Sara Zarr
The author of two novels, including National Book Award Finalist, Story of a Girl, Zarr feels compelled to make her bed every day.
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This book is about how Lyddies parents are gone, and her brother and sisters were sent to live with other people. Lyddie Worthen is on her own. When Lyddie hears about the mill jobs in Lowell, Massachusetts, she heads there with the goal of earning enough money to reunite her family. Six days a week...
Through out the Superman saga of the DC universes, Superman is the American hero that we know, but what if Superman is the soviet hero in Russia. This graphic novel special is about Superman was helping out in the Soviet Union, but with all the troubles happens in the saga with the rivialry of h...
Pretty Good. i love these kind of books. ...
it was not bad...
Calder,Petra,&Tommy r 3 adventurous kids about 2 save their towns historic landmark the Robie House but in the middle of it all there r a few odd clues and distractions. really cool and adventurous book...
This novel was very powerful. A teenager named Miles decides to attend a boarding school in Alabama. He did not know that the first girl he met there would change his life. Alaska was a very powerful person in a sense, and has even left an impression on me, despite the fact that she never was or is,...
This book is about how Tess She couldent believe she has to live like this. It’s bad enough that her parents got divorced but now that her dad has remarried and she has a new step-siblings, she thinks that nothing will ever be the same. When Annie destroys the school project that Tess has spent w...
This book is very funny to me. I like it because I can never stop reading it....
i like the book becuase it was very intreasting....
This book was Amazing book to read!!! I loved Every Inche of it. I would give this book a 10000 stars if they had one. I want to read the Second book to this if they have one!!!Hey, they better make one, I really enjoyed reading this book and it only took me4 days to read!!This was a great Book!...
This book is about a girl named Sabrina who is going through very troubling times. Her brother died the year before, her fiance’ is cheating on her, and she just doesn’t know what to do with her life. How will she ever get her life together again? Night Before Dawn shows just how great God’s lov...
A story about fifteen year old Reed, who leaves her pill-popping mother and father to attend Easton academy,and instead of hitting the books, Reed tries to fit in with the popular "Billings Girls" and changes her life completley....
I like this book because is funny and I like the movie they did about it ....
It is summer at Raglang.And the ragland team need homes to stay. Dani,and her bestfriend Bird is looking for a bf, so they sign up to make their house available to the teams, so that is how they got Jason in the house. Dani and jason seem pretty in love, but there is one problem. YOU CANNOT FALL IN ...
Animal Farm is a book written about communism in the Soviet Union. At first it explains that the farmer was in charge of the animals, and they had a miserable life. Their days were redundant, and the animals were always despondent. Shortly after a pig makes a dieng speech, that they should st...
Tim Meeker’s father and brother do not get along. The father is a Tory in a Tory town, and Tim’s brother, Sam, is a Rebel. Sam runs away to join the Patriot army, infuriating his father. Tim wonders which side he should support-or not join the bloody war at all. ...
This book was alittle werid..But it was okay to read about...but i didnt really enjoy it that much...
Very interesting! I love it....
Amelia and Carly are best friends. Then a new girl comes to their class named Maxine. She tries to be friends with Carly and puts mean notes in Amelia’s locker. Then Carly isn’t Amelia’s friend because she doesn’t like Maxine. Then Maxine puts a mean note in Carly’s locker. So Carly,...
This book is about the Drew family, moving into a old gray house in a place called Cornwall. Barney and his older brother and sister Simon, and Jane find the old house spooky. When they explore into the attic, Barney finds a treasure map from ancient celtic times, locating the Holy Grail. They begin...
You have to read it if you like hip-hop, but its one of those stories ..... I guess you just have to get....
Allie Finkle couldn’t believe that her family was moving to another place and that she was going to another school. She liked being friends with Mary Kay(her friend at her old neighborhood), and walking to school with her. But what kind of changed Allie’s mind, was that she’s getting a pet. A kitten...
Charlie Bone & The Time Twister is a book that I give 4 stars. It is exciting and has non stop suspense from beginning to end. It is full of magic and action.This is a book for all ages....
the book pinballs is very interesting and very funny it is realistic and very frightning....
Graphic novel on a cat’s point of view who wants to reunite with his clan....
This book was okay because Poppy returned back to her father for he is very sick. Her son named after Ragweed, causes trouble with his best friend, a skunk on the way there....
easy and fun to use especially if you love to cook...
In the book Elvis the Rooster and the Magic Words it talks about that Elvis doesn’t know how to be a kind person . He only knows to give commands. Thats why know everybody is telling him that if you want them to help you then you’ll have to say it in a kind way like (please give me my slippers or th...
great book for lemony snicket fans. Talks about lemony snicket’s life and explains who the characters from a series of unfortunate event’s come from...
THIS IS SUCH A SWEET STORY. IT SHOWS HOW A BOY CAN CONVINCE SOMEONE TO BE HIS VALENTINE....
Raven Madison is a goth girl who is looking for her Vampire dream boy. She was always being bothered by a rich spoiled boy named Trevor. Part of her life is about to change. On her sixteen birthday a family named the Sterlins moved into an abandon house that she use to sneak into. She was curious to...
i liked it but it is hard to explain the book because i finshed right now and i have not though of the book well. but it was good and it only took me around 2 houres short and easy read....
i think it is a great book but i think somehow it is a little boring too because they shouldn’t just always take about swimming....
i would love to read this book.It sounds real good .Cant wait to get it...
Jenney Grenley is the good girl at her school. The one any one can really on. She is really good at keeping secrets. She’s her school newspaper, unknown advice columnist. When a holly star named Luke Striker comes to her hometown of Clayton, Indiana, in disguised as Lucas Smith, she is responsible f...
It is not common to see a book portray the love between two women during WWII. Although people may think that biographies are boring and packed with endless facts, this book is just the opposite. Fischer writes in a way that puts the reader in the situation, with a format of fact, story, fact, story...
i didn’t really. like it so much. while everyone of my friends were like ooh, and ah. i was just eh. ulthough its a classic, i dont think i enjoyed reading it. the movie was much better....
i like this book...
this book is about poems...
harry had a new next door nerbor but she was a nice norber but she sang all night long she sanged low and high but then harry has in idea he hears something nice and sweet to his ears and he brings the group and mix with the lady next door harry thinks its all right when the lady yells at them for m...
this is a book that the scene takes place in either the court room or a jail cell. it’s about a teenage boy who cooperated in a robbery with his friends to steal money in a neighborhood store. but an arrangement that was supposed to be quick without anyone being hurt went terribly wrong.......READ T...
I did not like it. i got lost alot it was hard to understand but it did have some sad part that waas really hard to read the mother has to go to jail for 26 years....
I LOVED this book. Gail Carson Levine is also one of my favorite authors, who also wrote "Ella Enchanted." This book was entirely facsinating and pure fun!...
this story begins with some tragic happenings to these children named baudelaire. Now they are orphans but their related people have to take care of them...but now they have under controlled by their ugly, mean and terrible uncle. he wants to controll their money left by their parents. these childre...
this book was about a girl whos name is georgia nicolson and this is her journal and it tells about her crazy life...
Very heartwarming and entertaining and for the most part I give it five stars....
This Book Is About shel silverstiens poems, he is a great poet , he has funny poems sad poems and wierd poems...
A young lady Dorothy Gale and her dog ,Toto ,as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz....
if u read the book, the princess diaries, maybe thats easy to understand. becuase the princess in the spotlight is series of the princess diaries. story is continuing from the 1st book. but itz more about her mom and stepdad, princess thing and her lover. end of the story she found out person who li...
Very attractive...
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