Young Adults
Dec 6th, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Fiction, Young Adults
Africa, the land of extremes, droughts, floods, beauty, devastation, vibrant life and miserable death. Into this land are born two children with a shared destiny and two very different backgrounds. One from a rural village in the Okavango Delta Botswana…
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Oct 13th, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Children's Books, Young Adults
My Fishing Journal by Gary Lamit is a journal for children to track and record their fishing experiences. This journal is for those who want to detail their fishing trips and also save it for later in life to better…
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Sep 8th, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Young Adults
Ho Hum, another try at a debut novel, this one falls short of “I can’t believe I am reading or trying to read this book”. Written by a former high school English teacher, I was surprised it was not…
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Sep 7th, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Young Adults
This book was witty, mean, and catty and it describes Hollywood as most of us envision it, stuck up people playing mean games and treating “normal” people like garbage. It was similar to the movie The Devil Wears Prada, and…
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Jul 23rd, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Fiction, Young Adults
Magical. This book caught me up and I finished it in one day. It was based on the song “Scarborough Fair” and I really never knew the words to it except from the Simon and Garfunkel. Its fairy lore and…
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Jun 15th, 2009 |
By Sandy |
Category: Fiction, Young Adults
<iframe src=”http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=moviereelcom-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0316067342&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr” style=”width:120px;height:240px;” scrolling=”no” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ frameborder=”0″></iframe> Set in a private school in Vermont, this book is about what happens when you take several different people and give them the ability to tell their version of an incident which happens…
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Apr 22nd, 2009 |
By Linda |
Category: Young Adults
On Borrowed Wings takes place during the 1940′s and focuses on its main character Adele Pietra, a sixteen year old girl who comes from a family of stone cutters. The Pietra family lives in the town of Stony Creek,…
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Jan 26th, 2009 |
By Holly |
Category: Young Adults
Breathe My Name is both an electric and terrifying story that you can’t help but devour in big, heaping gulps.
Frances Robinson is a quiet, mouse-like eighteen year old living in a beautiful house with a loving and devoted…
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Dec 14th, 2008 |
By Sandy |
Category: Young Adults
I thought this book was hilarious! I was laughing from page one. John “Spud” Milton is going into a boarding school in South Africa and he teams up with his housemates who total 8 of the wackiest boys ever. It…
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Nov 28th, 2008 |
By Holly |
Category: Young Adults
When I mentioned to a self-proclaimed bibliophile friend of mine that I was reading Audrey, Wait! she immediately told me what a fun book it was and how much she had enjoyed reading it. So far, any book this…
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