Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

Jackie L.
Mr. Argentar
Period 5
I will Plant You a Lilac Tree is a true story about a normal teenage girl who was thrown out of her house, along with her family because they were Jewish. It was taken place around the 1940’s when the Holocaust was occurring. She was selfish and greedy at first bur then [...]

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Review by Nick S. 
Wise Period 2
The main conflict in this book is just some obstacles that each person faced on getting themselves to saftey on 9/11. For example one person had to go down about 80 flights of stairs just to get to the bottom. On the way down they encountered many people that were [...]

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Review by Danielle Steinberg
Wise 
Period 2
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is about Dave Pelzer himself living every child’s worst nightmare. Dave lived a horrifying childhood. He was abused as a young boy. A Child Called It is about a young boy’s struggle to fight for his life being abused. He was verbally and physically [...]

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Review by Michelle M.
Argentar- Period 5
In the book Poison Inkby Christopher Golden, Sammi and her four friends, Katsuko, Caryn, T.Q., and Letty, are all very close friends. They are all different and unique in their own way. With all their different talents, they make a good friendship bond. At school, they might not fit as [...]

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Review by Zoe N
Wise -7
Hannelore Wolff has to go through one of the worlds worst nightmares. The holocaust. She has been taken from camp to camp, seen one of her brothers get sick and die, and had to dig graves for all of the other Jewish people that have been killed along the [...]

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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 Carisa C.
Brown Period 5
Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey is about a teen gymnasts dreams to be an Olympic gymnast, and her struggles on the way of getting there. At the age of 38, Mike Jacki, head of the U.S. Gymnastics Team, calls Jen and asks her to compete in an upcoming [...]

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Review by Kim Davies
wise period 7
In the book ” I will plant you a lilac tree” by Lara Hillman, it is about how a young girl named Hannelore Wolf and her family Selly, Wolfgang and her mom get deported to the east. Six weeks after her dad got killed. During her long journey from 1942-1945 [...]

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Review by Patty H.
Wise- Period 7
A loving boy was raised to defend one self and live on his own. Dave Pelzer son of an alcoholic mother embarks on a journey of struggles through out his life. As a young boy, Dave Pelzer learns that his pain comes from not having a place called home. Dave experiences  many conflicts as he [...]

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Review By Julia F.
Argentar period 5
A Child Called “It” is a true story about a boy who is living a very abusive life as a child. In the beginning of her child hood her mom loves her just as much as she loves he other siblings. As time goes on her mom gets more [...]

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