The sequel to I am Number Four, The Power of Six, is not going to hit the shelves until August 23. You can preview it, though, and read the first chapters. You can also like The Power of Six on Facebook and continue reading more! Click here to find The Power of Six in our catalog to place a hold on the book today!
THE POWER OF SIX – Chapeters 1 & 2
Here’s another two for one deal book trailer of the week. Most of you have probably heard of I Am Number Four, mostly because it was made into a movie earlier this year (see my previous post). Click here to find I am Number Four at the Library. Here’s the book’s trailer:
The latest book in the series, The Power of Six, will be out on bookshelves on August 23. Click here to find The Power of Six at the Library. Here’s the book trailer that was released this past week:
by Steven Layne
I read the book Mergers by Stephen Layne. It is a science fiction/fantasy novel. Between Dirk, Mateo, Keiko, and Nicci, the world as they know it is at risk. When a machine called the merger created by Senator Broogue combines all races in order to create “peace”, it does anything but that. When Dirk, Mateo, Keiko, and Nicci were kids, they knew they were different. Their skin wasn’t merged. If someone saw them they would be in great danger. Dr. Lisa Tyrone takes the kids in and raises them until Senator Broogue kills her. Along the way, the kids meet three people just like them. Soon they find out that the fate of the world is in their hands.
review submitted by Emily
Beatrice lives in Chicago– well actually she lives in Abnegation, one of the factions of Chicago. Everyone in Abnegation is self-less. There are four other factions: amity (friendship/peace), dauntless (fearless), erudite (intelligence), and candor( who always speak the truth). Beatrice is now 16, which means it’s time to figure out which faction she’ll spend the rest of her life in. If she doesn’t chose Abnegation, this choice also means cutting herself off from her Abnegation parents. A test, which is actually a simulation, helps decide which faction she would be best suited for, but Beatrice still has the final choice. Beatrice’s test doesn’t offer an conclusive results, her test proctor informs her that she’s a divergent. Being a Divergent means you are someone who doesn’t fit in any of the clearly defined factions, and is a result she must not share with anyone because the consequences could be terrible.
Which faction does Beatrice settle on? Dauntless, and the action ramps up from that point on. Beatrice, who now goes by Tris, finds out that even her though she has chosen Dauntless as her new faction this doesn’t mean they chose her. Only ten initiates will be accepted in the faction and the newbies must prove themselves by performing well in intense tasks like fighting, knife throwing, shooting, and most of all confronting and overcoming their fears. Tris seems to have the odds stacked against her since she was an Abnegation and kind of scrawny, but her determination and some support from one of the trainers, who’s named Four, help her stay in the running for a slot. While proving her worth to Dauntless, Tris also finds herself questioning the Dauntless and the other factions and their true motives. Her divergent-ness starts to become more apparent to not just her but to others who are secretly observing her. Will she be able to keep her secret and what does her divergence mean for the future of all of the factions?
“Always be courteous.”
“Academics are the key to success.”
“Studying is your top priority.”
“Healthy breakfasts make for smart minds”
What if messages like this ran through your head all day? What if while you were listening to your favorite CD you were being brainwashed at the same time? Well, then you’d be living in Candor, otherwise known as every parent’s dream. No one really knows about the messages, but what they do know is teenagers in Candor love to do chores, they get straight A’s, and no one is ever an outsider.
Meet Oscar, the founder of Candor’s son. He’s handsome, smart, popular, and seemingly perfect, except he’s found a way to fight the messages: to shut his brain off to them. He’s also found a way to make some money on the side byhelping free kids from Candor before they get sucked in by the messages, because once that happens you’ll be walking around like a programmed drone the rest of your life.
Oscar’s latest target for business is Nia, except that Oscar finds himself completely smitten by her. He must a make a decision to save Nia from the messages and never see her again, or keep her close and risk everything exposing everything.
Check out this week’s book trailer for Across the Universe by Beth Revis. Click here to find Across the Universe at the Library.
“It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure.”
In 95 days seventeen-year-old Lena is scheduled to have the procedure, which ensures she will never become infected with amor deliria nervosa, or love, the deadliest of all diseases. After her procedure she’ll be paired with a boy whom the evaluators have chosen for her. She won’t have to worry about love affecting her mind so she cannot think clearly, or rationally. After the procedure she will be safe and free from any pain that love might have brought her. However, one day when Lena and her best friend Hana are up for their evaluations, Lena sees a boy. Their eyes meet for a moment and then everything changes. A whole other version of the world she lives in is revealed to her because of this boy and her best friend Hana. Lena finds herself making choices that may seem irrational and she’s definitely not thinking clearly. Where do Lena’s choices lead her? Delirium by Lauren Oliver will infect you once you start reading it and you will find it very hard to put down. Your stomach will flutter with anticipation of what’s coming next and you might even find yourself falling in love with it. It’s quite contagious.
Keep up to date with author Lauren Oliver here.
All the new technology, electronics and gadgets are great right? All the information you need right at your finger tips! What if you could be connected to the internet, your friends, family, and the information you need -24/7? That would even better– right?
Feed by M.T. Anderson zooms right in on that issue and our possible future. In this future, people living in the United States, including Anderson’s main character Titus, now have transmitters in their brains. Transmitters broadcast a constant barrage of banner ads, news, and trends into your mind, that’s known as the “feed.” In school there’s no need for reading, research or writing things down because the “feed” will get you all the information you’re looking for. You don’t even need to open your mouth to talk to your friends you can hear them using the M-chat feature of the “feed.” Nice huh?
Titus and his friends decide to go up to the moon to party and that’s where he meets Violet. Violet is homeschooled and her transmitter is older and she’s not a big fan of the “feed.” Not to mention her transmitter is always malfunctioning and the government refuses fix it, which means eventually Violet will completely shut down. Violet challenges Titus’ view of the “feed” and the society they live in, but Titus has a hard time coming to terms with the truth. Are those lesions sprouting up on everyone’s face really supposed to help you get a date? Is the news from the government broadcasted on the “feed” even real? What’s the true purpose of the “feed” and who really controls it? After reading Feed you’re guaranteed to give the direction technology is headed in a second thought.
