tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64190854174124738122024-02-01T23:09:57.232-08:00Chip's ChapterAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-19751228804946637402017-03-06T11:57:00.002-08:002017-03-06T11:57:23.649-08:00Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-73356953650375169292016-05-24T06:23:00.000-07:002016-05-27T05:37:06.761-07:00Summer Reading at the Public Library<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spirit Animals, Book 7: The Evertree by Marie Lu</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/12/9780545535212_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="The Evertree" border="0" src="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/12/9780545535212_xlg.jpg" height="200" width="182" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everything comes to a head in this seventh book in the "New York Times" bestselling series. The world of Erdas will be changed forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were once ordinary kids. Then they discovered that they had spirit animals-wise and powerful partners who granted them with amazing gifts . . . and a legendary responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Together, the team has journeyed across Erdas, racing to stop a merciless foe. They have laughed and fought together. They've won challenges and lost friends. Some have even lost themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now that journey is about to end. They must reach a place forgotten by time and face off against an ancient enemy breaking free from his prison. They have just one chance to stop him . . . or the whole world will shatter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Booked by Kwame Alexander</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo</span><br />
<a href="http://www.katedicamillo.com/images/books/bk_raymie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="Flora & Ulysses" border="0" src="http://www.katedicamillo.com/images/books/bk_raymie.jpg" height="200" width="158" /></span></a><span style="background-color: #748e7c; color: #faf7c3; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raymie Clarke has come to realize that everything, absolutely everything, depends on her. And she has a plan. If Raymie can win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition, then her father, who left town two days ago with a dental hygienist, will see Raymie's picture in the paper and (maybe) come home. To win, not only does Raymie have to do good deeds and learn how to twirl a baton; she also has to contend with the wispy, frequently fainting Louisiana Elefante, who has a show-business background, and the fiery, stubborn Beverly Tapinski, who’s determined to sabotage the contest. But as the competition approaches, loneliness, loss, and unanswerable questions draw the three girls into an unlikely friendship — and challenge each of them to come to the rescue in unexpected ways.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The War That Saved My Life by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley</span></span><br />
<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p6slAmTyL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51p6slAmTyL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" height="200" width="132" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.4px;">So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pax by Sara Pennypacker</span></span><br />
<a href="http://scene7.targetimg1.com/is/image/Target/50313087?wid=480&hei=480" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://scene7.targetimg1.com/is/image/Target/50313087?wid=480&hei=480" width="200" /></a><a href="http://www.sarapennypacker.com/images/books/pax_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;">Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;">At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be—with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.4667px;">Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Series by Jenny Han--The Summer I Turned Pretty, It's Not Summer Without You, We'll Always Have Summer</span></span><br />
<a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/cc/79/b5cc79eb2bb4a213baa43bf07b89ee9f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/cc/79/b5cc79eb2bb4a213baa43bf07b89ee9f.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Belly has always lived for the summertime, because summer means all her favorite things: swimming, the beach, and the Fischer boys, Conrad and Jeremiah. For as long as she can remember, she’s shared her summers with the brothers at Cousins Beach. And for as long as she can remember, she’s been in love with Conrad. Then one summer it seems like he might have feelings for her too—but so does Jeremiah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">As the summer seasons pass, Belly has to choose between two brothers who love her…and she’ll have to break one of their hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">This paperback collection of the complete series includes </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">The Summer I Turned Pretty</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">It’s Not Summer Without You</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">,</span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">and</span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"> We’ll Always Have Summer</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Forced to live on his own after his mom dies and her boyfriend abandons him, 12-year-old Jayson does whatever it takes to get by. He will do anything to avoid the foster care system. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Besides, his real home has always been the beat-up basketball court behind the projects in the North Carolina hills, and his family has always been his friends and teammates. He manages to get away with his deception until the day he gets caught stealing a new pair of basketball sneakers. Game over. </span><br />
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Jayson, at first, is combatative, testing the Lawtons' patience at every turn. He wants out, yet the Lawtons refuse to take the bait. But not everyone in Jayson's new life is so ready to trust him--and even Jayson's old friends give him a hard time now that he's attending a school full of rich kids.<br />
