VOTES!
Invisible Monsters:5
Blood and Chocolate: 5
Perks of being a Wallflower:2
Beast:2
Impulse:2
Dead witch walking:2
Lovesick: 1
Finding Noel: 1
Stray:1
Poison:1
Sophie's World:0
Island of the Blue Dolphin: 0



Septembers Book


Model: A Memoir
There are 6.5 billion people on this planet.
Sixteen of them are supermodels.

Every year,hundreds of the most beautiful people in the world come to New York to become models.
At age 14 Cheryl Diamond was one of them.
Living on her own in a run down apartment, Cheryl spent her days on go-sees, runways, and photoshoots.
She watched other girls make mistakes, and swore she wouldn't be a victim...
until a career-altering event changed her life and nearly ruined her shot at her dream.
This is the riveting, true account of Cheryl's triumphant rise, disastrous fall, and phoenixlike comeback in one of the hottest and most demanding industries in the world.

Book reviews for voting


Review submitted by: More Meyer Plz
Dead Witch Walking
by Kim Harrison

Annotation
Fun, sassy, and filled with action, humor, and romance, "Dead Witch Walking" makes the perfect summer read for anyone who likes vampires, paranormal fantasy, romance, or just a great beach book. Original.

Awards
2004 Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Fantasy Novel

Characters
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Name: Rachel Morgan
Gender: Female
Occupation: Bounty hunter
Attributes: Witch
Hates her job; trying to get good assignments; bored with her existence; becomes a freelance investigator


Genre
Fantasy,suspense, Romance, Mystery,Occult, Horror
--Gothic
--Paranormal
--Detective, Amateur
--Women sleuths
--Vampires
--Demons

Topics
Viruses ,Vampires, Alternate worlds, Drug dealers, Bounty hunters, and Fairies

Setting
Cincinnati, Ohio -- Midwest (U.S.)
The Hallows
Urban
Time Period
2000s -- 21st century
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Review Submitted by: EddiesGirl
The Perks of being a Wallflower
By:Stephen Chbosky
Standing on the fringes of life...
offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.


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Review from Em

Book: Lovesick
By: Jake Coburn

Ted’s drunk-driving accident has ruined his life.
It cost him his basketball scholarship, ended his plans for college, and forced him into AA. But just when ted has resigned himself to his new life, Michael appears.
The wealthy father of a bulimic Manhattan rich girl has a tempting proposition.
He has agreed to pay for ted’s college tuition, but there’s one catch. ted has to secretly keep tabs on his benefactor’s daughter, Erica. A seemingly simple task, with only one minor problem: Ted never expected to fall in love.
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Review By EM
Book: Sophie's World
By: Jostein Gaarder

This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author's native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children's book-but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox's lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie's life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. As Alberto Knox's lessons approach this century, he and Sophie come to suspect that they are merely characters in a novel written by Albert for his daughter. Teacher and pupil hatch a plot to understand and possibly escape from their situation; and from there, matters get only weirder. Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder's notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it's occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren't well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour.
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Review from Kristen
Book: Invisible Monsters
By:Chuck Palahniuk
She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.
In this hilarious and daringly unpredictable novel the narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present, and future. Changing names and stories in every city, they catapult toward a final confrontation with a rifle-toting Evie — by which time we will have learned that loving and being loved are not mutually exclusive, and that nothing, on the surface, is ever quite what it seems.
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Review From Returned

Title: Finding Noel
By: Richard Paul Evans
Pages: 304
Summary: "There are stories, Christmas stories that are stored away like boxes of garlands and frosted glass ornaments, to be brought out and cherished each year. I've come to believe that my story is a Christmas story. For it has forever changed the way I see Christmas." The Christmas season is supposed to be full of joy, but not for Mark Smart. Life had dealt him one body blow after another: he lost his scholarship and had to drop out of school; his beloved mother had died in a car crash; his girlfriend dumped him, and now, late on a snowy night in November, his car had broken down. Stumbling into a coffee house, he was looking for a phone to call a tow truck. What he found was a beautiful young woman with an unusual name who, through a simple act of kindness, changed his life forever. Macy Wood had little memory of her birth parents, and memories she'd rather forget of her adopted home. A Christmas ornament inscribed with the word "Noel" was the only clue to the little sister she only vaguely remembered, a clue that would send her, and Mark on a journey to reclaim her past, and her family. From the author of the beloved classic, The Christmas Box, comes another inspiring story of the power of love and the wonder of Christmas.

