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344
pgs, 990L
In
Our Library
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Callahan, Stephen.
Adrift:
Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea.
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122
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Camus, Albert.
The
Stranger.
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Thomas
R., 12th grade
If
you are looking
for a quick easy read, The
Stranger by Albert Camus is the perfect book. This book is extremely fast
passed with short quick sentences that make this book a quick read. This
book starts off with the main character at his mothers funeral and
ventures further on to the next few weeks of the main characters life
until he ends up committing a crime and going to court. In court
everything that happened earlier in the book comes into play in a way that
the reader never would have expected when first reading the book. Although
this book does get a little boring at times, all in all it is still a
pretty good book and it is one that I would recommend.
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Paul F., 12th
grade
Monsieur Mersault a young man that goes through many troubles in life and solves
them in different ways than many normal people would. He is a very straight
forward
man with no emotion and speaks freely about what he believes
in. The main problem he faces in this book is committing murder and trying to fight his way out of the death sentences in court. He does not care for
much out side of prison so he doesn’t have that much motivation to get
out.
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Marie,
9th grade.
His maman died and Sir
Mersault felt no emotion at all. The
day after the funeral he was gallivanting around town; going to the beach,
meeting girls, and going to the movies.
Sir Mersault would have never guessed that showing no emotion at
all could get him in so much
trouble. Weeks later his
friend Raymond asks him and his girlfriend Marie if they would like to go
to the beach. He agrees to
this idea. At the beach, they
notice a group of Arabs following them.
Raymond’s ex-girlfriend’s brother had figured out that Raymond
had mistreated her. The got
into a scramble. They walked away before anything got to serious, but
later Mersault went down and saw one of the Arabs again.
Before another fight could have been started, Mersault pulled out a
gun and shot the Arab five times. Mersault
was sent to prison and put on trial. Will
Mersault have to be executed or will he be set free?
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Moderately difficult
394
pgs, 1040L
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Capote, Truman. In
Cold Blood. Vintage
International
ÙÙÙÙÙ Darcy, 11th grade
Perry Smith and
Dick Hickock are two jailbirds who have just been paroled from the Kansas
State Penitentiary. Even before the buddies are set free, Perry and Dick
have a new scheme that could get them more than $10,000. What they don’t
know is that they will be getting much more than they ask for. The
characters in this book are very distinct and the reader will know them
like they’ve been friends for years. This is a great book because the
hunt for Perry and Dick is long and suspenseful. I would recommend this
book to anyone who likes murder or mystery novels.
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7
Moderately difficult
323
pgs, 780L
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Hugo
Award Winner
Nebula
Award Winner
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Card, Orson Scott. Ender's
Game. New York: Tor
Books.
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Darcy, ninth grade
Ender Wiggin is the boy who is going to save the
world, he just doesn’t know it. He’s picked for training to be an
elite military genius. Through his rigorous training in war games and strategy,
Ender becomes the youngest commander in the history of the Battle School,
and with his troops, he is unstoppable. Soon after being the youngest graduate ever,
Ender is shipped off to flight school. Oblivious to the importance of the
mission, Ender and his troops battle to save the world. I would recommend
this book to anyone who likes reading about futuristic war or science
fiction.
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Tymon, eighth grade
Andrew
Wiggin, or Ender, has been selected by the IF government to
go to battle school in space and defeat the buggers. The buggers were aliens that had come to Earth two times and
attacked. Ender was the last
person that had a chance in beating the buggers. When I first started reading this book it was confusing because it
was in the future. I didn’t
know what the two awards were that the book received. Now I know they are the highest Sci-Fi awards to receive.
This book was a long read and it had some high reading level words
in it.
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Mr.
Greenlee
The government takes a genius kid to a military
school. The kids there not
only have regular studies, but also play war games.
He always wins, and he develops some serious enemies.
Now, he must defeat them both in the arena and out of it.
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Card, Orson Scott.
Ender's
Shadow.
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Tymon,
ninth grade
Ender’s
Shadow is Ender’s Game from a different person’s perspective. It
was really good because it answered all of the questions that I had from Ender’s
Game. It was what some
people might call a page turner because once you start reading it you
can’t put it down. The main
character, Bean, is a very small compared to everyone else, but he is also
very smart compared to all of the other kids.
