| Cabot, Meg |
How to Be Popular |
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Everyone wants to be popular—or at least, Stephanie Landry does. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Does being popular matter? It matters very much—to Steph. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. She's got a secret weapon: an old book called—what else?—How to Be Popular. |
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I thought it kind of taught me a little lesson, that popularity isn't always what you think. I also liked how people like Darlene were still nice too - in the end. - KMS |
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Meg Cabot always writes great stories, but it's aimed at girls. Great fairy-tale ending. - MNHS |
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I really loved this book because of the journey, Steph, the main character goes through. Also the end was AMAZING!!! - MNHS |
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This book was really good! - MNHS |
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I loved it even though some of the book was predictable. The ending wasn't predictable. But, I loved it. - MNHS |
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This is a good, fast read that's easy to relate to. - MNHS |
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This book - though it sounds shallow - really surprised me with how much of a page-turner it is. I started and couldn't stop. A great read. - MNHS |
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This book was great. I loved it. I realized that just a person should just be who they are and not someone else. - KMS |
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Really girlie! - KMS |
| Cabot, Meg |
Avalon High |
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Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court. |
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The beginning and middle were good, but the end was boring and confusing. - MNHS |
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I didn't really understand it; it never really got to the point. - MNHS |
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I loved this book. It's one of my favorites. It's not a slow book so it'll keep you going. You should definitely read it. - MNHS |
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I really liked this book because it was more than the regular chick-flick novel. Avalon High has some history in it, too - references the Kind Arthur days. - MNHS |
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Very good book - just a little different. - MNHS |
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I LOVED it!!! It was an amazing mix with just a touch of fantasy to make it interesting. It is a wonderful love/action novel. She is an amazing author. - MNHS |
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Really enjoyable - you don't need to know anything about King Arthur to understand the plot. - NMS |
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I really liked this book because it had a surprising little twist at the end. It deals with the middle ages and today. - BMS |
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I think the book was okay, but I've read better ones. It was not my type. - BMS |
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This book would not be for immature readers - NMS |
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This book was really fascinating! I love stuff about Greek Mythology and things that are related to that. I really liked it because I felt like I was in it as I read. It was written perfectly. - NMS |
Cadnum, Michael |
Night Song |
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Love the myth. Love the story. - MNHS |
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I love the romance between Eurydice and Orpheus, but I hate that she got bit by a snake; I also didn't want Eurydice to have to stay in the Underworld. - BMS |
| Calonita, Jen |
Secrets of my Hollywood Life |
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Longing to experience the life of a "normal" teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school |
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The novel was just like Hollywood life and the writer really puts you in the spot of the character. This novel was also very exciting and fun. - MNHS |
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This book was very easy for me to get into and I was not able to put the book down. I loved how it showed all about the Hollywood drama and her high school experience. It is definitely one of my favorite books. - MNHS |
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This book is pretty much a fluffy book, but a really well-written one. I really liked how it kind of went deep into the "Hollywood" life of an overworked teen. Definitely a recommender. - MNHS |
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This was a good clean book that was enjoyable to read and really seemed to show how unglamorous a celebrity's life can really be. Everyone wants to be normal at some point in their lives. - MNHS |
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This book was easy to read and very good. - MNHS |
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Really good book - for fans of the Clique series. - NMS |
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Slow to start, but quick ending. - MWHS |
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In this book I learned secrets about Hollywood. It was risky when Kaitlyn went as Rachel to go to school. At the end Sky ended up knowing about her secret. This was a great book. - BMS |
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I heard of stars who work together being friends. So, I got interested in what it's like to work with your enemy. - BMS |
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Kaitlyn is the coolest. I'm glad she took a break. It's not good to overload. Sky is so Hollywood model like. - BMS |
| Campbell, Patty |
Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe |
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Analyzes several of young adult author Robert Cormier's novels and novellas, from 1974's "The Chocolate War" to 2001's "The Rag and Bone Shop." |
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I really enjoyed this book! - MNHS |
| Carney, Jeff |
Adventures of Michael MacInnes |
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In 1924, high school junior Michael MacInnes, a free-thinking poet and orphaned scholarship student, stirs up trouble when he challenges the rules and traditions of his prep school. |
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I'm really sorry, but I just couldn't get into the story. It just didn't move along and I had a difficult time imagining what was happening. I tried more than once to read it. - MNHSb |
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It's great. I like the secrecy of what MacInnes was doing and that he helped people out. - BMS |
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I liked this book a little bit, but it was okay reading it. - BMS |
