Wednesday, June 22, 2011 “The Adoration of Jenna Fox” by Mary E. Pearson “Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a year-long coma — so she’s been told — and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before that? She’s been given home movies chronicling her entire life, […]

Friday, February 25, 2011 “Ship Breaker” by Paolo Bacigalupi “Set initially in a future shanty town in America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being dissembled for parts by a rag tag group of workers, we meet Nailer, a teenage boy working the light crew, searching for copper wiring to make quota and […]

Saturday, February 5, 2011 “The House of the Scorpion” by Nancy Farmer Matt is a clone. He doesn’t know this at the beginning of the novel. He thinks he’s a normal child like he see’s on tv. He’s taken care of by Celia, who he knows as a mother (though she says she is not). […]