http://www.odeo.com/channels/2121572-The-Fireside-Book-Chat no Books for teens; reviews by teens. Books for teens; reviews by teens. Books for teens; reviews by teens. Book reviews by students. en 40 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12:19 -0800 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12:19 -0800 ©Scott Hertzog 2003-2006 Interview, Review, Teen, library, book, teens, adolescent Formal Education Interview Review Teen library book adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25540272-Bratfest-At-Tiffany%E2%80%99s-by-Lisi-Harrison-a-book-review-by-Kaitlin Bratfest At Tiffany’s by Lisi Harrison - Book Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) MLA Book Citation: Harrison, Lisi. Bratfest At Tiffany’s. New York: Fitzgerald books, 2008. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books and this is the last one I wanted to see what happened. Bratfest at Tiffany’s is about this school that gets over populated. It was an only girls’ school, but boys came and it became over populated. Some of the students stays in the school, but the other kids have to stay in bad trailers outside. These kids are rich kids and are spoiled. They don’t want anything to do with the trailers. The new “Pretty Committee” has a pack to not flirt, talk, or go out with any guys. They even got bracelets to make it official. When the new Pretty Committee finds out that Alicia has a boyfriend, they kick her out of the group and make her give up her bracelet. All the girls except for Alicia get stuck in the trailers; Massie the head of the Pretty Co... Bratfest At Tiffany’s by Lisi Harrison - Book Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) MLA Book Citation: Harrison, Lisi. Bratfest At Tiffany’s. New York: Fitzgerald books, 2008. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books and this is the last one I wanted to see what happened. Bratfest at Tiffany’s is about this school that gets over populated. It was an only girls’ school, but boys came and it became over populated. Some of the students stays in the school, but the other kids have to stay in bad trailers outside. These kids are rich kids and are spoiled. They don’t want anything to do with the trailers. The new “Pretty Committee” has a pack to not flirt, talk, or go out with any guys. They even got bracelets to make it official. When the new Pretty Committee finds out that Alicia has a boyfriend, they kick her out of the group and make her give up her bracelet. All the girls except for Alicia get stuck in the trailers; Massie the head of the Pretty Committee gets a designer to make the trailers better. They made them in the shape of Tiffany jewelry boxes and everyone wants to be in the trailers now. They have a contest at school, and all the guys on the soccer team win it. Cam finds Claire helping take care of his health class baby and they get back together. The Pretty Committee all get back together and stops the boy fast. My favorite part of the book is when Cam and Claire got back together because I was hoping they always would get back together and it’s a cute scene. Bratfest At Tiffany’s by Lisi Harrison - Book Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) MLA Book Citation: Harrison, Lisi. Bratfest At Tiffany’s. New York: Fitzgerald books, 2008. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books and this is the last one I wanted to see what happened. Bratfest at Tiffany’s is about this school that gets over populated. It was an only girls’ school, but boys came and it became over populated. Some of the students stays in the school, but the other kids have to stay in bad trailers outside. These kids are rich kids and are spoiled. They don’t want anything to do with the trailers. The new “Pretty Committee” has a pack to not flirt, talk, or go out with any guys. They even got bracelets to make it official. When the new Pretty Committee finds out that Alicia has a boyfriend, they kick her out of the group and make her give up her bracelet. All the girls except for Alicia get stuck in the trailers; Massie the head of the Pretty Committee gets a designer to make the trailers better. They made them in the shape of Tiffany jewelry boxes and everyone wants to be in the trailers now. They have a contest at school, and all the guys on the soccer team win it. Cam finds Claire helping take care of his health class baby and they get back together. The Pretty Committee all get back together and stops the boy fast. My favorite part of the book is when Cam and Claire got back together because I was hoping they always would get back together and it’s a cute scene. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-14,25540272 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12:19 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25534447-Heartland-After-the-Storm-by-Lauren-Brooke-a-book-review-by-Cheryl Heartland: After The Storm By Lauren Brooke -  Book Rating: Five of Five Stars Brooke, Lauren. Heartland: After The Storm. Scholastic Inc., New York. 2000. I picked this book because the librarian recommended it to me. I’m glad she did because I really liked this book. In this book, Amy gets to see Spartan for the first time, because he was at a ranch where they healed him. He was in a accident with Amy and Amy’s mom. Both Amy and Spartan (the horse) were both injured. Amy had 2 broken ribs, but her mom died in the car accident. Spartan is afraid of Amy. Days go by and Spartan begins to trust Amy again. My favorite part is when Amy gets to see Spartan again. Heartland: After The Storm By Lauren Brooke -  Book Rating: Five of Five Stars Brooke, Lauren. Heartland: After The Storm. Scholastic Inc., New York. 2000. I picked this book because the librarian recommended it to me. I’m glad she did because I really liked this book. In this book, Amy gets to see Spartan for the first time, because he was at a ranch where they healed him. He was in a accident with Amy and Amy’s mom. Both Amy and Spartan (the horse) were both injured. Amy had 2 broken ribs, but her mom died in the car accident. Spartan is afraid of Amy. Days go by and Spartan begins to trust Amy again. My favorite part is when Amy gets to see Spartan again. Heartland: After The Storm By Lauren Brooke -  Book Rating: Five of Five Stars Brooke, Lauren. Heartland: After The Storm. Scholastic Inc., New York. 2000. I picked this book because the librarian recommended it to me. I’m glad she did because I really liked this book. In this book, Amy gets to see Spartan for the first time, because he was at a ranch where they healed him. He was in a accident with Amy and Amy’s mom. Both Amy and Spartan (the horse) were both injured. Amy had 2 broken ribs, but her mom died in the car accident. Spartan is afraid of Amy. Days go by and Spartan begins to trust Amy again. My favorite part is when Amy gets to see Spartan again. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-14,25534447 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:28:07 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25530701-Home-Invasion-by-Monique-Polak-a-book-review-by-Bailey Normal 0 0 1 270 1541 12 3 1892 11.1280 0 0 0 Home Invasion by Monique Polak - Book Rating: (5/5) I picked this book because I have read other Orca Soundings books, and I wanted to read another one; so I went to the library got the two that were left, and this was one of them. The other book was Tell. Home Invasion is mainly about this boy who has trouble with eavesdropping on other people’s business, and there is a home invader who is going around and breaking into peoples houses while they are there. The home invader ties them up and gags them. There is a new girl who moves in down the street. He likes her. The one day there garage door was open when the cable guy came, and so he decided to let himself in. He gets out and no one knew that he was even there. He was at basketball camp, and his team lost. He was upset and on his way home, there were people moving in, and one of the movers gave him a box when he was walking. He took the box up to the apartment,and the movers lef... Normal 0 0 1 270 1541 12 3 1892 11.1280 0 0 0 Home Invasion by Monique Polak - Book Rating: (5/5) I picked this book because I have read other Orca Soundings books, and I wanted to read another one; so I went to the library got the two that were left, and this was one of them. The other book was Tell. Home Invasion is mainly about this boy who has trouble with eavesdropping on other people’s business, and there is a home invader who is going around and breaking into peoples houses while they are there. The home invader ties them up and gags them. There is a new girl who moves in down the street. He likes her. The one day there garage door was open when the cable guy came, and so he decided to let himself in. He gets out and no one knew that he was even there. He was at basketball camp, and his team lost. He was upset and on his way home, there were people moving in, and one of the movers gave him a box when he was walking. He took the box up to the apartment,and the movers left. He hid in the closet, and when they opened it he was there. He made run for it, but a cop stopped him in his tracks. They put him under tight supervision of his parents. One day his step-dad fell asleep, and he crawled out a window and went to the girl’s house. He got stuck n their closet and fell asleep in there. He wakes up and hears a voice. He can’t figure it out. Then he realizes it’s the home invader. He figures out away to stop him and unties the family. And he is the girl’s hero. My favorite part was the part were the home invader breaks in, though the entire book was really, really very good. Normal 0 0 1 270 1541 12 3 1892 11.1280 0 0 0 Home Invasion by Monique Polak - Book Rating: (5/5) I picked this book because I have read other Orca Soundings books, and I wanted to read another one; so I went to the library got the two that were left, and this was one of them. The other book was Tell. Home Invasion is mainly about this boy who has trouble with eavesdropping on other people’s business, and there is a home invader who is going around and breaking into peoples houses while they are there. The home invader ties them up and gags them. There is a new girl who moves in down the street. He likes her. The one day there garage door was open when the cable guy came, and so he decided to let himself in. He gets out and no one knew that he was even there. He was at basketball camp, and his team lost. He was upset and on his way home, there were people moving in, and one of the movers gave him a box when he was walking. He took the box up to the apartment,and the movers left. He hid in the closet, and when they opened it he was there. He made run for it, but a cop stopped him in his tracks. They put him under tight supervision of his parents. One day his step-dad fell asleep, and he crawled out a window and went to the girl’s house. He got stuck n their closet and fell asleep in there. He wakes up and hears a voice. He can’t figure it out. Then he realizes it’s the home invader. He figures out away to stop him and unties the family. And he is the girl’s hero. My favorite part was the part were the home invader breaks in, though the entire book was really, really very good. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-13,25530701 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:12:24 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat adventure, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25522077-Tell-by-Norah-McClintock-a-book-review-by-Bailey Tell by Norah McClintock Tell by Norah McClintock Tell by Norah McClintock tag:odeo.com,2009-12-11,25522077 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:05:33 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25522078-The-Fallen-by-Paul-Langen-a-book-review-by-Jonny The Fallen by Paul Langen – Book Rating: (Five Stars) I picked up this book because I like all Bluford High Series. It is about a kid that goes to Blueford High school, and he has problem with a kid in the school. My favorite aspect of the book is when he is fighting and is when the kid what to jail for hitting a minor. I recommendation this to teen because little kids will not understand. it is very graphic. The Fallen by Paul Langen – Book Rating: (Five Stars) I picked up this book because I like all Bluford High Series. It is about a kid that goes to Blueford High school, and he has problem with a kid in the school. My favorite aspect of the book is when he is fighting and is when the kid what to jail for hitting a minor. I recommendation this to teen because little kids will not understand. it is very graphic. The Fallen by Paul Langen – Book Rating: (Five Stars) I picked up this book because I like all Bluford High Series. It is about a kid that goes to Blueford High school, and he has problem with a kid in the school. My favorite aspect of the book is when he is fighting and is when the kid what to jail for hitting a minor. I recommendation this to teen because little kids will not understand. it is very graphic. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-11,25522078 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:54:25 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25518453-Tweaked-by-by-Katherine-Holubitsky-a-book-review-by-Travis Normal 0 0 1 253 1443 12 2 1772 11.1280 0 0 0 Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky – Book Rating: (5 out of 5) Holubitsky, Katherine. Tweaked. Custer, Washington USA. Orca Book Publishers. 2008 I picked up this book because I heard another book chat during class. It sounded interesting, and I wanted to read the whole book to find out more. I read the back once I got it, and I was hooked and wanted to read it. This book is about a boy named Gordie and his brother Chase. Chase is a drug addict and has been hooked on crystal Meth for 2 years. The book begins with Chase whacking a guy over the head with a bottle and putting the guy in the hospital with a coma. His parents pay bail, putting Gordie’s family in even more debt, but bringing Chase home on probation. Chase has debts of his own he has to pay off, his old dealers. So, Gordie tries to help, thinking this would be the last time Chase would ever see the dealers. Gordie gets $2000 dollars, all the money he has to pay off Chase’s debts. ... Normal 0 0 1 253 1443 12 2 1772 11.1280 0 0 0 Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky – Book Rating: (5 out of 5) Holubitsky, Katherine. Tweaked. Custer, Washington USA. Orca Book Publishers. 2008 I picked up this book because I heard another book chat during class. It sounded interesting, and I wanted to read the whole book to find out more. I read the back once I got it, and I was hooked and wanted to read it. This book is about a boy named Gordie and his brother Chase. Chase is a drug addict and has been hooked on crystal Meth for 2 years. The book begins with Chase whacking a guy over the head with a bottle and putting the guy in the hospital with a coma. His parents pay bail, putting Gordie’s family in even more debt, but bringing Chase home on probation. Chase has debts of his own he has to pay off, his old dealers. So, Gordie tries to help, thinking this would be the last time Chase would ever see the dealers. Gordie gets $2000 dollars, all the money he has to pay off Chase’s debts. Gordie eventually get tricked by Chase, and Chase only pays off &500 dollars of his debt and escaped. Gordie returns home and finds out that Chase is now wanted for murder, Richard Cross, the guy Chase put in the hospital, is now dead. Chase gets caught in the end and he ends up in the hospital and his parents’ find out he is brain dead, and his parents pull the plug. I liked the part in the book where they try to catch chase the first time, and the police fail, so Gordie tries to take him down himself. Gordie follows Chase down an ally and loses him again.  I think this is a great book. I think anyone around the age 14 and older should read this book. There are a lot of drugs and adult content in this book, so I wouldn’t recommend this to little kids. Normal 0 0 1 253 1443 12 2 1772 11.1280 0 0 0 Tweaked by Katherine Holubitsky – Book Rating: (5 out of 5) Holubitsky, Katherine. Tweaked. Custer, Washington USA. Orca Book Publishers. 2008 I picked up this book because I heard another book chat during class. It sounded interesting, and I wanted to read the whole book to find out more. I read the back once I got it, and I was hooked and wanted to read it. This book is about a boy named Gordie and his brother Chase. Chase is a drug addict and has been hooked on crystal Meth for 2 years. The book begins with Chase whacking a guy over the head with a bottle and putting the guy in the hospital with a coma. His parents pay bail, putting Gordie’s family in even more debt, but bringing Chase home on probation. Chase has debts of his own he has to pay off, his old dealers. So, Gordie tries to help, thinking this would be the last time Chase would ever see the dealers. Gordie gets $2000 dollars, all the money he has to pay off Chase’s debts. Gordie eventually get tricked by Chase, and Chase only pays off &500 dollars of his debt and escaped. Gordie returns home and finds out that Chase is now wanted for murder, Richard Cross, the guy Chase put in the hospital, is now dead. Chase gets caught in the end and he ends up in the hospital and his parents’ find out he is brain dead, and his parents pull the plug. I liked the part in the book where they try to catch chase the first time, and the police fail, so Gordie tries to take him down himself. Gordie follows Chase down an ally and loses him again.  I think this is a great book. I think anyone around the age 14 and older should read this book. There are a lot of drugs and adult content in this book, so I wouldn’t recommend this to little kids. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-10,25518453 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:35:06 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat mystery, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25513693-Down-by-Norah-McClintock-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Adam Normal 0 0 1 248 1415 11 2 1737 11.1280 0 0 0 Down by Norah McClintock – Book Rating: 5 The reason I picked this up was the cover had shadows of a guy chancing someone with a knife. In the story, Remy just go out of jail, and he saw his ex girlfriend that he never wrote to while he was in jail. She has a new boyfriend named Marcus, and Remy doesn’t like that. He went to go see his old school, and he saw some of his old friends playing basketball. So he played for a little, and then Marcus’s crew came along and started to hassle Remy and his friends. They ended up fighting. The cops came and everyone ran. Remy ended up getting a job and friends and money. He played basketball almost everyday. Toward the end they had this BIG fight with rocks, bats, chains, and anything they could find. The cops came they all ran and Marcus almost got caught and he pulled out his cell phone to cause his brother who told Marcus if you ever get hassled by the cops call me, and then Remy quick yelled KNI... Normal 0 0 1 248 1415 11 2 1737 11.1280 0 0 0 Down by Norah McClintock – Book Rating: 5 The reason I picked this up was the cover had shadows of a guy chancing someone with a knife. In the story, Remy just go out of jail, and he saw his ex girlfriend that he never wrote to while he was in jail. She has a new boyfriend named Marcus, and Remy doesn’t like that. He went to go see his old school, and he saw some of his old friends playing basketball. So he played for a little, and then Marcus’s crew came along and started to hassle Remy and his friends. They ended up fighting. The cops came and everyone ran. Remy ended up getting a job and friends and money. He played basketball almost everyday. Toward the end they had this BIG fight with rocks, bats, chains, and anything they could find. The cops came they all ran and Marcus almost got caught and he pulled out his cell phone to cause his brother who told Marcus if you ever get hassled by the cops call me, and then Remy quick yelled KNIFE!!! And then Marcus was shot 3 times. Remy goes back to school. The one day he got out of school he saw Asia and he talked to her and he told him that he lied to the cops that he knew he was getting out his cell phone, but Remy really didn’t. Then Asia just walks away My favorite part was when at the end where Marcus got shot for pulling out his cell phone and Remy yelled he has a KNIFE. The parts where he talked about Asia (his ex) the whole time. I think that everyone would like this book a lot. But there are some graphic parts. They talk about smoking weed and drinking and there is some swearing. There also are some sexual parts in this book. But they aren’t too bad. Normal 0 0 1 248 1415 11 2 1737 11.1280 0 0 0 Down by Norah McClintock – Book Rating: 5 The reason I picked this up was the cover had shadows of a guy chancing someone with a knife. In the story, Remy just go out of jail, and he saw his ex girlfriend that he never wrote to while he was in jail. She has a new boyfriend named Marcus, and Remy doesn’t like that. He went to go see his old school, and he saw some of his old friends playing basketball. So he played for a little, and then Marcus’s crew came along and started to hassle Remy and his friends. They ended up fighting. The cops came and everyone ran. Remy ended up getting a job and friends and money. He played basketball almost everyday. Toward the end they had this BIG fight with rocks, bats, chains, and anything they could find. The cops came they all ran and Marcus almost got caught and he pulled out his cell phone to cause his brother who told Marcus if you ever get hassled by the cops call me, and then Remy quick yelled KNIFE!!! And then Marcus was shot 3 times. Remy goes back to school. The one day he got out of school he saw Asia and he talked to her and he told him that he lied to the cops that he knew he was getting out his cell phone, but Remy really didn’t. Then Asia just walks away My favorite part was when at the end where Marcus got shot for pulling out his cell phone and Remy yelled he has a KNIFE. The parts where he talked about Asia (his ex) the whole time. I think that everyone would like this book a lot. But there are some graphic parts. They talk about smoking weed and drinking and there is some swearing. There also are some sexual parts in this book. But they aren’t too bad. