Dovey Coe

Title: Dovey Coe

Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell

Reviewer: Megan D.

Summary: 12-year old tomboy, Dovey, doesn't like 17-year old, Parnell Caraway because he claims that Dovey has done a terrible thing. She knows in her heart that she didnt do anything bad. Parnell wants to marry Dovey's sister Caroline. Dovey does not want Caroline to marry Parnell because she thinks that everything will go wrong. Dovey talks to her mom and dad about it, but they think that Caroline should marry Parnell, and start her own life after she is finished with school. Caroline doesn't know what to do with her life. She wants to be a teacher, but Parnell already has enough money to take care of her and himself. Dovey hates Parnell so much that her town is saying that she is aiming to try to kill him. Will Dovey try to break up Parnell and Caroline and figure out why her town is saying that she is going to kill Parnell?

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UGLIES

My book is UGLIES from the uglies trilogy. UGLIES is really good on my point of view. UGLIES talks about an imaginary future where people are seperated into groups like the uglies and the pretties. UGLIES are the people that haven't turned pretty yet and when they become 16yrs. old they have an operation that makes them pretty. PRETTIES are the leaders of the town just because their pretty. PRETTIES get special stuff and special treatment.But in the whole thing theres these 2 girls named Tally and Shay that become best of friends and in this book Tally finds out that Shay has been sneaking out of ugly town to see this boy named David who takes her to where he lives and tells her that the operation they take is a bad operation. So later Shay decides that shes going to go live with David and his family so she doesn't have to take the operation. When she tells Tally her plan Tally doesn't want to go but later decide to do it anyway. Well i dont want to say everything that happens so you'll have to read it yourself!!

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Flipped

Title: Flipped
Author: Wendelin Van Draanen
Reviewer: Emily
Summary: The first time Julianna saw Bryce move in across the street when they were both in second grade she was instantly in love. The first time Bryce saw Julianna he ran and hid. That’s how the next five years were. But once they got in 8th grade things got different. When Julianna (Juli for short) was in fifth grade she hatched chicks for her science fair project. A year after the eggs were hatched they began laying eggs and some neighbors paid money for them. But when Juli brought over some eggs for Bryce and his family he just threw them away but one day Juli stayed a little longer and saw Bryce throw them away. That was the end of Bryce for Juli she hated him. Then Bryce starts getting feelings for Juli that he has never had. Will they end up a couple? You will have to read the book to find out.

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Eclipse

Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Reviewer: Claire
Summary: This is the third book in an intriguing series! Bella has an unknown visitor in her room. It has come to find her. Her boyfriend who is a vampire is very protective and will not let Bella out of his sight. She has a best friend who is a werewolf. She is much protected with 7 vampires and 10 werewolves all fighting for her. There is group of new vampires trying to kill Bella! So everyone is pitching in. You have to read it to find out the rest.

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The Last Apprentice Wrath of the Blood Eye

