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Book Review: Boy Kills Man
Powerful -- but rough -- novel about child assassins. Teens only.
Read MoreBook Review: The Wanderer
Newbery-honored transatlantic sailing voyage.
Read MoreBook Review: Flight #116 Is Down!
Common Sense Rating: ON for ages 11+ Stars: 3 out of 5 (About Common Sense Ratings) Written By: Caroline Cooney Illustrated By: none none Release Date:...
Read MoreBook Review: Surrender
Lyrical, award-winning thriller has twisty ending.
Read MoreBook Review: Things Hoped For
Teens connect over music and death. Intriguing.
Read MoreBook Review: Just Listen
Teen angst, beautifully done. For teens only.
Read MoreBook Review: Hoot
Roy is the new kid in school, and is already being picked on by the school bully, Dana. But one day, while having his face mashed against the bus window, he sees a mysterious barefoot boy running away from the bus and school. Roy tracks him down and discovers, among other things that the boy, who calls himself Mullet Fingers, is committing acts of vandalism against a construction site where they plan to build a pancake restaurant on a site where rare and endangered burrowing owls are nesting.
Meanwhile, in dealing with Dana, Roy finds that getting the better of him only seems to make him more dangerous. Fortunately he finds an ally in Beatrice, Mullet Finger's stepsister, who's even tougher than Dana. And Mullet's pranks, rather than discouraging the foreman of the construction crew, seems to be making him more dangerous as well.
Read MoreBook Review: Car Trouble
Duff finds trouble while driving cross country.
Read MoreBook Review: Fat Kid Rules the World
Lots here to discuss: teen suicide, drugs, homelessness, abuse.
Read MoreBook Review: Bucking the Sarge
Luther fights to survive his criminal mother.
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