What to Read Next?

Here is a cool website I stumbled upon recently.
When you finish a book, and you don't know what to read next:
What Shoud I Read Next?
Give it a shot!

Probably Still Nick Swansen

Nick Swansen pretty much knows what it means to be Special Ed.: You can't drive, even if you're sixteen and your parents have two cars; the regular kids in school don't talk to you much; and even if you can memorize every fact about amphibians, it's hard to make sense of all the other stuff swirling in your mind. What he doesn't know is whether being Special Ed. means you shouldn't go to the prom. But since no rule says you can't, Nick decides to ask Shana.

But the prom doesn't turn out at all the way Nick expects it to, and everything bad seems to get all mixed up together: the prom, what Shana does, and the terrible thing that happened to Nick's sister nine years ago. Nick doesn't want to think about any of it, but he begins to realize that unless he makes peace with all the memories that trouble him, they will haunt him forever....

Best Books

Readers' Choice: Best Books of 2010
Web exclusiveFeature by Editors of BookPage

In November we asked readers to tell us their favorite book of 2010. More than 2,600 readers responded, and the results span genres from literary thriller to YA phenomenon to historical epic. Several of these books overlap with our own Best of 2010 picks. The results are in order of votes.



1. The Passage by Justin Cronin
2. Room by Emma Donoghue
3. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
5. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
7. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
8. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
9. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
10. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
11. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
12. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
13. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
14. 61 Hours by Lee Child
15. A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
16. Ape House by Sara Gruen
17. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
18. House Rules by Jodi Picoult
19. Faithful Place by Tana French
20. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Note: Although our Readers' Choice "Best of 2010" picks were limited to books published in 2010, several older books received a significant number of votes. The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay remain especially popular with BookPage readers.

2010 Top Books to Read

1. Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon's Lexicon. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry. 2009.
2. Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. Penguin/Dial Books. 2009.
3. Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea. Penguin/Viking. 2008.
4. Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group. Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009.
5. Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou. Random House / Knopf. 2009.
6. Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir. W.W. Norton & Co. 2009.
7. Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. Random House / Wendy Lamb Books. 2009.
8. Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books. 2009.
9. Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 2009.
10. Walker, Sally M. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland. Lerner/Carolrhoda Books. 2009.

Evermore

Evermore book trailer

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever awoke from her near death experience with psychic abilities she's determined to suppress—until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who's hiding even more secrets than she.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Here is a book that looks worth reading.
The book is

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Click here to watch the video!!

2010-2011

It's the start of a new year!
I have a whole new group of students.
I still think of those of you I have had before....
I hope you are STILL reading!!
I am reading Mockingjay!
Let me know if you have read it!

The Hunger Games

I am currently reading this book with my book club at school.
Looking for a good read?

Check this out.
It's AMAZING!!!

Author Catherine Jinks

Check out this link for a new author. Her name is Catherine Jinks! She Is the author of some great young adult books, as well as some books for adults.
Catherine Jinks: The Reformed Vampire Support Group.

Make a Book Trailer

Check out this link to make a book trailer.
I think it would be AWESOME if somebody made a book trailer from a book they have recently read.
http://lulublog.com/2008/06/13/how-to-create-the-best-book-trailer-ever-seriously/

Just click on that link....and start making a video for a book. I am SO EXCITED for somebody to make one!!!

More Book Ideas

Ashlyn was looking for some good books to read this summer...anybody else running out of ideas?
Here are some titles:
Anne of Green Gables. This series is a classic...but SO GOOD!! I still have this series. It's one of the VERY FEW titles I still have from my childhood.
I also LOVED everything by July Blume when I was your age.
Also Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt.
Check out this link that I found from Amazon.
I have read most of the books on that list and can tell you they are FANTASTIC!!!
Here is a list for girls:
http://www.amazon.com/My-favorite-books-teen-girls/lm/R35PKPOVZZS2O2

Here is a list for the guys:
http://www.amazon.com/Books-for-teen-boys/lm/R198CM9OIIPOVI

Also, check back to earlier posts where we made up a big list of boys and girls books worth reading.

Summer Reading Lists Especially for Girls!!

I got a nice list of books for girls...so here goes:

The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
Anything by Meg Cabot. She is the one who
wrote The Princess Diaries.
Where the Red Fern Grows (have a kleenex box for this one)
by Wilson Rawles.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I
personally read EVERYTHING by S.E. Hinton.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson.
I never saw the movie, but hear the book is
FAR better than the movie.
The whole series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Many girls in my classes have
been working their way through the series this school year.
Heartbeat by Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer.
I was told that this is a quick, easy read.
I reluctantly recommend The Clique books by Lisi Harrison.
The reason I am reluctant to recommend
this series is because I don't like the message the books send.
The books almost promote snotty girl behavior....
which I DON'T BELIEVE IN!!
Secrets of My Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita.
There is another book after this one too.
The Warrior Series by Erin Hunter is being read
equally by boys and girls in my classes.
The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer is also a big hit.
This series has a new book coming out this summer.
If you go online NOW and request a copy,
when it comes out you can be in the mid 100's on the request list.
That's not too bad because the library will
buy many copies. Keep your eyes peeled for information.
I will be trying to track down the premier party for this book at the library!

I know there are MORE books.
I believe there is enough here to
get you started with your summer reading.

Summer Reading Lists Especially for Boys!

I polled the boys in my classes and these are the books that they came up with:

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
The Warrior's Series by Erin Hunter is a HUGE hit
with boys AND girls in my classes.
There are a TON of books in this series.
There are three series within this series.
So far there are 18 books out.
The first book is Into the Wild.
The Alex Rider Series is also a favorite.
The first book is Stormbreaker. This is an adventure series.
It seems to be very addicting.
Boys LOVE this series. There are 7 books in this series.
BY THE WAY: A student just showed
me today that he is reading the newest
book in this series called Snakehead.

Another author we would recommend would be Gary Paulsen.
He writes adventure books that are excellent.
The whole Brian Robeson series is great.
Start with Hatchet. There are 5 total books in this series.
Gary Paulsen writes a bunch of other books too that the boys really like.

The Island Series by Gordon Korman is another series that boys recommend.
Gordon Korman writes many series books.
These are short books and easy to get into.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer has 5 or 6 books in the series.
Hope this helps for summer reading!!
Look for a summer reading list especially for girls to appear SOON!

HAPPY READING!!!