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Jacque Hammons Ashley Loechel

=//Generation Dead// -Daniel Waters = Phoebe, Margi, and Adam are all best friends during the undead epidemic. Teens all over the country are dying, and waking back up. If things aren't bizarre enough, Phoebe finds herself attracted to a "differently biotic" boy, named Tommy, attending her high school. Adam cares for Phoebe, and would do anything to protect her and keep her happy, including putting up with the local dead-heads. So when the school allows the Hunter Foundation to extract students for "Undead Studies," Phoebe easily convinces Adam (and Margi) to join with her. But the school bully, Pete, hates "worm-burgers." He is very intolerant of all the zombies, the class, and anyone who associates with zombies. And Pete is increasingly getting his sights crossed between Phoebe and his dead ex-girlfriend, Julie. How far will Pete go to stop the interactions between the living and the dead? To view Daniel Waters' blog with updates about the //Generation Dead// series,  [|click here.] Tommy also has a blog, which many of the book's main characters contribute to, called My So-Called Undeath.  We also created a Generation Dead glog, click here to view. Read alikes include: Wanna read the inside cover of //Generation Dead?// Click here. =//Tenderness// -Robert Cormier = Lori Cranston has never experienced affection at home. This intensifies her curiosity for tenderness from a man. But temporarily, Lori just needs to get this current fixation off of her back. Lori embarks on a mission. Eric Poole is in a detention facility for the double murder of his mother and step-father. Could this be revenge for all the tenderness he lacked at home? Lt. Proctor seems to be the only one who can see through Eric's veneer of pleasantries. And he suspects family isn't all Eric's murdered.... This time, he won't allow the murderer to get away. Eric is released when he turns eighteen. And Lori quickly becomes fixated on //him.// If Lori doesn't take this far enough, she sneaks into his van. With Lt. Proctor close on their tails, how tragic will their entwined search for tenderness end? Click here to view our Tenderness glog. Listen to songs we associated with //Tenderness// at Project Playlist!

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=//Life As We Knew It// -Susan Beth Pfeffer = Miranda lives with her family and cat, Horton, in Pennsylvania when a meteor hits the moon. Life as Miranda and the whole world knew it is GONE. No TV or cell phones, not even a house phone. There is nothing but face-to-face communication. The electricity's unstable, school barely continues, and just about any natural disaster that //could// happen starts //to// happen. Mosquitoes carrying West Nile are a major threat and the common cold becomes deadly. Food supplies begin to dwindle. Gas prices inflate to $12 a gallon. Death rates spike and everyone is afraid the world is coming to an end. This definitely isn't the summer for romance or forging life-long friendships. It's become a dog-eat-dog world where everyone fends for themselves. Generosity is no more. Has human civilization given way to animalistic tendencies? Chaos ensues; the end seems near... Click here to view our Life as We Knew It glog.

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