| Carr, Dennis | Welcome to Wahoo |
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After being told that she must leave her European boarding school to live in Nebraska under an assumed name to be safe from Mafia assassins, Victoria Van Wyck tries to stop a smear campaign directed at her new friend by the school's popular clique. |
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The book was good! - MNHS |
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It was very exciting and fun to read. I really enjoyed it. - MNHS |
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It was good. I liked the theme running through it. It was not all about you. The ending was predictable. - MNHS |
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It was a very boring book that really was confusing and almost unrealistic. - MNHS |
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I loved it! - MNHS |
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The book didn't have the best regards for Nebraska. I liked it because it kept me interested. It had a lot of action - well girly action. It also felt like a real teenager's life. - MNHS |
| Cart, Michael |
Rush Hour |
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On the title page, the letter 'r' in hour is presented backwards. A collection of stories, poems, and drawings that reflect the concept of recklessness |
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I like that it has alot of short stories because I don't like reading extremely long stories, but I didn't like it at all because the stories were too random, so I had to read it a few times to separate stories in my head. - MNHS |
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The book in my opinion was pretty boring because I'm not into poetry. If you are a fan of poetry then this might be the right book for you. - MNHS |
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I didn't like it. Boring. I don't like poetry. - MNHS |
| Carter, Dean Vincent |
Hand of the Devil |
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When journalist Ashley Reeves finds himself on an island to interview Reginald Mather, a reclusive insect collector, he soon realizes that he might be the hunted. |
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I thought it was suspenseful and creepy but I really didn't like what it was about so it sort of made the book worse. But it was easy to follow and kept you on your toes. - MNHS |
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I liked the whole plot behind the book. It just moved too slow. - MNHS |
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Great book. You can't stop reading. Very intense. Really interesting. Plot was slow at first but picked up right away. Characters are good guys, but a twist makes them bad. Makes you think if fiction is sometimes real. - MNHS |
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The story propelled me along with a lot of sympathy for the main character. In retrospect, it was a pretty silly premise. - MNHSb |
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Eeew! - MNHS |
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A mild mystery at the start then the story starts to unravel and turns into a sci-fi horros with some unexpected twists and turns. Happy ending. - MWHS |
| Castellucci, Cecil | Queen of Cool |
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Although 16-year-old Libby Brin is a trendsetter with plenty of friends and status, lately she finds popularity, drinking, partying, even her friends (her best friend is known as the Hand Job Queen), boring and empty. Impulsively, she signs up for an internship at the zoo. |
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The book was very repetitive and got boring toward the end. - MNHS |
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It was a good book which could have been true plus it was mysterious - MNHS |
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I thought this book was surprising. I stayed up late some nights to finish it. I thought this book, unlike others, it was very hip and up-to-date about what teens think today. Overall, I will definitely recommend this book in the near future - MNHS |
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The storyline was easy to predict. Lots of bad languaage - it almost seemed overdone. - MNHSt |
| Chambers, Aidan | This is All: the pillow book of Cordelia Kann |
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Nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn, weeks away from giving birth, gathers up her journals, poems, letters, stories, and thoughts in a collection to share with her daughter on the occasion of the unborn child's sixteenth birthday. |
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This book was absolutely amazing. I will be reading more stories by this author. GREAT BOOK! - MNHS |
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I absolutely LOVED this book. It was totally and completely amazing. - MNHS |
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It was interesting and fun to read. - MNHS |
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The book was very good, but I found that it also had too much 'rambling' and the more she rambled, the more pages I skipped to avoid the nonsense. - MNHS |
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I really liked the format and the story is laid out in a really cool way. - MNHS |
| Chandler, Paulene | Warrior Girl |
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Although surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute, battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of France from the English |
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I liked this book because in the old days, the girls couldn't do what men could, and two girls took a stand and went to war. - BMS |
| Charlton-Trujillo | Prizefighter en mi Casa |
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After a car accident leaves her prone to seizures, Chula feels anything but strong. Her father enlists notorious Mexican prizefighter El Jefe to fight the local champ, winning money for the cash-strapped family. The hard lessons about strength Chula learns from the boxer are painful but authentic. |
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This book is about 12 year old Chula who got in a car accident. She now has seizures, and her dad is in a wheelchair. Now that only her mom works, it's hard to pay the bills. So, they send for "El Jefe", a popular boxer. His goal is to win. - BMS |
| Cohn, Rachel | Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist |
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High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart. |
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Ugh. Really awful. Too much swearing and not enough story! - MNHSv |
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Probably real life dialogue - but I need more than excessive F*** bombs in a story. - MNHSs |
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Too much foul language to get to the meaning of the action. Not good. - MNHSt |