The Last Apprentice Wrath of the Blood Eye
By. Joseph Delaney
Reviewer-Spencer

This book is a very good book it is the 5th book in the Last Apprentice series. A boy named Thomas Ward has been in training as a spook for 2 years now. he learned much how to fight boggarts, witches, and many other things that go bump in the night. After training with John Gregory ( Toms trainer/master) he goes to see Bill Arkwright ( former student of John Gregory), Bill is a spook who guards the upper part of the county (which is marshland) . He is very skilled with staffs and swimming. Tom goes to learn from him for a couple months but an ancient evil appears as he trains, it is a water witch named bloodeye or also known as Morwena she is the daughter of the devil aslo known the fiend. There adventure takes them to hunt her down and kill her. Morwena is after tom because the fiend told her to, Tom holds a greate threat to the dark and the fiend wants him dead. Morwena is known as bloodeye because she has a piece of bone that closes one of her eyes shut and if she removes it and you look into you are under a spell of parlyses and once youre under she will come and dig her claws into and kill you. As tom and Bill hunt for her they stay at a Inn on the lake. Bill, gets drunk while trying to look for her near the lake with tom and finds himself unable to move because hes drunk. Tom goes to look for her alone but not to fight just report back to Bill. But, tom has no success finding her but when he returns to Bill he finds a muddy trail as it looks as someones been dragged through the mud. Tom immediately finds what what happened Morwena found Bill and dragged him into the lake. Tom, desperate to get help goes to find the John Gregory but as he gets halfway between were he was staying and back to Johns house he finds John on the bridge saying he got a letter saying he needs urgent help. But Tom did not send it. Tom explains the John what had happened and John figured that the fiend gave him the letter in order to set a trap. When Tom and John travel throught the barge back to Bills house they get stopped by the fiend and he threatens to kill John if Tom didnt do what the fiend wanted him to. Tom refused and the fiend dissapeared so they set out to find Bill they get info that hes still alive from a fortune teller, the fortune teller tells them that Bills still alive and is trapped in a cave on a remote island off the beach. They head to the island to find Bill and once they find him they returned back to Bills house and set off the find Morwena, but, just as there about to leave the fiend stopped time for everyone except for tom and he treatened to kill everyone if he didnt go out and fight Morwena alone. Tom agreed to do it. As he set out to find her he meets up with and old enemy, Grimalkin, who is a witch assasin. But, she sides with Tom to kill Morwena. They see a whole bunch of water witches comming out of the marsh (they are morwena servants). As they start taking out the water witches Grimalkin gets cought in Morwena bloodeye and tom takes his silver chain and captures her just before morwena killed Grimalkin. Tom and his friends were safe and he and the spook headed back home.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J. K. Rowling
Reviewer: Brady
Summary: A young 13-year-old wizard named Harry Potter is going off to his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he arrived at Hogwarts, he heard that the infamous murderer named Sirius Black as escaped from the wizard jail of Azkaban and was seeking revenge on Harry from the unfinished business of killing Harry’s parents. Sirius gave information of the Potters’ whereabouts to the most powerful dark wizard named Voldemort. As Harry very much wanted to go to the village of Hogsmeade for a school fieldtrip, but he didn’t have the permission form signed, so we found a secret tunnel that leads into the center of the village’s candy store using the Marauder’s map. Has he and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, were sitting in the pub, teachers walked in and he overheard that Black was Harry’s godfather. While they were walking back from what they thought was Buckbeak’s, a hippogriff, execution, they were attacked by Sirius Black and dragged Ron holding his pet rat named Scabbers through a tunnel under the magical tree called the Whopping Willow into The Shrieking Shack. But the others realized as Professor Lupin came in and explained that Black was framed by Ron’s rat. It turns out that Ron’s rat was actually Peter Pettigrew! As they captured him and was taking Peter back to the castle, it turns out that Lupin was actually a warewolf. In all the commotion, Peter was able to escape. With Black’s name not cleared he had to into hiding. With escaping on Buckbeak and going into hiding, he was able to be undetected.

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Holes

Title- Holes
Author-Louis Sachar
Reviewer- Max
Summary- In the book Holes there is a boy named Stanley Yelnats who has to go to Camp Green Lake in Texas. It is where kids who do bad things go. His family has bad luck because of his no-good-dirty-rotten- pig-stealing-great-great-grand father. This is why I think Stanley had to go to Camp Green Lake. Mr. Sir and the Warden are making Stanley and the other boys dig holes as a punishment but also for there own secret reasons. He met a kid named Zero at camp. Zero can’t read so Stanley teaches him to read and in return Zero helps dig Stanley’s hole. This story is about two friends who help one another stay alive and find some thing no one could find.

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The Devil and his Boy

The devil and his boy is a story that takes place in the past. The main character is a boy named Tom from Farmilingham who was sent to London by the queen (who he later finds out is his grandma). and when he gets to London he meets a thief who helps him find a job. Tom thought about what he wanted to do and decided he wanted to be an actor. Tom turns down Shakespeare because he would play a silent girl (because there were only men in plays). He finds a job with a mysterious group called the garden players. he finds out they are plotting to take out the queen. So in the act of saving her he tackles her and is to be put to death. Then Mol Cutpurse the thief and Gremial Ratsey a villain who tries to kill Tom twice saves him. The queen finds out that they are related and tells him how this is. The end.

