The Trouble with Good Ideas by Amanda Panitch

Learn to work together, find things that aren’t on the internet – the seventh graders aren’t too happy to have different assignment partners or go through old newspaper articles at the library for this project.įind the lost jewels hidden in the late 1880s when Jacob Hoal’s partner Thomas dynamited the safe and jumped on a train – the same train that collided with Jacob and Lucretia’s train, killing them and leaving an orphan son!

Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher. What’s your emergency plan for disasters?īook info: Gone Dark / Amanda Panitch. This future where the electric grid fails large-scale could be tomorrow, just like the difficulties that Zara and friends endure in a world gone dark. If they reach the hidden compound, can they survive its border traps? More people join the group as they travel – can they stay safe together? Unable to get Mom to safety, Zara and her best friends head away from the coast, trying to outrun the threatening stranger and avoid danger on the road.Ī Mormon fortress welcomes them, but can they ever leave?

When a huge stranger barges into their darkened house and calls for Zara by name, the 17 year old knows it’s time to leave. Then the sporadic power outages become a nationwide blackout, and civilized behavior vanishes, just like Dad predicted. Zara and her mom have a better life in southern California, five years gone since they escaped from her father’s survivalist compound back east.Ĭomputer games instead of skinning squirrels? What teen girl wouldn’t leave behind such a hard life? But her father’s voice still echoes that the world is ending soon… no wonder Zara has panic attacks. What audiobooks on the AudioSYNC summer list are you looking forward to most? Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (free Sora download 5/4-10/23)īy Rainbow Rowell, Nic Stone, Soman Chainani, Ken Liu, Gayle Forman | Read by Rebecca Lowman, Kate Rudd, Robin Eller, Alexander Cendese, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Andrew Eiden, Michael Crouch, Neil Shah, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Graham Halstead, Jess Nahikian, Frankie Corzo, Josh Bloomberg, Greg Chun, Brian Holden, Kimberly Woods, Ryan Jordan McCarthyįive modernized fairy tales: “The Prince and the Troll” with the so-captivating voice “Hazel and Gray” in love in a dangerous forest (Hansel & Gretel with a twisty twist) “The Princess Game” with many suspects interviewed by the police “The Cleaners” of others’ memories, but not skilled in their replacement “The Wickeds” as in wicked stepmothers – plural!

The Trouble with Good Ideas by Amanda Panitch