https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d Books that I have read this year. en-us 2017-08-10 01:45:37 UTC 2023-02-25 08:46:16 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.columbiactlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/books.png johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180552859 In this great book, a 12 year-old girl finds her inner entrepreneur in order save her family's pharmacy as they battle to stay in business. With the stress of the pharmacy, Lucy’s mom and grandma, co-owners of the business, are always fighting. While they are bickering, Lucy starts researching ways to save the pharmacy, and her family. When she finds her business saving idea, will her mom and grandma listen to a 12 year-old, or will they even stop arguing for long enough  to contemplate it?

]]> 2017-08-10 01:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180552859 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180552988 At the end of the first book, Lucy had won a grant to extend her family’s pharmaceutical business by building an eco-spa. Now, that her dreams are becoming a reality, with their work on the spa starting, and her sister coming home, Lucy expects the perfect summer. Her ideas of a flawless summer vanish when her sister brings home a new boyfriend and their investor brings his annoying daughter. On top of that, Lucy herself is having boy trouble. Will she let these setbacks ruin her summer, or will she get her perfect summer back?

]]> 2017-08-10 01:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180552988 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553094 In this book Lucy committed to making it the perfect year. She wants to  have a perfect year with her family business, a pharmacy and newly opened eco spa. She wants to have the perfect year with her best friend. Lucy also wants to have the perfect year with her boyfriend. The eco spa and pharmacy are doing well. Lucy gets into a fight with her best friend, Sunny, and her boyfriend is now in highschool and has not texted her in weeks. If Lucy ignores the problems will they go away or only cause more trouble?]]> 2017-08-10 01:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553094 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553234 This is a great book about a 13 year old math prodigy named Ben Ripley. One day,  spy legend Alexander Hale, visits Ben with a scholarship to spy school. The only catch is that he can not tell his parents and will not be able to visit them. When Ben gets to spy school, he realizes that he is not to be cut out to be a spy and becomes suspicious as to why they chose him. Will Ben figure out what they are up to before its to late?]]> 2017-08-10 01:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553234 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553273 I picked this book because my librarian told me to read it in elementary school, and I never did.  This is a great book about a boy named Ben's story told in words, and a girl named Rose who's story is told in sketches. Read the book to see how their stories connect in the end.]]> 2017-08-10 01:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553273 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553313 This is a story about how a socially awkward teenage girl faces the biggest tragedy of her life. Willow's parents both die the same day, in car crashes. A few days before this, Willow is unjustly accused of cheating on a test. She is sent to a counselor as a consequence. One day her counselor is driving Willow and her new friend Mai home when they see police in front of her house. When they find out her parents have both just died, Mai is determined to help Willow out. Will Mai find a way to make Willow happy again, or will the tragedy be to much to bear?]]> 2017-08-10 01:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/180553313 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/181193637 This is a great book about a boy, Aaron who has photographic memory, and a girl, Audrey who is a human lie detector. When their "unsuperpowers" cause trouble in their social lives, they are both sent to a 6 week wilderness camp in the desert. The first 2 weeks of the camp are hard, but go relatively smoothly. Then disaster hits, will Aaron, Audrey, and their two new friends survive solving the mystery of the missing girl?]]> 2017-08-16 04:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/181193637 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/182373141 This is a great book about a girl named Hazel's teenage years after she was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer. Hazel Grace was 16 when her mother decided she was depressed, they decided the best way to help her was a cancer support group. Hazel was reluctant to go, but quickly realizes it was worth her time when she sees a cute guy who seems to like her too. They soon bond over Hazel's favorite book, and gradualy fall in love. Both Agustus, who has osteosarcoma, are not afraid of death itself, but of hurting eachother. Who will survive this trajic love story, and who will die?]]> 2017-08-23 16:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/182373141 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/184230771 This is a great book about the year, a girl's life changed forever. Há, her mother, and three brothers live in Saigon. When the war is getting to close for comfort they board an escape ship to the US. When they get there they wait in an immigrant camp for some kind American to sponsor their family of five's new life. One day a man, who Há thinks is  acowboy because of his hat, agrees to sponsor them. At school, Há gets made fun of because  she can not speek english well, and because she is different. Will Há and her family make America home, or will the pain of leaving Saigon be to much to bear?]]