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-09,25513693 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:16:45 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25507663-The-Girls-by-Amy-Goldman-Koss-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Caitlin-Dull Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends f... Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends for life and the group was nothing to them but a brat group. My favorite aspect of this book was when the two girls said forget the group and they became their own best friends. What I thought about this book was it was really good, and I like when the girls thought the group was a brat group, and they don’t know why they were in there.  My least favorite part was when the two girls the left and got kick out of the group got making fun of the whole school year but didn’t bother them. If that was me, I would of handle it myself.  I recommend this book to girls, but not boys because it’s a drama book and boys hate drama. Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends for life and the group was nothing to them but a brat group. My favorite aspect of this book was when the two girls said forget the group and they became their own best friends. What I thought about this book was it was really good, and I like when the girls thought the group was a brat group, and they don’t know why they were in there.  My least favorite part was when the two girls the left and got kick out of the group got making fun of the whole school year but didn’t bother them. If that was me, I would of handle it myself.  I recommend this book to girls, but not boys because it’s a drama book and boys hate drama. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-08,25507663 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:38 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat For Girls Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25518454-The-Girls-by-Amy-Goldman-Koss-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Caitlin Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends f... Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends for life and the group was nothing to them but a brat group. My favorite aspect of this book was when the two girls said forget the group and they became their own best friends. What I thought about this book was it was really good, and I like when the girls thought the group was a brat group, and they don’t know why they were in there.  My least favorite part was when the two girls the left and got kick out of the group got making fun of the whole school year but didn’t bother them. If that was me, I would of handle it myself.  I recommend this book to girls, but not boys because it’s a drama book and boys hate drama. Normal 0 0 1 245 1398 11 2 1716 11.1280 0 0 0 The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss – Book Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) I picked up this book because it look very interesting and looked like my kind of book. This book is about four girls who are all best friends until one of the girls ends up trying to make everyone hate one of the girls. It works except one of the girls felt bad and didn’t know what to do because she liked everyone in the group and didn’t want the group to split up. After all,  they had been best friends since grade school. One day three of the girls where invited to a birthday party and one of the girls wasn’t invited. She didn’t know why and what she did wrong. Half the girls teased her and were being rude to her for no reason. So they kick her out of the group and now they add a new girl to the group. Then one of the girls from the girl left the group because she thought it wasn’t right to do that to her best friend. She left and her and the other girl were best friends for life and the group was nothing to them but a brat group. My favorite aspect of this book was when the two girls said forget the group and they became their own best friends. What I thought about this book was it was really good, and I like when the girls thought the group was a brat group, and they don’t know why they were in there.  My least favorite part was when the two girls the left and got kick out of the group got making fun of the whole school year but didn’t bother them. If that was me, I would of handle it myself.  I recommend this book to girls, but not boys because it’s a drama book and boys hate drama. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-08,25518454 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:38 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat For Girls Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25503614-You%E2%80%99ve-Been-Warned-by-James-Patterson-a-book-review-by-Josh Normal 0 0 1 182 1038 8 2 1274 11.1280 0 0 0 You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson – Book Rating: 4 stars I picked up this book because I was told that it was a good book by several people. The book was about this girl who keeps seeing this vision of four body bags outside of this hotel, and she is having a affair with a married man, whose wife is is also cheating on him and this goes on for a while. In the end it ends up that the guy who is cheating on his wife kills his wife for cheating on him, and the guy she cheated with in the hotel that she kept seeing the vision in, but he fail to kill his wife and she gets up and kills him, and then the girl that keeps seeing the vision kills that girl. When she goes to run away, a cop shoots her, and it ends up that those were the four people, but she is not actually dead and she keeps pleading to be saved. No one can hear her. At the end they finally hear her and that’s how it ends. I did not really have a favorite part to the book; it wa... Normal 0 0 1 182 1038 8 2 1274 11.1280 0 0 0 You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson – Book Rating: 4 stars I picked up this book because I was told that it was a good book by several people. The book was about this girl who keeps seeing this vision of four body bags outside of this hotel, and she is having a affair with a married man, whose wife is is also cheating on him and this goes on for a while. In the end it ends up that the guy who is cheating on his wife kills his wife for cheating on him, and the guy she cheated with in the hotel that she kept seeing the vision in, but he fail to kill his wife and she gets up and kills him, and then the girl that keeps seeing the vision kills that girl. When she goes to run away, a cop shoots her, and it ends up that those were the four people, but she is not actually dead and she keeps pleading to be saved. No one can hear her. At the end they finally hear her and that’s how it ends. I did not really have a favorite part to the book; it was all pretty good.  I would recommend it; however, I would say that there are some parts where it goes into depth about the murders. Normal 0 0 1 182 1038 8 2 1274 11.1280 0 0 0 You’ve Been Warned by James Patterson – Book Rating: 4 stars I picked up this book because I was told that it was a good book by several people. The book was about this girl who keeps seeing this vision of four body bags outside of this hotel, and she is having a affair with a married man, whose wife is is also cheating on him and this goes on for a while. In the end it ends up that the guy who is cheating on his wife kills his wife for cheating on him, and the guy she cheated with in the hotel that she kept seeing the vision in, but he fail to kill his wife and she gets up and kills him, and then the girl that keeps seeing the vision kills that girl. When she goes to run away, a cop shoots her, and it ends up that those were the four people, but she is not actually dead and she keeps pleading to be saved. No one can hear her. At the end they finally hear her and that’s how it ends. I did not really have a favorite part to the book; it was all pretty good.  I would recommend it; however, I would say that there are some parts where it goes into depth about the murders. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-07,25503614 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:44:03 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25477994-Thunder-Bowl-by-Leslie-Choyce-a-book-review-by-Austin Thunderbowl by Lesley Choyce - Book Rating: (Five out of five) Choyce, Lesley. Thunderbowl. Washington: Orca Book Publishers, 2004. I picked up this book because I really just wanted to get the book done. I was a little behind on my project. I noticed the cover of the book, and it seemed like it must be about guitars. Mainly what happened in this story was the main character Germ goes through a mid life crisis. He likes a girl, but she is way over his age, but no one knows his real age. His real age is only 16. Most of the time he goes out with friends and drinks beer and party at The Dungeon(a club). Well their rival band the Mongrel Dogs get in a fight at the club, and there are beer bottles flying everywere and people are getting hurt. Near the end of the story the Mongrel Dogs, Germs band, and the Thunderbowls get along and play a song at Germ’s school. The best pat of the book I think was the fight because there was a lot of action and fighting. Honestly I liked all of th... Thunderbowl by Lesley Choyce - Book Rating: (Five out of five) Choyce, Lesley. Thunderbowl. Washington: Orca Book Publishers, 2004. I picked up this book because I really just wanted to get the book done. I was a little behind on my project. I noticed the cover of the book, and it seemed like it must be about guitars. Mainly what happened in this story was the main character Germ goes through a mid life crisis. He likes a girl, but she is way over his age, but no one knows his real age. His real age is only 16. Most of the time he goes out with friends and drinks beer and party at The Dungeon(a club). Well their rival band the Mongrel Dogs get in a fight at the club, and there are beer bottles flying everywere and people are getting hurt. Near the end of the story the Mongrel Dogs, Germs band, and the Thunderbowls get along and play a song at Germ’s school. The best pat of the book I think was the fight because there was a lot of action and fighting. Honestly I liked all of the book. I didn’t like most of it until I reached about half way in the book.  The only parts of this book I would watch out for is the fight. It gets very descriptive and pretty action packed. Thunderbowl by Lesley Choyce - Book Rating: (Five out of five) Choyce, Lesley. Thunderbowl. Washington: Orca Book Publishers, 2004. I picked up this book because I really just wanted to get the book done. I was a little behind on my project. I noticed the cover of the book, and it seemed like it must be about guitars. Mainly what happened in this story was the main character Germ goes through a mid life crisis. He likes a girl, but she is way over his age, but no one knows his real age. His real age is only 16. Most of the time he goes out with friends and drinks beer and party at The Dungeon(a club). Well their rival band the Mongrel Dogs get in a fight at the club, and there are beer bottles flying everywere and people are getting hurt. Near the end of the story the Mongrel Dogs, Germs band, and the Thunderbowls get along and play a song at Germ’s school. The best pat of the book I think was the fight because there was a lot of action and fighting. Honestly I liked all of the book. I didn’t like most of it until I reached about half way in the book.  The only parts of this book I would watch out for is the fight. It gets very descriptive and pretty action packed. tag:odeo.com,2009-12-02,25477994 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:58:11 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458431-The-Island-by-Peter-Benchley-a-book-review-by-Matt Normal 0 0 1 134 766 6 1 940 11.1280 0 0 0 The Island by Peter Benchley – Book Rating: (5) Benchley, Peter. The Island. London: Cavalry Place, 1980. I picked up this book because the quote at the top “Jaws menaced you, The Deep haunted you, but The Island will terrify you.” My favorite thing about the book is that it keeps you tied into the book. It is very suspenseful and it does not stop scaring. Normal 0 0 1 134 766 6 1 940 11.1280 0 0 0 The Island by Peter Benchley – Book Rating: (5) Benchley, Peter. The Island. London: Cavalry Place, 1980. I picked up this book because the quote at the top “Jaws menaced you, The Deep haunted you, but The Island will terrify you.” My favorite thing about the book is that it keeps you tied into the book. It is very suspenseful and it does not stop scaring. Normal 0 0 1 134 766 6 1 940 11.1280 0 0 0 The Island by Peter Benchley – Book Rating: (5) Benchley, Peter. The Island. London: Cavalry Place, 1980. I picked up this book because the quote at the top “Jaws menaced you, The Deep haunted you, but The Island will terrify you.” My favorite thing about the book is that it keeps you tied into the book. It is very suspenseful and it does not stop scaring. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-25,25458431 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:01:14 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458432-Riley-Park-Orca-Sounding-by-Diane-Tullson-a-book-review-by-Brittany Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: five out of five stars I picked up this book because I needed something for the book chat, and I picked it up read the back. I fell in love with the book instantly. I went home and read. I thought maybe I would finish a couple chapters before my mom got home and got dinner ready. Well I ended up reading the whole book in two hours!!!!! There’s this guy Corbin and his best friend Darius. The beginning takes place at a grocery store called Safe Way. There’s this girl that they both like named Rubee. They just got their groceries and are putting it all in the trunk, when Rubee gets off the bus to start her shift at Safe Way.  She walks in and starts her shift, so Corbin is afraid to ask her out. Darius asks her out to the party. Apparently she has an ex that doesn’t like this idea, so he follows Rubee. At the party Darius and Corbin went cliff Diving and Corbin gets really drunk. After the diving, him and Darius gets attacked... Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: five out of five stars I picked up this book because I needed something for the book chat, and I picked it up read the back. I fell in love with the book instantly. I went home and read. I thought maybe I would finish a couple chapters before my mom got home and got dinner ready. Well I ended up reading the whole book in two hours!!!!! There’s this guy Corbin and his best friend Darius. The beginning takes place at a grocery store called Safe Way. There’s this girl that they both like named Rubee. They just got their groceries and are putting it all in the trunk, when Rubee gets off the bus to start her shift at Safe Way.  She walks in and starts her shift, so Corbin is afraid to ask her out. Darius asks her out to the party. Apparently she has an ex that doesn’t like this idea, so he follows Rubee. At the party Darius and Corbin went cliff Diving and Corbin gets really drunk. After the diving, him and Darius gets attacked, and Darius ends up dying. Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: five out of five stars I picked up this book because I needed something for the book chat, and I picked it up read the back. I fell in love with the book instantly. I went home and read. I thought maybe I would finish a couple chapters before my mom got home and got dinner ready. Well I ended up reading the whole book in two hours!!!!! There’s this guy Corbin and his best friend Darius. The beginning takes place at a grocery store called Safe Way. There’s this girl that they both like named Rubee. They just got their groceries and are putting it all in the trunk, when Rubee gets off the bus to start her shift at Safe Way.  She walks in and starts her shift, so Corbin is afraid to ask her out. Darius asks her out to the party. Apparently she has an ex that doesn’t like this idea, so he follows Rubee. At the party Darius and Corbin went cliff Diving and Corbin gets really drunk. After the diving, him and Darius gets attacked, and Darius ends up dying. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-24,25458432 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:31 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458434-King-Authur-and-His-Knights-The-Rise-of-King-Authur-a-book-review-by-Will Normal 0 0 1 224 1278 10 2 1569 11.1280 0 0 0 The coming of Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green - Book Rating: Four Out of Five Stars Green, Roger Lancelyn. The Coming of Arthur. London: Puffin Group, 1953. I picked up this book because. Well truthfully i just red this book because it is a vary short and vary easy to read. But it turned out to be a good book it was a littol repetitev but good. In the begining of the book it tells how Arthur’s father killed his friend married his wife and created Arthur. Than his father was killed by the barbarians called the Saxons. On Christmas day the arch bishop anonsed that it was time for a king. A sword was put in a magical stone. only the true blud air could draw the sword. A tournament joust was held to see if a kight of the realm was to be king. One Lord’s son was in the joust but he forgot his sword. he sent his little brother to get it he found the sword in the stone and drew it and left the rest of the book consists of Arthur beco... Normal 0 0 1 224 1278 10 2 1569 11.1280 0 0 0 The coming of Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green - Book Rating: Four Out of Five Stars Green, Roger Lancelyn. The Coming of Arthur. London: Puffin Group, 1953. I picked up this book because. Well truthfully i just red this book because it is a vary short and vary easy to read. But it turned out to be a good book it was a littol repetitev but good. In the begining of the book it tells how Arthur’s father killed his friend married his wife and created Arthur. Than his father was killed by the barbarians called the Saxons. On Christmas day the arch bishop anonsed that it was time for a king. A sword was put in a magical stone. only the true blud air could draw the sword. A tournament joust was held to see if a kight of the realm was to be king. One Lord’s son was in the joust but he forgot his sword. he sent his little brother to get it he found the sword in the stone and drew it and left the rest of the book consists of Arthur becomes king and many quests ending in decapitations and death. Ton’t have a favorite part. The book was rather repetitive with the quests ending in decapitations and death. The part I hated was when the two brothers unknowingly killed each other. Anyone who would be into these things. If you don’t like things that are vary violent, you might not want to read this. “Beware the Black Knight.” Normal 0 0 1 224 1278 10 2 1569 11.1280 0 0 0 The coming of Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green - Book Rating: Four Out of Five Stars Green, Roger Lancelyn. The Coming of Arthur. London: Puffin Group, 1953. I picked up this book because. Well truthfully i just red this book because it is a vary short and vary easy to read. But it turned out to be a good book it was a littol repetitev but good. In the begining of the book it tells how Arthur’s father killed his friend married his wife and created Arthur. Than his father was killed by the barbarians called the Saxons. On Christmas day the arch bishop anonsed that it was time for a king. A sword was put in a magical stone. only the true blud air could draw the sword. A tournament joust was held to see if a kight of the realm was to be king. One Lord’s son was in the joust but he forgot his sword. he sent his little brother to get it he found the sword in the stone and drew it and left the rest of the book consists of Arthur becomes king and many quests ending in decapitations and death. Ton’t have a favorite part. The book was rather repetitive with the quests ending in decapitations and death. The part I hated was when the two brothers unknowingly killed each other. Anyone who would be into these things. If you don’t like things that are vary violent, you might not want to read this. “Beware the Black Knight.” tag:odeo.com,2009-11-22,25458434 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:25:47 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, adventure Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458435-Heartland-Coming-Home-by-Lauren-Brooke-a-book-review-by-Cheryl Heartland: Coming Home by Lauren Brooke Heartland: Coming Home by Lauren Brooke Heartland: Coming Home by Lauren Brooke tag:odeo.com,2009-11-22,25458435 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12:24 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458442-Go-Ask-Alice-by-Beatrice-Sparks-a-book-review-by-Emila Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks – Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) I picked up this book because it was recommended to me, and because of what it had said on the back. There is a girl; we do not know her name, but she, in the beginning of the book, doesn’t feel like she fits in with her family. She doesn’t feel like she belongs. About the middle of the book, she goes to a friend’s party, and they play a game. In 4 out of 14 glasses of coke, Jan puts LSD (acid). The narrator gets one of the glasses and starts seeing colors around the room. Towards the end of the book, her and Chris get addicted to grass and heroine and she starts to wonder about her sexuality and finds out that she likes guys and girls. At the end of the book she dies. My favorite part of the book was how her family was so supportive of her, and how she tells her siblings to watch out. I recommend this to anyone; just be aware that there is cussing. