Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

Review by Faith L
Mr Wise – period 7
The book I read was Kira – Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. It is about a young girl named Katie Takeshima and her family. Her older sister, Lynn, is the one who teaches her everything. To Katie, Lynn is perfect in every way. As their Japanese family struggles in [...]

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Review by Kelsey P.
Lockowitz Period 3
I read the book Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. This book is about two totally different people. First character would be Brittany Ellis she is a senor at Fairfield High School and is captain of the pom pom team and was dating the captain of the football team. [...]

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Review by Alec B
Wise period 2
Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a 16 year old boy who is being tried as an adult for robbery of a drugstore and murder . The whole book is written as screen play for a movie because Steven the main character really likes film class [...]

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Emily G. Wise Period 2
It’s about five girls and how they see their life and how they feel about each other. A girl named Claire Lyons is the new girl at Octavian Country Day School, who is not rich and lives with a girl named Massie Block. Who thinks she’s the greatest thing in the [...]

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Review by Kelsey P
Lockowitz Period 3
I read the novel Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles. This novel is about a girl and a boy named Maggie Armstong and Caleb Becker. It all started when Caleb went to a party and got drunk then got into an accident which ended up hitting Maggie. Caleb [...]

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Review by Jamie G.
Brown- Period 3
Meredith Shale is a fifteen-year-old teenager. She is a bothersome daughter, a worrisome girlfriend, and now a fearful victim. Growing up, Meredith is raped by her father and he is sentenced to prison. When Meredith verbalizes the event, her mother turns her back. Her father is released [...]

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Review by Kyle P.
Mr. Argentar – Period 7

In “The Glass Castle” follows the twisted
childhood of Jeannette Walls. Like most children Jeannette has two
parents her mom Rose Mary and dad Rex, and she has one brother Brian and two
sisters Lori and Maureen. Through out the book the Walls family has to
keep moving from town [...]

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Kelsey P.
Lockowitz 3
I read the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Is about a girl named Scout Finch. The summer when Scout was six and Jem was ten, they met Dill, a little boy who spent the summer with his aunt who lived next door to the Finches. Dill and Jem become [...]

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Reviewed by Jessi M
Lockowitz period# 3
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the main conflict is that the Finch family lives in a town in Maycomb this is kind of a racist town. In this town there’s a character named Boo Radley but he never comes out of his house and no one can seem [...]

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Emily G
Wise- Period 2
In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry is in his sixth year at Hogwarts. He soon learns why Voldemort (real name is Tom Riddle) who changed his appearance and how his childhood life was like. Professor Snape is the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Professor Slughorn is [...]

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