Young Adults Choices 2005

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Young Adults Choices: O, P

Odom, Mel	The Destruction of Books
	Wick, having devoted his life to preserving books and the knowledge they contain, has worked his way up to the position of Grandmagister Lamplighter of the Great Library and enlisted an assistant, Juhg, who discovers a book in goblin hands which leads to revelations of evil and danger that could lead to the destruction of the books.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I liked the magical books, especially the fire books that fell into the ocean.
2	It is great for the adventure and the fantasy. My favorite part is the one when they had to fight the Grimplings.

Oppel, Kenneth	Airborne
	Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I liked this book because it was off the edge of your text kind of book. I enjoy action and adventure books. This is definitely one of the best.
2	One of the best books I have ever read; a great adventure for anyone and it looks long but is a quick read that pulls you in.
2	Fantastic read - original and intricate in every detail.
1	It was suspenseful, but some parts were dragged out.
1	It has a really good fantasy plot - but is a little "out there."
2	This was a really good book and a page turner. It may seem long, but once you get into it, it's a quick read.
2	I like this because the main character finds this girl he likes on his airship. Later on in the book he finds her and they get married.

Packer, Alex J.	How Rude, The! Handbook of Family Manners for Teens: Avoiding Strife in Family Life
	Presents a handbook of family manners for teens and includes ten rudest things teens do at home, fifty commandments of family etiquette, table manners, sharing a room, writing thank-you notes, and how to solve a variety of family problems.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I liked how it states interesting manners not boring. It says things I want to know.
2	Funny how this book can stop your parents from docking your allowance.
2	It truely gave me a lot of tips on being a better person. I also learned a lot about manners from this book.

Packer, Alex J.	How Rude, The! Handbook of Friendship & Dating Manners for Teens: Surviving the Social Scene
	Offers advice to teens on how to observe the rules of etiquette as they relate to friendship, romance, and sex.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I love the way it tells you how to act, what to do and what not to do.
2	It was a good book and I learned soment friendship manners. Also some do's and don'ts.
2	It told me how to keep my friends & gave me manners I hadn't heard of.
2	I learned something. I found some stuff I could improve on.
2	It had a little humor and reality.
2	It gave some great advice. Some of it was kind of weird, though.
1	I liked the part when they said who pays for what; I learned I should think before talking.

Packer, Alex, J.	How Rude! The Handbook of School Manners for Teens: Civility in the Hallowed Halls
	A brief history of manners. Presents lists of manners and rules of etiquette for students and teachers designed to make school a nicer place to spend time, covering classroom and locker-room etiquette,and offering advice on clothing, dealing with bullies, handling crushes on teachers, behaving at sports events and graduation, and other topics.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
1	It was a good book that talked about everything you should do and shouldn't do.
2	I liked how it told how to be good at school; how to be nice to others.
2	I liked how it told you how not to be rude in school.
1	I liked this book because it gave some helpful hints and had some manners that I didn't know.
2	I learned a lot from the book and some of the examples I could really relate to.
2	I liked how this book gives you cool and interesting facts about manners and only tell you the things you need to know.
2	I like how this book gave you interesting manners, not the boring ones.
2	It told you how to be good in school and how to be nice to others.

Pascal, Francine	The Ruling Class
	Sick of being bullied and harassed, a new girl at a wealthy suburban Dallas high school plots revenge on the girls in the ruling clique.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	This book described cliques in high school really well and how catty girls can be to each other.
2	This book was a slow start but then amazing. It taught a good lesson about how girls can be so mean at times but can get a taste of their own medicine.

Peck, Robert Newton	Bro
	Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather's Florida cattle ranch.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
1	It was a bit of a slow read for me. It didn't captivate me like other books.
2	This was a heart-warming story of two brothers. It truly shows that sometimes words aren't enough.

Perkins, Mitali	Monsoon Summer
	Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I really enjoyed this book.
1	It was kinda boring and it wasn't a book that I would usually read.
1	Jazz is complicated and a bit selfish. The chapters are a little long.
2	Sweep you off your feet romance!
2	It was the best book I've ever read. I could see what was happening in my mind it was so detailed. It made me sad and extremely happy. Top notch in my opinion.

