Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

Reading Level: Young Adult
(4 out of 5)


While reading a book have you ever had that I want to throw this book across the room moment? I did at the end of the this book. You know when there is only one page left and nothing is resolved that there has be a second book. I don't mind there being another book I just mind that I didn't know there was a second book and I didn't have it to start reading it right away. I have since cooled down and I do not want to harm books in any way. :)

There is a strange phenomenon going on all over the country. Some teenagers that die aren't staying dead. They are coming back to life, but they are no longer the same. The politically correct term for them is living impaired not zombie and they are trying to blend back into society. But that's hard to do when the living doesn't understand them and want them to disappear for good. Not everyone feels that way. Pheobe Kendall falls for Tommy Williams the leader of the undead kids and no one can believe it especially her best friend Margi or her neighbor Adam. Adam has realized that his feelings for Pheobe run deeper than just friendship.

This book makes you think what if that really did happen. You die but don't stay dead. Would your parents be happy that you are "alive"? Would your friends still be your friends? Really good book and I can't wait to read Kiss of Life the next book in the series.

Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

Reading Level: Young Adult
(3 out of 5)

This book was a little slow going for me. It finally picked up the pace for me towards the end. Broken Soup is about a family that has been torn apart by a tragic accident. Mom can't cope, Dad leaves, and big sister has to take care of her younger sister. And then one day things start to change and they may be for the better. This was a sad read but I'm glad I finished it.

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Reading Level: Young Adult
(4 out of 5)

After reading this book I really wish I got to spend every summer at a beach house. I'm a little jealous. Oh well I'm over it now.

This book was really good. Isabella, aka Belly, measures her life in summers. To her everything wonderful and magical happens between the months of June and August. Summer is being at the beach house with her mom and brother Steven and more importantly with Susannah and her two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Jeremiah and Conrad are the boys she has known forever. This summer, the summer she turns 16, is a summer full of wonder and changes. The more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

The Alchemyst: the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

If you enjoy stories of legends and myths intertwined with historical events, you will like the “Alchemyst”. This is Book One of a three book series. Book Two is “The Magician” and Book Three is “The Sorceress”.

Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perenelle are both almost 700 hundred years old and own a book store in California. Nicholas is a famous alchemyst who owns an ancient book, the Book of Abraham the Mage, which holds the elixir for the secret of eternal life. Twins Sophie and Josh Newman, are unwittingly caught up in the battle between rival alchemists over possession of this book. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh are only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.

Some legends are true.
Sophie and Josh are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. Enjoy!

Written by Helen Duda

Evernight by Claudia Gray

Reading Level: Young Adult
(4 out of 5)

I don't want to give anything away so this book is about a Gothic boarding school called Evernight Academy, a girl named Bianca, a boy named Lucas, and many many secrets. Are you intrigued? If you are check it out. Any fans of Stephenie Meyer, Richelle Mead, or Cassandra Clare will like Claudia Gray. Evernight is the start of a series. The next one is Stargazer. The next two not released yet will be Hourglass and Afterlife. I can't wait. For more information: www.claudiagray.com

Godmother, The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon

“Godmother, The Secret Cinderella Story” written by Carolyn Turgeon and published in 2009 is one of our new adult fiction titles. The novel flips back and forth between the fairy world and the present-day world of New York City. The main character, an older woman named Lil, lives in New York City and works at a bookstore in Manhattan. Lil’s secret, which she will let no one in the human world know, is that she was Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother and that she, instead of Cinderella, fell in love with the Prince. Thus, three hundred years ago, she was banished from the fairy kingdom and forced to live in the human world. Lil loved her life in the fairy world. There she was beautiful with red hair and green eyes, and could fly over the fairy lake with her three beloved fairy sisters, Maybeth, Lucibell, and Gladys. In the human world, she likes her job at the bookstore and working for the owner of the bookstore, a handsome, bookish, and kind man named George. With pure white hair, she is told she holds an aura of glamour and that she must have been quite beautiful when she was younger. Now her skin is quite wrinkled, and her after-work life is rather lonely – spent in her apartment alone each night where she reads books and watches television. Additionally, Lil has to hide the remnants of her fairy world, like the large feathery white wings across her back which she has to bind when she goes out and all of the white feathers floating in her apartment which she has to burn every morning. However, one day, upon befriending a fairy like woman named Veronica, Lil decides she will redeem her past mistake in the fairy world by acting as Veronica’s Fairy Godmother, sending her to an elegant ball, and thus giving Veronica a chance at true love. This, she is hoping, will be enough for her to be allowed to return to the fairy world she so misses. The writing is lyrical, pulling the reader into a feeling of the world of the fairies versus the New York City environment. You might want to check out the author’s lively blog featuring her writing and road trip adventures. Interestingly, this book has been optioned for a movie. It will be neat to see how it turns out.

Submitted by Karin Olsen

Lily Dale: Awakening by Wendi Corsi Staub

Reading Level: Young Adult
(4 out of 5)

What could be worse than getting dumped via text message? Calla thought that was the worst thing that could happen to her but she was wrong. Not long after getting dumped she finds her mother dead. Calla's life as she knew it is over. Her father is a professor and is scheduled to do a sabbatical in California. While her dad is in California getting things ready for them Calla goes to spend the summer with her grandmother Odelia in Lily Dale. To Calla's shock Lily Dale is full of psychics including her grandmother. As Calla gets to know Lily Dale and the people who live there unusual things start happening to her. She starts seeing ghosts and having visions. Is she like her grandmother and will she ever uncover who her mother really was. The only way to uncover family secrets is to stay.

I really liked this book but it read like a first chapter. What I mean by that is it felt like I was only getting the beginning of the story not the middle or the end. That could be because there are three other books that follow. Lily Dale: Believing, Lily Dale: Connecting, and Lily Dale: Discovering. The next two books are out already but Lily Dale: Discovering will be out in October 2009.

I can't wait to start reading the next book.