Bibliography: Harbison, Paige. (January 31, 2012). New Girl. Buffalo, NY: Harlequin Teen. ISBN: 978-0373210428 Plot Summary: Only at Manderley Academy to please her parents, if being away from home and super hard classes were not enough, the “new girl” is faced with reminders of the girl whose place she took–Becca. She is in Becca’s room, she [...]
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Bibliography: Coben, Harlan. (2011). Shelter. New York: Putnam Juvenile. ISBN: 978-0399256509 Plot Summary: Mickey Bolitar is not having a very good year. His dad is dead, his mom is in rehab, and Mickey is forced to change schools and live with the uncle he doesn’t really know. When his new girlfriend doesn’t show up to [...]
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Bibliography: Hart, Carolyn. (2009). Merry, Merry Ghost. New York: William Morrow. ISBN: 978-0060874377 (hc) 978-0061962929 (pb) Plot Summary: The late Bailey Ruth Raeburn is chosen to return to her old stomping grounds, Adelaide, OK just in time for Christmas and to help four-year-old orphan Keith meet his grandmother Susan. When Susan decides to change her will to leave [...]
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Bibliography: Washburn, Livia. J. (2008). The Christmas Cookie Killer. New York: NAL Trade. ISBN: 978-0451225344(t) 978-0451226662 (pb) Plot Summary: Retired Weatherford, Texas teacher Phyllis Newsom is sure that her lime snowflake cookies will win the local newspaper cookie contest. She decides to take some to her next door neighbor Agnes who asks if she might make them [...]
Bibliography: Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. (2010). Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. IBSN: 978-0375866593 (hc) 978-0375859557 (pb) Plot Summary: On his own in New York for the Christmas holidays, Dash finds a red moleskine notebook in the J.D. Salinger section of the Strand bookstore. The notebook contains a challenge [...]
