Archive for January, 2006

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Looking for Alaska by John Green

–High School Only–
Miles Halter, “Pudge,” spends the first half of his junior year at Culver Creek trying to find what he philosophically calls “the great perhaps” and trying to get a kiss from the moody and beautiful Alaska Young.
“Pudge” spends the second half of his junior year at Culver Creek trying to figure out what [...]

Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell

Tobin’s grandmother is embarassingly wacky, his father has never gotten over his mother’s death and his brothers are notorious troublemakers in their small town. Everything changes when a fight at school leads to suspension from school and a new friendship with Henry.
What changes? Is it when he starts participating in gym? Is it when the [...]

Wrecked by E. R. Frank

–High School Only–
16 year-old Anna tells about the aftermath of a tragic accident that kills her brother’s girlfriend, Cameron, and seriously injures her best friend, Ellen. Anna was driving and throughout the book she slowly and painfully comes to terms with her guilt and accepts the fact that she may have been driving the car, [...]