1) Brainstorm the most important things about the book that you would use to get someone’s interest.
2) Hint Review: Using hint writing you will write a book review using exactly 25 words to tell your audience what the book is about / NO SPOILERS! / Just give your audience enough of a hint to see if they want to try reading it.
- Use strong words / Be precise / No wasted words / If a word doesn’t add some meaning, it shouldn’t be included.
- Titles and Author don’t count
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Payback Time by Carl Deuker
ReplyDeleteTeen Reporter searching for truth. Football mystery: Who’s this Angel all star? Undercover narc? How are gangs and guns involved? Who’ll get payback and how?
Mod 2
ReplyDeleteHelmet hitting, sugar bombing, window smashing. One kid meets one man and his life turns upside down. Kid get suspicious! Guess what he finds out!
Replay by Sharon Creech
ReplyDeleteWho is Fog Boy, Sardine? Autobiography?Tappety Tap. Who's white dog is that? Who's Rosaria?I want the lead in the play, Rumpopo. End Scene.
Snap By Carol Snow
ReplyDeleteCamera shutter. Death predictions. Sweaty palms, shivers up my spine. Do I really belong here. Psychic Photo. Ocean front town. My terrible scary new life.
"The London Eye Mystery" by, Siobhan Dowd
ReplyDeleteAdolescent sleuth. How did cousin escape sealed pod? Whereabouts unknown. Who's boy in morgue? Siblings work in tandem. Lies spoken. Cops baffled. Perfect crime. Solved?
Twisted by Laurie Anderson
ReplyDeleteFathers working party, cut foot, new girlfriend. Jail. Drunk party, jail again? Who's missing? Where'd they go? Why'd they run away? Will he commite suicide?
North of Beautiful by:Justina Chen Headley
ReplyDeleteTerra hates her permanent birthmark she feels ugly with the blotch on her cheek. trip to Japan, New people, a changed mom, a new Terra?
Tiger Eyes
ReplyDeleteDead father plus stressed mother equals, vacation to aunt and uncles. How she gets over it: She talks with someone with a tragedy like hers.
24 girls in 7 days by Alex Bradley
ReplyDeleteOnline ad for prom date. 2 weeks before prom. No date. Mysterious e-mails. Who's fancypants? lies from friends? doing favors brings a reward. what's mine?
Two dreams: Softball and trumpeting combine. The decision between making your dreams real, or your love's dreams real. What will he choose: Trumpt or softball?
ReplyDeleteSomeone like you: Sarah Dessen
ReplyDeleteHalley's life starts to go down hill soon after the death of best friends boyfriend. Shortly after, realizing Scarlett is carrying the dead boyfriends baby.
Witch and Wizard: James Patterson
ReplyDeleteTwo extraordinary kids. Witch? Wizard? What is this New Order? Kidnappers? Murderers? Where do the kids go through the portal? How will they stay away?
Alexa Francis Mod:2
ReplyDelete" A Child Called "IT"
Psychotic Mother. Childrens fear. Eat off the table. Armycoat for a blanket. Praying, trying, to get out of middle of no where. Nightmare ever end?
Nailer a teenage boy faces the most difficult decision of his life. A chance at a great life, or killing someone for a small wealth.
ReplyDelete"Rangers Apprentice"
ReplyDeleteTrain to be the best. Practice, Don't fail. Master the longbow. Kill the beast. Save the castle, From a runt to a hero. True ranger.
Keeper
ReplyDeleteThirteen year old boy? Famous but dead soccer player? In the wood alone before dark? Game in town? Who will win or what will happen?
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
ReplyDeleteBy: Sonya Sones
She's popular, he isn't. Students dislike them dating. How does there relationship play out? How do they overcome the obstacles that people throw at them?
Abraham lincoln is as we all know him as one the presidents of the united states. But he has a darker, bloodier, scarier side.
ReplyDeleteMaximum Ride: The Angel experiment by James Patterson
ReplyDelete6 kids on a mountain. No parents, 98% human 2% bird. Always on the run. California, New York, falcons. Kidnapping, torture, epic fights, death, reuniting, freedom
Julie Of The Wolfs
ReplyDeleteFlees horrible marriage, worse weather, lost in wasteland, will she survive, starving for freedom. One with the pack. In the time for hunt, nothing's safe.
