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 Amazon.com Review: Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, 11-year-old Parvana has rarely been outdoors. Barred from attending school, shopping at the market, or even playing in the streets of Kabul, the heroine of Deborah Ellis's engrossing children's [... more]
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The Composition
This composition sings: At first glance, "The Composition" is a book that simply describes military dictatorships in a way that children will understand. On a closer look, however, Antonio Skarmeta's brilliant 2000 creation does more than that. [... more]
$5.95
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Home of the Braves
Soccer: "Legend has it that Lawndale High is HAUNTED!" Joe Brickman, aka Brickhead, is the captain of the Lawndale soccer team. One day this guy just shows up at the school. His name is Antonio Silva, although everyone calls him "the [... more]
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Touching Spirit Bear
Amazon.com Review: Cole Matthews is angry. Angry, defiant, smug--in short, a bully. His anger has taken him too far this time, though. After beating up a ninth-grade classmate to the point of brain damage, Cole is facing a prison sentence. But then a [... more]
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The Coffin Quilt: The Feud between the Hatfields and the ...
Amazon.com Review: Feuds among the mountain folks of West Virginia and Kentucky, particularly the bloody skirmishes between the Hatfield and McCoy families, are often celebrated in American legend and folksongs. In The Coffin Quilt, Ann Rinaldi mines [... more]
$6.95
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A Stone in My Hand
If you like to read moving stories, read this book.: Eleven year-old Malaak Abed Atieh lives with her mother, her older sister Hend and her older brother Hamid in Gaza City. It's been a month since their father left to look for work as a mechanic in [... more]
$6.99
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After
best book ever: The end is near.... Soon all schools will gradually get rid of all of their students and close the doors forever. I'm James Griffin and I read the book After By: Francine Prose. There is a shooting at a school near Brian, Avery, Silas, [... more]
$8.99
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Durango Street
Hooked a non-reader: One day last school year, I placed a copy of this book into one of my reluctant reader's hands. He usually read books I suggested for all of 10 minutes before abandoning them. He so thoroughly enjoyed this book that he handed me $6 [... more]
$5.99
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Counterfeit Son
Good book for reluctant readers: As a middle school teacher, I selected this book for my more *reluctant* male readers. The characters and their struggles seem real, and teenage boys could identify with Cameron. The author also treats Cameron's abuse in [... more]
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Shattering Glass
Amazon.com Review: Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a textbook geek, and all three of Rob's posse hates him, each for his own reasons. But Rob is driven by the need to prove his power, and so he decrees that they will take on the seemingly impossible task of [... more]
$7.99
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Truth (Orca Soundings)
Truth Review: The Novel "Truth" is about a girl named Jen who had been at a party when a man was murderd. Jen and many other people who had been at the party at the time of the murder were questioned by the police, but everyone said they didnt [... more]
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Hit Squad (Orca Soundings)
This book is misleading, but good: I read the book Hit Squad by James Heneghan for a school project. It is an adventure book. It is also fiction. This book is very misleading. It has many surprises. I enjoyed this book because this book has mysteries to [... more]
$9.95
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