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Little Master Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Jennifer Adams (2014)
A Camping Primer, we are introduced to Huckleberry Finn. To river, friends, raft, clothes, fishing line, dinner, riverbank, birds, and...
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Twilight: the Relationship Killer?
Four(ish) years ago, after a semester of reading Thomas Hardy and Naturalism I started reading the Twilight series over the...
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Boy Meets Boy – David Levithan
Dear Boy Meets Boy… my high school was pretty damn progressive, but even we didn’t have the “Drag Queen Clique.” First of all, that there...
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The 5th Wave – Rick Yancey (2013)
Well this wasn’t terrible. The weave was actually pretty good, but again chronically it would seem, parents can’t go on adventures. The...
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counting by 7s – Holly Goldberg Sloan (2014)
Sigh. I’m so torn about this book. The characters were wonderful, glorious even, but after reading a long line of crappy YRCA titles...
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Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell (2013)
Wow. Just wow. I haven’t been this impressed with a book in a long time. I didn’t want to like it, it’s my nemeses’ favourite book, so I...
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Drama – Raina Telgemeier (2012)
I was so quickly brought back to Junior High School in the reading of this graphic novel it was a little dizzying. Callie wants to be...
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hush, hush – Becca Fitzpatrick (2009)
This was not my favourite book. I’m just going to say it right away so I can move on to the why and there will not be any ambiguity. I...
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Ripple – Mandy Hubbard (2011)
The night of her sixteenth birthday Lexi’s world changed forever, it is the night she killed the man she loved. Two years later, every...
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The Chosen One – Carol Lynch Williams (2008)
I could not put this book down. Honestly, from the moment I picked it up at the library yesterday afternoon, on the walk to the bus, on...
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The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins (2008)
I know, hot topic. But I would like to state that this is my second time reading the Hunger Games, and truthfully, I feel much the same...
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And Tango Makes Three – Peter Parnell & Justin Richardson (Authors) & Henry Cole (Illustrator) (2005
I love this book so much it makes my heart warm just thinking about it. And Tango Makes Three is about two male penguins, Roy and Silo,...
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National Geographic Kids – October (2011)
Pet costume ideas, Haunted Vacations, Flying Monsters, this Hallowe’en special has it all. This issue contains some tips and tricks for...
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Tales from The Hood – Michael Buckley (Author), Peter Ferguson (Illustrator) (2008)
After Mr. Canis is arrested in Magic and Other Misdemeanors, a brutally skewed court finds him guilty of the murders perpetrated by the...
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Martha Speaks: Haunted House – Karen Ross (2010)
When Mom asks Martha to deliver some flowers to a house (a house Mom and her friends had thought to be haunted as children) Martha...
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Inventors and Creators: Jim Henson – Deanne Durrett (2002)
When I was growing up I loved watching The Muppet Show. I loved the idea of the people my parents loved (and that I had grown up loving)...
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Magic and Other Misdemeanors – Michael Buckley (Author), Peter Ferguson (Illustrator) (2008)
Someone has been stealing the powerful magical possession of some of Ferryport Landing’s most powerful Everafters. It is up to Sabrina...
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Sleepless Beauty – Frances Minters (Author) & G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) (1996)
Sleepless Beauty is a fun twist upon the Sleeping Beauty story. Little Beauty is a fantastic story about a girl who lives in New York...
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June 29, 1999 – David Wiesner (1992)
It all begins with an experiment. What would happen if seedlings, once planted, were released into the sky. Later, giant plants begin to...
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Arthur (September 23, 1996)
Part One – D.W. has an imaginary friend, Nadine, who is afraid of scary rides, so when Arthur’s family and friends go to the amusement...
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