I don't know about you, but I get lonely for my friends over the summer. Maybe we're too busy, or in different places, or maybe it just isn't easy to get together. Since I love to read and love to talk about books with my friends, I wanted to create a place were the students of Black MS could discuss (write about) the books they are reading over the summer.
I'll write about the books I'm reading and I'd love to hear what you're reading! In fact, you may even find some of your teachers contributing content from time to time.
So let's get the discussion going!
How many of you have read the Twilight series? I LOVED it and find myself looking for more books like Twilight. I found this great list that I want to pass on to you. Now, keep in mind, I have personally read very few of these books and make no claims as to whether they are appropriate for middle schoolers to read. That is for you to decide with your parents.
1
The summoning Armstrong, Kelley
Summary: After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
2
Tithe Black, Holly
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
3
Glass houses Caine, Rachel
Summary: In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers, who has had enough of her current dorm situation, moves off campus and discovers that her new roommates are vampires.
4
Bloodline Cary, Kate
Summary: In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
6
City of bones Clare, Cassandra
Summary: Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
7
High school bites: the Lucy chronicles Conrad, Liza
Summary: Having learned on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula exists and lives in her hometown of Seattle, Lucy tries to save herself and her friends while wondering whether her boyfriend is also a vampire.
8
Blue bloods De la Cruz, Melissa
Summary: Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
9
Evernight Gray, Claudia
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Lucas, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
10
Look for me by moonlight Hahn, Mary Downing
Summary: While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
11
Blood and chocolate Klause, Annette Curtis
Summary: Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
12
Vampire Academy Mead, Richelle
Summary: Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
13
Twilight Meyer, Stephenie
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Summary: When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.
15
Vampire kisses Schreiber, Ellen
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.
16
Companions of the night Vande Velde, Vivian
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.
