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__**Tonantzin **__ How I Live Now By Meg Rosoff

[|Summary From Goodreads] Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way. A riveting and astonishing story.

Tonantzin's Review:

Oaks

The Hunger Games: By Suzanne Collins  [|﻿Summary from Goodreads] Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Oaks' Review I think that The Hunger Games was a really good book. Now I'm not big on reading at all, but when I read this book I enjoyed it a lot. I really enjoyed the characters in this book they were very real to be and stuck out really well. I also enjoyed the details, they made everything that much more real. I really liked all they action in it. Some might say there is too much or not enough but I feel that Suzanne but just the right amount on everything. I feel that it took me a bit to get into it but that’s just me.

Some of the things I didn’t like how it ended. I know that there are more books but still it could have been done different. I also didn’t like how Katniss was faking to be in love that’s a rude thing to do. Last I thought some of it was hard to read, and was kind of badly written.

4.5 stars I take half a stare back because I think it had a little more potential, but that’s just me. I strongly recommend this book.

Extras [|Suzanne Collins Home Page]



Michelle

The Maze Runner: By James Dashner [|Summary from Goodreads]

Imagine waking up one day in total darkness, unsure of where you are and unable to remember anything about yourself except your first name. You're in a bizarre place devoid of adults called the Glade. The Glade is an enclosed structure with a jail, a graveyard, a slaughterhouse, living quarters, and gardens. And no way out. Outside the Glade is the Maze, and every day some of the kids -- the Runners -- venture into the labyrinth, trying to map the ever-changing pattern of walls in an attempt to find an exit from this hellish place. So far, no one has figured it out. And not all of the Runners return from their daily exertions, victims of the maniacal Grievers, part animal, part mechanical killing machines.

Thomas is the newest arrival to the Glade in this //Truman//-meets-//Lord of the Flies// tale. A motley crew of half a dozen kids is all he has to guide him in this strange world. As soon as he arrives, unusual things begin to happen, and the others grow suspicious of him. Though the Maze seems somehow familiar to Thomas, he's unable to make sense of the place, despite his extraordinary abilities as a Runner. What is this place, and does Thomas hold the key to finding a way out?

In //The Maze Runner,// Dashner has crafted a creative and engaging novel that's both mysterious and thought provoking. [|Buy it now on Amazon]

My Review  It took me a couple chapters to really get into The Maze Runner, but once i finally did i enjoyed reading it. I think James Dashner did a good job using details and describing things, he didn't spend too much time describing every single detail which i liked. though he did describe everything well enough to see the picture. I got attached to the characters and that just made me want to keep reading, which i liked. Once things got moving there wasn't really another slow moving part.

In the first couple chapters of The Maze Runner I found it a little confusing and hard to understand. The beginning of the book also started out going so slow and it took a little bit to get it moving. once it got going I felt like the book happened so fast which i both liked and didn't like. Because i kinda wish there was more to it. I didn't really like how the end was because it happened just so fast and didn't really seem to come to a full close.

Star Rating

I liked it but I'm not sure if it deserves five stars, because i have read books that i liked more.

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=__Megan's Review __= //Life As We Knew It// by //Susan Beth Pfeffer// [|amazon link] [|Summary from Goodreads] 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 their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.

﻿My Reveiw:

 Honestly, at first I wasn't really excited to read this book because I don't necessarily care to read about end of the wold, moon, astroid stuff. It took me a couple chapters but once I got going it was pretty good. It was intenss and heart - pounding and very very sad most of the time. It was very captivating and kept me trying to guess of what the next page would reveal. Although I must say I didn't like all the doom and despair, I guess you have to be in the right mood.

I liked how the whole thing is told in journal entries, in a way it helped me connect better with the main character and also the other characters in the book.They weren't just in the story they were the ones telling it. I thought it was kind of funny to see Miranda's different mood swings. (I think we can all relate to that once in a while.:) One day she would be perfectly happy and then the next completely the oposite. I liked watching her change throughout the book too, she started out kind of self-centered but gradually as the time progressed that started to change. I liked seeing how she faced her chalenges, she learned as time went on how to handle things a little better. It was interesting see how all the people handled the situation and caos.

It wasn't only a book full of caos and despair. But it also had the moments when you realize that there are still good things in the world. Miranda went ice skating ones in a while to a pond near her house, her family even played a game a few times. It reminded you that life was not as bad as it seamed. And I liked the fact that Miranda never truly gave up hope.

Star Rating:

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 * 3.5 ** - I liked it for the most part but honestly it's not a one of my favorites. It was good though. If you feel liking reading about what could happen if an astroide hit the moon...Well, here's the book to read! :)======

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