He grew on the streets of Rotterdam and he had struggled to stay alive. One
day everything changed for Bean, he had the chance to go Battle School
. This book is definitely
suitable for all high school students.
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Medium
Difficulty
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Card, Orson. Lost
Boys. New
York: HarperCollins.
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Miranda, senior
The Lost Boys is a mystery about the disappearances and probable
killings of seven young boys, which all came from families with Mormon
backgrounds. The story circulates around one family and how they are
affected by this and other strange circumstances. It is a very slow moving novel, with many distractions and unneeded
characters, but this makes the ending even more of a surprise. The novel has constant references to the Mormon beliefs and terms
which is slightly frustrating, but gives the characters a more three
dimensional appeal.
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9
Somewhat Difficult
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mystery/thriller,
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Carr, Caleb. The
Alienist. New York:
Random House.
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Mr.
Greenlee.
A
reporter helps a psychologist and his team track down a serial killer leaving
a grisly trail through
1890s New York. This is simply the best mystery I've ever read,
and it's clear the writer has deeply researched early psychology, early
police methods, and 1890s Manhattan. However, this serial killer
selects the most helpless of victims, street-urchins and boy-prostitutes.
Although in no way explicit (or condoned), some some readers might find
some episodes disturbing, such as when the detective enters the building where this
business takes place. Even with this, The Alienist is simply
one of the best books I've ever read.
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9
Difficult
Reading
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Detective
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Carr, Caleb. The
Italian Secretary.
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Eric C., senior
Caleb Carr, the successful author of
detective novels such as “The Alienist” and “The Angel of
Darkness” tries to bring to life one of literatures most
recognizable names, Sherlock Holmes.
Carr delivers a dead on performance in his portrayal of Holmes
and his faithful partner, Dr. Watson.
In this latest installment of the classic series, Holmes and
Watson are summoned via secret message by Sherlock’s brother Mycroft
to the mysterious Hollyrood Mansion in northern Scotland.
Carr uses his mastery of the detective novel to weave a
gripping portrayal of these classic literary heroes.
Albeit a good book, it has the tendency to be a bit droning
with its flourished language. I
would definitely recommend this book to a person of a higher reading
level. However, through
all the intricacies and Sherlock’s confusing dialogue, Carr still
comes out swinging, Conan
Doyle would be proud.
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Carter, Forrest. The
Education of Little Tree.
in our
library, 813.53
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National
Book Award, Most Honored National Book Award Finalist
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Casey,
John. Spartina.
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina
is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial
fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island’s Narragansett
Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible
outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no
longer make his living from the sea. Pierce’s
one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina,
lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he
needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish,… |
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Moderately difficult
1010L
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Historical
drama
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Cather,
Willa. My Antonia.
After his parents died, Jim Burden
arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same
train as the Shimerdas. They are an immigrant families who
move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America. He
develops strong feelings for Ántonia, their eldest daughter -
something between a crush and a filial bond. The book then
follows their relationship as well as those of several other local
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Moderately difficult
930L
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Historical
drama
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Cather,
Willa. O Pioneers!
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Mr. Greenlee
When
John Bergson is dying, he leaves control not to his sons or his wife, but
to his daughter, Alexandra Bergson, who he sees has the most sense.
She has many new ideas about improving their place, but she'll have to go
against the grain of her brothers and neighbors.
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168
pgs, 840L
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Historical
drama
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Choi,
Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes.
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4
Easy
213
pgs, 920L
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Adventure, scifi
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Christopher, John. Tripods 1:
White
Mountains.
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Jane, eighth grade
When
three boys take action against their government, it’s hard to pursue
their goals, especially when robots are out to kill them!
In this futuristic book, Tripods (robots) rule the earth and you
are not supposed to go against them, in fact, it’s almost impossible.
At the age of thirteen, you get capped; the cap makes you do
everything that the robots tell you to do.
The boys run away before they can be capped, and escape to the
white mountains, because if you get there, it’s the only place the
tripods can’t reach you.
They go on many adventures while going to the white mountains, and
even pass through old cities that we live in today.
So buckle down for an adventure that will take you all the way to
the White mountains!
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Jeff,
eighth
grade
The White Mountains is a book that would keep any fan of suspense
flipping pages. Will is a
twelve year old boy of the future. The
World has been enslaved by tripods, tall three legged machines that have
total control. Along with
Henry and Beanpole, Will goes on a journey to the white mountains, a land
of freedom. This was a
well-written book, and I highly recommend it.
