Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City

When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a secret agent, kind of like Alex Rider in the books by Anthony Horowitz. (Stormbreaker?) I loved watching spy shows on TV; still do. That was why I picked this up. You can "see" the action in the pages; in your mind, you can just hear snappy spy music playing while you're reading a scene. And this is really deep of me: I loved the cover.
"After discovering a secret world beneath Manhattan's city streets, Ananka learns about the Shadow City through a meeting with one of its residents, Kiki Strike, yet as Kiki begins to recruit delinquent kids to guard her underground world, Ananka begins to fear her new friend and worries that her connection to both worlds may not be a good thing after all."

P.S. Just visited the website, http://www.kikistrike.com/ (I don't want to go into the whole description thing. Just visit it!).

Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week is sponsored by the American Library Association. The theme this year is Get Active! Meaning, not only books about sports and fitness, but becoming more involved in your community and improving your minds and enriching your imaginations. (I'm sure that your minds and imaginations are pretty cool to begin with!) I know: Boring!! But take a look at the books on these lists. The characters (or real people) have found some creative solutions to some pretty interesting, intriguing situations.

http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/trw/trw2006/booklists.htm