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Rodney Thompson Middle School

05/16/2013 - 3:05pm
Cold Cereal by Adam Rex

The votes are in and the winners have been chosen.  The 7th and 8th grade students at Rodney Thompson Middle School have chosen their favorite titles for this year's Cafe Book program.

Top Picks:

Cold Cereal by Adam Rex
A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.

 

Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans



Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
 by Richard Paul Evans

Michael Vey seems like an ordinary teenager, but he has a unique power. After his mother is kidnapped he and his friends have to find his mother and fight the hunters to save other kids with the same powers.

 

 

 

Other Favorites:

Starters by Lissa Price Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

Apothecary by Maile Meloy Curveball by Jordan Sonnenblick

Starters by Lissa Price

Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick

05/22/2012 - 12:40pm
Girl, Stolen by April Henry

The votes are in and the middle schoolers at Rodney Thompson Middle School have chosen their favorite Cafe Book titles for 2012.

Top Picks:

Girl, Stolen by April Henry
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
 

The End of the Line by Angela Cerrito
The End of the Line by Angela Cerrito
In the prison-like school that is his last chance, thirteen-year-old Robbie tries to recover from events that brought him there, including his uncle's war injuries and the death of a classmate who may have been his friend.

 

 

 

Other Favorites:

The False Princess by Ellis O'NealRot and Ruin by Jonathan MaberryRuby Red by Kerstin GierA Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz True (... sort of)

The False Princess by Ellis O'Neal

Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

True (... sort of) by Katherine Hannigan

05/24/2011 - 11:40am
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman

The results are in and the 7th and 8th graders at Rodney Thompson Middle School have spoken.  Here are their top choices from their Cafe Book program this year.

Top Picks:

Bruiser
by Neal Shusterman
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Hex Hall
by Rachel Hawkins
Sophie has just been exiled to Hex Hall, a school for rebellious teens…of the supernatural sort. Witches like herself, werewolves, and even a vampire or two are her new classmates, along with a host of equally unusual teachers. As mysterious and murderous events unfold, Sophie learns about her past and a secret society that dooms them all.

 

 

Other Favorites:

Candor by Pam Bachorz


Candor
by Pam Bachorz
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge. 

 
 

Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler
Cupcake Queen
by Heather Hepler
Penny moves to Hogs Hollow from New York City with her Mom. Penny's Mom runs a cupcake store and Penny has to help out. She also had to leave her friends. In addition to that, her Dad did not move with them. But there is Marcus, the boy she sees running on the beach every night.


 

01/31/2011 - 11:22am
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

Cafe Book is over at Rodney Thompson...it was great to get together at lunch and talk about books.  On May 5th, 55 students voted for the books their favorites.  Here are their favorites.

Top Picks:

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Other Favorites:

The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Eon Dragoneye Reborn by Allison Goodman
Comet's Curse by Dom Testa

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