I Am Number Four

There were Seven.  Seven children who escaped the doomed planet of Lorien with their Cepan.  Upon leaving, each child was given a charm that would protect them - as long as they stayed apart.

When they arrived on Earth, each pair - 1 child and 1 Cepan, disappeared.  They remain safe only as long as they remain separate.  They live their lives on the run, hiding from the terror that haunts them.  For they are hunted.  Hunted by the same Mogadorians that destroyed Lorien, the seven that remain must be killed in the order in which they are numbered - only the charm given them upon Lorien protects them on this strange planet.  As each is killed, a brand burns itself around the ankle of each of the survivors.  Each of the children has at least one Legacy - a powerful gift that will allow them to defend themselves.  But the legacies don't develop until the children become teenagers.

We join Number Seven in Florida.  He is enjoying an evening on a boat with others from school when the third brand appears on his ankle.  He and his Cepan, Henri, pack up and take off for yet another random destination.




They settle in Paradise, Ohio.  Number Four decides to go by the name of John when he enrolls in high school.  For the first time, John decides to fight back against the bullies and not just melt into the background.  John also makes friends.  And finds a girlfriend.




 As they search for more information on the Mogadorians, John is shocked to find just how close they are to taking over the Earth - the same way they took over Lorien.  The race to find out more about the Mogadorians, develop John's Legacies, and run before their location is discovered makes this a compelling read that will leave you hanging on the edge of your seat!


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Company Town

Ashby, Madeline.  Company Town.  2016.  Tor Publishing, New York, NY.

Go-Jung Hwa is a unique person.  She is truly organic.  She has no bio-engineered genetic implants.   As one of the few existing humans without any type of engineering, she is truly unique.  Nobody can use her implants to control her or to steer her to their will.  She is uniquely and completely her own person.

Hwa lives in a town that consists of several inter-connected oil rigs off the coast of Canada.  She is a body guard for the United Sex Workers Union.  Quick, fast, strong, and discreet, she is the body guard of choice for the union.

When Hwa gets in the middle of an attempted disturbance on one of the oil rigs, she becomes involved with the Lynch Company.  The company that owns the town.  After the Lynch family meets Hwa, they hire her to be the bodyguard for Joel, the youngest Lynch and future leader of the company.

As Hwa takes on the job of guarding Joel, her friends begin dying left and right.  As she explores their deaths, she finds a deeper, more sinister plot that goes far deeper then you would think possible.

You will be left on the edge of your seat as the revelations and plot twists play themselves out in the final chapter.



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Full Cicada Moon

Hilton, Marilyn.  Full Cicada Moon. 2015.  Dial Books for Young Readers.  New York, NY.





The year is 1969, and the Apollo Mission is about to land on the moon.  The world is full of wonder about the new territory about to be explored, and the scientific accomplishments of the NASA Scientists.

12 year old Mimi Oliver dreams of becoming an astronaut on the moon.  Growing up in California, surrounded by family and close friends, anything seems possible.

Mimi's Dad has been given his dream job - as a professor at Hillsborough College in Vermont.  And Mimi and her mother journey across the county to join her father in their new home and her new school - just after New Year's Day.

For Mimi, life is full of the usual complications of moving to a new school in a new place;  finding new friends, a place to fit in, getting to new to her classes and proving to the teachers that she really does belong in the classes that she's been placed into.

But there's one unexpected twist. As a half Japanese, half black young woman who wants to be a NASA Scientist in a mostly white very traditional small town in Vermont, she keeps finding unexpected obstacles and hostility where she least expects.

Mimi's journey to win acceptance and follow her dreams will give you the courage to follow your very own big dreams.

When Dimple Met Rishi

Menon, Sandhya.  When Dimple Met Rishi.  2017.  Simon Pulse, New York, NY

Dimple Shah is an average, ordinary American teenager who loves to code.  Her biggest dream for the summer after she graduates from high school is to get away to a coding camp and program a winning App.  An app so wonderful, so spectacular, that she will get a chance to meet her heroine, Jenny Lindt, a world famous coder.  There's only one problem with this perfect scenario.  Did I mention that she is of Indian descent? Her parents want her to find and marry her I.I.H.  (Ideal Indian Husband)

Rishi Patel is an average, ordinary American teenager who is very connected to his roots and his past.  While his passion is drawing and writing comic books.  Instead of pursuing his passion, he has set his sights on going to MIT to become a computer programmer.  He is a hopeless romantic who loves the unconventional story of how his parents met through an arranged marriage.




The parents of Rishi and Dimple are old friends who grew up in India together.  Between them, they believe that Dimple and Rishi would make an ideal couple, and take the steps to arrange a marriage between them.  While Rishi is well aware of the plans for the two to meet during the summer coding camp, Dimple's parents decide that it is best to keep her in the dark.




Dimple begins their acquaintance with each other by throwing her iced coffee all over this strange kid who knows everything about her and calls her "future wife".  Things take a turn for the worse when the two are assigned to be partners during the six weeks of camp.




But, as Dimple and Rishi begin to work together, they find that underneath their prickly exteriors lie a quiet depth that neither one suspected about the other.




Will they follow through on their parent's wishes and pursue a relationship?  Or are they destined to remain friends?  Find out as you journey with Dimple and Rishi through San Francisco!


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