Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

Kim: Empty Inside

Kim: empty inside is about a teenage girl that is suffering from an eating disorder. This book is another that is from an anonymous teenager diary. The story starts off from when life seems to being going okay for this teen, it is right before she graduates and goes off to college. But right from the beginning we see a little problem with her eating. It is as the story progresses and she moves to college with new people and harder classes and her family and friends aren't there with her anymore. She becomes stressed and deals with it by her food. In this book, we watch how a girl with everything going for her slowly destroys her life. It's a sad tale because of how true it is these days, but it is a really good story. I love how it doesn't seem like an actual book because it's in diary mode, it's more fun.

Great Expectations

Great Expectations takes place in 19th century England and it is about a young man named Pip, who was raised "by hand" by his overbearing older sister after his parents passed away. Pip and his sister live in a forge with Joe Gargery, her husband, who is a blacksmith. In the beginning of the novel, Pip meets an escaped convict in the graveyard where his parents were buried who threatens to kill him if he doesn't bring him some food and a file to get the iron shackle off of his leg. Pip does this out of fear and the convict leaves him be. When he returns home, it is arranged that he should be apprenticed to Joe, and become a blacksmith. Before this happens, however, Pip is forced to play at Miss Havisham's house. Miss Havisham is an older, aristocratic woman who hasn't left her house since she was left at the alter by her lover, who scammed her into buying her brother's share of some property left to him by their deceased father at an immensely high price so he could split the profits with her brother. As he regularly visits Miss Havisham's house, Pip gets a taste of the sweet life and he doesn't want to go back to the forge to be a blacksmith. He also meets a girl named Estella, who was adopted by Miss Havisham with the sole intent of raising her to be a heartbreaker so she could have her revenge on men. She is very condescending to Pip, but this doesn't stop him from falling in love with her. Just after he is bound to be apprenticed to Joe, he is informed that someone had put aside a large sum of money for him. This marks the beginning of Pip's Great Expectations. However, he would soon find out, after getting a taste for the finer things in life, how money erases the goodness in people's hearts, and he starts to regret leaving the forge and, more importantly, his family. I can't say any more without ruining some really good surprises, but i would definitely reccomend this book to anybody who likes stories with memorable, realistic characters and suspensful plot turns. This is by far the best novel I've ever read.

Crank

Crank is about a girl named Kristina Georgia Snow also known as Bree when she finds the monster, crank. Kristina was a normal, average teenager before she met the monster. When she meets a guy named Adam a.k.a. Buddy on a visit to her Dad in Albuquerque, her life is turned around. Adam introduced her to crystal meth and she gets hooked. When Kristina finds the monster, her alter-ego Bree takes control. She learns that it's not fun and games anymore when she runs into addiction. In her struggle she also runs into rape and pregnancy. Also the hard decision to keep her child or not. She realizes the monster will forever speak to her and it's more than a drug, it's a way of life. When you walk with the monster you can turn your back, but never really walk away. I thought this was a really good book and I really like this author.

Brisingr

This book is the third installment in Christopher Paolini's Eragon series. After surviving the dreaded battle in Farthen Dur in the first book, Eragon, and the catastrophe of the battle on the Burning plains against another Dragon Rider, Eldest, Eragon along with his cousin Roran are seeking out the dreaded creatures known as the Ra'Zac that attacked and destroyed their home of Carvahall and killed Brom the story teller (a fellow rider). As Eragon traverses the landscape of Alagaësia in search of a new sword and ridding the world of the dreaded dark king Galabtorix he learns of secrets that will shock the young rider and turn his world upside down. The novel is filled with romance, drama, revelation, action and an intense twist to the plot. Through Paolini's writing you will see a whole new world unlike our own as the Elves,Dwarves, Urgal, and Human unite in order to save the world from a dark tyranny that has for long destroyed and shattered peoples lives and learn of their one true hope of forever defeating the dark king. I enjoyed this book enough to read it a second time, it's captivating and an fantasy genre. lover should settle down and read the series. Overall I'd give this book a 8 out of 10.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisingr

Annie's Baby

Annie's Baby is set up as a journal by Annie as she tells the reader everything that is happening to her in her life. She confides in the diary, which she named Daisy, what she cannot tell anyone else. Daisy is her only friend later on, so through Daisy's eyes we can understand Annie better. This book is about a teenage girl that falls for the perfect guy and they both love each other, and live happily ever after. Okay, not really. It's more, Annie falls for Danny, and Danny uses Annie. But then, Annie finds out shes pregnant, And Danny wants nothing to do with her. So now shes on her own. She begins to realize how mean Danny truly was to her and that she doesn't need him; but she does need help with this baby. What will she do? Shes scared to tell her mother and doesn't have any friends. So she tells everything she thinks to her dear old diary, and we see how everything unravels. It really is a great book, and a true story which makes it sad. But I would recommend it to anyone.

