Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver...well, watch the above book trailer for insight to Book 2 (sequel to Delirium). Such a great book!
In this book Lena finds out how to live in the Wilds and how to survive with those around her. She learns quite a bit about herself, learns to love again and finds people who were once close to her.
This is a great YA series. You'll "love" it. Totally worth the time.
If you are looking for a GREAT book--fast paced, action, love story....girls, you'll wanna check out/download Delirium by Lauren Oliver right now. Laurel said this trilogy is great and she is absolutely right on.
Another dystopian YA novel, this one is based on the fact that "love" is a disease. At age 18, you must get cured and the scientists take out love and you are "cured" not to mention the fact you are then walking zombie full of nothingness.
Lena is just days away from the cure she's dreamed of for so long and WHAM (of course you saw this coming) she meets Alex. Even though the plot is pretty predictable, the author does a good job of giving us a front row seat watching them fall in love. And it makes us cheer them on for the rest of the book!
I read this in record time--my niece agrees, get the book today! I advise you that this is the first book in a trilogy...Pandemonium is next...and the third book is due out this January. If I didn't have some yearbooks to judge, I would start Book 2 tonight. I cannot wait to see what happens to Lena!
Warning: has a couple cuss words...and I'd like to say, shame on you Lauren Oliver. So many words out there...those were totally uncalled for.
Life As We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer is a post-apocalyptic YA book about one families' survival journey. When an asteroid hits the moon and knocks it off kilter, the world begins to self destruct. The Pennsylvania family hunkers down and faces the weather and hunger head on.
Told in a diary format, the book is fairly long but once you get into it, it goes quite fast. Teenager, Miranda shows her strength and will to survive throughout the whole book as she grows up. Warning though: I actually screamed when I read the last page...I was hoping for more of a resolution. I actually found out then that this is book 1 of a series....ugh! Now I have to find out what happens to them.
It will have to wait as I checked out Delirium by Lauren Oliver yesterday.
Over vacation, I finished Boot Camp by Todd Strasser and Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick (same author as Sold). Both books are wonderful options for the teen-aged boy.
Boot Camp is much like the last book by the same author. Todd Strasser depicts like inside a boot camp (not army camp but camp like "if you don't behave, I will send you away where you'll learn how to behave" camp). Garrett, the main character, struggles to figure out how to live when he knows good and well that he's done nothing to really deserve being sent to the camp. He struggles with others and with himself and it's a real "coming of age" story. I even gave this book to someone while on vacation and she loved it too.
Purple Heart is an Iraq war story. Matt is injured and throughout the whole book he tries to figure out what happened before the explosion. I can't imagine any boy not liking this book.