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks – Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) I picked up this book because it was recommended to me, and because of what it had said on the back. There is a girl; we do not know her name, but she, in the beginning of the book, doesn’t feel like she fits in with her family. She doesn’t feel like she belongs. About the middle of the book, she goes to a friend’s party, and they play a game. In 4 out of 14 glasses of coke, Jan puts LSD (acid). The narrator gets one of the glasses and starts seeing colors around the room. Towards the end of the book, her and Chris get addicted to grass and heroine and she starts to wonder about her sexuality and finds out that she likes guys and girls. At the end of the book she dies. My favorite part of the book was how her family was so supportive of her, and how she tells her siblings to watch out. I recommend this to anyone; just be aware that there is cussing. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks – Rating: (Five out of Five Stars) I picked up this book because it was recommended to me, and because of what it had said on the back. There is a girl; we do not know her name, but she, in the beginning of the book, doesn’t feel like she fits in with her family. She doesn’t feel like she belongs. About the middle of the book, she goes to a friend’s party, and they play a game. In 4 out of 14 glasses of coke, Jan puts LSD (acid). The narrator gets one of the glasses and starts seeing colors around the room. Towards the end of the book, her and Chris get addicted to grass and heroine and she starts to wonder about her sexuality and finds out that she likes guys and girls. At the end of the book she dies. My favorite part of the book was how her family was so supportive of her, and how she tells her siblings to watch out. I recommend this to anyone; just be aware that there is cussing. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-20,25458442 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:58:17 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458454-Friday-Night-Lights-by-H-G-Bissinger-a-book-review-by-Tyler tag:odeo.com,2009-11-19,25458454 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:01:18 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Sports Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458455-Riley-Park-Orca-Soundings-by-Diane-Tullson-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Steve Riley Park (Orca Soundings) Tullson, Diane – Book Rating: (4 Out of 5 Stars) for language and bits about drinking, and beer . Tullson, Diane. Riley Park . 1st ed. 1 vols. Custer, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2009. I picked up this book because of reading the back the book. I had read the back of the book which made me went to read more of the book. After reading the first chapter I could not stop reading. The book is about two best friends (Corbin & Darius ) that are going to the local park (Riley Park ); they have some other friends with them. The main character(Corbin ) passes out after drinking to much, he wakes up to find that all of the friends had left but his best friend ever. When they are leaving they are attacked. After hearing police sirens the attackers stop and leave. Both of the friends end up in the Emergency Room. Corbin is trying to remember how they were attacked. Corbin later finds that Darius was killed from the trauma to his head. After leaving the hospital he ... Riley Park (Orca Soundings) Tullson, Diane – Book Rating: (4 Out of 5 Stars) for language and bits about drinking, and beer . Tullson, Diane. Riley Park . 1st ed. 1 vols. Custer, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2009. I picked up this book because of reading the back the book. I had read the back of the book which made me went to read more of the book. After reading the first chapter I could not stop reading. The book is about two best friends (Corbin & Darius ) that are going to the local park (Riley Park ); they have some other friends with them. The main character(Corbin ) passes out after drinking to much, he wakes up to find that all of the friends had left but his best friend ever. When they are leaving they are attacked. After hearing police sirens the attackers stop and leave. Both of the friends end up in the Emergency Room. Corbin is trying to remember how they were attacked. Corbin later finds that Darius was killed from the trauma to his head. After leaving the hospital he takes matters in to his own hands by looking for a girl named Rubee who was hanging out with Darius at the party. He can’t find her, so he heads down to the park to see the shrine all the others left for Darius . Seeing a small pile of freshly placed roses, he picks them up and walks out on the now frozen river taking them to were the boys had jumped into the water before the attack. He says that is where Darius was “ still alive ”. Not knowing the ice is still thin he falls through the ice, He tries to stay afloat but he can’t because he is still weak from being in the hospital. He sees a casting shadow; he reaches. It is Rubee . She gets him out. They sit in a near by dog walkers car tell the EMS get there. She tells Corbin who attacked them that night. Officer Rex the lead investigator in the boys’ case asked Corbin to testify in court for Darius . Corbin recovers and goes on to teach his passion; hockey for community service for fighting with Officer Rex . M y favorite aspect of the book is that no mater what life throws at you, take it and learn from it. I liked the fact that Corbin did what he had to do to make it right and was honest about it. That is what justice is all about. Riley Park (Orca Soundings) Tullson, Diane – Book Rating: (4 Out of 5 Stars) for language and bits about drinking, and beer . Tullson, Diane. Riley Park . 1st ed. 1 vols. Custer, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2009. I picked up this book because of reading the back the book. I had read the back of the book which made me went to read more of the book. After reading the first chapter I could not stop reading. The book is about two best friends (Corbin & Darius ) that are going to the local park (Riley Park ); they have some other friends with them. The main character(Corbin ) passes out after drinking to much, he wakes up to find that all of the friends had left but his best friend ever. When they are leaving they are attacked. After hearing police sirens the attackers stop and leave. Both of the friends end up in the Emergency Room. Corbin is trying to remember how they were attacked. Corbin later finds that Darius was killed from the trauma to his head. After leaving the hospital he takes matters in to his own hands by looking for a girl named Rubee who was hanging out with Darius at the party. He can’t find her, so he heads down to the park to see the shrine all the others left for Darius . Seeing a small pile of freshly placed roses, he picks them up and walks out on the now frozen river taking them to were the boys had jumped into the water before the attack. He says that is where Darius was “ still alive ”. Not knowing the ice is still thin he falls through the ice, He tries to stay afloat but he can’t because he is still weak from being in the hospital. He sees a casting shadow; he reaches. It is Rubee . She gets him out. They sit in a near by dog walkers car tell the EMS get there. She tells Corbin who attacked them that night. Officer Rex the lead investigator in the boys’ case asked Corbin to testify in court for Darius . Corbin recovers and goes on to teach his passion; hockey for community service for fighting with Officer Rex . M y favorite aspect of the book is that no mater what life throws at you, take it and learn from it. I liked the fact that Corbin did what he had to do to make it right and was honest about it. That is what justice is all about. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-18,25458455 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:47:58 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458458-Riley-Park-by-Diane-Tullson-a-book-review-by-Bailey Normal 0 0 1 370 2111 17 4 2592 11.1280 0 0 0 Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Tullson, Diane. Riley Park. Canada: Orca Book Publishers, 2009 I picked up this book because I was looking through a pile of books, and this cover had a crow bar which made me wonder. So I read the back “The nurse puts her hand on my arm. I don’t know y that bothers me so much, but I want to flick it off. She says “your friend”. She takes a deep breathe. “He didn’t make it”. Now her dark hair is fading to gray, and i see the emergency room nurse, and i hear the heart rate monitor behind the curtain. Darius’s heart rate monitor. And I remember now the sound it made when his heart stopped. ” It was really good so i just decided to read it. It’s about these two hockey players that are really good friends and hockey players. The one really likes this girl. She has a boyfriend but they broke up. The boy who likes her is Dari... Normal 0 0 1 370 2111 17 4 2592 11.1280 0 0 0 Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Tullson, Diane. Riley Park. Canada: Orca Book Publishers, 2009 I picked up this book because I was looking through a pile of books, and this cover had a crow bar which made me wonder. So I read the back “The nurse puts her hand on my arm. I don’t know y that bothers me so much, but I want to flick it off. She says “your friend”. She takes a deep breathe. “He didn’t make it”. Now her dark hair is fading to gray, and i see the emergency room nurse, and i hear the heart rate monitor behind the curtain. Darius’s heart rate monitor. And I remember now the sound it made when his heart stopped. ” It was really good so i just decided to read it. It’s about these two hockey players that are really good friends and hockey players. The one really likes this girl. She has a boyfriend but they broke up. The boy who likes her is Darius. He asked her to a party at Riley Park. Corbin the other hockey player got drunk at the party and passed out. When he wakes up it is just him and Darius. Then out of no were these three guys start beating them up. The one guy put darius in critical condition and corbin got hit with a crow bar. Corbin’s head is cracked open. When they fix Corbin he loses a part of his brain. You hear Darius’s heart monitor in the back ground like you are there, but Darius dies. In the end it’s really good, but it leaves you hanging at the end of the book in a way. To find out who murdered them you will have to just read the book. My favorite aspect of the book is when Corbin and Darius got in the fight with the three guys at Riley Park after the party. I thought that how the author made the scenes so realistic was amazing because I thought I was like there. The worst part of the book would have to be the time when they were getting ready to put Corbin in surgery they had to empty his stomach and it was just not for me because like I said it was so realistic and graphic I just didn’t like that scene. It had me gagging. This book is for anyone who likes mystery and action because you do this is your book right here. I just think read its really good. There is a good amount of language. Normal 0 0 1 370 2111 17 4 2592 11.1280 0 0 0 Riley Park by Diane Tullson - Book Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Tullson, Diane. Riley Park. Canada: Orca Book Publishers, 2009 I picked up this book because I was looking through a pile of books, and this cover had a crow bar which made me wonder. So I read the back “The nurse puts her hand on my arm. I don’t know y that bothers me so much, but I want to flick it off. She says “your friend”. She takes a deep breathe. “He didn’t make it”. Now her dark hair is fading to gray, and i see the emergency room nurse, and i hear the heart rate monitor behind the curtain. Darius’s heart rate monitor. And I remember now the sound it made when his heart stopped. ” It was really good so i just decided to read it. It’s about these two hockey players that are really good friends and hockey players. The one really likes this girl. She has a boyfriend but they broke up. The boy who likes her is Darius. He asked her to a party at Riley Park. Corbin the other hockey player got drunk at the party and passed out. When he wakes up it is just him and Darius. Then out of no were these three guys start beating them up. The one guy put darius in critical condition and corbin got hit with a crow bar. Corbin’s head is cracked open. When they fix Corbin he loses a part of his brain. You hear Darius’s heart monitor in the back ground like you are there, but Darius dies. In the end it’s really good, but it leaves you hanging at the end of the book in a way. To find out who murdered them you will have to just read the book. My favorite aspect of the book is when Corbin and Darius got in the fight with the three guys at Riley Park after the party. I thought that how the author made the scenes so realistic was amazing because I thought I was like there. The worst part of the book would have to be the time when they were getting ready to put Corbin in surgery they had to empty his stomach and it was just not for me because like I said it was so realistic and graphic I just didn’t like that scene. It had me gagging. This book is for anyone who likes mystery and action because you do this is your book right here. I just think read its really good. There is a good amount of language. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-17,25458458 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:43:58 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458461-Rebel-Glory-by-Sigmund-Brouwer-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Michael Rebel Glory by Sigmund Brouwer – Book Rating: ***** Brouwer, Sigmund. Rebel Glory. Custe, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2006. I picked up this book because I thought is was a good book, and it had a picture of ice hockey equipment on the front.  In the story, there was a hockey team from the Western Hockey League called the Red Deer Rebels. They had a really bad losing streak in the past few years, and there is a guy that wants to buy the team from the owner and move the team up to Calgary. Craig McElhany or as the team called him Mac, got traded to the team. When players get traded, they stay with families called Billets. Craig stayed with Henry’s. In the first game, in the first period Jason was on the right wing position and started dancing; then he started taking his pads off. Then as he threw his pads, the team saw cockroaches fall out of them. Then the next game they got all icky and the team found out it was the fiberglass from the washer. Then their teacher Mr. Palmer gave Craig... Rebel Glory by Sigmund Brouwer – Book Rating: ***** Brouwer, Sigmund. Rebel Glory. Custe, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2006. I picked up this book because I thought is was a good book, and it had a picture of ice hockey equipment on the front.  In the story, there was a hockey team from the Western Hockey League called the Red Deer Rebels. They had a really bad losing streak in the past few years, and there is a guy that wants to buy the team from the owner and move the team up to Calgary. Craig McElhany or as the team called him Mac, got traded to the team. When players get traded, they stay with families called Billets. Craig stayed with Henry’s. In the first game, in the first period Jason was on the right wing position and started dancing; then he started taking his pads off. Then as he threw his pads, the team saw cockroaches fall out of them. Then the next game they got all icky and the team found out it was the fiberglass from the washer. Then their teacher Mr. Palmer gave Craig a bet. The bet was if they lose. He has to sing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” over the intercom. During the next couple games thing happened to the Rebels. Like coke was poured on Craig and one of his rivets in his came out of his skate. When Craig and the Henry’s were eating dinner they got a phone call that said,” Craig hit a girl on his date.” Then when the team was done practicing, they thought that Craig took their wallets and hid them and he got kicked off the team. He was driving back to his hometown in Winnipeg. Then he thought that he could get back on the team and he turned around and headed back to Red Deer. My Favorite part of the book had to be when the cockroaches were in Jason’s pads the was my favorite part. I recommend to any body how likes ice hockey and loves mystery books. Rebel Glory by Sigmund Brouwer – Book Rating: ***** Brouwer, Sigmund. Rebel Glory. Custe, WA: Orca Book Publishers, 2006. I picked up this book because I thought is was a good book, and it had a picture of ice hockey equipment on the front.  In the story, there was a hockey team from the Western Hockey League called the Red Deer Rebels. They had a really bad losing streak in the past few years, and there is a guy that wants to buy the team from the owner and move the team up to Calgary. Craig McElhany or as the team called him Mac, got traded to the team. When players get traded, they stay with families called Billets. Craig stayed with Henry’s. In the first game, in the first period Jason was on the right wing position and started dancing; then he started taking his pads off. Then as he threw his pads, the team saw cockroaches fall out of them. Then the next game they got all icky and the team found out it was the fiberglass from the washer. Then their teacher Mr. Palmer gave Craig a bet. The bet was if they lose. He has to sing “Mary Had A Little Lamb” over the intercom. During the next couple games thing happened to the Rebels. Like coke was poured on Craig and one of his rivets in his came out of his skate. When Craig and the Henry’s were eating dinner they got a phone call that said,” Craig hit a girl on his date.” Then when the team was done practicing, they thought that Craig took their wallets and hid them and he got kicked off the team. He was driving back to his hometown in Winnipeg. Then he thought that he could get back on the team and he turned around and headed back to Red Deer. My Favorite part of the book had to be when the cockroaches were in Jason’s pads the was my favorite part. I recommend to any body how likes ice hockey and loves mystery books. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-16,25458461 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:13:48 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Sports Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25458464-Sealed-with-a-Diss-by-Lisi-Harrison%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Kaitlyn Sealed with a Diss by Lisi Harrison – Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Harrison, Lisi. Sealed With A Diss. New York: Poppy Books, 2007. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books up to this one, and iIthought the cover design was pretty cool. I also picked it up because I knew I would like it because I really liked all the other ones. The pretty committee has been in a relay to get a special room no one has at school to chill and there’s a camera in a room where a big room of boys is talking about their issues. Before they get the room, they have to all get dates to Skye Hamilton’s costume party. You have to dress up as a couple. They all basically spent the whole time finding dates for the party, but when they get there, a lot of bad things happen. Claire and her boyfriend fight and break up, and all the girls dates think their weird and never want to see them again so thats why they run away. The only one that stays is josh because he actually... Sealed with a Diss by Lisi Harrison – Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Harrison, Lisi. Sealed With A Diss. New York: Poppy Books, 2007. