The Declaration

No, this is not about the Declaration, as I often write about. It is a fabulous, haunting dystopian novel by Gemma Malley. It is possibly my favorite non-history book that I have read this summer.
Surplus Anna has always been that, surplus. It is her title, her schooling, her job, her life. In being a Surplus, [...]

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Life As We Knew It

Miranda has a very busy life. She’s finishing up her sophomore year of high school and hopes to get back to semi-professional ice skating in the summer. Her teachers keep talking about a meteor hitting the moon, but she hardly thinks of it. Meteors hit the moon all the time, so this must be just [...]

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Extras

Aya Fuse has a face rank of half a million- horrible in her view. She’s a kicker, someone who’s feed (I sort of think of it as a blog) is stories about their city. Her last story was about underground graffiti, but she knows that it won’t make her a big kicker. Her brother Hiro has [...]

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Dr. Franklin’s Island

I’ve read this book about three times and it still gives me goosebumps. Semi’s plane crashes on a deserted island, and two other kids survive; Miranda and Arnie. It turns out that this island is not as deserted as they think. Dr. Franklin, a doctor specializing in genetical engineering, turns thinks he can turn the [...]

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