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Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

Bibliography: McDonald, Abby. (2010). Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 9780763643829 Plot Summary:  Suburban teen and environmental activist Jenna convinces her mother to send her to Canada for the summer where godmother Susie is renovating a bed and breakfast in the real wild.  Faced with the reality [...]

Bibliography: Elkeles, Simon.  (April 2010).  Rules of Attraction. New York: Walker & Company. ISBN: 9780802720856 Plot Summary:  Even in Boulder, trouble follows Carlos.  Set up by a local drug lord, his brother Alex arranges for him to live with one of his college professors and his family to keep him from being sent back to [...]

Bibliography:  Fforde, Jasper. (2009). Shades of Grey. New York: Viking. ISBN: 9780670019632 Plot Summary:  Eddie Russet knows how his life will turn out–he’ll take his color test and score extremely high red, Constance Oxblood, the girl he is on a half promise to will accept his marriage proposal, and he’ll settle down to a quite [...]

Bibliography: Robertson, Michael. (2009). The Baker Street Letters. New York: Minotaur Books. ISBN: 9780312538125 Plot Summary:  London solicitor Reggie Heath loves his new law offices, and loves the great lease he got on them even more.  But there is a catch–the offices are located at 221b Baker Street and part of the deal is that [...]

Bibliography: Perl, Erica. (2010). Vintage Veronica. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780375859236 Plot Summary:  Almost 16, fat, friendless and interested in fashion, Veronica has landed the perfect summer job:  sorting clothes at a consignment shop.  The duds go down the chute to the dollar a pound floor downstairs and the gems she [...]

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