Revolution tells the story of two girls living centuries apart, one never knowing the other. Andi, heartbroken over the loss of her younger brother, finds the diary of a young girl living in 18th century Paris and becomes caught up in a plot to rescue a child prince who lived and died over two...
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Imagine waking up in complete darkness. You have no idea where you are or how you got here, all you can remember is your name. This is the exact feeling Thomas felt before entering the Glade. When the doors crank open, Thomas is surrounded by a group of boys who welcome him to the...
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“So Luke the Warrior sailed away, He left that northland shore, He swore an oath that one fine day, He’d come back home once more.” -excerpt of Trimp’s song On the first day of summer, Trimp, a traveler, arrives at Redwall Abbey in Mossflower, which is being built at the time. While she was...
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“Let’s go back then, to the moment they called your sister’s name at the reaping,” says Caesar. “And you volunteered.” “She asked me to try really hard to win…I swore I would.” Once Katniss Everdeen takes her little sister’s place in the annual Hunger Games, it means near-certain death. Every year, one boy and...
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Jane and Allison were the best of friends. That is until a horribly embarrassing accident that ruins Allison’s reputation. Jane tries to comfort her, but Allison seemed to be in a deep funk. Suddenly, Lanalee comes into the picture. She helps get Allison out of her depression and back on her feet, but there’s...
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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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“She pretended to be normal, our mother… there were cracks in her behavior. A weak man would be hypnotized, paralyzed. (As far as I can tell, this is what happened to my father.) A bad man would be attracted to her on a more equal basis. And a good man, of course, would...
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Everyone wants to be respected, and Manuel (Manny) Hernandez, a Mexican American, is no exception. However, he isn’t good at sports, can’t speak to girls, and is in love with a white English teacher. It can also be hard to be respected when your alcoholic father abuses you, your brother can’t hold a job...
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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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Imagine yourself traveling along the desolate Highway 50 through the endless deserts of Nevada to the destination of your vacation in your sister’s Acura with the AC blowing in your face, sweat trickling down your back, when out of the corner of your eye, you catch a speed limit sign with the rotting carcass...
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