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 * The Maze Runner || James Dashner || Marking Period 1 || 10-2-12 || Thomas is sent to "The Glade" to join the other boys to try and solve the surrounding maze when the first girl to be sent through "The Box" named Teresa, starts "The Ending". Thomas, Teresa and friends come closer and closer to finding a way out of the maze and once they do they enter into a world filled with plague. || YES!
 * The Perks of being a Wallflower || Stephen Chbosky || 10-4-12 || 10-9-12 || You follow the journals of a boy named Charlie who is an outsider starting high school. Charlie writes leters to "a friend" telling that friend about his real friends Sam, Patrick and others and the activities they do throughout his freshmen year. If follows Charlie from being a wallflower to someone active in life. || HECK YES!! ||
 * Tilt || Ellen Hopkins || 10-4-12 || 10-12-12 || To show a different side from the book //Triangles// this book follows 3 teens and the struggles they are currently facing within themselves and within their families. Each has their own problems but in the end they are all connected and come together. || Yes, if you have read //Triangles// first. ||
 * Living Dead Girl || Elizabeth Scott || 10-12-12 || 10-12-12 || Alice was kidnapped when she was 9 years old at the aquarium with her elementary school. She is now 15 and knows that her time is almost up because her captor only enjoys the company of young girls and cannot keep her looking young anymore. As she tries to help him find someone new to replace her she wonders if she will be able to get away or end up dying. || Easy read, I would recommend if you like these kind of books. ||
 * Water For Elephants || Sara Gruen || 10-22-12 || 11-16-12 || Jacob wants to be a vet to animals just like his dad, but when both his parents are killed in a car crash he gives up on college and jumps a train that just happens to be for a circus. He soon becomes the vet for the traveling show and becomes friends with people in high places, including Marlena. They soon fall in love but the problem is she is married to a control freak. They have to find a way to get out of the circus, safely. || === Yes ===

checked by DLJ 30 pts MP#1
|| reviewed DLJ 1/31/13 MP#2 30 pts || Haplin || Josh Beck || 01-24-13 || 01-29-13 || Will Haplin has only ever gone to a deaf school but he has decided to go to a public hearing school. As soon as he gets there is realizes how hard it will be for him, but he makes an unwanted friend (who knows sign language) in the the process. Will continues to silently watch everyone in the school to better get to understand them. But on a school trip to a crystal mine that ends in the death of the star football player, Will and his friend decide to try and solve the mystery which ends with a surprising killer. || DEFINITELY YES! Soooo funny! ||
 * The Best of Me || Nicholas Sparks || 11-27-12 || 12-04-12 || Dawson Cole, part of the outlaw Cole family of Oriental County and Amanda Collier of the well-known, well-respected Collier family unexpectedly fall in love the summer before senior year. As Amanda goes off to college her and Dawson break up so she can fufill her dreams. Many years later they are brought back to Oriental to settle the affairs of a common friend,Tuck's, death. They learn what they have missed all the years and reconnect even though Amanda is married with kids now. As the weekend ends Amanda has to choose to stay with Dawson or go back to her alcoholic husband. But a car accident will change everything. || Yeah... ||
 * Hate List || Jennifer Brown || 12-04-12 || 12-10-12 || Valerie's boyfriend Nick used the list of people who bullied her and him as a kill list when he brought a gun into school. After Valerie finally stopped him after taking a bullet to the leg he killed himself. Now she is going back to school for her senior year and does not know how people will feel about her. Some want her dead, some blame her for the shooting and others just want to thank her for stopping it. The book follows her journey of finding out who she is now that she lost the guy she loved and after dealing with the events of the shooting. || YESS!!! If you like the books I do :P ||
 * Bitter End || Jennifer Brown || 12-10-12 || 12-18-12 || Alex has always been quiet, since her mother has died and no one in her house talks. But she only blossoms when she is with her two best friends. Now the new boy in school, Cole, who she has started tutoring has been showing interest. She thinks it is the kind of love she has always wanted til she realizes that he rando,ly becomes violent. Throughout the book she struggles with what to do about her relationship with her friends, with her family, and Cole. All while still questioning her mothers death. || Yes! Except it freaked me out a little. ||
 * The Fault in our Stars || John Greene || 12-19-12 || 01-02-13 || Hazel has been diagnosed with terminal cancer since she was young, so she secluded herself from others. Then Augustus comes to her support group with his friend. Augustus persues Hazel and she fights it at first but gives in. They visit the author of her favorite book right before Augustus gets sick again and changes everything in Hazel's world. || Yes ||
 * Where She Went || Gayle Foreman || 01-02-13 || 01-07-13 || The book to follow If I Stay where Mia decided to come back to the world without her family. Mia's ex-boyfriend Adam has come into the fame he used to want, but now he wants nothing to do with the interviews and his upcoming tour. When his last night in New York before starting his new tour he runs into Mia. They spend the night together until they eventually talk about how things ended between them, bringing them back together. || Yes, if you've read If I Stay.
 * October Mourning || Leslea Newman || 01-10-13 || 01-11-13 || A story of poems to relay the events of the murder of Matthew Shepard. || Yeah ||
 * The Dark Days of Hamburger
 * Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close || Jonathan Safran Foer || 02-05-13 || 03-08-13 || Oskar's father died in the World Trade Centers on 9/11 and since then he has had a hard time coping. When he is snooping in his fathers closet one day and finds a key in an envelope with the world "Black" on it he assumes whoever Black is, knows what happened to his father that day. As Oskar sets out on his search the reader goes back in time to learn the story of his missing grandfather and eventually his loving grandmother. In the end Oskar finds a way to cope with the loss of his father and though he may not find the answer he wanted he made many friends along the way. || Yes, such a cute story! ||
 * The Five People You Meet In Heaven || Mitch Albom || 03-11-13 || 03-13-13 || Eddie thought he lived a boring life, so when he died trying to save a young girl from a roller coaster gone astray, he did not know what the 5 people he would meet in Heaven would have to say to him. Eddie meets people who were a large part of his life, as well as people he never knew. All these people played a role in the life he had and helped him come to terms with his life and to be happy with it. In the end he finds out answers to questions he has had for years and finds content with how things ended. || Yes, so sweet and simple! ||
 * Nineteen Minutes || Jodi Picoult || 03-14-13 || 03-21-13 || After Peter opens fire in his high school there are many questions as to why he did it. Josie witnessed the shooting and murder of her boyfriend Matt and is having a hard time dealing with it. But she cannot talk to her mom about it because her mother is a Judge who might be assigned to the case. The book goes back in time to figure out why Peter attacked these people and what role Josie had in it all. || YES!! So intense!!! ||
 * Worlds Afire || Paul B. Janeczko || 04-09-13 || 04-11-13 || Book in verse showing all different stories of souls affected by the circus fire July 6th, 1944. || Yeah ||