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books up to this one, and iIthought the cover design was pretty cool. I also picked it up because I knew I would like it because I really liked all the other ones. The pretty committee has been in a relay to get a special room no one has at school to chill and there’s a camera in a room where a big room of boys is talking about their issues. Before they get the room, they have to all get dates to Skye Hamilton’s costume party. You have to dress up as a couple. They all basically spent the whole time finding dates for the party, but when they get there, a lot of bad things happen. Claire and her boyfriend fight and break up, and all the girls dates think their weird and never want to see them again so thats why they run away. The only one that stays is josh because he actually really likes Alicia. I like the ending of the book because they decide to forget about the guys and have a good time as being single. Also the brierwood boys move into the private school where the pretty committee goes because there was a massive flood.  liked everything about the book. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like. I would recommend it to girls more than to guys. Sealed with a Diss by Lisi Harrison – Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Harrison, Lisi. Sealed With A Diss. New York: Poppy Books, 2007. I picked up this book because I read all the other Clique books up to this one, and iIthought the cover design was pretty cool. I also picked it up because I knew I would like it because I really liked all the other ones. The pretty committee has been in a relay to get a special room no one has at school to chill and there’s a camera in a room where a big room of boys is talking about their issues. Before they get the room, they have to all get dates to Skye Hamilton’s costume party. You have to dress up as a couple. They all basically spent the whole time finding dates for the party, but when they get there, a lot of bad things happen. Claire and her boyfriend fight and break up, and all the girls dates think their weird and never want to see them again so thats why they run away. The only one that stays is josh because he actually really likes Alicia. I like the ending of the book because they decide to forget about the guys and have a good time as being single. Also the brierwood boys move into the private school where the pretty committee goes because there was a massive flood.  liked everything about the book. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like. I would recommend it to girls more than to guys. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-15,25458464 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:39:29 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25449202-Beautiful-Americans-by-Lucy-Silag-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Alexsandra Normal 0 0 1 180 1031 8 2 1266 11.1280 0 0 0 Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 I picked up this book because of the cover. I liked the colors and the pictures made it look like it was about love and I like reading stories that have to do with love. This book is about four teenage students who finished high school and are going to Paris to accomplish their goals. Thye all had to leave their loved ones behind like their family and boyfriends. They had to stay with host families who they never met before. Pj went through a lot with her family, but she decided to put her past behind her and go to Paris to have fun and accomplish her goals. Olivia was a born dancer, but she did have scholarship grades. So she went to Paris to dance and to go to school. Alex and Zack went to Paris for school. What I thought was really good about the book was that it had the thoughts and feelings about one of the character in each of the chapters. So it made it easier for me to un... Normal 0 0 1 180 1031 8 2 1266 11.1280 0 0 0 Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 I picked up this book because of the cover. I liked the colors and the pictures made it look like it was about love and I like reading stories that have to do with love. This book is about four teenage students who finished high school and are going to Paris to accomplish their goals. Thye all had to leave their loved ones behind like their family and boyfriends. They had to stay with host families who they never met before. Pj went through a lot with her family, but she decided to put her past behind her and go to Paris to have fun and accomplish her goals. Olivia was a born dancer, but she did have scholarship grades. So she went to Paris to dance and to go to school. Alex and Zack went to Paris for school. What I thought was really good about the book was that it had the thoughts and feelings about one of the character in each of the chapters. So it made it easier for me to understand. I liked this book a lot; there wasn’t a part in this book that I didn’t like. I recommend this book to high school students because it’s about students who finished high school and what they so to accomplish their goals after school. Normal 0 0 1 180 1031 8 2 1266 11.1280 0 0 0 Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 I picked up this book because of the cover. I liked the colors and the pictures made it look like it was about love and I like reading stories that have to do with love. This book is about four teenage students who finished high school and are going to Paris to accomplish their goals. Thye all had to leave their loved ones behind like their family and boyfriends. They had to stay with host families who they never met before. Pj went through a lot with her family, but she decided to put her past behind her and go to Paris to have fun and accomplish her goals. Olivia was a born dancer, but she did have scholarship grades. So she went to Paris to dance and to go to school. Alex and Zack went to Paris for school. What I thought was really good about the book was that it had the thoughts and feelings about one of the character in each of the chapters. So it made it easier for me to understand. I liked this book a lot; there wasn’t a part in this book that I didn’t like. I recommend this book to high school students because it’s about students who finished high school and what they so to accomplish their goals after school. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-13,25449202 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:59:24 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25445384-Among-The-Hidden-by-Margaret-Peterson-Haddix-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Scott Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix – Rating **** Luke is a boy that is the third son in his family. Well he is illegal because there is a law that states the every family can only have two children. So once he is illegal he has to hide all the time and stay in the house. He only went outside once, so far and had to come in so quick. Luke’s dad sold the trees behind their house for money and then they started to build a house there. People moved into the house behind them and then Luke started watching them every day counting every single person that came out of the house till he had a plan to clean and make dinner for the family, but Luke got to scared the first time but he did it the next time and then a truck pulled in… it was his dad. His dad flipped on him and told him to go back to his room( the attic). Luke watches the house and for some reason the blinds keep on going up and down and then the next day there is a light flashing, just like it was s.o.s. My favorite pa... Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix – Rating **** Luke is a boy that is the third son in his family. Well he is illegal because there is a law that states the every family can only have two children. So once he is illegal he has to hide all the time and stay in the house. He only went outside once, so far and had to come in so quick. Luke’s dad sold the trees behind their house for money and then they started to build a house there. People moved into the house behind them and then Luke started watching them every day counting every single person that came out of the house till he had a plan to clean and make dinner for the family, but Luke got to scared the first time but he did it the next time and then a truck pulled in… it was his dad. His dad flipped on him and told him to go back to his room( the attic). Luke watches the house and for some reason the blinds keep on going up and down and then the next day there is a light flashing, just like it was s.o.s. My favorite part was when he was trying to be a good boy and make his family bread and clean the house when they left. The really good part about the book was that the government knew that they had a third kid but couldn’t prove it. Worst part had to be that they sold the trees behind there house and now people are building a house there. Because of that he cannot go out side ever again because the neighbors might see him. I recommend this book to every one that likes random action scenes. Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix – Rating **** Luke is a boy that is the third son in his family. Well he is illegal because there is a law that states the every family can only have two children. So once he is illegal he has to hide all the time and stay in the house. He only went outside once, so far and had to come in so quick. Luke’s dad sold the trees behind their house for money and then they started to build a house there. People moved into the house behind them and then Luke started watching them every day counting every single person that came out of the house till he had a plan to clean and make dinner for the family, but Luke got to scared the first time but he did it the next time and then a truck pulled in… it was his dad. His dad flipped on him and told him to go back to his room( the attic). Luke watches the house and for some reason the blinds keep on going up and down and then the next day there is a light flashing, just like it was s.o.s. My favorite part was when he was trying to be a good boy and make his family bread and clean the house when they left. The really good part about the book was that the government knew that they had a third kid but couldn’t prove it. Worst part had to be that they sold the trees behind there house and now people are building a house there. Because of that he cannot go out side ever again because the neighbors might see him. I recommend this book to every one that likes random action scenes. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-13,25445384 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:11:07 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25440723-No-More-Dead-Dogs-by-Gordon-Korman-a-book-review-by-John No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - Rating ***** No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - Rating ***** No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman - Rating ***** tag:odeo.com,2009-11-12,25440723 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:06:00 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, mystery, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25435819-Tyrell-by-Coe-Booth-a-book-review-by-Jon Normal 0 0 1 272 1553 12 3 1907 11.1280 0 0 0 Tyrell by Coe Booth – Book Rating: ***** I picked up this book because…. my teacher suggested the book, and it looked interesting. In the beginning it talks about how they are living how their homeless, running around to every broken down shelter, and how Tyrell’s life is living with his mother and younger brother Troy. Tyrell’s mom is just so lazy, so she telling Tyrell to go get a job. Maybe even be a drug dealer as long as she gets the money for what she wants to do. He’s also like a father to Troy because while his mom is out running around partying and doing what she want to do, he’s stuck there taking care of Troy. By the end of the story, mom goes to party except this time Tyrell isn’t there to take care of him, so he starts to wander around. He doesn’t know were anyone is at so someone that finds him, calls ACS and they come and pick him up and take him away. Tyrell felt that that it was his fa... Normal 0 0 1 272 1553 12 3 1907 11.1280 0 0 0 Tyrell by Coe Booth – Book Rating: ***** I picked up this book because…. my teacher suggested the book, and it looked interesting. In the beginning it talks about how they are living how their homeless, running around to every broken down shelter, and how Tyrell’s life is living with his mother and younger brother Troy. Tyrell’s mom is just so lazy, so she telling Tyrell to go get a job. Maybe even be a drug dealer as long as she gets the money for what she wants to do. He’s also like a father to Troy because while his mom is out running around partying and doing what she want to do, he’s stuck there taking care of Troy. By the end of the story, mom goes to party except this time Tyrell isn’t there to take care of him, so he starts to wander around. He doesn’t know were anyone is at so someone that finds him, calls ACS and they come and pick him up and take him away. Tyrell felt that that it was his fault. He didn’t want anything to do with his mom anymore, so calls a friend and starts to live the rest of his life. My favorite aspect of this book is when Tyrell, at the end of the book, moves away from his mother to live with one of his friends.  The worst part of the book is when his mom acts like an idiot and leaves Troy alone at the shelter, so someone calls ACS, and  they take Troy. My only cautions are that there is swearing and and graphics that would be unsuitable for kids. I would suggest 14 and up. Normal 0 0 1 272 1553 12 3 1907 11.1280 0 0 0 Tyrell by Coe Booth – Book Rating: ***** I picked up this book because…. my teacher suggested the book, and it looked interesting. In the beginning it talks about how they are living how their homeless, running around to every broken down shelter, and how Tyrell’s life is living with his mother and younger brother Troy. Tyrell’s mom is just so lazy, so she telling Tyrell to go get a job. Maybe even be a drug dealer as long as she gets the money for what she wants to do. He’s also like a father to Troy because while his mom is out running around partying and doing what she want to do, he’s stuck there taking care of Troy. By the end of the story, mom goes to party except this time Tyrell isn’t there to take care of him, so he starts to wander around. He doesn’t know were anyone is at so someone that finds him, calls ACS and they come and pick him up and take him away. Tyrell felt that that it was his fault. He didn’t want anything to do with his mom anymore, so calls a friend and starts to live the rest of his life. My favorite aspect of this book is when Tyrell, at the end of the book, moves away from his mother to live with one of his friends.  The worst part of the book is when his mom acts like an idiot and leaves Troy alone at the shelter, so someone calls ACS, and  they take Troy. My only cautions are that there is swearing and and graphics that would be unsuitable for kids. I would suggest 14 and up. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-11,25435819 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:30:30 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25430299-Fish-by-L-S-Matthews-a-book-review-by-Christina The book Fish was more for younger kids and not so much teenagers. The whole story was about this kid named Tiger and his family’s adventure across the border. His parents are doctors so they helped the villagers with their medical needs, but they live in a war country and the war is moving closer so the villagers and Tigers family must move to safety. His parents help every one move out safely. They are the last to go. Before they departed Tiger found a fish in a giant mud puddle outside his house, he then knew he had to save this fish from the war infested country. So Tiger and his family got a guide and his donkey to help cross the border. They run into various life threatening situations. The story kept you on edge because you weren’t sure if they were going to make it or not. The book Fish was more for younger kids and not so much teenagers. The whole story was about this kid named Tiger and his family’s adventure across the border. His parents are doctors so they helped the villagers with their medical needs, but they live in a war country and the war is moving closer so the villagers and Tigers family must move to safety. His parents help every one move out safely. They are the last to go. Before they departed Tiger found a fish in a giant mud puddle outside his house, he then knew he had to save this fish from the war infested country. So Tiger and his family got a guide and his donkey to help cross the border. They run into various life threatening situations. The story kept you on edge because you weren’t sure if they were going to make it or not. The book Fish was more for younger kids and not so much teenagers. The whole story was about this kid named Tiger and his family’s adventure across the border. His parents are doctors so they helped the villagers with their medical needs, but they live in a war country and the war is moving closer so the villagers and Tigers family must move to safety. His parents help every one move out safely. They are the last to go. Before they departed Tiger found a fish in a giant mud puddle outside his house, he then knew he had to save this fish from the war infested country. So Tiger and his family got a guide and his donkey to help cross the border. They run into various life threatening situations. The story kept you on edge because you weren’t sure if they were going to make it or not. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-10,25430299 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:06 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat adventure, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25424740-Speak-by-Laurie-Halse-Anderson-a-book-review-by-Tiffany Normal 0 0 1 247 1411 11 2 1732 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Anderson - Rated 2 I picked up this book because…. by the cover the booked looked interesting and by reading the back cover I thought that this book would be a good book to do my project on. In the story Melinda goes to school and no one talks to her because of something that happened at a party and because she called the police. More towards the middle or the end of the story Melinda finally tells you what happened at the party. At the very end of the book you find out that Melinda is trapped in a room because the guy who rapped her trapped her there. He confronted her and asked her questions on why she was telling people she was rapped. The he hits Melinda and a teacher walks in. My favorite part of the book is when she finally tells you that she was rapped. It gets your heart beating because you don’t know what is going to happen next. I thought all of the scenes about her being rapped and her being locked in the... Normal 0 0 1 247 1411 11 2 1732 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Anderson - Rated 2 I picked up this book because…. by the cover the booked looked interesting and by reading the back cover I thought that this book would be a good book to do my project on. In the story Melinda goes to school and no one talks to her because of something that happened at a party and because she called the police. More towards the middle or the end of the story Melinda finally tells you what happened at the party. At the very end of the book you find out that Melinda is trapped in a room because the guy who rapped her trapped her there. He confronted her and asked her questions on why she was telling people she was rapped. The he hits Melinda and a teacher walks in. My favorite part of the book is when she finally tells you that she was rapped. It gets your heart beating because you don’t know what is going to happen next. I thought all of the scenes about her being rapped and her being locked in the room with the guy who rapped her were the best because you didn’t know what was going to happen next and it kept you on the edge of your chair. The worst part of the book was basically everything in between the good parts because most of the stuff Melinda talks about has nothing to do with what the book is suppose to be about. She would talk about thanks giving and that had no effect on her being rapped in anyway. If you like to slowly read books then this is a good book for you and if you like real lie crises then this is also a good book and i highly recommend it. If you don’t like a book that goes slow then this isn’t a good book to read and you won’t be interested but over all I don’t recommend this book just because it’s boring. Normal 0 0 1 247 1411 11 2 1732 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Anderson - Rated 2 I picked up this book because…. by the cover the booked looked interesting and by reading the back cover I thought that this book would be a good book to do my project on. In the story Melinda goes to school and no one talks to her because of something that happened at a party and because she called the police. More towards the middle or the end of the story Melinda finally tells you what happened at the party. At the very end of the book you find out that Melinda is trapped in a room because the guy who rapped her trapped her there. He confronted her and asked her questions on why she was telling people she was rapped. The he hits Melinda and a teacher walks in. My favorite part of the book is when she finally tells you that she was rapped. It gets your heart beating because you don’t know what is going to happen next. I thought all of the scenes about her being rapped and her being locked in the room with the guy who rapped her were the best because you didn’t know what was going to happen next and it kept you on the edge of your chair. The worst part of the book was basically everything in between the good parts because most of the stuff Melinda talks about has nothing to do with what the book is suppose to be about. She would talk about thanks giving and that had no effect on her being rapped in anyway. If you like to slowly read books then this is a good book for you and if you like real lie crises then this is also a good book and i highly recommend it. If you don’t like a book that goes slow then this isn’t a good book to read and you won’t be interested but over all I don’t recommend this book just because it’s boring. