Book Recommendations

A group of genetically enhanced kids who can fly and have other unique talents are on the run from part-human, part-wolf predators called Erasers in this exciting thriller.  Max, 14, and her adopted family–Fang and Iggy, both 13, Nudge, 11, Gazzy, 8, and Angel, 6–were all created as experiments in a lab called the School.  Jeb, a sympathetic scientist, helped them escape and, since then, they’ve been living on their own.  The Erasers have orders to kill them so the world will never find out they exist. Max’s old childhood friend, Ari, now an Eraser leader, tracks them down, kidnaps Angel, and transports her back to the School to live like a lab rat again. The youngsters are forced to use their special talents to rescue her as they attempt to learn about their pasts and their destinies.

Mrs. Branyon

Parker and Matt decide to go camping one more time before the weather gets too cold. Matt discovers a corpse and is convinced that his mother’s boyfriend is somehow involved. While investigating the murder, a cocaine ring in which Parker’s mother and George are involved is discovered and a thug kidnaps everyone. Rescue comes when Parker’s dog corners the thug and Matt’s little sister pushes a doll carriage with a cocaine-packed doll through a Halloween parade into the police station.

Mrs. Branyon

New York City is the backdrop for this mystery novel with a message about the down-and-dirty business of inventing and marketing pop-cultural fads. Hunter Braque, 17, is part of a focus group that views advertisements for shoes. A product gets the nod if it is “skate,” but it is more important to point out what might be “uncool.” When the teen brings Jen to the next meeting, she spots uncool right away. Jen and Hunter quickly find themselves caught up in a strange turn of events when Mandy, Hunter’s boss, disappears. Their search for her begins in an abandoned building in Chinatown and leads to a wild party at the Museum of Natural History where people are viewing advertisements for a new shampoo.

Mrs. Branyon

If someone invited you to go to a new and different galaxy, would you go?  Meg Murry and Charles Wallace decide definitely yes they would go to rescue their father and bring him back to the dimension where they live.  Can they do it or will they be defeated by the evil forces which are trying to stop them?

Mrs. Branyon

Cassie’s family, which is African-American, is different from many of the other families during 1933 because they own their land.  Cassie doesn’t understand why this is important until the year of the night riders, the farm burnings, and overwhelming fear.  It is only then that Cassie understands that it is the land that gives her family courage and pride and nothing can take that away.  “With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear them apart.”

Mrs. Branyon

Tally lives in a world where turning 16 years old is when you get to become pretty.  Your only job after you become pretty is to have a really good time.  But Tally has a friend named Shay who does not want to become pretty.  When Shay runs away, Tally finds about a whole new world outside of Pretty Town.  Tally is offered a choice which changes her whold world.

Mrs. Branyon