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Smith, Alexander Gordon. SOLITARY : ESCAPE FROM FURNACE
Smith, Alexander Gordon. SOLITARY : ESCAPE FROM FURNACENew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010 IL YA ISBN 0374324921 In the first book of the series, we met Alex Sawyer, a teen who is framed for murder and sent to the Furnace. Life in the Furnace is brutal and not everyone survives. Alex and some friends thought they had found a way out of the prison and have escaped to an underground river where they believe they can find their way out. What they find is that they are now in an even more brutal environment. When they are recaptured, Alex is sent to solitary and his hopes for escape are gone. Until he is befriended by a strange boy who seems to know his way around the underground. Will Alex find a way out this time? Or will things get even worse?
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Today's book 01/13/2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Today's book 01/07/2013
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Lu, Marie. PRODIGY New York : Putnam's, 2013 IL YA ISBN 0399256768 In the second book of the Legend trilogy, the action does not slow down at all. June and Day are off to join the Patriots in Las Vegas. There is nowhere else for them to go. Day is injured and needs help. What they find is a very different life then they have known. When the duo finally meets up with the Patriots, they find themselves in the middle of an assassination plot against the new leader of the Republic. How could things change so much?
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Today's book 01/06/2013
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Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. TRUE COLORS
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. TRUE COLORS New York : Knopf, 2012IL 3-6, RL 5.1 ISBN 0375860991 Blue doesn't know anything about her family. She was left on a doorstep as an infant and Hannah has been taking care of her ever since. Hannah is a widow and it has always been just Blue and Hannah. But Blue dreams of finding her real mother and keeps looking. Blue doesn't have any real friends in this small Vermont town and looks forward to summers when a family from the city comes to spend the summer. Nadine and Blue spend the summers together and the two are best friends. But this summer is different. Nadine is different and Blue is afraid that their friendship may not be as important to Nadine as it is to Blue. This is a summer when things are going to change.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Today's book 01/05/2013
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Kain, P. G. PICTURE PERFECT New York : Aladdin, 2012 IL 5-8, RL 7.1 ISBN 1416997873 Have you ever imagined being on television? Cassie is living the life. She loves filming television commercials. She loves everything about the life -- even the try outs. And she just loves the picture perfect sets that she can pretend to live in. Her real life is nothing like what it looks like on tv.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Today's book 01/03/2013
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Halliday, Ayun. PEANUT New York : Schwartz & Wade, 2012 IL 5-8, RL 3.8 ISBN 0375965904 On her first day at a new school, sophomore Sadie Wildhack wants to come up with something that will make her more interesting. Now faking an allergy may not be the first thing anyone would think of but that is what comes to mind for Sadie. She tells the other kids that she has a very serious peanut allergy. OK, it is not like she lied about dying from cancer or anything. It is just a harmless lie about a common allergy. But you know what they say, lies have a way of catching up with you. And that just may happen to Sadie.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Today's book 01/01/2013
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Erdrich, Louise. CHICKADEE New York : Harper, 2012 IL 3-6, RL 5.3 ISBN 0060577908 This is the 4th book of the Birchbark House series. This series has been said to be the Native American counterpart to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. In this entry, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped and the family set off to find him. He manages to escape from the Ojibwe camp but he is not safe yet. He is taken in by a kind priest in an English settlement. But he finds that the rest of the village may not be so accepting. As his family searches for him, they must leave their old life behind and begin a new one.
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