The Summer of Letting Go

The Summer of Letting Go by Gae Polisner

This is a really good book about a girl named Francesca who's brother drowns (I'm not giving it away) and it's Francesca's fault. The guilt inside of her rises and she can't take it anymore. In the meantime, her best friend has drifted apart from her with a boy, and Francesca is on her own. She meets a little boy, Frankie, who she compares to her brother and there might me something going on.

I can't say too much without giving it away, but it is a really good book. I would say that its a fairly quick read, but not that quick. It is a little confusing, but kind of a mystery type book. Another genre is romance/friendship, but not in THAT way. I would recommend it for anyone, and I would say, there are some mature topics.

TBR

-The Adoration of Jenna Fox
-The Promise of a Pencil
-The Circle- Recommended by Gavin
-Bird

Yay I get CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Endangered By Eliot Schrefer

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

This is a really good book about a girl named Sophie, who is African. Although she lives in Miami, Florida, Sophie visits her mom in Congo, every summer. Sophie's mom and dad are divorced, and her mom works at a sanctuary for bonobos, (a type of ape.) which is really big. On the way to the sanctuary, Sophie sees a traveler holding a baby bonobo and falls in love with him immediately, and buys him from the traveler. Sophie and the bonobo become good friends, and the bonobo, named Otto, considers Sophie his mom. A few days before Sophie has to go back to Miami at the end of the summer, her mom must leave with a handful of bonobos for a few days to a enclosure. One day, the United Nations evacuation truck arrives and says that Sophie must leave because a war has started in the capital, Kinshasa, and she is not allowed to bring Otto. But she refuses, because Otto needs her, and she runs away, because the peacekeepers are chasing her, saying she needs to go. She runs into the enclosure with Otto,  where the bonobos live. Sophie has to deal with living with the bonobos, and surviving the war.

This is a really good book, about war. The genre, I would say, is survival, mixed in with violence, and the connection between a human and a bonobo. I really enjoyed it, a realistic fiction book. It has a lot of violence and a sort of inappropriate part, but no bad language. Overall, the book is really well written, and I would recommend it for people who like violence, and animals. This is one of my favorite books, and I don't really like this type of genre.

TBR

Cloaked
The Adoration Of Jenna Fox
The Promise of a Pencil
Far Far Away

Recommended by other people:

The 5th Wave
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Leviathan

The Fault in our Stars

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

This book is really good but really sad, but amazingly written. It is a romance, and tragic sort of story with a little twist. It has some inappropriate moments and it discusses mature topics, so I would recommend this book for anyone, who likes this genre and is interested about reading about cancer. It is about a girl named Hazel and her journey through surviving with lung cancer. She pretty much sits around at home all day, and her parents stay with her and help her out. When her mom forces to go to support group, Hazel at first refuses but eventually agrees. One day, she comes to support group she finds a attractive boy staring at her for the whole time, and his name is Augustus Waters and he has osteosarcoma which causes him to lose a leg, but is completely fine for now. I can't explain too much about the rest of their story without giving it away, but pretty much Gus and Hazel fall in love and it seems like one of those love stories but has a major twist to it. They also made a movie based on the book, and I saw the movie first, which has a lot of stuff that the movie doesn't have from the book, but that's okay. In all, I would recommend the book, and the movie.

TBR

The Summer of Letting Go

This One Summer

Cloaked

My Mother the Cheerleader- Recommended by Linda

My Summer Reading- Unremembered

Unremembered by Jessica Brody

This book is about a girl who is the only one who survives a plane crash in the Pacific Ocean. No one was expecting any survivors, but this girl is found floating amongst the wreckage. She doesn't remember anything at all, not even her name or age. She turns out to be a sixteen year old, but she is really different from other people. No one claims to remember her, except for one boy who claims to have known her before the crash. This is a really good book, it is a mystery, mixed in with adventure, and some violence. It doesn't really have anything inappropriate, or any language. I would recommend this book to anyone in AS, because like I said it isn't that inappropriate.

TBR List

The Summer of Letting Go

Uglies

Okay For Now

The Secret Life of Bees

Endangered