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-09,25424740 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:51:51 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25423598-Bud-Not-Buddy-by-Christopher-Paul-Curtis-a-book-review-by-Roberto Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis – Rating 5 stars I picked this book because my mom was reading it and recommended me to read it because she knows I like books based on true life. That’s why I took her word for it, and when I read it I feel in love with the book. This book is a little about a kid who was given up at birth to foster care. One day he got adopted and was getting abused by his new foster family. One day Buddy got curious an decided to run away from his new foster family and find out what really happen to his real parents. There’s a couple reasons why I picked up this book. My favorite part of the book was when they made it seem like he was battling Fish Head because this is a real life story. At the same time it will catch children’s ateching. The worst part of this book was when they locked Buddy in the barn after getting beat. The reason why that was the worst part of the book is because no one likes to read about a child getting beat and my anger flares up w... Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis – Rating 5 stars I picked this book because my mom was reading it and recommended me to read it because she knows I like books based on true life. That’s why I took her word for it, and when I read it I feel in love with the book. This book is a little about a kid who was given up at birth to foster care. One day he got adopted and was getting abused by his new foster family. One day Buddy got curious an decided to run away from his new foster family and find out what really happen to his real parents. There’s a couple reasons why I picked up this book. My favorite part of the book was when they made it seem like he was battling Fish Head because this is a real life story. At the same time it will catch children’s ateching. The worst part of this book was when they locked Buddy in the barn after getting beat. The reason why that was the worst part of the book is because no one likes to read about a child getting beat and my anger flares up when I read about children getting beat. I recommend this book to people who like to read about the real deal meaning real life stories about people who existed before are time. An for a warning if your a very emotional person this may have very emotional. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis – Rating 5 stars I picked this book because my mom was reading it and recommended me to read it because she knows I like books based on true life. That’s why I took her word for it, and when I read it I feel in love with the book. This book is a little about a kid who was given up at birth to foster care. One day he got adopted and was getting abused by his new foster family. One day Buddy got curious an decided to run away from his new foster family and find out what really happen to his real parents. There’s a couple reasons why I picked up this book. My favorite part of the book was when they made it seem like he was battling Fish Head because this is a real life story. At the same time it will catch children’s ateching. The worst part of this book was when they locked Buddy in the barn after getting beat. The reason why that was the worst part of the book is because no one likes to read about a child getting beat and my anger flares up when I read about children getting beat. I recommend this book to people who like to read about the real deal meaning real life stories about people who existed before are time. An for a warning if your a very emotional person this may have very emotional. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-08,25423598 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:04:31 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat adventure, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25410986-Before-I-Die-by-Jenny-Downham-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Caitlin Normal 0 0 1 218 1245 10 2 1528 11.1280 0 0 0 Before I Die by Jenny Downham – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. New York times. Louis and Archie. May 2008. I picked this book up because my friend told me about it and she said it was a great book to read. This book is about this girl who has cancer. She tries to fight it off, but can’t beat it.  She ends up doing things she wants to do before she dies. She does illegal things and has sex to get pregnant. In the middle of this story, she really starts to think that she doesn’t want to die, so she does every single thing she can think of. At the end, she has her baby and then dies; the baby looks just like her. I thought it was excellent because it was really detailed and up-front honest about what teens think about and do when they think they are dieing, when they have cancer or any other sickness. My favorite aspect of this book was when she finds out she is pregnant with the one guy she loves and then she dies. T... Normal 0 0 1 218 1245 10 2 1528 11.1280 0 0 0 Before I Die by Jenny Downham – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. New York times. Louis and Archie. May 2008. I picked this book up because my friend told me about it and she said it was a great book to read. This book is about this girl who has cancer. She tries to fight it off, but can’t beat it.  She ends up doing things she wants to do before she dies. She does illegal things and has sex to get pregnant. In the middle of this story, she really starts to think that she doesn’t want to die, so she does every single thing she can think of. At the end, she has her baby and then dies; the baby looks just like her. I thought it was excellent because it was really detailed and up-front honest about what teens think about and do when they think they are dieing, when they have cancer or any other sickness. My favorite aspect of this book was when she finds out she is pregnant with the one guy she loves and then she dies. They have memories of the family daughter. The parts that I thought were really good were when she acts like this is really happening to her and she has to do these things. The worst part of the book was when she dies and can’t be there for her baby girl. Normal 0 0 1 218 1245 10 2 1528 11.1280 0 0 0 Before I Die by Jenny Downham – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. New York times. Louis and Archie. May 2008. I picked this book up because my friend told me about it and she said it was a great book to read. This book is about this girl who has cancer. She tries to fight it off, but can’t beat it.  She ends up doing things she wants to do before she dies. She does illegal things and has sex to get pregnant. In the middle of this story, she really starts to think that she doesn’t want to die, so she does every single thing she can think of. At the end, she has her baby and then dies; the baby looks just like her. I thought it was excellent because it was really detailed and up-front honest about what teens think about and do when they think they are dieing, when they have cancer or any other sickness. My favorite aspect of this book was when she finds out she is pregnant with the one guy she loves and then she dies. They have memories of the family daughter. The parts that I thought were really good were when she acts like this is really happening to her and she has to do these things. The worst part of the book was when she dies and can’t be there for her baby girl. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-06,25410986 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:58:02 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25404878-My-Sister%E2%80%99s-Keeper-by-Jodi-Picoult-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Sylvia Normal 0 0 1 234 1334 11 2 1638 11.1280 0 0 0 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 2004. I picked up this book because I was told it was a really good book. I was going to see the movie, but didn’t because I thought I should read the book first. This book is about two girls. One girl is named Kate, and she has Leukemia, and her sister Anna. Kate’s 16 and Anna is 13. Kate needed a kidney transplant, and Anna was her match. Anna didn’t want to give up her kidney, and Kate didn’t want her to either, but their mom wanted her to. Anna ends up suing her mom and taking her to court, and Anna doesn’t decide to give it up, but in the end she gives the kidney to her sister because Anna had gotten into a car accident and passed away. My favorite aspect of the book is that in the end of the book when Anna and her Mother were In court, and they told her mother that it wasn’t her right to sue her mother; i... Normal 0 0 1 234 1334 11 2 1638 11.1280 0 0 0 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 2004. I picked up this book because I was told it was a really good book. I was going to see the movie, but didn’t because I thought I should read the book first. This book is about two girls. One girl is named Kate, and she has Leukemia, and her sister Anna. Kate’s 16 and Anna is 13. Kate needed a kidney transplant, and Anna was her match. Anna didn’t want to give up her kidney, and Kate didn’t want her to either, but their mom wanted her to. Anna ends up suing her mom and taking her to court, and Anna doesn’t decide to give it up, but in the end she gives the kidney to her sister because Anna had gotten into a car accident and passed away. My favorite aspect of the book is that in the end of the book when Anna and her Mother were In court, and they told her mother that it wasn’t her right to sue her mother; it was her sister Kate. Anna had said when she was in court that her sister Kate was tired of all the pain and suffering and that she wanted to just die, so her sister Anna could continue her sport and have a good life. The worst part of the book was that in the beginning; it was really slow and that the story jumped around a lot to different characters. My recommendation of this book is that it is a really good book. People who like reading about medical situations and things like that will like this book. This book is aged more to young adults to adults. The warning of this book is that it is really sad and somewhat graphic. Normal 0 0 1 234 1334 11 2 1638 11.1280 0 0 0 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 2004. I picked up this book because I was told it was a really good book. I was going to see the movie, but didn’t because I thought I should read the book first. This book is about two girls. One girl is named Kate, and she has Leukemia, and her sister Anna. Kate’s 16 and Anna is 13. Kate needed a kidney transplant, and Anna was her match. Anna didn’t want to give up her kidney, and Kate didn’t want her to either, but their mom wanted her to. Anna ends up suing her mom and taking her to court, and Anna doesn’t decide to give it up, but in the end she gives the kidney to her sister because Anna had gotten into a car accident and passed away. My favorite aspect of the book is that in the end of the book when Anna and her Mother were In court, and they told her mother that it wasn’t her right to sue her mother; it was her sister Kate. Anna had said when she was in court that her sister Kate was tired of all the pain and suffering and that she wanted to just die, so her sister Anna could continue her sport and have a good life. The worst part of the book was that in the beginning; it was really slow and that the story jumped around a lot to different characters. My recommendation of this book is that it is a really good book. People who like reading about medical situations and things like that will like this book. This book is aged more to young adults to adults. The warning of this book is that it is really sad and somewhat graphic. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-05,25404878 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:01:36 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397333-A-Hole-in-My-Life-by-Jack-Gantos-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Brandon A Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos – Book Rating: Five out of Five Stars ***** Gantos, Jack. A Hole in My Life . 1st ed. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. I picked up this book because I had to read it when I was in Twilight School. Mr. McGough, a teacher in the Twilight Program, said we had to read in his class. I read the book in two days. We started reading it Thursday night in Twilight School and I finished the book by Friday night. I really enjoyed reading the book, so reading it was easy for me. The book is a true story about Jack Gantos’ life. Jack tells his life story after he made some bad choices. Gantos did drugs and sold drugs. His drug of choice was hash. While he was using hash he met a lot of different people, some of those people were very wealthy drug dealers. Since he was homeless, the drug dealers offer to let him live with them only if he agreed to work for them. In the beginning, he had a couple of close calls with getting caught by the police. At ... A Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos – Book Rating: Five out of Five Stars ***** Gantos, Jack. A Hole in My Life . 1st ed. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. I picked up this book because I had to read it when I was in Twilight School. Mr. McGough, a teacher in the Twilight Program, said we had to read in his class. I read the book in two days. We started reading it Thursday night in Twilight School and I finished the book by Friday night. I really enjoyed reading the book, so reading it was easy for me. The book is a true story about Jack Gantos’ life. Jack tells his life story after he made some bad choices. Gantos did drugs and sold drugs. His drug of choice was hash. While he was using hash he met a lot of different people, some of those people were very wealthy drug dealers. Since he was homeless, the drug dealers offer to let him live with them only if he agreed to work for them. In the beginning, he had a couple of close calls with getting caught by the police. At one point, he was driving a boat in order to deliver a large amount of hash to another bigger dealer and he got pulled over in the boat by the Coast Guard. His boss, who was also on the boat, threatened to kill him if he admitted to the Coast Guard that there were drugs on board. As he sells drugs, he gets into more drugs like heroin and meth. In the novel, Gantos tells about his experiences with drugs and dealing drugs. Eventually, he gets caught selling drugs to an undercover police officer and is sentenced with time in jail. In the novel, he reflects on the choices that he made that landed him in jail. He hated being in jail and basically had to fight to stay alive while he was in there. I really enjoyed this book. My favorite aspect of this book was that it talked about all the stuff that you are not supposed to talk about in school. The worst part about this book was the very beginning. The beginning was not very interesting. Jack Gantos did not really get to the stuff that I found interesting until later in the book. I think anybody could enjoy reading this book. However, I think people who hmay have had some trouble might like this book more than anyone else. I think Jack Gantos’ purpose in sharing his story was to tell people to make the right choices. His message to readers was to encourage them to get a job and take care of themselves. Gantos also focused on sending the message that you should not sit around and make excuses. He also felt it was important to stress that readers should not use drugs because all they do is ruin your life and the lives of those around. A Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos – Book Rating: Five out of Five Stars ***** Gantos, Jack. A Hole in My Life . 1st ed. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002. I picked up this book because I had to read it when I was in Twilight School. Mr. McGough, a teacher in the Twilight Program, said we had to read in his class. I read the book in two days. We started reading it Thursday night in Twilight School and I finished the book by Friday night. I really enjoyed reading the book, so reading it was easy for me. The book is a true story about Jack Gantos’ life. Jack tells his life story after he made some bad choices. Gantos did drugs and sold drugs. His drug of choice was hash. While he was using hash he met a lot of different people, some of those people were very wealthy drug dealers. Since he was homeless, the drug dealers offer to let him live with them only if he agreed to work for them. In the beginning, he had a couple of close calls with getting caught by the police. At one point, he was driving a boat in order to deliver a large amount of hash to another bigger dealer and he got pulled over in the boat by the Coast Guard. His boss, who was also on the boat, threatened to kill him if he admitted to the Coast Guard that there were drugs on board. As he sells drugs, he gets into more drugs like heroin and meth. In the novel, Gantos tells about his experiences with drugs and dealing drugs. Eventually, he gets caught selling drugs to an undercover police officer and is sentenced with time in jail. In the novel, he reflects on the choices that he made that landed him in jail. He hated being in jail and basically had to fight to stay alive while he was in there. I really enjoyed this book. My favorite aspect of this book was that it talked about all the stuff that you are not supposed to talk about in school. The worst part about this book was the very beginning. The beginning was not very interesting. Jack Gantos did not really get to the stuff that I found interesting until later in the book. I think anybody could enjoy reading this book. However, I think people who hmay have had some trouble might like this book more than anyone else. I think Jack Gantos’ purpose in sharing his story was to tell people to make the right choices. His message to readers was to encourage them to get a job and take care of themselves. Gantos also focused on sending the message that you should not sit around and make excuses. He also felt it was important to stress that readers should not use drugs because all they do is ruin your life and the lives of those around. