“Before”: Miles Halter- memorizer of last words, bored with his Florida high school and ready to venture in order to find his very own “Great Perhaps”. When he leaves Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School, he never imagines how a few people and events could change his life irrevocably. “If people...
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Looking For Alaska
The Crazy Horse Electric Game
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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The View from Saturday
Mrs. Olinski had a dilemma. She needed four kids to compete as a team in a trivia contest called the Academic Bowl. However, after an accident that claimed her ability to walk, the new sixth grade teacher was less confident and couldn’t seem to find the right kids. The other teachers began to think...
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I’d Tell You I Love You but Then I’d Have to Kill You
What do you do when you’re a spy in training and you meet a normal boy who seems to like you? Well for Cammie go into field training and are put on assignments and at the end of the semester they must choose whether or not they would like to continue this class. On...
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Dreamland
“Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn’t understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm’s length or father away.” Caitlin’s life was just the way she had wanted it until the day her sister Cassandra ran away to New York City with her...
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