Chasing the Falconers Book 1 in the On the Run series by Gordon Korman. Fast and full of action! A brother and a sister escape to Lake Champlain area in VT after they escape from a home. Their parents are in prison and they are trying to prove their innocence. (He has a lot of other popular books, too!)

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. If you have not read ( Read more... )

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Scholastic’s answer to vampires? Werewolves.

Lucky me, I was loaned an ARC of Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater! Shiver has a believable first-person narration, with the chapters rotating between the two main characters, Grace and Sam. Their love seems fated from the beginning and we, the readers, yearn for the two of them to be together. One slight ( Read more... )