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-04,25397333 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:52:20 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat nonfiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397335-Willow-by-Julia-Hoban-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Stevie Normal 0 0 1 218 1247 10 2 1531 11.1280 0 0 0 Willow by Julia Hoban - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Hoban, Julia Willow. Penguins Books, 2009. I picked up this book because I read he back of the book, and it got my attention. Then I read the first page of the book and got really interested in the book. I just couldn’t put it down. I really liked how they describe the book… “Sixteen year old girl Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart wonderful sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.” I really liked the book all together. There was never a dull moment in the book; they were always doing something that is very interesting. My favorite part of the book was when Guy found out about her problem, and she made him promise not to tell her brother; they become really close, and he tries to get her to stop. I liked everything about the book. It was a good book all together.... Normal 0 0 1 218 1247 10 2 1531 11.1280 0 0 0 Willow by Julia Hoban - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Hoban, Julia Willow. Penguins Books, 2009. I picked up this book because I read he back of the book, and it got my attention. Then I read the first page of the book and got really interested in the book. I just couldn’t put it down. I really liked how they describe the book… “Sixteen year old girl Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart wonderful sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.” I really liked the book all together. There was never a dull moment in the book; they were always doing something that is very interesting. My favorite part of the book was when Guy found out about her problem, and she made him promise not to tell her brother; they become really close, and he tries to get her to stop. I liked everything about the book. It was a good book all together. I really liked the part when Guy finds out about her little secret and they go running in to the school trying to find her brother and when her brother opens his door to his offices he sees how they are holding hands and he seems happy. I think that young teen girls would like this book because it is really interesting. I don’t think that there would be any warnings about the book only every now and then their are a couple swear words in the book. Normal 0 0 1 218 1247 10 2 1531 11.1280 0 0 0 Willow by Julia Hoban - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Hoban, Julia Willow. Penguins Books, 2009. I picked up this book because I read he back of the book, and it got my attention. Then I read the first page of the book and got really interested in the book. I just couldn’t put it down. I really liked how they describe the book… “Sixteen year old girl Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart wonderful sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.” I really liked the book all together. There was never a dull moment in the book; they were always doing something that is very interesting. My favorite part of the book was when Guy found out about her problem, and she made him promise not to tell her brother; they become really close, and he tries to get her to stop. I liked everything about the book. It was a good book all together. I really liked the part when Guy finds out about her little secret and they go running in to the school trying to find her brother and when her brother opens his door to his offices he sees how they are holding hands and he seems happy. I think that young teen girls would like this book because it is really interesting. I don’t think that there would be any warnings about the book only every now and then their are a couple swear words in the book. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-03,25397335 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:58:17 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, adventure, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397336-OverJoyed-by-Patsy-Clairmont-Barbra-Johnson-Marilyn-Meberg-Luci-Swindoll-book-review-by-Zinnia Normal 0 0 1 213 1218 10 2 1495 11.1280 0 0 0 OverJoyed by Patsy Clairmont, Barbra Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, Thelma Wells - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because the cover interested me there was a little quote on the title page, “Devotions to Tickle You Fancy and Strengthen Your Faith.” The book was made for Woman of Faith. The short stores of small life lessons are shared by all the authors inspired by God’s Words. This book is about how women learned how to get through life obstacles by the words of God. They made this book to inspire and strengthen one’s faith in God My Favorite part of the book was the short story titled “Cast Those Cares Away” by Barbra Johnson. This short story is about, how you should cast all your anxiety on him (God) because he cares about you. It mainly says there is no need to be stressed out because if you have trust in God and believe that he will take care of all our problems in life as long as we obey... Normal 0 0 1 213 1218 10 2 1495 11.1280 0 0 0 OverJoyed by Patsy Clairmont, Barbra Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, Thelma Wells - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because the cover interested me there was a little quote on the title page, “Devotions to Tickle You Fancy and Strengthen Your Faith.” The book was made for Woman of Faith. The short stores of small life lessons are shared by all the authors inspired by God’s Words. This book is about how women learned how to get through life obstacles by the words of God. They made this book to inspire and strengthen one’s faith in God My Favorite part of the book was the short story titled “Cast Those Cares Away” by Barbra Johnson. This short story is about, how you should cast all your anxiety on him (God) because he cares about you. It mainly says there is no need to be stressed out because if you have trust in God and believe that he will take care of all our problems in life as long as we obey him. I think this book is a good book because it helped me personally in life to live better as a human being. I recommend it to those people that believe in God and believe that Words of God is true should. I think it will make your life easier and answer some questions you may have about life. Clairmont, Patsy, Johnson, Barbra, Meberg, Marilyn, Swindoll, Luci. OverJoyed. Publishing House:  Zondervan: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999. Normal 0 0 1 213 1218 10 2 1495 11.1280 0 0 0 OverJoyed by Patsy Clairmont, Barbra Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, Thelma Wells - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because the cover interested me there was a little quote on the title page, “Devotions to Tickle You Fancy and Strengthen Your Faith.” The book was made for Woman of Faith. The short stores of small life lessons are shared by all the authors inspired by God’s Words. This book is about how women learned how to get through life obstacles by the words of God. They made this book to inspire and strengthen one’s faith in God My Favorite part of the book was the short story titled “Cast Those Cares Away” by Barbra Johnson. This short story is about, how you should cast all your anxiety on him (God) because he cares about you. It mainly says there is no need to be stressed out because if you have trust in God and believe that he will take care of all our problems in life as long as we obey him. I think this book is a good book because it helped me personally in life to live better as a human being. I recommend it to those people that believe in God and believe that Words of God is true should. I think it will make your life easier and answer some questions you may have about life. Clairmont, Patsy, Johnson, Barbra, Meberg, Marilyn, Swindoll, Luci. OverJoyed. Publishing House:  Zondervan: Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-02,25397336 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:07:41 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat nonfiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397339-Bird-in-a-Cage-by-Anne-Shraff-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Tonya Normal 0 0 1 320 1829 15 3 2246 11.1280 0 0 0 Bird in a Cage by Anne Shraff – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Schraff, Anne. Bird In A Cage. Perfection Learning, 2006. I picked up this book because the cover was kind of interesting looking to me. It has a person’s face sort of transforming into a bird face. Also, the title sounds intriguing because it sounds like maybe a person had gotten turned into a bird that is trapped in a cage. The book is about this teenage boy named Clint who happens to meet this very lovely young lady. They become very close in the few days they knew each other, but she told some fantasy like life stories that made him care for her more. Her name was Malina. She told him that she lived in a foster home because she lived on a island in Greece with her step father who is very abusive and mean and might try try kill her. She left her place in Greece away from her step father because supposedly her mother was dead and left him with lots of money and when she had turned 18 it... Normal 0 0 1 320 1829 15 3 2246 11.1280 0 0 0 Bird in a Cage by Anne Shraff – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Schraff, Anne. Bird In A Cage. Perfection Learning, 2006. I picked up this book because the cover was kind of interesting looking to me. It has a person’s face sort of transforming into a bird face. Also, the title sounds intriguing because it sounds like maybe a person had gotten turned into a bird that is trapped in a cage. The book is about this teenage boy named Clint who happens to meet this very lovely young lady. They become very close in the few days they knew each other, but she told some fantasy like life stories that made him care for her more. Her name was Malina. She told him that she lived in a foster home because she lived on a island in Greece with her step father who is very abusive and mean and might try try kill her. She left her place in Greece away from her step father because supposedly her mother was dead and left him with lots of money and when she had turned 18 it would all go to her. Melina said she believed that he was the one that killed her mother and thought that he would kill her to before she was 18. The one day in the story Melina kidnapped Clint and tied him up as a prisoner to tell him that her and her “foster” family were jewl thieves and were going to steal all of his father’s jewels from his job since he was a jeweler. He got free and got a ride back to his house to find the police there taking Melina and her “foster parents” into there vehicles hand cuffed and all. She was to good to be true, just like his dad tried to tell him, but since he was a young man he got caught up in love. My favorite aspect of the book was when Melina told Clint that they were jewel thieves and they were taking all his father’s jewels because that kind of started the whole action part of the book and it got more interesting to me. To me the worst part of the book was when Melina and Clint first met. I just thought it was cheesy, like how they were talking to each other. It seemed to fake. I recommend this book for people who like maybe fantasy or mystery. Sort of more for girls then guys just because it’s a lovey type of book. Normal 0 0 1 320 1829 15 3 2246 11.1280 0 0 0 Bird in a Cage by Anne Shraff – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Schraff, Anne. Bird In A Cage. Perfection Learning, 2006. I picked up this book because the cover was kind of interesting looking to me. It has a person’s face sort of transforming into a bird face. Also, the title sounds intriguing because it sounds like maybe a person had gotten turned into a bird that is trapped in a cage. The book is about this teenage boy named Clint who happens to meet this very lovely young lady. They become very close in the few days they knew each other, but she told some fantasy like life stories that made him care for her more. Her name was Malina. She told him that she lived in a foster home because she lived on a island in Greece with her step father who is very abusive and mean and might try try kill her. She left her place in Greece away from her step father because supposedly her mother was dead and left him with lots of money and when she had turned 18 it would all go to her. Melina said she believed that he was the one that killed her mother and thought that he would kill her to before she was 18. The one day in the story Melina kidnapped Clint and tied him up as a prisoner to tell him that her and her “foster” family were jewl thieves and were going to steal all of his father’s jewels from his job since he was a jeweler. He got free and got a ride back to his house to find the police there taking Melina and her “foster parents” into there vehicles hand cuffed and all. She was to good to be true, just like his dad tried to tell him, but since he was a young man he got caught up in love. My favorite aspect of the book was when Melina told Clint that they were jewel thieves and they were taking all his father’s jewels because that kind of started the whole action part of the book and it got more interesting to me. To me the worst part of the book was when Melina and Clint first met. I just thought it was cheesy, like how they were talking to each other. It seemed to fake. I recommend this book for people who like maybe fantasy or mystery. Sort of more for girls then guys just because it’s a lovey type of book. tag:odeo.com,2009-11-01,25397339 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:59:38 -0800 no The Fireside Book Chat High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397340-Speak-by-Laurie-Halse-Anderson-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Kayla Normal 0 0 1 244 1396 11 2 1714 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 Anderson, Halse Laurie. Speak. New York : Scholastic. 199. I picked up this book because I liked it title; I wasn’t sure what is was about, but my friend told me that it was a good book. The book called Speak is about a girl named Melinda that goes to a party. She and some of her friends are drinking. She goes outside and this boy that is drunk rapes her by a tree; she is speechless and doesn’t know what to say. She calls the cops and the cops come; she runs away from the party back to her house the cops never know that she is raped. When she gets back to school, all of her old friends hate her for calling the cops. No one knows that she has been raped. She is hated by most of the school. Her friend starts dating this boy named Andy Evans also known as the boy that raped Melinda. Melinda tries to tell Rachelle that her new boyfriend raped her ad Rachelle doesn’t believe her and thi... Normal 0 0 1 244 1396 11 2 1714 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 Anderson, Halse Laurie. Speak. New York : Scholastic. 199. I picked up this book because I liked it title; I wasn’t sure what is was about, but my friend told me that it was a good book. The book called Speak is about a girl named Melinda that goes to a party. She and some of her friends are drinking. She goes outside and this boy that is drunk rapes her by a tree; she is speechless and doesn’t know what to say. She calls the cops and the cops come; she runs away from the party back to her house the cops never know that she is raped. When she gets back to school, all of her old friends hate her for calling the cops. No one knows that she has been raped. She is hated by most of the school. Her friend starts dating this boy named Andy Evans also known as the boy that raped Melinda. Melinda tries to tell Rachelle that her new boyfriend raped her ad Rachelle doesn’t believe her and thinks that she is crazy for saying that. Then Andy finds out that Melinda had said this to Rachelle. Andy comes to Melinda’s art class when no one is there and chokes her and says to her that she is crazy because he didn’t rape her and that she wanted it to happen. She doesn’t know what to do. Then Rachelle walks into the classroom and sees all of this and then Rachelle believes Melinda and they become friends. My favorite part of the book was at the end when Melinda got her revenge on Andy. And when Melinda and Rachelle became friends. I didn’t like the beginning of the story it wasn’t very interesting and it made e not want to read the rest of the book. Normal 0 0 1 244 1396 11 2 1714 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Book Rating: 5 out of 5 Anderson, Halse Laurie. Speak. New York : Scholastic. 199. I picked up this book because I liked it title; I wasn’t sure what is was about, but my friend told me that it was a good book. The book called Speak is about a girl named Melinda that goes to a party. She and some of her friends are drinking. She goes outside and this boy that is drunk rapes her by a tree; she is speechless and doesn’t know what to say. She calls the cops and the cops come; she runs away from the party back to her house the cops never know that she is raped. When she gets back to school, all of her old friends hate her for calling the cops. No one knows that she has been raped. She is hated by most of the school. Her friend starts dating this boy named Andy Evans also known as the boy that raped Melinda. Melinda tries to tell Rachelle that her new boyfriend raped her ad Rachelle doesn’t believe her and thinks that she is crazy for saying that. Then Andy finds out that Melinda had said this to Rachelle. Andy comes to Melinda’s art class when no one is there and chokes her and says to her that she is crazy because he didn’t rape her and that she wanted it to happen. She doesn’t know what to do. Then Rachelle walks into the classroom and sees all of this and then Rachelle believes Melinda and they become friends. My favorite part of the book was at the end when Melinda got her revenge on Andy. And when Melinda and Rachelle became friends. I didn’t like the beginning of the story it wasn’t very interesting and it made e not want to read the rest of the book. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-31,25397340 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:18:16 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397343-Kim-Empty-Inside-by-Beatrice-Sparks-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Kaitlyn Kim: Empty Inside by Beatrice Sparks - Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Sparks, Beatrice. Kim: Empty Inside. New York: Avon, 2002. I picked up this book because I heard it is a very good book and the cover looked interesting. This book is about Kim who is a freshman in college and on the gymnastics team. She wants to fit in and be skinnier. She become anorexic and has bulimic. She has a roommate that she dosent like because she always bosses Kim around but she meets her roommate’s boyfriend and falls in love. She has been anorexic basically through out her college year except for when she gets really bad one night and is taken to the hospital where they put her in the mental disabilities unit. At the end of the story, she thinks her boyfriend dosent want to be with her, but he really does and he proposes to her. My favorite part of the book was when her and her boyfriend meet at the airport and he gives her a ring and proposes to her. Its my favorite part of the book beca... Kim: Empty Inside by Beatrice Sparks - Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Sparks, Beatrice. Kim: Empty Inside. New York: Avon, 2002. I picked up this book because I heard it is a very good book and the cover looked interesting. This book is about Kim who is a freshman in college and on the gymnastics team. She wants to fit in and be skinnier. She become anorexic and has bulimic. She has a roommate that she dosent like because she always bosses Kim around but she meets her roommate’s boyfriend and falls in love. She has been anorexic basically through out her college year except for when she gets really bad one night and is taken to the hospital where they put her in the mental disabilities unit. At the end of the story, she thinks her boyfriend dosent want to be with her, but he really does and he proposes to her. My favorite part of the book was when her and her boyfriend meet at the airport and he gives her a ring and proposes to her. Its my favorite part of the book because its the happiest party, and its really cute because they broke up for a little because she thought that she wouldn’t want to be with her because she was anorexic. The worst part was when she doesn’t eat at a new friends but throws up and gets so hungry that she eats dog food out of the dog’s dish. I didn’t like it because its just nasty. Kim: Empty Inside by Beatrice Sparks - Book Rating: (Five Out of Five Stars) Sparks, Beatrice. Kim: Empty Inside. New York: Avon, 2002. I picked up this book because I heard it is a very good book and the cover looked interesting. This book is about Kim who is a freshman in college and on the gymnastics team. She wants to fit in and be skinnier. She become anorexic and has bulimic. She has a roommate that she dosent like because she always bosses Kim around but she meets her roommate’s boyfriend and falls in love. She has been anorexic basically through out her college year except for when she gets really bad one night and is taken to the hospital where they put her in the mental disabilities unit. At the end of the story, she thinks her boyfriend dosent want to be with her, but he really does and he proposes to her. My favorite part of the book was when her and her boyfriend meet at the airport and he gives her a ring and proposes to her. Its my favorite part of the book because its the happiest party, and its really cute because they broke up for a little because she thought that she wouldn’t want to be with her because she was anorexic. The worst part was when she doesn’t eat at a new friends but throws up and gets so hungry that she eats dog food out of the dog’s dish. I didn’t like it because its just nasty. