Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lucky is totally stressed out because his parent are constantly fighting. He starts having dreams that he is with his (dead) grandfather and then . . . there are the ants.

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Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator by Josh Berk
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Guy, the biggest smart aleck in school, signs up for the Forensics Club just to meet girls but soon is caught up in the middle of a real life murder mystery

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City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Clary is at a club and witnesses a murder - but she can't call the police because the body disappeared and no one else can see the killers, even though there are hundreds of people at the club. To make matters worse, Clary comes home and her apartment is trashed and her mom is missing. Great start to the Mortal Instruments series.

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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Hadley meets Oliver on a flight to London - a flight that she doesn't want to be on; but after meeting Oliver things might be looking up! Could he be the one?

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Fat Kid Rules the World

Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Troy doesn't know if he want to live anymore and just as he is about to give up, something awesome happens that might give him a reason to go on - just maybe.

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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Two best friends in the middle of a war with an impossible decision. What would you do? This one will stick with you for a long time.

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There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

What if God was a teenager? Enough said!!

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Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Nick is smart mouthed teen that gets mixed up with werewolves, vampires and zombies - OH MY. This book is great fun and it is the first in the Chronicles of Nick series. (It's a fantastic audiobook too!)

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Crossed by Ally Condie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The sequel to "Matched". Cassia runs to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky. During her search she learns more about the Society and what it does to stay an absolute power. I can't wait for the final book in the trilogy "Reached". It comes out this November.

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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When Temple was a child her father wanted her institutionalized but her mom knew she had special gifts. This was before doctors knew about autism. Her mom fought to find the right schools and mentors for her daughter. Thank goodness Temple's mom was such a fighter because Temple grew up to become an everyday HERO!

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Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Ismae is forced into an arranged marriage by her father. Her husband is very abusive and with the help of a monk, she escapes to the convent of St. Mortain where she serves the god of Death as an assassin. Great book!

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See You at Harry's by Jo Knowles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I finished this one awhile ago, at work, crying at the public desk. It's a beautifully written novel with such an emotional gut punch. Have your tissues ready.

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The Scorpio Races

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Sean and Puck live on a small island known for it's horse races. Not just any horse race but a horse race with the capaill uisce, carnivorous water horses. Each year men from Thisby capture these animals and attempt to tame them so they can race them the next year. Both Sean and Puck are desperate to win because they need the money, but they may not live to see the end of the race because year after year men and horses are killed during the race. Edge of your seat read. I listened on audiobook and I would hate to turn off my car at the end of the day!



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Divergent

Divergent by Veronica Roth

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


In the future, citizens are sorted into five factions. At sixteen you must choose a faction that you will belong to the rest of you life. There is just one faction for everyone - or at least that is what the government says. But what if your test is inconclusive and are labeled a Divergent?

This is a read at the edge of your seat book. I can't wait for the second novel, Insurgent, to come out in May 2012



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Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Karou has a secret - she is raised by Brimstone, a Chimaera. Brimstone collects teeth and it is Karou's job to get them from the dealers around the world through portals. However, all the portal doors are being marked by handprints burned into the wood. And what do angels have to do with this?


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How to Save a Life

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Jill's father has died and she is falling apart. Mandy is 19 and pregnant and she doesn't want to raise the baby. Both girls are clearly in crisis. But Jill and Mandy's lives will intersect is unexpected ways.



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Blink and Caution

Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Blink and Caution ran away from their homes for different reasons but both are barely surviving on the streets. When they get wrapped up in criminal activity, it may cost them their lives.



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Between Shades of Gray

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


a long forgotten history of Russia, sending thousands of Lithuanians to Siberia to work in labor camps. Not caring if they live or die.



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Revolver

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


In a frozen land a father dies and his son is left alone when a stranger knocks on the cabin door



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Where Things Come Back

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Cullen lives in Lily, Arkansas and nothing ever happens - except this summer.



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Stay with Me

Stay with Me by Paul Griffin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Mack is a guy that everyone has given up on, be knows goodness when he sees it and often when no one else does. For example, he rescues Pit Bulls that are left for dead after losing a fight. He's in love with CeCe, but will she give him a chance and will he take a chance with her?







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Why We Broke Up

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A boy and a girl fall in love. The girl keeps a box of mementos collected during a relationship, but after the relationship ends then the things in the box explain why they broke up.



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Dark Days by Derek Landy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


We FINALLY got a copy of book four in the Skulduggy Pleasant series. It is called "Dark Days" and it was SOOOOO worth the wait. I don't know how this series gets better and better, but it does!



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Stoner and Spaz

Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Ben a lonely rich kid who suffers from cerebral palsy falls for Colleen, a drug addicted girl from his high school. Ben's grandma does NOT approve. Ben and Colleen make quite an interesting couple as they try to fit into each others lives.



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Angel Burn

Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Angels are sent to Earth to feed on humans. The human snacks either end up dead or have "angel burn" a complete feeling of happiness and peace, all the while getting sicker and sicker. Lucky for us there are AKs (angel killers) trying to protect us. Lots of action and romance in this book. This is the being of a new trilogy!


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Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Jasper is asleep in his room and is awakened by a friend, Charlie, knocking on his window. Charlie desperately asks Jasper to follow him into the forest and that changes Jasper's life forever. What would you do for a friend? Would you hide a body?



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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Mary lives in a walled village in what once was the United States. Outside the walls are the unconsecrated, once alive human beings, but now "infected" and banished to outside the village. Unconsecrated are forced to fight for food - human flesh. The only way to kill an unconsecrated "person" is to cut its head off. Mary's father is missing and assumed to be unconsecrated and her mother was infected and chose to become unconsecrated in order to find her husband. Mary, despite knowing the danger involved is determined to leave her village and find what is beyond her village walls. This is the first book in a trilogy.



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