“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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From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
Flawless
“They fell into an edgy silence. They’d been in on their fair share of Ali pranks, but those had been innocent sneaking into the saltwater hot tub at Fermata spa or putting droplets of black dye into Spencer’s sister’s shampoo. But something about this made them all just a little… uneasy. BOOM!” Emily is...
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The Healing Spell
After that one mistake Livie made down in the swamp, she thinks that it’s all her fault that her mother is knocked into coma. This leaves her constantly searching for the perfect healing spell to make everything go back to normal again. The fact that Livie and her mother never got along great doesn’t...
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The Legend Of Luke
“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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Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnostism
Molly Moon is a boring, ugly, and probably the most un-interesting person on the planet. Dropped off at an orphanage, she also has one of the most miserable lives too. She gets into trouble a lot because she does not follow the orphanage’s strict rules. And, to top it off, she just had a...
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Shiver
Shiver , by Maggie Stiefvater, Grace, a seventeen year old girl, is obsessed with the wolves that live behind her house. When she was young, Grace was attacked by them, but saved by one wolf. The wolf that saved her had very yellow eyes and is the one that she falls in love with....
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Flawless
Flawless is the second book in the Pretty Little Liars series. It picks up right where book one left off. Rosewood is shocked when Alison DiLaurentis’s body is discovered in her old backyard. This isn’t the only scandal that the girls are hit with in this book. Aria’s relationship with Ezra ended and now...
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Missing
“Was she still dreaming? That was her first thought. That she was still lying on her bed, having a nightmare. Any moment now she would wake up. She had to. She stared at her trembling hands. No. it wasn’t a dream or a nightmare. She was standing here on the upstairs landing and Derek...
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Confetti Girl
With Lina’s mom gone, it’s been hard for her and her father. Just when she needs to turn to her dad the most, she has to turn to a body hiding behind a book. Lina needs to pull her dad out of his books, but how? Lina’s best friend and neighbor, Vanessa, has been...
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Burned
“Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were almost grown, did you ever sit...
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