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Confetti Girl

October 16, 2012
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Confetti Girl

With Lina’s mom gone, it’s been hard for her and her father. Just when she needs to turn to her dad the most, she has to turn to a body hiding behind a book. Lina needs to pull her dad out of his books, but how? Lina’s best friend and neighbor, Vanessa, has been...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods

February 20, 2012
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Pictures of Hollis Woods

Imagine only being able to express yourself through pictures. Your first year of school, the only way you could communicate to others, was through your drawings. Drawing took you to another world; a world of your own. For Hollis Woods, drawing pictures was her doorway to a place where she actually wanted to be....
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

June 16, 2010
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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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Hearts of Horses

June 16, 2010
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Hearts of Horses

During the winter of 1917, Martha Lessen, a horse breaking girl, goes to George Bliss’ house, man with his regular helpers off at war, hoping there will be horses to break. She believes that when breaking a horse, using calm and easy methods, you shouldn’t force the horse to be broken. She finds out...
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Lovely Bones

March 26, 2010
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Lovely Bones

Do you ever think that you are going to die young? How about, do something that you will regreat for the rest of your life? Susie, a 14 year old girl, goes on an adventure many young girls don’t go on. Susie dies when she is only 14 years old and goes to “Her...
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What My Mother Doesn’t Know

January 15, 2010
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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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Sea Change

December 21, 2009
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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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Cut

May 15, 2008
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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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Bottled Up

March 3, 2008
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Bottled Up

Have you ever been in so much trouble that you just had to find a way out of telling your parents? In Bottled up by Jaye Murray, Pip is trying to find any way out of getting in trouble with his father. When the principal calls Pip down to his office during gym he...
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Pretty Things

February 23, 2008
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Pretty Things

Summer has just begun in London, and Charlie is determined to make sure Brie and he do something other than stay home and watch soap operas, so they join a drama group. There are many different characters joining the drama group Charlie who is gay, and his best friend Brie who is obsessed with...
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