January 24-28 is No Name Calling Week . Bullying. Name Calling. Harassment. Small words. Chilling results. The bully of today isn’t the kid in the playground who pushes you over, or grabs you for your lunch money, makes fun of you. It’s not Biff Tannen from Back To The Future […]
Summary *From School Library Journal Review on Amazon.com Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. […]
by Harper Lee Summary When a local African American man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, Maycomb turns into a nasty little town. It is nasty for Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Calpurnia. Atticus, a white lawyer, is assigned to defend Mr. Robinson. And then, people […]
Summary Bella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella’s life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his […]
Vietnam 1973. What Y’Tin wants in life is to be an elephant handler. But not just a handler, the best handler in his village. He loves his elephant, Lady, and his deep devotion and attachment to her is makes him want to spend all his time with her. Though the […]
Summary In Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart’s […]
by Arlene Erlbach Illustrations by Helen Flook As school time is slowly approaching and many students will be going into Middle School, I thought that this would be an appropriate book to review. I got this book while I was in 6th grade because in my school, middle school does not […]
Summary To save his mother, Merlin must master the Seven Songs of Wisdom that was passed down from his grandfather, Tuatha, who was a legendary wizard. Only then can he go down the well to the otherworld and get a healing potion from Dagda, who is god, himself. That is […]
Summary After a tragic accident takes the lives of her family, sixteen year old Ever can see people’s auras, know a life story by touching someone and hear people’s thoughts. Ever goes out of her way to avoid people. Even if she brushes up next to someone she will know things […]
Summary When two children find out that they are adopted and they try to find out more about where they came from, everything goes wrong. People start appearing and disappearing out of nowhere. Can they stop 34 other children and themselves from being taken into the 15th century? If they […]
Summary The boy, Steven, play the drums, he has a crush on the hottest girl at school who probably doesn’t even know he exists and is always in an argument with his younger bother, Jeffery. But when his brother gets leukemia , his whole life changes. And dangerous pie, well […]
