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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Read by Jonah Jones-Hayes

This book is amazing!  The art work is very good and props to Franz Kafka who created to original text.  Kudos to Peter Kuper who adapted the text into a graphic novel.  A good read!  The book is about a man who wakes up as a bug.  A HUGE bug.  He sits there and reflects on his life and in the end… well read the book and find out!

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Hi My Name Is Allen Gill

The Twlight Saga

Though this was an epic saga unmatched by my opinion by todays love story, this story was awesome in so many ways and they cover so many bases. The detail in each book is so mindblowing it’s as if you were their yourself, you witness the rise and fall of antagonist and the constant struggle between our protagonist. Wether it was because bella being human or because jacob or rosalie never left her side unless it was nesscessary. For twlight we see a love blossuming into something more beautiful, and we can foreshadow many outcomes but only one that she wants. For new moon we see dangerous events take place and a young Girl struggle to fight for her love, for whom is tainted with the guilt of feeling like a monster.
Eclipse we see a battle rise from a mate’s lost partner, and jacob and edwards mutual respect for one another grow still revials but somewhat rough friends. But in the end Breaking Dawn the final book is a must read no words can honestly give that book enough justice so i recommend just read it.

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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Read by Mikale

Clay Jenson was excited when he saw a package waiting for him on his doorstep.  He figured it was probably a gift from his grand parents, or maybe even a secret admirer.  (Which would explain why there wasn’t a return address.) So it was natural that he was surprised when he opened the box to find cassette tapes peeking up at him.  Unsurely, Clay went to his dad’s old tape player in the garage.  He popped in the first tape (marked with blue nail polish) and heard none other than his crush Hannah Baker.  Cool, right?  There’s just one little problem.

Hannah Baker committed suicide a couple of days ago.

As Clay listens on, he finds that Hannah has sent these tapes to him for a reason.  He, along with twelve other people, was one fo the reasons Hannah Killed herself.  With a map left by Hannah before her death, Clay follows Hannah to marked checkpoints as he listens to the secrets of the peers he thought he knew and tries to figure out what secrets of his earned hima side of one of Hanna Bakers 13 Reasons Why.

Feed by M.T. Anderson

read by Mikale

“The feed. The feed. Everything revolves around the feed.  A transmitter installed in you’re brain, the feed tells you where the best parties are at on the moon, great tourist attractions on the moons of Jupiter, what hairsyles are so last minue ago and what clothes are “meg brag”, where the best sales are.  On the feed, you can chat with your friends.  The feed tells you what you want when you don’t know what it is.  The feed is everything.  That’s what Titus thinks until he meets Violet, someone who’s different.  Her world doesn’t revolve around the next minute’s hairstyles, she uses words like “picayune” and cares that trees are being cut down to make air factories.  She cares about ancient Mayan temples.  She cares that the government tries to keep the people from knowing that it’s not a democracy.  She tries to resist the feed.  She’s different than the others.  That’s what pulls her closer to Titus, and what slowly pushes him away from his friends.

After a hacking incident, things go wrong with Violet’s feed, fatal errors that could kill her.  Read what happens as Titus tries to figure out where he stands in the commercial world he lives in, where people who resist the feed get hurt.”

Jonah:

I read this book and it’s absolutely amazing.  I’ve read lots of super hero books, but this is on a totally different level.  It’s exciting, has action from the very beginning of the book and I’ve never seen comic book art look this.  The pictures look like paintings.  If there are any more, I would love to read them.