Street Pharm

Street Pharm by: Allison Van Diepen is a book about a sixteen year old drug dealer who sells cocaine. When Tyrone Johnson's father Orlando went to prison for drug dealing, Ty took over the family business. Ty and his business partner Sonny were the biggest drug dealers in their town. Ty gets kicked out of school and joins a new school where he meets a girl. Things start to get more dangerous when some thugs come into town from Miami and try to take over Ty's territory. People get shot and killed and everyone who accosiates with Ty becomes a possible target for these thugs to try to run him out of business. He has to make the decision between the life hes living with the family business or the girl he loves, since he can't have both.

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you remind me of you

You Remind Me of You is a memoir on someone's teenage years. The book is written all in poetry and it is very creatively done. I loved reading the poems that tell a story, I thought it very interesting. The book in general is about a girl in her teens that suffers with an eating disorder. She goes in and out of a hospital for years but the one thing she has is her boyfriend and anchor, Daniel. He is the one that gets her through her tough time, and when he does something so upsetting, she is still there for him. It's a story about love and lust and hurt and betrayal. It's a great read and I definitely recommend it. If you are looking for something new and different to read, or if you enjoy reading poetry as well. Very good.

The Big Empty

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if half the world died from a nasty virus? Well in The Big Empty, you get a look at what one person thinks it would be like. It is interesting enough. It is about seven teenagers that want no part of the new world the government has made up and are ready to move on. They meet in odd ways and are all completely different and have their own stories, but they all have one thing in common; to survive. In the new life after the virus, the government has evacuated everyone into certain areas. All the kids must go to school, not to learn but to be kept somewhere controlled. Most teachers and police officers aren't who they normally are, in the old world they might have worked as something else but now this is all they can do. The big empty is the evacuated zone. Can the kids make it to the new world when there are police and soldiers patrolling the area willing to shoot anyone out of place? Find out and read, The Big Empty.

Julia DiVino struggles to not join a gang when her school, South Bay High School is made up of bloods and crips. Drama never stopped at her school with the mixed territory. She always was careful what she said and knew who her friends were. That is until she met Eric Valiente, a new kid in school. She ends up making the wrong choice when she has a decision to be with him and be a part of the action or not. Julia doesn't realize what Eric is hiding and the secrets he isn't willing to share. She runs into a lot of opsticales and ends up getting beaten up and jumped. She finds out once a crip, your always crip. Also the label of being a snitch which may never leave you. I thought this was a pretty good book and an easy read. Here's another review of Snitch.

Brutal is a book about some mobsters who make a living doing illegal activites in Southie (South Boston). The main character, Kevin Weeks, gets into business with a man named Jimmy Bulger. They pretty much run the whole town and tax people who are making money in 'their' city. Every drug dealer, loan shark, or any person who makes any kind of money in their town, has to pay them a certain price. If a person would refuse to pay, then they would simply be killed. Soon the FBI and DEA got wind of what was going on, they started to follow Kevin and Jimmy trying to get evidence on what they do. This only slowed them down, everytime they were going out to do business they would have to loose the agents follwing behind them. One of their business partners Stevie goes to jail and starts to cooperate with the agents. Now Kevin and Jimmy are facing alot of time for the crimes they commited with this man.

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I Am The Messenger By Markus Zusak

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak is a great read. I have read Zusak's other book, The Book Thief, and named it one of my favorites, so I was excited to read his other well-known book. This book is about a guy named Ed Kennedy. The exposition starts off with Ed and his friends in a bank robbery. Ed pretty much saves the day by catching the robber, which he later goes on to regret. Why? Because there are some pretty odd things happening to Ed. Things like, he is getting playing cards (Ace's in fact) in the mail with little messages on them that he has to figure out to help the people it was meant to help. Ed finds there are good and bad people in the world, and what that truly means. Nineteen year old Ed Kennedy will take the reader on a trip that will never be forgotten. He has four suites to go through with three names on it each. He goes through the mystery of figuring the names out then of finding the people and what he has to do to help them and then the last and final question, Who is behind it all? Figure it out and read the great story, I Am The Messenger.

City of Glass

City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series. This story takes you where none of the others have taken you yet; Idris. Idris is the city of Shadowhunters and that's where we're headed next. In Idris the characters and reader meet the Clave (the group of Shadowhunters that run their world). There is Clary, who is still trying to track down a way to save her mother but is also battling feelings for Jace and how to deal with whats happened to her best friend, Simon. We also see a bit into others minds, such as Jace and how he feels about Clary and about his father who is doing all this destroying to the city he loves. And Simon who's getting treated so poorly by very powerful people. We also meet a new character, Sebastian. Who is he? Why is he suddenly into Clary as well? What is Clary going to do now; with her love life and with saving the Shadowhunter race? Can she find a way to make everyone happy?