Title Sequence Book Choices
1- House of Nights Series by P.C. Cast, Kristin CastÂ
A fiction young adult novel about a world where some people when their teens have a crescent moon tattoo appear on their forehead after a Vampire Tracker Marks them. Once marked they must go to a special school to learn which element they are affiliated with. Once they learn and master their skills a new and larger tattoo will appear around their crescent moon labeling them as an adult,. Â
The main character is 16-year-old Zoey Redbird that is marked and then has to go to the House of Night but she learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is mis-using her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny – with a little help from her new vampyre friends Â
2- The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
A fiction young adult novel about a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever.Â
The book takes place in 1878 London. Tessa Gray is the main character that descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them.Â
3- Around the world in 50 years My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell
A non-fiction book about how Albert Podell first, set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, a deadly and exiting trip in which he came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong.
Although it took him forty-seven more years Albert Podell set another record by going to every country on Earth(196!). Some of which, because of global warming and rising sea leaves no longer exist. In the book Podell talks about how he faced major dangers such as riots, revolutions, earthquakes, civil wars, tsunamis, voodoo priests, volcanic eruptions, robbers, flying crabs, deadly snow and sand storms, corrupt cops, and Cape buffalo. Sufficed to say he faced major events and dangers, nun of which he went looking for. He ate everything from old camel meat and rats to dung beetles and the brain of a live monkey. While danger is exiting his books still has fun and light tones to it that over shadows the danger and be the last page has you itching to fill your passport with as many stamps as possible.Â
