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Month: January 2013

  • The White Mountains by John Christopher

           Plot:  The tripods arrived about a hundred years ago.  Some say that they came from outer space, other claim that they were invented by humans and turned on them.  Either way, they currently rule over humanity.  They consolidate control over the minds of men by “capping” them.  When a person grows old…

  • The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

    The Plot:  Soren is a barn owlet born in the forest of Tyoto.  Living with his family in the hollow of a fir tree, he has many things to look forward to.  He has just had his “first fur “ceremony, in which he eats his first meal with fur in it, and it will soon…

  • Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

     Plot: Jeffrey Magee is a an orphaned boy who blows into the town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania (a fictional place) one afternoon. Within the first day he has already made an impression on the neighborhood. He butts into an ongoing little league game and hits line drives off of ace pitcher John McNab. He strays…

  • Jasper Dash and the Flame Pits of Delaware by M.T. Anderson

         Maybe you’ve been to that small wonder of the state of Delaware a time or two.  Perhaps you even reside there.  But you’ve never been to the one as crafted by M.T. Anderson in Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware.   This Delaware is “a realm of wonders and terrors, a land that time…