Sunday, August 17, 2014

Divergent

Divergent by Veronica Roth {Google image} In Beatrice Prior's society, 16 year old's are divided up into five factions. There's Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).  If you choose the faction you are not from, you don't get to see your family again. When she takes her test to determine which factor...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Inside Out & Back Again

Inside Out & Back Again  by Thanhha Lai {Google image} Hà is a little girl you lives in Vietnam. Soon, the Vietnam War gets closer and closer to her home in Saigon. Many of their friends and neighbors are leaving to escape the war. After Saigon's fall in 1975,  Hà and her family are forced to leave there beloved country and travel to a place where they can be safe. They soon...
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Make Lemonade

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff {Google image} LaVaughn is a fourteen year old girl who is determined to go to college once she has enough money.  When she starts babysitting to earn extra money, she meets Jolly.Jolly is a seventeen year old single mother, with two children who both have different fathers.LaVaughn tries to help Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons in her life.    ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Book Thief

Book Thief  by Markus Zusak Liesel Meminger is a young girl who has no family to call her own. Her life changes when she meets her new foster parents that live outside of Munich and becomes their daughter. With the help of her foster father, she learns to read and shares the books she stole with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jew that is hidden in their basement. My...
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Matched

 Matched   by Ally Condie This book is all about a girl named Cassia. She always believed that the Society she lived in was perfect. In the Society, the people in charge decide when you marry, who you marry, and even when you die. On the day she is matched, she is amazed when she is matched with friend her Xander. They've known each other since they were...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Mary, Bloody Mary

Hello and welcome to my book review site. It may be a little bare right now, but that will soon change. Thanks for stopping by. :) Mary, Bloody Mary  by Carolyn Meyer  Princess Mary Tudor has lived in a grand palace ever since she was born. She has beautiful gowns, jewels and goes to magnificent parties. Her life begins to change drastically when King Henry VII, (Mary's...
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