The Return of the King, a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, takes place in the land of middle-earth. Isengard, the domain of Saruman, has fallen to the mighty army of Rohan. Now the men of the west must come to the aid of Gondor, a land that is on the verge of being demolished by...
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Experience life during in 1861 in Richard Peck’s, The River Between Us, where a young boy discovers his father’s past, but then the book switches gears to tell the story he is hearing, as if it were happening right then. Tilly Pruitt and her family are in for an unpredictable and life-changing year, When...
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Artemis Fowl, “a teenage criminal mastermind,” concocts ingenious plans that take him and his fairy friend or foe; Captain Holly Short on an adventure of a life time. Artemis’ father, also a man of crime, has been missing for two years and may or may not be alive. Until recently there was no evidence...
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The only thing Massie Block, the glamorous, pretentious alpha, wanted was the chance to gain access to “paradise”. One of the Briarwood boys is holding the key to a secret room under his bed. To remain in control of the Pretty Committee, Massie knows that “her job is to win.” With every girl in...
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Harry Potter, a 17 year old wizard, is faced with numerous difficult, nearly impossible, challenges in the final book in a seven-book “Potter” series. He starts out, like every book in the series, at his aunt and uncle’s house and almost immediately is thrown into the action. After an encounter with a group of...
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Bigger and better, Thomas Hunter is trying to get through a week of living in two different worlds. In Ted Decker’s third installment of his well-written trilogy, it had me guessing from the beginning about what was going to happen next. In one world he’s saving his tribe from the unbeatable Horde, and in...
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Do you think math is boring and pointless? Do you think sailing is a waste of time? Read Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham and you will surely change your mind. This is an exciting, heart-breaking book about the life of Nathaniel (Nat) Bowditch, an intelligent boy living in Salem in 1776,...
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Katherine Danzinger, who has a new boyfriend, Michael Wagner, and is going into her senior year of high school, is in for an exciting year. With her best friend, Erica, and her new boyfriend, Artie, by her side Katherine will experience new things and feelings everyday. At a New Years party for Erica’s cousin,...
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This is a great book about a very “sweet rifle.” Cornish McManus, a very artistic hard-working man, made a flintlock muzzle-loader as a lifetime rifle, making it as precise and perfect as he could. This item meant the world to Cornish. He later ended up trading it to a man named John Byam, an...
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The Choice, written by Lynne Ewing is the ninth book in the Daughters of the Moon series. In this series each of the books are told from the perspective of a different character. In this book it is told from the point of view of Jimena. In this series each of the five main...
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