Science Fiction

Review: The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by TY Drago

by PirateYarr February 6, 2012

by Isabel G., guest reviewer Title: The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses Author: TY Drago Format: Paperback Page Count: 465 pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 13+ Summary: Twelve year old Will Ritter is just an average boy…well, that’s how he was at the beginning of this story anyway. His life was only boring until he [...]

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Review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

by Second Mate Embry January 8, 2012

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Mockingjay Author: Suzanne Collins Format: Hardcover Page Count: 400 pages Grade Reading Level: Grade 7+ Summary: After Katniss’s survival of the Quarter Quell, she is whisked of to underground (literally and figuratively) District 13. Over the course of the book Katniss is preparing for when she can go [...]

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Review: George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Lucy and Stephen Hawking

by cookcutlery January 1, 2012

by Cook Cutlery, guest reviewer Title: George’s Secret Key to the Universe Author: Lucy and Stephen Hawking Format: Paperback # of pages: 295 Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: It all starts one day when George was going to feed his pet pig, Freddy, that he got on Christmas one year and found that Freddy [...]

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Review: Open Minds (Mindjack, Book 1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

by First Mate Keira December 15, 2011

Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Open Minds Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Format: Digital ebook Page Count: 338 pages Grade Reading Level: Grade 7+ Summary: Kira Moore is an outcast in a future where mind-reading and telepathy are traits everyone can do… everyone except her. This makes her a zero and zeroes can’t be trusted. [...]

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Review: Turnabout by Margaret Peterson Haddix

by Second Mate Embry December 4, 2011

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Turnabout Author Margaret Peterson Haddix Page Count: 223 Format: Hardcover Grade Reading Level: Ages 12+ Summary: Amelia Hazelwood, Annabeth Flick, and 40 or more others from Riverside nursing home are selected at the old age of 100 to live forever. In a doctor’s experiment called Project Turnabout. The [...]

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The Difference Between MG and YA and Why I Write Both

by PirateYarr November 10, 2011

Guest Post by Susan Kaye Quinn, author of Open Minds I’ve written a young adult love story (Life, Liberty, and Pursuit), a middle grade science fiction novel, a young adult paranormal/SF (Open Minds) book, a middle grade fantasy, and I’m working on a another couple of books (one MG, one YA). Only my YA novels [...]

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