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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Amazing Grace - Megan Shull

Tired of the endorsements, press conferences, and tournaments, Grace Kincaid, a beautiful tennis superstar, goes into hiding and starts a new life in Alaska, with the help of a former FBI agent, where she transforms herself into the girl she's always wanted to be.
What do you think of Amazing Grace?

Black and White - Paul Volponi

Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
What do you think of Black and White?

A Certain Slant of Light - Laura Whitcomb

After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.
What do you think of A Certain Slant of Light?

Code Orange - Caroline Cooney

While conducting research for a school paper on disease, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
What do you think of Code Orange?

Dark Angel - David Klass

When his older brother is released from prison, seventeen-year-old Jeff's family secret is revealed, causing upheaval in his home, school and love life.
What do you think of Dark Angel?

Fade to Black - Alex Flinn

An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.
What do you think of Fade to Black?

Fake ID

After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.
What do you think of Fake ID?

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? - Melissa Kantor

After her father remarries, Lucy Norton is forced to move to Long Island, where her evil new stepmother and stepsisters make her life miserable.
What do you think of If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince?

Invisible - Pete Hautman

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student --who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
What do you think of Invisible?

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree - Laura Hillman

The author tells of her experiences in eight concentration camps as a young Jewish woman in World War II Germany, and shares the story of how she and her husband met and were saved by being put on the list to work at Oskar Schindler's factory.
What do you think of I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree?

The Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride Series - James Patterson

After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and struggle to understand their own origins and purpose.
What do you think of The Angel Experiment?

The Perfect Shot - Elaine Marie Alphin

It’s been a year since Brian’s girlfriend, Amanda, and her family was murdered. Between the upcoming trial and a history assignment, Brian needs to decide how far he should go to make sure the justice is done.
What do you think of The Perfect Shot?

Runner - Carl Deuker

All Chance Taylor thinks about is making sure that the rent gets bad and that he and his father have food to eat. When he is offered a job to make some easy money just for doing what he loves to do best, run, he can’t refuse. But, maybe he should have.
What do you think of Runner?

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

When Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
What do you think of Twilight?

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
What do you think of Uglies?

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

GATEWAY READERS AWARD 2007-2008

All of the Gateway books are now available in the PSH library.To join the reader's club, read a book and take its quiz right here online at the PSH library Gateway Books link. Be sure to include your first and last name.

  • Read at least 3 books and receive a certificate and an invitation to a free breakfast on voting day.
  • Read more and receive other awards and prizes.

The nominees are:

The Perfect Shot-Alphin, Elaine
Code Orange-Cooney, Caroline
Runner-Deuker, Carl
Fade to Black-Flinn, Alex
Invisible-Hautman, Pete
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree -Hillman, Laura
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?-Kantor, Melissa
Dark Angel-Klass, David
Twilight-Meyer, Stephenie
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment -Patterson, James
Amazing GraceS-hull, Megan
Fake ID-Sorrells, Walter
Black and White-Volponi, Paul
Uglies-Westerfeld, Scott
A Certain Slant of Light-Whitcomb, Laura