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.

Looking For Alaska

Looking for Alaska
By: John Green

221p
Dutton's Children Book

ISBN-10: 014241221X
ISBN-13: 978-0142412213

Annotation Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Summary:
When Miles begins his first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Birmingham, Alabama he is liked but not well known, that is until he meets his dorm mate Chip, a genius with tons of ill will towards the wealthy that attend the school.

Chip just happens to have one person that may change Miles' life forever, Alaska Young. Alaska has the ability to make anyone fall deeply in love, with just a glance. She is beautiful and intelligent and dangerous. A Holden Caulfied of sorts, Miles tries to woo the gorgeous Alaska, until something tragic occurs.

This novel is filled with stark realism, it is filled with feelings of loss and grief. Green does not produce a warm and fuzzy happy ending, which makes the character all that more real. Teens will appreciate the depth that Green goes to provide a story with such drama on a level accessible to them.

Strong language and sexual references are abound so readers beware.