It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini brings the reader into the life of Craig Gilner, age 15, as he is accepted into the prestigious New York City high school, Executive Pre Professional. Tormented by the stress brought on to him by the extreme amount of work required to achieve what he...
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“It’s time. The rifle shots explode simultaneously in the distance-a dozen of them at least-and just like that, we are moving as one.” Lena Tiddle has been in the Wilds for nearly a year now. Throughout that year she has made herself believe that the boy that she loved enough to cross over to...
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Margaret Ann Motley’s sister is about to go away for college, so she will finally be able to get her own room. Margaret doesn’t pay much attention to what is happening around the world. Little does she know, Margaret’s cousin is living in the middle of the Blitz in London and she and her...
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Bruce Lee has had such an impact on the world that it is hard to find a way that in which he is the loser. Bruce Lee is most famous for his martial arts skills, and his strength. He had stared in many films but, undoubtedly, he is most famous for his film, “Enter...
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“I frowned and thought about how stupid people can be sometimes. They’re always asking me how does it feel not to have a father. How can I know the answer to that? I don’t have anything to compare it to. It feels the way it feels. Like if you were born blind. I hate...
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“…if only I hadn’t gone to that party. I never would’ve seen what I did. Jackson wouldn’t have driven me home. I wouldn’t have started falling for a guy just out of reform school. I could go back to pretending everything was normal. I wouldn’t be keeping a secret that could blow our family...
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Hailey was quiet, shy, and her best friend was her mom. When a new neighbor arrived, Scarlet, she started drifting away from her and her mom’s relationship and that’s when Scarlet took over the best friend spot. Scarlet was a boy crazy, adventures, popular girl making Halley her sidekick. They did everything best friends...
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Feeling relief, Katniss Everdeen, an intelligent seventeen year old woman, has just made it through the Hunger Games, a horrible punishment from the government. With her, Katniss brought her teammate, Peeta, home. When the two lovebirds return home, they turn against each other. It has now been a year since they escaped the hunger...
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“Jeff’s voice was suddenly drowned by a hideous screaming. Not just one voice, but a multitude of voices mingling and colliding, merging and blending in a cacophony of wails and groans, grunts and cries. A million mouths weeping and howling in bone-crunching pain. Agony. As if their skin was being peeled off inch by...
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“The truth that we were about to learn was that, in fact, we weren’t tough kids at ll. We never dreamed of the kind of brutality we were about to encounter, the kind of tragedy that would destroy our lives in a single night. Our lives in the city had not prepared us for...
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