Reading Abounds

Title: As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth Author: Lynne Rae Perkins Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 44333 Description: A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck. Rubric Rating: Level 3 - Laud It Why I Read It: Looking for a fun read that would be good for a boy. Lori's Notes: A series of comedic events lead to the isolation of Ry from his family.  Trying to phone his grandfather Ry gets off his train and left behind in Montana, his parents are sailing in the Caribbean and his grandfather isn't answering the phone.  The dogs (who receive their own chapters in graphic novel format) are trying to make their way back to their old home and no one seems to be able to find each other.  There were moments that had me giggling but I have to admit that throughout the novel I was waiting for "something bad to happen" and while bad things do happen they'r

Title: The Uninvited Author:  Tim Wynne-Jones ***Canadian Author*** Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 34459 Description: Mimi arrives at her father's vacation cottage and is surprised to find someone living there. She's even more surprised when the someone accuses her of leaving strange and threatening tokens inside. Now she must figure out who's responsible and, more importantly, what they want? Rubric Rating: Level 2 - Like It Why I Read It: I had already read a couple of titles by Wynne-Jones and picked this up as part of an author study. Lori's Notes: This book was not what I was expecting from the cover.  I was expecting more of a supernatural story, perhaps a haunted house, but this novel was nothing like that at all.  After a bad break up, Mimi travels to Canada to spend time at her estranged father's cabin but finds someone else living there.  Turns out she isn't an only child and has a stepbrother. They are plagued by break-ins and strange messag

Title: Across the Universe Series: Across the Universe (Vol. 1) Author: Beth Revis Perma-Bound Catalogue #: 49097 Description: Seventeen-year-old Amy awakes from frozen animation to find herself hundreds of years in the future and racing to save herself and the inhabitants of the spaceship Godspeed. Rubric Rating: Level 3 - Laud It Why I Read It: I have been reading a lot of dystopian titles and was looking for something a little different. Lori's Notes: Amy is cryogenically frozen, along with her parents and a few hundred scientists and technicians, to travel to Centauri-Earth to start a colonization project.  A trip that should take 300 years. But something has gone wrong - someone is unplugging and killing people.  Amy survives and meets Elder, the next leader of the ship GodSpeed.  Elder is being taught by Eldest to lead the now monoethnic inhabitants of the ship. But who is the strange man who looks so much like Elder and who is unplugging the frozen people fro