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MAY 25, 2007
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Teens are invited to add a review on this blog about a book that they have read. It's easy and you will earn a free candy bar too! At the end of this blog simply click on the "Add a Comment" button where you can put in your own book review. Or, if you would like to add a comment to a book already on this blog, do the same thing; click on the "Add a Comment" button and write what you think. Either way you will receive a free candy bar when you come into the Children's Room to tell us that you have posted.

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MAY 18, 2007
Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan
How do we really know we are hearing the truth. Is truth a perception or a fact. If you believe in something enough, does it become true? For Miracle McCloy, a child born from a dead woman’s body, truth is fact. Her mother truly died before she was born. Her father, Dane, truly melted. Gigi, her grandmother is very involved in psychic works and séances. Gigi and Miracle are forced to move in with Granddaddy Opal (Gigi’s es-husband). Gigi, overbearing in nature, does not want Miracle associating with Granddaddy Opal. Yet, it is Granddaddy who encourages Miracle to dance and learn to ride a bike. Tragedy strikes when a tornado demolishes Granddaddy’s house, and Gigi forbids Miracle to dance. Miracle is tossed around from family member to family member. She now lives with her Aunt Case and Uncle Toole. A tragic accident with candles lands Miracle in the psych unit of the hospital. Miracle must decipher truth from perception or from fact in order to save herself from insanity.  This award winning book is recommended for grades 6-12. 

Add a comment  (1 comment) posted by Miss Jessica

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MAY 8, 2007
Crispin at the Edge of the World
Are you a fan of Avi - someone who enjoyed Crispin, Cross of Lead? Then I feel sure that you will want to follow the further adventures of Crispin and Bear in this sequel which takes up just as the first book of the planned trilogy ended. The newly freed pair are eagerly leaving Great Wexly when Crispin becomes aware that Bear is quite weak. The search for a shelter and food results in the wounding of Bear and the knowledge that he is still being pursued by his former comrades. Fortunately, he is cared for by an aged healer, Aude, and the disfigured girl, Troth, who is her companion. Bear gradually regains at least partial health. Soon, however, inhabitants of a nearby town murder Aude and the other three must flee, forming from then on a supportive "family." They travel to the seacoast town of Rye (to Crispin - the edge of the world as he knows it.) Then sought even there, they manage to escape aboard a cog, but a wild storm lands them in even greater peril on the coast of Brittany. Once again, Avi has created a realistic portrait of England during the Middle Ages with an engaging young hero struggling to preserve his adopted family and leading to a conclusion which leaves the reader anxious to know "what happens next . . . ?"

Add a comment  (1 comment) posted by Mrs. Bedel

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