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Artemis Fowl

Title: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
Summary: A genius millionaire mastermind named Artemis Fowl is twelve years old and wanting to bring back his family fortune so he tries to figure out a magical fairy language that no one has done before but on his journey he encounters many obstacles and has to kidnap a fairy…. and a dangerous one too. The fairies live far underground and Artemis is one of the few who believe in these bizarre and dangerous creatures.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Reviewer: Billy
Summary: This is a book about a detective and his friend that are faced with a lot of challenging cases that they have to solve. In the beginning of the book there is a case about a king that is being blackmailed by his old lover. The next part is about a girl whose fiancée has mysteriously disappeared but she is determined to find him. It is a very good book that really keeps you wondering about what is going to happen next. The book is written in old English and is sometimes hard to understand.

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Second Chance

Title: Second Chance
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
Reviewer: Brandon Haan
Summary: When Judd, Vicky, Lionel, and Ryan, find out that their family leaves them and goes to heaven they don't want to believe it. They don't believe in God, they find that they have alot of chances to start believing but they choose
not to. So, how do they come back to Christ after being left behind for the earth's last days?

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The Demon King

Title: The Demon King
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Reviewer: Megan S
In the land of Fells thing are all wrong with war coming from the realms around them and a civil war creeping around the corner this nation is falling apart. 16 year old Hanson Alister, former street lord of the raggers life is falling apart. First him and his clan friend Dancer find under age wizards on the sacred Mountain of Hanalea. Han takes a very power amulent from Micah Bayar,whose father is the high wizard of Fells. He learns that this amulet once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who had almost destoyed the world 2,000 years ago. Han has also worn silver cuffs for his whole life these cuffs grow with him, are impossible to break and seem to absorb high magic. Han isn't the only one with problems, Princess Raisa ana' Marianna has just returned from her three years of freedom in the clan with her father. She wants to be like the legendary warrior queen Hanalea who saved the world from the Demon King, but she's treated like a prisoner stuck in the castle. Her mother is being controlled by the evil power hungry high wizard Gavan Bayar. She even agrees to break the ancient laws of by trying to marry the princess heir of to a wizard. Listen to this surprising story full of magic, mysteries and long gone secrets.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Title: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Author: Ally Carter
Reviewer: Maddie
Summary:
Cammie Morgan goes to the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, which is really a school for spies. She and her friends figure out that there is another spy school… but this one is for boys. First, she and her friends learn that their school is going to host some mysterious guests. Then, she is blamed for a security breach that has the school’s top secret status at a risk. The Gallagher girls and the Blackthorne boys have to team up to test their spy skills, and the stakes for Cammie’s school are higher than ever.

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Absolute Pressure

Title: Absolute Pressure
Author: Sigmund Brouwer
Reviewer: Jenny
Summary: Ian loves to scuba dive and works at his uncle’s dive shop in Key West, Florida. He strongly admires Sherri, the girl who also works at his uncle’s shop. He wonders what she would feel like if he told her that every time he sees her he tastes blackberries, because he has a condition called synesthesia. Someone has tried to kill Ian, twice and lead him to believe his uncle is in great danger. What he doesn’t know, is that it’s even more complicating and terrifying than he would have ever thought it to be. In the end, something shocking happens. Ian’s uncle isn’t who he thought he was. It will leave you asking, does Ian’s uncle care about him, or not?

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Ender’s Game

Title: Ender’s Game

Author: Orson Scott Card

By: Alec J.

The I.F. (International Federation) is looking for geniuses. When they find one they send them to a kid's battle school in space to train to be commanders to defeat the buggers. When they pass this battle school they go to another battle school for older people to become commanders. The I.F. thinks Ender is the chosen one who will save mankind. Ender was brilliant and never lost in his battle school. They had him play a video game where he was commanding ships to fight the buggers. In his final battle to see if he would go to the next school he had a couple hundred ships and the buggers had a couple thousand. Ender won, then blew up the planet. Everyone around him was in joy, Ender wondered why. The battle school teacher came up to Ender and told him that it was not a video game, but that he was commanding real people. Ender defeated the buggers. Ender saved mankind.

