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Quindlen,
Anna.
Black and Blue.
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Rand,
Ayn.
Anthem.
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Rand,
Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged.
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4
Very Easy
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Pulitzer
Prize Winner
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The
Yearling.
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5
Very Easy
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Rawls, Wilson. Where
the Red Fern Grows. New
York: Doubleday.
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Dillon,
9th grade
In this book the main character
10 year old Billy who lives in the ozark mountains during the great depression and wants a pair of coon
hunting dogs. His parents tell him they cant afford them so he saves his
money for two years, and buys two pups out of
an article he finds by the river. He names them old dan and little
ann. He goes through many experiences with the dogs while hunting and
takes them on a big coon hunting trip and he looses both of his dogs when
a mountain lion attacks them.
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Robert
Chmb.
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Fuller
C.
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Ben
M., Junior
Where
The Red Fern Grows is a great book. If you like to read and
adventure story about a boy and how he works to get his hunting dogs.
Then he works hard to train and hunt with them. This story is meant
for readers of all ages. I would recommend this book for any one
that is over the age of eleven or twelve. The author Wilson Rawls does a
great job of getting the reader involved in the story. I could not
put the book down because in every chapter something was happening and you
just wanted to find out what it was. I would recommend this to
almost any one.
Recommended
by Ben for people that like to read about people trying to get what
they like and believe in.
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Rawles, John Wesley Patriots: A novel of survival in the
coming collapse.
«««««Joe
R., 10th grade
Patriots
was a
very action-packed and entertaining novel. Apart from some use of some
difficult acronyms and military orientated vocabulary, the book is based
on a very good story.
It conveys the tale of a massive socio-economical collapse in the United States and
how a small group of friends have to fight off looters, bandits, and the
tyrannical new American Government.
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Read, Piers Paul. Alive.
New York: Avon Books.
A plane crashes high in the mountains leaving the passengers in a desperate
situation. Available in Mr. Greenlee's room.
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5
Moderate
Difficulty
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Female
Relationships
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Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs, and Full
Frontal Snogging.
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Danielle, Ninth Grade
Georgia
Nicholson and her friends go through a lot of the problems that most girls
their age do. It’s somewhat like a diary. Georgia and her friends go
through some hard times with boys, friends, and teachers. Jas ends up
having problems with one boy – Georgia gets caught in it and
then things start to go wrong for her. Then Georgia meets Robbie a.k.a.
“Sex God”. She really likes him, the problem is that he’s four years
older than she is and has a girlfriend (that Georgia hates). Her mom
decides that they are going to go to New Zeeland to visit her dad for the
summer because he works there. She tries to come up with some idea to stay
and spend the summer with Robbie.
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8
Moderately difficult
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Reynolds.
Rapture of Canaan.
Roxanne.
Ninah Huff, a 14-year-old girl, lives an unusual
life for someone her age. She and her entire extended family make up
the community of The Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty
Baptizing Wind. Ninah's Grandpa Herman is head of the community and
makes the rules that everyone must obey. Temptation gets to the
better of Ninah when it comes to her distant cousin, James. When the
close-nit family discovers Ninah is pregnant, the church begins to fall
apart. Will Ninah's faith overpower Grandpa Herman's wrath as well
as The Lord himself? This novel is recommended by Roxanne for females 14
and up. If you enjoy this book read Bitterroot Landing by the same author.
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117
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Richter,
Conrad.
A Light in the Forest.
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Tyler,
10th grade
John
Butler was a four year old white kid playing in the corn field, when all
of a sudden he became part of an Indian village.
Eleven years later the army demands that
the Indians give back all of their White slaves back to the army.
John is then sent back home to his real parents who he does not
know. While
there he hates it and wants to return to his real family the Indians.
Two weeks later his cousin from the native tribe comes to his house
and they escape back to the Indian village, on the way back it is tricky
because of all the White men around that area who are trappers.
When John and his cousin get to the village the Indian warriors are
setting off to destroy the White people.
John is sent to go with them because his father was the chief.
On the trip they see people coming up the river on a boat so they
send John out in the bank to get the Whites to come near so the Indians
can ambush them.
