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Book Review from GoodReads
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow ===="MATCHED is likely to show up on every bookseller's list of "What Do I Read Next?" for rabid //Hunger Games// fans, and its rich characterizations and provocative questions are sure to satisfy. But this book deserves to be read and absorbed on its own merits, as a fascinating, thought-provoking and unapologetically romantic novel about the choices we make --- and those that are made for us."====

This book is important to me because......
====This was my first time going out of my comfort zone for reading. Usually science fiction is not my thing but my sister read them and said i have to read them. So i gave it a shot and I became obsessed with them. I can't wait for November because that is when the third book comes out.====

=**Response to important book..**= =I got Jess's stack of books and from the stack she gave me i chose to read Matched by Ally Condle. In the begining of the book I wasn't sure if i liked it or not, but as I continued to read I started to like to book more and more. The questions of how the Society works started to pick and Cassia started to rebel more making the book much more interesting.I would definatly recomend this book for others to read and was very happy thay Jess chose to put this book in her important books. I can't wait to start the next one. 10 pts forLibbyN 10/09 DLJ=



Book Review from GoodReads
//Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.// Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, //The Help// is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

This book is important to me because........
====I love a good book with a strong female character who is the protagonist of the story. I also liked how the book was written. Each chapter was written from a different person's point of view but the story stayed together throughtout each person's chapter. I would recommend this book to everyone! They movie was also very good. It stuck to the book pretty well!====

Book Review from GoodReads
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love ===="You'll be hearing a lot about THE HUNGER GAMES in the weeks and months to come, if you haven’t already. There's good reason for that. If you're like me, you have an unrelenting pile of "to be read" books. Take my advice: nudge this one closer to the top."====

This book is important to me because......
====This was one of those books that everybody was reading at the same time. Everyone kept saying "you have to read The Hunger Games!". I just kept " no, no I'll read it soon" but I never got around to. Then my sister read them and she finally convinced me and i gave in. A few chapters into it i couldn't put it down! This was also a really good movie.====

= checked by Mrs. J 9/28/12 45/45 points =