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Eleventh Grade Burns by Heather Brewer

The fourth book in the Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series:  Eleventh grade at Bathory High is draining Vladimir Tod. Joss, a professional vampire slayer and Vlad’s former friend, has moved back to town. The powerful vampire Dorian has an overwhelming desire to drink Vlad’s blood. And his arch enemy, D’Ablo, has brought Vlad’s Uncle Otis [...]



Legend of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore

The New York Times best-selling tale is of one of fantasy’s most intriguing characters. Join the dark elf in the even darker world as he begins the search for his destiny.
“Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery [...]



Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

In 1968 in San Francisco a serial killer killed his first victim and from there on he was known as the Zodiac killer. He used different codes to tell the San Fran police where he was going to kill his next victims, but no one knows who this man is.



Go Ask Alice

“Go Ask Alice” is a real diary from a young girl who struggles with drug addiction. She later ends up running away numerous times in search of drugs or because she is on them. This book is very touching and is eye-opening. You really get an idea of how drugs can mess up your life. [...]



The Twilight Companion

The Twilight Companion is a nonfiction book by Lois H. Gresh. This book tells you everything needed to know about the Twilight saga. The chapters range anywhere from being most compatible with a vampire or werewolf, which sides are good and bad, how to keep you vampire safe, etc.
In every chapter, there are explanations go [...]



Money for Minors

Money For Minors written by Marie Bussing-Burks is a student’s guide to economics. This book talks about the concepts of economics and helps to better understand what it is all about. I would recommend this book to students who are interested in finance or would like to know how to manage their money.



The Innocent Man by John Grisham

John Grisham is best known for his stunningly written legal thrillers. One of his more recent novels, The Innocent Man, certainly confirms this statement. The kicker, though, is that this book is not a work of fiction, it is completely true.
If I hadn’t known that this book was nonfiction, I would have thought that it [...]



Loving Will Shakespeare

This book does a beautiful job portraying the life of WIll Shakespeare’s wife, the lady behind the man. It begins with Anne’s childhood and her earlier relationship with Will Shakespeare. The author is able to weave the facts that are known of Anne’s life with fiction without making it extremely off point. It is a [...]



Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

In the nonfiction book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell, the theme tells the real reason of how people became famous. No matter who you are you can become famous. People who were nothing made a big impact on some places. I liked all the people in this story because of the impact they made. Outliers is [...]



3D Game Programming for Teens by Maneesh Sethi

Throughout this book you can learn the basics of making a computer game through Blitz3D. However Blitz3D isn’t a very popular program due to Microsoft’s C++ and Visual Basic. Even though this book uses Blitz3D and not Visual Basic/C++, the programming is close enough that a person might be able to learn Visual Basic or [...]