The Great Brain
 Two stars in the story--Tom D. and John D.: Many books have complex plots or narration and attempt to pull together many characters or ideas, or they take place in some annoyingly exotic location. John D. Fitzgerald's books feel natural being in the town [... more]
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The Janitor's Boy
From Amazon.com: Fifth-grader Jack Rankin's father is the janitor of the junior-high school. That wouldn't be so bad if nobody knew about it. But on October 5, disaster strikes when Lenny Trumbull throws up his cafeteria ravioli: Jack's dad appears on [... more]
CDN$28.00
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
From Amazon.com: The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny's existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a "conk" to lighting fires to freezing his [... more]
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Beezus and Ramona
From Amazon.com: Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people have little sisters that bother them sometimes, but is there anyone in the world like Ramona? Whether she's taking one bite out of every [... more]
CDN$28.00
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Out of the Dust
From Amazon.com: Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of [... more]
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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles Book Four: Talking to ...
Wanting more!!!: I loved the series. I've read in through several times and everytime I've enjoyed it. My only dissapointment is that I want more. I don't want it to be over, I want to see what happens to Shiara when she's training to be a fire-witch, [... more]
CDN$40.00
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Nory Ryan's Song
From Amazon.com: Life is hard for poor Irish potato farmers, but 12-year-old Nory Ryan and her family have always scraped by... until one morning, Nory wakes to the foul, rotting smell of diseased potatoes dying in the fields. And just like that, all [... more]
CDN$33.00
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Ramona the Pest
From Amazon.com: The engaging tale of young Ramona Quimby's first days in kindergarten, Ramona the Pest takes a pint-sized perspective on the trials and delights of beginning school. Ramona can't wait to learn all the important things. But she's [... more]
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Fever 1793
From Amazon.com: On the heels of her acclaimed contemporary teen novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson surprises her fans with a riveting and well-researched historical fiction. Fever 1793 is based on an actual epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia that [... more]
CDN$33.00
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Holes
From Amazon.com: "If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are [... more]
CDN$43.00
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The Hobbit
Totally makes fun of Tolkien: I got this out hoping it would be like The Lord of the Rings dramas by BBC. Boy was I wrong! The music was horrendous. Gandalf didn't sound old or wise like he should. He sounds like most of the dwarves!! (and they don't [... more]
CDN$59.95
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A Wrinkle in Time
From Amazon.com: Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors, Meg [... more]
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