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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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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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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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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The Clique

Title: The Clique
Author: Lisi Harrison
Reviewer: Catherine
Summary: When a small-town girl moves from Florida to Westchester, New York she has to live in somebodies else's guesthouse. That girl she has to live with is the fashion queen and ruler of her new school OCD (Octavian Country Day.) Massie makes sure that everyone at OCD hate her especially her friends. They are mean to her and love making fun of her. CLaire befriends a misfit named Layne even though she rather be in the 'cool' crowd. So when Claire get the chance she gets revenge by IMing Massie's friends as her. When they all turn there back on her Massie doesn't know what to do next. Will Massie ever find out? What will happen if she gets caught? You'll just have to read to find this out.

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The Sea of Monsters

Title: The Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Toni
Camp Half-Blood is in trouble. Someone has poisened Thalia's tree, making the camp unsafe and allowing monsters to enter. The Golden Fleece is their only hope. On top of that, Percy's friend Grover is being held captive by Polyphemus, the cyclops who stole the Fleece and uses its magical powers to lure young satyrs to their death. Percy, Annebeth, and Tyson set out on a quest to save the camp from its destruction. Luke also wants the Fleece, but he plans to uses its magic for evil. Percy finally reaches The Sea of Monsters. They sail its length barely surviving. With the help of his friends, Percy rescues Grover and the fleece from the giant cyclops. The fleece is brought to camp and it heals Thalia's tree. The camp is safe, at least for now.

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No Talking

Title: No Talking
Author: Andrew Clements
Reviewer: Gabby
Summary: Dave Packer read a book about Mahatma Gandhi for a report on India in school. One day each week Gandhi wouldn’t talk because he thought it brought order to his mind. So one day Dave decided to do the same and it ended up as a competition against boys and girls in his grade.

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Sea of Monsters

Title: Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Jason S.
Summary:
Percy Jackson has just found out he is the son of Poseidon and is in deep trouble. Camp Half Blood's protective tree has been poisoned and the camp is under attack by monsters daily. Percy Jackson's enemy, Clarisse, has just been granted a quest to save the camp, but can she do it alone? Percy and his friends decide to sneak off and try to save the camp themselves. Will the mysterious taxi driver's location lead them to the treasure or to their death's?Will the camp ever be safe......

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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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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 Last Apprentice; Revenge of The Witch

Title: The Last Apprentice; Revenge of The Witch
Author: Joseph Delaney
Illustrator: Patrick Arrasmith
Reviewer: Amy

Summary:
Thomas Ward is a seventh son of a seventh son. He takes on the job of being the spooks apprentice, which twenty-nine others have failed at or died trying to do. Along the way he meets a witch named Alice, who gets him into a lot of trouble. She tricks him into freeing the most dangerous witch, Mother Malkin. He learns how to capture boggarts, deal with witches, and gain courage as he defends the good people from the evils that lurk in the night. In the end he goes through many perils but manages to destroy Mother Malkin, once and for all.

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The Truth about Forever

Title: The Truth about Forever
Author: Sarah Dessen
Reviewer: Isabella
Macy Queen is looking forward to a quiet, controlled, and boring summer. She’s got a job at the library, which her perfect and brilliant boyfriend, Jason, had dumped on her while he was away at Brain Camp, and she also has to prepare for her SATs. But when Macy helps out with one of her mother’s open house events, and meets the Wish Catering crew, everything begins to change. Her protected life and her stubbornness at trying to be perfect ever since her dad died a year and a half ago, slowly diminishes when she agrees to a job offer from Wish. Macy only then gets introduced to the fun, exciting, and crazy side of life: parties, staying out late, and doing things spontaneously. Soon enough, Macy becomes friends with the Wish Catering crew: kind, clever Delia; quiet and unique Monica; apocalyptic Bert; wild and fashion-crazed Kristy; and artistic, understanding, and handsome Wes.
Wes and Macy decide to play an ongoing game of Truth, where they reveal secrets to each other that no one else has ever heard. Through this, they become closer and closer. Macy begins to see her life in a different way and figures out how she can change it for the better. However, Macy is completely blind to things about Wes that are so obvious to her other friends.
But when her mother, who constantly needs to be in control and everything needing to be perfect, gets involved with Macy’s new and improved life, things go badly. Her cruel punishment leads Macy back to her old, boring ways and distances her from her new friends, especially Wes. So can Macy convince her mother to just live? Can she realize what Wes is really feeling? And can Macy figure out what the truth about forever really is?
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I Know What You Did Last Summer

Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Author: Lois Duncan
Reviewer: Hannah
I Know What You Did Last Summer is about four friends, Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry, which get a letter in the mail saying, “I know what you did last summer”. Julie had been trying to for get everything about that summer, like her friends Helen and Barry, her boyfriend ray…. and the accident. One night, Julie, ray, Helen, and Barry were driving in conditions that they shouldn’t have been driving in and they hit a little boy on a bicycle. They went into a diner to call the ambulance, but then they all voted to just go home and act like it never happened. When the little boy’s death appeared in the paper, they made a pack to never tell anyone about that night. The four people hadn’t talked to each other since that summer and had managed to forget almost all of it. After they all got the letter, many more things were done to scare them. Someone must have seen the accident! Is the person going to turn them into the police, or do they just want revenge?
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Stormbreaker

Title: Stormbreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Reviewer: Joseph
This book is about A kid named Alex Rider . When his Uncle dies in A mysterious car crash he fiend out that he was working for a special intelligence agency called M16. When M16 recruits him to find his uncles killers. So he ends up going to A man Named Herod Sayle to invesyigate. But after figuring out a bunch of clues he figures out what he is up to so he has to stop him before time runs out.

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Moon White

Title: Moon White
Author: Melody Carlson
Reviewer: Alex
Moon White is about a teenage girl named Heather Sinclair. After a new girl, Liz, comes and steals Heather’s spot on the ballet team, she starts to study Wicca. Wicca is like a religion, but uses witchcraft. She gets really involved. When Heather has a near death experience, her passed away mother and her mother’s old best friend help her to realize who really is the best person to reveal your feelings to, God.

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