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Going for gold
Is it too early to get excited about the Summer Olympics? I’m not really a sports person, but I do get excited about my two favorite events: the 400 meter Drool-Over-Michael-Phelps relay and women’s...
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Review of Why We Took the Car
Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf; trans. from the German by Tim Mohr Middle School, High School Levine/Scholastic 250 pp. 1/14 978-0-545-48180-9 $17.99 g e-book ed....
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Review of Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank Middle School, High School Schwartz & Wade/Random 261 pp. 8/14 978-0-307-97974-2 $16.99 Library ed. 978-0-307-97975-9 $19.99 g...
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Review of I Was Here
I Was Here by Gayle Forman High School Viking 272 pp. 1/15 978-0-451-47147-5 $18.99 g Meg Garcia is brilliant and passionate — a standout in her dead-end Washington State hometown and a...
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Review of The Walls Around Us
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Review of Flannery
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Review of Ask Me How I Got Here
Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann High School Greenwillow 229 pp. 5/16 978-0-06-238795-0 $17.99 g e-book ed. 978-0-06-238797-4 $9.99 Catholic-school sophomore Addie...
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Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf; trans. from the German by Tim Mohr Middle School, High School Levine/Scholastic 250 pp. 1/14 978-0-545-48180-9 $17.99 g e-book ed....
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Review of Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank Middle School, High School Schwartz & Wade/Random 261 pp. 8/14 978-0-307-97974-2 $16.99 Library ed. 978-0-307-97975-9 $19.99 g...
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Review of I Was Here
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Review of The Walls Around Us
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma High School Algonquin 321 pp. 3/15 978-1-61620-372-6 $17.95 g e-book ed. 978-1-61620-486-0 $17.95 Orianna Speerling — the so-called “Bloody Ballerina”...
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Review of Flannery
Flannery by Lisa Moore High School Groundwood 272 pp. 5/16 978-1-55498-076-5 $16.95 e-book ed. 978-1-55498-873-0 $16.95 Sixteen-year-old Flannery has a lot on her plate: she can’t...
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Review of Ask Me How I Got Here
Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann High School Greenwillow 229 pp. 5/16 978-0-06-238795-0 $17.99 g e-book ed. 978-0-06-238797-4 $9.99 Catholic-school sophomore Addie...
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Review of We Come Apart
We Come Apart by Brian Conaghan and Sarah Crossan High School Bloomsbury 312 pp. g 6/17 978-1-68119-275-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68119-276-5 $12.99 Two troubled UK teens forge an...
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Review of When My Sister Started Kissing
When My Sister Started Kissing by Helen Frost Intermediate, Middle School Ferguson/Farrar 195 pp. 3/17 978-0-374-30303-7 $16.99 g Claire and Abigail have few memories of their mother —...
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Review of The Fashion Committee
The Fashion Committee: A Novel of Art, Crime, and Applied Design by Susan Juby High School Viking 311 pp. 5/17 978-0-451-46878-9 $18.99 From the world of artsy teens in small-town British...
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Review of I Have Lost My Way
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