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=25 summaries﻿=

1. Wolves of the Beyond- Shadow Wolf by: Kathryn Lasky
This book is about a wolf named Faolan who finally found his pack. He became the lowest rank in the pack, the gnaw wolf, along with Heep. Heep begins to get jealous of Faolan's great bone carving. Just as the //Gaddergnaw// trials begin an //Alcadh// pup is murdered. Faolan who was, and still is, an //Alcadh// is mortified. He was planning to carve the short story of the young Alcadh pup, and he started, but the rib bone went missing. Faolan didn't know this at the time, but Heep was the one who stole the bone that Faolan started carving. During the Gaddergnaw, Heep kept annoying Faolan. Faolan missed his cue in the kill rush, and got penalized for it. He still had a chance to become one of the wolves of the //Ring Of Sacred Volcanoes//, that only gnaw wolves could become. On the night before the second, and last, trial, Faolan went to check on the pup's bone when he discovered that Heep was the wolf that killed her. When he went to tell the clan, he found out that he was being framed for the murder. To his surprise they believed that he, Faolan, killed her. Sure enough all of the wolves began to believe him when his friends sided with him. Heep fled to the Outermost, and Faolan became //One Of The Watch//. =2. ﻿Love Stargirl by: Jerry Spinelli= This book is about a girl called Stargirl who moved away from her friends and an ex that she still loves. She tries to move on, but can't. Stargirl ends up meeting a 5 year old girl who is very hyper. The little girl helps Stargirl become happier. =3. Married With Zombies by: Jesse Petersen= This book is about a young couple who are on the brink of divorce. They were on their way to their marriage counselor's office when they realize that Mack,the security guard, is not at his usual post; however, his TV is still on. They know that something is wrong when they find their counselor,Dr. Kelly, on the floor, //EATING// her previous clients, with a chunk of her own arm flesh missing. That's when she noticed Sarah and David watching her, David ended up re-killing her //WITH HER OWN// peep-toed stilleto. Sarah and David find themselves in a world with zombies everywhere they go; even in their own //BATHROOM!!// They find Sarah's friend, Amanda, who later died. Sarah and David then go to find David's sister. They find her, but tragedy strikes once again. After she dies David and Sarah go to find a safe place. =4. Flip This Zombie by: Jesse Peterson= This book is also about Sarah and David. In this sequel Sarah and David are hired to kill zombies. This brings them to an underground lab where a scientist is trying to find a cure for zombie-ism. Sarah and David then are hired to catch live zombies. While on the job, they discover a child that was being chased by a zombie. They were forced to take "The Kid", which Sarah decided to call him, with them to the lab. On their way back to their new zombie catching job Sarah sees a new "bionic" zombie. David takes a long look at it through binoculars. Later, David says that the scientist that they're working for made the new breed of zombies, because he saw the marks on its neck were the same as the ones that the scientist is working on. Sarah doesn't believe him so he leaves. When Sarah goes out once again, she encounters three bionic zombies. David comes to save her, and she sees the marks on its neck. They go back to the lab and the scientist locks them in a room with two more bionics //WITHOUT ANY// weapons to fight with. The Kid comes in just as David gets bitten.Sarah finds the vile that has the cure, and gives it to David. They leave to find government to have more cures made. =5. Hush Hush by: Becca Fitzpatrick= This is about a girl named Nora Grey, and a boy named Patch. Nora's life was pretty normal until she had to become Patch's biology partner. He was always trying to get Nora alone, it worked well. Nora soon finds out that Patch is a fallen angel and he has been trying to kill her each time they are alone. Patch can't kill her, though, because he fell in love with her. =6. Zombie Chasers by: John Kleopfer= =7. The Search For Wondla by: Tony Diterlizzi= This is about a 12 year-old girl, named Eva Nine, who lives in an underground sanctuary with her Muthr (Multi-utility task robot) she lived a calm, happy life. Aside from the fact that Eva had found a strange picture, and that a hairy four-armed creature came. She didn't know why, either. Muthr told her to run as far away as she could get. Eva ran and ran, and she made it to the trees. When the beast came out of her sanctuary, she climbed one of the trees. When she woke up that morning she realized that the trees were walking. Eva tried to find her sanctuary, but she only found an abandoned one. When she approached it a catfish-like creature came out. Eva ran away; then everything went black. Eva awoke to find herself tied to a tree, upside-down, with the strange creature that she met the day before. The lanky creature next to her lifted her up, and she pulled her foot free. After she freed her companion, Eva then tried to free a strange animal known as a giant water bear, which she named Otto. Eva soon discovered that she was on a planet called Orbona, her lanky companion was named Rovender, and Besteel was the four-armed creature. Eva and Rovender went back to her sanctuary to get Muthr.The four of them started a journey to find more humans. Eva soon got recaptured by Besteel, and taken to the capital. She escaped only to find that Muthr got caught, too. Eva planned an escape, and it worked this time. Muthr and Eva made their way to Rovender and Otto, and set off into The Wastelands; a vast desert. They found Otto's herd, ruins from the humans, and angry guards sent to hunt them; with Besteel at their lead. Otto's herd tried to help: they took out most of the guards, but not Besteel. Rovender was hog-tied on Besteel's glider. As Eva loured Besteel into the open, she turned on one of her many devises which attracted a mantis-like animal which then ate Besteel. Eva and Rovender found Muthr but it was to late: she was dead. They went into the ruins and found books. Eva found out that Earth is Orbona, and that the picture she had found was part of the cover for //The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.// She left the book with Muthr's lifeless, robot body. =﻿8. Shiver by: Maggie Stiefvater= =9. Maximum Ride;School's out-Forever by: James Patterson= =10. The Galacteran Legacy; Galaxy Watch by: Michelle Izmaylov= =11. The Outlaw Varjak Paw by: S.F. Said= =﻿12. Into The Land Of The Land Of The Unicorns by: Bruce Coville= =﻿13. Song of the wanderer by: Bruce Coville= =﻿14. Hatching Magic by: Ann Downer= =﻿15. The Dragon Of Never-Was by: Ann Downer= =16. ﻿Dragon Slippers by: Jessica Day George= =﻿17. The Graveyard Book by: Neil Gaimen= =18. Griffin's Castle by: Jenny Nimmo= =19. The Cat Master by: Bonnie Pemberton= =20. ﻿The Outsiders by: S.E. Hinton= This is about a 14 year-old boy named Ponyboy, and his gang who are known as Greasers. Ponyboy and Johnny, one of the gang members, get into trouble when a group of Socs come up and try to drown Ponyboy.