Tag: Truman books

Book Review 21: Boost by Kathy Mackel

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 […]

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

Book Review 19: Shifty by Lynn E. Hazen

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 […]

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

Book Review 18: Gone by Michael Grant

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 […]

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

Book Review 14: Compound by S.A. Bodeen

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 […]

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

Book Review 13: My Father’s Son by Terri Fields

This was a pretty good mystery with a kind of twist ending. Wasn’t sure about it, but overall I liked it. Kevin Windor’s parents are divorced. He spends weekends at his dad’s house playing video games and just hanging out. Not that his dad doesn’t have expectations for him as well. His dad is considered […]

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