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Showing posts with label Truman Award nominee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truman Award nominee. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2016

Popular: A Memoir/ Maya Van Wagenen/ 259 pages

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Truman Reader Nominee Popular: A Memoir by Maya Van Wagenen is a winner in my book!  Maya is entering eight grade in Brownsville, Texas.  Th...
Monday, July 14, 2014

See you at Harry's / Johanna Knowles / 310 pgs.

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"Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen...
Monday, April 22, 2013

The Name of the Star/Maureen Johnson/372 pages

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Set in modern day London, Rory has just started classes at a boarding school in London. As she is settling in to a new routine, a series of ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Cloaked/Flinn/341 pages

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Alex Flinn is a master of retelling fairy tales and Cloaked is like a fairy tale "mash up"!  The Frog Prince, The Six Swans and Th...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Jane in Bloom/Deborah Lytton/182 pages

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Jane is ready to celebrate her twelfth birthday by finally getting her ears pierced. Her plans are ruined by her sister's trip to the em...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Maze Runner/James Dashner/375 pgs.

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Until the arrival of "Thomas," teenage boys are being "dropped" into a box ultimately ending up in the Glade--a large ar...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Maze Runner/ James Dashner/ 375 pg.

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I listened to this book on cd. It is fairly engaging and enough keeps happening so that I have to keep driving to finish an exciting bit....
Monday, May 9, 2011

The Cupcake Queen / Heather Hepler / 242 pages / Truman Readers Award Nominee

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This story follows 14 year-old Penny who is forced to move with her newly-separated mother from Manhattan to the small town of Hog’s Hollow ...