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Mr.
Greenlee
This is a
good, fast-paced adventure that is worth the time to read, but don't
expect too much thought - it lacks any attempt at a theme or original
ideas.
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Easy
110
pgs, 870L
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Cisneros, Sandra.
House
on Mango Street. In
school library
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Mr.
Greenlee
Growing up in "The Hood" seems quite
different when viewed from the inside. This is a very easy book with
incredibly short chapters - a page and a half in many cases. Many of the chapters are about different
people the main character observes around her. however, many
common expectations in a novel - such as a conflict - lay obscured,
leaving the book with the flavor of a volume of poetry. The House
on Mango Street lies somewhere between The Nick Adams Stories and Spoon
River Anthology.
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Somewhat
Difficult
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Adventure,
military
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Clancy, Tom. Hunt
for Red October.
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Medium
Difficulty
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Thriller |
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Clancy, Tom. Op-Center.
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Darcy, ninth grade
Op-Center
is not one of Tom Clancy’s best. It’s actually not even written by
him. The plot is good but the way the story plays out is quite boring. A
terrorist group bombs South Korea’s anniversary of it’s first
president and Op-Center is searching for who is responsible. With only
two or three good action scenes, there is not as much as I thought there
would be. The only reason this book gets three stars is because the plot
keeps the story interesting. I would recommend this book to someone who
likes the thriller genre.
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8
Somewhat
Difficult
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Adventure,
military
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Clancy, Tom. Patriot
Games.
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8
Somewhat
Difficult
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Adventure,
military
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Clancy, Tom. Red
Rabbit.
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Ben M., senior
Red Rabbit is a book about doing what is right to one man, but
making him a traitor against his country. The book is very good and is
hard to put down at times. The pace is slow in the beginning but
continually picks up pace.
It
is at a harder reading level because of the introduction of characters
through the story and the changing characters in the middle of another
character’ thoughts. All together it is a very good story and I would
recommend this to anyone with an eleventh grade reading level or higher.
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Clark,
Walter van Tillberg. The
Ox-Bow Incident.
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5
Easy
180
pgs, 550L
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Cole, Brock. The
Goats.
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Michael, ninth grade
The Goats is an
adventurous book about two teenagers that runaway because they are
embarrassed by a sick joke some kids played on them at camp. It is a good
easy read for about a 8th or 9th grade student. You never know what is going to happen next. It was a good book
that kept me guessing the whole story. I liked the book and definitely
would recommend it to someone who enjoys adventure and teenage
relationships.
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5
easy
181
pgs, 780L
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Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier. The
Bloody Country.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Tyler M., ninth grade
The Bloody Country was an excellent book. It is
about the Bucks who have a slave that’s Indian but claims he is black.
The Bucks live in Pennsylvania and made a mill for their business. One day the
government chops down the trees next to the bank and Ben the father tells
them not to. Then the terrible flood happens and it wipes away the Bucks
whole house and their mill. Then Joe Mountain the slave runs away and
never comes back. Now everything is going wrong for them the government
drove off their father into the woods and they have to make a decision to
go back to their uncles or stay there and fight the government.
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Easy
211
pgs, 770L
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Newberry
Honor Book |
Historical,
Revolutionary
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Collier,
James, Christopher Collier My Brother Sam is Dead.
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Tyler,
10th grade
The Coiller brothers
have written some good books and My Brother Sam Is Dead is one of
the good ones. A boy named Sam
ends up joining the war against the British.
His dad does not accept his will to fight so Sam runs off with his
dad’s gun and joins the army. Sam
has been in the army for two years and has decided to come home because
his general doesn’t know that area well and since Sam lives there he
goes and shows him around. One
day (when they are there) Sam goes to the tavern that his family owns and
is there talking to his little brother, when they hear something.
So Sam runs outside to see that the cattle have been stolen, so Sam
runs after them. When his
little brother gets to the road he sees that two other people have taken
Sam hostage and are taking him in for a cattle thief.
Sam is innocent and his family tries to convince that to the
general but does he listen or does Sam get the punishment for something he
hasn’t done?