My thoughts: Short and sweet. I absaloutly love this book and would recomend it to anyone who'll listen.

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Review from Returned

Title: Beast
By: Donna Jo Napoli
Pages: 206
Summary: Orasmyn is the prince of Persia and heir to the throne. His religion fills his heart and his mind, and he strives for the knowledge and leadership his father demonstrates. But on the day of the Feast of Sacrifices, Orasmyn makes a foolish choice that results in a fairy's wretched punishment: he is turned into a beast, a curse to be undone only by the love of a woman.

Thus begins Orasmyn's journey through the exotic Middle East and sensuous France as he struggles to learn the way of the beast, while also preserving the mind of the man. This is the story of his search, not only for a woman courageous enough to love him, but also for his own redemption.

My thoughts: Awesome! Pure awesome. Beauty and the Beast from the beasts POV and a totally different back story.

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Review from Returned

Title: Impulse
By: Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 666
Summary: Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.


Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act -- suicide.


Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade.


Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.


And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself.


In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun -- and tried to end it all. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life -- but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place.

My thoughts: Also an awesome book. I love the way it's written.

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Reviewe from Returned

Title: Stray
By: Rachel Vincent
Pages: 618
Summary: Faythe Sanders likes to pretend she's a normal college co-ed, but that's only half the truth. It's the other half that matters when her former lover appears on campus, sent to pull her back into a life her classmates could never understand, or even imagine. He has come to take her home, to where hunting doesn’t involve guns, the night isn’t for sleeping, and fur is much more than just a fashion statement.

Female werecats are disappearing from all over the south, and the Pride is helpless to find its missing members and stop the stray responsible. Confined to home for her own protection, Faythe must face everything she went to school to escape: the family she left behind, the love she turned her back on, and the destiny tradition says she's bound to fulfill. And when it all becomes too much to handle, an emotionally charged error in judgment leads her into the unsheathed claws of the stray himself. Now, armed with nothing but animal instinct and a serious attitude, Faythe must free herself and stop the kidnappers before their horrific plot robs her Pride of its most valuable asset: its own continued existence.

My thoughts: Rachel Vincent is my most favorite author. I've already read the second book; Rouge, and loved it. I can't wait for the third to come out this Febuary.
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Review from Returned

Title: Poison
By: Chris Wooding
Pages: 288
Summary: Poison has always been a willful, contrary girl, prone to being argumentative and stubborn. So when her sister is snatched by the mean-spirited faeries, she seeks out the Phaerie Lord to get her back.

But finding him isn't easy, and the quest leads Poison into a murderous world of intrigue, danger, and deadly storytelling. With only her wits and her friends to aid her, Poison must survive the attentions of the Phaerie Lord, rescue her sister, and thwart a plot that's beyond anything she can imagine.

My thoughts: This book can be confusing at first, but it really is a very good read.
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review from Returned

Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins
By: Scott O'Dell
Pages: 184
Summary: In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds aboud.Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and saild to the east, one young girl was left behind.

This is the story of Karana, the Ibdian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.

My thoughts: I loved this book when I was seven and I still love it now. This is a classic!

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Review from Returned

Title: Blood and Chocolate
By: Annette Curtis Klause
Pages: 264
Summary: Vivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life. But what is normal for a werewolf?<P>Then Vivian falls in love with a human, a meatboy. Aiden is kind and gentle, a welcome relief from the squabbling pack. He's fascinated by magic, and Vivian longs to reveal herself to him. Surely he would understand her and delight in the wonder of her dual nature, not fear her as an ordinary human would.<P>Vivian's divided loyalties are strained further when a brutal murder threatens to expose the pack. Moving between two worlds, she does not seem to belong in either. What is she really — human or beast? Which tastes sweeter — blood or chocolate?

My thoughts: A very good book for any teen. And an easy read.

Ah yay! I'm so excited
So when do we have to read the book by?

We wont read it till next month because Im not ready lolz

This is awesome Emizzle

Ooh. I'll make sure to go buy this.

Hehe im so excited for this

-jumps around-

^w^ hehe will you be purchasing the book or will I be scanning more

I'll goin!

ok i'll join this sounds interesting

I'll talk part in the book club I've been looking for more stuff to read

Squee more people

well by august 30th i will need to know if you purchased the book OR if i need to scan the chapters

i'll join