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Hope Was Here follows a young waitress, Hope, who has just moved to a small town in Wisconsin. After the hustle and bustle of New York Hope thinks that she's seen it all. However she is soon to be proven wrong. The owner of the diner where Hope works decides to run for Mayor. He is very ill with leukemia and Hope and her friends are determined that he should become Mayor before he dies. But Eli Millstone has dominated the town for years, and will GT be able to unseat him from his throne? Or will the odds against him be too great? Probably best for the older end of the cool-reads age range.
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Unique by Alison Allen-Grey follows Dominic, the son of a rich business man who always seems to be busy. One day Dominic discovers a photo in his grandfather's attic of a brother that he never knew about. He feels both curious and angry, but also shocked - the young man in the photo looks exactly like him, but a few years older. Every detail is the same. His mind in a turmoil, Dominic sets off to Cambridge, where his brother went to university, to try and find out more. He soon discovers the horrific scientific secret that surrounds his existence. This leads him onto a jagged adventure which shows us just what the side effects are of scientific advances. The book would probably best be suited to readers in the middle and top of the cool-reads age range.
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Eragon by Christopher Paolini is the first book in a new fantasy trilogy called Inheritance. Eragon is a poor farmer's son. Whilst out hunting he discovers a strange blue stone which he keeps in the hope of selling it. To his great surprise though, it soon hatches into a fledgling dragon. Dragons are one of the most famous and priceless creatures in the whole land, and the tyrant King would pay dearly to have another Dragon on his side. Eragon is determined to foil him, and with the aid of the dragon, Saphira, he begins a huge adventure across the realm. I am not normally too big a fan of fantasy books, but this one was a treat to read! It has a great storyline and good characters. It should appeal to most ages.
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Pirates by Celia Rees is a swashbuckling pirate adventure, which is great fun to read. When Nancy is sent to Jamaica she soon realises the true means behind her father's wealth - his sugar cane plantation which is worked by slaves. She is dismayed, and soon engineers an escape away from the plantation. Minerva, a slave girl who works at the plantation, comes along with her. They soon reach the coast, and decide to join a pirate ship. The story then charts their adventures aboard the ship, and the book is written in a way that gives you a fairly good insight into pirate lifestyle. Probably best suited for readers in the middle to top end of the cool-reads age range.
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The Last Siege by Jonathan Stroud follows three very different young people who are drawn together by the lure of a desolate medieval castle in midwinter. There is Emily, who is very practical, Simon who is from a family of thugs and miscreants and Marcus, a curious and lonely boy with a single, abusive parent who has a strange fascination with castles, Marcus instigates most of the main events in the book. He persuades the other two to explore the castle and they learn more about each other and eventually decide to stay in the castle. Eventually they re-enact an action packed siege to protect themselves. The book has quite a new clever idea, and should appeal to most 12-14 year olds.
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