to ingest you,” I tell him. I [...]

I Am Number Four

Title: I Am Number Four Series: Book one of the Lorien Legacies Author: Pittacus Lore ISBN: 9780061969553 Pages: 440 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: August 3, 2010 In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won’t stop until [...]

This World We Live In

Title: This World We Live In Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer ISBN: 9780547248042 Pages: 239 pages Publisher/Date: Harcourt (an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company), c2010. “We came to see about the food,” Matt said. I could tell from his shaky voice he was near tears himself. “Is there any?” Mr. Danworth nodded. “We’re not [...]

Catching Fire

Title: Catching Fire Series: Sequel to The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Narrator: Carolyn McCormick ISBN: 9780545101417 Pages: 391 pages Publisher/Date: Scholastic Press, c2009. “And if a girl from District Twelve of all places can defy the Capitol and walk away unhardmed, what is to stop them from doing the same?” he says. “What is [...]

Flip

Title: Flip Author: David Lubar ISBN: 0765340488 Pages: 304 pages Pulisher/Date: Starscape, c2003. “There aren’t any interstellar spaceships,” she said, resuming her lecture. “There aren’t any aliens. And there aren’t any artifacts.” “Really?”…””Then what’s this?” Ryan asked, pointing at a bed of weeds near his feet?” (16) Twin eighth-graders Ryan and Taylor McKenzie are nothing [...]