“Hattie Big Sky,” by Kirby Larson is a Newberry Honor Award winning historical fiction novel about a sixteen-year-old girl who moves to Montana by herself to live on a land claim and prove it.
Hattie Brooks was orphaned at a young age, and as a result she has spent most of her life being shuttled from relative to relative. Her relatives view her as an annoyance, especially her aunt, who wants her to work as a maid.
When one of Hattie’s Uncles dies he leaves her his land claim, 320 acres of land in Montana. Read the rest »
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“Zen and the Art of Faking It” by Jordan Sonnenblick is a realistic fiction novel about a boy who invents a better personality for himself so that he can be popular at his new school.
San Lee has a lot of experience with blending in. His family moves quite regularly, and at each school San Lee gets a chance to build a new identity so that he can blend in with the pack. In California he was a skater. In Houston he was a rich preppy kid. In Germany he was a pretend-jock. But now San Lee is in a new place: a small town in Pennsylvania. And he is also facing a new situation: his family is no longer rich. His father is now in jail, busted for embezzling funds and cheating people in numerous states. Read the rest »
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“It’s a Mall World After All” by Janette Rallison is a humorous novel about a teenage girl and how her job at the local mall ends up changing her life.
Charlotte works in a department store at the local mall. She sprays customers with free perfume samples and tries to get them to buy the latest popular perfume. It’s not exactly a glamorous job, but it is a way to make money. In addition, her spot right near the department store door is a great lookout point to watch for cute boys. Read the rest »
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Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)
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4 Star Books, Fantasy Books, Young Adult Books October 3rd, 2009 by Nathan
“Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate,” by Adrienne Kress is a fantasy story about a boy who must help a dragon to escape from the human body that he is trapped in.
“Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate” is a sequel to “Alex and the Ironic Gentleman”. Readers of the first saga will remember that Alex is a brave young girl who sets off on a fantastic journey to save her middle school teacher from the dangerous pirates of the infamous ship The Ironic Gentleman. Now Adrienne Kress has written a second book that is just as lively and exciting.
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Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)
“The Compound,” by S. A. Bodeen is a chilling science fiction story about a rich family living in a specialized bomb shelter designed to help them survive a nuclear war.
Eli Yanakakis and his family entered the Compound six year ago, when they learned that a full scale nuclear war was about to begin. When your father is a billionaire he can afford anything, even a multi-million dollar bomb shelter with enough supplies to outlast a nuclear winter. The bomb shelter has rooms full of supplies, a kitchen, a gym, a music room, and even a small church. But what it is missing is Eli’s twin brother Eddy and his grandmother. They didn’t make it into the shelter in time. Read the rest »
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