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=﻿Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins = 

[|Goodreads:] 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 weigh survival against humanity and life against love.   ﻿ My Review:  ﻿ Things I like: there were many things that I liked about this book. The book was very well written, and it really got me hooked right at the beginning. The way the author describes things is in such detail, and its so amazing. Its one of those books that you can actually imagine yourself being there. Things I don't like: I think that one of the only things I didn't like about the book, was knowing that they would have to kill to the death. Before the Games started in the book, I hated knowing that they would have to literally fight to the death, but everything is still just so amazing.   Rating 

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__The House of the Scorpion __<span style="color: #c40000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; overflow: hidden;">: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow: hidden;"> By Nancy Farmer



[|__Goodreads:__] At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, "How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born." "You were harvested," Tam Lin reminds him. "You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her." To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico -- Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt //is// himself. They share identical DNA.

Jordan Cheney:
This book didn't look that good at first, especially with such a depressing and dark blurb (Those words shouldn't go together), but after the first three to five chapters I was caught like a... fish? Yeah. It got me, mainly because Matt wasn't depressing and creepy. He actually had feeling and opinions just like me. Along with that, Nancy threw in the concept where you know something the main character doesn't know, and you can't wait for them to find out, and so you're giggling like a bobcat in a hen house with excitement until they find out. Know what I mean? Then there were Matts silent victories over his enemies that won him the attention of the lady. These matched with the discoveries of who really committed certain crimes, opening a door that revealed how everything worked. Those also gave me the giggly-wiggles. The only thing I didn't like about this book was how there were occasional scenes where nothing happened, but those were gone in a flash (like the last can of who hash). = ﻿  = = =  ﻿ __The Giver by: Lois Lowry__ = __ Good Reads: __ =

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