In a world without humans, animals have evolved, talking, walking, fighting with weapons, and building houses. Peace is present at Redwall Abbey. The abbey is home to generations of mice, otters, hedgehogs, squirrels, birds, and Constance the Badger. This peace is broken when Slagar comes to town. Bent on revenge, Slagar, with his sly and...
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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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The small southern town of Gatlin, South Carolina, was like any other old town, or as close as Gatlin could get. You see, Gatlin has roots spreading all the way back during the Civil War or as most people of Gatlin like to call it, the War Between the States, but that is only...
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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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Imagine only being able to express yourself through pictures. Your first year of school, the only way you could communicate to others, was through your drawings. Drawing took you to another world; a world of your own. For Hollis Woods, drawing pictures was her doorway to a place where she actually wanted to be....
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“Ignoring all the laws of magic Alanna had been taught, the picture grew and spread. It was a city made of all black, shiny stone. Alanna leaned forward, squinting to see it better. She had never seen anything like this city. The sun beat down on gleaming walls and towers. Alanna was afraid—more afraid...
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A Ranger’s work is never done. Whether he is dealing with international affairs or simply a small band of marauders in his own fief, the Rangers work from dawn until dusk. There are fifty fiefs in the kingdom of Araluen and each one has its own Ranger. The time setting is more of a...
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In the beginning of the book, Inheritance, Saphira and Eragon have one task. Defeat Galbatorix. Together they and the Varden, the rebel alliance protesting Galbatorix, march across the empire, destroying villages and cities as they go. Murtagh and his dragon Thorn continue their surprise attacks, but the Varden manage to drive them away every time....
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The team proceeded as a group into the cavern, flashlights flared out like the spokes of a wheel. The chamber was similar to the others they had crossed in their journey here. Stalagmites littered the floor, stalactites stabbed downward. Except there was one new feature. Ashley rubbed a snowflake from her eyelash. “It’s snowing...
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You, Arthur Penhaligon, are the new kid in school with no friends and no real hope of making any. Because you are asthmatic you can’t hang out with the jocks. You can’t hang out around the nerds either because you aren’t the smartest kid in school. And this is just the beginning. Soon a...
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