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By: Becca F (ReadingTeen),
on 2/1/2016
From Becca's Shelves... Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is TOP TEN HISTORICAL/FUTURISTIC BOOKS I LOVE! I decided to do a few of each, because I can! Haha, plus I haven't read a ton of Historical YA books (or not enough that I absolutely loved like these). Under A Painted Sky by Stacey Lee - Under A Painted Sky was basically one of my top
By: Andye ReadingTeen,
on 12/20/2015
Review by Sara CONCENTR8by William SutcliffeHardcover: 256 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens (January 19, 2016)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon In a not-so-distant future London, riots have become the norm. But when the government suddenly stops distributing Concentr8--a behavioral modification "miracle" drug akin to Ritalin--the city's residents rise up fiercer than they ever have
By: Rea Rea,
on 9/29/2014
The Maze Runner (Book 1) Age Range: 12 and up Grade Level: 7 and up Series: The Maze Runner Series (Book 1) Paperback: 375 pages Publisher: Delacorte Press; Reprint edition (August 24, 2010) If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya,
By: Kenneth Kit Lamug,
on 3/10/2014
Los Angeles, 2041 – it’s twenty-six years after a NASA probe brought back a strange disease causing many of our familiar toy-like objects to come to life. This is a new world order where cute and fearsome creatures fight for their right to exist in a world that fears them! It’s Blade Runner meets Toy Story in Non-Humans!
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By: Kenneth Kit Lamug,
on 2/28/2014
When Samurai Jack burst onto the small screen in 2001, it introduced a boldly imaginative visual style to the often dreary realm of television animation. Other series have tried to imitate the flattened, angular graphics pioneered by the UPA studio during early ’50s. Samurai Jack succeeds in recapturing the essence of the UPA shorts because creator Genndy Tartakovsky and his artists understand that these highly stylized visuals require equally stylized movements.
The ongoing battle between heroic Jack and the evil shape-shifter Aku simultaneously evokes and spoofs the conventions of anime and Western live-action film. Long ago, Jack nearly destroyed Aku in a duel; in desperation, the wizard hurled the samurai far into the future, where Aku’s word is law. Jack fights robots, monsters, bounty hunters, etc. as he seeks to return to his own time, so he can prevent Aku’s rise to supremacy.
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She is required to give a certain number of delivered babies to the guards at the gate each month. She's never questioned this requirement (or any others for that matter) until now. The government, the very leaders she has always served, imprison her parents, forcing her to rethink everything she has always known.
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.
Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the YA scene with the first book in the Divergent series—dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.
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By: Read Now Sleep Later,
on 11/17/2011
By: Read Now Sleep Later,
on 5/7/2011
As the novel slowly unfolds, its depth is revealed in waves of prose with scattered poetry. At only 265 pages, it took me a couple of days to read. This book is small but dense and thick, and should be read slowly, savoring every word. Don't miss anything, or you'll be sorry! It's more than a simple identity story, more than a sci-fi YA story, more than a coming of age story. It's a life story, relearning and falling back into who you were and who you choose to be. And who others expect you to be and how you break that mold, or not.
Alethea's review: I just loved this story! It brims with
There's a character in The Fox Inheritance, Dot, who dreams of Escape. Dot has good reasons for wanting to escape, but I can't share her reasons here because I don't want to ruin the story for you. She knows that escape is probably not a likely possibility for her but she relishes the idea of helping others realize freedom. She uses the word Escapee to describe the people she helps like she is describing royalty.
I think we all dream of escape at various times and often accomplish it, even if it's just to bolt the bathroom door for one of those proverbial Calgon baths, or maybe our method of escape is a walk around the block, blasting our music, or even a full-blown vacation, or maybe it's something as simple as reading a book. In fact, reading a book is probably one of my favorite ways to Escape. And it's not all just about getting away to another world, but sometimes "escaping" some of my pre-conceived notions by seeing something through something else's eyes.
In The Fox Inheritance, Locke Jenkins is the Escapee, and his escape is much more a matter of life and death, but I think on a daily basis, he and all of us find our small ways to escape. If you've ever turned up the volume, if you've ever hit the road, if you've ever danced until you couldn't breathe, or, if you've fell into the pages of a book, you're an Escapee. Nice to know you. And Dot would be especially delighted to know you.
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Ever since readers have found out that there is going to be a sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox, I've been asked many times over if I had planned all along to write this sequel. The short answer is no. Not at all. I had already moved on to other books. And, as many have noted, The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a standalone--a complete story in itself.
But way back, shortly before The Adoration of Jenna Fox came out, a question about the story began niggling at me. It was a "what if" sort of question but I put it out of my mind, finished the edits on my next book, and then started a new novel except that the question kept circling back--it wouldn't go away--so I did what I never allow myself to do. I set the other novel aside for "just one afternoon" and wrote a first chapter to get it off my chest. Just the opposite happened. The voice exploded in my head. I wanted to write more! Now what was I going to do?
