Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl
Tag Archives: Violence
Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)
July 20, 2008 – 6:33 pm
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
June 13, 2008 – 9:32 am
Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books
Product Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. [...]
The Clique Summer Collection #3: Alicia (Clique Series)
June 2, 2008 – 10:05 am
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Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain’s newest pop sensation ¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can’t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish [...]
Lock and Key
May 31, 2008 – 7:40 pm
Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Ruby, where is your mother?
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, shes been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
Thats how she comes to live with Cora, [...]
Clique Summer Collection #4:Kristen (Clique Series)
May 2, 2008 – 8:34 pm
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Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat… With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when [...]
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants)
April 21, 2008 – 5:45 am
Rating: (123 reviews)
Author: Ann Brashares
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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Ann Brashares has created a wonderful, heartfelt series for teens (and adults) around a pair of pants. In her breakout bestseller, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Brashares introduced readers to four girls, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, and to the magical [...]
Burned
April 18, 2008 – 4:46 pm
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of [...]
The Big Book Of Help (American Girl Library)
April 15, 2008 – 3:21 am
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl
Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series)
March 25, 2008 – 6:25 pm
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Publisher: Poppy
Book Description
Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie’s parents force her to take on a summer job. Not one to walk strangers’ dogs or babysit, Massie stumbles upon the perfect position while flipping through Teen Vogue poolside-she’ll be a sales rep for be pretty, the high-end cosmetics [...]
The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year) (Classic Seuss)
March 15, 2008 – 7:21 am
Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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A cautionary Cold War tale (first told by Dr. Seuss back in 1984), The Butter Battle Book still has a lot to teach about intolerance and how tit-for-tat violence can quickly get out of hand. Explaining the very [...]