Here's What You Have to Say....
Thanks to all who've entered our summer reading contest! So, what's everyone reading? Tons of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and the Hunger Games. But what else? Here's what you recommend -- in your own words!
(Keep the entries coming…we have lots more prizes to give away.
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City of Bones
By Cassandra Clare
"Clary is thrown into a world where fairies, vampires, werewolves, and demons are real. Then she finds out that her mother is a Shadowhunter, a group of humans who have angel blood and kill demons. But her father is Valentine -- the evil Shadowhunter trying to destroy all the other Shadowhunters."
(Read City of Ashes next!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 8th grader, Laing Middle School
City of Glass
By Cassandra Clare
"Clary sneaks into the City of Glass and is immediately caught up in a life-and-death battle as the werewolves, vampires, and faerie gather for a war that will 'rend the heavens.'" (Next read the new sequel City of Fallen Angels!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 12th grader, Charleston County School of the Arts
Flawless: A Pretty Little Liars Novel
By Sara Shepard
"'A' is still stalking Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily. They try to find out who 'A' is while dealing with many problems: Aria and her English teacher are together, Spencer had an affair with her sister's boyfriend, Emily likes a girl, and Hanna is a thief. They have very complicated lives." (Read Pretty Little Liars first!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Academic Magnet High School
Upgrade U
By Ni-Ni Simone
"Seven goes away for college. She and her boyfriend, Josiah, have some ups and downs. She then begins to fall for another student who takes her on another love journey."
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Wando High School
By Meg Cabot
"Em has been turned into a supermodel named Nikki. She has many problems which include: Her brother is here because his mother is missing, her best friend who thinks she is dead wants to destroy Stark Enterprises who she now works for, and a British singer wrote a song for her called 'Nikki.' Then, Brandon Stark is blackmailing her. If she doesn't pretend to love him, he'll tell his dad Nikki is not dead." (Read Airhead first.)
Rating: Excellent
-- 8th grade, Ashley Hall
By Emily Whitman
"This is about a girl named Addy who lives in the 1900s but hates her life. Then one day when she’s cleaning Mr. Greenwood’s house, she opens the door to the forbidden room. While snooping around, she accidentally touches a wooden box that takes her back hundreds of years. She finds that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side."
Rating: Excellent
-- 8th grade, Charleston County School of the Arts
Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings
By Hélène Boudreau
"Jade is a girl who is 14 and lost her mom a year ago to drowning. One day, she takes a bath and falls asleep and wakes up with a tail. Soon, she realizes her mom is a mermaid too and has been captured in a nearby lake."
Rating: Excellent
-- 9th grade, Wando High School
Forgive My Fins
By Tera Lynn Childs
"This is about a mermaid princess who is accidentally bonded to her next-door neighbor who she can't stand. She has to go through several challenges in order to prove to her dad that they are an unsuitable match." (Read the new sequel, Fins Are Forever!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 11th grade, Wando High School
The Iron Daughter
By Julie Kagawa
"A girl must return the Scepter of Seasons to Queen Mab, but she's got to fight for it first." (Read The Iron King first!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 9th grade, Charleston County School of the Arts
By Bree Despain
"Grace Divine, the pastor's daughter, has always had pressure to be a model student. But when a kid from the dark depths of her past returns, things become complicated. She finds she loves him, but her brother swears to end the boy's life. When Grace finds out the boy’s a werewolf, things change rapidly and the past is unveiled." (Check out the new sequel, The Lost Saint.)
Rating: Really Good
-- 8th grade, C.E. Williams Middle School
By Melissa Marr
"Ash can see faeries, but they cannot know it. That is, until two of them start following her. Between discovering her love for her best friend Seth and the Summer King's 'courting' her so that she will take the test to find out whether or not she is the Summer Queen, Ash's life quickly becomes much more complicated than she ever expected." (Read Ink Exchange next!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Bishop England High School
Uncommon Criminals
By Ally Carter
"Katarina and her friends have to steal one of the most elusive gems in the world, the Cleopatra Emerald." (Read Heist Society first!)
Rating: Excellent
-- 9th grade, Academic Magnet High School
Anna and the French Kiss
By Stephanie Perkins
"Anna's father sends her to boarding school in Paris, and she is not thrilled with the idea. But then she meets Étienne St. Clair, a beautiful boy with a girlfriend. However, Anna is there for St. Clair when nothing is going right for him."
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Wando High School
By Jenny Han
"It’s about a girl named Belly, which is short for Isabel, who goes to Cousins Beach with her family and their family friends every summer. She's madly in love with Conrad, even though he seems to pay little attention to her except to act like an older brother. The story tells the adventures of that fateful summer when everything changed." (Next read It's Not Summer Without You.)
Rating: Excellent
-- 11th grade, Porter-Gaud
Close to Famous
By Joan Bauer
"An 11-year-old girl lost her father, and her mom's new boyfriend abuses her. So, they move away to where she can really use her amazing cooking skills."
Rating: Really Good
-- 6th grade, Charleston County School of the Arts
Glee: Foreign Exchange
By Sophia Lowell
"After Glee was formed, a French Glee Club came to McKinley High, and everyone paired up. There were various fights, but everything worked out in the end." (Next read Glee: The Beginning.)
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Academic Magnet High School
Smile
By Raina Telgemeier
"When Raina falls down and her teeth fall out, her problems begin! Even though she has problems with friends, a giant earthquake, body issues, and going to the dentist a ton, she makes it through it all!"
