Extras by Scott Westerfeld. A nice little twist in the series. We get to see Tally Youngblood from Aya's point of view. Aya is an Asian girl who was a littlie when the mind-rain happened. O sea, when people didn't have to become pretties and have their brains messed with. She lives in the craziest city where everything is based on popularity. Every one of the million citizens have a popularity rating and Aya's is in the 600,000's when the book starts. That means she has to work for everything she gets. When you get up into the thousands you get bigger houses and more clothes etc. Very interesting set-up. Once again, teens may learn a lot from this book about judging others and putting importance where it belongs. I, myself, couldn't learn a thing from it. Seeings as how I'm already so famous and live in such a big house with closets stuffed with the latest fashions and such.

I do hope he writes another book! Although I did see a picture of him, Scott Westerfeld, flipping somebody off and I am just not sure about what kind of cat he must be. Hmmm... I guess I can read what he writes anyway.

On another note, I made posters for the bookfair as a contest for the students. They had to match the picture of the author to a picture of one of their books. Well, I wanted to include Cameron Dokey, since I have been reading so many of her books lately... and there was not a picture to be found. I searched and searched on line, NOTHING! Shocking... now I am just dying to see what she looks like. Take the challenge and see if you can find a picture of her. Maybe she has a horribly scarred face, or maybe she is a MAN! Think about it. :D