| Marcus, Leonard |
Wand in the World |
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A collection of interviews in which thirteen fantasy writers discuss their craft, influential life experiences, literary inspirations, work routines, and beliefs. |
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This book was wonderful. I returned it to the library and then went to the store and bought my own copy. - MNHSv |
| Marks, Graham | Missing in Tokyo |
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When his older sister is reported missing, teenager Adam travels from England to Tokyo, Japan, to look for her. |
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I liked how there was some Japanese spoken in the book and how there were words that were British. - MNHS |
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I thought that the book was interesting throughout the whole book. It kept me interested from the beginning to the end. I would recommend it for people who like suspense and kind of a mystery. It also makes you think what is going to happen next. - MNHS |
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The book was good. It was interesting throughout. The ending was kind of boring. - MNHS |
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I really liked the story in this book. It was a readable story and had some really funny twists. It was also realistic on how it would be to be in Tokyo. - MNHS |
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This book really starts off slow. - MNHSt |
| Masson, Sophie |
Snow Fire Sword |
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In the mythical, Indonesia-like country of Jayangan, a village girl and an apprentice sword-maker embark on a magical journey to defeat a hidden evil that threatens their land. |
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The book was good. It was interesting throughtout the whole book. The ending was kind of boring. - MNHS |
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When his older sister is reported missing, teenager Adam travels from England to Tokyo, Japan, to look for her. - MNHS |
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The comgination of faith and religion added nicely to help make this unique and interesting. While not as great as the Bartimaeus trilogy, I liked the characters' unique personalities and the plot twists kept me on my toes and urged me to continue reading. - CMS |
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The book was exhilarating and made me want to read more. It was good because it was fast-paced and had lots of action. Addie and Dewey had to quest to find Snow, Fire, Sword and defeat the evil sorcerer. The climas and resolution left 'no opening.' - CMS |
| Matas, Carol |
Whirlwind |
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Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America; but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese-American boy becomes strained. |
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This is an excellent short book. - MNHS |
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It was really good. - MNHS |
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I thought that the book was okay. I didn't like how short it was. I thought that something bad would happen. - MNHS |
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It could say more about Hitler and why they kicked Jews out of school. - BMS |
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It got a little boring in some parts. It was a little gory, too. It made me feel sad. - BMS |
| Matthews, L.S. |
Dog for Life |
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John, finds that his dog, Mouse, is scheduled to go to the pound and decides to run away and find his uncle, who may be able to help him. |
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The book was alright but really boring and slow at some points. Also, it said it was an adventure, but not really. - MNHS |
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I didn't get how the dog was his brother, Tom. - BMS |
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This book was okay for me to read. I really liked it, but I didn't like it a lot. - BMS |
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This book was really interesting. I couldn't stop reading. I liked when he had to get the horses back. - BMS |
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This book is really good because you get attached to the dogs. People who would like this book are people tha tlike dogs and get really attached to them. - CMS |
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I thought it was a great book. One reason is because it is about dogs and I love dogs. Another reason is because he has to go on a wild journey to save his dog and try to get it to his uncles so he can keep it. His trother is sick and the dog will make him worse, so he takes him to his uncles in order to keep him. - CMS |
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I sort of liked it. I guess I'm still confused on where it takes place - what year it was- and some other questions. I liked it because I loooooooove dogs and really liked the story plot. Also did Tom have cancer or something? - CMS |
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I thought this book was well-done, but sad. I am happy the dog didn't die. - KMS |
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This was a really good book. I wish there was more to it. It was funny when the uncle could hear the dog talk. - KMS |
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It was hilarious. KMS |
| McCaaffrey, Laura |
Water Shaper |
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Having escaped from her father's control with help from a handsome holy man who is king of a western land, fifteen-year-old Princess Margot finally travels to the sea where her mother lived, and from which she can draw a powerful magic. |
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It was great, but it had a sort of bad ending. - MNHS |
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It was really intersting because there was magic in it and it seemed more of it in the older days. - MNHS |
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I liked this book because it had lots of action in it. It was a fantasy story with magic in it. The only thing I didn't like about the book is the ending. The ending didn't explain a lot, and I had a lot of questions the book didn't answer. - BMS |
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Margot's mom died when she was little. She is 15 now and doesn't like her dad. No one is nice to her bcause her family is not from there. The people are strongly connected to water. When Margot's mom died, Margot fond a strange book, Book of the Sea. ---- - BMS |
| McClintock, Nora | Tell |
| David must find a way to handle the secret he has learned about his stepfather and his younger brother's death when he becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's murder. | |
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It was an okay book; it was not really that interesting. - MNHS |
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It was short, but a really good book. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed the book, but the ending was a little iffy. - MNHS |
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I really liked the book. - MNHS |
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The book was good and hard to put down. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I loved it! It was great and fast-moving. This book reads a a mystery when the stepfather is shot and killed. It is a who-dun-it with a twist. - MWHS |
| McDonald, Janet | Harlem Hustle |
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." Eric "Hustle" Samson, a smart and street-wise seventeen-year-old dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he naively believes is about to come true. |
