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Book Review: Love That Dog

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A terrific book for reluctant readers and discussion groups.

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Gearing: Back-to-School Cool

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School's in! We've found some smart picks for heading back to class.

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Book Review: The Last Holiday Concert

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The kids are in charge of the annual holiday concert.

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Pig Pen

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Transform an ordinary pen into a fun study buddy by topping it with an adorable pom-pom piglet.

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Book Review: Killing Mr. Griffin

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Engrossing but violent thriller about peer pressure.

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Book Review: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!

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Witty ode to unconventional education.

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Book Review: Sahara Special

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This is a lovely, moving book about a student and teacher.

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Book Review: Twisted

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After years of being an unnoticed dweeb, Tyler gets noticed in high school when he spray-paints graffiti on the school. He also gets an arrest and conviction, a summer of community service, a probation officer, a newly muscular physique from the labor, and a reputation as slightly dangerous.

For a while things are OK for Tyler -- he is no longer afraid of bullies, and the hottest girl in school (daughter of his father's boss and sister of the worst bully) seem interested in him. But his father is verbally abusive, his mother an alcoholic, all of the adults in his life are suspicious of him, and the bullies are looking for a chance for revenge. And when his life spirals out of his control, he begins to think that his only options are the most drastic ones.

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Review: Frindle

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Nick's creative troublemaking brings his school to a standstill and causes a national uproar. The new word he's invented is sweeping the country. But he may have met his match in his fifth-grade teacher, Dangerous Grangerous.

Frindle is a word Nick makes up just to bug his fifth-grade teacher, who's a dictionary demon. This is nothing new for Nick, who has made a career out of wreaking creative havoc in school. But in Mrs. Granger he has found someone just as bright as he is, and they wage an evenly matched war of wits like a chess game.

Nick is just as determined to get everyone to use his new word as Mrs. Granger is to stop it. When their "war conference" fails, Mrs. Granger deploys her black queen (the principal), and Nick counters with his white queen (his mom). But the prank spirals out of control as the word catches on all over town, and when it spawns a national fad frenzy, Nick is in way over his head. But Mrs. Granger, who seems to have lost, may know more than she's telling.

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Book Review: Loser

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It's moving, funny, lyrical, and has powerful appeal.

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