The Horse Whisperer

Title: The Horse Whisperer
Author: Nicholas Evans
Reviewer: Hannah Q.
Summary: When two girls and their horses get into a tragic crash their world's turn upside down. One girl and her beloved horse die and the other horse, Pilgrim, and rider, Grace, are seriously injured. Then Grace's mother, Annie, hopes to find a "horse whisperer" to help cure Pilgrim's horrible thoughts and memories from this terrifing day. Grace and Annie move from there busy home in New York City to a rustic cabin in Montana where Tom Brooker, the horse whisperer, try to cure Grace and Pilgrim's wounded soul's. Will Tom and Annie be able to cure there soul's or will they be troubled forever?

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Clash of the Demons

Title: Clash of the Demons
Author: Joseph Delaney
Reviewer: Jack P.
Summary: When Tom Ward receives a letter from his mom that she is coming home from Greece and needs to meet her at the house where he grew up he heads right to his former home with his master John Gregory where he finds his mom, a clan of witches, and Bill Arkwright (a spook from the north) asking him to come to Greece with them to fight the one of the most powerful monsters in the world, the Ord, who lives in a massive castle called the Ordeen. Along the way they will face the most powerful forces in the world. This book is full of intense battles, impossible situations, amazing destinations, and surprises that will make you never want to stop reading.

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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

Title: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Reviewer: MaryPat

Summary: This book is about a eleven year old wizard named Harry Potter. When Harry was a baby his parents were killed by a dark wizard, Voldemort. Now that Harry is older he is now learning more about his new wizard life.

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The Amber Spyglass

Title: The Amber Spyglass
Author: Philip Pullman
Reviewer: Kaitlyn S.
Will is determined to rescue his friend Lyra. She was kidnapped by Mrs. Coulter. He travels to Lyra’s world and with help of two Gallivespian spies, two low class angels, and the armored bear Iorek Byrinson he rescues his dearest friend. Lyra and Will are never safe. People from every universe are trying to attack them. They find out they must go to a place no living being has ever gone before. In doing so they must separate from their daemons, their life long companions who should never leave their sides. All the while a great war is fought as Lord Asriel leads his troops of glorious angels, tiny Gallivespians, armored bears, and flying witches into battle. An assassin follows Lyra’s path and Professor Mary Malone constructs the amber spy glass. As Lyra and Will search for their daemon and dust escapes from the sky the fate of every conscious being comes to depend on the simple choices of two mere children.
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Wringer

Title: Wringer
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Reviewer: Brad
This story is about a boy named Palmer. He is the son of a trophy winning pigeon shooter. He starts to hang out with some guys who want to be wringers, people who snap injured pigeons’ necks. They soon find out the he is hiding a pigeon named Nipper in his closet. Nipper brings Palmer and his neighbor, Dorothy, back together with all they play with each other. So now the gang has their suspicions; now see what will happen to Palmer.

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Locked in Time

Title:Locked in Time
Author: Lois Duncan
Reviewer:Annmarie
Nore came to visit her dad and her new step-family.when she arrives she feels very welcomed, but then she starts to "fall in love" with her neww brother, Gabe, and things take a turn down-hill.she starts to notice some weird things going on with her new family and decides to incestigate. but what she finds out is more than she can handle. her new family will never age! lisete, Gabe,and Josie are stuck at one age for their entire lives! and when she tries to worn her father, its to late he is on his way to the air port for a business trip. she is now traped and when she tries to hide to save her life they find her, lock her in a small shack, and sets it to fire! just when she thinks that her life is over, dave(a good friend and nieghbor) breaks the lock and carries Nore to her safety!
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Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Alud
Tally Youngblood is about to turn sixteen, and is excited. In Tally's world when a boy or girl turns sixteen, they are given an operation that turns them from "ugly" to a "pretty".
Tally befriends with a girl named Shay, who is also an "ugly". They both discover they have so much in common. They were the best of friends. Tally would always talk about someday becoming "pretty". But Shay isn't sure if she wants to become "pretty". She'd rather stay "ugly" and live in the forest. Shay told Tally that she was running away to the Smoke (a place in the forest where "uglies" runaway to live) and asks her to come with. Tally decided that she wanted to stay and have the operation. Shay was sad, hurt, and understood that Tally wouldn't go. Shay asked Tally no to tell anybody that she was going to live at the Smoke, Tally promised Shay. They both said their good-byes.

It was finally Tally's sixteenth birthday and was ready for the operation of becoming "pretty". Tally's operation did not proceed. Instead she was at Special Circumstances. Dr. Cable (a cruel beautiful "special") met with Tally and told her that they know about Shay running away to the Smoke. Tally was suprised. Dr. Cable told her that she becomes a spy for Special Circumstances to betray Shay, arrest the people living in the smoke, and have the operation, or, refuse to be their spy for Special Circumstances and stay as an "ugly" forever. Will Tally betray Shay and the people living in the Smoke, or, refuse and stay an "ugly" for the rest of her life? Read the book if you want to find out what happens next.
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Holes

Title: Holes
Author: Louis Sacher
Reviewer: Bridget
What would you do if you were punished for a crime you didn't do? Stanley Yelnets was put into this situation, he was innocent of the crime, but the court didn't know that. As punishment, he was sent to Camp Greenlake, but it wasn't a fun camp. At Camp Greenlake you were to dig a hole everyday, as wide and as long as your shovel. So, Stanley did as he was told, he dug a hole everyday with very little water or food, but he wasn't the only one. Some other people at Camp Greenlake were; Armpit, Zero, Zig-Zag, Twitch, and X-Ray. One day, Zero (the youngest and smallest of all the children) got tired of being pushed around, so he ran away. He didn't know where he was going, all he could see was desert, but he didn't care. Stanley became worried about Zero, and after only a few days, he ran after him. So, will Stanley find Zero? If so, where will they go? Why was Zero at Camp Greenlake? Who caused the crime that forced Stanley into Camp Greenlake? You'll have to read the book to find out!
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