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Turtle In Paradise
Turtle, an eleven-year-old girl, is sent by her mother to stay with her aunt who lives in Key West. Takes place in 1935, so everyone is poor. Except for the people her mother is a housekeeper for. Good story, no magical ending, though.
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5/2011
Slake's Limbo
Teen boy Aremis Slake runs away from his awful life to live in the New York subway. Pretty good book!
Words I Had To Look Up:
...he turned up such a surprising amount of trash, truck, and treasure... (pg. 62) -- Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish. I remember this word from my elementary school reader, and I've always like it!
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10/2008
Operation YES
Bo's dad is commander of an Air Force Base. His new sixth-grade teacher teaches the class improv. His cousin Gari comes to live with them when her mother is sent to the middle east. Good story. How come whenever there is a kid who dad is in the military, dad is the commander of the base?
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Oh, Winn-Dixie, thought Miss Candy. We're in for it now. (pg. 147)
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12/2009
Holt Anthology Of Science Fiction
Stories by authors such as Simak, Yolen, Le Guin, and even Robert Louis Stevenson.
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9/2012
When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Toby and Cal visit "The Fattest Boy In The World" when he is stuck in their small Texas town.
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3/2011
Claudette Colvin : Twice Toward Justice
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a teen in Montgomery, Alabama, who wouldn't give up her bus seat to a white person.
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3/2012
Courage & Defiance
Non-fiction about the resistance in Denmark during WWII against the German occupation.
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10/2015
Magpie Murders
A book within a book, or outside it, or something. Two books, with various murders, or not murders, intertwined. Very good, I though.
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7/2019
Stormbreaker
First in the Alex Rider series, teen Alex is recruited to save the world, or at least the U.K., from free poison computers. Quite a lot of graphic violence, I thought, for a teen book. Get off my lawn, you kids!
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10/2007
The Falcon's Malteser
A thirteen-year-old lad and his somewhat dim older brother run a rather unsuccessful detective agency. Somewhat bloody for middle school, I thought. But then, thousands are killed in The Lord Of The Rings.
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1/2009
Science fiction, best of the year 2006
Rich Horton edited this collection of sixteen stories. There is a story by Joe Haldeman, but my favorite was The Fate Of Mice by Susan Palwick.
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4/2007
Everthing On A Waffle
Primrose lives in a small fishing village in Canada. Her parents are lost in a storm, but she never gives up believing they are still alive. Several interesting recipes. Cherry Pie Pork chops sounds the best!
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6/2008
The Kite Runner
A series of staggeringly brutal events recounted by a man from Afghanistan. I can't say I would care to see the movie, but I do feel like going kite flying.
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11/2007
Adventures of Blue Avenger
David (Blue Avenger!) grapples with questions of life and love. Really good. The "s" word comes up in a hilarious classroom discussion of vocabulary.
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3/2008Read Again:
1/2016
Blue Avenger and the Theory of Everything
Blue has to decide whether to fund PBS in broadcasting Fawlty Towers to a new generation of viewers, or help his girlfriend pay the rent. He makes the right choice!
Words I Had To Look Up:
Running-head (pg. 84) -- Text that appears in the top margin.
Contumacious (pg. 100) -- Willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
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On several occasions car doors had opened unexpectedly while he was riding past, but this was the first time the door was attached to a Mercedes 500 SLC. I must be coming up in the world, he thought wryly, and it's about time.Read:
3/2008
Blue Avenger Cracks the Code
Blue goes to Venice, so does Oxford, and Omaha went to Rome.
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Blue was about to explain that a kilo was equal to a little orver two pounds, but since no one asked him, he just let it go. (pg. 225)Read:
4/2008
Drive Like Hell
15 year old Luke lives in Georgia in the 1970's and likes to drive fast and smoke weed. Pretty good, funny
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7/2005
Dear Mr. President
A collection of stories mostly having the first Iraq War as a theme. Thought it was going to be humorous, wasn't. A couple of stories were interesting, but not really my cuppa.
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5/2003
A Confederation of valor
This volume contains the novels Valors Choice and The Better Part Of Valor. I enjoyed both novels. Gritty military-in-the-future stories. I TOTALLY did not get the final sentence of Better Part Of Valor. Last sentence in ROT-13: Ab bar abgvprq gur gjryir ynetr terl pnavfgref fgnpxrq nybat bar ohyxurnq. I feel a dolt, someone please explain it to me.
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...and a diTaykan, who looked remarkably depressed for a species who invented flavored massage oil before the wheel...Read:
4/2007
Heart Of Valor
Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr ends up on the Marine training world as things go FUBAR.
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One thing Torin had always liked about gravity, it worked fast.Read:
10/2007
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