LE Reviews



When you read one of the titles below, sign up in the notebook in the library media center. The black notebook is located over the book drop on the circulation desk. Read and register three titles by January 30^th,and you will be invited to the LMC to vote for your favorite title and have pizza for lunch.



Title:	*Avalon High*	Author:	Meg Cabot
	Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students
may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.



Title:	Bad Kitty	Author:	Michelle Jaffe
	While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she
attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.



Title:	The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery	Author:	Alane Ferguson
	On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of
forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.



Title:	Copper Sun	Author:	Sharon Draper
	Fifteen-year old Amari is captured, branded and taken aboard a slave ship. When she arrives in America, she is bought by a plantation
owner for his sixteen-year-old son’s birthday. She faces hardships, humiliation, and struggles to survive on the plantation. Amari’s every moment is
filled with dreams of freedom. When Amari helps deliver a “mullato” baby, life on the plantation gets even worse. Amari plans and executes her escape.



Title:	Dairy Queen: A Novel	Author:	Catherine Gilbert Murdock
	After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team,
sixteen-year-old D. J. decides to go out for the sport herself.



Title:	Dead Connection	Author:	Charlie Price
	A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to
convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.



Title:	Doppelganger	Author:	David Stahler, Jr.
	When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen,
he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.



Title:	Firestorm	Author:	David Klass
	After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, high school senior Jack receives help from an
unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.



Title:	Hit the Road	Author:	Caroline Cooney
	Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as reluctant chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to
their 65^th college reunion, on a long drive that involves not only lies, theft, and kidnappings, but humor, action and adventure as well.



Title:	Life as We Knew it	Author:	Susan Beth Pfeffer
	Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon,
causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.



Title:	Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial	Author:	Ronald Kidd
	When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for
teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth,
as well as her relationship with her father.



Title:	The Nature of Jade	Author:	Deb Caletti
	Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family, until she spies a mysterious boy
with a baby who seems to share her fascination with the elephants at a nearby zoo.



Title:	New Moon	Author:	Stephanie Meyer
	When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost
too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.



Title:	Notes from the Midnight Driver	Author:	Jordan Sonnenblick
	While his mother is out on her first date, sixteen-year-old Alex decides to drink his father’s old vodka, steal his mother’s car,
and drive to his father’s house hoping to catch him with the “no-good home-wrecking wench” or, better known as, his former third grade school teacher.
What happens instead? He ends up in his neighbor’s yard with a broken gnome under his car and an angry police officer yelling at him. He also
gets hit with a drunken driver’s charge which leads up to 100 hours of community service at a nursing home for the aged. He is assigned
Solomon Lewis as a patient to care for. Sol is a mean, crotchety, eccentric old man with emphysema who on occasion speaks to Alex in
strange Yiddish phrases. Soon Alex grows fond of Sol, a former jazz guitarist, who teaches him something about the guitar, respecting the
elderly, and taking responsibility for his actions.



Title:	Rules of Survival	Author:	Nancy Werlin
	Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of
their emotionally and physically abusive mother.



Title:	Scrambled Eggs at Midnight	Author:	Brad Barkley & Heather Hepler
	Calliope and Eliot, two fifteen-year-olds in Asheville, North Carolina, begin to acknowledge some unpleasant truths
about their parents and form their own ideas about love.



Title:	Sold	Author:	Patricia McCormick
	A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.



Title:	Trigger	Author:	Susan Vaught
	Teenager Jersey Hatch must piece his life back together after he tries to shoot himself in the head, and as he rebuilds his mind and his body,
he learns some surprising truths about his former life.



Title:	The Warrior Heir	Author:	Cinda Williams Chima
	After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program
to fight enemy wizards.



Title:	What Happened to Cass McBride?	Author:	Gail Giles
	After his brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby kidnaps and buries alive Cass, the girl he holds responsible. Chapters alternate
between the first-person voices of Kyle and Cass and the third-person perspective of police detective Ben (each with a unique typeface).
Kyle's wrath, Cass's terror, and Ben's urgency are palpable, as is the horrifying claustrophobia, in this unnerving thriller.



Summaries Courtesy of South Carolina Association of School Librarians