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When Clay receives a box of cassette tapes recorded by a girl who recently committed suicide, he wonders why he was chosen as one of her thirteen reasons.
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Compelling premise ultimately founders on muddled execution. Asher throws in at least four separate social problems as part of Hannah’s reasons for her suicide, and the construction [...]

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Harry Potter braces for his final battle with evil Lord Voldemort, knowing that only one of them will survive.
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My biggest criticism of Harry Potter has always been his passivity. In the first few books especially, he spends most of his time being rescued or protected, simply because he’s “The Boy Who Lived.” And [...]

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When Mary was 16, she may or may not have been abducted and raped by an older man, whose life was ruined by her accusations.
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The fates of two young men collide on a bridge when a group of terrorists take over a schoolbus filled with children.
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Entranced by the folk tales of an old mountain man, and repulsed by the same man’s grisly crimes, Redmond Hatch struggles to narrate the events which led him to bring his beloved wife and daughter to winterwood.
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I was upset by the way Winterwood seduced me. I did not want to be reeled in [...]

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By refusing to sell chocolates in the annual school sale, one high school freshman learns whether or not his universe can bear to be shaken.
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The Chocolate War is the first of my books for the Banned Books Challenge, hosted by The Pelham Library. I have read Cormier’s books a number of times since first [...]

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Young Leilani has a deformed hand and a brace on her leg–and she’s just told her alcoholic ex-con neighbor that her differences are why her deranged doctor stepfather and whacked-out druggie mother are going to kill her unless she’s abducted by aliens when she turns 10.
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I read this book because it was recommended by Wesley [...]

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Gypsy teamster Ki agrees to ferry a most disagreeable boy to another town, and discovers a world of trouble when she and her companions find themselves in the middle of an uprising.
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Luck of the Wheels, the fourth and final installment in the Ki and Vandien Quartet, is the best Lindholm I’ve read so far. [...]

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