Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by J. Achreiber

Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Perry Stormaire is a nice guy in his senior year who wants to go to Columbia University, works part time for his father's law firm, and is in a band. For the past nine months his family has hosted a Lithuanian foreign exchange student, named Gobi. Perry would have enjoyed a hot European chick, but Gobi was anything but with her greasy hair, baggy clothes and silence. Even though she was invisible in school, Perry was always nice to her, but imagine his chagrin when his parents make him go to the prom with Gobi; especially since that particular night they are playing a gig in NYC.
With his father's jag as a consolation prize, Perry in his tuxedo takes Gobi to the prom. When other senior's mock Perry and Gobi, they both decide to leave the prom and that is when the crazy night unfolds because Gobi begins to take Perry on a wild ride that consists of Gobi really looking hot in a short tight black dress, flowing hair and lipstick, oh and did I forget to mention guns and ammunition. Get ready for a wild ride as Perry is dragged along as Gobi seeks revenge.

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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Fifteen year old Lina’s life in Lithuania changes drastically when the Stalin regime brands her family, “thieves and prostitutes.” They are rounded up and forced from their homes and their land to the deprivation of Russian Siberia. Separated from her imprisoned father; Lina, her mother, and little brother, each try in their own way to survive the brutality of the Russian soldiers and the harshness of their environment. In the twelve years that they are brutalized, fall ill, and starve; thousands die, but it is through a determination to live to see their homeland, that drives these deportees to triumph through the hell of their imprisonment. If you loved The Book Thief, this book will speak to how the world must never let this kind of genocide ever occur again.



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