Tag: juvenile fiction
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Title: The Last Mapmaker Author: Christina Soontornvat Publication Info: 2022 Candlewick Press The Plot: Sai lives in the kingdom of Mangkon and works as an assistant to the famous mapmaker Paiyoon Wongyai. Unbeknownst to her master, Sai comes from the troubled underclass of Mangkon society and has little room for advancement in life. When the…
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Title: Alone Author: Megan E. Freeman Publication: 2021 by Aladin/Simon & Schuster The Plot: Twelve year old Maddie awakes in her hometown to find that everyone but herself has been evacuated by the government. Alone except for her dog George, Maddie must learn how to survive on her own for months at a time. One…
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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 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: Daphne and Sabrina have bounced among foster homes for the past few years ever since their parents passed away. Their latest foster mother is an eccentric old woman calling herself Mrs. Grimm and claiming to be the girls’s grandmother. She takes the girls to her old house stocked…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: While mourning the disappearance of his father two years prior, Gregor and his younger sister Boots are sucked into an underworld through a grate in their apartment building’s laundry room. They soon discover thriving societies of crawlers (cockroaches), humans, spiders, and rats that live together through a fragile…
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The Plot in 5 Sentences Or Less: Each of the fifth graders in Mr. Terupt’s class at Snow Hill School has a story. Jessica, for instance, just moved across country with her mother to get away from her dad, while Alexia is intent upon spreading gossip throughout the class in order to start a war…
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