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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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 City of Ember

Title: The City of Ember
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Reviewer: Courtney

Summary: When Lina Mayfleet discovers a mysterious paper just as her city is falling apart, lights are going out, their running out of food, and secrets are being kept, Lina will have to rely on the help of her old best friend Doon to maybe just maybe find a way to keep her city from falling apart.

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Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan

Title: Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan

Reviewer: Jack M

Summary: Will is a fifteen year old boy who has big dreams to become a knight but when the choosing ceremony comes he is rejected by all the craft masters except for one, the mysterious ranger Halt. Will trains as Halt's apprentice and they journey to the ranger gathering. When they get there though they find everyone is leaving. They learn a shocking truth Morgarath is rising.

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Title: Sistehood of the Traveling Pants
Author: Ann Brashares
Reviewer: Sam A.
There are four BFFs and they're all going away somewhere, but Tibby. Tibby is the one who stays home. Carmen had a pair of pants and they fit all four friends. All the friends are different sizes. They decided that each girl will have them for one week and pass it to a different friend, and have to write notes along with the pants.

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The Clique

Title: The Clique
Author: Lisi Harrison
Reviewer: Ashley
This story is about Massie Block and her friends. Massie is a very rich girl. When her dad's old friend and his family move into the Block's guest house Massie meets a girl named Claire Lyons. Throughout the story, Massie and Claire dont get along. Claire meets a new friend. Massie has a crush on Lane's (Claire's new friend) brother Chris. So Massie hangs out with Lane and trys to get closer to her brother. But Massie really doesn't succeed. In the end, Massie and Claire become best friends.

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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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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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Luna Bay Weather or Not

Title: Luna Bay Weather or Not
Author: Francess Lantz
Reviewer: Katie S.

Luna Bay is about three girls who are on a vacation in Florida for a surfing contest. Kanani is the main character. She and her friends, Luna and Rae, hit the surf on their first day on the Sebastian Inlet. Where they meet a sweet surfer named James. He flirts with Kanani and asks to go on a walk with him that night. Kanani thinks she likes James so she agrees to go. Kanani has a great time. But then the next day Rae comes back to the campsite in the morning saying she’s been on a walk with James too! Kanani gets furious with Rae. The next time Kanani goes out with James he takes her into the mangroves with jet skies where the endangered manatees live when he’s been told many times that it is very dangerous to the manatees survival, and he could get fined serious money for breaking the law!

Just when things are getting very heated up between Kanani and Rae, a hurricane comes toward the inlet. James told Rae he was going out in the storm to catch some serious waves. Both girls get very worried about James. Can they get over what happened between them in time to save James? Will one of the girls win the surf contest? Can the girls ever become friends again? Will the manatees survive the jet skies? You’ll just have to read the book and find out yourself!

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