Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

Reviewed by: Mrs. Wilson
This book is about Kyle McAvoy, a recent Yale Law School grad. that gets blackmailed for something he may have done at a fraternity party.
Kyle is afraid of losing everything he has worked so hard for, and disappointing his father, a small town lawyer. So, he reluctantly agrees to spy on his [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
Thom Creed is not your usual teenager. He’s a good basketball player, except for the “seizures” that start to show up when he’s stressed out.  His dad is a disgraced superhero who works a factory job. Then there are the guys who are jealous of his athletic ability and his dad’s refusal [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
D,J.’s sophomore year didn’t go well and the basketball scouts aren’t going to be looking at her in the fall if she doesn’t pass sophomore English. Her teachers didn’t know that DJ was basically running the family dairy farm because her dad had hurt his back. He might have been a great [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
Catch is the story of small town “golden boy” Tim Temples. Tim has just graduated from high school and is set to enter the University of Illinois-Urbana in August. He was a star catcher for his baseball team till he messed up his knee during a game. He’s not sure he wants [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
Jack is the Warrior Heir to the Weirlind.  Very few weirlind know that he exists, until one day  he skips his “heart medicine” and his powers become visible to those who know what to look for. That starts Jack’s race to learn to handle his new-found abilities before he’s kidnapped or killed [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
This fantasy is written in a style more like Lewis or Tolkien than Atwater-Rhodes or Chima or Snyder. By that I mean that the style is more formal than “Poison Study” or “Wizard Heir”, but it is just as gripping. Gabrielle is a bonemender or healer as well as the Princess of [...]

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Reviewed by Mrs. Barnett
Adrienne Willis’ daughter is depressed because her husband dies suddenly. Adrienne  decides to tell her how she was able to handle losing her husband fifteen years earlier.
Forty-five year old Adrienne Willis explains that she  was a  sad, divorced lady. She says she was totally dejected when her husband, who was the father [...]

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review by Mrs. Johnson
This was a fun fantasy involving shape-changing cultures who have been at war for centuries. Danica is heir to the avian shapeshifter throne. She wants to end the war between her people and the serpiente or snake shifters. Their leader, Zane Cobriana, proposes to end the war, LITERALLY! Can hawk and snake [...]

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Reviewed by Mrs. Barnett
Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl from Nepal. She was a good student and she was promised in marriage to a local boy. Her family became extremely poor after the Himalayan monsoons destroyed crops.
Lakshmi shiftless stepfather takes 800 rupees from a lady who said she would find [...]

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Craig Gilner is in way over his head. He thought that by studying his butt off and getting into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School he would be is great shape for the rest of his life. Unfortunately, everybody there is a genius and Craig can’t keep up. He gets so twisted up in his head [...]

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