Rockin’ Reads

Tokyo, present day. Kyoko is in the midst of the acting showdown. The camera is rolling. She is preforming a tea ceremony on a badly broken leg. She’s in great pain yet she is calm and making the tea perfectly. While a man she hates, Ren, is right across from her.

How did this all happen you ask? Read Skip Beat! 3 to find out.

This is a manga series by Yoshiki Nakamura. It’s a story about a girl named Kyoko who has droped out of middle school to follow the boy she is in love with while he goes on his career to become a super-star! Once she does he became self-centered and takes Kyoko, who is working two jobs to support him, for granted. She decides to give him a visit she overhears him saying that he is just using her. Her inner rage takes over and is now on a mission to get revenge!

Will she be able to get her revenge?
Will she be able to keep in the pain?
Will she win the showdown?
Find out in, Skip Beat! 3!

The lottery rose is a very good book!

It’s a very sad book, but It shows how real the world can be. It’s about a boy who is abused by his mom’s boyfriend. one day he won a rose bush in a lottery at the local grocery store. One day he was so badly beaten that he was taken away to an orphanadge to live the rest of his life. he found a lovely garden and knew at once that that was the place to plant his rose bush. But when he meets the woman that owns the garden she yells at him to get lost. When she sees his back she runs to get the owner of the orphanadge. And that starts a long and hated relashanship. Well at least for a little while.

-Ryan

Summer Ball is a great book. Mike Lupica’s Exiting descriptions are great. He always keeps you at the center of the action.

Joey Pigza Loses Control is about a active teenage boy who wanted to spend time with his father who had left him and his mother a little while before.  Once he gets there he meets his grumpy grandmother who smokes and uses an oxygen tank.  When you read you will find out about his dads new girlfriend.  He has ups and downs during his visit at his dads house and finally leaves.  I’m am sure when you read, you will be able to connect with Joey.  So to find out more about his life, read Joey Pigza Loses Contol.

This book is “Part fairytale, part love-story, part everything but the kitchen sink.” Christian was found in a forest by a troll when he was very young, but refused to go home. Ever since he has lived with the troll, Ed, all the while spying on Princess Marigold. When he gets up the courage to write her a note that is delivered to her by pigeon, they become friends. when he sets out to the castle,he finds that the queen is planning to kill off the king and Princess Marigold. Meanwhile, he’s falling in love with princess!

I really love the book because it has a bit of every type of story I enjoy. adventure, romance and even fairytale! I Would recommend this book to anyone who likes these genres.

It is the year 1658, right after the English king was killed. Gypsies -or the Rom- are being arrested and hung for being believed as thieves and liars.

Emilia is a young Gypsy girl in this time. Her world falls apart when her family is arrested for singing and dancing at the market. She, along with her cousin Luka and an assortment of animals, manage to escape. When they run to warn their Baba, their grandmother, she tells them a tale about 5 magical charms. There may be hope, she explains, if the charms are found and reunited.

Will Luka and Emilia be able to save their family in this exciting and well told story?
Well, maybe you should read and find out.

Born to Rock wasn’t anything I expected it to be. You’d think the book would be about how people started their band or something like that, right? Well, it wasn’t at all. It was about a student named Leo Caraway who lived in Connecticut and had a scholarship to go to Harvard! He loses his scholarship by being accused of cheating on a test. He had a best friend named Melissa; a punk-rocker who wouldn’t take nonsense from anyone. She was a die-hard fan of a punk band named Purge and planned to follow their world tour all summer long. Leo’s biological father just so happened to be the lead vocals for Purge– King Maggot. Leo hated punk rock and all their fashions, but he would do anything for a free pass to Harvard In the end he finds out that King Maggot is not his biological father… his cousin Benji is, and Leo already found a disliking to him. Leo decides that it doesn’t matter whether King Maggot is his dad or not, he loves him and really cares about him. King Maggot lends Leo money to send him to Harvard, and they stay in touch. Leo even finds a liking to punk rock music and falls in love with Melissa, the one who helped him meet his long-lost cousin. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in for a huge surprise and a really dramatic story!

Jip is a very sad story.He needs help to uncover his past but going in the past is really dangerous.Jip lives on the towns poor farm and their lunitic turns out to be his best friend.In this book Jip looses and gains friends.This book will touch your heart for sure.I would recommend this book to someone who likes a pleasant book.

Skateboards is a book where a girl named Michelle who gets in trouble a lot because all she does is skateboard in the house. Michelle knew she upset her mom so she left and headed to school. Later that day a guy from the skateboard shop called and told Michelle that they had a new rover skateboard. Then she tested it out on the brand new skateboard ramps.Thats basically what this book is about.

This book is awsome!!! It has outlaws from Jesse James to Bonnie and Clyde. This book tells you all of the outragous crimes that these criminals have done. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes very dangerous outlaws. Thank you, good night!