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(:

Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

Summary: Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility. As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate—and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

Review: This books plot pulled me in right away. It's a daring book that went way above my standards I set for it. I have never read a time travel book like this that dragged me away from our time and space. Love is just one of the words I'd use to describe it.

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*

Numbers by Rachel Ward

Jem has been containing a dark secret inside of her for as long as she can remember. She's tried to avoid looking at people, but they always either get suspicious or make her look into their eyes. She's a trouble-student. Normal people take one look at her, then walk the other direction. But when Jem goes to London's Eye, by looking at the people, she knows something bad is going to happen. After she runs out of that place, it blows up, and everyone knows something is different about Jem. They're right. Whenever she looks someone in the eye, Jem sees the day they're going to die.  

In this dark, gripping novel, you'll experience rushes of emotions as Jem and Spider balance on the fence between life and death. Read at your own expense!
Mature Readers Only

Reviewed by Sadie

Whats Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Two Souls, One body.
If you were stuck and couldn't talk to anyone, but one person, who would it be? Everyone in Eva's world is born with two souls, but one takes control and the other fades when they get to be around the age of four. Eva is the recessive soul, and her other half, Addie is the dominant soul. Eva loses control when they turned twelve, but can still talk to Addie. Eva will do anything to gain some control, but for what cost will it happen. A book that is gaining control and sending you away with a new kind of hope for life.

Review by Mallorie<3

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

When Thomas wakes up in a pitch-black elevator, his first assumption is that he died. He only remembers his first name, and with every jolt of the lift, Thomas gets more and more queasy. But he isn't alone.

When the elevator's doors open, and sunlight invades the small area, Thomas finds himself surrounded by other kids with blank memories, Gladers who welcome him into their beloved Glade, a sanctuary in the center of an eerily dangerous maze.

There is no way out.

The Gladers have been trying for years without any luck.

Every night the doors to the maze lock up tight, and every morning they open again. Every day the maze if different. Every month a new boy is brought through the lift and into the Glade, so everyone was expecting Thomas. But no one was expecting the girl that came the next day.

Review by Sadie

Article 5 By Kristen Simmons

All of our major cities have been abandoned.

The old Bill of Rights has been terminated and replaced with the Moral Statutes.

Police officers no longer exist. Instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for breaking minor laws - all laws are major. If you break the law, you go through arrests, trials, and that journey always ends with death.

Ember Miller is seventeen - old enough to remember when stealing a candy bar didn't mean a public execution. She loves her mother dearly, so she can't take any risks. If you keep a low profile, the soldiers won't notice you, therefore they probably won't target you next. Most likely.So when her mother gets arrested, Ember's world is shattered. She becomes the government's property because she doesn't have a legal guardian any more. Her life is ripped away by the hinges. And to make things worse, one of the officers that came to arrest her mother is the only boy Ember has ever loved, Chase Jennings. This book is a read that will make your heart pound relentlessly fast until the end.

Summary by Sadie!
Review by Mallorie*

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Everybody loves Facebook, but what would you do if you found Facebook before it was ever invented on a page featuring you? In 1996 Emma and Josh, her best friend, find themselves 15 years older on Facebook—before it was even invented.  They see what they’ll do in the future and see who they’ll be with. This book never slows down for a second. When you hit sign in you sure won’t be able to sign out of this book. 

Review by Mallorie*

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Beastie or Clanker? Well, I guess I should explain. Alek is a prince on the run from his own people. He is the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and uses war machines daily to protect his people. Deryn is a girl in disguise as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause in a flying airship, called the Leviathan. They use animal mutants as weapons or tools. When both Alek and Deryn are thrown aboard the Leviathan, they fight side by side, but are worlds apart. They're enemies with everything to lose, yet somehow destined to be together. A wild, battle packed, astonishing stories when two worlds collide. Can you hold on for the ride? Now, Beastie or Clanker?


Review by Sadie and Mallorie

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson

Can we say “normal” much? Not at all! Daniel lost his parents when he was 2 years old to an invasion of aliens. His parents were alien hunters and had the list. The list wanted by the Aliens had the names and characteristics of each alien needed to be exterminated, now in the hands of Daniel X. He is on a mission to hunt down Alien number 6.  James Patterson brought his writing to a new ultimate high. Daniel will be sure to surprise you! Hardcore readers will love it, and is sure to be a fast page turner.

Review by Mallorie

Maximum Ride; The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

Hold on to your seats, Maximum ride will want to make you open your wings and fly! Please don’t fall with style off your seats though. Max and her flock are 98% human and 2% bird. This means they have wings! They were brought up in a lab, called the school. After escaping years before, Angel one of the six flock members gets captured. This is a fast paced, action filled book. After starting you’ll never want to put it down! I sure didn't! I don't know how James could have raised his bar this high, but he did!

Review by Mallorie