Month: September 2009

Book Review 23: The Big Field..

Posted September 30, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Blech. This was a very hard read for me. Yes, the story was good I suppose. But all the baseball talk and terms was so annoying, or not annoying exactly, more time consuming to read and try to figure them all out. I mean, the last game of the book, yes, the championship game, was […]

Book Review 22: The Rule of W..

Posted September 28, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Wow, I have to say I REALLY liked this book. It’s basically kind of a spoof on the book “The Secret”. Where it says if you want something bad enough, and you picture yourself with it, and write about wanting it, etc, that you’ll get it. I personally know this is a load of crap […]

Book Review 21: Boost by Kath..

Posted September 28, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Boost is about a 13 year old girl named Savvy who is REALLY tall and REALLY good at basketball. She’s just moved to live with her aunt because her father has lost his job and her aunt needs some help. She decides to try out for league basketball, different than school basketball. A person she […]

Book Review 20: The Youngest ..

Posted September 25, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

So, I am not really into the whole “Templars” and Holy Grail kind of story. But it was interesting enough. I could see how kids might get into it. I do have a complaint that several of the books I’ve read leave off. Yeah, I understand it is good to have sequels and keep kids […]

Book Review 19: Shifty by Lyn..

Posted September 23, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

After Gone I needed a “realistic” fiction type of book, plus, this book I couldn’t renew, it had a hold on it, along with some others on my lists that I hadn’t read yet. But since I knew this was next, I decided to go ahead and read it, and maybe I can return it […]

Book Review 18: Gone by Micha..

Posted September 23, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

This was a really long book, took me a few days to finish all over 500 pages. The book starts out with Sam sitting in class, and his teacher just all of a sudden disappearing. Just gone. Turns out all adults and teens over 14 have disappeared. The kids are left. Sam also has a […]

Book Review 17: The White Gat..

Posted September 18, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

From the cover I first thought it was a skateboard, but turns out it was a snowboard. Tor is the main character, and the book begins with his mother waking him up late at night because she is the town doctor and she has an emergency to go take care of and doesn’t want to […]

Book Review 16: Jack: Secret..

Posted September 16, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

So, I’ve always thought about reading the Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson, but never got around to it. I’m pretty sure this is supposed to be about his main character growing up. Which means to be accurate to the adult novels that it takes place in the 1980’s. While I enjoyed the references […]

Book Review 15: Little Audrey..

Posted September 13, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

This was a tiny, tiny book for this age of kids to read. Only 146 pages, so no wonder I finished it in the same day as when I started. Don’t get me wrong, it was a really interesting story, but I just wonder if the kids in grades 7-9 that the Truman list is […]

Book Review 14: Compound by S..

Posted September 13, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

I liked the premise of this book, it actually reminded me of the movie with Brendan Fraser called Blast from the Past, only the book wasn’t humorous. The Yanakakis family is a rich and famous one. The father, Rex, was a computer genius. He was worried about nuclear war, so he build the compound. The […]