Rating: Excellent
-- 6th grade, Cario Middle School
Going Bovine
By Libba Bray
"Cameron is going to die from Mad Cow Disease, but first he has to stop an evil force from a parallel universe."
Rating: Really Good
-- 8th grade, C.E. Williams Middle School
Love Drugged
By James Klise
"Gay high school student Jamie, scared of someone finding out he’s gay, connects romantically with rich, stunning Celia and steals an untested drug said to cure gayness. With the pills' horrible side effects and his heart just not into doing it with Celia, which she wants, Jamie has to make decisions that don’t end well."
Rating: Excellent
-- 8th grade, C.E. Williams Middle School
By Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
"Lucy's mother is a hoarder, and when she dies Lucy doesn't know what to do. If she calls the police, then everyone will know how dirty her house is. But if she waits, everyone will wonder where her mother is. Lucy settles on trying to clean up the mess all by herself, but she can't do it."
Rating: Really Good
-- 7th grade, Moultrie Middle School
The Wizard Heir
By Cinda Williams Chima
"Seph is an untrained wizard who is offered training by a demented wizard." (Read The Warrior Heir first.)
Rating: Really Good
-- 7th grade, Charleston County School of the Arts
Hunger
By Jackie Morse Kessler
"An anorexic girl dies of an overdose and is recruited by death to be Famine -- one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
Rating: Really Good
-- 10th grade, homeschooled
Everlost
By Neal Shusterman
"A girl gets in a wreck and wakes up in a forest! She decides to leave the forest, but when she goes to a place where something isn't dead, she sinks! Then, she goes to a place that will teach her to have powers." (Read Everwild next.)
Rating: Really Good
-- 8th grade, Fort Johnson Middle School
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
By Gabrielle Zevin
"Naomi Porter loses all her memories from the last four years when she falls down a flight of stairs. Then she meets James, who she thinks is Mr. Right. However, through a series of events, Naomi realizes that who she really loves is Will, her best friend."
Rating: Really Good
-- 10th grade, Wando High School
White Cat
By Holly Black
"Cassel finds out that he is a curse worker and saves his crush from his brother’s plots."
Rating: Really Good
-- 10th grade, homeschooled
A Taste for Red
By Lewis Harris
"It's about a girl who thinks she's a vampire but is an Olfactive. She has to destroy her evil science teacher before it is too late."
Rating: Good
-- 6th grade, Haut Gap Middle School
By Rob Reger
"Emily has to move again. In her new town, she: duplicates herself and becomes the good half of Emily; makes a Manifesto of Strange with her twin that ends up making everyone who sees it loony; makes a Manifesto of Normal to change everyone back; recombines her two halves with help from Great Aunt Millie; and ends up making her, her mom, and her cats to move again. All in only 37 days!"
(First read Emily the Strange: The Lost Days.)
Rating: Really Good
-- 7th grade, Fort Johnson Middle School
l8r, G8r
By Lauren Myracle
"The winsome threesome of Snowangel, Zoegirl, and Madmaddie all get accepted to college, but they won't be together and they're scared." (Read ttyl and ttfn first.)
Rating: Excellent
-- 7th grade, St. Andrews Middle School
By Scott Westerfeld
"Tally is about to turn 16, which means she will have an operation to become pretty. But Tally's friend Shay is not so sure she wants be pretty. When Shay runs away, the authorities say Tally must find her friend or not become pretty. Tally finds Shay in a place called the Smoke where she learns the authorities, or Specials, mess with the Pretties' brains." (Read Pretties next.)
Rating: Excellent
-- 8th grade, Ashley Hall
13 Reasons Why
By Jay Asher
"This is about a girl who leaves tapes behind giving reasons why she committed suicide."
Rating: Excellent
-- 11th grade, James Island Charter High School
By Sarah Dessen
"Ruby is a 17-year-old girl who, after her mother abandons her, is sent to live with her sister and brother-in-law. She has to deal with a new school, neighborhood, and life. She also learns a lot about what a family is and about letting people in."
Rating: Excellent
-- 12th grade, South Carolina Connections Academy
Someone Like You
By Sarah Dessen
"Halley has to deal with her first real boyfriend and her best friend's pregnancy. She also has to deal with trying to grow up when her mom doesn't want to let her."
Rating: Really Good
-- 12th grade, South Carolina Connections Academy
Jazmin's Notebook
By Nikki Grimes
"This book tells a story about Jazmin who doesn't live a very good life, but she writes her feelings in her notebook."
Rating: Really Good
-- 8th grade, C.E. Williams Middle School
By Jennifer Ziegler
"Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is a senior in high school whose hippie parents have forced her to move every eight months her entire life. Now, when the family moves to Austin, Texas, Maggie decides she will make no friends so that when they leave it won't matter. However, when Maggie ruins everything, her parents drop a bomb on her: They are staying in Austin."
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Wando High School
Dirty Jersey
By Phillip Thomas Duck
"A painfully unpopular boy named Eric has to deal with constant bullying until a famous rapper befriends him."
Rating: Excellent
-- 10th grade, Academic Magnet High School
Epic
By Conor Kostick
"Epic is more than a game -- it is the government for those on new earth. But when the game starts coming alive, and the human rulers are all corrupted, Erik and his friends lead a battle that will destroy the game." (Next read Saga.)
Rating: Good
-- 8th grade, Laing Middle School
Gamer Girl
By Mari Mancusi
"A girl is uprooted and put in a new town where she is the freak of all freaks, and all she has to get by is her manga."
Rating: Excellent
-- 9th grade, Charleston County School of the Arts
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