> 2017-09-01 15:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/184230771 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/186828923 After a year of spy school, Ben Ripley is ready to have the best summer ever with his parents and best friend. Soon those hopes are smashed by reality, Ben has to go to spy camp. Once he gets there, he gets a death note from their enemy agency, SPYDER. Will Ben and Erica survive long enough to thwart SPYDERS plans, or will Erica's dad's major screw-ups be the end of them all?  ]]> 2017-09-12 15:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/186828923 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/188516115 This is a great book about a cyborg teen named Cinder. She is a renowned mechanic  in her city, New Bejing, so one day the prince comes and asks her to fix his android. During the job, Prince Kai developes feelings for Cinder and asks her to be his partner to the ball, but she refuses not wanting him to know that she is a cyborg. Cinder also is threatened by another chalange, the plage is raging through her city,  it kills her stepsister and her stepmother blames Cinder. They start a cyborg draft  to find an antidote, and her stepmother signs her up as punishment, this is a death sentance. Will she make it out of the lab alive, or will this be the end of Cinder's story?]]> 2017-09-18 15:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/188516115 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201238570 Scarlet Benoit is an 18 year old girl from France. Some time ago she ran away from home and is now living with her grandma. One day her grandma disapears leaving only her blodied tracking chip behind, the town is convinced she was a crazy lady who comitted suicide, but Scarlet knows she wouldn't have left her on purpose. Will Scarlet find her Grandmere and save her before it is to late, or will she wind up saving the entire world instead? ]]> 2017-10-27 15:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201238570 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201239681 Cress was born a shell in Luna. This is one of the largest crimes you can commit. Not being able to munipulate minds, or be munipulated is a crime punished by death. Or so the citizens of luna are told, in reality they are held in capsles  where there blood is slowly being drained ot of their bodies. Cress is savedfrom this fate by being wonderful at hacking. She is imprisoned on her satelight and knows nothig but her computer and tv. But while watching footage of Earth, she realizes she has been doing somthing horrible that could end life on earth. Will she be able to stop Levana before it is too late, or will she never escape her satellight?]]> 2017-10-27 15:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201239681 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201241197 Winter Hayle is raised as the Princess of Luna. She is the stepdaughter of the imposter queen and cusin of the true queen. Winter like all lunars has the 'gift' of mind minupulation, but unlike most lunars she does not use it. This has driven her mad. WInter is beautiful and everyone loves her, including her gaurd and closest friend Jacin. She loves him back, the only difference is that she is not afraid to show her feelings, while his are hidden under his armor. One day the queen imposter Levana decides that the citizens love winter too much and orders Jacin to kill her. Will he go through with it or will they end up killing Levana instead?]]> 2017-10-27 15:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201241197 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201243212 This is a great book about the villans backstory. In the rest of the books Levana is portraed as the power hungry imposter queen, but in most of this book, she is the bullied little sister. Before Levana has matured enough to resist mind minipulation, her sister forces her to walk into their fireplace at their castle. Any feelings she had towards her sister were burned along with her beauty. She started wearing a glamor all of the time. She falls in love with one of her gaurds, there is only oneproblem. He is married and his wife is wih child. His wife dies durring child birth and Levana forces him to marry her soon after. Her sister is also pregnant, has her child and dies of lung poisining soon after. Levana likes being queen and does not want her niece to take that away from her. Will Levana go through with killing her own niece or will she give up her crown instead?]]> 2017-10-27 15:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/201243212 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/207498450 2017-11-16 01:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/207498450 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/207787080 Have you ever wondered what the Queen of hearts was like as a child? Was she a lovestuck teenager? Was she born into the crown or married into it? What happened in her life to make her turn mad? Who took away her heart, and most importantly when was her first "off with his head"? ]]> 2017-11-16 17:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/207787080 johannat2022 https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/224911560 This is a great book about a true Holocaust survival story. Although it is a great book, it is not a book for kids our age. It was a very hard read with many heavy subjects. This book is about his life surviving in Natzi labor camps. By th end of the book he has lost his mom, dad, and 3 sisters. ]]> 2018-01-26 01:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/johannat2022/2aafukw9iq7d/wish/224911560