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When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A student gave me this book to read and I loved the rich description of the southern…
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast by Cheryl Strayed
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
At age 22, Cheryl Strayed’s mother is diagnosed with cancer and very…
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Blumenthal has crafted an exciting, can’t put it down biography…
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Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This follow-up to Delirium has Lena struggling in the Wilds with little food, stamina, and the only way…
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All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
All the Right Stuff by Walter Dean Myers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Paul DuPree is a teen who has lost his hardly present dad to a shooting…
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Zom B by Darren Shan
Zom-B by Darren Shan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
B is a teen living in England with a racist, abusive father who drinks too much and beats B and her mother on a daily basis.…
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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Marc Aronson
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Beginning with the spy Harry Gold and expanding out to…
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I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wow, what a heart-stopping thriller; imagine you are the son of a serial killer who has claimed…
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Call the Shots by Don Calame
Call the Shots by Don Calame
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this third humorous boy book, the hilarious trio of Cooper, Matt and Sean have come up with…
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Beat the Band by Don Calame
Beat the Band by Don Calame
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In the 2nd book, Cooper and his friends decide to enter a contest to win a Band competition and the…
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Trafficked by Kim Purcell
Trafficked by Kim Purcell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Hannah is a seventeen year old from Moldova who has lost both her parents in a bombing. She is brought to…
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Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thanks Sally for reviewing this for me for PSLA 2013! Carver Young, Finn Walker and Delia Stephens are all orphans…
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Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies by Marc Aronson
Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies by Marc Aronson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Aronson’s portrait of J. Edgar Hoover…
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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Katherine Applegate’s book has been recommended to me by…
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The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
If you are looking for another seductively written book by Maggie Stiefvater, The…
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The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Diviners by Libba Bray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Libba Bray’s The Diviners was thrilling to read; I did not want to rip myself away from the 1920s world Bray…
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Nujood’s story was appalling because it brings…
Added by bj neary on December 26, 2012 at 10:49am — No Comments
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Diviners by Libba Bray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Libba Bray’s The Diviners was thrilling to read; I did not want to rip myself away from the 1920s world Bray…
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Seconds Away by Harlan Coben
Seconds Away by Harlan Coben
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The 2nd Mickey Bolitar book is a fast-paced mystery involving the shooting of Mickey's new romantic…
Added by bj neary on December 20, 2012 at 8:40pm — No Comments
Ask the Passengers by AS King
Ask The Passengers by A.S. King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
King has scored such a success with Astrid Jones, she has the indomitable spirit, but she…
Added by bj neary on December 20, 2012 at 8:36pm — No Comments
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Mansfield University Scholarship Program – Begin in January 2012
In an ongoing effort to recruit a new generation of school library leaders, Mansfield University recently received a fifth Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) grant to fund scholarships for its totally online School Library & Information Technologies Master of Education degree program with school library certification. If you know of an educator or non-certified librarian seeking school library certification, please pass along the news that we are still accepting applications for the spring 2012 semester.
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