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Inspiring story based on a rapper who dowsn't know his parents and lives with friends in the ghetto. His life gets worse and worse until he gets notices for his rap skills and becomes famous. - MNHS |
McKinty, Adrian |
Lighthouse Land |
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Shortly after moving with his mother from Harlem to Ireland, teen cancer survivor Jamie O'Neill discovers a portal in a lighthouse that brings him to a distant planet, where he helps a community of aliens fight against invading warriors. |
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It was interesting. Had some random moments though and it is also a sci-fi book! - MNHS |
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This book was just okay. - MNHS |
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The book was kind of boring in the beginning but got more and more interesting as you went on. - MNHS |
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A fun fantasy with enough real life fiction to make it believable. - MNHSs |
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It is sad that the kid lost his arm from cancer. - BMS |
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A boy fights cancer and loses his arm. His mother inherits an island, and they move. On the island is a lighthouse with a door only the boy can open. He goes in and finds himself in a different world. - BMS |
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It was a good book, but it was just not my kind of reading. I liked the ending. - BMS |
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The book was part science fiction with wormholes and aliens but also a bit of romance. I heard there are two more in the trilogy. - NMS |
| McLeod, Jilly | How Nearly Everything Was Invented |
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Looks at some of the most important inventions that changed the world, including lenses, the steam engine, gunpowder, and many others. Includes fold-out pages. |
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I enjoyed this book because my brother is into this stuff so I read some to him and I read about people I've never heard about. - MNHS |
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It says how they made trains, planes and power plants among many other other things. It was fascinating! I like science. - BMS |
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I liked the pictures of the brainwaves and how they explained how each invention built on each other. - KMS |
| McNeal, Laura & Tom |
Crushed |
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Seventeen-year-old Audrey's life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a mysterious newcomer and a vicious gossip sheet exposes the secrets of both students and teachers at her school. |
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I really enjoyed this book. This book is about a girl named Audrey who is a book worm and is known for not having a lot of friends. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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It was really good. I had a hard time putting it down. I would recommend it to anyone. I already have! - MNHS |
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This book was just okay. It seemed very typical. - MNHS |
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This book really goes into detail about what high school lovers go through. I love it. - MNHS |
| Melling, O.R. |
Summer King |
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Seventeen-year-old Laurel returns to her grandparents' home in Ireland, where she encounters "the roly-poly man," a cluricaun who sets Laurel on a quest to free her twin sister, thought to be dead, to live with her lover in the legendary world of Faerie. |
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Good book. - MWHS |
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It was kind of odd, but good in its own way. - MNHS |
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I like that the book is about Ireland and fairies. - BMS |
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A really grand and magical tale. I loved how the author added some Irish language and believes in this story. - BMS |
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It was really good. I liked how she met other people going to Faerie. - BMS |
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I love it! Two cousins were on a journey to find a cave to rescue their cousin. - BMS |
| Meyer, Stephenie |
New Moon |
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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways |
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Edward was gone for too long and the ending was too short. I wanted there to be more action with the vampires or wolves, but everything was cut too short. - MNHS |
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New Moon was very enjoyable though not as gripping as Twilight. However, New Moon made me think of Bella's character in new ways, as well as how important she really is to Edward. - MNHS |
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It was a great use of fantasy. - MNHS |
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I absolutely loved this book! The characters in this book intrigue me. I cold not put this book down. - MNHS |
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The book started off where it left off in the first book. I liked how Bella and Edward got back together at the end. - MNHS |
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I liked it but it's not as good as Twilight romance was. - MNHS |
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It was good but not as good as the first one. - MNHS |
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The beginning starts slowly and doesn't get interesting until about 3/4 of the book's pages are read. It's a fantasy book with a bit of a love story but not much action - but vivid details that make up for it. - MNHS |
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This book is an excellent follow-up to Twilight while still leaving you itching for more. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book! - MNHS |
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It was long - but there were a lot of exciting parts. - MNHS |
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This was a great book. Worth the wait. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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This book is really amazing. I was pretty skeptical when I heard it was about vampires, but it turned out to be amazing. Very well written. - MNHS |
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I was addicted to the series and could not stop reading them. Even though they are pretty lengthy, you hardly notice. They were fantastic reads. - MNHs |
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New Moon was a great read. - MNHS |
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This book is really suspenseful and has a dark romantic twist. It's excellent. It has a good plot, grammar, and I love the supernatural references. A page turner! - MNHS |
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Also a good book that needed to be longer and turned into a movie. - MNHS |
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I loved it! - MNHS |
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This is the second book to a great series. It wasn't as good as the first book and third one, though. - MNHS |
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This book was really good. It revealed a lot of secrets and was very deep. It kept me falling off my chair the whole time. I definitely recommend it. - MNHS |
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I REALLY liked this book. It's a favorite of mine. The storyline is good and the characters are great. - MNHS |
