Kristina Snow was a 17-year-old with high grades and a loving family. In Crank (S & S, 2004), one summer in California with a meth-addicted boyfriend destroys her life. Glass picks up a year later. She lives with her mother and works at a 7-11. Depressed about her post-baby figure…
A great story, but a little hard to start. Once you understand that this story is set in present day Ireland, and some of the terms become clear (like “Grada” is a title for the police that means “Officer”) it’s a bit easier to follow. A boy goes on a quest to buy his mother some time, because she never seems to have any. There’s a lot of back story that all comes together in the end, involving legends and lore that many people don’t believe any more and somewhere in there you find out if the legends are really true or not!
Taken by force from his home, Garrett is placed in a disciplinary boot camp. Not quite sure why he has been placed there, Garrett under goes unbelievable abuse, torture and humiliation. Will he be able to leave before his eighteenth birthday, if he submits to the brainwashing? Will a plot to escape succeed? Do his parents come to the rescue? Will good triumph over evil? I could not put this book down. Had to find out what happened next.
Kaitlin Burke is a teen star – tv, movies, etc. She wants to be a “normal” teen and experience high school but can’t do it as herself so she puts on a disguise. She can’t stop being the star she is though, so her “double life” keeps tripping her up, until the inevitable disaster!
Charlotte is dead but isn’t gone. She’s ‘dying’ to be popular and get to the Fall Ball, but both her dead friends and living friends are making it hard for her. What she doesn’t know is that the fate of her dead classmates is in her hands…
This book is about high school girls that find out they’re actually Goddesses with special powers. There’s an evil force that’s trying to destroy them during the “dark moon”. They band together and fight evil. Good book. Easy to read. There are 12 in the series.
Welcome to the brand new TSHS Book Review Blog!
Here is where you can read short reviews on brand new books and leave comments about the ones you’ve read. If you want to provide a review just write it down and bring it to the Library or e-mail it to Mrs. Weingarden (lweingarden@ccboe.com) to get it posted here.
