Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

I read the book Soul Surfer. It is the story behind the pro surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany Hamilton was surfing with her best friend Alana at Napali Coast which is one of the safest places to surf, or well it was until Bethany was attacked by a shark. She was attacked by a tiger shark [...]

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Bailey Gibrick p.7 argentar 
Imagine a mother that has to go through so much trauma and fright to get her daughter who has been kidnapped back? What if you had to take risks that would effect your life forever? What if every move you made decided whether your daughter will live or die? Sue Young’s one [...]

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Review by: Adam C.
Wells- 2
Taken, by Chris Jordan, is the mystery where a parent’s nightmare enters reality. When Kate Bickford’s son Tommy scores the winning run for his little league baseball game, he goes to get himself something to eat. And that’s the last time Kate sees him. She goes all over her town searching [...]

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It’s Kind of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
By: Michaela M.
Wells
Period 3
Some may say a person dealing with depression also means they are bad, cranky people who don’t have lives. In Ned Vizzinis It’s Kind of A Funny Story, his main character, Craig Gilner, re-defines what depression is all about.
Craig is an out-going, kind, teenager [...]

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Winter Games By John Lacombe
Review by Aaron Appelbaum
Wells period 4
Winter Games is a captivating novel that leaves you hanging at the end of every chapter.  You will always be begging for more.  If you enjoy action, suspense, cliff hangers and thriller novels then this is the book for you.  I never knew what was coming [...]

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Review By Hanna Boorom
Hoffman -  Period 6
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Have you ever had a dream or a premonition come true? Well, for 16 year-old Gemma Doyle, that is a stark reality that haunts her. Growing up wealthy with her mother, father, and housekeeper in India in the 1700’s, Gemma has led [...]

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The Taking by Dean Koontz
Review by Mikey Ling
Ms. Hoffman – 6th Period
The book I chose to read was called The Taking by Dean Koontz. This book is filled with twists and turns that are truly meant for the type of person who can stand scary books. The suspense is overwhelming! Molly Sloan wakes up beside [...]

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The Sea of Monsters
By: Rick Riordan
Review by: Hayley Glatter
What would you do if a swarm of killer pigeons engulfed your camp and started pecking everyone’s eyes out? Well, Percy Jackson, the demigod, would pull out his trusty sword Riptide and begin his assault. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan follows the half blood Percy [...]

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The Lightning Thief By: Rick Riordan

Review By Julie Moy Leong

Roarrr!!! The monster races toward a boy, charging like a raging bull. The boy, named Percy, faces many more monsters than just that Minotaur, a bull-man. In the book, Percy discovers he’s half human and half god, or a Demigod. He goes on a [...]

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Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult
Review by Jaime Horwitz
It only takes nineteen minutes for a school shooting to happen.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is about a 17- year old boy, Peter who
commits a terrible crime. Peter is not the most popular guy at Sterling
High. After Peter commits this crime, jail awaits him until [...]

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