What Should I Read? Book Talks and More

Heather's book recommendation: Night of the Living Dummy 2 by R. L. Stine (not in Hadley Library--but some R.L. Stine books are) This book is about a young girl that lives with her mother father sister and brother she has a hobby--making a dummy talk. It’s her birthday and I think and her parents get her this little dummy that, and later we find out that it's possessed. Like when she started making it talk, it was not saying what she wanted it to say. It was making insulting jokes to her family and they thought it was her making them. It was really the dummy. All this other stuff happened and stuff got blamed on her and like at the end...well you should read it for yourself...but there is a spell and a way to get rid of that.

Book Recommendation by Max World War Z by Max Brooks I really enjoyed this book. It has suspense and, possibly the best part, zombies. This book is about the war against the living dead and the world being brought close to obliteration. Warning: this book is not for everyone. It does contain a lot of violence--and we don't have it in the Hadley Library.

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline Cooney Readers are very interested in Greek and Roman mythology--especially because of the Percy Jackson Series. Caroline Cooney has written a story set in the Greek islands just before the Trojan war. The protagonist of this book is at the home of Menelaus and Helen when Paris takes Helen--and you will remember that this is the incident that began the Trojan war which lasted ten long years! Cooney used the Iliad , T he Odyssey , and many other historic Greek and Roman writers and well known stories as the sources for this book. "Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxandra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy." http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385729451&view= rg

Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure by Charlie Higson What would a spy be like as a kid? Would he be scientific, studious, or a thrill seeker? Readers have a chance to find out with the Young Bond series... "This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he's just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure." Book 2: Blood Fever "During a summer holiday in Italy, the teen-age James Bond tangles with an underground empire of criminals as he attempts the rescue of a kidnapped young girl." Book 3: Double or Die "Teenage James has forty-eight hours to rescue a kidnapped professor and to keep a powerful weapon from falling into the wrong hands."

Car Trouble by Jeanne DuPrau After I read the City of Ember books, I wanted to read more from Jeanne DuPrau. This story is sooooo different than her others, but it is good. "Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer "nerd" Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there."

Isabelle is diagnosed with the cancer, lymphoma. The book details her illness. What would it be like to get chemotherapy and not know whether you were going to live or die? This book may help students develop empathy for others in this situation. 3 - Average book - recommend

Bound by Donna Jo Napoli This is essentially a Cinderella story set in ancient China. Xing Xing is the mistreated--practically enslaved step child. It is very interesting and suspenseful, plus I believe that Donna Jo Napoli is careful to preserve historic details. Here is what the card catalog says: "In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. "