Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Mysterious Benidict Society


Reynie finds an ad in the newspaper for a series of tests for the gifted. On those tests he must answer questions like "Are you brave?" and for one test is only allowed to bring one pencil. Odder things are to come. Once he passes all of the tests he finds out his life will be in danger and he will be able to become a spy! He will be in a team of four. Sticky Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire. they must infiltrate a school, not get caught, send messages back, and stop an evil twin of the person he is working for from sending messages to peoples brains! Time is limited! Will they succeed?

Surviving the Applewhites


Jake is a young deliquent that no school is willing to take. Until the Creative Academy which is a homeschooled family. Almost each member of the family is an artist and they all do there own thing. E.D. is the only one in the family that wishes for structure and she helps teach her little brother also. Jake is grouped with her. E.D's father then takes on a job of directing the Sound of Music in the local theater. His family is annoyed with his work but helps him save the show. They put it on in their barn. They must overcome the opsticals in their way but see how they pull it off.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

My Soul to Save


Kaylee is a banshee. When she screams someone dies. She has a too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend who is also a banshee. When at a concert for the teen star, Eden, the star on stage yet Kaylee doesn't scream. She can't scream for someone who has no soul. Kaylee finds herself having to break her dads tight curfew, keeping her best friend in the dark about what she is doing, and skip some school. Can she balance being a banshee and school?

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

schooled by Gordan Korman


This book tells you what it would be like if you had no contact with the world. Capricorn is living the life of a hippie in the 2000's. Suddenly his grandmother, Rain, falls out of a tree and injures herself. She has to go to rehab for 6 weeks. For those 6 weeks Capricorn must live with a family and go to a regular school. For the first time ever he learns about money, violence, and friends. He gets elected school president which is an honor saved for the biggest dork in the eighth grade class. Will he make it through those 6 weeks or will he go crazy?