Revolution tells the story of two girls living centuries apart, one never knowing the other. Andi, heartbroken over the loss of her younger brother, finds the diary of a young girl living in 18th century Paris and becomes caught up in a plot to rescue a child prince who lived and died over two...
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Revolution
All Around the Town
When Laurie Kenyon, who was abducted when she was four years old and returned home when she was six years old , is accused of stabbing her handsome English professor in the heart, her lawyer sister, Sarah, steps in to help her win the case. The police have DNA evidence and her fingerprints...
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IDENTICAL
On the surface they seem like the perfect family. Sixteen-year-old Kaeleigh and Reanne are identical twins. their father is a respected judge and their mother, a high-profile politician. After the accident everything changed. Mom and Daddy drifted apart. Daddy started drinking and using Oxy to numb the pain and Mom buried herself in...
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Going to get a camera, falling down the stairs, meeting him, was all an accident that shouldn’t have happened. Just because of a stupid coin toss, Naomi, a good girl with good grades in the year book committee, picks tail off a coin toss with her friend, Chief, co-editor to the yearbook. After the...
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Glass
Kristina Georgia Snow is now 18 years old, and she is in control of her life for the first time in a long time. In the previous book, Crank, Kristina is raped, and to make the situation worse, she gets pregnant. Now she has to care for the life of her infant son, Hunter,...
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Identical
To the naked eye they seem like the perfect family. Sixteen year old Raeanne and Kaeleigh are identical twin sisters. Their father, a well known district court judge, and their mother, a high-profile politician, both have respected jobs. Their life seems easy, everything seems picture perfect, but that is not the case. Their family...
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Tricks
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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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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Cut
For all humans, life is never perfect. Sometimes you may have a disorder, or a problem that just won’t go away, keeping you from reality. In the novel, Cut, by Patricia McCormick, Callie has a problem of her own. She likes to cut herself, keeping the scars on her wrists as memories. Once Callie...
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Impulse
“Three lives, three different paths to the same direction: Aspen Springs a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act, suicide. These three at one point decided enough was enough, and tried to end their life. They acted on impulse, swallowed the bottle, cut a little deeper, and put the gun to...
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