Ghost Rider by Neil Peart

Ghost Rider is not about a real ghost at all and it is NOT a horror book at all. It is about this family Neil, Jakie and Selena. Neil an Jakie kissed there nineteen year old daughter goodbye beacuse she was heading to a University for three years. They soon found out Selena was in a horrible car crash and died. Jakie and Niel were filled with emotions as soon as they got the news. Neil was doing his best to comfort his wife. After having her heart broken for months, Jakie had horrible back pains and had a horrible noctunal coughing, months later, Jakie was still sick and had back pains. Niel took her to the doctor and Jakie was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Can't wait to get to the next chapter!

MAUS 2 By Art Spiegelman

A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman. The story succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented, "[it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale--and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.

The Shack by Wm. Paul Young

Makenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep i the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.

Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.

In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State, where he and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to dinner most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time fro fun, though, especially with horses, witch Almanzo loves more than anything.

I like this book because it has great detail and I just can't put the book down! I think Laura did an excellent job writing this book.

Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by David Brower

As a climber, David Brower scaled many previously "insurmountable" mountains. As a conservationist, Brower has bought a mountaineer's determination and reverence for nature to his efforts to protect the earth and educate its human’s inhabitants. He has kept dams out of Grand Canyon and loggers out of Olympic National Park, established the National Wilderness Preservation System, added seven new regions to the National Park System, and helped to foster a mind-set that questions careless growth. 

In Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, the "archdruid" of modern environmentalism, the man The New York Times designated the most effective conservation activist in the world, offers a tough, witty, and impassioned game plan "for those who would save the earth." Now eighty-two years old, Brower also recounts the highs and lows of his controversial career, sparing no politician or public figure, least of all himself. He frankly discusses his mistakes, such as compromising on the construction of Glen Canyon Dam, and the strategic flourishes that have earned him both fans and foes, including  the full-page, in-your-face national newspaper ads that helped save the Grand Canyon by asking "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so that tourists can get a better look at the ceiling?"

Ranger's Apprentice:The Emperor of Nihon-Ja by John Flanagan

Months have passed since Horace departed for the eastern nation of Nihon-Ja on a vital mission. Having received no communication from him, his friends fear the worst. Unwilling to wait a second longer, Alyss, Evanlyn, and Will leave their homeland behind and venture into an exotic land in search of their missing friend.

When they finally catch up with him, they find Horace entangled in a military coup. Determined to protect the imperial throne, Will and his band of Araluens must piece together and train a force in order to fend off the master Senji warriors intent on overthrowing the emperor.

Ranger's Apprentice: Halts Peril by John Flanagan

The renegade outlaw group known as the Outsiders may have been chased from Clonmel, but not before killing Halt's only brother. Now Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, are in pursuit. The Outsiders have done an effective job of dividing the kingdom into factions and are looking to overtake Araluen. It will take every bit of skill and cunning for the Rangers to survive. Some may not be so lucky.

The international bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series turns up the tension in John Flanagan's latest epic of battles and bravery.

ERAGON

One boy..... one dragon.....A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is lucky discover of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. but when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy neary as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his has simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous the new world of destiny, magic, and power. with only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledging dragon must navagat the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bonds. can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.

Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen

This book is an alternate ending to Paulsen's Hatchet. In Hatchet Brian is rescued before winter. In this alternate ending story Brian is not rescued, and begins realizing he must survive the winter.

The Fall Of Atlantis

A Atlantean prince is the leader of the light and they fight against the dark. The battle of dark and light take place at Atlantis. There are two sisters in this story Deoris and Domaris. There lives are changing from the powerful magic of Atlantis. The dark wants to crash a big and powerful wave over Atlantis to kill everyone and drown the light city of Atlantis.

Outcast of Redwall By: Brian Jaques

Veil, The Outcast

         Abandoned as an infant by his father, the evil warlord Swartt Sixclaw, Veil is raised by the kindhearted Bryony.  Despite concerns from everyone as Redwall, Bryony is convinced that Veil's goodness will prevail. But when Veil commits a crime that is unforgivable, he is banished from the abbey forever. Then Swartt and his hordes of searats and vermin. attack Redwall, and Veil has to decide: Should he join Swartt in battle against the only creature who has ever loved him? Or should he turn his back on his true father?

The River by Gary Paulsen

Two years ago, Brian Robeson was stranded alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days with nothing but a small hatchet. He survived. Now the government wants him to do it again-to go back to the wilderness so that  astronauts and the military can learn the survival techniques that kept him alive. But this time he won't be alone a your government psychologist will be coming with him. But who knows if the will come back alive.

Tucker Peak by Archer Mayor

To its visitors, the resort area Tucker Peak is Vermont personified: small, thinly populated, a fun place to ski all day and party all night. To its beleaguered owners, it is a resort on the ropes, undersized, underdeveloped, and hemorrhaging money. Their plan: expand and spend a fortune on the gamble. But two problems quickly arise when environmentalists rally to protest the development and the slope-side condo owners suffer a rash of seemingly unsolvable burglaries. Enter Joe Gunther and the newly minter Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Summoned by the embattled local sheriff, Joe doesn't take long to find out that the most likely thief has mysteriously vanished- leaving behind his dead girlfriend- or to discover that some of the protesters may have more on their agenda than protecting the environment.

The Mark of Athena By: Rick Riordan

      Annabeth is terrified. just when she is about to be reunited with Percy after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera- it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon masthead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.

       That's only one of her worries. In her pocket Annabeth carries a gift from her mother with an unnerving demand: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods to find- and close- the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?

       Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader, but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her side.

       Narrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb Aboard the Argo II, if you dare...

Werewolves Dead Moon Rising

In the book there are several short stories written by all different authors,; but they all revolve around werewolves. In one of the short stories called skin belt by William R. Halliar, the main character has been changing into a werewolf on the full moon. He decides to get help and finds an old man. The old man gives him something that will stop his changes, and it works! But the old an wants it back, and is willing to do almost anything to get back his creation. What will the main character do?! I really like this book because of all the different writing styles put together into one book. All of the writing styles gives new side or idea to the werewolf legends, and the fresh new takes makes me want to read more. Also most of them go really far into characters like their looks and feelings, especially when they transform, which gives it really good imagery. I recommend this book highly; but not to younger kids. It has some inappropriate references and some foul language.