Showing posts with label Alex Morel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Morel. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Snow Day!

Hope everyone's enjoying their snow day...I'm still at the library!  So I thought that i would dig up some snow/winter related books for you.  Enjoy~


Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

Holiday Princess by Meg Cabot
Princess Mia presents a guide to the winter holidays, including the story behind some traditions, gift suggestions, make-up and fashion tips for seasonal parties, recipes, and craft ideas.

Let it Snow by various authors
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town.

Rink of Dreams by Nancy Russell
Anything seems possible to 13 year-old Gary when he's on his backyard rink. However, things aren't so easy outside of his backyard. Gary finds that his first year of bantam hockey is tough and that his recently separated parents are dating other people. The positive things in Gary's life include the arrival of the New Mexico Snow Dogs (a farm team) to his hometown and his new friendship with Dmitri. However, Dimitri's brother gets involved with the Russian mafia and the Snow Dogs consider leaving for a bigger city.

Survive by Alex Morel
A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.

Sweet Treats and Secret Crushes by Lisa Greenwald
When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.

Trapped by Michael Northrup
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.

Monday, November 5, 2012

New November Books~ Part 2

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself--embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle.

 Survive by Alex Morel
A troubled girl is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the only other boy left alive.

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.

Burning Blue by Paul Griffin
When beautiful, smart Nicole, disfigured by acid thrown in her face, and computer hacker Jay meet in the school psychologist's office, they become friends and Jay resolves to find her attacker.

34 Pieces of You by Carmen Rodrigues
After Ellie dies of a drug overdose, her brother, her best friend, and her best friend's sister face painful secrets of their own when they try to uncover the truth about Ellie's death.