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Imagine having Kool Aid as your weakness! Well unfortunately Sourcefield's weakness is exactly that. This book starts off when the Reckoners fight Sourcefield, an Epic, who are people with special powers. Flying, shooting lasers out of their hand, illusions, basically just about anything. There's a special category for strong epics called High Epics who have prime invincibility, which makes them hard to kill. For example they have regeneration, self reincarnation,  impervious skin, etc. You get the idea right? Basically they're hard to kill. But every Epic has a weakness to them that can negate their powers. Now back to the story, the Reckoners (people who rebel against the epics and kill them) found out that Sourcefield was sent by High Epic, Regalia. Regalia ruler of Babylon Restored( formerly known as Manhattan) can manipulate water. So when she first came she entirely flooded Manhattan because Epics can just basically do whatever they want. Regalia has been sending quit...

This book is about a teenager named Todd on a planet called "New World" trying to escape from an army. But on this planet, a sickness caused all woman on the planet to die, and the remaining men to be able to hear other's thoughts. But one day Todd finds a place that is completely quiet but when he thinks about that place in his mind everyone finds out and creates an army to catch him and find the secret place. While he is running away, he was surprised to meet a girl named Viola because he thought all females died because of the sickness. Together they go to a place called Farbranch but the army soon catches up to them and destroys the village. As they keep going, they reach another village and Todd meets his guardian Ben from his town and for the first time learns about the truth of the world and is told to go to a place called Haven. When Viola and Todd get to Haven they realize what has happened to Haven and the town. If you want to know the rest, read the book! I r...

Where the Red Fern Grows' is an adventurous story of a young boy named Billy and his two coonhound dogs. This book is an autobiographical fiction where the author uses a lot of events from his personal life. The main character of this book, Billy Coleman has long dreamt of owning not one but two dogs for hunting. So, he works hard and saves up enough money to buy two pups. His dogs are delivered to a place twenty miles away and decides to walk up to get them. On his way back home with the two dogs, he ends up naming them 'Little Ann' and 'Old Dan' after seeing the names carved on a tree. Billy teaches the dogs to hunt with some help from his grandfather. In no time Billy and his two dogs become well known for their hunting in the Ozarks. During the nights, Billy and his dogs go hunting for coons, splashing through water, running through thick bushes to tree a coon. They become a good team. Billy's grandfather even registers them for a hunt with experienced hunte...

Willow Chance is a genius. She is different, but unique. She is only eleven years old, but the most intelligent girl in her middle school. After a wrongly accused incident, Willow is sent to have counseling meetings with her school counselor Mr. Dell Duke. She meets her best friend Mai Nguyen and her brother Quang-ha Nguyen through these sessions. Mai is the only friend Willow has at her new middle school. Willow loves to garden and associate many things with the number seven. Seven is her lucky number. Everything Willow does is using the number 7. When times become stressful or things go wrong, Willow counts by 7s. Until tragedy strikes and Willow finds out that her parents have both died in a deadly car crash. Willow is lost and empty. She can no longer count by 7s. The only family she has ever known, is gone. Mai and Quang-ha’s mom Pattie Nguyen takes in Willow as a temporary guardian until social services can find a permanent home for Willow to live. Willow has no idea where social...

Jemma is not like your ordinary fourteen-year-old girl. Jemma has a shocking secret. A secret that she is not able to share using her voice. Jemma has cerebral palsy, which is a condition that means that does not allow her to communicate or move her body. Jemma lives her life in a wheelchair going to school a few days a week and watches a lot of shows on the television. She was adopted years ago by her parents who have always taken such good care of her. She also has a younger brother (who has a form of autism) and a younger sister that were adopted as well. Jemma even has a caretaker named Sarah. Sarah lives with Jemma and her family, so Jemma has met Sarah’s boyfriend Dan many times. She knows that Dan is the murder. He told her himself. He knows that she cannot tell anyone which is, why he told her. But when a genius professor comes in contact with Jemma, he thinks that his newest invention could help her communicate for the first time in her life. This brings major excitement towar...

This is the 2nd book of Scythe series. In this book Scythe Curie and Scythe Goddard, fight over who will become High Blade of North Merica. While Citra becomes a Junior Scythe, Rowan hides in the dark Gleaning Scythes that are showing Bias in their Gleanings. Scythe Goddard continues to rise along with the "New order". While all of this is happening, Scythe Faraday stays secretly alive. He goes to the Great Library of Alexandria where all scythe journals are kept. He researches where there might be a failsafe for the Scythedome. He also gets help from a girl named Munira that works there. What are they looking for? You can find out in the book. During that Scythe Anastasia (Citra) Goes to the floating island of Endura with Scythe Curie for a special meeting with the Grandslayers. But Goddard has a little trick for them. Will they be able to get off the Island Alive? I really liked this book. One reason is because it is a book that takes place in the future. My second reason...

David saw it. He witnessed the most powerful epic Steelheart bleed. It was when David was 8 years old. Since Calamity, normal people began to have super powers. Those who had super powers were called Epics. Ten years later David has been waiting for a chance to avenge his father when he one day he witnesses something incredible. He sees the Reckoners kill an epic. Reckoners are a group that kill and hunt down epics until there is none existing. He joins the Reckoners hoping he could kill Steelheart. But the Reckoners just laughed. Kill Steelheart? The most powerful epic in North America? The man to have said that has no weakness. But David has. He persuades the Reckoners to listen to his plan to kill the unbeatable. Finally he was able to persuade the Reckoners. As they kill many strong epics that hold powers such as creating illusions, see the future and many more, they discover surprising facts about their team mates and their past. They also find out something that gives them hope t...