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-30,25397343 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:06 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, adventure, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397347-The-Supernaturalist-by-Eoin-Colfer-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Kyle-Ecker Normal 0 0 1 305 1743 14 3 2140 11.1280 0 0 0 The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist. New York: Hyperion Books. I picked up this book because it looked cool on the front of the cover.  I started reading it, and it was really cool, like a Tester dude ran away. He almost died; its crazy. All this was in the beginning. The reason I read it was all the action. The book is about a boy named Cosmo Hill. He was a no-sponser. In satellite city that means you’re untraceable, so he did not know his parents. He turned in to a Tester for different companies, and he ran away because its torture. He almost died on the way and was saved by the group of Supernaturalists. When you almost die, you sometimes get the ability to see an organism called a parasite. These eat the life force from a dying person. The Supernaturalists kill them on missions…or so they think. Turns out they get called into the Myishi corporation and they are told that they... Normal 0 0 1 305 1743 14 3 2140 11.1280 0 0 0 The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist. New York: Hyperion Books. I picked up this book because it looked cool on the front of the cover.  I started reading it, and it was really cool, like a Tester dude ran away. He almost died; its crazy. All this was in the beginning. The reason I read it was all the action. The book is about a boy named Cosmo Hill. He was a no-sponser. In satellite city that means you’re untraceable, so he did not know his parents. He turned in to a Tester for different companies, and he ran away because its torture. He almost died on the way and was saved by the group of Supernaturalists. When you almost die, you sometimes get the ability to see an organism called a parasite. These eat the life force from a dying person. The Supernaturalists kill them on missions…or so they think. Turns out they get called into the Myishi corporation and they are told that they see that when the bubbles float into the air they duplicate. And when they go up there they go to the satellite of the Myishi corporation which is the mother of all satellites. The suck the energy out of it, making the corporation crash. After even more extensive research, they found that the mother/king of all parasites is locked up and the reason they are collecting/feeding on energy is the fact that they are bringing it to the king/mother. Then since the Myishi corporation searched the hideout of the Supernaturalists, they have nothing other than a pig-mobile. They just go off hunting more “creatures.” I liked the fact that it never stopped being interesting. And it was long (for me): 200+pages of not-stop action. The reason I liked the book is the details in the story. Normal 0 0 1 305 1743 14 3 2140 11.1280 0 0 0 The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Colfer, Eoin. The Supernaturalist. New York: Hyperion Books. I picked up this book because it looked cool on the front of the cover.  I started reading it, and it was really cool, like a Tester dude ran away. He almost died; its crazy. All this was in the beginning. The reason I read it was all the action. The book is about a boy named Cosmo Hill. He was a no-sponser. In satellite city that means you’re untraceable, so he did not know his parents. He turned in to a Tester for different companies, and he ran away because its torture. He almost died on the way and was saved by the group of Supernaturalists. When you almost die, you sometimes get the ability to see an organism called a parasite. These eat the life force from a dying person. The Supernaturalists kill them on missions…or so they think. Turns out they get called into the Myishi corporation and they are told that they see that when the bubbles float into the air they duplicate. And when they go up there they go to the satellite of the Myishi corporation which is the mother of all satellites. The suck the energy out of it, making the corporation crash. After even more extensive research, they found that the mother/king of all parasites is locked up and the reason they are collecting/feeding on energy is the fact that they are bringing it to the king/mother. Then since the Myishi corporation searched the hideout of the Supernaturalists, they have nothing other than a pig-mobile. They just go off hunting more “creatures.” I liked the fact that it never stopped being interesting. And it was long (for me): 200+pages of not-stop action. The reason I liked the book is the details in the story. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-29,25397347 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:25:33 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat mystery, Scifi/Fantasy Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397349-Speak-by-Laurie-Halse-Anderson-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Jessica Normal 0 0 1 148 848 7 1 1041 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: SCHOLASTIC INC., 1999. I picked up this book because…. I saw the movie a while ago, and I thought it was really good; so I thought the book would be good too. A girl gets raped at a party and is struggling with dealing with it because now her friends hate her. She called the cops at the party when she got raped and got some people in trouble. She gets depressed because she doesn’t have any friends anymore and nobody seems to like her. Her art teacher is the one who inspires her the most to change and to let go of the past. I like books that have to do with someone else’s problems. They interest me. This book was very realistic and didn’t really have any dramatizations in it and I like that. The worst part was that it was slow in the beginning and took a little while to pick up. Normal 0 0 1 148 848 7 1 1041 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: SCHOLASTIC INC., 1999. I picked up this book because…. I saw the movie a while ago, and I thought it was really good; so I thought the book would be good too. A girl gets raped at a party and is struggling with dealing with it because now her friends hate her. She called the cops at the party when she got raped and got some people in trouble. She gets depressed because she doesn’t have any friends anymore and nobody seems to like her. Her art teacher is the one who inspires her the most to change and to let go of the past. I like books that have to do with someone else’s problems. They interest me. This book was very realistic and didn’t really have any dramatizations in it and I like that. The worst part was that it was slow in the beginning and took a little while to pick up. Normal 0 0 1 148 848 7 1 1041 11.1280 0 0 0 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – Rating: ? ? * ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: SCHOLASTIC INC., 1999. I picked up this book because…. I saw the movie a while ago, and I thought it was really good; so I thought the book would be good too. A girl gets raped at a party and is struggling with dealing with it because now her friends hate her. She called the cops at the party when she got raped and got some people in trouble. She gets depressed because she doesn’t have any friends anymore and nobody seems to like her. Her art teacher is the one who inspires her the most to change and to let go of the past. I like books that have to do with someone else’s problems. They interest me. This book was very realistic and didn’t really have any dramatizations in it and I like that. The worst part was that it was slow in the beginning and took a little while to pick up. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-28,25397349 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:25:53 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat Fiction, High School Fiction Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397351-A-Message-From-Mr-Zog Hopefully you have been enjoying our Fireside Book Chat Podcasts.  My students have loved the popularity of them…and they are about to get even better!  Thanks to the Educational Foundation at our school, we now have our own classroom podcasting studio, and we are going to sound even better.  We hope you enjoy our future, better sounding, podcasts. Mr. Zog Hopefully you have been enjoying our Fireside Book Chat Podcasts.  My students have loved the popularity of them…and they are about to get even better!  Thanks to the Educational Foundation at our school, we now have our own classroom podcasting studio, and we are going to sound even better.  We hope you enjoy our future, better sounding, podcasts. Mr. Zog Hopefully you have been enjoying our Fireside Book Chat Podcasts.  My students have loved the popularity of them…and they are about to get even better!  Thanks to the Educational Foundation at our school, we now have our own classroom podcasting studio, and we are going to sound even better.  We hope you enjoy our future, better sounding, podcasts. Mr. Zog tag:odeo.com,2009-10-28,25397351 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:23:31 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25383051-10-Seconds-Can-Change-Your-Life-Forever-by-Bobby-Petrocelli-a-book-review-by-Jonny 10 Seconds Can Change Your Life Forever by Bobby Petrocelli - a book review by Jonny 10 Seconds Can Change Your Life Forever by Bobby Petrocelli - a book review by Jonny 10 Seconds Can Change Your Life Forever by Bobby Petrocelli - a book review by Jonny tag:odeo.com,2009-10-27,25383051 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:24:30 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25383052-Pain-Wastings-Orca-Sounding-by-Carrie-Mac-a-book-review-by-Dalton Pain & Wastings (Orca Sounding) by Carrie Mac - a book review by Dalton Pain & Wastings (Orca Sounding) by Carrie Mac - a book review by Dalton Pain & Wastings (Orca Sounding) by Carrie Mac - a book review by Dalton tag:odeo.com,2009-10-27,25383052 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:24:09 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25376823-Hook-Line-and-Seeker-by-Jim-Arnosky-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Forrest Hook, Line, and Seeker by Jim Arnosky - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because it looked interesting. The book is about how you fish. It is about boats. It is about line. The author told the reader about his fishing stories. He told me how to tie knots. My favorite aspect of the book is the different species of fish. It was my favorite part of the book because I like fish. The boats were the worst part of the book. The boats were the worst part of the book because I don’t like boats. I don’t like boats because they are big.  I would recommend this book to others. Someone might enjoy it if they like fishing. Hook, Line, and Seeker by Jim Arnosky - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because it looked interesting. The book is about how you fish. It is about boats. It is about line. The author told the reader about his fishing stories. He told me how to tie knots. My favorite aspect of the book is the different species of fish. It was my favorite part of the book because I like fish. The boats were the worst part of the book. The boats were the worst part of the book because I don’t like boats. I don’t like boats because they are big.  I would recommend this book to others. Someone might enjoy it if they like fishing. Hook, Line, and Seeker by Jim Arnosky - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because it looked interesting. The book is about how you fish. It is about boats. It is about line. The author told the reader about his fishing stories. He told me how to tie knots. My favorite aspect of the book is the different species of fish. It was my favorite part of the book because I like fish. The boats were the worst part of the book. The boats were the worst part of the book because I don’t like boats. I don’t like boats because they are big.  I would recommend this book to others. Someone might enjoy it if they like fishing. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-26,25376823 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:50:28 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25375269-It-happened-to-Nancy-by-Beatrice-Sparks-Ph-D-a-book-review-by-Emily It Happened to Nancy by Beatrice Sparks PHD - Rating: ? ? * ? ? I picked up this book because my sister had told me about it. She had told me that it might be a book that I would like. I also picked this book up because of what the back of the book said and the picture on the front. This book is about a girl who goes to a concert with her friends and her aunt. She has to use the the bathroom. She comes out of the bathroom, and she can’t find her aunt or her friends. She starts to cry. This 18 year old comes up to her, and starts talking to her, and she starts to like him a lot. They start dating, and shes only 15. They spend every waking minute with each other. The boy’s name is Collin. One day Nancy’s mom leaves and goes out of town. She has Collin come over for dinner. After diner Collin forces Nancy to do something that is against Nancy’s religion. Nancy gets raped. Nancy not only got raped; she also got the HIV virus or as some people call it AIDS. Nancy ... It Happened to Nancy by Beatrice Sparks PHD - Rating: ? ? * ? ? I picked up this book because my sister had told me about it. She had told me that it might be a book that I would like. I also picked this book up because of what the back of the book said and the picture on the front. This book is about a girl who goes to a concert with her friends and her aunt. She has to use the the bathroom. She comes out of the bathroom, and she can’t find her aunt or her friends. She starts to cry. This 18 year old comes up to her, and starts talking to her, and she starts to like him a lot. They start dating, and shes only 15. They spend every waking minute with each other. The boy’s name is Collin. One day Nancy’s mom leaves and goes out of town. She has Collin come over for dinner. After diner Collin forces Nancy to do something that is against Nancy’s religion. Nancy gets raped. Nancy not only got raped; she also got the HIV virus or as some people call it AIDS. Nancy keeps a journal and the story is her journal. Two days before her last entry, she dies. She is buried with Uncle Rod, Red Alert and soon to be Cougur the cat. My favorite part of the book is when Nancy gets a lot of support from the gaggle(her friends) and her family. The doctors are very supportive and nice. The worst part of the book is when Collin gives Nancy AIDS after raping her and never talking to her again and does the same thing to other girls. I recommend this book to mostly girls because it comes from a girls point of view and everything happens to the girl. It Happened to Nancy by Beatrice Sparks PHD - Rating: ? ? * ? ? I picked up this book because my sister had told me about it. She had told me that it might be a book that I would like. I also picked this book up because of what the back of the book said and the picture on the front. This book is about a girl who goes to a concert with her friends and her aunt. She has to use the the bathroom. She comes out of the bathroom, and she can’t find her aunt or her friends. She starts to cry. This 18 year old comes up to her, and starts talking to her, and she starts to like him a lot. They start dating, and shes only 15. They spend every waking minute with each other. The boy’s name is Collin. One day Nancy’s mom leaves and goes out of town. She has Collin come over for dinner. After diner Collin forces Nancy to do something that is against Nancy’s religion. Nancy gets raped. Nancy not only got raped; she also got the HIV virus or as some people call it AIDS. Nancy keeps a journal and the story is her journal. Two days before her last entry, she dies. She is buried with Uncle Rod, Red Alert and soon to be Cougur the cat. My favorite part of the book is when Nancy gets a lot of support from the gaggle(her friends) and her family. The doctors are very supportive and nice. The worst part of the book is when Collin gives Nancy AIDS after raping her and never talking to her again and does the same thing to other girls. I recommend this book to mostly girls because it comes from a girls point of view and everything happens to the girl. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-26,25375269 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:39:38 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25373392-The-Phantom-Stallion-by-Terri-Farley-a-book-review-by-Cheryl Phantom Stallion One The Wild One by Terri Farley - Rating: ? ? * ? ? Farley, Terri. Phantom Stallion One The Wild One. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. I picked up this book because I like to read about animals, so I read the first page, and I could not stop reading it. The story begins starts with father picking Sam up from Aunt’s house in San Francisco. She had stayed with Aunt to get better from an accidental fall off a horse. She moves back in with her father and her grandmother on their ranch. She begins the search of her missing horse “Blackie” that ran away into the wild after the horse accident. She thinks she she found him. “Blackie has a star shape on his forehead between his eyes. My favorite part was when she thinks that she found “Blackie”, and when they don’t blame Jake for her accident. The worst part was when they blame Jake and when Sam fall’s off her horse. This book is for whoever likes to read about horse... Phantom Stallion One The Wild One by Terri Farley - Rating: ? ? * ? ? Farley, Terri. Phantom Stallion One The Wild One. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. I picked up this book because I like to read about animals, so I read the first page, and I could not stop reading it. The story begins starts with father picking Sam up from Aunt’s house in San Francisco. She had stayed with Aunt to get better from an accidental fall off a horse. She moves back in with her father and her grandmother on their ranch. She begins the search of her missing horse “Blackie” that ran away into the wild after the horse accident. She thinks she she found him. “Blackie has a star shape on his forehead between his eyes. My favorite part was when she thinks that she found “Blackie”, and when they don’t blame Jake for her accident. The worst part was when they blame Jake and when Sam fall’s off her horse. This book is for whoever likes to read about horses and likes to see what happens next. Phantom Stallion One The Wild One by Terri Farley - Rating: ? ? * ? ? Farley, Terri. Phantom Stallion One The Wild One. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. I picked up this book because I like to read about animals, so I read the first page, and I could not stop reading it. The story begins starts with father picking Sam up from Aunt’s house in San Francisco. She had stayed with Aunt to get better from an accidental fall off a horse. She moves back in with her father and her grandmother on their ranch. She begins the search of her missing horse “Blackie” that ran away into the wild after the horse accident. She thinks she she found him. “Blackie has a star shape on his forehead between his eyes. My favorite part was when she thinks that she found “Blackie”, and when they don’t blame Jake for her accident. The worst part was when they blame Jake and when Sam fall’s off her horse. This book is for whoever likes to read about horses and likes to see what happens next. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-25,25373392 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:35:20 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25362721-Keeper-of-the-Harvest-by-Lance-Wubbels-a-book-review-by-Brandon Keeper Of The Harvest by Lance Wubbels – Rating: ? ? ? ? Wubbels, Lance. Keeper Of The Harvest. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1995. I picked up this book because my mom got it for me to read, and she told me that it is a good book to read. This book takes place on a farm and it is back in World War Two. There is a girl named Marjie Macmillan and Jerry Macmillan and their baby girl Martha. Jerry was in the war; he was on a ship that had been torpedoed along with his friends that were with him fighting in the war. In the end Marjie hands Jerry a pace of paper, and in it was written that Marjie was going to have a baby. I like that it wasn’t a hard book. I also like that there were a lot of little stories. I like that the story was held at a farm. I liked that because I like the outdoors. Another one it that there is a war going on. When I’m 18, I want to fight in the war. Last think is that it was calm and not that hard to read. I didn’t like that there were... Keeper Of The Harvest by Lance Wubbels – Rating: ? ? ? ? Wubbels, Lance. Keeper Of The Harvest. