The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood of ...
 Amazon.com Review: They were just a soft, ordinary pair of thrift-shop jeans until the four girls took turns trying them on--four girls, that is, who are close friends, about to be parted for the summer, with very different sizes and builds, not to [... more]
$15.95
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A Step From Heaven (Asian Pacific American Award for ...
Unusual prose, familiar story: A young adult autobiographical novel of one family's late-20th-century emigration to America, living in poverty. Told in prose so abbreviated as to be annoying, first person, present tense, with odd transliterations. Some [... more]
$16.95
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True Believer
Amazon.com Review: At 15, LaVaughn already knows that life is hard and that getting ahead takes a strong mind and an even stronger will. Surrounded by poverty and violence, she strives every day not to be just another inner-city statistic: "My hope [... more]
$17.00
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The Contender
Amazon.com Review: Alfred's life is going nowhere fast. He's a high-school dropout working at a grocery store. His best friend is drifting behind a haze of drugs and violence, and now some street punks are harassing him for something he didn't do. [... more]
$6.99
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The Pigman
Amazon.com Review: For sophomores John and Lorraine, the world feels meaningless; nothing is important. They certainly can never please their parents, and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on unsuspecting people. It's during one of [... more]
$5.99
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Tangerine
Amazon.com Review: So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. No one ever listens to Paul, though--until [... more]
$5.99
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Whale Talk
Amazon.com Review: T. J. Jones is black, Japanese, and white; his given name is The Tao (honest!), and he's the son of a woman who abandoned him when she got heavily into crack and crank. As a child he was full of rage, but now as a senior in high school [... more]
$6.99
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Hoops
Not Appropriate for Teens: This was on the board approved list for my school and I read it in hopes of teaching it to my class. Sex, drugs, cheating, stealing and alcohol...there is a good message, but it is hidden pretty deeply. I would let students [... more]
$6.50
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Retro Review: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More: As the title suggests, this book is a collection of seven short stories written by one of the all time greats: Roald Dahl. Let us start with the big one, the monster, the "man this one [... more]
$6.99
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The Moves Make the Man (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
The Moves Make The Man: I really enjoyed reading the Moves Make the Man.The book is about two kids Jerome and Bix. Bix likes to play baseball and Jerome likes to play basketball. They become really good friends. Bix's mom is in a mental hospital and Bix [... more]
$6.99
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Beyond the Chocolate War
Sinister playground: Here again is the dark world of Jerry Renault, 'The Goober', Archie Costello, Obie, Carter, the loner Janza, Brother Leon and even Tubs Casper. Cormier once again describes so well how frightening and cruel a school-yard can be. Once [... more]
$6.99
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The Book of the Pearl (Samurai Girl)
Best Yet!!!: Definitely the best samurai girl book yet. I was kinda on the fence about the series but book 2 was better than book 1, and now things are gettin really good. Heaven is so much cooler and I like the tension with Karen. I also like that [... more]
$6.99
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