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It's on Jayson to believe that he deserves a better life than the one he once had. The ultimate prize if he can? A trip to play in the state finals at Cameron Indoor Stadium–home to the Duke Blue Devils and launching pad to his dream of playing bigtime college ball. Getting there will be a journey that reaches far beyond the basketball court.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-57886279974305038672016-03-11T05:54:00.002-08:002016-03-11T05:54:53.910-08:00The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;">
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I work at Gramps's diner, and the cakes-the entitled rich kids who vacation here-make our lives hell. My best friend, Alex Pace, is the one person who gets me, and I'm starting to have more-than-friend feelings for him-feelings I don't want to have. But he's changing. He's almost like a stranger now, keeping secrets and picking fights with the cakes.</div>
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When she turns up murdered, a foxglove in her mouth, a rumor goes around that Alex was the last person seen with her-and everyone but me believes it. Well, everyone except my worst enemy, Jenika Shaw. When Alex goes missing, it's up to us to prove his innocence and uncover the true killer. But the truth will shatter everything I've ever known about myself-and Alex.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-56078573583420205702016-03-08T07:41:00.001-08:002016-03-08T07:41:33.872-08:00Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uZrunxtKL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uZrunxtKL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.</span><br />
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If only he could get on the court and stay on it.</div>
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Old school coach Bolden suspends Derrick for the first game of the season after Derrick's best friend Wes gets busted for carrying a joint while in Derrick's car. Even after that, Marion High's team just doesn't quite <i>click</i>. They don't want to follow Derrick's lead as squad's dominant player. Dissension and selfishness are threatening to tear the team apart. And then Derrick hears a sickening <i>snap </i>as he lands awkwardly after a thunderous dunk.</div>
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Can Derrick lead the team to victory from the bench?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-66817340689583357562016-03-08T07:22:00.000-08:002016-03-08T07:22:43.897-08:00Kid Owner by Tim Green<div style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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With the help of his friends Jackson and Izzy, Ryan takes advantage of his newfound stardom. He convinces his coach to use a tricky passing offense that plays to Ryan's strengths.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-882869072131182452016-02-18T06:54:00.001-08:002016-02-18T06:54:18.979-08:00Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n8uxxctUL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n8uxxctUL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the story of a cook- a quiet,diligent cook who kept to herself. Her specialty was homemade ice cream topped with fresh peaches, which she served on hot summer days. She worked for some of the wealthiest families in New York, who spoke highly of her skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when six members of one household nearly died, the cook mysteriously disappeared- and the hunt for Typhoid Mary began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This captivating biography looks beyond the tabloid scandal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did this private and obscure domestic cook become one of the most notorious and misunderstood women in American history? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What happens to a person whose name and reputation are forever damaged?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And who is really responsible for the lasting legacy of Typhoid Mary?</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-6041394493142674322016-02-18T06:35:00.003-08:002016-02-18T06:38:45.376-08:00Code of Honor by Alan Gratz<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px; z-index: 1;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kamran Smith has it all. He's the star of the football team, dates the most popular girl in school, and can't wait to enlist in the Army like his big brother, Darius. Although Kamran's family hails from Iran, Kamran has always felt 100% American. Accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Darius is accused of being a terrorist. Kamran refuses to believe it, but the evidence is there; Darius has been filmed making threats against his country, hinting at an upcoming deadly attack. Kamran's friends turn on him; suddenly, in their eyes he's a terrorist, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kamran knows it's up to him to clear his brother's name. In a race against time, Kamran must piece together a series of clues and codes that will lead him to Darius and the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">278 pages</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-13566508378708767302015-12-03T07:21:00.000-08:002015-12-04T05:37:37.230-08:00Chris Lynch War Series<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Vietnam Book One:I Pledge Allegiance- Navy</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country.</span></div>
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<a href="https://lhornreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/10284234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lhornreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/10284234.jpg" style="background-color: transparent;" width="141" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together — and they pledge to do all they can to come home together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Haunted by dreams of violence and death, Morris makes it his personal mission to watch over his friends — and the best place to do that is in the US Navy. Stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">USS Boston</em>, Morris and his fellow sailors provide crucial support to the troops on the ground.</span></div>
