Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris

Summary: After being brought back to life by a mysterious boy, Janelle Tenner has to keep up with her responsibilities and trying to learn what had actually happened the day she was ran over by a run away truck. Mysterious Ben Michaels allures her into a world, she has never bargained for and learns that in 24 days her world will be destroyed if someone can't stop it. Will she be able to beat the clock? Or will her world not see the light in 25 days?

Review: This dangerously additive book has made me count down the days for the sequel. The hardcore attitude of Janelle makes your heart pound and keeps you on your toes for what she might do next. I couldn't put this book down, and I'm not kidding! I didn't put it down and if someone made me I would scowl at them for the rest of the day. Right from the start it had twists and turns, and throughout. If you like or have ever seen Veronica Mars or Doctor Who, you'd love this book. Unraveling will sweep you off your feet and never put you down.

Review by Mallorie(:

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Summary: Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world — and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

Quick Review: A book that goes against all standards and really explains the qoute;

You were born an original. Don't die a copy" - John Mason.

It also will show you that, to be who you want to be, you have to show people that you don't care what they think, and do care about what you think. This book will teach you lessons that will carry you through life. A compelling story to do whats right.

Review by Mallorie!

Summary taken from Goodreads.com

 

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

In the future after a war leaves the world in the hands of the nation, Panem, they organize a fight or game, known as the hunger games. It keeps the people of the districts hopeful that they won't have to fight for their lives, and show who's inferior, the Capitol. Each year they draw two names, one a girl and one a boy through the ages of 12 and 18, but in one of the outlying districts lives a girl named Katniss Everdeen. Will she be chosen to enter the games?

In the action packed thriller that has left a nation begging for more, makes teens everywhere rip through it faster than they are capable. An amazing book that will keep getting attacked from the shelves for years more.

Review by Mallorie!

Divergent by Veronica Roth

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian world there are 5 factions that you are split into when you turn 16 based on what you believe. The 5 virtues are Amity that believes in kindness, Candor's believe in honesty, Dauntless people believe in bravery, Erudite is known for intelligence, and Abnegation that believes in selfless. In Beatrice's case though, she is found to believe in 3 of the 5 virtues which can be dangerous if known about. People like Beatrice are called “Divergent”. Can she hide her secret? Or will the truth be revealed.

Divergent will captivate you into a world so addictive you won't be able to read it fast enough. It is impossible to turn away from the story unleashed inside.

Review by Mallorie*

The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. 

AND THEN YOU"RE DEAD.

When sixteen year old Kaelyn lets her best friend, Leo, leave their beloved island without saying goodbye, she doesn't expect to never see him again. But then a strange virus infects the entire island and the government has no choice but to put it under quarantine. As the dead pile up, Kaelyn and her family are desperate to stay healthy, but its not easy, considering the gangs that have formed. While she struggles to find a speckle of happiness in this horrid, empty wasteland, Kaelyn can't help but fall in love . . . or become infected. 

In this edgy novel, you'll hang on to every word, every paragraph, every page while you quickly turn the pages to see if Kaelyn could ever survive this unfortunate epidemic. 

Review by Sadie! 

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

Your mom hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it speeding down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only, what if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother? Wouldn't you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. 

Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong.

This is an action-packed novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a technology genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart. I'd definitely give it 5 stars and if you can rate it to 10, it would be 10 stars! It makes you wonder, what would you do if you were caught in a superstore?

Review by Sadie

Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

Alex's life pretty much sucked after getting a brain tumor. Alex didn't need any more freaking sympathy. So in a twisted way, she was almost glad when the electromagnetic pulse flashed across the horizon and caused all electronic devises to go haywire.

        Originally, Alex went to the National Park to say goodbye to her dead parents and her own personal demons. But the EMP ruined that fantasy. Now she's running though the forest, avoiding people that were more effected by the Zap than her *cough* cannibals *cough*, and trying to take care of not only herself, but an annoying 9 year old girl named Ellie. It was more than tough in Alex's opinion, considering that the EMP turned certain people into something that drained the humanity out of them.

Review by Sadie