This Isn't What It Looks Like

This Isn't What It Looks Like by Pseudonymous Bosch

What do you think you're looking at? This book contains top secret, super-classified, highly confidential information...

...about Cass, who may be in grave danger. She's eaten the dreaded Time Travel Chocolate - and you know what that means... I won't even begin to tell you what trouble this delicacy has caused in the past. If only Cass could leave the past behind! But it appears she is literally stuck in it. How will Cass find her way home? Shield you eyes, but peek through your sticky, chocolate covered fingers and read on if you must!

...about Max-Ernest, who is worried for his best friend. He's got to face facts - Cass is being held at the hospital... in a coma. Can the expert hypochondriac diagnose her condition before it's too late? And will he have what it takes to save the survivalist?

For Max-Ernest, it's a race against time; for Cass, a race through it. For the rest of you, well, it's a race to find out what happens next, of course... before I come to my senses and stop telling their story altogether. but proceed with caution, and be sure to read carefully because... this isn't what it looks like.

There you have it - the inside scoop on Book 4 of the Secret Series. but shhhh, keep it a secret - will yah.

P.S. I love this series.

P.S.S. It reminds me of Hamish X.

P.S.S.S. If you like hilarious Hamish X, you might like this series.

P.S.S.S.S. It has lots of silly footnotes as well.

P.S.S.S.S.S. It also has an intriguing book trailer.

P.S.S.S.S.S.S. You might want to watch it - check it out below.

P.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. Read On :-D

Only the good spy young

Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter

this has to be one of the most popular new series for our female readers and here's the newest title and the write up.

When Cammie Morgan enrolled at Gallager Academy, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. What she didn't know was that the serious, real life danger would start during her junior year of high school. But that's exactly what happened two-months ago when she faced off against an ancient terrorist organization dead set on kidnapping her.

Now the danger follows her everywhere and even Cammie "the chameleon" can't hide. When a terrifing encounter in London reveals that one of her most trusted allies is actually a rogue doubel-agent - Cammie no longer knows if she can trust her classmates, her teachers or even her own heart.

In this fourth installment of the New York bestselling series, the Gallager Girls must hack, spy, steal and lie their wayto the truth as they go searching for answers, realizing the the key to the future might lie deep in the past...

Black Hole Sun

Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill

Here's another one that I can't wait to take home with me - headed for the top of my bedside stack of books (but maybe one of you will claim it first - that's what happened with I am Number Four). anyways here's the write up and the trailer.

Durango is playing the cards he was dealt. And it's not a good hand.

He's lost his family.

He's lost his crew.

And he's got the scars to prove it.

You don't want to mess with Durango.

Beastly

I reviewed Beastly by Alex Flinn a while back, it's a terrific re-telling of the Beauty and the Beast story, at the time I let you know it had been optioned for a movie, well the movie is set to be released in March 2011. Plenty of time for you to pick up the book before then. But just to get you started, here's the movie trailer.

I Am Number Four

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
This is the next book that I can't wait to be reading. Here's the summary.
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. but we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the super heroes you worship in movies and comic books - but we are real.
Our plan was to grow, train, become strong and become one and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.
But they know.
They caught number one in Malaysia.
Number two in England.
And number three in Kenya.
They killed them all.
I am number four.
I am next.



If you liked The Hunger Games, or The Maze Runner - this might be something you want to get your hands on. After me - of course.

Read On.

Brain Camp

Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan and Faith Erin Hicks

Fun, creepy graphic novel about summer camp.

Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding. settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents in a last ditch effort to produce a child worth bragging about.

But strange disappearances, spooky lights in the woods, and a chilling alteration that turns the dimmest, rowdiest campers into docile zombie Einstein's have Jenna and Lucas feeling more than a little suspicious ... and a lot afraid.

Love the art work.

Framed

Framed by Gordon Korman

Griffin Bing's new principal doesn't like him. And Griffin doesn't like the boot camp football like atmosphere the new principal has brought. Griffin manages to stay out of trouble -- until a Super Bowl ring disappears from the school's display case, with Griffin's retainer left in it's place. Griffin has been framed!

Unfortunately the Man doesn't have a plan - and everything his team tries to find out who really took the ring backfires. Griffin ends up in an alternative school, then under house-arrest, and finally with an electronic ankle braclet - with no way to prove his innocence.

Griffin smells a rat, but will he be able to solve the mystery in time?

Gordon Korman books are always entertaining. Can't wait to take this one home with me.

The Crossbones

Skeleton Creek - The Crossbones by Patrick Carman

Strange things happen in Skeleton Creek - and when they do, Ryan writes them down and Sarah captures them on video. Now, the spookiness is spreading, and the mystery is going to take them far beyond

Skeleton Creek -- into places both unexpectedly sinister and spine-chillingly haunted.

Love this series - it's no wonder that Skeleton Creek the first book is second in our top ten list.

Here's the book trailer.

And here's Patrick Carman the creator of the series:

City of Spies

City of Spies / by Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan, artwork by Pascal Dizin

In the comics Evelyn draws in secret, the heroic Zirconium Man and his loyal sidekick, Scooter alway beat the bad guys and save the day. But quiet, lonely Evelyn never imagined she could be a hero, too.

So Evelyn can hardly believe it when she and her new friend Tony uncover a deadly plot being carried out by Nazi spies, right in their neighborhood. Together, the two pals set out to save the day - and help win the war!

The artwork looks a lot like that of Herge the creator of Tintin through out most of the story but when Evelyn is drawing her comics it is more like early North American comics of Little Lulu, Archie and even Superman. Fabulous job!

This might be great for any of you that have read - The Search by Eric Heuvel.

Biker Girl

Biker Girl by Misako Rocks!

Meet Biker Girl... schoolgirl by day - Biker hero by night!

Aki is a bookish girl who finds a mysterious bike while cleaning out her family's garage. Feeling powerfully drawn to the bike, she questions her grandfather, and he tells her the story of her her beloved cousin Toru was killed by a rogue biker gang. Before she knows what's happening, Aki's special connection to the bike transforms her into Biker Girl, a sassy heroine with expert biker skills. And so she sets out to avenge her cousin's death with the help of Kai, a childhood friend who may be turning into a boyfriend...

This is a fast-paced adventure featuring incredibly dynamic artwork and a unique visual style that is rooted in manga tradition, but given a hot new look by Misako Rocks!

Maximum Ride

Maximum Ride 3 / James Patterson and Narae Lee

This is book three in the graphic novel adaptation of james patterson's Maximum Ride series. Narae Lee is the adaptor and illustrator (awesome job).

Heres the lead up from the previous two books - Max and her "flock" appear at a glance to be normal kids ... that is, if you don't notice the wings.

Instilled with avian DNA in a lab known as the "School", Max and her family escape confinement with the help of scientist Jeb Batchelder, who they believed perished assisting them. When the youngest of the flock, Angel, is abducted by the lab's foot soldiers - shape shifting men and women infused with lupine DNA called Erasers - led by Jeb's son, Ari, Max discovers the Jeb is not only alive, but still working with the school! Rescuing Angel, the flock heads to New York City to find the "Institute" which they believe holds the secrets to their past. While raiding the facility, thought they are again confronted by Jeb and his Erasers. The flock manages to get away, but not before Max accidently kills Ari. Now the flock is off to Washington D.C. following up a lead on their parents, but Max can't escape mysterious voice that's begun whispering inside her head - or Jeb's haunting words that in killing Ari she may have killed her own brother...

In book 3 - after narrowly surviving their encounter with erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on thier pasts in Washington D.C. but what they find waiting for them is...a home? How will the flock adjust to a real school - one that doesn't involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?

Read On.

Amulet : The Cloud Searchers

Amulet: The Cloud Searchers by Kazu Kibuishi

Yeah! book 3 in the Amulet series has just arrived!

This is a terrific fantasy based graphic novel series, if you haven't tried it yet - well, do so now.

Here's the summary for book 3.

Emily, Navin and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. There they hope to find help from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival depends on, and time is running out - Emily's got to find Cielis before the Elf King finds her.

Loved it - and the artwork is breathtaking, imaginative and atmospheric. The amount of hardwork put in Kazu Kibuishi and his team is incredible for both this series and for his other series Flight. And that's the only problem, you get all swept up in this and your ready for the story to go on and you know you have to wait another year for the story to continue. Oh well, there are loads of other great books to venture into so I guess I'll--

Read On.

Heist Society

Heist Society by Ally Carter

We have many fans of the author Ally Carter here at Lakie and so I'm sure Heist Society will also see its share of check-outs.
Here's the summary:
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre... to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria... to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own - scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving "the life" for a normal life proves harder than she expected.

Other books you might like along this line are: Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott or Gordon Korman's Son of the Mob.

Here's the book trailer.