Janey's Girl
By Gayle Friesen
Claire goes with her mom to go see her grandma in Smallwood. While she is there she meets her dad for the first time a long with her half brother Jamie who has Leukemia and need a bone morrow transplant, and guy who likes her and learns what about her mother's past and about her grandpa which she never met before. And the dark secrets of what happened to her mother and her grandpa.
The Voice on the Radio
By Caroline B. Cooney
This is one of the sequels to Face on the Milk Carton. Janie Johnson is family winding down from everything that has happened to her in the past, her family’s are getting along good and she visit her real parents often. The time has finally come her boyfriend is leave for collage in Boston. She’s not happy about that a lot all. Reeve start work on a radio show where he started to tell everyone about his girlfriend and what she had been through and he gets famous. But after he's been doing the show for a while he gets a call from Hannah who was the one who Kidnapped Janie when she was little. Later Janie learns about the radio show. Then Reeve gets in big trouble.
Heartbeat
By Sharon Creech
Annie she loves to run and loves to draw, she uses them to help her with some of the difficult stuff in her life. Her mom is pregnant, her grandfather is getting old and forgetful and her best friend is really moody lately and she doesn’t really know what to do. But then things get better for her because she finds who she is and how to deal with life and the challenges that she faces.
Tru Confessions
By Janet Tashjian
Tru is a 12 year old girl who strugglers have a twin brother who his "developmentally delayed." Her mom is very busy and her dad who left them. Tru really wants to find a cure for her brother, so one day she posts a want ad online and gets some responses and the find a friend called DeeDee that helps her to realize that she doesn't have to find a cure. Anyway while all this is going on a local TV station has a teen video contest. Tru's other dream comes true she enters the contest hoping to win. She does a video about her brother Eddie and it gets some good reviews. Tru loves being behind and in front of the camera and she loves her brother but she doesn't like her life a whole a lot. But with the help of her friends and family she knows everything is going to be alright most of the time.
I liked this, it was really good.
Multiple Choice
By Janet Tashjian
Monica has been a perfectionist who obsesses with what other people think. she is really good with word games. She makes up a game where she has to do what it says and some of the choices that she makes aren't the best, she can't tell anyone about the game as along as she plays it. She gets in more trouble from the game then she thought it would. Especially when she hurts the people she loves.
Stuff
By Jeremy Strong
Simon's life turns upside down. First he's dad girlfriend moves in and brings her daughter with her. Second his dad's girlfriend she pregnant. Third a new girl arrives at school and he falls in love with her. Forth Simon can't break up with his girlfriend because of her older brother who will hurt him if he ever broke his sister's heart. And last but not least his Comic strip which everyone loves. Simon tries over and over to run away but something always happens where he doesn’t. This book is some what funny but not one of my favorites.
So what have you been up to?
2 comments:
WOW! Looks like you have been busy. Some of them books sound intersting. I might have to read some of them.
I mean I have been reading some books about they are all about celebrities!
Lately, I have been reading nonfiction. Currently, I'm reading a book about how boys and girls brains work differently and how that makes them learn differently. I've not far into the book and already I've learned a lot. Practical stuff that we might be able to use here at High Point.
I'm also reading about how the world is getting so much smaller and how we can communicate around the globe so easily and what that all means for teaching and learning and you.
Of course, I've been reading the news. I'm kind of a news junkie of sorts. It's mostly on line these days, but there is something about picking up a newspaper and turning the pages that I find enjoyable.
I'm glad to see you're reading. It's a great way to learn about the world and who can resist getting the chance to let an author take you to another time and another place. Not me.
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