Good Books

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Good Books!

• 7/8 Reading Program

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summaries from amazon.com
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Melinda busted an end-of-summer party by calling
the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her,
and people she doesn't even know hate her from a
distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside
her own head. But even that's not safebecause
then she would have to admit the truth.
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• Eoin Colfer describes his new book, Artemis
  Fowl, as "Die Hard with fairies." He's not far
  wrong.
• Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most
  ingenious criminal mastermind in history. He
  knows that the only way to separate the little
  people from their stash is to kidnap one of them
  and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the
  time comes to put his plan into action, he
  doesn't count on the appearance of Captain Holly
  Short of the LEPrecon Unit and her commander,
  Root.

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• The first time she saw him, she flipped. The
  first time he saw her, he ran. That was the
  second grade, but not much has changed by the
  seventh.
• But in the eighth grade everything gets turned
  upside down. And just as hes thinking theres
  more to her than meets the eye, shes thinking
  that hes not quite all he seemed.

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They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her
veins. How else could one explain the tremendous
passion that drives her to surf? How else could
one explain that nothing-not even the loss of her
arm in a horrific shark attack-could come between
her and the waves?
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• Meggies father posseses an extraordinary
  magical powerhe can read characters out of
  books. When an evil character kidnaps him,
  Meggie becomes involved in a breathless game of
  escape and intrigue as her father's life is put
  in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?

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• The convicts we have are the kind other prisons
  don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky,
  but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by
  being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I
  came here because my mother said I had to.

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Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has
Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great
deal about math and very little about human
beings. When he finds his neighbors's dog
murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey
which will turn his world upside down.
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What happened to cause Branwell to become mute?
All anyone knows is that he called 911 because
his baby sister had stopped breathing, and when
he was unable to speak to the operator, the
English au pair came on the line to say that
Branwell had dropped the baby and shaken her.
Now his best friend, Connor, begins the long
process of trying to communicate with his friend
to find out what really happened.
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Now that Russells teacher has passed on, he
hopes they'll shut the school down entirely and
leave him free to roam. No such luckinstead,
they hire a teacher he never could have
predictedperhaps the only teacher equipped to
control the likes of himhis sister Tansy.
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In a future where the Population Police enforce
the law limiting a family to only two children,
Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation
and fear on his family's farm. Then, he meets
another "thirdwho convinces him that the
government is wrong.
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Luthers just one of the many people trapped in
the Sarges Evil Empirebut hes about to bust
out. If Luther wins the science fair this year,
hell be on track for college and a future as
Americas best-known and best-loved philosopher.
All hes got to do is beat his arch rival Shayla
Patrick, the beautiful daughter of Flints finest
undertakerand the love of Luthers life.
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Once again, the Earth is under attack. Alien
"buggers" are poised for a final assault. The
survival of the human species depends on a
military genius who can defeat the buggers. But
who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning.
A tactical and strategic master. And a child.
Recruited for military training by the world
government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he
enters his new home Battleschool.
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With powerful language and keen insight, Johnson
tells the story of a young man's struggle to
figure out what "the right thing" is and then to
do it. The result is a gripping portrayal of a
single teenage parenthood from the point of view
of a teenager on the threshold of becoming a man.
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Lyra Belacqua, accompanied by her daemon, sets
out from her home at Oxford University to the
frozen wastes of the North, on a quest to save
kidnapped children from the evil 'Gobblers,' who
are using them as part of a sinister experiment.
Lyra also must rescue her father from the
Panserbjorne, a race of talking, armored,
mercenary polar bears holding him captive.
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Its 1895, and after the suicide of her mother,
16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the
life she knows in India to Spence, a proper
boarding school in England. Lonely,
guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future
that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true,
Gemma questions her destiny. What will her
entanglement with Spences most powerful
girlsand their foray into the spiritual
worldlead to?
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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse that began with
his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-
grandfather. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent
to a boys' detention center where the warden
makes the boys "build character" by digging
holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It
doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's
more than character improvement going on at Camp
Green Lake
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When a petty thief falls through a glass roof
while fleeing from the police, it should have
been the death of him. Instead, it marks the
beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become
the most successful -- and elusive -- burglar in
Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using
London's new sewer system to escape.
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(First 3) Rules of the Sisterhood 1.You must
never wash the pants. 2. You must never double
cuff the pants. It's tacky. 3. You must never
say the word "phat" while wearing the pants. You
must also never think to yourself "I am fat"
while wearing the pants.
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After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts
into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a
clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica
student bodyuntil the delicate scales of
popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is
shunned for everything that makes her different.
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From the perspective of road kill Desperate to
save the rest of his family from the wheels of
passing cars, Limpy the toad decides he must do
something to close the rift in human-toad
relations, and he embarks on a risky campaign to
show humans how nice cane toads can be.
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Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her
father, however, delighting in the art of spying.
When she is captured and sold as a slave to an
exiled royal family in the faraway Copper
Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference
in a world filled with political intrigue,
murderous conspiracy, and warring gods.
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Meg's father had been experimenting with
time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will
Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin
outwit the forces of evil as they search through
space for their father?
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• It's 1777the rebellious American colonies have
  been soundly defeated by the powerful British
  redcoats, and the imprisoned General Washington
  is to hang from the end of a gibbet

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• Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is
  merely a poor farm boyuntil his destiny as a
  Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an
  ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice
  from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept
  into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and
  power. Now his choices could saveor destroythe
  Empire.

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• When Michael goes out into the old rickety
  garage, he comes across a mysterious being living
  beneath spider webs and eating flies for dinner.
  This creature calls himself Skellig, and over the
  weeks Michael and his new friend Mina bring
  Skellig out in to the light, and their worlds
  change forever.

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• When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey
  is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny
  and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young
  mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of
  Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will
  help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.