What Your Friends Are Reading

The Summer Reading Program Own the Night is underway and reviews are pouring in!  Let's see what every one's been reading...

Estrella's Quinceanera by Marlin Alegria
Summary:  Estrella's mom wants her to have a quinceanera, but she doesn't want one.  She tries everything to stop her mother, but it doesn't help.  Estrella goes to a private school where there are rich girls.  The only reason she made it in is because she earned a scholarship.  Estrella doesn't want her 2 best friends from school to know about her quinceanera.
Review:  I enjoyed this book every much because I could relate to the main character.  This book was funny as well.  In this book they used many Spanish terms.  Some people might not understand the terms used.

Fallen by Lauren Kate
Summary:  Lucinda goes to a reform school because she killed her first love Trevor.  She knows that it was the "shadows" who killed him though.  At her new school she may find who those shadows are.
Review:  This book is the first in a series (Fallen).  This is a truly great book and I would recommend it to any of my friends!  I would because they all like supernatural books like this.



Torment by Lauren Kate
Summary:  The protagonist (Luce) and her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel are separated for some time.  He takes her to the Shoreline School with no explanation.  When she gets to this school she learns it is full of Nephilim.  They teach her what the shadows are that were following her.  And Luce things Daniel is keeping secrets from her.
Review:  What I liked about this book is how the protagonist (Luce) thinks she is so in love with Daniel.  She would give up everything to be with him.  What I didn't like is how the book always talked about her previous lives but never really explained them.  I would recommend this book to only the people that would like supernatural romance novels.

The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang by Amy Ignatow
Summary:  There are two girls named Lydia and Julie and they want to become popular.  But things get in their way that tears their friendship apart.
Review:  I loved this book.  It is written in a type of diary form and it is easy to read.  This book explains a lot about how you shouldn't care about if you are popular or not.  You just need to be who you are.

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Review:  The perfect amount of action, suspense, and sadness.  This book was so good, after I finished it, I immediately started reading it again.  Yes I would recommend this book to others, just because of the first two books.






Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts
Review:  This book was pretty good.  A little boring in the beginning but it gets better.  Yes I would recommend this book to others.







13 Gifts by Wendy Mass
Summary:  When Tara was sent to stay in Willow Falls for the summer, she did not expect what she found.  Two strange kids who communicate with chalkboards.  A boy who sits in the bottom of a hole and sings.  But the strangest person of all is an old woman who Tara has to collect 13 gifts for before her birthday or really bad things will happen.
Review:  I would recommend this book to others who have read the first and second books of this "series" (which I also recommend).  I liked that the book was funny and was not all happy-happy-never-problems.  There were actually problems that really could happen.  For anyone who enjoys funny realistic fiction, 13 Gifts is REALLY good.

Deep Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
Summary:  13 year old Ali goes on a summer vacation with her aunt and cousin to a lake where Ali finds a surprising event has been haunting her family.
Review:  I loved this book.  I loved the mysterious twists amongst it.  I loved how Mary really detailed each character.





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