Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Book Blog by Sarah Beatty

This book has a genre of teen fiction. Even though its fiction, it can depict realistic events that teens might go through in real life, which is why I find this genre so enjoyable.

I chose this book because it was described as a story of music teen romance and humor which all appeal to me. Since I love music so much, the fact that music is tied into the story made me initially interested in reading this book.

Nick O’Leary, the bassist of a queercore band called the “F*** Offs”, just got dumped by his long-time love, Tris. He had a big problem of getting over her, whether he realized it or not. And that’s where Norah Silverberg comes into the picture. Nick and Norah, who had never met before, get thrust into a five-minute relationship, in an attempt to avoid Tris. So what started out as just a game, turned into so much more than what either of them expected.

Together they embark on an adventure in “the city that never sleeps”, taking unexpected twists and turns every step of the way. All in one sleepless night, these two recently heartbroken teenagers, who have nothing in common, become closer and closer, over mix tapes, common enemies, strip clubs, ukrainian soul food, ice room scandals, and much more.

The significance of this book's title is really important. Although it is straightforward, it is the conclusion of the story. It represents Nick and Norah, and their on-going adventure together.
"But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist."

If I could ask the author three questions...

1. Did anyone inspire you to create the character of Nick or of Norah?

I would ask Rachel Cohn or David Levithan this question because both characters seem very well developed, both with strong personalities, that they could be an actual person.

2. Did any of the events that occured in the book portray one of your personal experiences?

I would ask either of the authors this because often times authors take past experiences and put them in their books. Since Nick and Norah had pretty unique adventures in the book, I think it would be interesting to see if they were inspired by themselves.

3. What message do you want most do you want your readers to get out of reading this book?

This seems like a sensible question to me because authors usually have a purpose behind their stories, and since there is no obvious moral of this story to me, I'm sure readers get different ideas of the purpose behind this book. Overall, it seems like a book just for entertainment, but I interpreted it as if it were saying that life is always changing; every moment is a song, and your life is an infinite playlist.

You, Maybe By Rachel Vail

You, Maybe
Author: Rachel Vail

This book is fiction

What made me initially interested in the book was the cover than I read the blurb on the back and I was hooked in a minute. A bunch of questions running through my head. Who is Josie going to chose? Carson or Michael? Why does Josie say “love is a brat”? Another reason way is because I felt like I could relate and connect to the girl because she is a sophomore in high school just like me and she sounds like she is going through the same problem I am.

You, maybe is about a girl named Josie who is stuck between Michael her best friend with benefits or Carson the hottest senior guy. Josie is a sophomore, she is independent and sassy, she flirts with many guys like kissing them but it never means anything to her. The book goes into detail of how Carson tries to get Josie to be his girlfriend. Between her arriving at his house in her clown costume, Carson tells her to check her pocket and she pulls her hand out bleeding, taking her to the movies and singing to her. Or does Josie choose Michael who admits to her that he loves her, that he has been in love with her since kindergarten, how he wants to grow up with her, get old together, how he wants to loose there virginity together. Among all the guy drama Josie doesn’t have time for Zandra and Tru her two best friends. Josie ditched Michael on his 16th birthday to be with her boyfriend Carson, Michael got really mad. When Josie went to Carson’s house they got in a big fight over Carson thinking that Josie didn’t love him. So Josie did a big move and left one of her grandmother’s earrings that she hasn’t taken off in years for Carson to show that she loves him. But, than at the mountains Carson told Josie that he didn’t love her. The next day Michael shows up at the mountains because Josie’s mom was in a car wreck and wants to see her. But Josie doesn’t want to leave in fear of loosing Carson. At the end he ends up giving the earring back. Josie is mad and hits him with a wiffle bat and says “well this time you don’t get what you want.” When she hit him he said “that hurt you really hurt me.” And Josie says “right back at you bye-bye Carson”


The significance of the title is that Josie’s mom was in a car wreck and Josie and Carson are in a fight and he says “go, the guy (Michael) drove up in a blizzard to get you, and your mother is in the hospital. What’s wrong with you?” and Josie says “you, maybe”

If I could ask Rachel Vail any three questions they would be
1. Why did you make Josie a sophomore and Carson a senior?
*I don’t understand why she made them so far apart in age
2. Is the story based off personal experience or is it just a made up?
*This story can relate to many teenage girls and I would want to know if she could relate to all of us too.
3. Why did Josie pick who she did?
*I want to know if there was something significance about the person that she chose.

