David Drayton, a loving husband and father, was spending time with his wife, Steff, and his five-year old son, Billy, during a summer’s day in Maine. All is normal until a damaging storm hits their lakeside house. After the storm subsides, David and Billy leave for the grocery store with their neighbor, Norton, for...
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Massie Block of the Block Estate is the typical teenager. The only difference between her and the average teenager is the wealth of her father, who is paying for her personal horses, tuition at OCD, the best private school around, her love for shopping and the best style consisting of only the best brands....
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Have you ever been in so much trouble that you just had to find a way out of telling your parents? In Bottled up by Jaye Murray, Pip is trying to find any way out of getting in trouble with his father. When the principal calls Pip down to his office during gym he...
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“Surely she doesn’t think she could make it as a model? She’s far too fat!” Those words, from a complete stranger, echo in Ellie’s ears from then on. So she’s a little on the chubby side, no big deal…right? Wrong. All she thinks about is weight. Envying her two stick-thin friends, Ellie strives for...
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In The Truth About Forever, Macy McQueen is basically stuck in a life she doesn’t want. After her father died, her and her mom’s lives completely changed. They do almost the same things everyday, and nothing in their lives change much at all. With her father dead, and her sister living on her own,...
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In The Fellowship of the Ring, a group of men from a variety of different races have been broken. Now the surviving members head towards different goals on different paths making new enemies and friends along the way. The story is broken into two parts, each following a different group of the remaining fellowship....
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“This is it, I told myself. Fifteen more handholds and I’ve topped it. I reached up for the next seam and encountered a little snag. Well, a big snag really… My right ear and cheek were frozen to the wall.” 14-year-old Peak Marcello’s passion for climbing is in his genes. Both his mother and...
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Zoe Rose never quite fit in. In kindergarten, Zoe, with her enormous red afro, was constantly being teased by the other children. At thirty, Zoe became deputy editor at a typical high class fashion magazine where she becomes fixated with understanding what makes girls be so cruel to the girls who just don’t seem...
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“He rolled his eyes, but I could see that he was flying- the relief was making us both lightheaded. It was over. Or . . . was it?” Bella Swan is not being overdramatic. Ever since her arrival in Forks, her life has taken a spiral, and even she can’t tell whether it’s going...
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Sometimes people don’t look beyond what’s in front of them. They don’t go after their dreams. But sometimes, others do. In the book, Stoner and Spaz, by Ron Koertge, Ben Bancroft, a boy with cerebral palsy, didn’t have much in stock for him. He wasn’t popular, didn’t have any friends besides his grandmother who...
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