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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alexie, Sherman. (2007) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co. Plot Summary: Junior lives with a loving and close knit family on a reservation in...
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Chasing Yesterday: Awakening
Wasserman, Robin. (2007). Awakening. New York, NY: Scholastic Plot Summary: JD’s earliest memory is of waking up in pain, on the ground, unable to move. She doesn’t know what happened, how it...
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The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert. (1974) The Chocolate War. New York, NY: Pantheon. Plot Summary: Every student at Trinity has a quota: sell 50 boxes a chocolates. If you don’t you’ll have to answer not just to the...
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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Patterson, James. (2005) Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. New York, NY; Little, Brown Books. Plot Summary: Max isn’t quite human. The results of a scientific experiment, she and the rest of her...
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The Great Wide Sea
Herlong, M.H. (2008) The Great Wide Sea. New York, NY: Viking Juvenile Plot Summary: While Ben and his younger brothers are still recovering from their mother’s death, their father sells their home,...
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Monster
Myers, Walter Dean. (1999) Monster. New York, NY: HarperCollin’s Children’s Books Plot Summary: Sixteen year old Steve Harmon is in jail, waiting to be tried for murder, and not even his attorney is...
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The Dark and Hollow Places
Ryan, Carrie. (2011) The Dark and Hollow Places. New York, NY: Random House Children’s Books Plot Summary: In this final book of The Forest of Hands and Teeth trilogy, Gabry, Catcher, and Elias are...
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Warming
Gore, Al. (2007) An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Warming. New York, NY: Viking. Plot Summary: With statistics and full color photographs, Gore presents the basics of a global crisis. From...
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Hatchet
Paulsen, Gary. (1987) Hatchet. New York, NY: Simon Pulse. Plot Summary: Brian is on his way to visit his father after his parent’s divorce when the pilot if the two seater plane he is taking to get...
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The Hunger Games
Jacobson, Nina (producer) and Ross, Gary (director). (2012) The Hunger Games [motion picture]. USA: Lionsgate. Plot Summary: Film adaptation of the popular book series. Critical Evaluation: Creating a...
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