Book Wish List

     Remember in elementary school, when the Schoolastic book fair would come to your school's library, and you and your classmates would make a wish list of all the wonderful books that your parents would never buy for you, nor would you ever read? Once again, I think the educational system has flip-flopped its techniques. Along with snack time, recess, nap time, and coloring, I think any high schooler could appreciate a good book fair far more than even the smartest kindergartener. That is, if the educational system would do its job and instill a love of reading in the students of this great nation, which it normally doesn't (but again, that is another rant for another blog).
     Anyways, I've decided to relive my childhood and create an extensive book wish list for my birthday. I've asked everyone to get me one thing and one thing alone: Barnes & Noble gift cards. To my surprise, compared to Borders, Books A Million, and even Amazon, Barnes & Noble has the cheapest online store (with a couple of exceptions from Amazon). Still the price tag is a little over a hundred dollars. Once for my birthday, my parents gave me a one hundred dollar gift card to Best Buy, with which I could do almost nothing, because technology hates me. This year, I'm hoping for the same, but for the ol' B&N, plus a few more from my friends. With luck, I'll be able to get them all with my gift money. If not, they're in the order that I want them. Here goes:

Wish List

The Body of Christopher Creed                          Carol Plum-Ucci

Unwind                                                               Neal Shusterman Identical                                                              Ellen Hopkins

Numbers 2: The Chaos                                       Rachel Ward

Stolen                                                                  Lucy Christopher

Everlost                                                              Neal Shusterman

Tricks                                                                  Ellen Hopkins

The Shack                                                           William P. Young

What Happened to Lani Garver (Hardcover)     Carol Plum-Ucci

Black                                                                   Ted Dekker

    

     The featured authors are Carol Plum-Ucci, Neal Shusterman, and Ellen Hopkins. I plan to get more of their books as time goes on, because Plum-Ucci and Shusterman are my favorite authors, and I haven't read Hopkins yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion she will be too. Numbers 2, Black, and Everlost are all parts of series, and soon they'll be a sequel to Chris Creed, so their suceeding volumes are on my much vauger whishlist--The Wishlist for Sometime--along with a few classics such as 1984, Brave New World, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. I already have a paperback copy of Lani, but because it's my favorite book of all time, I want a hardcover copy that I can cryogenically freeze and preserve for my children's children's children's children. And, of course, So Silver Bright, the final book in the Théâtre Illuminata trilogy by Lisa Mantchev, supercedes everything as soon as it comes out this summer.