Every Day After is a very good book about a girl named Lizzie. Her dad left when she was 9 or 10 years old. Not long after he left, her mom got sick and stopped talking. Lizzie did not want anyone to know about her mom because she feared if they found out she would be taken to an orphanage, so she hid her Mom. Lizzie then runs into struggle after struggle including Erin a bully, a letter from the bank that says money is needed or the house will be lost, and losing a best friend. Lizzie found a job at Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle’s store and things started looking up.
Earth Girl takes place in the year 2789 where "portaling" between planets is a part of daily life for the people whose bodies can handle it. People who are unable to travel to other worlds and have to live on Earth are considered handicapped and are occasionally treated poorly by those who can use portals. Even though handicapped people are guaranteed a job, home, and money from the governent a handicapped girl named Jarra is still angered by the way "normal" people treat them.
Warrior Woman is an amazing story about a young girl who is from two different worlds. Nancy is half Cherokee and half English. Her mother's mother was considered a very wise woman in the Wolf Clan of the Cherokee Nation. Nancy's father was a soldier who had worked on the reservation.
This book is about a girl who moves to Maryland because of her father’s transfer. Her father works in the army. They move only to find that their father has been transferred again, only this time to Afghanistan. Her parents promised her that after the move to Maryland, she can get a horse. She decides to try to get her horse and learn to ride before her father leaves. As her horse search gets bigger and more frantic, she wonders if she can reach her goal or if she is not good enough to get the right horse soon enough.
A girl named Elena finds out her father was a dragon. She is sent to a special school for kids who are dragons or also called “Dragonians.” Soon after she meets a boy named Lucian and they fall in love. But nothing about this school is always rainbows and butterflies; there is something called “claiming,” which is basically a battle to the death. I recommend this book to all students and teachers all around the world; they would love this.
Sing Da Navelli lives and breathes music. Her parents were famous musicians, and now she aspires to be a singer. Finally, after years of hard work, Sing is accepted into Dunhammond Conservatory, a prestigious high school for growing musicians and singers. Upon her arrival, it is announced that the school will be putting on Angelique, an opera written at Dunhammond and the very opera that Sing's mother died playing the lead in. Sing is very excited until she is cast as the understudy to the lead.
Makina was dead. She was the fifth Kampii to “accidentely” die in the City of Shifting tides (an underwater city), and Aluna needed to know why. She needed answers. She was smart enough to figure out that this was no accident. The breathing shells must be faltering. And where do you find answers?
For most teenagers, the summer before senior year is filled with applications, sun, fun, and maybe a little summer romance. Shy and quiet Alex, daughter of an Air Force Colonel, comes to the Circe Air Force Base internship expecting all this; what she wasn’t expecting was aliens. Circe wasn’t an American Air Force Base used for training, but rather an Alien Operations Center.
