Remembering Raquel
 short, moving piece about community: "How would you be remembered?" That's the tagline on the back of "Remembering Raquel" by Vivian Vande Velde. In this short, quick novella, Velde paints a picture of 14-year-old Raquel Falcone, who [... more]
$16.00
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There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around
mickeys review: Theodore Beatson but everyone calls him ted have lived in a 150 year old house hiis ansesters built it and now ted and his famely lives there now its a huge house. All teds friends think that it isa haunted but ted doesn't think so cause [... more]
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Never Trust a Dead Man
Fun read: Young adult book about seventeen year old, Selwyn Roweson. The story begins with Selwyn being accused and convicted as a murderer. It's kind of hard to protest when they've gagged your mouth and you have no say in the matter. Because there is [... more]
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All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
Frightening, Disturbing...a Winner for Teens: VandeVelde can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. This collection will have teen (and older--I've got a good 35 years on the intended audience) horror enthusiasts turning pages all night. While gore [... more]
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Smart Dog
One Intelligent Canine by Jamie Poston, NV: Vivian Vande Velde wrote about one intelligent canine in the book "Smart Dog", created a unique story, and promptly published it with Dell Yearling, in New York, in 1998. In fact, this animal fantasy [... more]
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Now You See It . . . (Magic Carpet Books)
Younger target audience: What would you think if the sunglasses you found on your lawn not only matched your prescription perfectly, but were also enchanted--allowing you to glimpse magic at work? This is the imaginative premise of Now You See It... [... more]
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Three Good Deeds
Great Book, Terrible Ending: As an elementary school librarian I read a lot of books for kids and to kids. This book hooked me right away with it's entertaining story about a boy being held responsible for his bad behavior. The book is funny and would [... more]
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Being Dead
Not that creepy: While this book was interesting, it wasn't actually as scary or as 'creepy' as it has been made out to be. If you're looking for a scary book, look elsewhere. ~Atalanta Interesting Plot Twists; Dark but Funny: My favorite story in here [... more]
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Witch's Wishes
Watch what you wish for, you might get it.: A witch on Halloween night gives a girl her wishes just for the night, then regrets it. She reverses her wishes, but that doesn't work either. Finally, she has to take each wish as it comes to get it to come [... more]
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Curses, Inc. and Other Stories
curses inc: Overall it was a good books there were a lot of stories that i loved a couple that i liked adn 2 that were not the best but if youre a vande velde fan its a good book. Hit and miss: A firm fan of VVV this collection of short stories does [... more]
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Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird ...
Fun fractured fairy tales: Vivian Vande Velde neatly skewers some traditional fairy tales in this collection of stories; most are moderately good-- entertaining, but not terribly deep. This anthology would have joined the ranks of the mediocre if not for [... more]
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User Unfriendly
One of VVV's different tales...: This story has to be given a lot of credit for the origanal take on the story line of "Kids go into a computer game and hell breaks loose!" The plot is full of brilliant twists and turns, and the characters, are [... more]
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