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Bibliography: Alexander, Jill S. (2011).  Paradise.  New York: Feiwel and Friends. ISBN: 978-0312605414 Plot Summary:  Paisley lives to play the drums, and sneaks away every day after school to play with a country rock band in her uncle’s airplane hangar.  They have hopes of playing in Austin at Texaspolooza and getting out of their small town. [...]

Bibliography:  Scott, Michael. (2009).  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Sorceress.  New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers.  ISBN: 978-0385735292 (hc) 978-0385735308 (pb) Plot Summary:  Leaving a destroyed Paris behind them, Nicholas takes the twins Josh and Sophie (and the pages of the codex) to London, dangerous territory of Dr. John Dee, in hopes of finding Gilgamesh the King [...]

Bibliography: Hooper, Mary. (2011). Fallen Grace.  New York, Bloomsbury USA Children’s. ISBN: 978-1599905648 Plot Summary:  Penniless orphans Grace and her sister have just barely managed to avoid starving or freezing to death in Victorian London.  When Grace gives birth to a still born baby and sneaks it into the coffin of a well to do [...]

Bibliography: Godbersen, Anna. (2010). Bright Young Things. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 978-0061962660 Plot Summary:  Cordelia and Letty escape Union, Ohio after Cordelia’s forced wedding to the streets of New York City.  Letty longs to see her name in lights and Cordelia is searching for the father she has never known.  After a falling out, they part [...]

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As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wifein an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through  the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production. Cleary, Beverly. (1977). Ramona and Her Father. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 978-0688221140 (hc) 978-0380709168 (pbk) I read [...]

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