http://lweingarden.edublogs.org A place to read and post reviews of books available in the Library Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:35:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons. http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/into-the-wild-nerd-yonder-by-julie-halpern/ May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles ... http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/shanghai-girls-by-lisa-see/ Mia is in an awful car accident - her parents are killed, her brother is critically injured. As she has her out-of-body experience she debates whether or not she should just let go and be with her parents, knowing the pain she'll endure if she stays with the living http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/10/05/if-i-staya-novel-by-gayle-forman/ I read General Winston's Daughter by Sharon Shinn this past weekend.  I really enjoyed the book.  It kept my interest from the first page.  The plot took several turns & spins.  It also gave a different side to war that you usually don't see.  I would reccommend this book to ... http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/08/26/general-winstons-daughter-by-sharon-shinn/   Zoey and her friends encounter evil in an unexpected place when they learn that Kalona, the newest member of the House of Night, is hiding a deadly secret. http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/hunted-house-of-night-book-5-by-pc-cast/ Zoey Redbird's life at the House of Night prep school for fledgling vampyres gets a lot tougher when she loses all three of her boyfriends and her group of friends turns against her, which makes it all the more difficult to get anyone to listen when she discovers Neferet has ... http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/untamed-house-of-night-book-4-by-pc-cast/ Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead. http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/chosen-house-of-night-book-3-by-pc-cast/ Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is just settling in at the House of Night, a finishing school dedicated to training fledgling vampyres to become productive adults, when a series of murders targeting human teens is traced back to the school, forcing her to think about the connections that still exist between her ... http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/betrayed-house-of-night-book-2-by-pc-cast/ After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is. http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/marked-house-of-night-book-1-by-pc-cast/   Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into "Bree" after she "shakes hands with the monster." Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, "convincing me to be someone I never ... http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/crank-by-ellen-hopkins/