Since You’ve Been Gone is a realistic fiction book by Morgan Matson that has the main ideas of friendship and growing up. It follows a girl named Emily who is left alone for the summer after her best friend, Sloane, disappears. The only thing Sloane leaves is a list of things Emily would never do.Continue reading “Since You’ve Been Gone”
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Fever 1793
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson is about Mattie Cook, a girl who works at her mother, Lucille Cook’s coffee shop in Philadelphia. The book follows her journey during the Yellow Fever pandemic as she struggles to adjust to living in a fever-driven city. During this challenging time, Mattie relies on her friends and family,Continue reading “Fever 1793”
Fighting Words By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Della has bad luck. I don’t just mean the kind of bad luck where your favorite drink at Starbucks is out of stock, I mean whole-life bad luck. Ever since she could remember Della has had a horrible life. It started when she was little, and her mother blew up their motel room and gotContinue reading “Fighting Words By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley”
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Jesse Aarons life was perfect. During the summer between 4th and 5th grade something changed though. Leslie Burk moved into the old Perkins place don the road. Leslie was not like the other girls in town. She wore a tank top and torn jeans everyday. Jesse had practiced all summer so that he could beContinue reading ” Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson”