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Lock and Key

May 16, 2013
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Lock and Key

  Sarah Dessen Realistic Fiction Reviewed by Hannah Williams Rated 4 out of 5 Stars         Ruby Cooper is eighteen years old. She’s been living with her mom for almost her whole life, just the two of them together. Out of the blue, Ruby’s mother abandons her, leaving Ruby alone to...
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story

May 14, 2013
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It’s Kind of a Funny Story

  It’s Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini brings the reader into the life of Craig Gilner, age 15, as he is accepted into the prestigious New York City high school, Executive Pre Professional. Tormented by the stress brought on to him by the extreme amount of work required to achieve what he...
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Tuesdays with Morrie

October 12, 2012
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Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch, author of the story, went to Brandeis University. This is where he met his favorite professor of all time Morrie Schwartz. Fifteen years after Mitch had graduated Morrie was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and he was going to die. Mitch, on the other hand had started his life. He got a job...
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That Summer

April 29, 2012
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That Summer

“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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The Hunger Games

April 2, 2012
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The Hunger Games

“Happy Hunger Games, and may the odds be ever in your favor!” A sentence everyone in the 12 districts across North America dreads. It’s a horrid annual event invented by the Capitol to show how the Capitol is superior to the 12 districts. Two tributes, a girl and a boy between the ages of...
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Hold Still

January 22, 2012
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Hold Still

“Dear Caitlin, This is a real letter. I hope you get this far but I won’t get mad if you don’t want to read any of it. This is what I want so don’t be sad. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. The sun stopped shining for me is...
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Speak

November 25, 2011
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Speak

“I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even...
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Sarah Dessen Still on Top with New Release

May 27, 2011
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Sarah Dessen Still on Top with New Release

Best-selling Author, Sarah Dessen, is still at the top of her game with a new release. Her latest hit, What Happened to Goodbye, came out earlier in the month of May and is expected to take all Sarah Dessen fans by storm. Barnes and Noble Publisher’s Weekly states, “Dessen’s tenth novel is another smoothly...
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Someone Like You

May 1, 2011
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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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