Prodigy picks up where Legend ended with June and Day on the run. The two have been recruited to undertake a special mission for the Patriots. Both June and Day are struggling with their loyalties to the mission, the Republic and to each other. Can they find that elusive future they both want?
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Prodigy
Feb 26, 2013
Susan
Divergent
In a dytopian future, all 16 year olds must decide what faction they want to dedicate their lives to after taking a test that tells them what they are most suited to. Beatrice Prior’s must choose between Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent) . She was born in Abnegation and her test gives her an unusual result: she is divergent. This means she could fit into more than one faction which she learns is considered a dangerous thing she should not share with anyone. Beatrice chooses Dauntless and begins investigating why being divergent is such a problem.
Jan 24, 2013
Kristy
Son
If you love Lois Lowry’s The Giver, you need to read Son - the conclusion of the Giver Quartet. In Son, the reader follows Claire, a Vessel (birth mother) who has a Product (a son). Claire’s son is taken from her, as are all Products, but he does not adjust well to the life he is supposed to lead in the community. One day, Claire leaves the isolated community she grew up in and the only world she knew, only to find herself washed up on a strange, foreign shore. She vows to search for her son, and not stop until she finds him.
Dec 14, 2012
Tara
Sometimes It Happens
Hannah's facing a tough start to her senior year. Her boyfriend, Sebastian, dumped her on the last day of junior year. Noah, the guy she's fallen for over the summer, is dating Ava, her best friend. Follow Hannah as she works through the drama of her first day and flashes back to the events of summer vacation, when the drama all began. Some shocking revelations are made through the flashbacks, and the ending is not what you'd expect.
Dec 13, 2012
Anonymous
Code Name Verity
Code Name Verity is the story of two young women who become friends during World War II. One is a pilot, the other becomes a secret agent. The story is told as the confession of the captured agent relating how the two girls became friends and how she became captured.
Aug 21, 2012
Susan
The Name of the Star
Rory fulfills one of her dreams when she gets the chance to go to boarding school in England. Someone though is recreating the Jack the Rippers murders and Rory becomes an eyewitness although no one else has seen the suspect. Is there a new serial killer or something much more ghodtly?
Jul 10, 2012
Susan
Between Shades of Gray
Fifteen-year-old Lina and her 10-year-old brother and her mother are forced from their house in 1941 Lithuania. They are herded to a train with many other countrymen. Where are they being taken and why? Between Shades of Gray is a story of survival when Stalin and the Soviets invade Lithuania.
Jun 18, 2012
Susan
Insurgent
Insurgent picks ups right where Divergent left off. Tris and Tobias (aka Four) have managed to escape the big massacre. Now the key to survival is to find out why the war started and how to prevent it from happening again. Factions are splitting and traitors are everywhere. Can Tris overcome her own feelings and keep herself and Tobias alive when the Divergents become the target?
May 29, 2012
Susan
Fever 1793
Mattie Cook lives with her mother and grandfather in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the capitol of the United States of America in 1793. The Cook family owns a thriving coffeehouse, but everything changes when a fever breaks out in the city. Mattie’s mother falls ill and insists that Mattie and her grandfather leave to seek refuge in the country. Mattie and her Grandfather don’t make it to the country, and they end up separated from Mattie’s mother without indication of whether she survived the fever. Learn about daily life in the 1790s and about the devastating yellow fever epidemic through Mattie’s fight for survival.
May 18, 2012
Tara
The Arrival
Ever wonder what it would feel like to move to another country, where you didn’t know the language or how to find your way around? Tan gives a wonderful depiction of immigration in The Arrival. This graphic novel doesn’t have words, but the story of an immigrant man is beautifully told through other-worldly, mystical pictures that give you an understanding of what the main character is going through. The story comes full circle when the man who came to the new country finally brings his family to live with him, and his daughter is able to help other immigrants adjust to a new way of life.
May 18, 2012
Tara