Julia+Hayman

checked 10/08 DLJ 10 pts. ||
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 * This Lullaby || Sarah Dessen || 9/13/12 || 9/18/12 || cynical Remey falls for spontaneous dexter the summer before she goes to college. Remey has to learn to trust herself in love. || good for a light read or anyone interested in sweet romance novels. ||
 * Matched || Ally Condie || 9/20/12 ||  || always predictable Cassia and her family live in the society which is a eutopian future country where everything is predicted and safe. at 17 all young people go to a banquet to be "matched".cassia end up matched with her best friend but when she learns that she was supposed to be matched with someone else she must make a decision. || SUCH A GOOD BOOK!!!!! ||
 * Crossed || Ally Condie || 9/22/12 || 9/23/12 || when ky is taken away Cassia treks accross the end of the whole society and out the society to see him again and join the rising, a secret underground group trying to take down the society. || honestly, this series has become one of my favorite and I couldnt put it down from start to finish.
 * The Perks of being a Wallflower || Stephen Chbosky || Marking Period 1 || I forget.... || since everyone read this book I dont think I need to summarize it.... you can all tell by my spazzing that I love this book. || OH MY GOD. perks or bust. ||
 * The Lovely bones || Alice Sebold || 10/17/12 || 10/18/12 || After being kidnapped and murdered, susie narrarates the aftermath of her death, tries to help those on earth solve her murder while trying to help the toll it takes on family/friends from her own idea of purgatory. || The story is a phenomenal perspective piece. Normally I dont like books like this however this is probably one of my new favorites.

checked by DLJ 30 pts MP#1
|| reviewed DLJ 1/31/13 MP#2 30 pts ||
 * Cracked || K.M Walton || 12/26/12 || 1/2/13 || the story is a duel narrative of two high school boys. one the victim of bullying and the other a bully, both end up in the same psychiatric hospital as room mates when they try to kill themselves. || I loved the book obviously because I love books about mental illness but also because of the great suppourting characters. ||
 * The Bell Jar || Sylvia Plath || 1/2/13 ||  || Esther a poor girl who wins a scholarship to college where she wins a contest to spend a month in new york city as a magazine editor is spiraling into a breakdown that has been at her heals her whole life. ||   ||
 * I Heart You You, You Haunt Me || Lisa Schroeder || 12/15/12 || 12/22/12 || After her boyfriend Jackson dies Ava is haunted by his ghost and eventually realizes she cant let him control her life anymore and she needs to start to live and go through the grieving process. || the book is written in verse which is cool! ||
 * Chasing Brooklyn || Lisa Schroeder || 12/22/12 || 12/26/12 || Nico's Brother and Brooklyn's boyfriend die and leaves the two of them to pick up the pieces and when he starts to haunt both of them it brings them together. || the back story of their training for the triathlon was interesting also again I liked the way it is written in verse.
 * The City of Embers || Cassandra Clare || 2/30/13 || 3/28/13 || After Clary's mom is kidnap she finds out that she is a shadow hunter and must find the mortal cup and accept her fate to save her mother. || amazing and getting me more involved in the distopian genre ||
 * !3 Reasons Why || Jay Asher || 2/15/13 || 3/2/13 || After Hannahs death Clay Jensen gets 13 tapes listing the reasons why she killed herself clay is for ced to listen to find out why he is on the tapes and understand hannah's death || VERY GOOD. ||