Speak
ReplyDeleteby: Laurie Halse Anderson
Friendless. Abandoned. Speechless. Shocking. What happened? No one knows. No one to talk to. Parents don't know. Tough love. Always alone. Hated. Helpless. Questions. Answers.
Scott Pilgrim vol 1-6 by Bryan Lee o'malley. Fight against mystical X's 7 left. Epic battles turned into classic video game graphics. Rock battles sex bob-omb. Fight for a girl facing the past.
ReplyDeleteUglies(1st Book)-Scott Westerfield
ReplyDeleteUgly. A silver heart pendant. The Specials are coming. The betrayal of her friends. A great escape, back to square one. What will happen next?
Dreamland
ReplyDeleteBy: Sarah Dessen
Run away Cas leaves family. Sister becomes a depressed cheerleader. Falls in love with a pothead, Does she become one? Is she abused? Who helps?
Paper Towns by John Green
ReplyDeleteBad night. Stupid night. Falls in love in eight hours. Unforgettable girl runs away. Is she dead? Music and books lead to trip. Gone again.
Paper Towns By: John Green
ReplyDeletePopular girl. Misunderstood. Nerd in love. Sneaking out. Adventure. Running away. Clues. Abandoned buildings. Writing stories. Skipping graduation determined to find her alive or dead.
Mod:4
ReplyDeleteThe Hunger Games
Taking her sister's place. Free-for-all fighting, or is it? Will she escape with her life? Blood spills for government entertainment. Children will die.
(Shift,Jennifer Bradbury): Will he be accused forever? Biking trip. Friend disapears. Left alone. Secretes. While searching for his friend, a discovery. Could he ever find his friend?
ReplyDeleteDeath Troopers by Joe Schreiber.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars, space zombies, space prison, betrayal, family, deception, "They woke up.", blood, horror, hunger, revenge, horrible deaths, plague, can you ask for anything better?!
jennifer hughes mod 7
ReplyDeleteCloaked In Red by Vivian Vande Velde
One story, eight different tellings; magical cloak, near-sighted woods cutter, life size doll, woods short-cut, wolf seen in different ways. Only one is the truth.
Titans Curse by Rick Riordan
ReplyDeleteHuman or not? What did I do? A teammate born in Tartarus. Rising of an invincible force. It all starts at sixteen. Threatening the gods.
hunger game
ReplyDeleteby: Suzan Collins
arrows are flying around only way out is to survive and kill or get killed. going from having nothing to lose to crowed favorite
Rot and Ruin by jonathen maberry
ReplyDeleteDouse a 15 year old boy get a job? Who went missing and were did they go? war. death. one who gone comes back.
Penalty Shot by Matt Christopher
ReplyDeleteJeff and Kevin are best friends on the starting lineup in hockey. It is an adventure and mystery on the ice. Who is sabotaging Jeff?
Angel by James Patterson
ReplyDeleteCan part-avian kids stop trying to kill each other in time to save the world? Who is the villainous Doomsday group? Can they survive together?
Num8ers by Rachel Ward
ReplyDeleteShe sees them everywhere, she cant escape seeing death.Just keep your head down and you cant see them. On the run from her gift.
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
ReplyDeleteTeenage millionare/criminal and his bodyguard fight goblins and criminals with faries helping him. But these aren't funny little gnomes. They're armed and they're dangerous.
One of those hideous books where the mother dies by: Sonya Sones
ReplyDeleteMom died moves to different state, meets father, moves in with, will she like her father? New school, new transitions, no friends, will she adjust?
Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
ReplyDeleteCaitlins life is falling apart. Mom breaksdown, her sister Cass runs away, and she is being abbused by her drug dealer boyfriend. Will she survive?
Dad dies,son gets superpowers. Son meets dads trainer, evil? Ucle says evil, moms helps sennators. Son fights bads, saves sennators life. Whoos chasing who?HERO by Mike Lupica
ReplyDeleteTeen boy lost in the desert. Summer fun? Mystery town? Seem duck tape fixes everything? Missing releatives. Dogs gone free. Bottom of a hole. Missing
ReplyDeleteSleeping Freshman Never Lie
ReplyDeleteBy David Lubar
Losing friends? Piece of cake. Gaining them? Different story. Social skills tougher than textbooks. Between pregnant mom and dream girl, Scott finally needs some assistance.