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Although it drags at some points, overall the book kept me interested. - MNHS |
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I thought the story itself was okay, but the language was hugely unnecessary, overdone, and distracting. - MWHS |
| Cole, Stephen | Thieves Like Us |
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A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed. |
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Exciting! Needs a sequel. - MNHS |
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Wonderful story. Terrible cover. - MNHS |
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It was a good book that I enjoyed reading. It had an ongoing adventure and a few twists added to deep the reader guessing. - MNHS |
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This book was incredibly interesting. The characters had more realistic powers and it made the story more plausible. It had a few very unusual twists that made the book interesting. - MNHS |
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It wasn't the best book in the world, but it was kind of entertaining. - MNHS |
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Wow! Awesome! I would strongly recommend this book to any reluctant reader! Fun, interesting, and great, highly-original plot. Jonas is great! And most of the characters are likable. - MWHS |
| Collard, Sneed B. | Flash Point |
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High school sophomore Luther Wright volunteers to help raptors at a local veterinary clinic and helps Alex, a new girl who is a social outcast, discover the truth behind the forest fires that are afflicting their small, Montana town. |
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I loved the storyline of this book. - MNHS |
| Conway, Celeste | Melting Season |
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Sixteen-year-old Giselle, who has buried herself in her dance studies and thoughts of her late father for a decade, comes to terms with her relationship with her famous ballerina mother and newly surfaced memories of her father's abuse when she ventures out of the world of the Manhattan elite and meets a charming boy named Will. |
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I liked it because I'm a dancer and can relate to the book. - MNHS |
| Cooney, Carolyn | A Friend at Midnight |
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After rescuing her younger brother abandoned at a busy airport by their divorced father, fifteen-year-old Lily finds her faith in God sorely tested as she struggles to rescue herself from the bitterness and anger she feels |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I LOVED this book! Lily is a really good character!!! I was so happy with how it ended. Carolyn Cooney is such a good author!!! - NMS |
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The beginning was a bit confusing, but it was a good book. - BMS |
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This book was sad. That's because Michael's dad left him alone at the airport. Lily was very brave in getting Michael from the airport. At the end, everything turned out okay. - BMS |
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It kinda bored me. It wasn't my favorite book. - KMS |
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It was moving. It showed how much family means to each person. - KMS |
| Cooney, Caroline | Hit the Road |
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Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings |
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Made me want to keep reading. - MNHS |
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The book had a lot of action - but it got confusing toward the end. - MNHS |
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Hit the Road is a totally awesome book!!! It gets a bit scary - but that is the totally awesome part. This book is one of the best of Caroline Cooney, in my opinion. - NMS |
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This book is pretty good. I would read this again. - BMS |
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This book was very interesting. It was funny how the "girls" were kidnappers. It was pretty scary when Aston kidnapped Nannie. The end was a little bit unclear. - BMS |
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I think that this book was great! I really enjoyed it, and I think the library should have more of these books. If there was another book, I would certainly read it. Of all the books I've read, this one has been the best! - BMS |
| Croggon, Alison | Riddle |
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The further translation of a manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah which chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, a gifted Bard, as she seeks the answer to the Riddle of the Treesong and continues to battle the Dark forces. |
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I loved the first and loved the second even more. The riddle did not let me down; it was just as good as the Naming. - MNHS |
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It was really good if you liked the first book. - MNHS |
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This book draws you in and sets for the kill, or rather your praise. Alison Corggon's use of words is compelling and driving. I would strongly recommend this book to any one. - MNHS |
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Awesome! Read it! The story is incredible. Alison Croggon is a master story-teller. She makes sure that the reader understands the culture of the area and it really makes the story more enjoyable. Can't wait to read more! - MNHS |
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It is a great book but the story is not done - so if there is another book in the series, please try and get it. also I recommend the third book in the Inheritance trilogy (Eragon, Eldest...). - MNHS |
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This is the sequel to "The Naming" - it continues the story of a realistic character who has ideas and issues of her own. The plot is complex, but it sucks you in. I REALLY liked it. - MNHS |
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Honestly, this book was a little boring. Discovering the main characters for heritage was unexpected. - MWHS |
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The action starts after the first page and continues and escalates for the whole book to the end. - KMS |
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Fast-paced and gripping. I couldn't put it down. It had a good flow and excellent word choice. - KMS |
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Very suspenseful. - KMS |
| Cushman, Karen | Loud Silence of Francine Green |
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In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values. |
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It was exciting and emotional. I learned a lot about communism, the blacklist, and the cold war. - KMS |