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Fuller,
10th grade
This was one of the best books
I’ve read in a long time, the way this book was written it practically
puts you in the action. I gave
it 4 out of 5 stars because this seemed almost like a chapter of a
biography rather than just a story. This
is a story about a boy and how his brother goes and fights for
“freedom” and then ends up being guilty for steeling cattle and then
getting a death sentence. However,
he wasn’t the one steeling the cattle, it was two other soldiers that
stole them and then made a story, which made him, guilty.
This story was a very good read, there are several times in the
book that you have to just keep on reading, and its almost impossible to
put the book down. I recommend
this book to just about anybody who wants a good exciting read.
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10th grade
he
Coiller brothers have written some good books and My Brother Sam Is Dead
is one of the good ones. A boy named Sam ends up joining the war
against the British. His dad does not accept his will to fight so
Sam runs off with his dad’s gun and joins the army. Sam has been
in the army for two years and has
decided
to come home because his general doesn’t know that area well and since
Sam lives there he goes and shows him around. One day (when they
are there) Sam goes to the tavern that his family owns and is there
talking to his little brother, when they hear something. So Sam runs
outside to see that the cattle have been stolen, so Sam runs after them.
When his little brother gets to the road he sees that two other people
have taken Sam hostage and are taking him in for a cattle thief. Sam
is innocent and his family tries to convince that to the general but does
he listen or does Sam get the punishment for something he hasn’t done?
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Darcy,
ninth grade
Tim Meeker is a young
boy working in his father’s tavern during the Revolutionary War. His
brother Sam, while away at Yale, enlists in the rebel army and then returns home to steal his
father’s gun. One problem: his father is a Loyalist to the King of
England and lives in Redding, a well-known Tory town. This book goes on to
tell the troubles the family goes through and the lives lost as a result
of the war. It explains how Tim is troubled on what side is fighting for
the right reasons. I would recommend this book to someone who likes war
books or anything that deals with America’s history.
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Sam, junior
This book is a great book. It has to
do with not only the revolutionary war, but family issues too. The
father in the book doesn't want his son, Sam, to join the army so they
always fight about it. Tim, the narrator and the second son to the
father, is stuck in the middle and has to decide to agree with his father
or his brother Sam. If you like this book, Sam recommends the
Fallen Angels. This book would be good for 6th through 10th
graders.
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152
pgs, 750L
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Collier,
James, and Christopher Collier. The Winter
Hero.
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Darcy,
10th grade
Justin Conkey looks up to his older brother Peter. He’s a war
hero, everyone respects him, and when he stands up for what is right,
people listen. On the verge of Shay’s Rebellion, Justin is eager to be a
hero. He wants to go fight the government troops with his brother. Once
winter comes, he finds that being a hero and fighting government troops
isn’t all its hyped up to be. I gave this book four stars because it had
plenty of action but also focused on the political side of the rebellion.
I would recommend this to anyone who liked My Brother Sam Is Dead.
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Tyler M., ninth grade
This
book was very good. It was about a kid named Justin who lives with his
sister and her husband out in a farm. One day, the mayor of the town
comes to their farm and takes the oxen away from them because they
have not paid him back for supplies (it was in the starting of the
book). Well they can’t make the farm with out any oxen, so Justin
has to work for him for 2 shillings a day, until they have paid him
back. Since Justin and his uncle are on one side of the Army and the
mayor is on the other, Justin snoops around in his cabinets to find
evidence of the war and what is going on
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National
Book Award Finalist
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Coman,
Carolyn. What Jamie Saw.
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10
For Advanced Readers
1050L |
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Conrad. Heart Of Darkness
outside
link
The book
that inspired Apocalypse Now. The
book, however, is the British in Africa; when they made the movie, they
changed to Americans in Vietnam. You'll find it remarkably similar
nonetheless.
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10
For Advanced Readers
1110L |
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Conrad. Lord Jim.
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560
pgs, 970L |
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Conroy, Pat. The
Lords of Discipline. New
York: Bantam.
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6
Medium
Difficulty |
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Romance
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Cooney, Caroline B. The
Girl Who Invented Romance.
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Danielle, ninth grade
Kelly
Williams does the same as every other girl, she tries to put a little bit
of romance
in her life.
When Kelly gets the bright idea to invent a game of romance, she thinks
that it is one of the greatest things. She ends up playing her own game,
and throughout each time she plays, she redoes the whole game to make it
so that everyone can play it.
