Bibliography: Martin, Kat. (2009). The Christmas Clock. New York: Vanguard Press. ISBN: 978-1593155476 Plot Summary: Sylvia left Dreyerville and her fiance, Joe, 8 years ago to deal with a health scare. Joe never got over it, or her, and now that she is back, he’s angry and hurt. Sylvia rents a room from the Culvers, an old married [...]
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Bibliography: Malliet, G.M. (2011). Wicked Autumn. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN: 978- 0312646974 Plot Summary: Former MI5 agent, current Episcopal parish priest, Max Tudor finds the gossip and goings on of Nether Monkslip to be just his speed. But when the brash president of the Woman’s Institute turns up dead during the village Haverst [...]
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Bibliography: Offill, Jenny and Nancy Carpenter. (2006). 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Any More. New York: Schwartz and Wade. ISBN: 9780375835964 (hc) 9780375866012 (pbk) Plot Summary: A mischievous little girl has a lot of seemingly good ideas but they all seem to get her in trouble. Critical Analysis: Books like this one make me miss being [...]
Bibliography: Healey, Karen. (2011). The Shattering. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: 978-0316125727 Plot Summary: Teens Keri, Janna and Sione have something in common. All had an older brother who committed suicide. Janna tells Keri she and summer fling Sione think it might have been murder, with a pattern of deaths stretching back for years. [...]
Bibliography: Reinhardt, Dana. (2011). The Summer I Learned to Fly. New York: Random House Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-0385739542 Plot Summary: The summer before eighth grade, and Drew is working in her mother’s cheese shop where she hangs out with surf bum Nick (who she also has a crush on.) When she isn’t working, she plays with [...]
