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Friday, May 20, 2011

Gone by Michael Grant Schedule

In the blink of an eye.
Everyone disappears.
Gone.
Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.
The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way.


Schedule:
May 19 : Chapters 1 - 3
May 20 : Chapters 4 - 6
May 21 : Chapters 7 - 9   
May 22 : Chapters 10  -13    
May 23 : Chapters 14 - 16       
May 24 : Chapters 17 - 19
May 25 : Chapters 20 - 23  
May 26 : Chapters 24 - 26         
May 27 : Chapters 27 - 29      
May 28 : Chapters 30 - 33       
May 29 : Chapters 34 - 36
May 30 : Chapters 37 - 39
May 31 : Chapters 40 - 43     
June 1  : Chapters 44 - 46
June 2  : Chapter  47

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

June's Books: Anna and the French Kiss and Graceling!

For the first half of June we will be reading Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins! 



Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.
As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss Anna—and readers—have long awaited?





For the second half of June we will read Graceling by Kristin Cashore! 

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.

When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.







Thanks to everyone who voted for June's books!! In a few days we will announce the schedule for Gone by Michael Grant which will be the last book we read for May! I hope you are having a great month so far!







Tuesday, May 3, 2011

~ Voting for June's Books! ~

Hello there ladies and gents!


Voting has begun for June's two selections! Just like May's picks, the two most popular books will be the two that we will read in June!


Thanks so much to all that nominated books!


Is your birthday in June? If so, leave a comment! =]



**The following would not fit on the list, so if you wish to vote for them just leave a comment with which one. 

Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce
Kiss In Time by Alex Flinn
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers




Vote for June!
Siren by Tricia Rayburn
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Paper Towns by John Green
Beastly by Alex Finn
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Skinned by Robin Wasserman
Eyes Like Stars by Liza Mantchev
Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Intertwined by Gena Showalter
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
A Single Shared by Linda Sue Park
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Water for Elephants by Sara Guru
The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
Anna and the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Graceling by Kristin Cashore





  
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Across the Universe May 9th and Nominations for June!

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming


By popular demand we begin Across the Universe on May 9th! 

We do apologize to those who wanted to begin on the 17th, but the votes for May 9th outweighed the votes for the 17th. This is the first and only month that you will have such short notice to obtain a book. Going forward you will know at least three weeks in advance. 

With that being said, we are going to go ahead and start nominations for June's voting. We will stop taking nominations on May 4th. Our schedule will look as followed:

May 1st - 4th: Nominations for June's voting
May 4th - 9th: Voting for June's two books
May 9th - May 17th: Across the Universe by Beth Revis discussions
May 17th - May 31st: Gone by Michael Grant discussions

May 9th: pages 1-62, Chapters 1-9
May 10th: pages 62-126, Chapters 9-20
May 11th: pages 126-186, Chapters 20-33
May 12th: pages 186-248, Chapters 33-47
May 13th: pages 248-306, Chapters 47-58
May 14th: pages 306-364, Chapters 58-71
May 16th: pages 364-398, Chapters 71-81




If you already have Across the Universe go ahead and start reading. :)


NOMINATIONS

Nominations that are already on the list for voting for JUNE:

Siren by Tricia Rayburn
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Paper Towns by John Green
Beastly by Alex Flinn
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Skinned by Robin Wasserman
Eyes Like Stars by Liza Mantchev
Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce
Wither by Lauren Destefano
Kiss In Time by Alex Flinn
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
Revolution by Jennifer Donnely

If you would like to add something to this list please go to: THIS VIDEO and leave your nominations in the comments. On May the 4th voting will begin for June's two books giving you from May 9th till June 1st to obtain the books.

That's all for now folks! If you have any questions please let us know!