Sixth grader Miranda walks home with her best friend every day, helps her mom study for her $20,000 Pyramid debut, and reads A Wrinkle in Time over and over again. But suddenly her life is full of odd characters: the crazy man under the mailbox on her street, and the kid who punches her [...]
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
December 6th, 2009 · 8 Comments
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Nation, by Terry Pratchett
March 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
On his way back from the Boys’ Island to his coming-of-age feast, Mau survives the giant tidal wave that wipes out his entire Nation. On her way to join her father at his new island governorship, Daphne’s ship is caught in the same wave and runs aground on Mau’s island; she is the only [...]
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Monkey Town, by Ronald Kidd
April 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
The subtitle of this book is “The Summer of the Scopes Trial,” which says most of what you need to know. It takes place in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, in the summer of 1925, when Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan famously fought the big battles of religion vs. science and big-city [...]
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