Blue Bloods

Blue Bloods
By: Melissa De La Cruz


302p
Hyperion,

ISBN-10: 142310126X
ISBN-13: 978-1423101260


Annotation:
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.


Summary:
A new trend of vampire novels are appearing in bookstores all across the country. Melissa De La Cruz's are perhaps one of the most interesting series on the stands. De La Cruz has melded the Gossip Girl Generation with the vampire genre, creating a combination that leaves you hungry for more.

The popular students at the New York's Duchesne School have a little secret, they are more beautiful, strong and intelligent than even they are aware of. When the students start to display their true tendencies, a power struggle is set to begin. A hipper band of vamps will be hard to find than the ones in Blue Bloods, not only sure you want to become a vampire, you are sure you want to run with Schuyler Van Alen and her posse.

Suite Scarlett

Suite Scarlett
By: Maureen Johnson

p. 353

Point Publications

ISBN-10: 0545096324
ISBN-13: 978-0545096324

Annotation

Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her out-of-work actor brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improves her outlook.

Summary

The Hopewell Hotel has been in the family for many generations. However, after many years of declining business the hotel is on the verge of ruin and its up to Scarlett Martin and her siblings to save it from disaster.

Spencer and Scarlett are as close as any two siblings can get, and as Spencer dreams of being an actor, Scarlett knows that he only has a short period before his family forces him to accept the culinary scholarship. While Spencer knows that Scarlett dreams of having adventures of her own, but has resigned herself to act as the personal assistant for the aging actress whom has taken residence in the Empire Suite of the hotel, if that means through her money the hotel can stay in operation.

Through the antics of the Martin clan, this may be the summer no one ever forgets. Who knows it may even lead to a little adventure for Scarlett.

This novel will be sure to delight even the most resistant readers and with Scarlett's humor and wit readers will enjoy their stay at the Hopewell Hotel.

Someday this Pain Will be Useful to You

Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You
By: Peter Cameron
p.229
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-10: 0312428162
ISBN-13: 978-0312428167

Annotation :
Eighteen-year-old James living in New York City with his older sister and divorced mother struggles to find a direction for his life.

Summary :

James has just graduated from high school and is unsure of his life's direction. He is working aimlessly at a job given to him by his Manhattan socialite mother at an art gallery. It is here where he meets the much older man John, who happens to be his mother's assistant. But when James is accused of sexual harassment by John, he has a feeling that his summer will be unlike any other.

Not your ordinary young adult novel, this book will sure to strike a humorous chord with its audience. This coming-of-age has its fill moments of humor, sadness and tender affection. For all of you who have ever wondered what life would be like if you had done something differently, than this is the novel for you.

Deftly written, this novel will appeal to both adults and young adults alike.