Wednesday, May 16, 2007

New Books

Some exciting new books have just arrived at the Library:

Girl of the Moment, Lizabeth Zindel
Fifteen-year-old Lily has a lot to learn when she spends the summer working as the intern of a spoiled and powerful Hollywood starlet. A fun insider's view of celebrity life!


Peak, Roland Smith
Dare-devil mountain-climber, Peak Marcello (14), decides to scale the Woolworth Building and lands in jail. To save him, his long-lost Everest-trekking dad appears with a plan for the duo to make a life in Katmandu--and for Peak to become the youngest person in history to climb Mount Everest.

The Invisible, Mats Wahl
A small town in Sweden is embroiled in a mystery when one of its own becomes a missing person. One day Hilmer Eriksson walks into his high school classroom and finds that he has become invisible. He soon learns that something terrible has happened: he has been declared mssing. Detective Harald Fors arrives to investigate his disappearance, and the teen remains by his side. A very suspenseful read, soon to be released as a movie.


Feels Like Home, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Following the death of their father, seventeen-year-old Michelle's older brother--who had disappeared six years earlier--returns to their small Texas town where, with the help of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders," the two siblings try to find a way to move beyond a past tragedy.

Eagle Blue, Michael d'Orso
Did you love Friday Night Lights? Eagle Blue follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March. D'Orso follows the players, their families, and their coach over the course of an Arctic winter of fifty-below-zero temperatures and near-round-the-clock darkness as the Eagles criss-cross Alaska in pursuit of their—and their village’s—dream.

  • Which of these books would you most enjoy reading? Why?
  • Based on the synopses above, to which genre does each book belong?















Thursday, May 10, 2007

Welcome

Welcome to the WHB Middle School Book Blog! This is the place for you to post your thoughts and opinions on books you have read, and to get recommendations from others.