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SHELTER by Harlan Coben It all starts when 15-years old Mickey passes the house of an old woman known as The Bat Lady. On the day in question the old, long white haired lady also known as the bat lady opens her front house door and addresses little Mickey telling him that his father, which death Mickey witnessed, is in fact alive. Mickey’s beautiful girlfriend, named Ashley, has suddenly disappeared from school, and from Mickey’s life, without a trace. Mickey does what his uncle would do and begins investigating Ashley’s disappearance. He is helped by two of his friends the first one is an odd kid named Spoon and Ema a practicing goth girl. And there's Ashley that every boy in school want her but she only has eyes for Mickey. And the foursome begins a journey of investigations far away from high school in New Jersey gathering clue after clue in order to find Mickeys lost girlfriend who she turned out to be nothing like the girl he knew. Meanwhile, help comes from an unexpected so

Red by Libby Gleeson Mud in her mouth, her nose and her eyes. Mud in her hair and caked on her neck and her arms. Mud filling her shoes and seeping through her clothes. This book is a about this girl who wakes up after this big cyclone in Sydney that took over 10 000 homes with it. The main characters is on the run outdoors looking after clues. Her mouth filled with mud, her head was just repeating this word, Jaymartin Jaymartin over and over. She wakes up with no memory everything was gone, her memory, where is her family? She doesn’t know who she is, or where she is. But she is left with a clue, she having a mysterious locket around her neck and repeating the word Jaymartin over and over. But she doesn’t wake up alone. His boy Peri helped her and gives her the nickname Red, after her ginger coloured hair. As Reds memories slowly returns, she relies that the only thing that treats her survival Isn’t just the cyclone anymore. Red is a small girl with red hair, blue eyes and her age

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy The story takes place in England and Ireland and it's about a girl called Stephanie and she gets her uncles old mansion where she spent a lot of time when she was little. Then when she is there a man calls her and then tries to break in to the house and also tries to attack her, but during that time another man comes in and throws fire after him so he runs away. Then she says hi and she gets his name which is Skulduggery Pleasant and he is there because he is looking for a key to a super weapon that he wants to keep the evil people from getting and during that time they are gonna kill monsters and that stuff. The book is a science fiction detective kind of book, there is a mystery and they can also do magic. One of the more important chapters in the book is probably number 4, because that is when you get to know what is going on and what the book is gonna be about.  As I mentioned there is a girl called Stephanie and she is one of the main

Shelter by Harlan Coben This book is about fifteen year old Mickey Bolitar. Mickey is a very tall and brave guy who always wants to protect the people he loves and does everything for them. After a life traveling around with his parents and their work they decide to settle down in Casselton in New Jersey. In the same time Mickey witnesses his father's death in a car accident and shortly after, his mom gets sent to rehab. Mickey has to live with his uncle Myron and gets to start at this new school as a sophomore. He gets to know new real friends such as Ema and Spoon. Ema, I would say, turns out to be Mickey's best friend. She is a girl with a goth or emo style and she is mostly by herself in school. In the beginning she is very shallow but after the book goes on she opens up more for her new friends. She is also very brave. Spoon is another guy at the school, also with not much friends. He is skinny and wears glasses and is kind of nerdy I would say. Mickey gets to know this

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy The story is about a young girl named Stephanie who meets a strange man named Skulduggery. Stephanie is a normal girl around 12 years old and Skulduggery is s 100+ year old magic skeleton. Together they try to save the world from impending doom. And the world is not what it might seem to be at first because there is magic and lots of old folklore and old fairy tales are true in the universe of the book. The book takes place in England and Ireland in towns similar to London and is almost always inside of town except when they are at Stephanie's estate. The author is very good at describing the environment around them. The book is in a time somewhere between the years 2000 to 2010 because they reference lots of semi modern stuff. It is a fantasy adventure book. The best part of the book is the last third of the book and worst is the first third. This book is not about sending a message but more about entertaining the reader and making up new ver