Book blog by: Chyann Wunderlich

Among The Enemy

Among the enemy

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Book Blog By: Mark P.

This is a series of a popular fiction book, so I decide to try it out and see why it’s so popular.

The book is about a boy named Matthias who is trying to survive with his best friends Percy and Alia. One day while running from the Population Police, an organization who acts like its own government and military, that controls food and enforces the no-3rd-child rule, Percy gets shot in the leg, and Alia gets hit unconscious. While Matthias goes looking for medicine, he saves the life of a Population Police officer, who unknowingly forces Matthias to join. After the officer is killed from poisoning the commander of the organization takes him under his wing.
There Matthias uncovers a plot to finally kill all the illegal third born kids. So, with a help of an illegal 3rd child undercover, he leaks the information to the rebels, but they can’t get rid of the plot without wasting precious food. Matthias tricks a group of soldiers to give the food starving civilians and the rebels blow up the building with the commander in it, who found out about Matthias. Later, Matthias finds out that Percy and Alia are safe, and that’s where the book ends.

This title was used, because Matthias was among his enemy, and he found out what one boy can do to a wicked bureaucracy.
The three questions I would ask him are:

1.) How many more books are you going to write in this series?
I asked this because this is already the sixth book, and was wondering how much more the author was planning to write.

2.) Does the commander of the organization expose Matthias?
After the explosion Matthias gets hurt and hides in an abandoned warehouse with a rebel, but before that he throws an unconscious guard at the commander and, because of that both of them survive too. I was wondering if the commander still goes after Matthias even though he saves his life.

3.) Will the organization ever be destroyed and how?
The way the story so far is going it looks like the organization is too strong for the rebels, Matthias, and his friends and at the end will win.

The Boxer and The Spy - Robert B. Parker

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When i made my visit to the library to pick out a book this one instantly caught my eye. I was drawn in by the fact that this book is about boxing, yet it is mysterious. I have always been interested in boxing so i was eager to read about a topic that i enjoy. In addition, I love to read a book that is suspenseful because i find pleasure in having the urge to read on not knowing what unexpected turn the book may take. Knowing that Robert B. Parker is the author of the New York Times bestselling Spenser mystery novels i knew this would be an excellent choice and that i would not be disappointed in the book.

When a shy student's body is found washed up on shore of a quiet New England beach-an alleged suicide linked to steroids- former classmate 15 year-old Terry Novak is suspicious. Terry is just your average boy. However, he enjoys boxing. In fact, he has been training how to box with a man named George who is a former boxer himself. Terry didn't know Jason personally, but what he did know is that Jason was not the type of person to take steroids. Jason was a quiet boy who always kept things to himself and never looked for any extra attention. Not to mention he was extremely thin and weak. In addition to that, Terry doesn't think that steroids have severe symptoms such as suicide.

Terry, with the help of his friend Abby, decides to do some investigating on the topic. Terry starts off by researching steroids. When he chooses to ask the school nurse about steroids he doesn't realize what a treat he is putting himself in for. Before too long they realize that asking questions and getting involved in the case gets them into a lot of trouble and they are both put in great danger. However, they have such desire and determination to figure out what really happened to Jason that they don't give up. Survival soon becomes a fight. Luckily, Terry has learned a thing or two about fighting.

The title "The Boxer and The Spy" signifies what Terry goes through during this novel. Terry is very much into boxing and is training hard to improve his skills. However, throughout the story he is investigating the case and doing some detective work by "spying" on some people that may have been involved with the suicide of Jason. For those reasons, Terry is both a boxer and a spy.

I would ask Robert Parker:

"Did you live near a beach in New England as a child?"

I was wondering this because during the story Terry and Abby often times sit on rocks at the beach when they need space and a place where they can just relax and talk about things where they know no one will bother them. I was wondering if when you were a child you would go to the beach when you needed to escape things or a place to relax.

"Did you have a childhood crush on a girl when you were Terry's age?"

I noticed in the book that you always expressed Terry's feelings of affection toward Abby. I was wondering if you had the same type of feelings about a girl when you were his age or if you even later on had a relationship or got married to a woman that you met when you were young because they talked more than once about being together for the rest of their lives. The book even concluded with them talking about that.

"Did you box when you were Terry's age?"

