Lit Tweet: Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve

Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present. Sci-fi readers will enjoy this new book by Phillip Reeve. Stop down to the FHS Library and grab a copy!

Award winning author Sonya Sones coming to Frisco High School!

What My Mother Doesn't Know is just one of the many award winning books written by author Sonya Sones.

What My Mother Doesn't Know is a fantastic book written by Sonya Sones, who is the author scheduled to present writing workshops at FHS on the afternoon of Friday, October 22nd. If you have been hearing about these books and the writing workshops, you won't want to miss this opportunity to attend one of these workshops. See the FHS Library or your English teacher for details. Ms. Sones will also be available to autograph her books the day of her visit.
Check out Ms. Sones' website for more details on other titles she has authored. http://www.sonyasones.com/ OR
see her at Frisco Reads.

What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know is written in Robin's voice and is the sequel to What My Mother Doesn't Know. Let me give you just a little preview of What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know. For the first time in his life, Robin has found a girlfriend. You would think this is a good thing, but it only seems to complicates matters. As it turns out, other girls seem to be popping up everywhere he turns. What is a guy to do? Read What My Mother Doesn't Know. Just maybe you will get some tips on how to find the girl or guy of your dreams.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: the secrets behind what you eat by Michael Pollan

This book was a fascinating read, especially for someone like myself who is interested in the environment and ways that we can reduce our carbon footprint. The author traveled the U.S. visiting different types of production facilities that raise and provide beef, chicken, eggs and milk products to consumers. He followed the line of production from farm to store, visiting what he referred to as industrial farms, organic industrial farms and organic farms (visiting the farm of well known organic farmer Joel Salatin). I learned things in this book such as the carbon footprint left on the planet by the waste of animals. It is pretty high. I learned that even chickens that are being raised in an organic setting must be housed in a chicken barn for the first two weeks while being raised for slaughter. After the first two weeks, they have access to open field pens, but are so used to being in the barn, they rarely go outside. So we may be eating meat products labeled as organic, but are they really?

For anyone considering a vegan lifestyle or just giving up meat, this book may give you some insight before making your decision.

Note: the author gave up meat after researching and writing the book, but later decided to eat meat coming only from local organic farms or organic food clubs.