Imagine yourself, m16 or m4 carbine rifle at hand, sweat pouring down the back of your neck onto your BDU, lying on a pile of rubble and dirt to escape the weight of your gear. Through all this chaos, guns firing, people screaming, smoke and ash filling the air, you have your sights...
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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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“Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend.” Halley was always the quiet one growing up, following her parent’s rules and being her mother’s miniature version. Scarlett, however, was always the braver, more outgoing child, left to parent her wild, adventurous mother. None the less, somewhere down the...
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It, the horrible, tragic thing that happened on May second, is in the newspapers. Everyone know about the messed up teenagers who created a hit-list that condemned most of the victims of the massacre at Garvin High to death, but no one cares that Val, the remaining of the two authors of the list,...
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Being a teen is difficult enough. When you add in a mysterious, unlabeled package filled with tapes containing the voice of a girl who committed suicide two weeks earlier, suddenly ready to tell her story, life goes from difficult to downright confusing. Hannah Baker died two weeks ago from a prescription drug overdose; she...
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To his friends Alex Rider is a normal fourteen-year-old classmate, but to the British Government he’s Alex Rider, an extremely talented fourteen-year-old agent. Alex is no slacker either. He knows exactly where he is and what he’s doing. The British secret force, M16, has used Alex as their inside source for a while now,...
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“It’s funny how one summer can change everything.” Haven thought. Haven is a fifteen year old and is almost six feet tall. She’s going through a lot, her parents just got divorced and her father is getting remarried in just a few days! And to top it all off her older sister, Ashley,...
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For the most part, Danny Walker is a regular twelve year-old boy who lives in a small town called Middletown. The only difference between Danny and his friends is seven inches, being the shortest kid in town. Danny lives to play basketball and practices everyday to get better. Along with his great skills, Danny...
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Jack Torrance had thought he had finally figured it out. The Overlook Hotel, just being a custodian for the winter? A quiet place to work on his failed career as a novelist, getting paid to lounge about and check on everything in this elegant hotel seems like a dream come true. But like everyone,...
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“Crank is more than a drug. It’s a way of life. You can turn your back. But you can never really walk away.” These words came from 17-year-old Kristina Georgia Snow, otherwise known as Bree. Kristina is a good student, good daughter, and all around good person. Until she goes to visit her...
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