Emergency Room by Caroline B. Cooney

Yes, No, Maybe So: Maybe so
  Stars: 3.5
    Age Group: grades 7 & up
Sorry for not posting! I wasn't sure what to make of Emergency Room. It was a good story, but not written that well. I guess that I expected more from a well-known author such as Caroline B. Cooney.  It definitely wan't written for younger children because there was gore, death, drugs, gangs, etc. i would recommend it, but not as strongly as for other books.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

 

Yes, No, Maybe So: Yes

  Stars: 5

   Age Group: Grades 8 & up (pretty frightening)

            I apologize for all the completely positive reviews lately. but I've been rereading.

            So I really liked this book, I would recommend it to the not-easily-frightened because it was pretty graphic in descriptions of violence, and it was really very scary. It describes that Abraham Lincoln wasn't really fighting secession, just the vampires of the South who fed on the  blood of innocent slaves. The end is the best part with an awesome twist.

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

Yes, No, Maybe So: Yes

 Stars: 5

  Age group: grades 5 & up

          I think this book is really good and enjoyable. I have to say, I read it twice, and it's still not boring. It was the John Newbery medal winner of 2012.This names it the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" of the year 2012. It rightfully earned this title.

          It is an partially-fictional autobiography of the author, Jack Gantos. The main character, Jack Gantos (duh autobiography) gets in trouble with his parents for an deed I will not specify, and now has to help his elderly neighbor, Miss Volker write obituaries for the town's original residents, who are dropping suspiciously like flies. Meanwhile, Jack's father is building a plane in their backyard. Mix in dancing Hell's Angels, towed houses, and creepy obsessive old-person love and things in Norvelt have never been weirder.