Hunger Games was a book I truly could not put diown. The descriptive language was so easy to read and really made me imagine myself in the districts or the games itself. The horrifying experience was one that was truly unimaginable, but her writing made it incredibly easy to believe. Katniss was a character you wanted to fight for and wanted to win. It was a unique glance at how bad things could be if all decisons were made by the wrong people.

Mindy Chi
Ms. Stubbs 4th Period

"How Not to Be Popular"- I absolutely loved this book because it had a girl who tried her best to fit in, and usually succeeded to be pretty popular, and decided she wanted a life where she wouldn't get hurt anymore, to stay in the shadows. She ends up trying too hard to not have friends, and she hurts a lot of people. By the end of the book, she decides to try her best to lead a natural and true, life.

michael guzzi
4 period
ms,figueroa
daimond willow

About a little dog that looks like a wolf. And a liitle girl. Here dog roxy made her eyes blind. They were in a big snow storm. And so they had to sleep in the storm with roxy. i thought daiomnd willow was the best book of the solar syteam. i want more pepole to read daiomond willow to get the pizza party.

Miss Figueroa
How NOT to be Popular

This book was the most funniest book ever. I will probably read her other book's. This book was about how a girl makes alot of friends. But when she gets comfortable she has to move. She feels that she will dress up like dork, talk to weird people, and not make friends. All because she does not want to have to leave. She does not want a boy friend either, but she does. I like this book because the title is kind of interesing. I mean how not to be popular sounds like a book that guides you. I like the way the author desribes the kiss.

Andrea Barajas
3 period
Ms.Sheely
The Possibelities Of Sainthood
It was interesting and amazing it left me wondering in the end.
It was sad for me yet very romantic too.
I recomende it ot evryonr.

Andrea Barajas
Ms.Sheely 3 period
The Adoration Of Jenna Fox
Well this book is so sad for me yet it is so interesting that you get hooked on it.
It is about this young lady who just go out of a comma and dose not remember anything about her life.
The ending for me is the best part even though I wanted to know more I was so happy at the end.

Marie Inguanzo
Ms. Figueroa period 7th
Author: Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games-
Is about a 16 year-old has learned how to survive in a place named the United States. Seventy years ago the people failed to overthrow the nation of Panem and laws designed to break the people's wills. And every year a boy and girl are chosen as 'Pledges' to fight to the death against the other 11 districts. Now I want you to read this book because it's full of action and thinking.

Shelby Weems
Mrs. Leiding 2nd period

'The Red Necklace' takes place in borderline-revolution France with plot lines thicker than blood. It will absorb you into a world where only noble Lords and Ladies have enough food to squander and the citizens have none to spare. Filled to the brim with murder, mysteries, treason, magic, and intriuge that will keep you wanting more.

David Belmote
Ms. Figueroa period 7
The London Eye Mystery is about a kid cousin that gets lost after he rides the London Eye. They try to find him but they cant find him at all. At the end of the book they find him and his mom leave to New York for the moms new job. I liked the book because it was thrilling and I should recoment it to every one else.

Alexis Woolard
Mrs.Hollon pr.2
'Unwind'
Takes place where the parents are in total control.Where they can decide if they want to keep a child or have it unwound. I liked this book because it was very dramatic and had very many different twists in the plot of the story.

Alexis Woolard
Mrs.Hollon pr.2
'The Adoration of Jenna Fox'
About a girl who was in a "coma" for a year after having a tragic car accident. When she wakes up she finds out that she is different in more than one way than just not remembering. I liked this book less than unwind though.

Marie Inguanzo
Ms. Figueroa period 7th
Author: Helen Frost
Diamond Willow is a sweet and loving book. It's written in diamond shaped poems that have secret messages in them that gives them a bigger look into the characters feelings and thoughts. And in this story Willow has to live with the fact that Roxy is going to be blind for the rest of their lives. Or will he ever see again? You should all read this book it was so heart-warming.

