Bumped According to this website the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate out of all industrialized countries. The Center for Disease Control says that one-third of teens get pregnant before the age of 20. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy says that there are “750,000 teen pregnancies annually. Eight in ten ofRead More
The Future of Us What if you knew about Facebook before everyone else did? In the book The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, Josh and Emma stumble upon Facebook in the year 1996. Emma just got a computer from her father, and when she downloads AOL for her computer, a websiteRead More
Two Short Novels
The Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel Everyone knows how a dictionary is set up. A word is given, then it is defined, obviously. This is how The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan is told. It’s like a dictionary, that is telling the story of a couple. Each word is defined through something in their relationship. It’sRead More
Another Trilogy Made Into a Series
City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments, Book 4) I don’t know how many of you read the Maximum Ride series, but wasn’t it dumb when James Patterson kept going after Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports? I mean, that was the perfect ending to a trilogy, but he just had to keep going. AndRead More
Where She Went
Where She Went If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a novel about a girl who ends up in a coma from a car crash that killed the rest of her family, and she is trying to decide whether or not to live. It’s a beautifully written book, and I would highly recommend it.Read More
How to Save a Life
How to Save a Life When you hear the title of this book, you may think of the song by the Fray. I know I did when I first looked at it. But, the book doesn’t really have anything to do with the song, beside the fact that they share the same title. How toRead More
Catching Up Part 2
On our way to Ohio, we stopped in Detroit the first night to split up the driving. And it was on our way to Detroit that I started To Timbuktu. I finished it…two days later, I believe, after we had visited Oberlin and gone to Cedar Point. It was kind of a perfect book toRead More
Catching Up
For the past few days, I have been on vacation in Ohio. I know that doesn’t really sound like the ideal vacation destination, but my sister Lissy wanted to visit a college there, so we just made a trip around it. We actually went to Cedar Point and the Detroit Zoo, so it was aRead More
Sidekicks Aren’t Given Enough Credit
Sidekicks Usually in superhero stories, the sidekick isn’t all that important. He or she is just there to do the things that the actual hero doesn’t want to do. Take the movie Sky High. In Sky High the children of superheroes (or just children that possess superpowers) are sent to a school especially for them.Read More
A Different Way to Tell a Story
Wonderstruck Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick is different in the fact that it is told in both words and pictures. Amazing pictures at that. Brian Selznick draws all the pictures in the book himself, and the drawings are absolutely fantastic. Now, this book doesn’t come out until September (a perk of being in BBYA), but itRead More
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