Tag: Truman books

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White My rating: 3 of 5 stars I had wavered on whether to read this book for awhile. I usually have trouble with books of associations that fight paranormals, or groups like the IPCA. Especially when teenagers work for them. I know, I can accept the paranormal creatures as realistic, but not […]

Posted August 21, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Suck It Up and Die by Brian Meehl

I got this book thanks to Netgalley and Random House Children’s Books. It’s been a while since I read the first one, Suck it Up. That I read for a possible book on the Gateway or Truman book list a couple years ago. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t one of my top picks that […]

Posted July 14, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Fear (Gone series #5) by Michael Grant

This is a series I began reading back in 2009 when I was reading to help pick one of my state’s award nominee list for the 2010-2011 school year.  I believe it was the same year I read Hunger Games.  You can read my review of Gone here.  I would say it was probably my […]

Posted April 13, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in / 8 Comments

New Blog: Waiting on Wednesdays

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating. In the spirit of just getting started with this meme, I will put up the one book that I am really, really eagerly waiting for. The 3rd installment in the Hunger Games series […]

Posted July 7, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments

Elephant Run by Roland Smith

I am a HUGE Roland Smith fan. I was first introduced to his writing when he came to speak at my school, and I have yet to be disappointed by a book from him. I will admit this started out a bit slow, I was reading it just during lunch at school, and I think […]

Posted June 16, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau

I’ve actually had this book sitting in the bathroom in my 2nd bedroom since shortly after it was published about 2 years ago. This is the fourth book in the City of Ember series. It was about as good as the other ones. I think that maybe I’ve been reading a lot more teen as […]

Posted May 18, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages

This is the sequel to a book I reviewed a week or so ago called the Green Glass Sea. This picks up after the bomb has been dropped and the war is “over”. The German scientists, Von Braun and others are now here in America helping us with our rocket program. Our main characters, Dewey […]

Posted February 23, 2010 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments