My Louisiana Sky

Tiger Ann Parker is bright in school and better than the boys at baseball, but she's forever being teased about her parents by the popular girls in her class. Tiger knows her folks are different from others in their small town, Saitter, Louisiana. They are mentally slow, and Tiger tries to keep her pain and embarrassment hidden as long as her strong, smart grandmother runs the household. Then suddenly, Granny dies, and Aunt Dorie Kay arrives, offering Tiger Ann a way out. Now Tiger has to choose from living a simple life on the beautiful countryside in Saitter to take care of her slow parents, or to live in the sophisticated life in the city of Baton Rouge with her Aunt.
This book describes everything, from the color of a blue dress being like a hard rain in the Louisiana sky, to how a sun bonnet makes Tiger feel goofy and how a scarf makes her feel sophisticated.
Kimberly Willis Holt writes this book as if you were in Tiger's shoes. I strongly recomend reading this book.

Princess Academy

Miri, a small but determined girl, must go to and academy and learn to be a princess. She and her friends try to become academy pricess, while her rival, Katar, tries to beat Miri in becoming academy princess. Miri and her friends must pass through the years while avoiding palm lashes and being thrown into the closet by their cruel teacher, Tutor Olana. The Academy encounters bandits, who try to kidnap the princess, and make big money off the king. The academy students can't help wondering what would happen to them if they don't escape from the bandits in time.
Miri will take you through the boring life of doing house work to the harsh life at the academy when her friends go against her.

Fever

When I hear "historical fiction", I hear boring. Not anymore!
When I got this book, the eerie yellow eye on the cover really grabbed me, so I decided to try it. And, the book turned out to be way better than its cover...
Mattie simply does chores all day and daydreams, but suddenly, everything goes wrong. Is it really the wharfs and the stench that makes everything upside-down, like the doctors say, or is it something more?
Join Mattie as she battles the fire of the summer to protect her life and the life of her grandfathers, all the while searching for her mother. Keep yourself awake all night reading Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction novel FEVER 1793 as you glide into Mattie's shoes.

Stargirl

Is she trying to raise the school spirit, or just trying to get attention? And what's with that rat she carrys around? Is Stargirl even her real name?
Stargirl is a great book about a girl who makes a change. Everyone's normal. The students are all one thing, and no one dares step out of line. But Stargirl goes off the chart. Her kindness captures the attention of Leo Borlock, and she changes the community in small ways. And what about the porcupine nectie?
Travel with Stargirl to her enchanted place and experience the magic, too. Jerry Spinnelli enchants you with the words and writing themselves...combined with an astonishing plot. Step in with Leo and Stargirl in STARGIRL.

Invisibility Research

In THINGS NOT SEEN, a boy turns invisible. Since I have been interested in invisibility for a long time, I decided to research it.
People are trying to create Invisibility Cloaks, as mentioned in the Harry Potter series, and some people have ideas. In fact, there are scientists in a university in Tokyo that have "already" created one. However, when I saw an image of the person in the cloak, I didn’t think she was a lot harder to see in it than out of it. The cloak projects everything behind her to the front of her, so it appears that you see through her. In this model, you have to be standing in a certain location to see the person like this.
There is another type of cloak being developed currently, and though I have not seen it, I think it will work better than the previous one. This one intends to bend the light off of the object, so that our eye can only pick up anything next to it and behind it. It will be similar to how we see things near a radiator or fire -- everything around it seems to be wavy. The scientists are trying to create this cloak within eighteen months. Some of this research was done by John Pendry of Imperial College, London.
These are some ways that scientists plan on creating invisibility cloaks. They say it will be used in the army sooner than we expect... I say I’ll use it for pranks sooner than anyone can suspect!
My source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961080/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

Things Not Seen

Things Not Seen travels through a world of invisibility. All Bobby Philips, a fifteen year old boy, wants is to lead a normal life. Unfortunately, he can’t lead his own life; he has strict and learning-obsessed parents who don’t let him make his own decisions. But, when Bobby finds out that he’s become invisible, new problems occur. What better excuse is there for his parents not to let him make his own decisions? However, when he meets Alicia, the blind girl that sees everything, nothing is the same. Bobby changes from being an "invisible" boy with an invisible life to someone else. The question of Things Not Seen is how Bobby and Alicia can change Bobby... but not back.
I thought this book was really good. Andrew Clements reeled me in like a fish, and didn’t let me off the hook until I had completely read the book. I think it was interesting how Bobby is described as someone who doesn’t really know or care what will happen to his life. He is passive, and comparatively invisible in personality. I liked the way Andrew Clements made him invisible to teach him a lesson.
This grippingly suspenseful plot grabs you from the beginning. Good writing, realistic characters that you can relate to, and a really plausible plot (though it can never actually happen) are all the work of Andrew Clements’ hand. I strongly recommend this book.