“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!” is an overly cheery death sentence for Katniss Everdeen. After voluntarily taking her younger sisters, Prim’s, place, she becomes the girl tribute from District 12 that will be participating in this year’s Hunger Games, a gruesome annual reminder of the Capital’s superiority...
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Al Capone Does My Shirts Fiction Gennifer Choldenko Reviewed by Morgan Evans Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars Imagine yourself in a room with America’s most dangerous convicts, like Al Capone or Machine Gun Kelly. Now imagine having to live with them and hundreds of other dangerous convicts on the island and prison of...
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Tailchaser’s Song
Fritti Tailchaser is a young, feral ginger tom cat of the Meeting Wall Clan. He has many friends in the forest, including Hushpad, whom he likes. They spend long hours together, until one day, she vanishes. After investigation, Fritti discovers that Hushpad’s owners have left, and, distraught, he goes to the Meeting Wall Clan...
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James and the Giant Peach
At age 4 James is a happy 4 year old living with his parents. But when they are eaten viciously by rhinos, he is an orphan and is forced in to the “care” of his two aunts. Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge, who look like their names, are very cruel and force him to...
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The Sight
Set in a Transylvanian forest in the dead of winter, beneath a menacing castle called the Stone Den, two wolf pups are born. Their mother and father, Huttser and Palla, name the black male pup Fell, and the white she-wolf Larka, the wolf word for snow. The pack is hunted by a fellow wolf,...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
This story begins when the 15-year-old wizard, Harry Potter, gets many strange nightmares. He soon gets greeted by some of his old wizarding friends and some he does not know. Together they travel to Grimauld Place the home of his godfather Sirius Black and traveling companion Buckbeak as well as the headquarters of The...
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Gamer Girl
Maddie’s life has been turned upside down. Her parents just got divorced, she’s being forced to live with her grandmother in her unicorn covered house, and worst of all, her grandmother embarrassed her in front of the entire school, and told off the most popular guy … all on her first day at the...
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Enthusiasm
“Ashleigh’s planning to crash a dance at the Forefield Academy, and she wants me to come with her.” Julie is stunned after hearing this from her best friend Ashleigh, but what can she expect? Ashleigh has just begun acting like a person straight from the time of Jane Austen, the author of Pride and...
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The Views of Obsessed Teen Readers
If you’re looking for book ideas, check out this short video put out by Barnes & Nobel featuring obsessed readers detailing their favorite titles and authors. Just click on the red more button at the end of this sentence to watch the video.
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Things Not Seen
“It’s after the shower. That’s when it happens. It’s when I turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror. It’s what I don’t see. I look a second time, and then rub at the mirror again. I’m not there. That’s what I’m saying. I’m. Not....
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