“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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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a story of four girls who learn the reality of life. Four best friends have spent the last eighteen years together. Carmen, Tibby, Lena, and Bee are going to have to say goodbye to each other for a while and start focusing on college. Carmen wants to attend...
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Willa Coffey hasn’t seen her father, Dwayne, in many years. He was abusive to her as a young child, and to her mother. Her mom ran away from their home in Pryer, Texas to get away from his abusive ways. They now live with Willa’s stepdad, Jack, and her two half sisters, Brooke and...
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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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“I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of words and thought, but it happened quickly and naturally. By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings. But only in my head. I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years...
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Sean Bigelow Chris Crutcher Realistic Fiction Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars This was the biggest time of Willies life. He had just pitched the best game of his young career. He had just won the championship game against his biggest rival, he had an amazing girlfriend, but everything changed with the accident. Now,...
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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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“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor” is one sentence that Katniss Everdeen will never forget. At the age of seventeen, Katniss Everdeen lived in Panem, which used to be North America until it was taken over by harsh government. In Panem, there are 13 Districts. Katniss, her no...
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“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking...
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Imagine a world without dogs? Well in The Last Dog on Earth that is exactly what is happening. Logan, boy in his teens, needs to learn discipline. So his step-father makes him adopt a dog. Logan picks a dog that he names Jack, they match as soon as they met each other. Together they...
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