Shelter by Mickey Bolitar The story and the characters The book is based around a tall, brown haired, athletic teenager named Mickey Bolitar, who has witnessed his fathers death and sent his mother to rehab, because of her drug addiction. Mickey is portrayed as a serene person who likes to protect people. Before all these tragedies had occurred to the Bolitar family had they been a happy family traveling around the world to help people who where in hard situations, but the situation looked different now. Instead did Mickey have to move into his uncle Myrons house and had to start a new school in the area, where he quickly got a girlfriend named Ashley. She disappeared suddenly a day, without a trace and at the same time was Mickey getting told by a old women named Batlady that his dad was still alive and after that experience was he consistently encountered by a bald faced, tattooed man. Mickey also got to now Ema and Spoon at his new school, who he became friends with and they are c

Gansta Granny by David Walliams The story: In the beginning of book it’s about Ben not wanting to go to his granny when his parents are going out to an arena to watch strictly stars dance live which they are pretty much addicted to, so they go there every Friday and leave Ben with his granny. Ben thinks his granny smells like cabbage and is boring so he doesn’t want to go there. When he gets there his granny always cooks him food with cabbage he is so sick and tired of being there until one night. Ben is following his granny who is dressed all black, she is on her way to the jewel store and when Ben exposes her she tells him that she is a international jewel thief, she makes him promise not to tell anyone, not even his parents. Further on in the story granny tells Ben she has been planning to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London her entire life. The characters: Ben’s mother works on a store called Gail’s nails, they pretty much only do their own nails all day because of

Midnight alley by Rachel Caine Summary of the book After Clair realizes the risk of living in Morganville, she signs a contract with the most dangerous vampire Amelie to save her friends. Amelie forces Claire to study alchemy with Myrnin, a deranged vampire. Michael turns down the job that the vampires offer him because it will lead him being a protector. The evil Monica invites Claire to exclusive party. Clair gives her invitation to gamers and nerds to show she had no interest in being her friend. Then a dead body is found in a glass house trash can, Eve’s brother is suspected for the murder. All of a sudden the vampires started dying.When Shane tells Jason he left the dead girl in the basement to impress the vampires he stabs him. Shane is taken into surgery and he gets well. Claire goes to see Myrnin the old vampire without her protection, who will survive if he kills her but he isn’t willing to kill Claire to get little time , because every time he tries to bite her she claims s

Skulduggery pleeasant by Derek Landy The Story The story takes place in England most of the time but also in Ireland at the end. The Book is about a girl called Stephanie she is twelve years old. One day her uncle died and when he did die he had written in his testament that his house is going to belong to Stephanie and that's the key to a whole new world with trolls, magic, skeletons, fights between life and death. The characters Stephanie and Skulduggery are the main characters ,Stephanie only twelve years old with black hair, she is a pretty mysterious girl. She has problems to trust people but one person is she telling everything to and trust all of her heart on and that's Skulduggery he is the person that Stephanie trusts the most and he is a living and speaking skeleton who can make fire out of his hands and he has a big reason to fight against the bad guys and because of that his personal connection to Stephanie develops and he is prepared to give up everything for her

Gangsta granny by David Walliams It's a story about a little boy and his old boring grandmother. He never liked her he always thought that she's old and not fun at all. He never like the food she made and hed beg his parents not to take him there but little did he know. One day as he was speaking on the phone to his parents telling them how boring is at his granny's place and nagging about how bad the food is. Grandma heard everything. He started scouting around the house for chocolate until he opens a box that in his head thought its a box of chocolate. He opens the box to find it full of diamond necklaces. He was shocked and started telling his parents that he wants to go to his grandmother's house more often because he felt the urge to discover why does she have all these diamond necklaces. One day he grabs his bike and go to her house as he arrives he sees her dressed in black from top to bottom. She mounts her scouter and starts to drive,so he follows her until t