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The intensity of this book was heart-throbbing. So much drama and so much excitement. You don't want to put the book down. - MNHS |
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The book was very imaginative and it was especially a good drama. - MNHS |
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It was an exciting sequel to Twilight. The series is really good. - MNHS |
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This was a great book. It made me cry. I loved it. - MNHS |
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Good series! - MNHS |
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It was amazing and well as a quick read. - MNHS |
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It was a fun book to read and very fast-moving. But there were a lot of holes in the plot and it didn't seem believable. Also the main character, Bella, seems very shallow. It was very cute, though. - MNHS |
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I loved the book. I love Twilight and New Moon. I love the series of these books. I recommend this book. - MNHS |
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Ridiculously well written book. I read it all in one day because I just couldn't put it down. It picks up just where Twilight left off. It is thrilling and really pulls you in. - MNHS |
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This again was one of the best books I've ever read. Stephenie Meyer is an excellent author. The first book might have been a little better. - MNHS |
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Amazing! I absolutely love Stephenie Meyer. It's really cool how well Romeo and Juliet would fit into this story. - MNHS |
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This book was amazing. I've read it 3 times now. I truly enjoy reading about vampires; I think it should be turned into a series - MNHS |
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Loved This Book! I plan on hunting it down and buying it. it has plenty of twists; I can't wait for the next one - MNHS |
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I loved it, but read the first book first - MNHS |
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Very interesting. - MNHS |
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Awesome book! Good sequel to Twilight - MNHS |
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I liked this book, but the first one was better - MNHS |
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A bit slow for a while - but mostly had me from start to finish. - MNHS |
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This series is amazing! The storyline of Edward and Bella is breath-taking! I can't wait for Eclipse to come out - MNHS |
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One of the best books I've read. - MNHS |
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New Moon is a perfect sequel to Twilight. It starts out a little slow, but once you get into it, you can't put it down. If you liked Twilight, you'll love New Moon - MNHS |
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Not as good as Twilight, but still extrememly well-written - MNHS |
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The book was honestly really good. So much adventure and I really didn't want to stop rading. I'm looking forward to reading the 3rd one. - MNHS |
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A great continuation of the love story! - MNHS |
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It is a very detailed and heart-throbbing story, full of suspense and magic - KMS |
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Extrememly good. There was so much danger, and it only got worse. It was amazing because of the difficult decisions Bella had to make. No matter how much famtasy there is, I can still relate to the circumstances. This book was even better than the first - KMS |
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It was the best book ever. I loved it. Vampires rock. - KMS |
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Can't get any better. - KMS |
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I thought the book was an exciting action book. It was also filled with romance. - KMS |
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Our library needs more copies of this book. KMS |
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Loved it! This entire series is so well-written. MWHS |
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This book kept me reading. - MWHS |
| Meyer, Stephenie | Eclipse |
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Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city. |
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Usually when I read a series of books, nothing can ever beat the first one. The Twlight series so far is the only one that makes me really want to keep reading on. I've been waiting for the third book to come out for a year now, and I wasn't disappointed at all. The suspense, romance, and action makes me want this series to never come to an end. - MNHS |
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I REALLY enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book - MNHS |
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AMAZING! - MNHS |
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Amazing. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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It made me cry because I was upset at the main character. - MNHS |
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The whole series is amazing! It pulls you in. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I can't wait for the next one to come out. - MNHS |
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Amazing book. Awesome series. I have loved it since the beginning. I highly recommend it to others that enjoy fantasy, romance, and sci-fi! - MNHS |
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Best book of the series - but it ended wrong! They needed to have the wedding and his/her promises. NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE! - MNHS |
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The Twilight series is bomb. They're long enought if you're a fast reader that it'll set it up. MNHS |
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It is the third book in the series and I LOVE the series. It is really long, but it just draws you in. They are my favorite. - MNHS |
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Good series. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I really enjoyed this book. - MNHS |
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I enjoyed this book very much. I can't wait until the 4th comes out. - MNHS |
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Even better!!! I loved it. My favorite out of the series. - MNHS |
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I don't like Jacob, but I still enjoyed the book. - MNHS |
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I loved the series. - MNHS |
| Moranville, Sharelle |
Higher Geometry |
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While grieving the death of her grandmother in 1959, teenager Anna is torn between her aspirations to study math in college and her family's expectations that she will marry and become a homemaker after high school. |
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This book barely had a heartbeat. A real yawner. - MNHSb |
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The only part I really didn't enjoy was the choices Anna made with her relationship with Mike. - MNHS |
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I suggest the book for anyone to read. - MWHS |
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The ending wasn't a closing one. - MWHS |
| Moriarty, Jaclyn | The Murder of Bindy McKenzie |