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The Last Song

Title: The Last Song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Reviewer: Megan Gallagher
Summary: It's About a 17 year old girl named Ronnie who's parents divorced. She's struggling
to get through it but it keep's getting worse. Then three years later her mom sends her and her
little brother Jonah to spend the whole summer with their Dad. When they get there Ronnie
ends up running into a boy named Will who starts to twist her rebellious streak into good and
starts to fall in love with her.

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Summer Ball

Title: Summer Ball
Author: Mike Lupica
Reviewer: Charlie H
Summary: This story is about a boy named Danny Walker who plays basketball, and wins the travel league championship. The next summer he goes to a premiere basketball camp called Right Way Camp, ran by a NBA star Josh Cameron. But Danny does not want to go to the camp because of how short he is, and he knows the other players will be much taller and stronger. When Danny gets to the camp he and his two other teammates run into old opponents from the travel league who don’t like Danny or his teammates. The camp has a tournament, and all the players are assigned coaches. Danny ends up with a mean basketball coach at the camp, and he picks on Danny the most of all on the team. So Danny and his Teammates try to win the Right Way Camp basketball tournament.

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The Big Field

Title: The Big Field
Author:Mike Lupica
Reviewer:Austin.T
Summary:
The big field is about a baseball player named Keith "Hutch" Hutchinson who plays for the Boynton Beach Cardinals.
All of his life he has been a shortstop on every baseball team he has ever played for. The book starts out with the cardinals, facing the Palm Beach Yankees to move on to the Florida State Regionals. Over the summer the Cards main shortstop hadn't been Hutch, but, it had been Daryl "D-Will" Williams. Heading into their next game. Coach Cullen for the next few games wanted to nominate a team captain and Hutch was voted by his whole team to be the captain, and when the whole team was chanting "Hutch, Hutch" he saw Daryl walking to the bench; picked his gear and went home.So a very big part of the story is about Hutch attempting to become friends with Daryl.
Now not only was Hutch trying to become friends with Daryl, but he was also trying to become friends with his dad. When his dad was Hutch's age, he was the captain of the Little League World Series Florida team. After winning the title, he got a scholarship to play baseball in college(the book doesn't say the college) and after that he got drafted by the NY Yankees and only got to Single A ball.
Later, he got signed with the Twins, but could only make to Triple A, not the majors. So his dad has 3 jobs and is always heart- broken(although you can never tell) that he didn't make the majors.In the book he grows closer to his dad and he starts to become great friends with Daryl. Their team gets to the Championship Game at Roger Dean Field(Spring Training for the Marlins) and it's the first year the Championship is being televised.D-will hit the game winning homer, but Hutch didn't care, because for the first time in a long long time he saw his father in the stands gave him a hug, and his father hugged back.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Author: J.K. Rowlings
Reviewer: Andy F
Summary: This is the first of the Harry Potter books. There are many more. This book is about Harry who doesn’t know he’s a wizard at first but goes to Hogwarts a school for wizards. He meets a giant, named Hegrid, Ron Weasley and his family, and Hermione Granger and many other wizards. While at Hogwarts, he learns to fly a broomstick, and learns how to play Quidditch, finds an invisibility cloak and can spy on people because he can be invisible. When he first gets to the school, the teachers separate kids into 4 teams and he gets to be with Ron and Hermione on the Gryffindor team. The books is a fantasy book and I give it 5 stars!

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Band of Brothers

Title: Band of Brothers
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Reviewer: Forrest W
Band of Brothers is set in the 1940s during World War two, it is about two airborne companies, Easy, and 101st. It tracks their progress through the training camps all the way to D day. It tells how brutal and devastating war really is, from all of their battles to the emotional devastation of the soldiers and their families. It explains how the soldiers become so close friends that every one of them would give their lives for one and other.

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