Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2054, Lisse and seven friends spend their time in their 'Designated Area' eagerly waiting for the government to send them their invitation to play The Game.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0671742361

ISBN-13: 9780671742362

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Tony Stark, the genius inventor and billionaire, reveals himself as Iron Man after a spectacular jump from an airplane that lands him directly in the Stark Expo. The Expo is where the best and brightest minds from around the world gather and share ideas and new technologies. Ivan Vanko is watching the telecast and plots revenge because he believes Iron Man to be his father's invention and has the blueprints to prove it. Many predicaments are ahead of Tony. The palladium power source to the Iron Man suit is poisoning him, the military wants the secrets of the suit to use as a defense weapon, and Ivan develops his own powerful suit to destroy him. In an all-out battle between good and evil, can Tony fend off a copy of Iron Man called War Machine, drones modeled after each branch of the military, and Ivan suited as Whiplash?

Reviewed by: rn

Date read: 12/30/2010

ISBN-10: 0316083542

ISBN-13: 9780316083546

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Art, Myrtle, and Father are involved in an adventure in outer space. Their house, Larklight, floats in space as a very different house. Pirates and huge spiders with strong silky webs help Art and Myrtle discover sensational tales about their mother, father, and England. This is a sometimes humorous and sometimes scary tale that continues in two more books. This is the first in the series followed by Starcross and then Mothstorm.

Reviewed by: cj

Date read: 7/27/2009

ISBN-10: 1599900203

ISBN-13: 9781599900209

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Spaz's journey is frightening, filled with difficult challenges and choices far beyond his imagination. An earthquake has destroyed much of the earth and civilization has turned chaotic-no one remembers books - except Ryter. Spaz and Ryter partner, bringing together their gifts of memory and book writing, to embark on a quest to save the future.

Reviewed by: adf

Date read: 7/29/2009

ISBN-10: 0439087589

ISBN-13: 9780439087582

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Before T Rex ruled an earth populated with dinosaurs, a class of creatures called synapsids roamed our world. Some were gentle and some were dangerous predators. Through a 'time snag', one of each enters the current world into what is now Colorado. Two thirteen-year-olds, Phoebe and Rob are investigating the disappearance and death of pets in the area when they meet Sid, a gentle beast, who is being stalked by the vicious gorgonopsid. The two friends find out they must help Sid send the gorgon back to its own time to insure the evolution of all things, especially humans. This exciting time travel adventure has wonderful characters, both, good and evil, human and beast.

Reviewed by: ewl

Date read: 9/21/2010

ISBN-10: 038590567X

ISBN-13: 9780385905671

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