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Burdock the barn cat is a loner who has experienced repeated rejection. So when he learns that all the farm animals are in grave danger—their owner is devising evil plans, they’re locked in their pens with no evident escape route, and a fierce storm is brewing—Burdock realizes he “could go it alone.”</div>
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However, when the animals plan their escape, each contributing skills, encouragement, and ideas, Burdock faces a moral quandary: “Saving yourself seemed right. Obviously abandoning your companions seemed wrong. But what if saving yourself meant abandoning them?”</div>
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When Burdock resolves his quandary, he participates in a clever team effort in which the animal friends escape and find a place they can truly call home.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-17286538108868772292015-10-27T07:44:00.005-07:002015-10-27T07:44:44.885-07:00Shattered Glass by Teresa Toten<a href="http://www.readthesecrets.com/img/shatteredglass.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Shattered Glass" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.readthesecrets.com/img/shatteredglass.jpg" width="132" /></a><strong style="background-color: white; color: #573e50; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Toni has always had nightmares about fire,</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #573e50; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for Toni, whose charm and innocence attract attention—not always positive—wherever she goes. Buoyed by the music she hears at the folk club where she finds a job, and encouraged by her glamorous landlady, Toni unearths shocking information that contradicts everything she believes and makes her re-evaluate what she feels for all the new people in her life.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-20037369644399449102015-10-08T13:02:00.000-07:002015-10-08T13:04:25.575-07:00Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls by Meg Cabot<a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.kidzworld.com/article/34292/allie1.jpg?1262641643" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.kidzworld.com/article/34292/allie1.jpg?1262641643" height="200" width="136" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">When nine-year-old Allie Finkle's parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie's sure her life is over. She's not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky floorboards and creepy secret passageways-not to mention leaving her modern, state-of-the-art suburban school for a rundown, old-fashioned school just two blocks from her new house.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-87154273326677145322015-10-08T07:13:00.000-07:002015-10-27T07:47:30.008-07:00Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers<a href="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/40/9780439916240_xlg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Sunrise Over Fallujah" border="0" src="http://www.scholastic.com/content5/media/products/40/9780439916240_xlg.jpg" height="200" width="182" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Robin "Birdy" Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the others in the Civilian Affairs Battalion are supposed to help secure and stabilize the country and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it: WAR.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">In this novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam War in his classic, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Fallen Angels</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">. He creates memorable characters, like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club; and a whole unit of other young men and women, and drops them in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair." Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-76813820627815697632015-09-14T08:51:00.000-07:002015-09-14T08:51:25.815-07:00Sweet By Emmy Laybourne<a href="https://rhapsodyinbooks.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/18657784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://rhapsodyinbooks.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/18657784.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The luxurious celebrity cruise launching the trendy new diet sweetener Solu should be the vacation of a lifetime. But Laurel is starting to regret accepting her friend Viv's invitation. She's already completely embarrassed herself in front of celebrity host Tom Forelli--the hottest guy ever!--and she's too sick to even </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">try</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> the sweetener. And that's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">before</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> Viv and all the other passengers start acting really strange. </span><br />
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Life would be perfect for Andy and Terry if it wasn't for the fact that they have to write their next book, which is almost impossible because there are just so many distractions, including thirteen flying cats, giant bananas, mermaids, a sea monsters pretending to be mermaids, enormous gorillas, and dangerous burp gas-bubblegum bubbles!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11228300174587544329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419085417412473812.post-60036321351222019092015-08-10T09:32:00.000-07:002015-08-10T09:36:13.404-07:00Kalahari by Jessica Khoury<a href="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/267d17_d63c233a7f8c4224a27fcc42314081df.png_srz_p_390_636_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/267d17_d63c233a7f8c4224a27fcc42314081df.png_srz_p_390_636_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz" height="200" width="122" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate.</span><br />
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