Category: Book Reviews
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Red is a scarlet oak that has stood in a neighborhood for 216 years. The local people use Red as a wishtree, writing wishes onto scraps of paper or cloth and tying them onto the branches. When a Muslim family moves into a house close by, Red and its…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Ethan and his family are moving from Boston to a small town in coastal Georgia, seeking a new start after a traumatic experience involving Ethan and his best friend Kacey. As Ethan learns to adjust to his new settings and to try to make peace with the past,…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Every year the members of the Proctectorate have taken an infant and left it in the woods as a sacrifice to the witch. Unbeknownst to them, the witch, who name is Xan, has shepherded each baby to another town so that it can be raised by a loving…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: The one thing that Penelope wants to be is a writer, but she has no time in her busy schedule to put her thoughts on paper. But that’s all about to change, because one day, while looking at her schedule, she falls into the Realm of Possibility. It’s…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Stick Dog lives in a pipe that runs under Highway 16. His favorite pastime is playing with his four friends Karen, Stripes, Mutt, and Poo Poo. One day when the dogs are out playing, they catch a whiff of hamburgers being grilled over in the park. This starts…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Logan Lang is a 4th grader super sleuth at Murkee Elementary who loves solving crimes almost as much as she loves reading about them in the school library. Gustavo Muchomacho is a fellow student who was raised on crime fighting TV shows and has a set of specialized…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Billy Miller is entering second grade and is nervous that he may not be smart enough. Sitting next to know-it-all Emma Sparks certainly isn’t helping his self esteem, but at least his teacher, Ms. Silver, seems nice. His life at home can be problematic too as his artist…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences Or Less: Billy’s parents are having difficulties in their marriage, so he is spending the summer with his mother in a lakeside cabin while his father stays working in New York City. But this isn’t any normal cabin; it’s one built by the eccentric Dr. Libris, a scientist/professor who has…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Anna, José, and Henry are three young strangers who find themselves snowed in together at a Washington D.C. airport. As they begin to get to know each other, an important news flash is broadcast: the Star Spangled Banner has been stolen from the Smithsonian Institute. The three realize…
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