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Review: C. Y. A.: Covert Youth Agency: The Sext Crime by Jason Ancona

by First Mate Keira January 27, 2012

by First Mate Keira Title: The Sext Crime: C.Y.A.: Covert Youth Agency (Volume 2) Author: Jason Ancona Format: Digital ebook Page Count: 280 pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 8-14 Summary: When senior class presidential candidate, Meredith, is blackmailed into quitting the election race, she gets her best friend and campaign manager to contact the C.Y.A. [...]

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Review: Rapacia (The Second Circle of Heck) by Dale E. Basye

by First Mate Keira January 27, 2012

Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Rapacia (The Second Circle of Heck) Author: Dale E. Basye Format: Hardback Page Count: 384 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 5-8 Summary: Milton is back on the surface, but is having troubles maintaining the energy that keeps him together and in the present. A science experiment with a bug [...]

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Review: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) by Dale E. Basye

by First Mate Keira January 21, 2012

Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) Author: Dale E. Basye Format: Hardback Page Count: 304 pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: The afterlife isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. A bureaucratic error sends Milton down to Heck with his [...]

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Review: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by First Mate Keira January 14, 2012

by First Mate Keira Title: A Little Princess Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Format: Hardback Page Count: 266 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 4-8 Summary: Sara Crewe, a little girl who grew up in India is taken to London by her father to attend Miss Minchin’s Seminary for Girls. Sara must learn to live on her [...]

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Review: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

by CaptainYarr December 25, 2011

by Captain Lyaf Yarr Title: Number the Stars Author: Lois Lowry Format: Paperback Page Count: 156 Pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: Two years into World War II, Nazis are hunting Jews. Annemarie Johansens is a 10 year old girl living in Copenhagen, Denmark. But everything changes once her best friend, Ellen Rosen has [...]

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Review: 24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley

by First Mate Keira December 16, 2011

by Captain Lyaf Yarr Title: 24 Girls in 7 Days Author: Alex Bradley Format: Paperback Page Count: 265 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 7+ Summary: Jack Grammer is a dorky senior at City High School with no love life. With only a few weeks before prom he asks and gets rejected. Two friends, Natalie and [...]

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