Boom Blox

Video game available in: Wii

ESRB Rating: E, for everyone

Boom Blox is an excellent strategy game for the Nintendo Wii. This game’s main objective is to see if you can pull, push, explode, or teleport various sets of blocks without knocking over the tower and causing devastation to the blox animals below. All the movements are controlled by the Wii remote, which really gets the player into the game. Boom Blox has both a story mode and a free play achievement mode. Both are sure to be equally exciting. I give Boom Blox 4 out of 5 stars. The only thing I can find wrong with it is that it gets old after a while, and the controls may seem a little complex and sensitive for some players.

reviewed by TAB member Brian K.

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Tangerine

By Edward Bloor

(YA F Bloo)
312 pages, 2006, Mystery/Sports

If you want to read a good mystery, Tangerine is the right one! This book by Edward Bloor is about a boy named Paul, who has just moved. Paul has a secret about himself that he does not know. Something happened to his eyesight when he was little. Now he gets flashes of his past. What happened to his eyes? You’ll need to wait and read to find out. (Grades 6 & up)

reviewed by TAB member Shivani S.

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Deadville

By Ron Koertge

(YA F Koer)
212 pages, 2008, Realistic Fiction

Ryan, a sophomore in high school, is mourning the death of his little sister, Molly, by doing drugs and living in his iPod playlist. When a popular senior, Charlotte, falls into a coma, Ryan is drawn to her hospital room. Through his daily visits to talk to Charlotte, Ryan meets a young hospital patient who claims he can see into “Deadville,” a sort of limbo between life and death. Will this drive Ryan to finally accept his sister’s death, or will he continue to live in his own version of Deadville? (Grades 10 & up)

reviewed by Teen Librarian Elizabeth H.

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