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Ben Pike For the first time in history, two children have won the inhumane Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen. And even more less likely, both champions were tributes from District 12, the poor, coal mining area. Suzanne Collins has created yet another exciting masterpiece in the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy called Catching Fire. Katniss has
Read moreBen Pike “Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!” Only one may survive this ultimate battle. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games thrilled me with its suspense and adventure. The story is set in the dystopian far future in North America, all that lies in the ruins of the past is Panem, a country with a Capitol and twelve districts. The Capitol
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Read moreAshley Hoguet Kate Messner’s Eye of the Storm tells the exciting story of a girl who has to stop a storm that could destroy the world as she knows it. For Jaden Meggs, huge storms and killer tornadoes are an everyday problem. When she moves to Placid Meadows, a unique community her father built, she is never touched by
Read more“The mechanized world had died. earthquakes and tsunamis had obliterated coasts, and plague had consumed billions.” Rick Yancey’s book The Infinite Sea was a nail biting story of the apocalypse. Cassie and Sam have been running from the others since Evan Walker infiltrated and blew up an alien military installation called Camp Haven. When they left the military installation they
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Growing up in a dystopian world under the control of a drug lord, Matteo Alacran, also know as Matt, must face many trials to secure not only his freedom, but his life. The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, is a dark and twisted but ultimately hopeful story of a young boy who finds out he was not
Read moreKatherine Gardner The Chrysalids John Wyndham Review Set millennia after a nuclear holocaust, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a fascinating novel about a highly religious communities’ attempt to prevent mutation and evolution from occurring while struggling against a type of mutation they cannot detect. Their beliefs are based off of the Old Testament and a novel called Nicholases Repentances.
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A loud rumbling came from the sky, then, a giant barge flies in from over the mountains. A large crowd of villagers gather on the field where the barge seems to be landing. They all are feeling excited and hope this is some kind of good news. Mark and his friends Lana, Trina, Alec and Darnell wait with the rest
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After going under the knife once again, Tally has been transformed from a mindless pretty into a merciless killer.The rebels from the Smoke have returned and this time they brought a cure with them. As the cure takes over the population who suffered from the brain damage, the cities lose control over their citizens. Specials by Scott Westerfeld places Tally,
Read moreSixteen-year-old Cassie(Cassiopeia) Sullivan is one of the unlucky ones that survived all four waves. The first wave- lights out, half of a million people dead in one day. The third wave wiped out ninety-seven percent of humans with a pestilence. Now all four waves have passed and all her loved ones are gone, except for her little brother, Sammy, whom
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