Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 

by Beth Hoffman.

I'll admit that I'm only about 5 chapters into this book, but I've had a hard time finding a book that I can get into lately, and this one is actually holding my interest!

From Publishers Weekly

I read this book for storytime this week. Although I admit the story was a bit long for the children, I enjoyed listening to the parents talk about it after storytime was over. The book has a wealth of information about groundhogs, but it is presented in a humorous way  If you want a funny book about groundhogs...this is a great book! (Make sure you read what the other animals are saying in the background, too!)
From Amazon.com:

Product Description

It’s February 3rd, and Groundhog is fed up! Every year, the day after hordes of people flock to his den, he’s forgotten. Well, this year, he’s stating his case (with Crow and Squirrel and Junior Groundhog listening) to designate February as Groundhog Appreciation Month. Did you know that groundhogs can run as fast as the average fourth grader? Or that they’re such good diggers that they can move seven hundred pounds of dirt and rocks in one day? And that’s just the beginning of what makes groundhogs so amazing.

From the illustrator of the Junie B. Jones books and the author of the Melvil & Dewey books comes a funny, fact-filled look at what happens when one very proud groundhog gets his chance to speak out.

Mortal Instruments Series

By Cassandra Clare

For all Twilight fans who love forbidden love along with vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures.  This trilogy is for you.   It is a light, action packed story. 

From Barnes and Noble

In City of Bones, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world. And she's introduced with a vengeance, when Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster sent by the evil and powerful Shadowhunter, Valentine. How could a mere human survive such an attack.

In the second novel, City of Ashes, Clary just wants her life to go back to normal—but that turns out to be impossible. For one thing, her mother is still in the hospital, in a mysterious coma. For another, she and her newfound brother Jace have fallen under a cloud of suspicion now that the Shadowhunter world knows that Valentine is still alive—and that Jace and Clary are his son and daughter. Then Clary's best friend Simon is turned into a vampire and kidnapped by Valentine, who intends to sacrifice him as part of a bloody ritual that will make the Mortal Instruments Valentine's forever.

In book three, City of Glass, Clary has to use all her ingenuity and newfound magical skills to get herself to the Glass City in Idris, the secretive Shadowhunters' home country, where she is forbidden to go—for it is only there that she can find the cure to the enchanted sleeping sickness to which her mother has succumbed. When Valentine attacks the city and destroys the demon towers, Clary and her allies are all that stand between him and the total annihilation of all Shadowhunters. Love is a mortal sin and the past tangles inextricably with the present as Clary and Jace face down their father in the final installment of the Mortal Instruments series.

Graceling

by Kristin Cashmore

Graceling by Kristin Cashmore was an awesome read.  Amazon.com sums it up the best:

If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it?

Graceling takes readers inside the world of Katsa, a warrior-girl in her late teens with one blue eye and one green eye. This gives her haunting beauty, but also marks her as a Graceling. Gracelings are beings with special talents—swimming, storytelling, dancing. Katsa's Grace is considered more useful: her ability to fight (and kill, if she wanted to) is unequaled in the seven kingdoms. Forced to act as a henchman for a manipulative king, Katsa channels her guilt by forming a secret council of like-minded citizens who carry out secret missions to promote justice over cruelty and abuses of power.

Combining elements of fantasy and romance, Cashore skillfully portrays the confusion, discovery, and angst that smart, strong-willed girls experience as they creep toward adulthood. Katsa wrestles with questions of freedom, truth, and knowing when to rely on a friend for help. This is no small task for an angry girl who had eschewed friendships (with the exception of one cousin that she trusts) for her more ready skills of self-reliance, hunting, and fighting. Katsa also comes to know the real power of her Grace and the nature of Graces in general: they are not always what they appear to be.

The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is not a particularly enjoyable book to read but it is masterfully written and often depressingly realistic.  Often considered to be the archetype of apocalyptic literature, the story centers on a man and his young son as they struggle to survive in the hostile and desolate ruins of the former United States.  Although constantly threatened by marauders, murderers, sickness and starvation, it is the inner struggle between the despair of the father and the hope of the son that emotionally captivates the reader.  As gloomy and bleak as the story is, I read the entire book in the course of a couple days and was surprised to discover that I had already reached the end.