https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v Made with a dash of wit en-us 2018-03-27 12:52:22 UTC 2018-03-27 15:28:10 UTC hello@padlet.com EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246468541 This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.

It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world. ]]> 2018-03-27 13:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246468541 EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246468945 This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City.

When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever]]> 2018-03-27 13:07:28 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246468945 EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469516 Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…

But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?]]> 2018-03-27 13:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469516 EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469579 Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse—Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena—Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]> 2018-03-27 13:08:26 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469579 EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469601 When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth.

But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.]]> 2018-03-27 13:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469601 EmilyGravesASD https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469755 In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he's finally gone crazy. But the animals have something to say. And they need him. The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester's help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an overenthusiastic wolf cub, a military-trained cockroach, a mouse with a ritual for everything, and a stubborn girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. But can Kester save the animals?]]> 2018-03-27 13:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/EmilyGravesASD/kwpzilo14q3v/wish/246469755