Shelter by Harlan Coben These past weeks I have read they book Shelter. Shelter is a detective.It's aimed to the people who like to put puzzle pieces that is presented to the reader.The main character is Mickey, Mickey is a teenager which will start in high school.Mickey does not have a dad because he died in a car accident. Mickey is living with his mom and uncle. Mickey don't like his uncle because he is rude against him. When Mickeys dad was living he didn't like him either. His uncle is rude because he is joking about Mickeys dead father.The house that Mickey lives in is special to him because Mickeys father has lived in that house. Ashley and Mickey is classmates and then they fall on love with each other. They was hanging out every time but after a week Ashley went missing. Mickey went on adventure to find Ashley. Many things is going to happen on the way to find Ashley. The main characters is his uncle Myron,Ashley,Antonie ,Mickey's mom and him self Mickey. Mic

Book review of the book ”Red” by Libby Gleeson The first thing that happens in this book is that a girl wakes up in a mud puddle and is almost drowning, but suddenly a boy saves her. When she got saved she didn’t remember a thing of her past. But the only thing she remember is two words and that was Jay Martin and she didn’t know why she was saying it. Both the girl and the boy didn’t know what has happened to the city, they thought that it may have been some kind of natural disaster. The story takes place in Sydney, Australia in present time. The book is a mystery book because of all the unknown information and everything is just so hokey. The most important chapter of this book is when Red and Peri (the two main characters) find Reds best old friend. Red remembered more and more after her friend told her what has happened and things about her. She got some flashbacks now and then about her past. Red had lost her whole family but when she got to her old friends house she used a lapt

Gangsta granny by David Walliams This book is about a boy and his granny. The granny is a jewel thief and the boy Ben doesn't know and he thinks she is boring, because she is old and she always does boring stuff. Little does Ben know that granny is planning on her biggest heist.  The book is a comedy and I think it was a good book because it wasn't that hard to understand or read. Ben is the boy and one of the main characters, he is young, he has orange hair and he is short. Granny is the also one main character. She is old, has white hair, false teeth and tucks tissues up her sleeve. The story takes place in London, in the city it is taking place in and some other places like in a hospital. I don't think this book is about sending out a message it's more about being some sort of entertainment.  Overall I think the book was really good. It had its issues and good parts like in the beginning the book was a little bit slow. When you have read some pages you

Shelter by Harlan Coben This story is about Mickey Bolitar, a heroic 14 year old boy who’s life changed forever after his fathers accidental death, which took place a year before the story had begun. After this incident Mickeys mother began taking drugs and was sent to rehab. Mickey is now living with his uncle, whom he doesn’t like. And in this new chapter in his life he also starts in a new school where he quickly becomes an outcast. He later gets to know Spoon and Ema, who are also considered outcasts in his eyes. Spoon is a very nerdy, smart and dorky person. Ema on the other side is a little “darker”, she usually dresses in all black and is a bit cold towards others. Together they try to solve the mystery behind Mickey’s girlfriend, Ashley's disappearance. She was one of the popular pretty girls in school, who seemed to have quite the perfect life. They quickly learn that not everything they knew about Ashley was true. They discover that Ashley wasn’t the person she said she

Skulduggery pleasant by Derek Landy The story takes place in England for the most part, but later in the book they’re in Dublin, Ireland. It's about a twelve year old girl that inherits a house from her dead uncle, who wrote horror storyies. She meets some mysterious man, who is covering his full body with clothing, that would later help her when someone broke into her new house. The man was a living skeleton that could do some magic like throw fireballs. She would later speak a little bit with him and learn that there was a different world and that the man whos name was Skulduggery pleasant, and is a detective there. He used to be friends with her uncle and Stephanie (the girl) wanted to join him on his adventures. Skulduggery warns her, but eventually agreed. Later they find out that someone is after the ultimate weapon and they plan to use as a key to bring back the the faceless ones but that’s just what they believe. The main bad guy who’s name is Serpine plans to get to the Bo

Nu är den nya terminen igång och i skolbiblioteket har det också hänt en del nytt. Vi har fått en ny bibliotekarie som heter Mahitab. Hon har tidigare har arbetat på stadsbiblioteket i Eskilstuna. Om du vill ha hjälp med boktips, hur man loggar in eller använder Legimus eller Inläsningstjänst eller hjälp med att beställa hem en bok, så vänd dig till Mahitab!

