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Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments

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Review by Tyler G.
Into The Wild is about Chris McCanless’ adventure across Alaska and the West side of the United State. Chris McCanless hitchhiking across the harsh Alaskan terrain. McCanless eventually dies from the extreme cold. The rest of the book is about everyone that knew him talking about him.
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The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

April 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by: Tori Daul
Lockowitz – Period 3
I read the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This story was set in South Carolina in the 1960s, was racism was brutal. Lily Owens lived with her father, T.Ray on a peach farm. Her mother died when she was a little girl, and [...]

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East by Edith Pattou

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Allison B.
Wise period7
East is about a young girl named Rose. She lives on a farm with her parents and five older brothers and sisters. She loves to sew for her self and family, but it also keeps her mind off of her sister who is very ill and her family is in a [...]

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Left Behind by Tim LaHaye

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Nick S.
Wise P.2
The main conflict of this book is to try and figure out the reason that so many people just all of the sudden disappeared out of no where. Then the people that are “left behind” have to figure out why they are still alive and the others are dead [...]

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Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Review b Robert p.
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In the book Brisingr Eragon is tested against his limits. He is making dangerous oaths to people he shouldn’t. He makes an oath to his cousin Roran that he would help save Roran’s beloved Katrina. During the time that Eragon is helping Katrina he discover someone that has betrayed the town [...]

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Eragon By: Christopher Paolini

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Robert p. Lockowitz period 8.
The main conflict of this book is Eragon getting revenge for his uncle’s death and learning his responsibility as a dragon rider. Eragon goes through many changes throughout the book and even through these changes he will never forgot the faces of the murders who killed his uncle.
One aspect [...]

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Maximum Ride by James Patterson

April 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Steven W
Lockowitz-Period 8
In the book, Maximum Ride School’s Out-Forever, by James Patterson, there are six kids who have been genetically mutated by evil scientists. Their names are Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, Angel, Fang, and Max. Max is a round character because at the beginning of the book she doesn’t depend on anyone, but throughout [...]

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Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Hector G.
Mr.Lockowitz Period 8th
The book I read was Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles and the main conflict in the book involves two teens named Caleb Becker who spent the last year in juvenile detention center and Maggie Armstrong spent the last year in hospitals and physical therapy and both never expect what happens [...]

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Matt L.
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The main conflict of this Harry Potter book is that there is something or someone in the walls of the corridors at Hogwarts’ school for witchcraft and wizardry. People just started getting petrified when they are by their selves at nighttime. The creature wrote some message on the wall with red paint [...]

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The Mist By Stephen King

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Review by Trever S
Wise Period 2
Imagine, being stuck in a small town super market with 35 people and enough food to last a year; but your life could be brutally cut short by ungodly Destruction. Well that’s David and his son Billy situation. David is thinking of a way to escape or survive; through this [...]

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