Peters, Julie Anne	Luna
	Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I liked the book because the author made everything feel real. Like you could actually feel how the main character felt.
2	i liked how you didn't know until the end of the book - if Liam was ever going to tell his dad about him really being a girl & I like how the book kept me guessing and hooked to the end.
2	It was a really good book.
1	The book was very strange. The topic is strange about a gender confused male who wants to be a girl.
1	Transgender is kind of a ify topic to me and because of it I didn't enjoy it as much as I would've. To me it's hard to swallow the concept of it. I feel that if you don't completely understand transgender it'll be hard to understand Luna, and I think that was my case.
2	Mesmerizing and enchanting. Well written. "Seeing is believing." Emotional.

Petersen, P.J. and Ivy Ruckman	rob&sara.com
	Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers, and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via E-mail.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
1	I really didn't like the e-mail format. It was kinda confusing.
2	A bit slow and not much of an ending.
2	This was an interesting book. Not very realistic at some points, but still an absolute great read.
2	I loved everything about the book. How it was written and what happened and the people.
2	Really interesting. I liked the e-mails.
2	Really interesting because it was true.
2	I liked it when they talked about Rob sneaking out of the rehab place.
2	I can relate to this because I have been e-mailing my friend for three years since he moved to Oklahoma.
2	It is an awesome page turner with an excellent surprising ending!
1	The book is kinda good but is kinda boring cause all it is is e-mails but it also is the kinda book that I would read.

Philbrick, Rodman	The Young Man and the Sea
	After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	Great adventure.
2	This is an excellent story. I enjoyed the adventure and conflict and how young Swiff resolved his problems through hard work.
2	I liked the fish putting the young man into the boat.
2	I didn't think Skiff was going to be able to catch that tuna, but I was wrong. I liked how Tyler got in trouble for cutting the traps.

Pierce, Meredith Ann	Waters Luminous & Deep
	Contains eight shorter fiction works by fantasy writer Meredith Ann Pierce, each of which features water in a prominent way.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
1	I thought the book needed a center of focus. The stories are confusing and most make no sense.


Pike, Christopher	Alosha
	Ali Warner stumbles on a plot by a neighboring dimension to invade and destroy the earth and finds out that she has been chosen to intervene and save the human race.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	I thought the book was good because of all that happens.
2	An overall good book. I really appreciated the twist at the ending.
1	I think it's boring because it was slow and didn't get my attention very fast.
2	I really liked it
2	Some parts were really weird and confusing but the suspense just made you want to continue to read and the ending was something you wouldn't expect.
2	This was so good. It was surprising at the end.

Piquemal, Michael and Melissa Daly	When Life Stinks: How to Deal With Your Bad Moods, Blues, and Depression
	Offers suggestions for young adults on overcoming depression and the blues connected with puberty and addresses issues dealing with the physical and emotional changes that occur as a result of growing up.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	Good. Helps you with problems.
1	I could relate to what the book was talking about, but it was not great.
2	This is a good book if you want to learn about what will happen in your life and how to deal with situations.
2	I liked this book because it give great tips on how to succeed and helps you a lot.
1	Of all the symptoms, I think suicide is the worst. I don't think I'm depressed.

Pratchett, Terry	Hat Full of Sky, A
	Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
2	This book was a great sequel and answered a lot of questions from the first.



Price, Susan	Sterkarm Kiss
	The Time Tube has opened again between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, and a wedding is arranged between the Sterkarms and the Grannams, catching Andrea up in the disastrous consequences.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
1	I liked the Medieval aspect of the book. It was a little romantic for me. It looked very familiar from other books - like Timeline and The Lord of the Rings.


Provoost, Anne	In the Shadow of the Ark
	Re Jana, a young healer and masseuse, believes that Noach's son Ham, the married object of her affection, will save her and her family if his father's terrifying predictions about a great flood sent from God come true.
Student Rating:	Student Review:
0	This book was horrible. it was blasphemous and blatantly contradicted Scripture. The content was inappropriate.
0	The book has an advanced plot line and it includes many interesting details and descriptions, but the characterization is not as good (to me). The main characters have too radical beliefs. In addition, I do not like that at the end of the book the main characters are being "mixed" in all those ill/dirty sexual relationships.