This novel is about the efforts of fugitives Charlie McGee and her father, Andy. The result of a government experiment gone awry. Both Andy and his late wife Vicki were injected with a drug that allowed them limited psychic abilities. They passed on this power to their daughter, who captures the government’s attention with...
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Isabella Swan is used to the sunny, warm weather of Phoenix, Arizona. When she moves to Forks, Washington, where it rains almost every day, she doesn’t know how she’ll possibly get along. Her father, Charlie, tries to help her get used to such a different environment, but she just can’t seem to adjust, at...
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Jason Freeman, a new kid to beautiful Malibu, California, thinks that his new school with his new friends will make his life edgy and unpredictable. Just as he expects, everything is different, in a good way. He meets a gorgeous, but unattainable girl, he’s instantly popular, and the southern California parties are amazing. But...
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“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him- and I didn’t know how dominant that part may be- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” Bella Swan is nothing but more than the average,...
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Lyra Belacqua, the young, high-spirited child who lives at Jordan College soon discovers that there is much more going on in the world than she realizes. Lyra’s uncle has been away exploring the North for most of her childhood. When he arrives back at the college she learns of “Dust.” The only thing that...
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Billy, a boy who at the beginning of the book is 9 years old and at the end 14, has only one dream: to have two coon hounds. Billy dreams of running through the woods and river bottoms with his dream dogs, but he has a problem. The dogs he wants are too much...
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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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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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