While John is there he notices that it is his White family, and
yells at them to “Return it’s an ambush” so the Indians hop out and
start to fire, but they are out of range.
The Indians are mad at John and they’re about to do something
that will change John’s life.
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Moderately difficult
560 pgs
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Robbins, David. Last
Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk.
ÙÙÙÙÙ Andrew, 11th
grade
The
Last Citadel is a riveting tale of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest
single military action of
human history. Told from the vantage points of two Russian tankers, a
female Russian bomber pilot, and two SS tank officers. It is a very good
book in spite of its page count. I recommend it to any person interested
in fictitious military history.
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8
Moderately difficult
414
pgs
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Robinson, Kim Stanley. Antarctica.
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Roberts.
Northwest Passage.
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8
Moderately difficult
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Adventure
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Robinson,
Kim Stanley. Antarctica.
Attacks against scientists and
workers in Antarctica mystify the crew of the
station.
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9
Somewhat Difficult
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Röllevag,
Oleg.
Giants
in the Earth.
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Mr.
Greenlee
In style and setting, this novel is like the
Little House Books, but in content this book is darker and more adult.
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Roth, Arthur. The
Iceberg Hermit. New
York: Scholastic.
http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/centres/Allan%20Gordon.pdf
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Paul, 9th grade
The Iceberg Hermit is about a 16-year-old kid who is out on a whaling ship back in
the late 1700s. He is on his
way back home when his ship hits an iceberg; he is thrown on to the
iceberg and is the only survivor. He
has no food, no water, and no shelter, now he has to try to survive. Some parts of the book could not really happen, he gets
lucky every time he gets in trouble if it would happen in real life that
person would be dead or severely injured. I would only suggest the book to
people who like adventures.
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Fuller, tenth grade
The
Iceberg Hermit a fairly quick and easy read.
I gave it three out of five stars because I thought that some of
the scenes in the story were unrealistic.
This novel is about a seventeen year old boy who is working on a
whaling vessel
and heads up north into the Arctic
While up there, his vessel strikes an iceberg and ejects him onto a
nearby piece of ice. All other
crew members were lost at sea and he must now fight to survive.
I found many of the events in this story to happen by coincidence
and to his benefit no less but overall it was a fairly exciting read and I
suggest it to anyone looking for a good read.
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Easy
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Rowling, J.
K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
(volume
1)
ÙÙÙÙÙ Morgan, 8th Grade
Fans
of this movie will love the book. The movie and the book are almost the
same. Some parts in the book are cut out of the book. If you haven’t
seen the movie or read the book, it is about a boy named Harry who is
living with his Aunt and Uncle. What he doesn’t know is that he is a
Wizard, a very famous wizard. Voltimore killed Harry’s parents. Harry is
famous because he was the only one that survived his evil powers, and he
was only a baby. Because he is a Wizard, he has to go to a wizard school,
Hogwarts. On his way to becoming a great Wizard at Hogwarts, he has to
face many challenges and solve one big mystery that lies beneath the
school. With his two best friends by his side, they will try and make it
through the school year alive.
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5
Easy
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fantasy
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Rowling, J.
K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
(volume
2)
ÙÙÙÙÙ Morgan,
8th grade
Fans
of this movie will love the book. The movie and the book are almost the
same. Some parts in the book are cut out of the book. If you haven’t
seen the movie or read the book, it is about a boy named Harry who is
living with his Aunt and Uncle. What he doesn’t know is that he is a
Wizard, a very famous wizard. Voltimore killed Harry’s parents. Harry is
famous because he was the only one that survived his evil powers, and he
was only a baby. Because he is a Wizard, he has to go to a wizard school,
Hogwarts. On his way to becoming a great Wizard at Hogwarts, he has to
face many challenges and solve one big mystery that lies beneath the
school. With his two best friends by his side, they will try and make it
through the school year alive.
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5
Easy
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Fantasy
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Rowling, J.
K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (volume
3)
ÙÙÙÙÙ Morgan,
8th grade
This book is the third book of the seven books of this series. A
famous Wizard named Harry Potter who is in his third year of Hogwarts, and
is starting his new year in hiding. He is hiding from the one person that
wants to kill Harry and that would be Serious Black. A murderer with dark
spells unlike any other Witch or Wizard. Black
is the only one in history that has ever escaped from Azkaban, a jail that
only the worst Wizards or Witches go. Harry soon finds out that not all
things appear to be what they actually are, and that’s not all the
trouble Harry has to face, he has many challenges he has to face through
out this book. This book I think was better than the rest because it has
much more action and adventure through it.