Krystal Thach
Mrs Stege 2nd period
'I,Q Indenpendence Hall'
It's about a boy name Quest (Q for short) and his new stepsister, Angela.There're parent a rockstar called Match.Angela secret is that her brith mother is a secret service spy her name is Malak (Which mean Angel).Malak supposedly die from a bomb in Indendence Hall.Her twin sister was a terrist, who put the bomb there.Malak almost saved her sister, but it was to let.Q and Angela explore Philadelphia to find Malak who left Angela for 4 years. Will they ever find her?

EDUARDO CASTILLO
MRS. FIGUEROA
SUCK IT UP

The's book is abaut a boy who is in training to become a good vampier. He learns the baisics like shape shipting but when they turn back in human form they come back nude. My favoret part is when they come back nude because it's halerius.I woud recomend that the students who want to read thes book is in for a laugh and threild.

How Not To Be Popular
Ziegler

This book was HILARIOUS!! I had a really good time reading it. Sugar (Maggie) Dempsie's parents might be my favorite part about the whole book. They are wacky and loving at the same time. Any person that has ever had to be the "new student" would get a kick out of this book. It was one of those where you got so frustrated with the character, but you desperately wanted to keep reading in order to find out what would happen. It looks like a "girly" book from the cover, but there are parts in it for guys too. I reccomend this book to all middle school/high school students. I flew through the pages and was laughing out loud at some parts.

Adam Diaz de Leon
Mrs.Gonzalez
4th period
Found

The book I read was Found. Found is a mysterious book. It is mysterious because an airplane arives at an airport, but it wasn't supposed to arrive; when it arives it arives with 36 babies. When it arives it automaticaly disapeares. What happend to the babies? Where did they come from? It is all in the ending.

David Wilson
Ms.Kollmeier
6th period
Airman

Airman is an almost first age type book. I mean that the people don't have much technology. A Boy learns of a conspiracy against the king and tries to stop it. To find out the rest, read the book.

Juan Cabrera
Mr. Kindred
1st Period
Antsy Does Time

Ever wonder how people become famous? Kinda like how one unpredictable moment could tarnish/increase your school popularity? Well Anthony(Antsy) Bonano deals with that kinda situation because of a kid named Gunner Umlaut who has the rare disease and donates a month of his own life, which sends his downhill from there.

Juan Cabrera
Mr. Kindred
1st Period
Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature

Imagine a time were you had to make a decision that would be right but you would the outcast of the entire school. Mena Reece knows that feeling, she had a decision like that and she chose the right one BUT became the social outcast of her church and school since that decision lead right into a lawsuit that sued $1,000,000. So, that would give a reason for people to hate her. I mean i would be mad at someone who sued ME for a million dollars, wouldn't everyone?

Juan Cabrera
Mr. Kindred
1st Period
The Hunger Games

"...I struggled to keep the orange pack from the boy but he coughed and i felt a gooey substance on my face. He slumped to the floor and I noticed the knife on his back and the other knife heading for me..."
The Hunger Games is a highly anticipating book that will make want to keep reading to the very end! It's about a event called "The Hunger Games" that shows on national TV live every year. 24 Tributes(kids that take place in the Hunger Games are called tributes) from ages 12-18 have to fight to DEATH. And a girl named Katniss Chooses to take her little sisters(Prim) place at the Hunger Games.

Edith Agado
Mrs. Gonzalez
"How Not to be Popular"
It's about a girl that lives with her mom and dad she has lived in a lot of places. She has had lots of friends her whole life. She has always moved around every 6 months. At this school she goes to she doesn’t want to be popular. She knows that she won’t be there for a long time so she doesn’t want to make any friends and she doesn’t want to have a relationship with another guy. She doesn’t want another relationship because her last one finished because she had to move. Well yea it’s a good book and for the people that like drama this is a good book for you.

Casey Hardin
Mrs. Gonzalez 4th period
Diamond Willow

This is a very good book. The really cool thing is it is written in diamonds here is a little about it. In Alaska, twelve year old girl named diamond Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.