Patrick Tracy
ReplyDeleteMod 1
Reality Check
Author: Peter Abrahams
The book is about a Kid who is a great football player and gets injured.And his girlfriend missing.Go to vermont looking for girlfriend.
The Scorch Trials By James Patterson
ReplyDeleteBrains Wiped. Will they ever find their way out of the scorch? Will they find the cure to the Flare? Only the end will tell.
Angus thongs and full-frontal snogging by Louise Rennison
ReplyDeleteObsessive about boys and father leaving the family across the world and the oddest friends in the world and dreams being answered and then crushed.
Thirteen Reasons Why by: Jay Asher
ReplyDeleteHannah Baker. Quiet girl. Suicide. Reason? Nobody knows. Clay Jenson and the other twelve. Each tape a thousand words but one meaning. Life changing secret.
Mortal Engines
ReplyDeleteby Philip Reeves
Mechanical moving cities post-apocalypse.
Eating each other to survive. Tom uncovers historian's secret. Gets thrown off city. Epic journey back to London. Epic Sci-Fi adventure.
Hero by Mike Lupica
ReplyDeleteMysterious father. President's assistant. Superpowers? Freak plane crash. Kid inherits father's powers. "Trust no one." Bads everywhere. What's the truth? Who's he really? Daunting ending.
deadly little secret by laurie stolarz
ReplyDeleteBen the new kid...killer? or lifesaver? psychometry? seeing things through touch? impossible...or is it?....Camelia stalked? threatening notes...kidnaped drugged...needs bens help
The Maze Runner
ReplyDeleteby James Dashner
Thomas, new to the Glade. Mindwiped and confused, thrown into Glader life. Desperate to be a runner. Murder attempt. Mystery of the maze stays unsolved?
Elsewhere
ReplyDeleteby Gabrielle Zevin
Crash. Death at fifteen. Welcome to Elsewhere. New everything. Does Liz like it? Falling in love? Emily comes. Liz becomes "sneaker." Will she be saved?
Thirteen Reasons Why
ReplyDeleteBy: Jay Asher
Hannah comitted suicide. Why? Thirteen people. They all have done something teribble. They will soon know and have to pass it on to twelve others.
The Perfect Storm
ReplyDeleteBy Sebastian Junger:
1991:Fishing town,Gloucester MA hit with category 5 hurricane.Andreia Gail fishing 100 miles off shore with hurricane coming.Can they make it in?
Silverfin By: Charlie Higinson
ReplyDeleteWhat starts as a calming family visit turns into, fight for survival over a mutating serum and a trigger happy Lord vs Bond, James Bond
Z by Michael Thomas Ford
ReplyDeleteLike Zombies? Real Zombies? How about flamethrowers? Hungry for a killing spree? Feel like being a hero? Then join the IRL. Torch some real meatbags.
Fallen Angels by: Walter Dean Myers
ReplyDeleteNeeds money. Only option? Army, vietnam experience. Friends lost, friends gained. Purple Hearts? Return to squad. Going home. Body bag or not.
Along For the Ride
ReplyDeleteby Sarah Dessen
A social outcast with a chance at a wild ride to a new life. So many things from a lost child hood to make up for with the help of the intriguing loner Eli. An introductory to girl world, delicious onion rings at the Last Chance, and exciting adventures at the Tip in Colby. Making the transaction from geek girl to summer fun.
Guy cheating. Girl throws fish. Bullies eyebrow ripped off. Girl dissapears. Lover follows the clues. Road trip! Guys in dresses. Does she survive in papertown?
ReplyDeleteProms cancelled! Money stolen. The clock is ticking school gym/or hotel. How can one girl put on prom? Will she get her Cinderella night?
ReplyDeleteRanger's Apprentice: Halt's Peril
ReplyDeleteGenovesians led to woods. Bad Guy hit one left. Bad guy going back to leader. Will bad guy ever die? Will Halt survive poisoned bolt?