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Idag jobbar jag min sista dag på Järvenskolan Tallås efter fem och ett halvt år. Imorgon börjar nya utmaningar på biblioteket på Linköpings universitet. Det känns häftigt, vemodigt, sorgligt och roligt - allt samtidigt! Det har varit så kul att jobba med lärarna och eleverna under de här åren, att lära känna eleverna, se alla växa och utvecklas. Vi har haft författarbesök, biblioteksråd, bokprat och hur mycket grejer som helst att jobba med. Utmaningar har funnits, men de har vi överkommit. Jag tar med mig så mycket glädje från den här skolan! En ersättare börjar efter midsommar, så biblioteket kommer att klara sig utmärkt! //Björn

Angel of Venice ​by Mary Hoffman Angel of Venice is a novel published first in 2014. It's not a part of a series, it's only 95 pages long so it's very easy to read. They don't describe the characters looks so much, but you can see on the front page how Luca and Fina look. Luca is a 16 year old boy, with ginger hair. He is not a muscular boy, he is narrow comparing to other boys in the same age. Fina is Luca’s neighbour and she is around the same age as Luca. She has dark hair and is also narrow. Angelina is Luca`s dream girl. He thinks that she looks like an angel. The book takes place in year 1571. In the city Venice. Venice is a large Harbour city in Italy. It’s famous because they have rivers running thru the city which the residents use as streets now days. The city was a important town in the war because they make many big war galleys. The book starts out on the shipyard with Luca explaining his work as a cleaner. His father and older brothers work as carpenters

Angel of Venice​ by Mary Hoffman The book is an adventure book, because they are traveling around with a ship on their way to war. It was first published in 2014. The book is not included in a series and the book have 95 sides. Luca is the main character and he is a sixteen year old boy. Luca works at the shipyard with collecting wood shavings from the older workers and carries the wood shaving to the blacksmiths. He lives in a poor family with his mom, dad and two older brothers. Angelina is sixteen years old and the big love in Luca`s life. Angelina is in a rich family that lives in the rich part of the city. Her brother doesn't like Luca, but Angelina and Luca are trying to meet anyway. Nico is Luca ́s best friend is the same age as Luca, that will be sixteen, he works at the same place as Nico. This story takes place in Italy in the city of Venice and on a ship in the Mediterranean. The weather seems to be quiet nice during the book and I think it is summer bec

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead American author Richelle Mead is the creator behind the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series. She was born in Michigan, but now lives in Seattle,Washington, where she is working on her next novel. Growing up Richelle always read and had a particular fascination with mythology and folklore. Which is probably where the idea of vampire academy came from. The book is about Lissa and Rose, two girls enrolled in an academy for moroi vampires and dhampirs. Moroi are royal vampires that can harness the earth's elements and are protected by their guardians (dhampirs). Dhampirs have a powerful mix of human and vampire blood and therefore are much stronger and faster than the moroi. This makes them suitable guardians for moroi. Lissa is a moroi princess and Rose is her guardian-to-be/best friend. The two girls have totally different personalities, Lissa is the polite one and has a likeable personality while Rose is the more reckless one and has

Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher I have read the book “Never Never”  written by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher. I have previously read other books published by Hoover, and have admired her work for quite some time which is why I chose to read this book. Never Never is part one in a fiction trilogy series and was first published January 2015. Colleen Hoover is a Texas born American author of fifteen published works that all fall into categories like New adult and Young adult. The majority of her books have reached the New York Times bestseller list and earned her several awards, making her an acclaimed author with good critics under her wing. Two of her works have made it in the film industry with Confess expected to air as a series this spring, and Ugly love to begin filming later this year. Hoover is also the founder of the Bookworm Box, a subscription that lets readers receive autographed books whilst the profits are donated to various of charities. Tarryn

