The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. When she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a now fourteen year old girl, a tale that is haunting and full of hope.

Following her death, Susie watches life continue without her from above. Her school friends are trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, and her killer is trying to cover his tracks. As months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage being contorted by loss, her sister hardening herself in an effort to stay strong, and little brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone.

As she explores heaven, it looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counselors to help newcomers adjust and friends to room with. Whatever she wants appears before she thinks of it-except the thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

With compassion, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie sees her loved ones pass through grief and begin to mend. Her father embarks on a quest that is very risky to ensnare her killer. Her sister takes undertakes a feat of remarkable daring. And the boy Susie cared for moves on, only to find himself in the middle of a miraculous event.

This is one of the most unusual books I have ever read before. The descriptions of heaven may be a bit unrealistic, but it was a great book for the most part.

Three of Diamonds by Anthony Horowitz

Three of Diamonds is an excellent series of books written by Anthony Horowitz. This is a three books in 1 which are 3 different books written by Anthony Horowitz. All 3 books are a mystery series that happen to 2 diamond brothers.

The first book is about a French confection, where the 2 brothers go to France where they have to encounter some illegal drug dealers and escape there alive

The second book is about a picture of a blurred man who is said to be dead. The brothers have to prove if he actually is dead, and what is the mystery behind it

The third book is honestly the best of all the 3 where they go to a remote Scottish island with their old friends, and they start getting killed 1 by 1. The 2 brothers have to find out the mystery behind all this

I really recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense, and mystery books

Henderson's Boys: The Escape

Being a dedicated fan to Robert Muchamore's series, CHERUB, I have found another spin-off spy novel that I guarantee will have your eyes glued to the pages.
In the first book, The Escape, meet Marc Kilgor, a French orphan in the midst of the bloodiest times on earth, World War II. Hitler's army is expanding towards France, prepare to kill any civilians that gets in the way. Air raids are already showing. Everyone is on the run, trying to escape to Britain. Many die on the way. No shelter from the war, food on rations and in a short supply, constant air raids on buildings, it is not surprising people don't make it.
Marc has planned on escaping his orphanage for many years, but he just can't do it. He wanted to escape his torturous roommates and his headmaster. It wasn't possible. It was miles away from any major city and he had no forms of free transportation other than foot.
One day he recieves the news that his headmaster had bought a shiny brand new bike, unlocked, free for anyone in the orphanage to touch. With the help of his roommates that taunted and dared him to run away, he sees his chance and summons up his courage and runs away, also stealing some food and money from his headmaster's room, which turned out to be very useful.
On the other hand, Charles Henderson was a British spy that was currently smuggling a blueprint for an advances technology in World War II from the Germans for the British. Everyone in Hitler's army is trying to hunt him down. They havn't succeeded yet.
Marc has taken refuge in Charles Henderson's house unknowning broke in. He discovers the house's owner when he saw a letter addressed to Charles Henderson, which he had not know was a spy. The German's found the house, broke in and searched to find the boy, Marc. Tortured for information and the German's got none. Charles returned and found him bleeding in his house, but still alive. Marc agreed to help Charles on his undercover mission and followed him all the way through.
Charles Henderson realised the potential of children working in undercover missions and founded the organisation, currently known as CHERUB which is continued in another series.
Read on to find out what happens to the spies and who they met on the way.

The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith

This book is by far the best book I've ever read, well the only series of book I've ever read actually. I don't read books in the past but after watching the drama on TV (and this is very different from Twilight and way more interesting), which kept me in so much suspense that I couldn't stand it anymore and went to the bookstore and bought the whole series back and read all the way from the beginning.

This series contains up to 6 books (one still unpublished till late 2010 or early 2011) and it is about two Salvatore brothers who fell in love with a girl named Katherine in 1864. They had no idea that she was a vampire until she turned the both of them into vampires. There were a lot of hatred between the brothers because of Katherine and they couldn't even stand the sight of seeing each other. As a vampire, you get to live an eternal life which the Salvatore brothers did. And now in 2006, Stefan Salvatore met Elena, queen bee of high school who looks exactly like Katherine but with the exact opposite personalities. Elena has two best friends, Bonnie, who discovers to be a witch/psychic eventually and Meridith who's oddly calm with all that's happening. Stefan and Elena fell in love very soon and Damon tried to ruin the relationship by trying to turn Elena into a vampire because of both the hatred he has for Stefan and how impossibly alike Elena and Katherine looks.

There are many twists in the series and I love the book very much. I know every young adult of our generation would like it too since we're being called the "Vampire-kids" these days after the Twilight craze.

Lion Boy by Zizou Corder

What would you do if you came home one day and suddenly discovered that your parents have been kidnapped? Well as for Charlie Ashanti, he made a brave decision and decided to go look for his parents. Since his parents are scientists and know the cure to asthma, that would probably explain why they were a kidnapping target.

As a little boy, Charlie has had a special gift possessed in his soul. He has the ability to communicate with cats. With his gift, he finds himself working at a floating circus heading to France (where his parents are), and soon makes friends with a family of lions longing to get out. Being the lion tamer's helper, he plots a way to arrange the lions' return to Africa while following his parents, who are now headed towards Venice. But Rafi, who is helping with the kidnap, is closing in.

