Short summaries of some books

Some people asked for descriptions of the books, and I guess two requests is enough to respond.

• Star Girl-A totally weird, crazy girl moves into town, and at first the main character acts like every one else. That stops, though, when he falls in love with her and she shows him her world.
• Code Orange-A New York kid is looking for a contagious disease to do his science report on, when he finds some scabs from a Variola Major epidemic. He soon learns a more commen name for the virus he has handled. Smallpox.
• Uglies-In a futuristic world, every one waits for their 16th birthday so they can get the wonderful operation that will make them freakishly beautiful and join in on the non stop fun of "New Pretty Town". When a girl that has grown up being taught that she was ugly and that evolution and biology demand she be perfected to look good is only weeks away, though, she meets a friend that changes her outlook completely.
• The Lightning Thief-Takes place in a modern-day world were the Greek gods still exist. The main character is Poisiden's son, and when he realizes who he is, he is sent to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp that trains demi-gods how to use their powers and protect them selfs.
• Kite Rider-A young Chinese boy lives in a time when it is custom for boats to fly a manned kite to see if the journey will be prosperous. But he his surprised one day to see his own father on the kite! When the kite comes down, his father is dead. One thing leads to another, and he finds himself on a kite making money for a circus.
• Touching Spirit Bear-A criminal kid always gets out of trouble because his dead is rich. But he gets in real deep trouble when almost kills a classmate. He has given a choice between jail or temporary banishment. He ends up on an uninhabited Alaskan island doing morning exersizes to "heal his soul".
• Among the Hidden-In this world, being a third child is punishable by death. That is exactly what the main character is. He was okay for a while, but then his large forest of a backyard was cut down and developed. Now he is stuck inside his house 24/7. That changed when he made a new friend who showed him a new way of living.