Book review of Angel of Venice by Mary Hoffman The book was first published in 2014 in Great Britain. The Angel of Venice has got 97 pages of text and 15 chapters and it’s not in a series. The genres of the book are romantic, adventure and history. The story in the book takes place in the 16th century, in the country of Italy and the city of Venice. The main characters in the book are Luca, Fina and Nico. Luca is the most important main character because he's the one you will be following in the book. Nico and Fina are Lucas´ friends. Angelina is also a bit of a main character because she’s the one that Luca gets in love with. But he doesn’t meet her that much that we would call her a main character. It starts with Luca working at the shipyard and he is very curious about the war. He asks his father questions all the time. One ordinary day he meets Angelina in the street. Luca starts to give her food and talk to her and then he went away with a boat to fight. Luca is 16 years ol

Äntligen, säger jag bara! Del 5 i serien Varelserna har kommit ut. Magnus Nordins serie om ett zombiesmittat Gotland tar ny fart i Fredlös . De odöda, som kallas "döingar" eller "fulingar", verkar mer eller mindre ha försvunnit från Gotland, men ingen kan ta sig därifrån ändå. Det har blivit gängbildning och maten börjar ta slut. Robin och Mirre, som är två av dem som klarat sig igenom allt, upptäcker en dag skepp på väg mot Gotland. Det verkar som attde odöda börjat sprida sig även på fastlandet och nu är det många som försöker söka skydd på Gotland. Det delar ungdomarna där - kan de hjälpa alla eller borde de låta bli, eftersom de inte har mat eller vatten själva? Den här boken håller stilen från föregående delar i serien. De odöda verkar aldrig ta slut och riskerar alltid att bli någons död. Lägg till de som flytt från fastlandet och slitningarna som blir i de grupper som redan finns på Gotland, så har vi en riktigt spännande, välskriven fortsättning på Varels

Jag har precis läst ut en bok som låg i den senaste beställningskartongen. Boken heter Bortförd och är första delen i serien "S som i skräck". Den är skriven av Ewa Christina Johansson, som också skrivit serien som inleddes med Tavlans hemlighet . Boken handlar om Saga och Sigrid. De är två kompisar som bor grannar. De bor såpass nära varndra att Saga kan se in i Sigrids sovrum. Hon ser en kväll att Sigrid sitter klistrad vid datorn och spelar online-spelet "S som i Skräck", ett spel där spelaren ska fly från zombies, vampyrer och andra bestar. De börjar sms:a med varandra under tiden. När Saga tittar bort en kort sekund försvinner Sigrid spårlöst. Saga ser inte var hon har tagit vägen. Senare kommer Sigrids mamma och säger att Sigrid är försvunnen. Men var tog hon vägen? Jag gillade den här boken! Den är lagom lång, skönt lättläst och har en riktigt bra story. Den här serien kommer jag verkligen att hålla koll på. //Björn

Jag tror att jag kommer fortsätta lägga upp sånt här! :) //Björn

Nobody is ever missing by Catherine Lacey The book is a realistic fiction which came out in 2014 and takes place in New York and New Zealand. It’s written in presence in the perspective of the main character. The book has been praised by many news articles and has also won some prizes like ”Late Night Library Debutlizer”. ’’Nobody is ever missing’’ is about Elyria and her unraveling marriage with her husband. She decides one day that this is not what she wants so she packs her bags and takes a flight to New Zealand where her journey to find herself begins. Neither her husband nor her family knows why she's left or if she’s coming back. The main character is Elyria, she is a 29 year old woman who’s quite skinny and has long uncontrollable brown hair. We don’t get to read much about other characters since they are only in small parts of the story. We do get to read some about her alcoholic mother who never took good care of her or her sister Ruby. We learn that Ruby commited suici

