Category: Book Reviews
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Title: The Shape Of Thunder Author: Jasmine Warga Publication Info: 2021 Balzer + Bray (Harper Collins) The Plot: Cora and Quinn have been best friends since they were very young. Now 12 years old, their friendship has been ripped apart by a violent event. A year after the incident, the girls have not spoken, and…
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Title: The Mysterious Disappearance Of Aidan S. (As Told To His Brother) Author: David Levithan Publication Info: Alfred A. Knopf 2021 The Plot: Eleven year old Lucas’s older brother Aidan has been missing for six days. When Aidan returns, everyone is relieved, but his story of where he was is too fantastical to believe. Lucas…
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The Title: Red, White and Whole Author: Rajani LaRocca Publication: 2021 by Quill Tree Books The Plot: Reha is 13 year old Indian American living in the midwest in 1983. She feels pulled between the American world in which she is growing up and the Indian culture of her parents. Reha’s mom Amma is reluctant…
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Title: Too Bright To See Author: Kyle Lukoff Publication Year: 2021 The Plot: Growing up in rural Vermont, eleven year old Bug has always believed that her 150 year old house was haunted. With the recent passing of her Uncle Roderick, the ghosts in her house seem even more active. Life outside her house has…
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Title: The Collector Author: K. R. Alexander Publication Year: 2018 The Plot: During the summer, Josie and her younger sister Anna move with their mom from Chicago out to the countryside. They move into a large house with their Grandmother Jeannie whose health is failing. Their grandmother soon warns the girls not to go into…
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The Plot: Bell is a kid who has spent most of his life in a colony on Mars. He and a dozen other people live a subterranean existence watching out for dust storms and waiting for the next supply ship. Conflict on earth has prevented contact with other small colonies on Mars established by other…
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The Plot: Two children in ancient Greece strive against the fate into which they were born. Melisto is an aristocratic girl who struggles against the conventional path of womanhood that her mother wants for her. Rhaskos is a slave boy who works against punishing circumstances to free himself. Both children question their role in the…
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The Plot: Mr. Penderwick and his four daughters, Rosalind, Skye, Jane, and Batty, have rented a cottage for a few weeks on a beautiful estate in the mountains. There they meet the owner of the estate Ms. Tifton and her son Jeffrey who immediately befriends the girls. As the weeks pass, Jeffrey becomes closer to…
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