Hunger Games the movie

Here's a sneak peak trailer for the Hunger Games movie which is due for release next March. If you haven't read the books perhaps you'd better start reading before the rush begins.

Matched

17 year old Cassia lives in a perfect futuristic world where there is no sickness or disease, everyone dies at the age of 80, and everyone's future is mapped out for them by the Society.
Matched begins with Cassia travelling to her Match Banquet to find out who the Society has decided she is to marry when she turns 21. Cassia is relieved to find she has known her match all her life: her good friend Xander. However when she sees another boy's face flash up on her screen as well, she is confused - the Society does not make mistakes. Cassia knows the other boy too - Ky - and falls for him even though, for many reasons, she knows she shouldn't.
Cassia soon finds that life under the Society is not as perfect as it seems, and she must choose whether to follow the rules or her heart.
Matched is a compelling love triangle, but also a gripping thriller as Cassia begins to question everything she has always known. The first in a trilogy, this book will appeal to young adults, particularly girls, who enjoy futuristic love stories with a bit of depth and have had enough of vampires!
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Reviewed by Angela

Juno Of Taris

As I may have mentioned we are running a summer reading competition for teenagers aged 15 – 18 this year. They have to send us a review for each of the books they've read over the summer and at the end they could win themselves some cool prizes. See the post “Win an iPad and other Apple products by simply reading a few books” for more information. Anyway because we've got reviews coming in I though it would be good to put one or two of them up for the world to see. The reviews you will see here have been chosen randomly by me for the worlds viewing pleasure. If you like any reviews leave a comment to tell us and the library member who left it. This first one I've picked because it was the first review we received for the competition. So read and enjoy.

Warning, may contain spoilers.

Juno Of Taris

Fleur Beale

This book is set in the 23rd century, on an island in the middle of the Southern ocean covered in artificial dome that protects the island, gives it it's own climate and was created by people in the 21st century, so that if people on earth perished, Taris and the people carefully chosen to live there could survive. The lead character in this novel is Juno, a descendent from one of the first settlers 200 years ago...or so she thought. Juno and the other inhabitants of Taris were lied to by their leaders, who created a false history that stated that Taris was 200 years old and that humanity on earth had self destructed due to pollution and pandemics that wiped out most of earth's population. when really, Taris is only 32 years old and the government companions have been trying to keep Taris inhabitants isolated from the outside world, which is slowly becoming functional again.

I really enjoyed this book and was really happy about the sequel 'Fierce September' I loved how Juno never stopped questioning the motives of the government companions and how she refused to comply when she knew that what she was being asked to do was wrong.

(Reviewed by Aliesha)