Keeping the Moon, Sarah Dessen 19

I just started this realistic fiction and am very intrigued by the first chapter. I have stumbled on yet another very honest narrator. She is open about her history and the grip is still has on her. Most people would assume that becoming healthier and making better choices in regards to your lifestyle would be a positive thing. Most people would wish to be better off, living in a house with a pool and personal cook instead of sleeping in the family car, not Nicole (call her Colie). All these changes that are usually seen as improvements have caused a distance between her and her mother who use to be very close and happy spending lots of time together. Now she has been shipped off to live with her aunt for the summer while her mother promotes her new line of fitness products. Colie tells us in the first lines of the book, "My name is Nicole Sparks. Welcome to the first day of the worst summer of my life" (1). What will happen to her next? Why does she feel this way?

Alcatraz Verses the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson F

I have finished this book, a book about "a fearsome THREAT from the powerful secret network that rules the world"...
This book is full of irony. The main character has a special power that is genetically his due to being a member of a population who has throughout history spent their time fighting a group of evil librarianswho use try to "control the information in [our] country" (119). Their strategy is to bribe, threaten, and brainwash. When that doesn't work, they carefully mislead. This is possible because "People go along with what they are told. Even intelligent people believe what they read and hear..." (119).
This was a cute story, but sometimes hard to read/follow. It is the beginning of yet another triology so don't expect a clean ending. I do like the honesty and candidness of the narrator. He is very self-aware and is open to change/improvement, something we all can strive more to do. :)

Alcatraz Verses the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson 291

I chose this book, because in another life, I was a librarian. I was intrigued by the title. Also, because this book is a new book on the Battle of the Books list for 2011-2012.

It is a different book. The writer is very smart and allows the narrator to take the reader on many twists and turns. The main character, Alcatraz, is believed to be an orphan who has spent the majority of his life in foster care bouncing from home to home as he reeks havoc on each family who tries to care for him. On his thirteenth birthday, he receives a package in the mail from his parents. This package will change everything as Alcatraz knows it.

Alcatraz is convinced by his newly found grandfather to help combat the evil librarians who are trying to keep the world "in ignorance, living only with the most primitive technologies" (111) by controlling all information. In this book, dinosaurs still exist and the main characters battle giant paper wads that can walk and explode...I told you it was different!

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