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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
The Enchantment Emporium
Witch takes over the junk store for her missing/possibly dead aunt in Calgary. Dragons, a sorcerer, and even a leprechaun don't begin to convey all the weirdness that goes on. Not to mention her romantic problems.
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Things are happening in Calgary.
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1/2012
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