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Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Amistad, 2001
From a Teacher/ School Librarian's perspective...
+ The Most Realistic Story
+ Monster
+ Using Monster in the Classroom
+ Calling all Middle School Students
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The Rescue
Nicholas Sparks
Grand Central Publishing, 2001
What a rescue
+ Excellent!!
+ Wonderful!
+ Typical Nicolas Sparks novel
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The Glass Castle - A Memoir
Jeanette Walls
Scribner, 2006
Mountain Goat licked by a cheetah
+ Hard to put down
+ Glass Castle
+ Wonderfully written, thought-provoking memoir!
+ A great autobiography
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The Guardian
Nicholas Sparks, 2003
Love goes first, thriller - second
+ the guardian
+ Sparks should avoid the suspense
+ A heartwarming tearjerker
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Give a Boy a Gun
Todd Strasser
Simon Pulse, 2002
A Close Look at School Violence
+ Students Rate Give a Boy A Gun
+ Give a Boy a Gun
+ A great inside on all views of school shootings
+ Give a Boy a Gun
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
Christopher Collier James Lincoln Collier
Scholastic Book Services, 1974
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Uglies (Boxed Set): Uglies, Pretties, Specials (Uglies)
Scott Westerfeld
Simon Pulse, 2007
Amazing
+ Great series!
+ Great
+ The Best Series I have ever read!
+ Uglies for over 13!
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The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks
Warner Books, 2004
The Notebook
+ Difficult emotionally
+ Memorable
+ What True Love Is All About
+ descriptive and lively settings
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Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
Beatrice Sparks
HarperTeen, 2000
Interesting Story, Terrible Narration
+ at least im nice
I know this book is written as a diary, but I do believe that it could have been written much better. It doesn't seem like a fourteen year old girl, maybe an eleven year old, but not fourteen. The main character seems really fake and plastic in the beginning especially.
The story itself, ...
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Jay's Journal
Beatrice Sparks
Pocket, 1990
Jay's Journal: really good book
+ Jakes awesome review
I remember when i first started reading this book, i couldn't get my hands off of it. it is kind of sad knowing that some of the teenagers are troubled like Jay.when people like Jay are gullible enough to fall in the hands of drugs, witchcraft, satanism, and voodo, it just shows that his parents ...
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Cut
Patricia Mccormick
Push, 2002
Cuts to the bone.
+ Insightful
Cut by Patricia McCormick is a quick and brilliant book that deals with a teenage girl named Callie who cuts herself whenever she feels depressed or overwhelmed. I read this book about six years ago and I still think about this harrowing piece of teen literature since. The main character refuses to ...
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ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING: CONFESSIONS OF GEORGIA NICOLSON
LOUISE RENNISON
SCHOLASTIC POINT, 2001
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Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher
HarperTeen, 2003
An outstanding read for any age...
+ Staying Fat for Sarah Bynes
+ dang captivating
+ Wow
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1999
This has meaning. Pain.
+ Excellent read
+ Speak
My mom found this book on a plane. Someone left it there perhaps accidently as they were gathering up their suitcases, or as I prefer to believe, because they finished reading it and wanted others to read about it. That's why I love books so much they are meant to be read, shared, enjoyed. My mom ...
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The Clique (Clique Series)
Lisi Harrison
Poppy, 2004
Funny, Light-hearted and Entertaining Series
+ The Clique- First in a great series
+ Ah-mazing
I am an adult with a weakness for reading children's literature and I have to say that I really love this series. There are always references to designer clothes and rich lifestyles and it is a guilty pleasure to read about this. I do admit that it is rather shallow but don't take it seriously and ...
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