CGHS Library

Happy Halloween

Wake (FIC McMann)

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old.

She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant.... (from Lisa McMann's site)

The reason these books are in the library is because Morgan Lansing told me they are good. They might be just the thing for the weekend before Halloween. (MH)

Darkside (FIC Becker )

Debut novelist Tom Becker transports readers to the thrilling, often creepy (and at times grisly) Darkside in this first book of a new series that fans of horror, adventure and Victorian history will enjoy. Without a doubt, they will look forward to the release of its sequel, LIFEBLOOD. (Read the entire review at teenreads.com.)

Fairy Bad Day (FIC Ashby)

Timothy Frese made so much fun of this book cover that I had to read the book.

The verdict?

Well, it isn't Hogwarts, and it isn't Sunnydale either, but Burtonwood Academy trains slayers, and though Emma desperately wants to be assigned to slay dragons, she finds she is stuck with fairies instead.

" 'Emma, really, it's not that bad,' Loni said reassuringly.

'Of course it's that bad,' Emma responded to her friend from the other end of her cell phone. She took out a tiny crossbow, which looked more like something that belonged to a Pocahontas Barbie than a slaying kit. 'I'm stuck in the mall hunting down a pack of ten-inch fairies, one of whom is wearing an AC/DC t-shirt and leopard skin leggings. It couldn't possibly get any worse.' "

The Bat Scientists (599.4 Carson)

In honor of the bats of CGHS, I bought The Bat Scientists. It's a quick read.

"When I hear Shakespeare, I feel like this big door is opening, and something terrible and wonderful is about to happen." Iraqi student Khende Asaad at auditions for an upcoming production of Macbeth at the American University of Iraq.

National Book Award Finalists

The only one of these that CGHS Library has so far is Chime. I will probably order the others, but speak up if you are particularly interested in one of them, and I will order faster.