Non-Fiction

Realistic Fiction By Kristan Higgins Reviewed by Hannah Luszczek Rated 5 out of 5 stars Lucy is ready to love again after being widowed for nearly five and a half years. Ever since her husband Jimmy died, she’s been finding dimes in suspicious places. The more she finds, the more she starts to feel...
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  “He stares at me, aghast, tears wet on his cheeks. “W-what are you talking about?”    I take a steadying breath, bracing myself against an onslaught of tears. “I mean, Lochan, how come I don’t love you anymore?” Lochan and Maya have always felt more like friends then siblings. Together, they have stepped in...
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Ransom J. Powell is a 13 year-old boy when he was encountered by the toughest decision of his life. All of his friends and family, who were eligible, had joined either the Northern or the Southern side of the Civil War, and now it was his turn. Contrary to his parent’s ideas, Ransom decided...
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Everyone knows that Hannah is gone.  Everyone knows that she killed herself.  But not everyone knows why.  Clay Jensen opens his door one day to a package sent for him.  He opens the package and what he discovers inside changes his life forever.  In the package are sets of tapes labeled with numbers going...
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Lieutenant Philip Caputo was just a young boy from Westchester, Illinois when he joined the marines. Philip was sick of the safe, suburban existence. He also joined the marines partly from the patriotic tide of the Kennedy era. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960. By the time he fulfilled his 3-year term, 24-year-old lieutenant...
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Katniss Everdeen, a poor sixteen year old girl who lives with her good as dead mother and her young, 12 year old sister, has lived in the poorest part of town her whole life: The Seam. This is the area where there are no rich people and just about no happiness. People starve to...
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Have you ever imagined about controlling demons? Have you wondered what they are thinking? Now you don’t have to. When Nathaniel was only six years old, his parents sold him to an orphanage where he would stay until a magician came to pick him up. This was all based on the fact that someone...
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The Island of the Blue Dolphins Adventure By Scott O’Dell Reviewed by Carlton 5 out of 5 Stars Meet Karana, a 12 year-old girl, indigenous to the “Island of the Blue Dolphins”.  She is the son of Chief Chowig, the chief of the village of Ghalas-at, and the younger sister of Ulape, and the...
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              “Mr. Smith, would you like to escape?”             5 men are being held captive in Virginia during the Civil War when one of these men, a sailor by the name of Pencroff, asks Cyrus Smith, the engineer, this question. Cyrus, Pencroff, a reporter named Gideon Spilett, Cyrus’s previous slave, Neb, Harbert Brown,...
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Picture this, you are a young man, your mother is a cocaine addict, your father is nowhere to be found, and you have multiple brothers and sisters, and to top it off your homeless. This is a young Michael Oher’s scary reality. Until one fateful day, Michael gets the chance of his life. He...
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