Once again, I haven't written in too long, but I HAVE been reading!

I had been wanting to read Lauren Myracle's Peace, Love and Baby Ducks for a while and am glad I finally got aroung to it. I actually listened to it on CD in my car. I liked it because it's about sisters and how hard growing up can be- and YES- there are actually baby ducks in the story... who can resist!

The Scorch Trials was the first book I downloaded onto my new NOOK (a holiday present to ME!). Dashner's newest installment in The Maze Runner series was amazing. The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials are presently THE most popular books in the library and for good reason. They are dystopian novels about a world very different from ours- thank goodness- where kids are being used as guinea pigs in experiments meant to test different 'variables'- whatever they might be? which are vital to society's survival. In my opinion the popularity of dystopian novels is a cry for help- DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO OUR WORLD!!

Willow by Julia Hoban just came out in paperback and caught my eye when I was making an EDGY book display. It's the story of a girl named Willow who blames herself for the death of her parents- she was driving. Willow is now living with her brother and has had to change schools. She is coping- or is she- by cutting, it's the only thing that is keeping her from losing it. Not particularly well written, the story is what kept me going.