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Fairly
Easy
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Rowling, J.
K. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire.
(volume
4)
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Jane L. F., Eighth Grade
What
do you do when someone is after you, but you can’t run because you
don’t know who it is?
Harry Potter deals with this in his fourth year at Hogwarts, school
of witch and wizardry.
He was entered into a contest that wizards had died trying to win.
On top of this, almost the entire school has turned against him.
The only people Harry thought he could turn to were his best
friends, but even some of them don’t trust him.
J.K Rowling tells the story in a way we can all relate to, even
though the main character is a wizard.
She makes Harrie’s problems and friends seem so real, that I
start seeing what the characters will do before they do it!
So next time you feel like going to an enchanted world, buckle down
with this Harry Potter, but be warned, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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5
Easy
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Fantasy
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Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
(volume
5)
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Jane F., Eighth Grade
Harry potter has landed himself in another year of
mischief. He is now dealing
with more problems than even before.
The Dark Lord has risen from his nearly dead state, and wants
Harry dead. The people Harry
Potter looked for in times of trouble are leaving and running away.
To top it off, Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry just
got a new teacher who is changing the way his school used to run,
and driving
everyone mad. The
newspaper is calling him a liar, or mad, and the students at the school
believe it. He is being
abandoned once again, but his relationships with some others are getting
closer. Is there anything
our little Harry isn’t doing? To find out read the book, before the
Dark Lord converts Harry Potter to evil!
ÙÙÙÙÙ Eric C., Senior
If
you’re looking for action, intrigue, mystery, and a bit of fun then
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a great book for you.
In the Order of the Phoenix Rowling shows bits of greatness of
that to rival the greatest fantasy authors such as Tolkien and C.S.
Lewis.
It’s plainly easy to see why readers world wide have fallen in
love with her characters.
Its also very safe to say that after this fifth installment we
will see a lot more of Mrs. Rowling and her beloved character Harry
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Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
(volume
6)
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Rowling, J.K. Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows. (volume
7)
ÙÙÙÙÙ Morgan,
9th grade
This is the last book of the series. Harry has to battle Voldemort
one last time and the entire wizarding world is in Harry’s hands. He has
to destroy Voldemort before he overturns the wizarding world. He must
outsmart the most powerful wizard in the world with his 2 best friends and
encounter many obstacles along the way. He must not let all the
deaths in this book get to him or else he will fail.
This book to me was probably the best one because all the other
books are steps leading up to this one and it just wraps all the events
together. I think the author made this book sad in some ways for me
because of certain deaths that happened in the book. I would recommend
this book to anyone who has already read the other 6 books,
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Rowson, Suzanna.
Charlotte Temple.
At
the time of the Revolutionary War, Charlotte Temple runs away with a
British Officer and begins a life of trouble. This is one of
America's first big hits, and remained our best seller until Uncle
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Moderately difficult
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An
Oprah
Book
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Rubio,
Gwyn Hyman.
Icy Sparks
Recommended
by Lake.
This unique coming of age tale is about Icy
Sparks, a young girl growing up in rural Kentucky. Orphaned as an infant,
Icy lives with her grandparents on Icy Creek Farm. The book follows Icy as
she changes from a child to a woman and as she develops Tourette's
syndrome. This book is
recommended by Lake for teenagers, especially those interested in
psychology.
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family
relationships
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Ryan, Pam Muñonz.
Esperanza Rising.
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4
very
easy
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Newberry
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family
relationships and death
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Rylant, Cynthia.
Missing May.
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Shelbie M., eighth grade
When you read this book, it will capture you and draw you in.
Missing May is about a girl whose parents died when she was
young. Her family keeps
passing her around because no one really wants her. Then May and Ob went
on a trip to see the family and they end up meeting her.
At the end of the trip they end up taking her home. She ended up
living with them, but they were older so when, she was about 12 May
passed away. This story
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