DCS Says......Read This!
"Best Reads" as recommended by DCS students and staff.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Jenny Green's Killer Junior Year by Any Belasen and Jacob Osborn
Jenny Green has it all...beautiful home, doating parents, the latest fashion. But high school just doesn't hold the same appeal since Veronica stole her prom date! She needs a fresh start. Canada sounds like a good place to begin again....especially since hunky Josh Beck moved there a year ago.
Even moving to boarding school in another country can't keep Jenny from learning a lesson about life and dating that will change her world forever.
39 Clues - One False Note (Book 2) by Gordon Korman
After the loss of their grandmother Grace Cahill, Amy and Dan Cahill, find out they are members of the most influential family in history. But the family is divided and after the reading of Grandma Graces's will and no parent lalive help them, the children are pitted against the rest of their family in a race to rule the world.
One False Note has the children, their au pair, Nellie Gomez, and Graces's cat Saladin, tracking through Europe following clues left by their ancestors Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ben Franklin.
The pair continue to encounter bomb blasts, secret passages, hidden clues and evade fellow family members bent on taking the clues they have discovered. Will they make it to the next step in the race to rule or will they lose everything?
Shadow Falls - Born at Midnight (Book One) by C.C. Hunter
Kylie Galen's world is upside down. She's a good kid who doesn't get in trouble. She studies hard, loves her family and her friends...just a normal girl ....at least that's what she thinks. Now her grandmother has passed away, her parents are seperating, her boyfriend has broken up with her, her best friend is in trouble and, for the first time in her life, so is she. Plus she is being stalked by a solder who no one else seems to see.
Kylie's newly appointed shrink recommends she go to a summer camp for "troubled teens" where she can find out who she really is. Problem is, she discovers nothing is what it seems, even her!
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
In the Two Princessess of Bamarre, Princesses Addie and Meryl approach life in very different ways. Meryl is brave and strong, always seeking adventure. Addie is meek and shy, trying to stay out of the lime light. The spent their childhood in pretend battles against specters, ogres, dragons and gryphons. When the Gray Death lands Meryl in a sick bed, its up to Addie to find the cure. Will she find it in time to save her sister? Will she even survive the dangerous journey she'll have to take to find the cure? Read The Two Sisters of Bamarre to find out for yourself!
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Waves by Sharon Dogar
Hal is use to spending summers at the beach with his family, but this year things are different. Charlie, Hal's older sister is in a coma in the hospital back home. She's been there ever since last summer, when Hal found her unconscious in the water.
The memory of finding her has haunted Hal ever since, and he needs to know what happened to Charlie and how she ended up in a coma. Was it an accident or did someone hurt Charlie.... and why is it he can hear her voice in his head!
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RL Gr. 6-12
Friday, May 27, 2011
Brisinger by Christopher Paolini
Review by G.H.
Brisinger is a great adventure book about a dragon ryder named Eragon and his dragon Saphira. Eragon has to help an army of rebels called the Varden siege an entire city and another dragon rider. They’re not alone thought, they have the help of dwarfs, elves and urgals. But before he goes into battle, Eragon has to go to his dragon rider teacher and learns more about magic. To find out how the siege ends you’ll have to read Brisnger.
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Review by M.C.
Could you fall in love with a werewolf? Grace did! Shiver is romantic girl (Grace) meets werewolf (Sam) novel. Together they have to overcome death, friends, and the weather! Grace feels like Sam may slip away from her any moment and be lost forever. How do you become a werewolf? How do you cure a werewolf, or can you cure one? Find out for yourself, read “Shiver” today.
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