Kelly and her friends use this game in their every-day lives to see how
well it really works. Kelly starts to play the game with a boy named Will
who is in her sociology class. When she does this, Kelly realizes some
things that she never had realized before about romance.
This was a book that puts out a very truthful description the way things
work with teenage girls and what they think about romance. It’s a great
book, and I really liked it. I recommend it to anyone who likes books with
the good ending where the girl gets that guy that she
really wants.
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Arial, ninth grade
This
is one of my favorite books of all time. I liked it because the
characters seemed real and I could relate. She described how it
feels to be a teenager very well.
Kelly
is a teenage girl looking for romance. All around her romance seems
to be happening. She decides to invent a board game of romance.
Later Kelly realizes that not all romance
ends in happy ever after. The book comes with the game attached to
the back.
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9
Somewhat Difficult
1350L |
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adventure,
Historical
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Cooper.
Last
of the Mohicans.
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Cooper, Susan. Over Sea, Under Stone.
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7
Moderately difficult
244
pgs, 920L
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Newberry
Honor Book
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Suspense,
fantasy
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Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising.
www.thelostland.com
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Mr. Greenlee
Unexplainable
things are happening to a young man named Will Stanton. The forest
near his farm house in southern England seems filled with supernatural
dangers; the ravens aren't acting right; his neighbors behave strangely;
even the radio is acting up. But when he meets a group of ageless
beings that call themselves "The Old Ones", they tell him that
he is one of them, and that he has a quest to fulfill.
If it were possible to give six stars, this book would have it.
Cooper creates a mood and atmosphere in this novel that make it unforgettable. Read
it in November or December.
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6
Moderately difficult
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Cooper, Susan. Greenwitch.
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6
Moderately difficult
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Newberry
Medal |
Suspense,
fantasy
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Cooper, Susan. The Grey King.
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Mr. Greenlee
Don't expect another Dark is Rising; The Grey King is its own
book. The
early part of this novel just doesn't seem to have that near-horror mystique that The
Dark is Rising instills in the sensitive reader. In The Dark, we
have the weird rooks, the Walker, the Dark Rider, and the night-attack through
the skylight - in The Grey King all we get is a flat tire.
This book takes longer to seep into the reader, for it is not dark; it is
grey. This book Between the Dark and the Light, there are the
ordinary people, and they are always shades of both.
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7
Moderately difficult
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Suspense,
fantasy
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Cooper, Susan. Silver on the Tree.
The
final book in the Dark is Rising sequence.
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7
Moderate
Difficulty
233
pgs, 740L
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Suspense
Thriller
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Cormier, Robert. After
the First Death. New
York: Dell.
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Onaca,
9th
grade
After
the First Death
was a very interesting read. Throughout the entire book there were about
three different storylines going on, though all interconnected, and they all
had an astoundingly different pace and mood. On the bus with the
terrorists it was tense and stuffy, the boy getting swept up into the
operation with his father was quick moving and terrifying, and then there
was the present time storyline. In that, it was a horribly slow, pained
pace that was simply the boy’s thoughts most of the time. All the
plotlines pulled together in the end though, each with a startling
realization of their own, and made the book really leave an impact.
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R Sophomore
After the first death is a thrilling action book about four men who
have trained their whole life to be soldiers in a war.
These men were sent to the United States to be terrorist and to do
little objectives like blow up buildings and kill random people.
One day these four men were sent out to do a bigger task.
This task was to raid a school bus that was filled with harmless
little children and take the bus out onto a bridge and hold them hostage
until the demands they wanted
were
met. The main character Miro a young man who was one of the terrorists was
supposed to kill the bus driver as his right of passage. But complications
come up when he finds out
that the bus driver is a woman.
Every other chapter in
this book switches between a
young boy who’s father is a general and is trying to stop the terrorists,
and the terrorists.
This book is a pretty easy
read and is definitely
one of the best books I’ve ever read if not the best book I’ve Ever read I highly suggest
anyone who is capable of reading this book to read it.
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Shelbie,
9th grade
A
boy whose parents don’t really pay that much attention to him goes to a
rich and preppy boarding school. He is
typing the story on his computer and sometimes that really throws the
reader off. The story
is about two main characters, Kate, a young bus driver, and Miro, a young
but very smart terrorist. Miro and three other terrorists take over a bus
full of young kids. They have sent notice to a general
saying what their demands were, and what they wanted for all the
kids and the woman to come out alive. Miro has never killed someone in his
career, and the bus driver is supposed to be his first, but with some
unexpected problems, what will happen to all the kids, Kate and the four
terrorists?
