Book #11: Sight, by Adrienne Maria Vrettos.
The first paragraph:
"It is a wide-sky darkness, made pale by a full moon rising, the desert sand reflecting its glow. We follow a dirt road, our headlights devouring the tracks we made just hours ago, when there was still daylight, and hope. In every direction the desert and the night sky are following in each other's footsteps, pushing farther and farther into the empty distance until their edges press together at the horizon."
I wasn't sure where this book was going at first... but I love the idea of a teen with psychic visions (as if high school isn't difficult enough already). Add in a serial killer and and complicated friendships, and it gets good.
One of the lines that made me keep reading (she's talking - or not talking - with her mom):
"I don't move. I can't move. Sometimes the things unsaid between us make the air so solid that my chest can barely expand to breathe" (p. 35).
I really, really liked this book - and I think I can get some more students to read it.
A question: what do YOU do to get kids to read books? How do you get them to try one? What works in your classroom?
The first paragraph:
"It is a wide-sky darkness, made pale by a full moon rising, the desert sand reflecting its glow. We follow a dirt road, our headlights devouring the tracks we made just hours ago, when there was still daylight, and hope. In every direction the desert and the night sky are following in each other's footsteps, pushing farther and farther into the empty distance until their edges press together at the horizon."
I wasn't sure where this book was going at first... but I love the idea of a teen with psychic visions (as if high school isn't difficult enough already). Add in a serial killer and and complicated friendships, and it gets good.
One of the lines that made me keep reading (she's talking - or not talking - with her mom):
"I don't move. I can't move. Sometimes the things unsaid between us make the air so solid that my chest can barely expand to breathe" (p. 35).
I really, really liked this book - and I think I can get some more students to read it.
A question: what do YOU do to get kids to read books? How do you get them to try one? What works in your classroom?
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