pjohootkc's Progress 14/50

1. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

This book is first of a spin-off series of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It has so much action, suspense, and mystery. Gaea has awakened (partially) and sent her sons (the anti-god giants) to destroy the gods. Three kids, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Leo Valdez are off on Happy the Dragon to save the world. Each demigod has a special power that their half-siblings don't have (except for one in Piper's cabin). Piper's father is brought into the world of gods, as a hostage. Leo's past is coming back to haunt him. And Jason can barely remember who he is, and where he came from. And it made me hate waiting for the next one, The Son of Neptune.

2. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

This relieves readers of the suspense that Rick Riordan gave them in The Lost Hero. We find Percy in the middle of a fight with gorgons, Medusa's sisters, who want revenge for killing their sister, Medusa. We also find Roman demigods, and that they are missing their leader too, Jason Grace. Percy meets Frank and Hazel, who, like him, have odd powers. Percy doesn't remember anything from his other life, except his short-time girlfriend (long-time best friend), Annabeth Chase. Frank's life depends on a stick, and Hazel was dead. Looks like life has problems with them. They're sent on a quest to free Death, because if he is chained, no one can die. They meet a giant there, the one Hazel had known from long ago. We end with a ending that makes the Mark of Athena a book that nobody wants to wait for.

3. Impossible by Nancy Werlin

This books is based on a ballad called Scarborough Fair. The ballad contains three seemingly impossible tasks. The family of Scarborough is cursed. They will have a child at the age of 17/18 and they must complete the three tasks before the baby is born or else they will become mad after the birth of their baby. All the children end up being women, and they never find love, except for one, Lucy Scarborough. She lives with foster parents that knew her mother, Miranda, before she became mad. Lucy and her husband, Zach rush to complete the three tasks while the immortal faery that originally cursed her family follows them.

4. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

This book brings up the childhood topic of faeries and elves. Meghan Chase is no ordinary girl. She is the daughter of a faery king, and is a dangerous weapon. She is half-fey (faery) and is a dangerous pawn in the upcoming war. When she travels to the land of faeries to find her kidnapped little brother, she finds her best friend is Puck, or Robin Goodfellow. She is brought to her father's court. During Elysium, a time where both Summer and Winter faeries can meet in peace, she an attack on the castle leads to the Winter faeries waging war. Meghan then escapes to find her brother with a friend, Grimalkin (in Alice in Wonderland, he is known as Cheshire Cat) and Prince Ash, the Winter Prince, and along the way, makes a few deals she now regrets. She finds her brother with the Iron King, an enemy of both Winter and Summer faeries. She manages to kill him, and brings her brother back to her world. She then goes back to Faeryland, to complete the deal she made with Prince Ash...

5. Supergirl Mixtapes by Meagan Brothers

This book is about a girl who moves to New York City with her mother, who abandoned her with her father at a young age. She finds New York to be more evil than it looks. Through drugs, lies, and secret homeschooling, Maria wishes she stayed with her father in North Carolina.

6. Vanishing Act by John Feinstein

This book is about the U.S. Open, and how Stevie and Susan Carol, two amateur reporters, go to watch. They find that a new Russian tennis player, Nadia Symanova, is kidnapped. Many people are accused, and when she is brought back, Stevie and Susan Carol try to dig deeper into the mystery. They then find Susan's uncle, Brendon, kidnapped. After digging around his apartment, they find where he is held, and the kidnappers are sent to jail. Susan and Stevie are still investigating, and soon find what they are looking for.

7. Dead is a Battlefield by Marlene Perez

Jessica Walsh is starting high school at Nightshade High and is trying to forget everything that happened during her brother's graduation. She wants to be normal, but that's hard when a tattoo magically appears on her arm. A new boy shows up a school and certain girls start crushing on him in a inhuman way.
The band, Side Affects May Vary, has a new singer, Dominic Gray who Jessica is crushing on, along with the rest of the town. Jessica finds out she's a Virago, a female warrior chosen to fight evil to protect her hometown. Well, her town is in danger and she and her Virago friends have to save the town from a zombie invasion, but where are the zombies coming from?

