Ashley has been waiting forever to say three little words “I guess so”. They might not sound all that important, but when you have been searching for a family to call your own practically your whole life they can mean a whole lot. Ashley was only three years old “the day they stole her...
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Three Little Words
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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A Rumor of War
Lieutenant Philip Caputo was just a young boy from Westchester, Illinois when he joined the marines. Philip was sick of the safe, suburban existence. He also joined the marines partly from the patriotic tide of the Kennedy era. Caputo joined the Marines in 1960. By the time he fulfilled his 3-year term, 24-year-old lieutenant...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Jean Louise Finch is only nine years old but acts and thinks twice her age. Her twelve-year-old brother Jem is her best friend and companion in the hard years of the 1930s. Scout is Jean Louise’s nickname and is always called that. Their mother died when Scout was young and she has always been different...
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The Day the Voices Stopped
In The Day the Voices Stopped, by Ken Steele and Claire Berman, Ken, a 14-year-old boy living in Connecticut, starts having hallucinations and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He starts hearing voices that taunt him to kill himself. They tell him, “Hang yourself.” Throughout the whole book voices are swarming his mind and making him...
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The Lost Boy
Coming out of a life of violence and mistreatment, David, a young, sweet boy, looks for love as he tries to forget his rough past. In the previous book, A Child Called “It,” Dave explained his life threatening childhood, with events that are completely heart shattering. Now in The Lost Boy, his life has...
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