Bethany Hamilton, played by AnnaSophia Robb, lives a dream life with her family on the beach, surfing daily with her best friend, Alana, and competing in surfing competitions. Everything appears to be perfect until a tragic event turns her life upside-down. One seemingly regular day transforms into a day she will never forget. While...
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“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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Celie, a poor, African American girl in the 1920s, is abused and raped by her father at the early age of fourteen. She can not escape this tragic life and is too ashamed and frightened to tell anyone. God becomes the only one she can confide in, which she does through her written letters....
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When dreaming of a “perfect world,” usually an individual would imagine a world that is fair, equal, without war, without poverty, without stress, without pain. However, can joy truly exist where there is no grief? One cannot prevail in the absence of the other. In the world of a boy named Jonas, both have...
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Imagine walking down town one seemingly normal Los Angeles morning on your way to work and seeing yourself standing across the street, realizing that you were in a body that you have never seen before. Though it seems to be just a strange thought, it is reality for Collin Boyd… Well, the man that...
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A great explosion shook the small book store, the putrid odor of rotten eggs filling the air with choking potency, as it mingled with the crisp aroma of mint. Sophie watched in horror from the coffee shop across the street, one thought flashing across her mind, “My brother is in there.” Her twin, Josh,...
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