Linda Garcia
Ms.Hollon 7th period
“Suck It Up”
I really liked this book because first of all I am so totally obsessed with vampires and this was totally a good book for people who are also obsessed with it. The reason that I would totally recommend people who enjoy vampires is because it is talking about how several vampires are suppose to be doing this amazing trick to graduate, and then he dose this impression of a white owl but then all of a sudden he changes into a moth and for vampires it is a big surprise because e if you accidentally change into an animal you didn’t have in mind you would stay like that animal for the rest of your life. But everyone is amazed because he pulls it of… well I think I have said too much I wouldn’t want to ruin the book for anyone! D

Linda Garcia
Ms. Hollon 7th period
“The Possibilities of Sainthood”
I really liked this book a lot because it was really good because it tells me about the life of a girl and the way that she and how powerfully she believes is saints and she thinks that they will help her do whatever she wants but at the same time she also tries to do the best she can to help people out! That is all I will tell you right now because I don’t want o ruin the book for anybody because it is that good of a book!!! I hope that you will enjoy this book as much as I did!

Miss Figueroa
Hunger Games
Wow! This book is so intense! 24 kids. 1 arena. 1 mission. They have to fight to stay alive!! I'm for the protagonist, Katniss! She is smart at her craft, but not when it comes to love! Mrs. Genco, I want book two pronto, please! :)

Alexandria C. Galvan
Figueroa-1/2 period
The Missing Book 1 : Found


The book I read was about two kids.One was named Jonah and the Chip.They were getting letters that were very mysterious.They were trying to finsd out about who was sending these letters because there was no return address on the envelope.Then there was this lady named Angela Depre she was a staff at an airport. She had sent a letter to one of them then when they wanted to meet her ,they met at the library,but then the was a fight with a janitor and another guy.The janitor was trying to protect Jonah and Chip from the truth. I really did like the book I read I might even get part 2.

Holga.M.Arevalo
Figueroa 1/2 period
"HOW NOT TO BE POPULAR"


The book i read was about a girl thats moved to AUSTIN TX. She went to a new school.She didnt want to become popular like the other that were trying to be her friend.A boy was trying to hook up with her but she didnt want to.And then she didnt want to learn how to be popular like the other kids in the school she didnt like to fit in with them.The next day she came to school she she was taliking about RULES how not to fit in or not to be popular.She said the word for not to be popular is SWIMMING CAP and other things to say that are not cool words so you wont fit in the popular group.Ever girl was trying to be her friend but she didn't want to because she want ment to be popualr.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Pearson

Futuristic brain gel? What a concept? It was super interesting. I liked the way the book was designed with sporadic poem interspersed throughout the novel. I also liked that it was set in what was obviously the future, but it did not come out and directly state it. It was a book that you genuinely find yourself asking the entire time, "what is the BIG secret?" You continue to read until you find out and it is a suprise. This book would capture the interest of any age and any type of reader. It really makes your questions the advantages and disadvantages of "playing God."

Miss Figueroa
The Black Book of Secrets
F.E. Higgins

This book is based on true events, which is what lured me to it. There is a pawn shop owner that pays people for their deepest, darkest secrets. Wish! The secrets that the people tell are mind-blowing. The better the secret, the better the payoff. It is even more interesting to see where this mysterious pawn owner came from; what's his secret? It got me thinking, how much would you get for your secrets?

Kimberly Martinez
Ms.Sheeley 3
the possibilities of Sainthood

the possibilities of sainthood is a very good book. Antonia is a teenage girl who sets her goals high. Her goals are very special for her, so she tries to make the best of it. In all her years she had never gone through a boy, but when she does she does not know what to do. With her family problems will she be able to be with the boy she likes? Or will she stay with the goals she already has planed?

Richard Pineda
kindred 1st
Diamond Willow
I didn't like the book because I felt like it was or is kind of fruity or not manly enough because of the fact of how it is or how I have portrayed it. I kind of did like it because it was jet fruity but still kind of manly not enough but I loved the end it was excited jet riveting. Diamond willow kind of reminded me of the book “call of the wild” it is a very good book recommends it to all.

Richard Pineda
kindred 1st
Freaks of Nature
Freaks of nature is a really good book I recommend it as well it very good because all do non of us are freaks of nature we might some times feel like one but this book helps us understand why where not freaks of nature and wants you think of it we are all just humans.

