Whatcom County Library Teen Summer Reading


BREAKING DAWN By Stephenie Meyer
August 11, 2008, 6:06 pm
Filed under: Adventure, Best All Time Reads, Just Published, vampires

Don’t read this unless you have already read Breaking Dawn!  Spoiler Alert! :)

Alice+Jasper
Lynden

Breaking Dawn is so awesome! its starts out as Bella and Edwards wedding (which Alice has gone totally over board with!) and then their honeymoon. Now something really crazy happens on the honeymoon. Bella gets put into another life threatening situation but she wont let any one save her. it ends up almost killing her so Edward turns her into a vampire! She gets used to being a vampire and and she finds out she has a really helpful gift/ talent thing (like Edward’s mind-reading or Alice’s psycic-ness). that gift is very helpful when the thing that almost killed Bella earns a visit from the Volturi (Dun dun dun) who are looking for a fight.
This is a very very very good book and i think i’ll have to give it 5 stars. Stephenie Meyer is one of the most talented writers i know. I must worn you though; if you are just looking for the nice little Edward-Bella-Jake love triangle romancey stuff you’ll be disappointed. This book it packed with action that has hardly anything to do with that. Most people think that these are books for girls only and that’s SOOOO not true. Guys should definitely read these books because it’s not all the gooey lovey stuff it’s a good mix of all that plus action and battles and (hello its about vampires…) blood.
READ! READ! READ!


NEW MOON By Stephenie Meyer
August 11, 2008, 6:03 pm
Filed under: Romance, vampires
Alice+Jasper
Lynden
This book is a lot different than twilight because Jacob Black takes over as more of a main Character.
Bella’s really, really depressed because Edward left her so she goes to an old family friend Jacob. She gets really attached to him and he eventually falls for her. The twist is he’s a werewolf. There’s a whole pack of them and they basicly become her replacement Cullen family. Until (dun dun dun) Alice Cullen, Edward’s sister, randomly appears in Bella’s house and tells her that’s Edward is in trouble, so of course she goes to try and save the day.
Stephenie can make you love the characters you want to hate and hate the characters you want to love. It’s amazing how great she writes.
This is my least favorite of the twilight series but it is still a really good book. Some people like to skip over this one and go straight to Eclipse but DON’T! This book is super important to the story! I think i give it 3 stars. Or 3 1/2 maybe.


Twilight
August 11, 2008, 6:01 pm
Filed under: Action, Romance, vampires
Alice+Jasper
Lynden
TWILIGHT By Stephenie Meyer
I love twilight because its such a unique story. its a romance between a normal human girl (Bella Swan) and a vampire (Edward Cullen). The author makes you feel like you’re there in the story and she’s just so good at painting that picture in your head.
So the story is about Bella Swan coming to live with her dad Charlie in Forks WA. She meets this strange (and gorgeous) guy named Edward Cullen. She later finds out he’s a vampire and that shes in love with him. (i didn’t give anything away, its all on the back of the book.) As Bella is excepted into the Cullen family, who are all vampires by the way, something happens to put her and her father in danger so the story turns from total romance and shows a little action.
I’d give it 4 1/2 stars. its one of my favorites.
Oh and i wish all guys where like Edward!


AHHHHHHHHH!
August 10, 2008, 3:25 am
Filed under: From your teen librarian

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT YOU MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was with one of our bloggers at the Lynden program last night-X xsincerly_foreverxX- and she gave me some advice. (She couldn’t resist trying a cricket pop herself.)

She suggested I try not to get a leg caught in my throat…cause that can make you gag a little. ACK!

SO on that note, I will be doing my best not to get a leg caught in my throat.

This blog is so much fun I ALMOST don’t mind how DISGUSTING this is going to be!!!!

I’ll have to figure out this week on the when and the where of the video…stay tuned!!! CONGRATS!!!! Special thanks?!! to snowwhitehats and aly_n_wondaland.

:)



Alice in Wonderland
August 10, 2008, 3:15 am
Filed under: Better than the movie, Fantasy
Aly_n_wondaland
You have probably seen the Disney movie but the movie displays no justice for the original book by Lewis Carrol. Alice was tired of having rules. She wanted a place of no rules, total nonsense. She falls down a rabbit hole one day during lessons following a talking (or singing more likely) white rabbit. It ends up to be what she wanted: copmplete nonsense and no rules, but she felt like somebody turned the tables on her. She felt like this was not what she actually wanted, because everything was so confusing that she couldn’t understand everything. Nobody liked her, and she almost gets her head chopped off by the jealous Queen of Hearts. She has to endure this until she decides that rules are good, and that she should learn to accept things that may not make a lot of sense, even though they are not totally confusing. THis is a great book, way better then the Disney movie.


