“Surely she doesn’t think she could make it as a model? She’s far too fat!” Those words, from a complete stranger, echo in Ellie’s ears from then on. So she’s a little on the chubby side, no big deal…right? Wrong. All she thinks about is weight. Envying her two stick-thin friends, Ellie strives for...
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“He rolled his eyes, but I could see that he was flying- the relief was making us both lightheaded. It was over. Or . . . was it?” Bella Swan is not being overdramatic. Ever since her arrival in Forks, her life has taken a spiral, and even she can’t tell whether it’s going...
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Sometimes people don’t look beyond what’s in front of them. They don’t go after their dreams. But sometimes, others do. In the book, Stoner and Spaz, by Ron Koertge, Ben Bancroft, a boy with cerebral palsy, didn’t have much in stock for him. He wasn’t popular, didn’t have any friends besides his grandmother who...
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Isabella Swan is used to the sunny, warm weather of Phoenix, Arizona. When she moves to Forks, Washington, where it rains almost every day, she doesn’t know how she’ll possibly get along. Her father, Charlie, tries to help her get used to such a different environment, but she just can’t seem to adjust, at...
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“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him- and I didn’t know how dominant that part may be- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” Bella Swan is nothing but more than the average,...
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Billy, a boy who at the beginning of the book is 9 years old and at the end 14, has only one dream: to have two coon hounds. Billy dreams of running through the woods and river bottoms with his dream dogs, but he has a problem. The dogs he wants are too much...
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Katherine Danzinger, who has a new boyfriend, Michael Wagner, and is going into her senior year of high school, is in for an exciting year. With her best friend, Erica, and her new boyfriend, Artie, by her side Katherine will experience new things and feelings everyday. At a New Years party for Erica’s cousin,...
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