Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

Review by Trever Steinbrink, Wise 2
        Wallace Wallace, the guy with the name so nice you have to say it twice; has become a person who never lies. And is known for being the football hero of Berford because he scored the lucky championship touchdown. But when he gets pulled out of football [...]

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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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What would you do if you were in love Hockey and you want to enjoy every single aspect of playing hockey but every body made fun of you because you couldn’t skate because you have hand me down skates that were to big.
This Novel is about a kid named pie. Pie is a teenage [...]

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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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Slam by Walter Dean Myers is a great book for all you professional wanna be’s. the problem for seven-teen year old Greg “Slam” Harris is that there are too many problems. For one his grandma is very ill and is in the hospital. Also he has suspicious thoughts about his friend Benny “Ice” Reese selling [...]

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Review by Brandon W
Brown 5
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella is a story revolving about a man named, Ray, who keeps hearing mysterious voices coming from old baseball announcers. “If you build it he will come” is the first voice he hears. Instantly Ray knows what he has to do, build a baseball field. While beginning [...]

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Review by Paul W.
Brown Period. 3
After star college basketball player Jason Lewis returns from World War II in Japan, with 2 missing fingers on his shooting hand, Jason must continue to stay active in the game. Since Jason can’t play, he must turn to be a once hated referee. As Jason tries to make [...]

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Maxx W
Brown Period 8
Over Winter Break, I read the book Crackback by John Coy. The main character is a high school kid, Miles Manning who is a starter on the football team. Miles has a small body for the game and is always being pushed by his coach and his father to become bigger, faster, [...]

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Review by Chandler S.
Mrs. Colan-period 4
“I rolled to the right side, ran Tompkins into a pick, and got the ball from Roy. Tompkins had recovered and went up with me. I stuffed over him, and the crowd went crazy”. Hoops is an amazing story about a seventeen year old Lonnie Jackson whose team is in [...]

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