June 2010
Go Green Teen Summer Reading Program
Posted by Robin Brenner on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 pm | 0 Comment(s)
Whatever you read this summer—books, comics, magazines, audio books, or reading to someone else—it’s the time spent reading that counts. Open to all teens going into 7th to 12th grades.
Sign up today here! You can sign up any time, but you can start tracking your time…
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The Diary of Pelly D.
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:50 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.
The Running Man
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
The year is 2025. The Running Man is America’s favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program’s latest contestant-and the Hunters’ latest target in a rigged game of death…
Epic
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:43 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your community, and fulfill your dreams; if you lose, your life both in and…
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:37 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the…
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:34 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are…
Life as We Knew It
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:30 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter,Miranda, her two brothers, and…
Mortal Engines
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:27 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea ... The great traction city london is on the move again. It has been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities…
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:25 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
In Mary’s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s…
The Dead Tossed Waves
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:24 pm | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up…
Unwind
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:30 am | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” themConnor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of…
Uglies
Posted by Robin Brenner on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:26 am | 0 Comment(s)
If you life…The Hunger Games
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…
