"May the odds be ever in your favor!"- Effie (The Hunger Games)
"You want advice? Stay Alice!"-Haymitch (The Hunger Games)
"You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope."-Katniss (The Hunger Games)
Night Hoops by Carl Dueker
Nick tries out for the varsity basketball team when he starts high school. His neighbor across the street is a bully named Trent whose brother gets into a lot of trouble all the time. Trent also tries out for varsity and they both make it. At first, they hate each other but when Nick’s mom lets Trent play basketball in their backyard, they form a friendship that helps them get better and impresses their coach. In the end, their friendship helps them win the championship and prevents Trent from running away.
-Melissa
The Boxes by William Sleator
Annie’s uncle Marco leaves two boxes in her possession. She opens one that lets out a mysterious crab species that worships a magic clock that can slow down time. The other box has crabs in it. An evil development company that witnesses the clock’s power steals the clock and the only way to stop them is to merge the clock with a palace the crabs built in her basement.
-Michael
The Hunger Games by Susan Collins
The heroin, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to go to the capital to fight in the Hunger Games, in place of her sister, Primrose Everdeen. In the Hunger Games, a male and a female of each of the 12 districts are chosen to fight in an arena to the death. The obstacle that Katniss has to overcome is to survive the battle in the arena and not be killed. To help the odds be on her side, she forms an alliance with Roo, the girl from the 9th district, but she dies. She then teams up with the Peeta, the boy who was chosen from her district, but he is no help, because he is wounded.
-Bret
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
The book Abundance of Katherines is about Colin Singleton and the nineteen Katherines that dumped him. Colin goes on a road trip with his best and only friend Hassan. Along the road trip, he tries to create a theorem proving whether or not the person is a dumpee or dumper. Colin and Hassan stop at Gutshot, Tennessee, to take a tour of the Archduke. They meet Lindsey, a local at Gutshot, then from that point on. Colin and Hassan get involved in the drama and secrets that lie in the small town of Gutshot. In the end, Colin figures out that the future can’t be predicted with any theorem and there are too many variables, if such a theorem existed.
-Benmark