The Magician’s Nephew: The Chronicles of Narnia; bk. 1
August 9, 2008, 7:31 pm
Filed under: Fantasy

snowwhitehats
Deming Library

When Polly and Digory find a tunnel leading from house to house they find themselves in Digory’s Uncles special room. Uncle Mathew is also in the room and needed two kids for an experiment he was doing. Uncle Mathew tricks Polly into putting on a ring that takes you to another world and then Digory puts one on to go and rescue Polly. Both children find themselves in a forest filled with ponds. If you jump into any of the ponds with a green ring on you will go into another world. Here Polly and Digory explore a world in which a witch lives and when they go home the witch goes with them. After the witch causes mess and chaos in the town Digory is able to get them back into the forest but he also takes Polly, Uncle Mathew, a horse and a Cabby. They then jump into a world being made. This world is Narnia. Here they meet a lion and Digory is sent on a quest for something that will cure his mother. The witch stole into the woods and hid from all the animals. Digory’s quest will be hard a
s he must keep his promise to the lion or something bad will happen. But what harm will picking one apple for himself do? Or what about bringing is back to his mother? but Digory knows that keeping his promise is the most important thins, the question is will the witch try to stop him?



book reveiw for Twilight (series reveiw), by Stephanie Meyer:
August 9, 2008, 7:26 pm
Filed under: vampires

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Twilight is a great novel that has 4 books(including twilight) in the series, there is Twilight, then New Moon, then Eclipse and Finnaly, the book that only came out a couple of days ago, Breaking Dawn!
The series is about a girl named Bella who moves to Forks Washington when her mom gets re-married to a baseball player who travels alot. When Bella moves in with her father, she is the talk of the small logging town. In her highschool, everyone seems pretty normal…everyone except for the misterious cullens. When Bella falls in love with Edward Cullen the beautiful yet mysteirious younger brother, and he with her, she finds out that the cullens are realy vampires! read the  book to find out what happens when the couple becomes involved with the voltruli(vampire police of sorts), and other vampires!
these thrilling books will keep you on the edge of your seat untill the very last page.



Ten Things (I wish I’d Known- Before I Went Out Into The Real World)
August 9, 2008, 7:22 pm
Filed under: Advice, Boring

snowwhitehats
Deming Library

My grandma gave me this book for my birthday last year and told me that it has a lot of things that I should know about and told me to read it. Well I just read it recently. This is a book meant to give you advise on things you may face when you go out into the world and how to deal with them. The author gives examples by telling stories that happened to her in her career and home life. It has chapter from “Be willing to Fail” to ” Superwoman is dead… and Superman may be taking Viagra” It is fairly interesting but is really meant to be read when you are ready to think about jobs and marriage and kids and is pretty boring if you are a young teenager. Or at least I thought so.



Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
August 9, 2008, 7:20 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

snowwhitehats
Deming Library

This is a book filled will poems and essays about birds. Hawks, Robins, Kingfishers and many others. There are also a few that don’t have anything to do with birds but seem to fit in as if they were. Some of my favorites is Hawk, Yes!No! and June. I loved this book because each poem is filled with such intensity it is like Mary Oliver really is the bird.



Tempted: the sixth It Girl novel
August 8, 2008, 7:54 pm
Filed under: General Fiction

snowwhitehats
Deming Library

After the Jenny comes close to being expelled only to be saved my some mysterious person to pays Mrs. Miller to blame the fire on the cows so Jenny can stay in school Jenny is determined to find out who it was. After finding out that Julian was dating Tinsley before her she stops seeing him and Julian becomes reserved and depressed.Jenny then meets this guy Drew at a Halloween party and begins to date him thinking that he was the one to saved her from being expelled. Bret starts dating Jeremiah again but lies to him about the fact that she really was dating Kara. Then after Heath makes a terrible mistake and tells one to many people about a secret Kara dumps him. Heath then plummets into depression and at a Men of Waverly meeting after drinking a little to much bear lets all the guys including Jeremiah see pictures of Kara and Bret kissing. Here everything starts to go down hill even more and on top of that Callie goes missing after being publicly insulted by he ex-boyfriend Easy.
Will Jenny and friends be able to pull it together? And can old grudges be put aside when a friend is in need?