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Bibliography: Noyes, Deborah. August, 2008. The Ghosts of Kerfol. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 9780763630003. Plot Summary: In Kerfol, Edith Wharton tells the story of Anne de Barrigan, a French woman who was accused of murdering her overbearing older husband. She claims to have heard a pack of dogs near his body in the dark, [...]

It is that time of year again. When you want to sit on the porch and drink lemonade. When kids are out of school and play outside in the street for hours after supper.  When it’s time to watch So You Think You Can Dance.  I have been obsessed with dance since I was small.  [...]

Bibliography: Werlin, Nancy. September, 2008. Impossible. New York: Dial Books. ISBN: 978-0-8037-3002-1 Plot Summary: At 17, Lucy Scarborough has a pretty normal high school life:  she runs track, consoles her best friend when she has boy problems, and is looking forward to the junior prom.  But she also has a mother who is literally crazy, [...]

Bibliography: Myracle, Lauren. September 2008. Bliss. New York: Harry Abrams. ISBN: 9780810970717 Plot Summary: Bliss Inthemorningdew’s hippie parents have taken her off the commune and dropped her at her ever-so proper grandmother’s house on their way to Canada to protest the war in Vietnam. She hates to admit it, but television and warm showers and [...]

Bibliography: Connor, Leslie. 2008. Waiting for Normal. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 9780060890889 Plot Summary: Addie and her mommers are moving into a tiny trailer in the middle of Schnectady, New York. It isn’t much to look at and it isn’t home.  Home is where Addie’s half sisters live with her ex-stepfather Dwight.  Home isn’t where [...]

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