Powerbooks lists best young adult reads for June
MANILA, Philippines – This June, Powerbooks Specialty Store recommends some of the world’s best and most-loved young adult reads.
In Wendy Mass’s Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, our hero’s summer takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious wooden box holding the meaning of life arrives! Jeremy is supposed to open it on his 13th birthday but the keys are missing, and only the keys will open it without destroying what’s inside.
Author Sherman Alexie tells the story of a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is based on the author’s own experiences, chronicling the adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live.
In Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, Roy’s first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn’t been sinking his thumbs into Roy’s temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy.
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his ex-girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell — she’s pregnant. In Slam, another amusing Nick Hornby novel, there’s only one person Sam can turn to: his hero, skating legend Tony Hawk.
It’s an Easter Egg-stravaganza in Junie B. Jones Dumb Bunny. Lucille is having an Easter Egg Hunt at her rich expensive mansion and the winner gets a play date to swim in Lucille’s heated indoor swimming pool! But how did Junie B. get stuck wearing a big dumb bunny suit? And how can she possibly find eggs when she keeps tripping over her huge rabbit feet?
The newest title in the popular “100 Words” series, 100 Words To Make You Sound Smart, is an informative and entertaining resource that can help anyone be right on the money when looking for words that will make a point, seal the deal, or just keep folks listening.
Since 1943, the wise little boy from Asteroid B-612 has led children and their adults to a deeper understanding of love, friendship and responsibility. The Little Prince is a cherished story read by millions in more than a hundred languages. In honor of its 60th anniversary, Harcourt is proud to present this special edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s treasure.
A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’ most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of the past. Wrongly imprisoned for years, Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter Lucie, who falls in love with Charles Darnay. When revolution breaks out in Paris, Darnay returns to the city to help an old family servant putting all their lives in danger.
Mark Twain created one of America’s best-loved fictional characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which tells of two runaways — Huck Finn and the slave Jim — and their adventures down the Mississippi River. Aside from humorous exploits of an imaginative adolescent, the novel focuses on man’s inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
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