Boy 21

Finley's life revolves around basketball.Every pre-season, he and his basketball player girlfriend Erin practice their butts off. Shooting drills, passing drills, a five mile jog around town, dribbling the basketball whichever way you can possibly dribble it, and the practice ends with weightlifting. And every season, the  high school senior couple break up, because Finley can't focus on Erin and basketball at the same time. Why is Finley so obsessed with basketball you might ask,and the answer is this. Finley's dad grew up in the same drug dealing Irish mob ruled town that he lives in now, Finley's mom died when he was a toddler, and his grandfather, or "Pop" now has stumps for legs because he tried to sneak back to Ireland from America. One day Russ  Allen comes to town and Finley's coach brings him to meet Russ. Coach says that Russ is an incredible b-ball point guard, like national high school standards, but that Russ's parents, Coaches good friends were murdered, and that event shook Russ mentally. In the car ride over Coach explains that Russ came from California and might come and play for Finley's team. Finley's is anxious because point guard is his position and the way that Coach is talking about him Finley thinks that he might lose his starting position. But it turns out that Russ is now acting like he is from outer space, and calls Finley an "Earthling". He also tells Finley he wants to be called Boy21. When the season begins, Russ obviously isn't trying so Finley gets the starting position. During the rivalry game against Pennsville, Pensville uses a special defensive formation that means that Finley will be open to shoot. Finley's team, Bellmont, plans to give Finley the ball and he will shoot, so once Pennsville realizes they need to mark Finley, Terrell, Bellmont's best shooter, wouldn't be double teamed. But Finley can't sink a shot. At halftime, Coach takes Finley out and puts Russ in. Right before they go on the court, Russ asks Finley if he can use his extraterrestrial powers to win the game. Finley says yes, and Russ shows what he can really do, sinking half court shots and making perect passes. After that Russ gets the starting position. Soon after, Erin is hit by a car and recieves many severe injuries.Will Erins injurie change the way that Finley feels about the game, and will it change anything else as well? Read the book to find out.

I rate this book five stars.Definately. It kept me wanting to read it and had the perfect amount of sadness and drama. The author Matthew Quick did an outstanding job on this book, and I definatley think there should be a sequel.This is a must read teen book.

-Alex

Review Books On Our Blog!

If you're awesome and want to review books for Teen Bookshelf, listen up!  You can email us at  teenbookshelf2@gmail.comwith your book review, and if we like it, we'll post it!  Include a title, a photo of the book cover, your review (duh!), a book rating from one star to five stars, and a made-up name (A book character you like, or maybe your first initial).  We'll give credit to you with your made-up name.
   Thank you, anonymous commenter, for suggesting that our readers might like to review books too.  This is gonna be really cool!  And Annabeth came up with the details so that this plan would actually work, which rocks.  I'm just the one telling everybody about it.  So start emailing us, dudes!  :D  And Teen Bookshelf bloggers, we'd better start checking our blog email!

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Movie!

OK so who has seen the Hunger Games movie? I'm sorry that this is like, my 4th post about The Hunger Games, but... well, I'm sorry. So I saw it last night and it was awesome! Um if you don't want to hear anything at all about anything than don't look but so at Rue's death it was SO SAD! I was crying. :(. And it was SO scary in the endish part when the first dog jumped out!!!!! Wasn't it????? Soooo anyways are you on Team Peeta or Team Gale? 

 

 

 But...

     

Haha I like this...

Even More Awesomeness

OK, so you MUST be sick of me posting about The Hunger Games, but this is SO COOL. It's 'Find your Hunger Games Name'. And no, it's not a survey and whichever character you are most like, you are. It's much cooler than that. You have got to see it:

http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2010/03/05/find-your-hunger-games-name/

I am Ravmet K. Sprintpine.
My mom is Veyless W. Leapfern.

So here's another thing. 'What District are you from?'Coolio.

http://www.foreveryoungadult.com/2010/07/12/pop-quiz-find-your-hunger-games-district/


I'm from District 11. Yay Rue!
My mom is supposed to go live in a box. I got that the first time, but decided I needed to have some District to live in, even if I was gonna be a stuck up brat from District 1. Well, maybe...

And... here's the last thing for now, it's kind of boring, but as they always say, "keep the worst for last!"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/21/the_hunger_games_names_explained.html

Annabeth

p.s.
I did my brother's name for him and he is Danpetra T. Clompspinach. HAHA! Also, he lives in a box, I think. Hehehehehehe.

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-Annabeth

Gimme A Call Review

So I was reading Seventeen magazine, and I saw an interview with the author of this book.  I thought it looked really cool, so I bought it for my Kindle, and you know the rest. Here is a summary of this interesting time travel-ish book.
   Gimme A Call, by Sarah Mylnowski, takes place in two different times, which are three and a half years apart.  It all starts when Devorah (Devi) Banks, who is a senior in high school, goes to the mall to return a gift she got for her boyfriend, Bryan, who just broke up with her. He was a great boyfriend, maybe too great, since she spent all of her time with him. Devi even lost all of her nice friends.
  Anyway, while Devi is at the mall crying and returning the present, her cell phone slips out of her hand and lands in the fountain.  She goes in to retrieve it, hoping with all her might that it still works, and finds out it's completely broken. Except for one little thing.  Devi can now call herself in the past, as a freshman, before she even met Bryan.
    After convincing freshman Devi (later nicknamed Frosh to avoid confusion) that she's not a crazy stalker, senior Devi (Nicknamed Ivy) tells Frosh all about everything that's gone wrong in her life, and in the world in the past three and a half years.
    So Frosh is working her butt off trying to get into a good college and win the lottery, Ivy keeps calling her to convince Frosh not to go out with Bryan, and to tell her every single thing to do in her life.  Frosh is skeptical of Ivy's plan's, but she thinks that it's best to listen to her future self.  What will happen in the end?  Will every aspect of Devi's life change, or will everything go back to normal? (Or none of the above?) Read this cool book to find out!
    I love all of the things that happen in this book and I think it's a really interesting plot idea, but sometimes I think Ivy is getting really selfish and bossy, and it makes me really annoyed at her character.
But all in all, this fun read is still worth a five-star rating.  Check it out!

                                                        :) Rosalind