Student Saturday: The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Student Reviewer: Isaac C.

Michael, like all teenagers spends most of his time on electronics. However, he spends time in the VirtNet, a virtual universe wehre many nuisances in life are removed and everything is better, or is it? He meets a girl who explians a man named Kaine and about being trapped here, and Killsims, of course Michael shrugs it off thinking she's a lunatic. But, when the VirtNet Security kidnaps him, telling how they've been hunting Kaine for so long, he's with their coding skils. However, the the VirtNet, there are many mysterious things Micahel has yet to see.

I felt in the place of Micahel sometimes when he was overwhelmed when things would out of hand. I'd recommend this for readers into the futuristic setting and brain teasing plots. This is a great book by one of my favorite authors. I can't wait to read the sequel!

Night Buddies Go Sky High by Sands Heatherington

Genre: Children, Adventure, Fantasy

Source: I received a copy to facilitate my review. The opinions expressed here are my own.

Crosley the bright red crocodile, who is afraid of water is on another adventure with his best buddy John Degraffenreidt.  Crosley lives under John’s bed and absolutely loves pineapple cheesecakes.  However we learn that the iguana from the last book is actually repelled by the pineapple cheesecake.  This is good as we learn at the beginning of the book that John is about to be turned green by the Iguana. It is Crosley and his pineapple cheesecake to the rescue.
Crosley needs to replenish his supply cheesecakes and so they visit Big Mae and her cheesecake factory.  They find her lying on the floor studying a dot on her ceiling that is slowly moving.  Crosley’s brother, Crenwrinkle has also spotted this suspicious dot in the night sky.  So Crosley and John are off on another program (another way of saying adventure) to determine if this tiny moving speck is a threat or not.

Kids will really love the made up and non-formal language in this book. It makes it more interesting and fun to read.  This is the third book in the series and I have really enjoyed them all.  I am looking forward to the next installment in this series.

Student Saturday: The Comet's Curse by Dom Testa

Student Reviewer: Isaac

In the not so far future, a comet known as Bhaktul passes by the sun, leaving the remnants of the tail to be passsed by Earth. Normally this is a beautiful event. However, a deadly condition coincidentally occurs, leaving many to speculate that an unknown particle located in the tail is what causes this condition to shatter the healthiest human. There is an escape thoug, a respectable scientist, Dr. Zimmer, plans to send 251, fifteen and sixteen year olds due to the diseas not affecting teens below the age of 17 or 18, on humanities life saver Galahad. However, one of Zimmer's colleagues and close friends disagrees, so events could be bound to happen as Galahad travels to two planets light-years away.

I felt in the place of many characters because I can easily relate to their problems and how they react.
I would recommend this to any sci-fi fans who love to be on the edge of their seat and is always thinking about the plot and what's going to happen next.  This is an amazing and fascinating sci-fi book. What can I say?!