“I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of words and thought, but it happened quickly and naturally. By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings. But only in my head. I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years...
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Posts Tagged ‘ realistic fiction ’
Out Of My Mind
Alphas
Picture this; you’re a fourteen year old girl who just found out that you have been granted the opportunity of a lifetime. The invitation has just come in the mail and you realize that you have been invited as one of the one hundred lucky girls who get the privilege of attending Alpha Academy....
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After
Devon Davenport is a straight A student, with amazing soccer skills. She is a very independent, young woman because her mother is more interested in men than caring for her daughter. Men were never of any interest to Devon because she didn’t want to be anything like her mother. Devon had made a mistake...
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Top 8
Imagine going away on a family vacation feeling great. You have a fantastic new boyfriend and you are closer than ever to your best friends. Once you return, your life is turned upside down. You have been betrayed by someone, but who? Madison MacDonald is a typical high school student. She despises homework, joins...
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The Next Best Thing
Realistic Fiction By Kristan Higgins Reviewed by Hannah Luszczek Rated 5 out of 5 stars Lucy is ready to love again after being widowed for nearly five and a half years. Ever since her husband Jimmy died, she’s been finding dimes in suspicious places. The more she finds, the more she starts to feel...
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Forbidden
“He stares at me, aghast, tears wet on his cheeks. “W-what are you talking about?” I take a steadying breath, bracing myself against an onslaught of tears. “I mean, Lochan, how come I don’t love you anymore?” Lochan and Maya have always felt more like friends then siblings. Together, they have stepped in...
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Warrior
Tommy Riordan played by Tom Hardy and Brendan Conlon played by Joel Edgerton are two brother’s in two very different situations. Tommy is a runaway marine who changed his name to his mother’s last name so he wouldn’t be found. Brendan is a physics teacher and former professional UFC fighter with a wife and...
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Cut
Just enough to feel the scream inside, Callie cuts herself, though never too deep, never enough to die, Callie cuts herself just enough to feel the pain. Now at a residential treatment facility, called Sea Pines, filled with girls with problems that engulf them, Callie detaches herself from the world, allowing silence to fill...
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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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Between Shades of Gray
Realistic Fiction By Ruta Sepetys Reviewed by K. Oliver Rated 5 out of 5 stars Like many other fifteen year old girls in Lithuania in 1941, Lina thinks her life is going quite well. She crushes on boys, gets into trouble with her favorite cousin, and finds joy in simple things, like drawing. In...
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