Do you think Charlie will succeed? Or will he never get to see his parents again. The only way to find out is to read it! So what are you thinking? Hurry up and go read Lion Boy. I strongly recommend this book to everybody from age 9 to 99. This action-packed book will send your imagination spinning and have your eyes glued to the pages. This trilogy has two more books as its sequals. They answer to the name of 'The Chase' and 'The Truth'. I once again recommend this to anyone interested because not only does it have an intense plotline, it also teaches you many valuable lessons bound to stick with you for a long time.

The visions, the numbers, the deaths. How could these all link together? Well, it happens to happen on a young teenage white girl whose name is Jem. What’s so special about Jem you might wonder, Jem was only an ordinary orphan teenager who couldn’t really cooperate with her teachers and classmates except her only friend Spider. Spider was a skinny black gangster, he was the only person who actually cared about Jem, or one can say, he loves her; but Jem never opens her heart to anyone.

There’s a gift in Jem’s eye, she could see everyone’s end, even the ending of a life that had just began; because she knows the date when you’ll find yourself dead. After reading this book, you can’t stop thinking that, what’s your number ?

Numbers by Rachel Ward, this story could really make you want to finish reading a page as fast as you can so that you could then look at the story on the next page. Rachel’s words are like magic hands hidden in the book, while you’re reading; it pulls you in, deeper and deeper. This book makes you feel sad, angry, guilty, and excited as how the characters’ mood changes; it takes you into this performance.

The CHERUB Series

Warning: picking this book up may cause you to sit and read continuously for hours non-stop.
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a spy, highly trained, working for a secret organization? Have you ever had the feeling that when you read a book, it gets your heart beating faster wondering what will happen to the characters? Will they succeed? Or will they die. If you enjoy these fast paced thrillers, I strongly recommend you to pick up this book.
The story begins it's first book, (CHERUB: The Recruit) when James Adams' parents gets murdered by a gang and James is also injured. After realising his parents were dead, he was sent to a nursing home called Nebraska House, while James' sister, Lauren is sent to live with another relative.
One day, James and Lauren had been found missing from their orphanages. Their lives has changed forever starting now. The CHERUB recruits capable orphans from orphanages all over UK, training them as child spies and agents. What is so ingenious about this method is that no one suspects that children are being used in missions that generally involve adults, such as stopping drug trafficking, terrorism, etc. The children are trained from as young as possible, learning various skills, such as martial arts, which could aid them in missions, but obviously they are given a choice on whether to stay in the orphanages or to be recruited into CHERUB.
In the series, you will meet James, Lauren, Jake, Kerry, Kyle, and others going on various hair-raising undercover missions. You would wish this adventure was completely true and you could be in it. So open up the book and get ready to enter the CHERUB campus!

The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins

This is a interesting book about a kid trying to survive in a game called the Hunger games and the game key is to survive in the wild until all the contestants dies and you will win.

At First Katniss got selected for the hunger games tribute and she went out to fight for their district but what will happen to her mom and her younger sister, what will they do for a living?? Can Katniss win the fight and bring peace to all these?? Even though that her father taught her a lot of skills to survive in the Wilderness, she didn't know how to kill people. Can she kill all 12 people and come back safely?

This book is recommended to students and adults, it is 300 pages long but it's an interesting book to describe how she can survive in the wild and face all those wealthy people who was trained to do this??

Sight

This book sight is about a girl named Dylan, unlike any other typical teenaged girl, Dylan is cursed with 'sight'. She has visions of the last moments of a child life- a child who has been abducted,kidnapped or worse.....
For all her life she has never told anyone about her curse exept for the police and her mom. One day when her secret becomes too much to bear, she finds her-self confiding to Cate a new girl in town. One day when Dylan's best friend, Pilar's sister goes missing Dylan finds herself risking her life to go save her when she realizes that Cate could be harboring dangerous secrets of her own.
I would recommened this book to anyone who is intersted in horror stories . Although I found this book a little scary when the author describes the muder and event, it made me want to continue reading to find out what happens next. A quote that i thought was interesting in this book was: 'sometimes the answers appear right in front of our eyes' . I think that this book is reasonably easy so anybody would enjoy reading it.

Next by Michael Crichton

Next is the last novel to be published during Michael Crichton's life. It takes place in the present world, and discusses the possible consequences of various new advances in human genetic research and genetic patenting.

The story focuses on many main characters, who are all related to each other in one way or another in a world full of genetic research, corporate greed, and legal interventions. Throughout the story, the author shows how recent studies, advances, and laws humans have made regarding genetic research could possibly affect the way we live- things like a (completely fictitious) transgenic ape who lives with a human a family and goes to school.

The book certainly challenges the readers to think of how this technology may affect ours futures, which- according to the book- could be a world with effective cancer treatment, trangenic pets, drugs that 'boosts' one's maturity, and much more.

A must read for any fan of techno-thrillers.

The DaVinci

This book is second in the series. I suggest that if you where to only read one of Dan brown's books that you would read this one. The others are all exactly the same.

This book is fast-paced, action-filled, and a very good read. It is suited so that it can be read in one night, or 2 months, however the book will drag you in and keep you till the very last page.

Some criticism of this book is that it is almost on a template that the others where built on, the difference is that this one has more action and mystery than the others. I would not recommend this to my greatest enemy because I wouldn't want my greatest enemy to have such a good book.

While I don't want to ruin the storyline of this book I will give a small hint as incentive to go and buy it: The book involves Jesus descendant"

While that may not be much incentive for you it certainly was for me.

I Hope you enjoy this book!
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