The Mediator

I pick a book a couple ways, the most common way being my friends recommendations. It's great to find a couple of friends with the same taste in books as you and then you can keep recommending books to each other. Another way I pick a book is just looking at the recommended books list for teens on websites or at the library, or bestsellers. These books, especially if they've won an award, are recommended, so they are probably good.
I don't really have an ALL TIME favorite book for right now anyways, but a great book that you all should read is called The Raven Boys by Maggie Steifvater. This book is about a teenager named Blue who one day meets a couple of boys from a private, rich academy. These boys that go there are mysterious and mostly avoided, and called Raven Boys by the rest of the town. But when Blue meets four of these boys and gets swept up in their obsession, she rethinks who they are. This book is great, the pollen is great, the writing is great, and mostly the characters are great, so I'd totally recommend this book to people in our class.
Over break I read The Mediator by Meg Cabot. 16-year-old Suze has a secret-she can speak to ghosts, and always had been able to. Nobody else knows but her. When she gets the news that her mom is remarrying and their moving from their home of NYC to Northern California, she is relieved in some ways because she gets to get away from-literally-the ghosts of her past. But moving to San Francisco offers a whole bunch of new ghosts like Jesse, the 150-year-old Spanish cowboy who part-time actually lives in her room, to the most problematic of all, the kid who's spot she took at her school, Heather, who committed suicide after being broken up with by a guy. Suze meets Father Dom, someone who has the same abilities that she does, and she tries to help ghosts while also surviving her new life.
This book was REALLY good. Maybe my review doesn't make it sound like it was, but you all should read it. My favorite character probably was (all of them!) Suze: she was actually a main character that wasn't perfect and that I actually liked instead of being one of those perfect main character that gets everything right, if that makes sense. This book does have a few mature topics, and some (not a lot) of language, but not that much-it's pretty appropriate for anybody in our class.This book was great and I would recommend it to people who like a mix of adventure, sci-fi/fantasy, and realistic fiction.
Next Books that I want to read:
Road Rash
Claire Ange
The Martian
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Eleanor and Park