The Last Song
> June 7th, 2010
The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, is a very wonderful love story. When seventeen year old “Ronnie” Miller’s parents divorced she was not the same since then. She lived with her mother and younger brother in New York while her father lived in a beach house in North Carolina. After the divorce her mother tried to get Ronnie to talk to her father, but she refused to. Her mother sent Ronnie and her younger brother to stay with their father for the summer after 3 years. That summer was a big change for Ronnie, while her father tried to reach out to her and then she met someone she will never forget nor had intentions in meeting him.
Quote: Life he realized was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
- Kayla D.
Someone like you by Sarah Dessen is about best friends named Halley and Scarlett. Scarlett is really outgoing and popular and Halley is very quiet. While Halley is at summer camp, Scarlett’s boyfriend Michael gets in a car accident and Halley comes back home to be with Scarlett. Soon after the accident Scarlett finds out that she is pregnant with his baby. Scarlett has some big choices to make about the baby. I recommend reading this book because it teaches you about life and how to make good decisions.
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Now You See It! By Vivian Vande Velde
“The Bad Beginning’ is the first of Lemony Snickett’s thirteen books in the Series of Unfortunate Events. The book starts with the three main characters, siblings from a well to do family by the names of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who find out that both of their parents have died, indeed starting the book with a “bad beginning”. They are left in the hands of Mr. Poe, the executive of the estate, who must now find a guardian for the three until Violet, the oldest, turns eighteen. Mr. Poe finds a distant cousin of theirs, Count Olaf, who he then sends the three siblings to. The Baudelaires soon find out that Olaf is merely after their vast inheritance and as such they must use the inventiveness of Violet, the intelligence of Klaus, and the amazing strength of the smallest sibling’s, Sunny’s, teeth. Olaf then uses his professional occupation as an actor to try and get at the Baudelaire fortune, but of course this is soon figured out by the siblings. They figure their way out of the situation and, by the end of the book, end up in the hands of Mr. Poe, but not without the gleaming eye of Count Olaf to follow them in their later adventures. The rest of the series continues the Baudelaire children’s search for a guardian and their never ending need to escape Count Olaf. The peculiar writings of Lemony Snickett leave any reader intrigued and the adventures of the siblings, who one feels connected to in each story, makes this book, and the rest of the series, a great read for underclassman and upperclassman alike. 
The Giver by Lowis Lowry
The Dark Angel 
