| Lalicki, Tom |
Grierson's Raid |
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Describes Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson's sixteen-day raid through central Mississippi in the spring of 1863, which distracted Confederate attention while Union troops moved on Vicksburg. |
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| Lamstein, Sarah |
Hunger Moon |
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In 1953 in Chicago, Ruth struggles to deal with her parents' constant arguing, taking care of her younger brothers, one of whom is mentally disabled, and getting along in middle school. |
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I really enjoyed the story. |
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The book had no point at all. The ending was terrible. Nothing happened. I felt like I wasted my time to read it. |
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| Langrish, Katherine |
Troll Fell |
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Forced to move to Troll Fell to live with his uncles, Baldur and Grim, after his father's death, young Peer Ulfsson learns of his uncles' sinister plan to sell children to the trolls and sets out with an adventurous neighbor girl named Hilde to stop them. |
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It had a good story plot. It was actually pretty good, but something was missing. I'm not sure what but something was missing from the book. |
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I thought it was a cool book. |
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I like it because even though the trolls caused a lot of trouble, the village did not get hurt. The humans and trolls came to an understanding. |
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I enjoyed the suspense and adventure feeling. |
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Adventurous book. I like adventure a lot! |
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Good but not awsome |
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It had a good plot, but it wasn't as exciting as I would have liked. |
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| Lasky, Kathryn |
Blood Secret |
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Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition. |
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I thought it was a little boring. There just wasn't enough action in it to keep me focused. |
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Very interesting! An excellent book for someone who likes Historical Fiction. |
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Very intersting and good book, but not easy to understand. |
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| Lawrence, Ian |
B for Buster |
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Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape his abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over Germany. |
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This book really put the WWII army life into perspective. It was very suspenseful and exciting. I would recommend it to anyone who likes war books. |
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It was really hard to get into. |
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This really made me think about how I treat certain people. I was also impressed with the images and descriptions |
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The book was good. It was very interesting. I liked the suspense and excitement. |
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Good book - easy to understand. Awesome ending, but it was sad. |
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The book was very interesting. I liked the book a lot. |
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I thought it was a good book because I'm interested in aviation. However, I could see how someone who's not interested in aviation wouldn't like this book. |
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Thrilling. |
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| Lawrence, Michael |
A Crack in the Line |
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Sixteen-year-old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia. |
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It was a slow start, but as I kept reading, I wanted to know what would happen next. I wish it would have a better ending, though. |
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| Leavitt, Martine |
Heck Superhero |
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Abandoned by his mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life. |
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Too much content - drugs, suicide, etc. No depth. |
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It was amusing how Heck would do anything just to see his mom happy. |
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It was powerful, symbolic, and a great fast-easy-read. |
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I didn't like the part where Marion died, but at least Heck got his mom back. |
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It was just really strange. The book was mainly about finding his mom but he kept going places that might have changed the main plot a bit. |
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It was just okay. |
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| Lee, Tanith |
Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure on the High Seas |
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Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy." |
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I loved the book. It had lots of interesting twists in that book that kept you hooked. Long live Piratica. |
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This was one of the best adventure books I've read. This book is a wonderful story for anyone who loves pirates and adventures. |
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I liked the mystery of figuring out Felix's moves. |
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This was very entertaining and kept me on the edge of my seat. |
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It is so exciting and adventurous! It is a true novel. |
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This book has a wonderful adventure plot/mystery. The text is well written and plenty of details for a curious reader. |
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| Levithan, David |
The Realm of Possibility |
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A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories. |
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It was interesting how it went to different people's lives. Sometimes it came from a guy person's perspective, sometimes a girl's. It wasn't all interesting, though. |
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First of all the book was too confusing. I couldn't tell who was narrating the book. I couldn't tell it this was talking about the same person in each chapter or different stories. |
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It was confusing and would take time for me to understand it. |
