Makayla Pirger 12-21-09 English5 Book Review Tricks There comes a time when you need to ask yourself, how far you will go to survive? The decisions you make throughout your life, especially as a teen, will affect your life forever. There is no going back in time to fix your mistakes, no...
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What My Mother Doesn’t Know
“Sometimes I just know things, like when Lou asked me to go on that walk down by the reservoir last year on the last day of eighth grade. I knew he was going to say he wanted to break up with me,” Sophie lets us know at the beginning of the book. She knows...
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The Luxe
Elizabeth Holland is the “Golden Girl” of the elite Manhattan crew in 1899. To the public eye, she is perfect; the sun seems to shine from her very eyes. But if you look closer and dig deeper, not everything is as it seems. Elizabeth’s family’s once endless fortune is withering away, her...
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Sea Change
“I stopped walking, my flats sinking into the sand. Behind the boy there was nothing but fog, and I realized how alone I was. “You lost?” The boy called, waving one arm at me. “Not at all,” I replied defensively, squaring my shoulders. “I was just exploring” He came closer. “It’s not a great...
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A Voice in the Wind
A normal life suddenly turns to disaster as Hadassah’s world falls apart. Her father is murdered, her mother and younger sister starve to death and her brother is stabbed to death in front of her very eyes. Hadassah is taken from Jerusalem the only home she has ever known, and sold in Rome to...
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Just Ella
Every girls dream back then, was to marry the handsome prince and live happily ever after. Unsuspected, simple, Ella is chosen to be the new princess. She can finally leave her cruel step-mother and step-sisters and marry the dashing prince. She goes and lives in the castle and learns about how to be the...
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Skinny
Giselle, a bright, hard- working and intelligent young woman, has found herself in a deep hole. Once studying her way to the top, Giselle, a top-medical student and a role model to her peers, can’t hold on any longer. Though she has always had a problem with anorexia, Giselle had no idea what was...
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Shiver
Grace Brisbane had good grades and was towards the top of her class, like any other ordinary junior. Or so you think? She had a secret that no one else really new about. But what was it? Grace had spent many years watching the wolves behind her house. There’s that one yellow-eyed wolf, her...
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Tailchaser’s Song
Fritti Tailchaser is a young, feral ginger tom cat of the Meeting Wall Clan. He has many friends in the forest, including Hushpad, whom he likes. They spend long hours together, until one day, she vanishes. After investigation, Fritti discovers that Hushpad’s owners have left, and, distraught, he goes to the Meeting Wall Clan...
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Enthusiasm
“Ashleigh’s planning to crash a dance at the Forefield Academy, and she wants me to come with her.” Julie is stunned after hearing this from her best friend Ashleigh, but what can she expect? Ashleigh has just begun acting like a person straight from the time of Jane Austen, the author of Pride and...
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