Throughout the book Terry was always training for boxing. I was wondering if you used to box because I could tell by the way you talked about the training and the different moves and such that you have a lot of background knowledge about the sport. I don't know much about boxing and just by reading this book i feel like a learned a lot about boxing.

Forever

~Judy Blume~

Book report by: Krysta Purviance

The genre of this book is Teen Fiction. I like this genre because thees books could be a true story and they represent what some teens could be going through as life goes on.

I chose to read this book because it was recommended to me by a friend. Once i started to read this book it was just addicting and i really liked it. I usually hate reading but i didn't while i read this book!

Summary: It all starts out with a girl named Katherine. Its senior year, Katherine and her best friend Erica, go to this party where they meet Michael and Artie. While the days started passing they found themselves hanging out with the boys more and more. Erica eventually has to try and help Artie figure out if he is homosexual or not. Meanwhile Katherine and Michael start to share a more intimate relationship with each other. The both agree they will love each other forever. As they got closer they got more sexual and they lose their virginity to reach other. After graduation they find out that they both have to go away for the summer. They agreed to send letters which they did. at the end of the summer Katherine's grandfather dies from a stroke and Michael leaves home early and goes to the camp Katherine was at. Yet did Michale know that there was another boy. They both thought they were going to last forever but they didn't last at all.

The significance of the title Forever is that Katherine and Michael wanted to be together forever and thought they would be but that word sort of pulled them apart.

If i could ask the author three questions they would be:
1) Why make such an intimate book?
I would ask this question to Judy Blume because this is an intimate book and i get that but i don't really get why it had to be so intimate.

2) Why did her grandpa have to die?
I would ask this question to Judy Blume because it is always sad when someone dies so why couldn't the author have no one die, instead of the pore grandpa.

3) Why have a title of forever and not something else?

I would ask this question to Judy Blume because the title plays a big part in this book but i could see several other titles as the books title so i don't know why exactly it is Forever and not something else.

The Twilight series is definitely fiction from vampires to werewolves it keeps you hooked. When Mrs. Knapp came to visit our classroom she had mentioned that last year this book had earned many awards and was really good. She also said that this year the third book in the series was nominated for an award. So i figured that theses books must of been good. Another reason I chose this book was because my brother was an extra in the movie. But I will admit that when I first heard about this book I figured it would be lame because it's about vampires...but I was wrong!


Twilight is about a teenage girl named Bella who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. She comes to Forks to live with her dad, Charlie. On her first day she has everyone's attention because she's the new girl, who no one knows ,but everyone has heard of. Of the many people she meets on her first day she remembers one: Edward Cullen. Well all the Cullen's actually, because they all stand out in that they are extremely beautiful. But as Bella gets to know Edward she can't figure him out. One day he is pushing a van out of the way from hitting her and the next he isn't speaking to her. As he continues his strange behavior of saving her life repeatedly Bella reunites with an old family friend, Jacob Black, whose dad, Billy Black is best friends with Charlie. When she visits Jacob she asks him about the Cullen's and he tells her some information she hadn't expected at all. The Cullen's are vampires. As she gets to know more about Edward, he is surprised that she got it right. She comes to find that their skin is ice cold and they are incredibly strong. When Edward invites Bella to come watch the Cullen family play baseball this happy story turns into a nightmare. As there playing ball some unexpected guests come, and when they see Bella one of the vampires named James, loves the smell of Bella and with one whiff he instantly wants to kill her. But Edward won't have this so he sends Bella away with Alice and Jasper, his brother and sister. When James contacts Bella he tells her he has her mom so Bella goes to save her mom. But James tricked her and nearly kills her. Then Bella wakes up in the hospital with many brusies, a broken leg, some broken ribs, and Edward at her side.

The significance of the title, Twilight, is that in the book Edward tells Bella that twilight is the easiest time of the day for them to be around humans. But he also says that this is the end of another day and he must face one more day of forever.

If I could ask Stephenie Meyer three questions it would be:

"What inspired you to think up and write this story?"
I would ask this because to think up all of the interesting little facts she puts in her writing would be difficult and she thought of everything. Also the big things like all the characters and the plot.

"Will the movie Twilight be like the book or is it different?"
I would ask this because sometimes movies are different from the book and that is just a dissapointment if the book is good.

"Was your life as a child sort of like Bella's?"
Because in the book it really shows her and how she cares so much for the people around her. The book also shows the pain she goes through with her parents, the seperation, and her mom's new man.

By Kierstyn Tuel