Den jag är är en rätt kort, lättläst bok av den kanadensiske författaren Lesley Choyce. Den handlar om Simon, som inte mår så bra vare sig i skolan eller hemma. I skolan finns de som bråkar med honom, hemma bråkar föräldrarna istället. En dag möter han Gabriella, eller Gabbe som hon vill bli kallad, och det börjar umgås. Gabbe får Simon att känna sig bättre till mods och mer säker på sig själv. Dessutom hjälper hon honom att plugga, vilket han inte brukar göra annars. Gabbe har dock sina egna problem. Hon ser inte ut och beter sig inte som många tycker att en tjej "ska" göra och blir hotad för det. Hennes föräldrar är frågande över hur hon klär sig och beter sig, men hon känner att hon är den hon vill vara. När flera hot börjar dyka upp måste de tillsammans försöka hitta en lösning på det. Det här är en bok med mycket att diskutera kring. Mycket av hur karaktärerna i boken är kommer fram genom dialog, när de pratar med varandra. Det tycker jag fungerar bra i den här boke

Det var ju kul det här! //Björn

Down under är en bok som jag haft hemma läääääänge, egentligen alldeles för länge med tanke på att det är en biblioteksbok. Jag började läsa, slutade och lät boken vara. Nu när jag började om tog det tre dagar att läsa ut den. Först vill jag skriva lite om hur boken är uppbyggd. Den utspelar sig på två tidsplan: under Jims resa till Nya Zeeland 1987 och under hela hans uppväxt, från tredje klass upp till gymnasiet. De här kapitlen varvas med varandra, och det är i tillbakablickarna på uppväxten som vi som läsare börjar förstå mer av Jim och vem han är. Det är ett bra berättargrepp, tycker jag, bakgrundskapitlen fyller liksom i luckorna. Boken handlar om Jim och hans resa till Nya Zeeland för att hitta sig själv. Han vill bort, bort från förorten i Stockholm, bort från alla i klassen som bara är idioter, bort från Alva som var hans flickvän. Det känns nästan som att han vill bort från sig själv. Nya Zeeland ska bli en nystart för honom som människa. Han ska bo med släktingar d

Shadow of the Zeppelin by Bernard Ashley. This book was written by the prizewinning British author Bernard Ashley who was born in April, 1935. This book was written in 2014 and has 310 pages. It’s a bit hard to say what genre this book belongs to, but I would say that this book is a historical novel. I think this is more of a historical novel because it takes place in the past, which is essential in a historical fiction. The way people act and behave is also different than we do today. We also know that the book takes place during WW1 which started in 1914 and ended in 1918, a century ago. There are two main characters that the book is centered around. The main characters are the young boy named Freddie and the German soldier Ernst. It’s not clear how Freddie and Ernst look but there are some hints that suggest that Freddie is short, blond and wispy he’s also 12 years old. Ernst is an Ashkenazi Jew, which is mentioned in the book, and is of average height with brown hair. Freddie is

On the Edge - Nigel Hinton This book was written in year 2014 and it’s not included in a series.The book has 96 pages and it’s an English book. On the Edge was written by Nigel Hinton. He has written other books like Buddy and Time bomb. It’s a novel and teenage fiction. Nigel was born in London on the 28th of September in 1941. Nigel lives in Great Britain. He has been a teacher for nine years and a professional actor before he started to write books. He has made a movie which is called Buddy's Song. He has been married to Rolande Lager since 1980. Nigel has won two book rewards for the book “Out of the darkness”. In 2014 his short novel “Partners in crime” won the Coventry inspiration book award. The book is set in Gardle Head. The main character in this book is Dillon, he is 14 years old and he’s smart and shy. Robbie is 10 years old and he’s positive and impulsive.The dad had been in jail and he’s rotten. It’s a book about two young boys when they were going to