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MICHI
The
words that I would use for this book are: sadness, excitement, love,
murders, distrust, and no sympathy.
This
book is about a high school girl who filled in for her uncle as
a bus driver for 16 pre-school kids
headed to day camp when four hijackers took over the bus. Miro was the youngest out of the four; he was 16 year old.
To
keep the children quiet and calm the hijackers gave them drug candy. What
I really like about this it is well detailed and well written; it’s like
a movie every chapter it changes between the two major characters. It’s
make the reader want to read more and more every chapter.
What
I dislike it’s really slow when first reading the first chapters, the
writer takes too long to tell what going, the conflict. He is giving out
too much information that’s not really
necessary. It’s a good book and really like it and I would recommend it
to one of my following friends.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Danielle
This book has its good parts and bad parts. The good ones are
when it goes through the scenes at the bus. These parts are more exciting.
They seem to have more going on in them. But the other parts are when they
go through the dad or Ben talking about writing the book.
The book has points where it will just start
talking about different things and it can start to get the reader
extremely confused. They just start talking about random things that fit
into the story somehow but at the same time seem like they don’t.
Once I got most of the way through the book, I started to play out how I
thought that they book would end. But when I reached the end and finished
the book, the ending was so much different from what I imagined
it would be like. I still liked it though. The whole book was very good.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Kate, ninth grade
Four
Hijackers, Artkin, Miro, Antibbe, and Stroll, have taken over a bus with
young children and a seventeen-year-old girl on it. They make demands from
the government. The hijackers threaten that if one of them is killed, a
child should die too.
Cormier
really gets into the minds of Kate, the teenager trapped on the bus, and
Miro, the youngest hijacker. While I was reading, I felt as if I knew the
characters personally. In this novel, there is a lot more suspense in
dramatic, personal or emotional situations than suspense in action
situations.
In
reading this, I learned most American teens are pretty much oblivious to
serious events going on. They are just concerned with minor things. Miro
definitely saw this in Kate.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Mr.
Greenlee
An
amazing account of hijackers
taking a bus
filled with children.
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188
pgs, 820L |
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Cormier, Robert. The
Chocolate War. New
York: Dell.
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Mr.
Greenlee
Somewhere
in chapter six I was finally fed up with this book. I had heard this
book's reputation, but all I found were mean little people in a mean
little world - a very pessimistic outlook on life. I encourage other
people to try it, but I just didn't connect.
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Cormier, Robert. Beyond
the
Chocolate War. New
York: Dell.
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6
Easy
216
pgs, 810L |
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Cormier, Robert. I
Am the Cheese. New
York: Pantheon.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Mr.
Greenlee
I
seldom say anything about the ending, but I enjoyed this book quite
a bit until I read the huge let-down at the end - a really crappy ending.
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9
Somewhat Difficult
204
pgs, 920L
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Crane,
Stephen. The
Red
Badge of Courage.
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7
Medium
Difficulty
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Autobiography
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Crawford, John.
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Caleb
S., tenth grade
This book is an accidental soldier’s account of the war in Iraq. It was on his honeymoon
cruise that John Crawford received a phone call saying that he was going
to go to Iraq.
I recommend this book I you like war books, but he mainly tells other
stories that don’t have to do with the war. Like one time him and
his friend were supposed to be on guard duty, protecting a gas station.
Then his friend saw a old, rusted up, piece of scrap for a motor cycle.
