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Teenage farm-boy Eragon lived a normal life in his homeland Carvahall until one day that changed it all. Eragon was out hunting for food since his family did not have a lot of money. In the valley, it was a normal sunny day, until eragon found an unusual blue stone. Later he would find out that the giant blue stone
Read moreHave you ever considered why anyone would want to rob a person’s body from a cemetery? The title of this book, Lincoln’s Grave Robbers, captured my attention. The cover design and the description on the back of the book were misleading. I expected a fictional suspenseful mystery and realized it was actually a historical nonfiction book as I read it.
Read moreA sweet treat or a poisonous disaster? The third installment to the enthralling Secret Series is as spectacular as the rest. This Book Is Not Good For You by Pseudonymous Bosch is a hilarious and captivating read. For the past two adventures, Cassandra and Max-Ernest have been protecting mysterious artifacts from the terrible Midnight Sun. This exclusive society searches for
Read moreMaddie McIlroy March 5, 2015 The Naturals “I turned the business card over in my hands. On the back, there was a handwritten note. Cassandra, it said, PLEASE CALL. That was it. My name, and the directive to call, in capital letters. No explanation. No Nothing. Below those words, someone else has scribbled a second set of instructions in small,
Read moreImagine running and hiding with your family from a huge mob that can find you almost anywhere. Your father is an ex-criminal and your uncle is a crime lord. You switch towns when the mob finds you but the moment you are a center of attention you move again. this is what Nick Pearson’s life is. Nick Pearson is
Read moreIt is funny, sad at times and just downright weird at some parts, but it’s good in the eyes of the readers who can picture the story as though they lived it. the perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, is an amazing and somewhat-relatable book for teens. It is should be read by older ages because of its
Read moreHave you ever thought about going to places far far away? A young girl named Ginger Boultinghouse and a boy named Jeremy Johnson Johnson did, and they found out that one of the places called far far away was in their little town of Never Better. Tom McNeal’s fairy tale Far Far Away becomes one of an unknown fate in
Read moreHave you never been able to talk, walk, or eat on your own? Melody Brooks always feels like that. In Sharon Draper’s “Out of My Mind,” Melody Brooks, a young fifth grade girl with Cerebral Palsy, overcomes countless obstacles and outstrips her classmates in the Whiz Kids quiz competition. All her life, Melody Brooks has been stared at, called names,
Read more“ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES,” says the headline of the advertisement in the newspaper. This intriguing line draws the reader in by wanting to find out what it was all about. Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Mysterious Benedict Society is the story of four kids who were recruited by Mr. Benedict to work undercover as secret agents
Read moreHis name is Nobody, Nobody Owens, the boy from the graveyard on the hill. In The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, the graveyard child Nobody Owens’ parents and sister were killed by the elusive “The Man Jack”. Nobody, Bod for short, had lived in the tomb of Mrs. and Mr. Owens, Nobody’s adopted ghost parents. As Bod grows older, he
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