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.

The Demon's Lexicon

Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole -- a charm that keeps her alive -- and they want it badly enough to kill again.
Danger draws even closer when a brother and sister come to the Ryves family for help. The boy wears a demon's mark, a sign of death that almost nothing can erase...and when Alan also gets marked by a demon, Nick is desperate to save him. The only way to do that is to kill one of the magicians they have been hiding from for so long.

Ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Nick starts to suspect that his brother is telling him lie after lie about their past. As the magicians' Circle closes in on their family, Nick uncovers the secret that could destroy them all.

This is the Demon's Lexicon. Turn the page.

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.

Meet an Author

On Wednesday, October 6, the Dakota County Library welcomes Frank Beddor, author of the popular teen trilogy Looking Glass Wars, and the Hatter M graphic novels.

Frank grew up a ski champion in Excelsior, MN but now resides in Los Angeles where he has been a film producer (There’s Something About Mary), and a stunt man before he began writing novels for teens. He is currently CEO of Automatic Pictures, a film, television and interactive game production company.
His Looking Glass Wars trilogy takes the classic 19th century children’s tale of Alice in Wonderland off into a truly unexpected literary territory – the battlefields of epic fantasy. The fantasy-based intrigue and dimension-hopping may remind some readers of another little-girl trilogy, His Dark Materials, but there’s also a sci-fi layer over the tale that syncs up with the The Matrix, a different story with key touches of Carroll imagery. The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, sleepy dormice, and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.
On Wednesday, October 6, come and meet the author who created the heroic, passionate, monstrous, vengeful denizens of this parallel world as they battle each other with AD-52's and orb generators, navigate the Crystal Continuum, bet on jabberwock fights and travel across the Chessboard Desert. He’ll be at the Robert Trail Library from 3:00-4:30 p.m., and the Galaxie Library from 7:00-8:15 p.m.

You can find more about Frank at http://www.lookingglasswars.com/about-folder/FBbio.pdf
Call 651-450-2941 for more information.

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!!

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.

13 Reasons Why

I am reading this book as a read aloud to a couple of my classes!

It's really good!!!

http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/book.php

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!!!

Start Again

Sorry about the failure of THE NING!!
I know we were having fun there...and I would like to see our IMBEE place be just as cool!

Tell me how it's going on there?

Let's make a point of trying to go there more often!

How about it?

This is where you need to post your reflection on the biography/autobiography book that you've read!

http://www.imbee.com/

Time to Post

Oh my goodness!!
It's DEFINITELY time to write a new post!
I think there is SO much to write about.
I've got an idea.
I will post short stories, poems, book reviews, or anything else you want.
I will post them with your name if you want, or anonymously if you want.
Just write what you want in the comments....and I will transfer them as posts.
If you don't want your name included....that's cool. Just don't leave your name on there.
It's possible to leave comments anonymously.
Let's see what we can come up with.
I LOVE what you guys write about!!!

Ideas

I will talk to you all about this on Tuesday,
but we had a visitor on here
who was asking about books for 12 year old BOYS.
SO...any of you who have read books
that boys especially would like....
I want you to write up little mini-reviews
of your favorite books....
Then, I will make them into blog posts
so that everybody can read
what books are really good for boys.
Are you up for the challenge?
Just write the name of the book,
the author if you know it, and what
you liked about it.
Can't wait to see what you come up with.
You guys are the best!
Ms. S