Code Orange

Mitty is a teenage boy who likes to enjoy life. He doesn't care about homework at all, but he is pressured to finish an assignment because his crush is in his class. His assignment is about deadly diseases. He chooses smallpox because he found some smallpox scabs in a book he read. He touches the scabs and inhales the dust. Little does he know that when the scab was fresh it had Virola Major- a deadly virus. It has no personality. It's only task is to take over the cells of the other creatures and spread. It has the power to kill everyone. Mitty's life becomes at risk along with everybody he is in contact with.
I really liked the information in the book. It entertained me and taught me about smallpox. The only thing I didn't like is that it was very easy to read. I would have enjoyed more of a challenge.
I would recommend this book to people who don't usually read. This book would capture all their attention. I would also recommend this book to people like me. Drama with a little bit of romance, but not to crazy.
I would compare Code Orange to the book any book that includes diseases. I personally haven't read a book that I can compare this to.

Molly Fyde

Molly Fyde was an okay book. It was about this girl who gets expelled from a Navy flying school. She goes to normal school for a while but then gets into a huge adventure. Her dad's old ship was found. She goes with her crush Cole to find the ship and then have epic adventures through space, the final frontier.
In the book I really hated the first 4 chapters because it was so confusing! I didn't understand it at all! After those chapters i enjoyed how Cole and Molly escaped from the Glemots.
I would recommend this book to people who are sci-fi fans because of the role in space. Also I would recommend this book to young adults over 12 because it has some language.
I haven't read a book like this before so I cant really compare this to anything.

The Lost Hero by: Rick Riordan

The book The Lost Hero was a very good book. It showed a totally different side of the Percy Jackson series. The plot is very much like the Percy Jackson books, though. An oracle gives a ominous prophecy and then three heroes go on the given quest. The heroes are Leo, Piper, and Jason.

My favorite character was Piper, because she changed throughout the story. She never stopped making the story interesting. Her views of certain things where intriguing, and lead me into a whole series of questions for her. The characters that I thought were worthless to the story were all of the extra wind gods. I believe that they didn’t add much to the story and were a part of the book that wasn’t necessary.

This book was good because of all the underlying stories. Some of them centered on were that family matters or the idea of never giving up. The underlying story that family matters is the relationship with Thalia and Jason. Even though Jason has no real recollection of her he feels emotionally pulled toward to her. Also, even though Zeus abandoned him Hera took him as one of her own.

The underlying story of never give up is because that quest the three of them went on looked bad because none of them had any experience in fighting or any survival training. Yet, they went because they were determined to finish the quest.

If you enjoyed the previous Percy Jackson books or The Hunger Games then I would definitely recommend this book to you, because it has a little romance, action, drama, and of course Olympians. I really enjoyed this book, and hope you do too.

Summer Reads So Far

Hi everybody! Hope everyone is having a great summer. So far I have started and finished four new books (I still have three I have to finish). I also have to read both Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and Molly Fyde and the Blood of the Billions by Hugh Howey, both of which I forgot to pre-order (whoops!), before the end of summer. Well anyway, so far I have finished War Horse by Michael Morpurgo, The Roar by Emma Clayton, Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan and Trackers by Patrick Carman.

War Horse was one of my suggested summer reading books. I just finished it today. I absolutely loved this book! It's a story about a farm horse who is sold to the war. The coolest thing about this book is that it's written from the horse's perspective instead of a person's. Some parts were shocking, some were sad, some were exciting, but all-in-all this book was really good.

At first, I really thought I would hate The Roar. I don't know why, I just thought I would hate it. Even though I thought that, I bought it anyway. Now, I am really glad I bought it. I ended up really enjoying this book. I have no idea how to explain it so I'm just going to type what it says on the back. Mika lives in future London, behind The Wall, safe from The Animal Plague beyond. Or so he's been told. But ever since Ellie vanished a year ago, he's suspected his world may be built on secrets- and lies. When a mysterious organization starts recruiting mutant kids to compete in violent virtual reality games, Mika takes the chance to search for his twin sister- and the truth. Sounds interesting, right? It definitely is.


Paint the Wind isn't my favorite book. It wasn't very memorable to me. It's #14 on my list of Top 19 Books. I just didn't like it as much as I did some of the other books I have read. It's about a girl named Maya who lives with her grandmother. She isn't allowed to have fun at all. But when her grandmother has a stroke, she has to move to Wyoming and live with her mother's family. It may not seem like it, but this book is mostly about horses. I would recommend this book to somebody who really likes horses. Even though I really enjoy books about animals, it just wasn't that interesting to me.

So far Trackers is the best book I have read this summer. I love the way it was written. I love that it has it's own website. It was made to seem like a true story, but it is definitely fiction. It's written like an interrogation you see on a cop show like NCIS or CSI. Every once in a while in the book, there will be a page with a password on it that you can use at the website to unlock a video that goes along with that part of the book. Even without the videos, it is a very interesting book. This is supposed to be the first in the series, too (same for The Roar). I am very excited to read the next Trackers.

That's all I have so far. Hope you found at least one of these books interesting. Bye for now!~Ashleigh

Good Books This Summer (so far!)

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a great summer and enjoying Ms. Kesler's books as well as other new, exciting ones! I am anxious to hear about them on here and look them up for myself (although I can't blame you if you don't post- I am finding this blog a little difficult to use). So I noticed, like, two days after school got out that I no longer had a refuge filled with books awaiting me at all times. This refuge is also known as my locker also known as Ms. Kesler's room! :( I had to buy books for myself, which is a hard thing to do without a credit card but my mom and I have a system going now. Here are a couple that might interest you:

Molly Fyde and the Blood of the Billions was spectacular as expected. It took me a little while to get into but the way Hugh Howey embraced these controversial topics of things such as immigration or politics was amazing. His message spoke through the story, and you could tell what his views were. As always, it left me hungry for the next one, book four. This series just goes deeper and deeper as you go on, and I love it. I'd have to say, though, out of all three I enjoyed the second one the best, which is some what odd because I usually don't like the way events flow in sequels to books.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate was a sweet book, and I thought I should read it because it was on the suggested reading for sixth or seventh grade. Naturally, then, the reading level was a little low, but I still thought it was nice and I liked a couple of the implications towards women's rights more than the scientific relations.

The Color Purple was one of many I could read for high school, and it is definitely older high school level just because of content. I cringed, cried, and laughed throughout this book, which is what all books should make you do! The first half was just to detailed for my taste but it got much better. The book certainly portrays more feeling then the movie. This book I would only suggest to women too.

Little Bee is a book I found on my own in a bookstore and I was very proud to have picked out a good book without Ms. Kesler! :) I'm starting to have to read books in the adult section, which is where this one was, but it's all good because I can have many conversations with my Grandmother or my mom's friends about them. This book by Chris Cleave was one that the story wraps around itself and you don't figure it out until the end. Some parts are more gruesome then others, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Illegal immigration was the main topic of the book but in a way you wouldn't really expect.

I don't want to list them all, but I wanted to catch up for the summer so that I could post new books as I read them. I have read many more books then this, but I want to tell you about the few you might want to check out for yourself! Also The Guerensy Literary and Potato Peel Society is probably my second favorite book in the world right now, I loved it so much. My Forbidden Face is another interesting one that I'm currently in the process of about women under the Taliban (also reading that for high school). Hope this got some of you interested, and I look forward to see your posts! Keep enjoying your summer! :)

-Jessi