The story was already taking shape in my mind, but I was hesitant because I hadn't really planned to write a second book in the Jenna saga, plus I was just beginning another one. So I ran that first chapter past my editor and agent just to get their reactions, and I got a huge thumbs up from both of them. That's all I needed to dig in. This time I was certain it was only going to be a two volume series, but about mid-way I began to get a sneaking suspicion that a third story was lurking, and by the time I was done I was crazy with the possibilities. Even though The Fox Inheritance is complete story in itself like the first book was, it still points to the possibility of more. Egad, more knocking.
Did I dare tell my editor? But when I told her she was just as enthusiastic as I was. We were like two excited school girls conspiring together. She thought a third story was begging to be told too. So that's what I'm working on now--Book Three. No title yet, but I'm loving the luxury of being able to settle into this new future that has already been set in The Fox Inheritance, and exploring its seamy alleyways and its colorful possibilities--and listening again to that voice that wasn't quite ready to let me go.
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We've come a long way, no? Just a few short years ago could you imagine that nearly everyone in America would have a small sleek phone that they could carry in their pocket? The freedom it gave us! The problems it solved!
By: Read Now Sleep Later,
on 1/11/2011
By: Leila Roy,
on 1/18/2007
It's the mid-2070s, and the United States has changed. It's not the USA anymore, for one thing. It's the USSA -- United Safer States of America. People are encouraged to wear helmets when they walk, beer is illegal, and football was banned for being too dangerous. The Child Safety Act of 2033 made protective gear mandatory in the school sports. And we're not just talking mouth guards in field hockey. Here's what students of the time wear to run the 100-meter dash:
... AtherSafe shoes with lateral ankle support and four layers of memory gel in the thick soles, knee pads, elbow pads, and a FDHHSS*-certified sports helmet. We raced on an Adzorbium track with its five centimeters of compacted gel-foam topped by a thick sheet of artificial latex. It's like running on a sponge.
Jail has been abolished. When people break the law, they are sent to work camps. Almost a quarter of the adult population is serving time -- not surprising, as breaking the law is not very difficult:
"Littering is only a class-four misdemeanor--you don't get sent up for that."
"Mr. Stoltz did."
"That was for assault. Melody Hynes got hurt."
"But all he did, really, was litter. He dropped an apricot when he was unloading groceries from his suv."
"Yeah, then Melody slipped on it and got a concussion."
"She should have been wearing her helmet. My point is, Bo, all the man did was drop an apricot and they sent him away for a whole year. A year of hard labor on a prison farm. For dropping an apricot!"
"But if he hadn't dropped it, Melody wouldn't have gotten bonked," I said. Sometimes my grandfather could be kind of dense.
The men in Bo Marsten's family tend to be quick-tempered (his father is serving time for road rage and his older brother for getting into a fight) and Bo is no exception. Though the Levulor he takes usually prevents violent outbreaks -- it slows his anger reflex (and, in an unfortunate side effect, every other reflex) by a tenth of a second -- but he occasionally "forgets" to take it.
Given his family history, it's not real surprise when sixteen-year-old Bo is sentenced to serve three years for a plethora of violations. (Verbal assault, physical assault -- well, he tried to punch someone -- and causing the outbreak of an itchy rash at his school.**) He is send to Canada (which was annexed to the USSA in 2055) to work in a gourmet pizza factory.
This arm of McDonald's Rehabilitation and Manufacturing Corporation is a terrifying place, full of sharp corners, non-padded clothing, and people who have no qualms about verbally assaulting (not to mention physically assaulting) others. The factory is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a tall fence, beyond which are ravenous, man-eating polar bears. The warden runs an illegal football team.
If the team wins the Tundra Bowl, they will all be treated to early release. If they lose, they'll be Polar Bear Chow.
AWESOME. It's a sports story, a futuristic dystopia story, a juvie camp story and a story that mocks consumer culture. It explores Big Ideas, about government and free will and safety vs. freedom, but without ever feeling like a Frying Pan***, and without ever feeling heavy. It's rare for a book to be both thoughtful and thrilling.
Highly recommended. I'm planning on trying it out on older fans of Holes, as well as teens into Uglies and So Yesterday, Feed and Jennifer Government. Also fans of thoughtful sports stories -- I think there are a lot of Chris Crutcher fans who will enjoy it.
*Federal Department of Homeland Health, Safety and Security. Also, that description totally made me want to re-read Harrison Bergeron.
**Good thing that Those In Charge don't know about the possibly-sentient AI entity that he (oops) accidentally created. He could get twenty years for that, easy.
***Frying Pan Message Books: Books that are so message-driven to such an extent that you feel you are being battered with a Message-Laden Frying Pan. Duh.
Oooo, Ahhhh, this looks goodddd! I actually have the book sitting on my bookshely, patiently waiting to be read. Thanks for the coolio review :]
Nora, The Bookery
Oh wow,
I chanced upon this book a while ago, but didn't pay it much attention - but now I am reading your review, and realizing what a mistake that was. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us.
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