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
ReplyDeleteProblems at home. Joins the war. Vietnam consumes his friends around him one by one. Continuously told the war is almost over. Will he survive?
Papertowns
ReplyDeleteJohn Green
Guy cheating. Girl throws fish. Bullies eyebrow gets ripped off. girl dissipears.lover follows the clues. Road trip! guys in dresses. Does she survive paper town.
Just Don't Fall by Josh Sundquist
ReplyDeleteA cancer patient for one year. Amputee for sixteen. Paralympian Ski Racer at age 26. Motivational Speeches, to Youtube. "One More Thing, One More Time."
Chanting, hampton under a stadium illuminated by lights. His senior year, allstar linebacker. College? Can HE pull of 5 undefeated seasons? Why her? Bush girl?
ReplyDeleteThe Prince of Mist
ReplyDeleteby Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Family seeking peace and harmony. Moves from the city to a small town. Rumors of ghosts spread. Family must get over ghost story, move on.
Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteby Suzanne Collins
Mining explosion, Hunting for food poverty, wealth. A symbol of freedom and rebellion. Friendship, safety, an arena for the game, reminding us of the war.
Justin Bieber First Step 2 Forever:My Story
ReplyDeleteBy: Justin bieber
Living the dream. Climbing the totem pole of life. Religious. From Stratford. Youngest star ever known. Taught himself everything he knows. Kept his head up.
Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteby: Suzanne Collins
Teenage bloodbath. Last one standing wins. Rules changed. Who wins? What creatures come? Who forms alliances? Who falls in love? Who runs Hunger Games? Why?
Uglies
ReplyDeleteTally cant wait to turn sixteen and pretty. But when shay leaves, Special Cicmustances forces tally to choose between revealing smoke and staying ugly forever.
Fade by Lisa McMann
ReplyDeleteHuman dream catcher, drugged, almost raped by teachers. Dreams causing blindness, hand impediment. Can't drive nearly hit kids while in dream. Losing Cable for being dangerous.
Freak
ReplyDeleteMiriam Fisher: freak. Poetry boy, Artie moves in. Big crush. Battle the populars? Write poems in Clyde? Once Mariam decides,there is no turning back.
Thirteen Reasons Why by: Jay Asher
ReplyDeleteSuicide. Why? How? Thirteen people! Who? Hot or Not! Poems. No friends? Did you love her? Clay? The party. Do you miss her? Silence! Gone!
Mocking Jay by: Susanne Collins
ReplyDeleteFighting for freedom. Who is the enemy? Two sides. Is there? One war. Thousands dead. Will Katniss stay sane and live up to her title?
The Blind Side by: Michael Lewis
ReplyDeleteBlack young man, troubled family, living on other peoples trash. Rich family takes in and educates. Chance to play football. Life changing. Great football classic
Bad Kitty
ReplyDeleteThe cat started everything. A blood-thirsty killers on the loose. Who's Jack? Who's Alex? What or who is Fred afraid of? Dad is worried. Death.
How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart
ReplyDeleteDavid's your average kid at the bottom of the "food chain." Youtube is his thing. Will he survive through middle school without his best friend?
Halo the Fall of Reach by:Eric Nylund
ReplyDeleteSurviving training. High tech armor suits. Aliens destroy a humans planet.Spartans only hope for mankind.Will the Spartans defeat the Covanent and save mankind?
Twisted: Laurie Halse Anderson
ReplyDeleteNoddy nerd's payed dues transforms entire reputation. Loser boy injuring Queen Bee? Overprotective brothers? Tough fathers? Thoughts of suicide? Tyler's senior year is...twisted.
He goes through a lot of trouble. He never stops trying. Sneaking around, escaping at night, fighting, police involved. All to clear his dad's case.
ReplyDeleteTwisted - Laurie Anderson
ReplyDeleteDestroying his school, becomes that kid with the bad reputation.Could it get any worse, pictures posted online, will he be the one that's accused
Katie White mod:4 Elsewhere Author- Gabrielle Zevin
ReplyDeleteTaxi driver out of control one lost life. A girl confused . New life ,friends,job. Life continues in elsewhere. Back to Earth?. What will happen?.
