The Reminder by Rune Michaels

Alicia comes through with another great book! Mrs. Keuhn

The Reminder, written by Rune Michaels, is a quick weekend read. The main character is a young girl, Daze, whose age I cannot determine. The cover of the book has the outline of a girl that makes me want to believe Daze is in her young teens. But as I followed her emotions throughout the story I found myself seeing her as a younger more frightened and fragile girl instead. In this story, Daze suffers the loss of her mother. Her father often watches home movies with Daze, so they can remember her voice, face, and laugh. Daze tries to get her little brother Ryan to remember their mom, with pictures, home movies, and plenty of stories. However she gets easily frustrated with him because he was simply too young to remember her. The story truly gets exciting when Daze first hears her mother's voice while at her father's office. From this point the book flies by. The Reminder is a pleasant and easy read. Great for those weekend stays at home. ~Alicia

Generation Dead by Alicia

One of my seniors will be submitting book reviews this school year. This is her first. Enjoy!

I recently read Generation Dead, by Dan Waters. If I wasn’t in my P.I.G. class when I finished this book I would have cried. It is an amazing story. In a way it really shows how cruel teenage society is these days. When someone is different and doesn’t quite “fit in” they are excluded from everything and forced to fend for themselves. In Generation Dead, Phoebe, one of the main characters, befriends one of the dead kids, and causes a chain reaction of friendship, and chaos. This book has humor, love and controversy; I had a hard time putting it down.

Alicia