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It had some good quotes but there wasn't really a plot. |
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Ugh! |
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| Limb, Sue |
Girl 15, Charming But Insane |
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Fifteen-year-old Jess, living with her mum, separated from her father in Cornwall, and with a best friend who seems to do everything perfectly, finds her own assets through humor. |
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I really enjoyed this book. |
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It was really funny and I could identify with Jess. |
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I thought that the book was very good and it kept me interested and it wasn't boring. |
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It dwelled too much on the girl lying; the dialect was weird. |
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I liked that it told the truth about guys because they're confusing and have a short attention span. |
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It started out really slow without a point or anything really going on. The ending was better, but it didn't really hook me and make me want to keep reading it. |
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I liked the girl Jess, who found out she liked Jeff after chasing Ben through the whole book. |
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The main character is too much of a drama queen for my taste, and some of the terms were hard to understand because they are British. |
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| Lindskold, Jane |
Wolf Captured |
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Firekeeper, a young woman raised by royal wolves with their own spoken language, is kidnapped, along with her lupine best friend Blind Seer, by the Liglimoshti, a people who want Firekeeper to teach them how to communicate with their own sentient animals, but she soon comes to fear the intelligent creatures are being held in unseen bondage, and sets out to find a way to free them. |
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| Lowry, Brigid |
Follow the Blue |
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Fifteen-year-old Bec, living with her family in Perth, Australia, decides to stop being sensible and follow her wilder impulses during the summer that her parents are away on a long trip to help her father recover from a breakdown. |
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I liked it because the character was my age and I can kind of relate to her. The only thing I did not like was it is set in the past so the way they talked was sometimes kind of weird. |
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Excellent! I like the part when Bec and Nick meet; I'd like a friend like Jaz. |
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Not something I would usually read, but I could relate to it. |
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It did talk about friends which was good, however, I didn't like that they talked about destiny and fate a lot. I couldn't leave my life to that. |
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I liked it when she had the party and she got the shirt from Mrs. D. |
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| Lowry, Lois |
Messenger |
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In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand. |
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I enjoyed this book. |
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Not as good as Gathering Blue or The Giver, but still creative and interesting. |
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I liked that it had characters from The Giver and Gathering Blue. |
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This book was interesting. It was a good plot and it kept you interested from the first page to the last. |
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I don't understand why whe gives clues about Jonas and doesn't just say his name. |
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This story lacked in adventure throughout the story. The characters weren't described very well. |
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It's a really good book. I'm glad Matty was okay. |
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This book's theme was very close to the Giver's. It seems to have a hackneyed expression because it is set in another utopian setting. |
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| Lynch, Chris |
The Gravedigger's Cottage |
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When fourteen-year-old Sylvia McLuckie, her ten-year-old brother Walter, and their quirky father move to a cottage by the sea, their new home's eerie reputation forces them to confront some surprising ghosts from their past. |
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The book was alright. |
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It was really cool. It was up-to-date and really kinda funny. |
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As far as the characters and plot of the story, I didn't really like them and the role they played in the book. |
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The book had no plot!!! Very dull and uninteresting. I was always wondering when the climax would come. Very disappointing. |
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The book is really dark - talking about everybody's pet dying. Then they move and the house is killing their father and sometime you get confused if what they way are real or not. |
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| Lyon, George Ella |
Sonny's House of Spies |
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In a small Alabama town in 1947-1956, Sonny searches for answers about his father's disappearance, "Uncle Marty," who looks after the family, and Mamby, their black housekeeper. |
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This was one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. |
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Great book. I didn't expect a lot of things. |
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I liked the family and how they were when the uncle died. |
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Good book. |
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| Lyon, Steve |
The Gift Moves |
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In a futuristic United States devoid of wealth and material things, a teenage baker befriends a talented weaver's apprentice who holds a dark secret. |
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It was a little confusing at first but it quickly becomes a hear-stopping story of love and acceptance. |
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I liked how it has hints of magic with romance, but I didn't like how it jumped from character to character. It did keep me in suspense, though. |
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Really, really good. |
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