Cuts, she gets caught. Off to reformitary school. No support, no friends. Silent treatment. Will she recover, graduate? Will her family help her get better?
ReplyDeleteLogan moves into a murder house. Mrs. Donaldson was killed for reasons. Secrets. Mysteries. Find Money Find Killers. Himself. Violet. Grandchildren. Will they solve it?
ReplyDeleteBone chiling, flesh screaming, he can see the dead and what he thinks is dead . His sixth sense gift or curse? What does he think?
ReplyDeleteDrunk Dad.Dead dad. Dads boat sinks.Needs it to make a living?Poor.How will they find the money?Or will time run out?
ReplyDeleteSolanum, Guns and rolling fortresses
ReplyDeleteDestrying staircases and packing light
Nine inch long knives
Get outta the car and onto the bike
destroy their useless brains
A Child Called "it"
ReplyDeleteImagine getting nearly beaten to death, sleeping on a cold cot outside, drunk parants, brutal'games' mom plays. survival consists of, hope, strength and love?
The Austere Academy
ReplyDeleteBy: Lemony Snicket
3 kids. No family. Now where to go. Can they survive at a academy full of kidnapping criminals? Time is ticking will they be saved?
Paper Towns by John Green
ReplyDeleteOne night of break and entering into houses. One night to get pay back by the side of the girl he loves. She runs away from home, He goes after her. Will he find her?
Devon Potter mod #1
ReplyDeleteNIGHT
Elie Wiesel
Loving jew lost his faith. Consentration camp lost family. Barefoot, blizzard, 20 mile walk. fights for survival. Blisterd foot, cut it off? makes it to...
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies:
ReplyDeleteMom dies.
Forced to move with rich scumbag father.
New friends,
New school,
Whole new life.
Will she like him?
Or will they become enemies…
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
ReplyDeleteWoke up in hospital, so many questions. Where am I? What happened? Shocking answers. Worried family. Hospital in Germany or Iraq? Will I fight again?
city of bones
ReplyDeletemom screaming on the phone.
silence.
run home.
house a mess demon attacks her.
she kills it.
what's going on....
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
ReplyDeleteSummer community service. Get taller, bigger. from a nerd to a freak. Popular girl, her dad, his dads boss. Party. Drinking. How will it turn out?
Blank Confession
ReplyDeleteBy Pete Hautmen
Drug dealer murdered! Kids confesses, cops can't find motive. Why did he do it? Geeky kid being harassed because he lost the dealers drugs.
Kyle Mod7
ReplyDeleteThe Road
The road. Tedious, never ending. . . Dangerous. A world without sun. Murderers, thieves, kidnappers, cannibals. No Food. No water. Father and son carry the fire.
a boy searching for the truth. after a night of adventure she dissapeared. a quest, clues, dissapointment,lies, the trip. finding only to loose her.
ReplyDelete13 Reasons Why
ReplyDeleteHannah Baker kills herself. There are 13 reasons. What are those reasons? Who was involved in those reasons? How could they have so much effect?
Ryan Taylor Mod:1
ReplyDelete6000 doubloons gets the captain and his crew a boat called "The Lovely Emma", that's where the adventure of the white whale with Ahab begins.
My Sister's Keeper
ReplyDeleteby Jodi Picoult
A loving sister but also an unwilling donor. A court date and a traumatic family crisis. Is she self centered? Or is she just helping?
Falling Angels by Walter Dean Myers
ReplyDeleteDeath is all around you. Explosions, gunshots, blinding smoke. Can’t breathe. Don’t get to close to anyone. Stuck in hell. Never will be the same.
Matt Miller Mod 4
ReplyDeleteMockingjay by suzanne collins
A secret plot found . A hidden army. They need to defeat the capitol so the terror can end. Will they be defeated by the president.
Paper Towns By: John Green
ReplyDeleteQ, cinvinced to shoeveur a crazy adventure. Revenge. Fish. Vaseline. B&E. Margo gone. On a quest to find her. All done for love.
King of The Skrewups By G.L. Going
ReplyDeleteRich kid, Kicked out, Sent to live with gay uncle who Dad Hates, Gets in lots of trouble and has many choices to make.