The motor cycle had a side car and they could fit both guys in it, if they
could get it started. They tried and tried to get it started and
right when they were going to give up it started. They hoped on and
went for a ride threw the town. It did not turn very well so they
could not turn around so they kept going. Then they were in the
worst part of town and it broke down. They ran all the way back and
almost got into trouble but when they told there C.O. what happened he
just laughed at them.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Fuller C., ninth grade
John
Crawford is a newlywed from Florida who signed up for the National Guard and was called to duty in
Iraq with one semester left in college. He was expecting a short one-three
month tour in Iraq but instead he ended up staying for many more. Read along as John Crawford
takes you back through his war memories in Iraq . Listen to the excitement of battle and tremendous difficulties soldiers
must face to survive. I gave this book a five stars because I enjoyed
reading it and it wasn’t just one-sided on the war it showed both sides
for and against the war. If you don’t mind rough language and a little
blood and guts, then I don’t suggest this book to you, but if you do
this is a book for you.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Darcy,
ninth grade
John Crawford, newly married and with a semester
left in college, was called to active duty in Iraq
along with the rest of his Florida National Guard unit. He was expecting a
three month tour, but he soon finds out he will be there a lot longer than
his unit expected. This is an autobiography as seen through the eyes of
John Crawford, an infantryman that is passed around divisions along with
his buddies in the unit. He documents the true stories of war, not
glorified or heroic, but only the truth. He tells how bad this war turned
out; equipment failure, Vietnam body armor, humvees with no doors or
armor, and the ever changing excuses for going to war. I recommend this
book to someone who likes action or war stories. If you can’t handle
gore and lots of swearing, find another book to read.
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5
Very Easy
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Newberry
Honor Book |
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Creech, Sharon. The
Wanderer.
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5
Easy
280
pgs, 770L |
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Newberry
Medal
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Creech, Sharon. Walk
Two Moons. New York:
HarperCollins Children's Books.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Ashley,
eighth Grade
Walk Two Moons
is about 13 years old named Sal. She goes on a trip with her grandparents
to Lewiston, Idaho to see her mom. On their way, they had to go to the
hospital two times for her Grams, one for a snake bite and the other for a
stroke. Sal was very worried that they weren’t going to make it there in
time.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Emily, senior
Sal,
a thirteen year old girl from Bybanks, Kentucky, is on a long journey to
find her mother. Accompanying
her on this adventure is her grandparents.
While they are driving to Lewiston, Idaho,
Sal enlightens her Grandma with a long story about her best friend Phoebe.
Sal’s reason for going on this long quest is to find her mother.
She is worried though, she doesn’t know if she will make it there
in time…
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Michi,
ninth grade
Walk Two Moons is an
interesting book and I really enjoy it.
Sal who was thirteen year old, missed her mom, and wanted to
reunite with her, but her mom left her when she was little.
What I really like about this book, the writer writes to keep the
reader thinking. For example,
why did Sal’s mom leave her? Is
it because of the relationship with Sal’s father?
Why would a mom leave her child? After
a few months,
her father moves, from Bybanks to Ohio to get space.
Sal met a girl named Phoebe who became her best friend.
Phoebe went home and suddenly her mom also disappears.
Sal and phoebe investigate to find where Phoebe’s mom was.
By doing that, Sal remembers memories, the fun things her mom and
her have and how hurt she was when she left her.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Kate, ninth grade
Walk
Two Moons is about a 13 year old girl names Sal (short for Salamanca)
who
takes a trip with her grandparents shortly after her mother tragically
left her and her father. During the car ride, Sal tells her grandparents a
long story about how she met a peculiar girl named Phoebe and how Phoebe’s
mother left unexpectedly too. The book is two different stories, but they
tie together in the end. It’s a novel that will give people different
emotions. I really liked it and I definitely recommend this book.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Mr. Greenlee
This is simply one of the bet books I've ever read. A girl whose
mother has left helps another girl deal with the same problem, even though
the other girl gets a bit psycho. It's one of those books that has
tragedy but is funny too.
I wondered if some readers might find it confusing the way the author
switches between three different settings - memories of her mother when
they lived on the farm; the story of Phoebe when they lived in the city;
and the drive with her grandparents to Idaho.
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Crichton, Michael. Eaters
of the Dead.
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5
Easy
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Teenage
Drama |
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Cummings, Pricilla.
What Mr. Mattero Did.
ÙÙÙÙÙ
Christina, senior
This book was about three teenage girls who are all friends. They
go to the principal office claiming their band teacher they think has
done something terribly wrong. It turns out to be very bad and the
consequences are way worst then the girls have ever imagined. Are they
telling the truth or did they make it all up. Read to it find out.
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4
Very Easy
243
pgs, 950L |
Newberry
Medal |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud,
Not Buddy.
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4
Very Easy
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Newberry
Honor Book |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul. The
Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963.
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5
Very Easy
205
pgs, 1170L |
Newberry
Honor Book |
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Cushman, Karen. Catherine,
Called Birdy. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin
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5
Very Easy
1240L |
Newberry
Medal |
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Cushman, Karen.
Midwife's
Apprentice.
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