“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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The Hunger Games
Dear John
“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.” That’s exactly how John Tyree, a soldier on a few weeks leave from the Middle East, feels after only a few unsuspected days spent with Savannah Curtis, a quiet,...
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The Color Purple
Celie, a poor, African American girl in the 1920s, is abused and raped by her father at the early age of fourteen. She can not escape this tragic life and is too ashamed and frightened to tell anyone. God becomes the only one she can confide in, which she does through her written letters....
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Someone Like You
“Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend.” Halley was always the quiet one growing up, following her parent’s rules and being her mother’s miniature version. Scarlett, however, was always the braver, more outgoing child, left to parent her wild, adventurous mother. None the less, somewhere down the...
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Taken by Storm
Leesie Hunt is Mormon, and at seventeen years old has more self control and rules than most. Due to her strict religion, Leesie can’t do what most seventeen year olds do, like making out and everything like that. She is your typical good-girl. She doesn’t break the rules for any reason, is friends...
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Would You
Summer is a time for swimming, hanging out with friends and soaking up every last second together before school starts, but this is no ordinary summer. This summer is different for 16 year old Natalie. After a boring, routinely start to summer Natalie is willing to except any excitement she can get. Then she...
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