8. Epic by Conor Kostick

In New Earth, violence is banned. Their world is run by a video game called Epic. If you win a duel, you can fulfill your dreams. If you lose, your life means nothing and you belong to the Committee. Erik is a boy with friends and a plan. He journeys with his friends, in the wrold of Epic. They plan to defeat and succeed in defeating a dragon and become famous, but soon, they have a new plan. They want to shut down Epic, but they not only have the Committee against them, but a vampire, and an unbeatable opponent. If they succeed, then the Committee will no longer rule over them. If they lose...

9. The Otherworldlies by Jennifer Anne Kogler

Fern is an interesting girl learning interesting things about herself. She can teleport, talk to dogs, and blisters in the sun. She learns so much about herself, and how a bad man wants to use her to rule the world. Fern, her new friend, and her brother, Sam, find out a lot about Fern and her destiny, and are endangered.

10. Positively by Courtney Sheinmel

This is a great book that has so much meaning. It is about a girl named Emmy with HIV. She lost her mother to the same virus, and now lives with her father and his wife (her step mother). She must cope with the new house and how her dad know so little about her. After a few emotional changes, Emmy is sent to Camp Positive, where she is sure she will hate it. Instead, she meets a girl named Hannah who becomes her other best friend (besides Nicole) and learns there's much more to being HIV positive than being sick. It is a heart touching story with readers wanting more at the end.

11. Changeling by Delia Sherman

Neef just wants to go to the dance... but when she does, she finds herself kicked out of her home and out of Central Park. In the magical world of faeries, anything can happen, you can meet a fairy, you could step on a leprechaun, or you could be snatched up by a shape-shifting man who plans on using you for entertainment. The man takes her away, and there, Neef finds her changeling. You see, Neef is the only human changeling in the Central Park of the fairy realm. The faery changeling took her place as a child with normal human parents. Neef finds herself stuck in an adventure where she must go questing, or lose everything she ever loved.

12. Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan

City girl, Chloe, and country side, Finn hatch up a plan to get them into a great college when they find community service and good grades aren't at the Ivy League level. They stage Chloe's disappearance, and then in the middle of the chaos weeks later, Finn would find Chloe and return her. But things backfire right away as the innocent are taken in guilty and lives will never be the same.

13. No Safety In Numbers by Dayna Lorentz

When a deadly virus speads throughout the mall, the place locks down with over 200 people still inside. Four teens must find escape before it's too late. But will they? Find out in Book 2.

14. Over You by Emma Laughlin and Nicola Kraus

When teenager Max Scott's relationship explodes to pieces, leaving her crying for days on end, she vows no other girl will have to go through the same. She teaches girls to move on and move past. But when her ex shows up in town, she must get over him for real.

15. The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa

This is a sequel to The Iron King about how Meghan is held by the Unseelie Court and how the Scepter of Seasons is stolen by the supposedly "gone" Iron fey. Meghan is trying to handle her feelings for her best friend, Puck (AKA Robin Goodfellow) and Ash, the forbidden Unseelie Winter Prince. She must also handle her newest abilities that could change her life forever.

16. The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

This leaves off from when Ash and Meghan were exiled and were suddenly dragged back into the world of Faery. They had to defeat the false king, but first Meghan must find a truth about her past. When they ready to battle the false king, Meghan must merge with her abilities. During the battle, she realizes what she has to sacrifice and what to give up to save the world of Nevernever.

17. Everlost by Neal Shusterman

Nick and Allie don't live or die. They exist in the in-between of life and death. They must handle the problems that come at them and understand how they must now "live". When Allie encounters a special ability that was rare in Everlost, and Nick discovers a secret to save them all, they must fight the leader of Everlost to get what is needed done.

18. Everwild by Neal Shusterman

Nick, The Chocolate Ogre, and Mary, the Sky Witch, are at war with each other. One wants to release the kids of Everlost to their rightful state, and one wants to keep them there. They must fight a battle that is harder than it should be, because they can't stop loving each other. Meanwhile, Allie the Outcast and Mikey the McGill travel through the country looking for Allie's family. One the way, she discovers a secret that can change her "death" all together.