The Dark and Deadly Pool
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2.5 stars
I bought this book from the Scholastic Book Fair when I was 9 and remember reading it and loving it as a kid... so there’s 20 years of nostalgia attached to this book. Unfortunately, it didn’t really age well for me. Rereading it at 29, I found there was a lot of dated references and...
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| ISBN | 0007141688 |
I have to say this book was really amazing...how could one character be so similar to me growing up? I'm half japanese, suffered ridicule as a teen for how I looked, my build was umm...very voluptuous, I wore big slouchy clothes to hide my body, I avoided the mirror, would sometimes have outbursts in school,...
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| ISBN | 0590436031 |
Sarah has only one person to turn to.
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| Author | Lois Duncan |
| ISBN | 0440972922 |
A realistic and truly rather frightening tale about a group students who are kidnapped on their way home from school (by a fake school bus driver who had killed the regular bus driver in cold blood in order to take his place at the wheel), when I read Lois Duncan's Five Were Missing in grade eight, I was actually...
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0380722909 |
Reread November 2015:
Well Past Self called it because I reread this and am bumping it from 3 stars to 4. If I read it again, I'll probably give it 5.
One, Sarabeth's friends are in it more than I remember and they are lovely. Yay, Patty. And Leo is there at important times and says things that...
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| ISBN | 0152047581 |
A tiny pistol, passed from friend to friend at a party on an abandoned pier, suddenly fires, and Casey Carmody falls into the water below. Kurt, Casey's older brother, endures a seemingly endless night at the police station while the coast guard searches for his sister and his friends are questioned,...
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| ISBN | 0553297945 |
Follow the compelling stories of the women and men who came before Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield: Frontiersman Theodore Wakefield thought he'd lost his heart forever; will Dancing Wind make him love again?
Turn -of-the-century beauty Sarah Wakefield marries against her father's wishes...
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| ISBN | 1556615590 |
Once again, I was very happy with another mystery featuring amateur sleuth, Jennie McGrady. In particular I appreciated the great set-up for the next book in the series. The ending felt very similar to Nancy Drew in which you are introduced to a new mystery that will be featured in the next installment.
This...
| Author | Patricia Hermes |
| ISBN | 0590331140 |
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Morrow doesn't think much of the fact that her mother winced a little when she hugged her. In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes the whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah's mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer...
| Author | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0439062594 |
Another book from my childhood that I cannot depart with. The first time I read this story was when I was about 8(? ... years ago) because I was grounded. I had done something to upset my mother and she sent me to my room, saying "No TV, radio, or toys for the rest of the day! Read a book!" And being the 'gotta-have-the-last-word'...
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| ISBN | 0689852592 |
Let Sleeping Ghosts LieTwelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old says he talks to...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0618269193 |
A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend’s forgiveness. On a Christmas visit to her grandmother...
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| ISBN | 0671794035 |
Robin decides to take up a part-time job at the wealthy Swanson family mansion as she’s desperate for some extra cash. It seems simple enough, all Robin needs to do is rearrange all the books that had belonged to Lilith - who’d recently committed suicide.
But after a series of strange events...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0590988492 |
It all started with a phone call.
In a tense voice, Alice's very rational father suggests that she drive his precious Corvette and meet him. But Alice doesn't have a driver's license. "It doesn't matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up. Something is very wrong.
Then Alice hears an announcement...
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| ISBN | 1631401653 |
Recycling seems to be the name of the game for author Joe Harris and the rest of those behind this Season 10 continuation of The X-Files. As a long-time fan of the show, I had high hopes for this graphic revival, especially since the '90s comic series by Topps was outstanding in every respect. Unfortunately,...
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| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0765311003 |
In Alosha and The Shaktra, thirteen-year-old Ali Warner discovered that she was not an ordinary teenager, but was actually Queen of the Fairies. Through seven painful trials, Ali reclaimed many of her magical powers and defeated an elemental army that was preparing to attack the Earth. In the elemental...
