Broken Chords by Todd B., Oxford, MI Barbara Snow Gilbert’s Broken Chords will truly strike a chord with all who read it. Depicting the internal struggle of one teen, Gilbert develops her theme with great technique. Using rites of passage, she accurately shows teenage life ... Continue...
Cold Sassy Tree by Moriah G., Knoxville, TX Cold Sassy Tree is l4-year-old Will Tweedy’s exciting memory of a family love affair at the turn of the last century in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia ... Continue...
From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank by Samuel E., Keeseville, NY From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank by Joshua Tickell is an excellent guide on how to run a diesel automobile on vegetable oil ... Continue...
Hard Love by Heidi N., Mesa, AZ It sure sounded like any other teen angst “I-love-you-but-you-can’t-love-me-back” affair that’s been stocking the shelves of every library lately. Thank goodness I was wrong ... Continue...
Last Man Down by Kelsey D., Wilmington, DE Last Man Down: The Story of a Survivor and a Hero by New York Fire Department Deputy Chief Richard Picciotto (with help from Daniel Paisner) is the true story of a firefighter’s experience on September 11 ... Continue...
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Andrew T., Yorktown, NY Meet Richard Feynman. Without a doubt, he was the most peculiar, inquiring and comic man who ever lived. Not to mention that he was a world-renowned, Nobel Prize-winning, quantum electrodynamics developing physicist whose brilliance is compared to Einstein’s ... Continue...
The Ice Queen by Brittany A., Johnstown, OH Sitting with this book in your lap and running the pages through your fingers, you can’t help but gain a sense of enchantment ... Continue...
The Joy Luck Club by Rachel T., Clive, IA A beautifully written novel by Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club takes us inside the lives of four Chinese women and their American-born daughters ... Continue...
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