This is it!

Hello readers!

I hope you've all been having a fantastic summer! As you may know, this is the last week of the Us Reading program. We will be closing the blog Friday evening, so get those final entries in now!

Thank you all for reading and posting this summer. It's been a blast seeing what everyone is reading.

Also, please join us at the MAIN LIBRARY next Thursday August 29th at 3:30pm for an ICE CREAM party! Thanks to a generous donation from JP Licks, we'll be able to have some sundaes, play some games, and announce our big raffle winners!

Hope to see you there!
Librarian Liz

Payback on Poplar Lane by Margaret Mincks

Rachel Chambers is quiet and unnoticeable. But Rachel doesn't want to be that quiet girl in the corner anymore. So when she enters a contest to work as an intern for her next door neighbor and business entrepreneur, Peter Gronkowski. Rachel wins and she starts to work as a intern for Peter. But Peter treats her like she is not human. He does not even call her by her name. Will Rachel ever rebel? HINT: She does! -Penny

The Paper Cowboy by Kristin Levine

The paper cowboy is set in the USA during the red scare. 
Tommy likes teasing the kids at his school, but he does have a reason for being a bully. At home his abusive mother switches between moods. Sometimes she is kind and forgiving but sometimes she beats him. To make matters worse his sister, the one person who Tommy can rely on, is hospitalized when she gets badly burned. Tommy feels like it is his fault. To make up for it, he takes over her paper route. This becomes his chance to spy on his neighbors and try and figure out who received a communist paper. As fear of a communist takes hold over his neighborhood, Tommy tries to fix what he can fix in his life.
- Penny

The Parker Inheritance By Varian Johnson

Candice was expecting a boring summer in her grandmothers house in Landel, South Carolina. For one she's apart from her best friends in Atlanta. Worse, the only library in Landel is so far away from her house. But her horrable summer changes for the better when Candice finds an envelope scrawled with her grandmother's handwriting. "Find the path. Solve the puzzle." With these words Candice and her neighbor Brandon are swept into a hunt for treasure that goes deep into the past, in the Jim crow era.
- Penny

The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones

This book was really good. By looking at the cover (See image) or reading the back you may think that the book is going to be scary. But in reality it wasn't actually that scary. If I had to give it a genre I would say it was more of a thriller. I won't tell you much about the book but what I will say is the writing is really good its very descriptive and sort of reminds me of a  Stephen King novel. The start may feel a little bit boring but as you keep reading, it just gets better and better and more and more intense as it goes on. Its worth it by the end and there's a lot of twists. if I had to give it a rating from 1 to 10 I would give it a 8.1
Highly recommended if you like thrillers/mysteries.
- Zephyr

Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn

"The first book is always the best". I always agree with this statement except for a few exceptions, Grass for his Pillow is one of those exceptions. Its the second book in the Tales of Otori series and I think it was as good as the first or better. I think it was even more descriptive then the last. I wish I had read it in the winter because it takes place in the winter. In many parts of the book the characters are trying to get warm and I read that in a heat wave. Which was annoying because I wanted to be cold. I recommend the Tales of Otori series to anyone who liked the movie "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" (but know one has seen that movie. probably... But if you haven't seen it I recommend it also its really good). The series is good for people of any age that is above 5th garde unless your really smart. I really liked this book and I cant wait to read the third!
- Zephyr

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn

Aghhhhhh. These books just keep getting better and better how does Lian Hearn do this!?!?!? Just read the title and you can tell it's a good book, just look at the cover. Ok, this is the third book in the Tales of the Otori series and its amazing. I dont want to say anything aboit the book because I don't want to spoil it. But what I will say is that the characters are so good you just start to hang on to them. I give this book a 9 out of 10. I give the series a 9.99 out of ten.
- Zephyr