Keep track of the title, author, and number of pages for each book. • Complete the Summer Reading Log by Friday, September 6, 2013. *Honors students: read 1500 pages. Calm down, Whiney McPanic. That’s like three books.
hero, author, explorer, cowboy, leader of the Rough Riders cavalry unit, and champion of the American presidency. Chiefly known for a fluffy stuffed animal. (Sigh.)
often terrifying account of a global apocalypse brought on by a transcendent AI that hijacks the planet's automation systems and uses them in a vicious attempt to wipe out humanity.” —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing “Robopocalypse is the kind of robot uprising novel that could only have been written in an era when robots are becoming an ordinary part of our lives. This isn’t speculation about a far- future world full of incomprehensible synthetic beings. It’s five minutes into the future of our Earth, full of the robots we take for granted. If you want a rip-roaring good read this summer, Robopocalypse is your book.” — io9.com
A JOB, SO HE TOOK TO KILLING. It was the family business. He barely liked his family—and by family he meant his older brother, Tom—and he definitely didn’t like the idea of “business.” Or work. The only part of the deal that sounded like it might be fun was the actual killing. He’d never done it before. Sure, he’d gone through a hundred simulations in gym class and in the Scouts, but they never let kids do any real killing. Not before they hit fifteen. “Why not?” he asked his Scoutmaster, a fat guy named Feeney who used to be a TV weatherman back in the day. Benny was eleven at the time and obsessed with zombie hunting. “How come you don’t let us whack some real zoms?” “Because killing’s the sort of thing you should learn from your folks,” said Feeney. Coming August 2013:
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that slaying some old-timey zombies was pretty dang awesometastic. A brief message from the 16th President of the United States: (What? Lincoln totally used the word awesometastic. I read all about it in my copy of Epic Slang of Ye Olde 1860s.)
her family, 17-year-old Jett Gallatin travels the frontier disguised as a male gunslinger, searching of for her brother and slaying some Old West zombies. Dead Reckoning by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill A zombie-steampunk-Western story set in 1867 Texas, soon after the Civil War. Y’all know you want to read this awesometastic book.
once- great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. “Mesmerizing…Bardugo’s set up is shiver-inducing, of the delicious variety. This is what fantasy is for.” --New York Times
is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Kazam—and for Jennifer. "Fantasy readers with a taste for the silly should appreciate the subverted tropes."--Kirkus The Last Dragonslayer By Jasper Fforde
and said, ‘Take my hand ...’ But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren’t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose—to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That’s why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world...
dealt a hard dose of reality this year. People hate. That's our reality. People hate and are hated and carry grudges and want punishments. I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do.” -Valerie
didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.”
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