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Bindy Mackenzie believes herself to be the smartest, kindest girl at Ashbury High. Unfortunately, she is alone in that belief. Someone wants to kill Bindy Mackenzie. The clues are in the documents. The detectives are the very students who hate her most. And time is running out. |
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It was very suspenseful and very entertaining. - MNHS |
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Brilliant. Clever. One of my all time favs. - MNHSb |
| Moses, Shiela |
Return of Buddy Bush |
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Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her uncle who has escaped from the Ku Klux Klan |
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I was alright, but it could have been more more descriptive, had more depth of ideas. It was written in a very uneducated first person which made it hard to understand. - MNHS |
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This was a very interesting book. - MNHS |
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It was a good historical fiction - based on a true story. - BMS |
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I had trouble understanding what was going on because of the way they talked. - BMS |
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I liked the book. It had a lot of history in it. - BMS |
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This was a really good book! - BMS |
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The book was really interesting, especially when she talked to Richard Wright. BMS |
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Some parts were confusing and some were good. The dialect was hard to read. - BMS |
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It was pretty good but not my type of book. BMS |
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Some places it was boring and some were good. - BMS |
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It was okay but not something I really cared about reading. - BMS |
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I like the book because it is about history. - BMS |
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I really like this book because it is based on a true story. I like the way the author describes things. - BMS |
| Mourlevat, Jean-Claude |
Pull of the Ocean |
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Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise. |
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There were six older brothers all twins. Yann Doutreleau lets them know that they must flee the home or be killed by their dad. This story was a little sad. - BMS |
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I really liked this book because it was written from different points of view. - BMS |
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This is a bery good book. It's sad how his child dies and it teaches you to love who is around you and not to dwindle on the past but not the present. It would be great for the library. I would read it three times. - CMS |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
Harlem Hellfighters |
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Tells the story of the 369th Infantry, an African American regiment that risked their lives for the country they loved during World War I and emerged triumphant, in spite of the bigots and racists who did everything possible to make them fail. |
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It told about the role of African Americans in U.S. society. It also told about their roles as soldiers, and how the Militia was the most prolific African American regiment of the Great War. Overall, a great book. - MNHS |
| Myers, Walter Dean |
Jazz |
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A collection of illustrated poems that celebrate the roots and various styles of jazz music, such as ragtime, bebop, and swing. |
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I liked it because it is about band because I'm also in band. - BMS |
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I liked the musical parts of it. It was a little boring to me. - BMS |
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I really liked this book. It is not too long to read. It has a good word choice in the book. The pictures in the book are also great, too. It is like very descriptive, and it's a good book to read. - BMS |
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The book was OK, but I hated the part where I had to read the poetry. I like poetry but not when it's all about instruments. - BMS |
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It has a lot of information on jazzy music in other countries. - BMS |
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I loved this book because I like jazz. When I used to play the trumpet. It's so jazzy. I liked how the pictures are put together. - CMS |
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I thought it was okay. I liked the rhymes and stuff but it really wasn't my style and while the illustrations were really cool, I liked how they printed and then went into a funky writing. All in all it was a good book. - CMS |
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I thought it was good because I love jazz music. - CMS |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Street Love |
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This story told in free verse is set against a background of gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated. |
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I didn't understand it at all. - MNHS |
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This book was interesting. I liked it! - MNHS |
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It was a little confusing and I didn't like that it was written in all poem. - MNHS |
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It was okay. It told about real life. - MNHS |
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Amazing! MNHS |
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Good book! - MNHS |
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I liked the book but the way it was set-up was kind of different. - MNHS |
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This book was really enjoyable because I love romantic novels that deal with young teens. - MNHS |
| Myracle, Lauren |
ttfn |
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Now high school juniors, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela continue to share "instant messages" with one another as one of them experiments with marijuana, another gets her first boyfriend, and the third moves three thousand miles away. |
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I really enjoyed how the book just picked up from the first one of the series. I enjoyed reading about each of the three girls' problems and not just one! The book was a fast read. - MNHS |
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This book was really good. I enjoyed it very much. I think all teenage girls should read it. - MNHS |
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It was really good - but more for girls - but still it kept my attention and never let me down. - MNHS |
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The book was funny - but a little bit boring. Sometimes the characters get confusing because it was AIM looking with screen names. - MNHS |
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This book was super boring. It was all about people talking on the computer about life. It's a bunch of teenagers that get online and talk about what happened that day and just about life and the future. - MNHS |
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It was a really interesting book. I love the format of the book. MWHS |
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It was really great! I can't wait to read the next. - MWHS |