Reading Abounds

Title:  Memory Boy Author: Will Weaver Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 194696 Description: Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city. Rubric Rating: Level 3: Laud It Why I Read It: This book was a recommended read from a co-worker. Lori's Notes:  Miles has absolutely no interest in completing his oral history project, he prefers to work with his hands, to tinker and build.  But when he gets paired with the cantankerous and elderly Hans, who has a keen knack for telling a story, Miles finds himself engaged in his stories of wilderness survival.  A series of volcanic eruptions has thrown the environment into chaos, Miles must use his tinkering skills to help move his family from a Minneapolis that is becoming more and more dangerous, to his family's summer cabin.  However, when they arrive, instead o...

Title: Thirteen Reasons Why Author: Jay Asher Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 40739 Description:   When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. Rubric Rating: Level 3 - Laud It Why I Read It : A friend recommended I add this book to my reading list.  I finished it in one sitting. Lori's Notes: Thirteen Reasons Why is an emotionally charged novel regarding the suicide of Hannah Baker.  The novel opens with Clay Jenkins holding a box.  The box contains 13 tapes recorded by Hannah Baker who we learn has recently committed suicide.  (It was not lost on me that this is a Baker's dozen).  Hannah records her 13 reasons with instructions to forward the tapes on to the next person on the list along with...

Title: Tuck Everlasting Author: Natalie Babbit Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 307191 Description: The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older. Rubric Rating: Level 4: Love It!  This is one of my all-time favourite books. Why I Read It: I first read this book when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I loved it.  I re-read it every now and again. Lori's Notes: I really enjoy this book and it's one of those stories that I can read again and again.  I am fascinated by the Tuck family and the idea of immortality.  Who hasn't wanted to live forever?  Not only are the Tuck's immortal but they are also ever youthful, never growing older and never changing. Jesse Tuck is stuck at 17 wandering the world with his parents and brother.  That is until he meets lonely Winnie Foster.  An on...