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1995. I picked up this book because my mom got it for me to read, and she told me that it is a good book to read. This book takes place on a farm and it is back in World War Two. There is a girl named Marjie Macmillan and Jerry Macmillan and their baby girl Martha. Jerry was in the war; he was on a ship that had been torpedoed along with his friends that were with him fighting in the war. In the end Marjie hands Jerry a pace of paper, and in it was written that Marjie was going to have a baby. I like that it wasn’t a hard book. I also like that there were a lot of little stories. I like that the story was held at a farm. I liked that because I like the outdoors. Another one it that there is a war going on. When I’m 18, I want to fight in the war. Last think is that it was calm and not that hard to read. I didn’t like that there were some boring parts in it like when people would talk about love. I think that it doesn’t go right with with what else is happening. I think anyone who likes a good old fashion book would like it. I think that teens and older people would both like it. Keeper Of The Harvest by Lance Wubbels – Rating: ? ? ? ? Wubbels, Lance. Keeper Of The Harvest. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1995. I picked up this book because my mom got it for me to read, and she told me that it is a good book to read. This book takes place on a farm and it is back in World War Two. There is a girl named Marjie Macmillan and Jerry Macmillan and their baby girl Martha. Jerry was in the war; he was on a ship that had been torpedoed along with his friends that were with him fighting in the war. In the end Marjie hands Jerry a pace of paper, and in it was written that Marjie was going to have a baby. I like that it wasn’t a hard book. I also like that there were a lot of little stories. I like that the story was held at a farm. I liked that because I like the outdoors. Another one it that there is a war going on. When I’m 18, I want to fight in the war. Last think is that it was calm and not that hard to read. I didn’t like that there were some boring parts in it like when people would talk about love. I think that it doesn’t go right with with what else is happening. I think anyone who likes a good old fashion book would like it. I think that teens and older people would both like it. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-24,25362721 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:09:23 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25354760-A-View-from-the-Bench-by-George-R-Mills-a-book-review-by-Matt A View from the Bench by George R. Mills - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Mills, George. A View From The Bench. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1991. I picked up this book because the quote was interesting; it said “The story of and ordinary football player on a big shot football team” A View from the Bench is about a boy name George Mills; he plays football on and off his whole life, and one day receives a recruitment letter from the University of Nebraska for a football scholarship.  He attends the training camps and eventually is accepted onto the team. He then moves from Omaha to the Nebraska campus. He enjoys his 5 years of college football and college life. Once all of that is over, he kind of misses the football experience. He then moves back to Omaha and meets a recruiter for the pro football team The Miami Dolphins and tells him about his experiences playing college football. The recruiter becomes interested and talks to the head coach . George attends the training ca... A View from the Bench by George R. Mills - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Mills, George. A View From The Bench. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1991. I picked up this book because the quote was interesting; it said “The story of and ordinary football player on a big shot football team” A View from the Bench is about a boy name George Mills; he plays football on and off his whole life, and one day receives a recruitment letter from the University of Nebraska for a football scholarship.  He attends the training camps and eventually is accepted onto the team. He then moves from Omaha to the Nebraska campus. He enjoys his 5 years of college football and college life. Once all of that is over, he kind of misses the football experience. He then moves back to Omaha and meets a recruiter for the pro football team The Miami Dolphins and tells him about his experiences playing college football. The recruiter becomes interested and talks to the head coach . George attends the training camps and receives a physical and is ready for the first practice. As he is heading done the field, he receives a message that he is to report to the medical campus. He is told he is not qualified to play pro football; his knee has been injured too many times and will not be able to hold during games and practices. George moves back to Omaha but still misses the football experience. He eventually gets married and becomes the head coach for his old high school football team. My favorite part about the book was reading about the college experience and being a college football player. I would recomend this book more to guys. The only things that would need to be cautioned is there is a little bit of cursing. A View from the Bench by George R. Mills - Rating: ? ? ? ? * Mills, George. A View From The Bench. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1991. I picked up this book because the quote was interesting; it said “The story of and ordinary football player on a big shot football team” A View from the Bench is about a boy name George Mills; he plays football on and off his whole life, and one day receives a recruitment letter from the University of Nebraska for a football scholarship.  He attends the training camps and eventually is accepted onto the team. He then moves from Omaha to the Nebraska campus. He enjoys his 5 years of college football and college life. Once all of that is over, he kind of misses the football experience. He then moves back to Omaha and meets a recruiter for the pro football team The Miami Dolphins and tells him about his experiences playing college football. The recruiter becomes interested and talks to the head coach . George attends the training camps and receives a physical and is ready for the first practice. As he is heading done the field, he receives a message that he is to report to the medical campus. He is told he is not qualified to play pro football; his knee has been injured too many times and will not be able to hold during games and practices. George moves back to Omaha but still misses the football experience. He eventually gets married and becomes the head coach for his old high school football team. My favorite part about the book was reading about the college experience and being a college football player. I would recomend this book more to guys. The only things that would need to be cautioned is there is a little bit of cursing. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-23,25354760 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:09:51 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25349858-The-Red-Badge-of-Courage-by-Stephern-Crane-a-book-review-by-Josh Normal 0 0 1 98 564 4 1 692 11.1280 0 0 0 The Red Badge Of Courage by: Stephen Crane Book Rating: 5 Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. New York: Pocket Books, 1996. I picked up this book because my friends have read it before and liked it and recommended this book to me. This is based on a true story. It takes place in Civil War. Its about a Calvary of teenage boys. And in the book when these boys talk they actually have the exact sayings they used and it makes it harder to comprehend. And when they talk about the boys they call them the youth. The best part was the whole book there was no bad part. I recommend this book for someone who likes books about war and old time sayings and who likes reading. Normal 0 0 1 98 564 4 1 692 11.1280 0 0 0 The Red Badge Of Courage by: Stephen Crane Book Rating: 5 Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. New York: Pocket Books, 1996. I picked up this book because my friends have read it before and liked it and recommended this book to me. This is based on a true story. It takes place in Civil War. Its about a Calvary of teenage boys. And in the book when these boys talk they actually have the exact sayings they used and it makes it harder to comprehend. And when they talk about the boys they call them the youth. The best part was the whole book there was no bad part. I recommend this book for someone who likes books about war and old time sayings and who likes reading. Normal 0 0 1 98 564 4 1 692 11.1280 0 0 0 The Red Badge Of Courage by: Stephen Crane Book Rating: 5 Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. New York: Pocket Books, 1996. I picked up this book because my friends have read it before and liked it and recommended this book to me. This is based on a true story. It takes place in Civil War. Its about a Calvary of teenage boys. And in the book when these boys talk they actually have the exact sayings they used and it makes it harder to comprehend. And when they talk about the boys they call them the youth. The best part was the whole book there was no bad part. I recommend this book for someone who likes books about war and old time sayings and who likes reading. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-22,25349858 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:19:52 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25322573-Police-Snipers-by-Craig-Roberts-a-book-review-by-Aaron Police Snipers by Craig Roberts - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because…. because I like the topic of snipers and it looked really good. It has many stories about events that police snipers were involved in.  There were a lot of good stories so I don’t have “a” favorite part. They were all good. It got a little boring at the beginning of some of the stories, but overall was not that bad.  It is a great book. If you like military or things of that nature, then you’ll like this book. Police Snipers by Craig Roberts - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because…. because I like the topic of snipers and it looked really good. It has many stories about events that police snipers were involved in.  There were a lot of good stories so I don’t have “a” favorite part. They were all good. It got a little boring at the beginning of some of the stories, but overall was not that bad.  It is a great book. If you like military or things of that nature, then you’ll like this book. Police Snipers by Craig Roberts - Rating: ? ? ? ? * I picked up this book because…. because I like the topic of snipers and it looked really good. It has many stories about events that police snipers were involved in.  There were a lot of good stories so I don’t have “a” favorite part. They were all good. It got a little boring at the beginning of some of the stories, but overall was not that bad.  It is a great book. If you like military or things of that nature, then you’ll like this book. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-21,25322573 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:01:10 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25317796-Speak-by-Laurie-Anderson-%E2%80%93-a-book-review-by-Montana Speak by Laurie Anderson – Rating: ? ? ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: Syracuse, 1999. I picked the book Speak up because after reading the back of the book it sounded pretty good. This book is pretty much just about a girl named Melinda Sordino, and how that she really isn’t liked in school. Even though she isn’t liked in school, she was still invited to a party over Christmas break. She did end up going to the party of Christmas break. At the party there was alcohol, and everyone there was drinking. Melinda drank that night for her first time, and since she did drink a lot, she wasn’t feeling that well. She took a walk by herself over into the woods just to calm down. Melinda had a boy named Andy follow her there to the woods. While they were there in the woods just talking so much because they were drunk, Andy decided to kiss Melinda. The kissing led to another thing that Melinda didn’t know what to do about. She ran back to the party and went into ... Speak by Laurie Anderson – Rating: ? ? ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: Syracuse, 1999. I picked the book Speak up because after reading the back of the book it sounded pretty good. This book is pretty much just about a girl named Melinda Sordino, and how that she really isn’t liked in school. Even though she isn’t liked in school, she was still invited to a party over Christmas break. She did end up going to the party of Christmas break. At the party there was alcohol, and everyone there was drinking. Melinda drank that night for her first time, and since she did drink a lot, she wasn’t feeling that well. She took a walk by herself over into the woods just to calm down. Melinda had a boy named Andy follow her there to the woods. While they were there in the woods just talking so much because they were drunk, Andy decided to kiss Melinda. The kissing led to another thing that Melinda didn’t know what to do about. She ran back to the party and went into the house and called the cops. The cops came and crashed the party. By the time Christmas break was over, everyone knew about Andy and how he raped Melinda. Andy really didn’t like how these so called rumors were spreading around school. One day in school Andy seen Melinda and took her and locked them into a room and he started to beat her because of what she spread around about him. There really wasn’t any bad parts in the book, but it is kind of slow and boring. It kind of made me want to just put the book down and not even read it. There is a few parts that were kind of interesting through out the book that did make me want to keep reading. Over all it really wasn’t that bad of a book ,but it wasn’t what I was expecting. I wouldn’t recommend anyone younger then 14 to read this book unless a parent says it’s fine. Some cautions though is that there is some cussing through out the whole book. There is also some violence in the book to and there’s some parts that are pretty descriptive. Speak by Laurie Anderson – Rating: ? ? ? ? Anderson, Laurie. Speak. New York: Syracuse, 1999. I picked the book Speak up because after reading the back of the book it sounded pretty good. This book is pretty much just about a girl named Melinda Sordino, and how that she really isn’t liked in school. Even though she isn’t liked in school, she was still invited to a party over Christmas break. She did end up going to the party of Christmas break. At the party there was alcohol, and everyone there was drinking. Melinda drank that night for her first time, and since she did drink a lot, she wasn’t feeling that well. She took a walk by herself over into the woods just to calm down. Melinda had a boy named Andy follow her there to the woods. While they were there in the woods just talking so much because they were drunk, Andy decided to kiss Melinda. The kissing led to another thing that Melinda didn’t know what to do about. She ran back to the party and went into the house and called the cops. The cops came and crashed the party. By the time Christmas break was over, everyone knew about Andy and how he raped Melinda. Andy really didn’t like how these so called rumors were spreading around school. One day in school Andy seen Melinda and took her and locked them into a room and he started to beat her because of what she spread around about him. There really wasn’t any bad parts in the book, but it is kind of slow and boring. It kind of made me want to just put the book down and not even read it. There is a few parts that were kind of interesting through out the book that did make me want to keep reading. Over all it really wasn’t that bad of a book ,but it wasn’t what I was expecting. I wouldn’t recommend anyone younger then 14 to read this book unless a parent says it’s fine. Some cautions though is that there is some cussing through out the whole book. There is also some violence in the book to and there’s some parts that are pretty descriptive. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-20,25317796 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:18 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25307551-Viking-Quest-Mystery-of-the-Silver-Coins-by-Lois-Walfrid-Johnson-a-book-review-by-Will Mystery of the Silver Coins by Lois Walfrid Johnson – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Johnson, Lois Walfrid. Mystery of the Silver Coins. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2003. I picked up this book because I read the first book and wonted to know more. The first book was when Bree and her brother Dev were captured by Vikings. Bree convinced the leader Mikkel to release her brother because she accidentally saved him. She was taken to a Norwegian island. In this book, Bree escaped from Mikkel’s ship, and she took a young girl with her whose name is Lil. Bree and Lil created a shelter in a rock’s hole. The next morning Mikkel woke up to find a bag of Arabic silver coins he stole gone. The men searched the Irish prisoners, but they had some had other there such as trolls. Mikkel noticed Bree was gone, so he obviously concluded she took them. Dev was on his way home, when he fond lodging in a rich man’s house. Mikkel offered a raise to the man who found the girls. Bree disguised here self... Mystery of the Silver Coins by Lois Walfrid Johnson – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Johnson, Lois Walfrid. Mystery of the Silver Coins. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2003. I picked up this book because I read the first book and wonted to know more. The first book was when Bree and her brother Dev were captured by Vikings. Bree convinced the leader Mikkel to release her brother because she accidentally saved him. She was taken to a Norwegian island. In this book, Bree escaped from Mikkel’s ship, and she took a young girl with her whose name is Lil. Bree and Lil created a shelter in a rock’s hole. The next morning Mikkel woke up to find a bag of Arabic silver coins he stole gone. The men searched the Irish prisoners, but they had some had other there such as trolls. Mikkel noticed Bree was gone, so he obviously concluded she took them. Dev was on his way home, when he fond lodging in a rich man’s house. Mikkel offered a raise to the man who found the girls. Bree disguised here self as a fisherman, so she could get food. She met a Irish slave who married her master. She helped Bree get back to Ireland. Lil got vary sick as they went over the mountain. Bree prayed to God for help. When Lil’s fever broke, Bree saw a bright light like in the Bible. Dev found a man who trades with his father. The man gave Dev a place to stay and a new pair of new shoes. He apologized for what the other vikings did. Bree carried Lil down the mountain with Mikkel. He almost seemed nice. Dev made it home to his family. He swore to save Bree no matter what. Bree proved here innocence and she was taken to Norway. I thought it was good when Bree was in the second hiding place, and and she saw the light it was really cool. It’s good for anyone, but there is a large religious aspect. Mystery of the Silver Coins by Lois Walfrid Johnson – Rating: ? ? ? ? * Johnson, Lois Walfrid. Mystery of the Silver Coins. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2003. I picked up this book because I read the first book and wonted to know more. The first book was when Bree and her brother Dev were captured by Vikings. Bree convinced the leader Mikkel to release her brother because she accidentally saved him. She was taken to a Norwegian island. In this book, Bree escaped from Mikkel’s ship, and she took a young girl with her whose name is Lil. Bree and Lil created a shelter in a rock’s hole. The next morning Mikkel woke up to find a bag of Arabic silver coins he stole gone. The men searched the Irish prisoners, but they had some had other there such as trolls. Mikkel noticed Bree was gone, so he obviously concluded she took them. Dev was on his way home, when he fond lodging in a rich man’s house. Mikkel offered a raise to the man who found the girls. Bree disguised here self as a fisherman, so she could get food. She met a Irish slave who married her master. She helped Bree get back to Ireland. Lil got vary sick as they went over the mountain. Bree prayed to God for help. When Lil’s fever broke, Bree saw a bright light like in the Bible. Dev found a man who trades with his father. The man gave Dev a place to stay and a new pair of new shoes. He apologized for what the other vikings did. Bree carried Lil down the mountain with Mikkel. He almost seemed nice. Dev made it home to his family. He swore to save Bree no matter what. Bree proved here innocence and she was taken to Norway. I thought it was good when Bree was in the second hiding place, and and she saw the light it was really cool. It’s good for anyone, but there is a large religious aspect. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-18,25307551 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:29:43 -0700 no The Fireside Book Chat posts Interview Review Teen library book teens adolescent