Dallan Watkins
Sheeley Pd.3
The Compound; By: S.A Bodeen
Eli Yanakakis and his family are stuck underground in a compound his father, Rex Yanakakis, built for them, when he heard that so called 'nuclear bombs' were going to go off in the Seattle area where they lived, but when they go down there, Eli's twin Eddy, and their Gram didn't make it into the compound so they're dead, or are they! Now they're stuck in there for 15 years! After spending 6 years in the compound, Eli cathes his father telling some lies and then begins to argue whether or not he should belive his father about Seatle being bombed. Then one day he finds out that the internet is back up, so he logs onto the internet(his IM username is TwinYan1, and Eddy's was TwinYan2) and it says that TwinYan2 was also logged on! Then begins to IM 'Eddy' and he says that "there was really no nuclear bombs"but Eli still questions whether or not he was just IMing Eddy or his dad.

Jesus Velasquez
Ms.Sheeley pd 3

Haddix found By Margaret Peterson
Jonah Skidmore knew all the time he was adopted but never thought his friend Chip is adopted. They began getting mysterious letters. The first one say "you are one of the missing" the second letter says, "Beware they are coming back to get you". Jonah, Chip, and Jonah sister Katherine are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a smuggling operation that an airplane appeared out of nowhere and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. They discover that they are caught in 2 opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip lives. do they have any choice in matter? And what would they choose when both alternatives are horrifying?

Dallan Watkins
Sheeley Pd.3
The London Eye Mystery
By:Siobhan Dowd

The Lonon eye mystery is about Ted's and Kat's cousin Salim coming to visit them in London.Then Salim wants to go and ride on the London Eye, so they go. Then, while they're waiting in line to buy a ticket, a strange man comes up to them and offers them a free ticket, claiming he is afraid of heights. They take it and give it to Salim, but the pod for the ticket leaves before Ted and Kat can even but their ticket, so they watch Salim get on, wave to them, and then watch his pod go up. Then when his pod comes down, he watched as everyone came off, everyone exept Salim. Then Ted, Kat, and the family have to find where he went.I LOVE this book and would suggest it to anybody who like mystery books!

Dallan Watkins
Sheeley Pd.3
The Hunger Games
By:Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games is about a group of kids, who, if picked, have to compete to death in order to win 'The Hunger Games.'It shows live on national telivision each year. Katniss take's her place when her little sister(Prim) gets picked to compete in the tournamount, so that Prim doesn't get hurt. It is an AWSOME book & I LOVE it!I highly suggest you read it!!!!!!!!!!!

Kimberly Martinez
Sheeley, 3
The Dead and The Gone

Alex, Briana and Julie are stuck in New York with a BIG problem. The moon is out of rotation. The food is getting very hard to find. Will they survive? Will they get out of New York? Is the world ever going to go back to normal. This was a good but. It is really good for people who like science type stories.

Ms. Sheeley
Gym Candy
Deuker

This book was an quick and easy read. If you love football, it is packed with intense plays, bone-crunching tackles and gut wrenching wins and losses. If you don't love football, it is still an emotional and intense book with a crazy and shocking ending. I really enjoyed this book and would reccomend it to any students who like ot read, but especially to guys who may have never found a book they really liked. It touched on sensitive subjects, peer pressure and disappointment. Once again, the LONESTAR books proved to be excellent.

Lizeth Alfaro
The Compound
Bodeen

The Compound is scary. The family moved in an underground hideout. They moved there because there was a nuclear boom that exploded in Seattle. One of the twin brothersand Grams didn't survive. The compound is a giant place. I would reccomend this book to someone who likes mystery and scary books. I like this book because it has mystery in it and I like books that have underground hiding places.

Ms. Kollmeier
Waiting for Normal
Leslie Connor

The protagonist in Waiting for Normal is a young girl wise beyond her years. All Addie wants is a normal life. What she has instead is an "all or nothing" dysfunctional mother, two half-sisters and a stepdad she'd rather live with, and a unique friendship with the woman who owns the gas station across the lot from the small trailer where Addie and her mother live. Despite the hardships with which she must cope, Addie remains optimistic about her life, hopes, and dreams. I especially liked the down-to-earth dialogue of the characters and how Addie helps her new friend at school by standing up to a bully. You’ll love what she says to comfort her friend (see p. 39-40)!