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Taylor Mali Tells It

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     It's the summer before junior year, and as Natalie endures the start of the year's first heat wave, she says, "Summer just started and it's already boring." She thinks ahead to a long, lazy summer, lifeguarding at the YMCA, sneaking into absent neighbors' backyards to use their pools late at night, and just spending time with her friends at the Ding-Dong diner. Natalie has smart friends who tease each other gently, engage in harmless flirtations and challenge each other with hypothetical, and sometimes gross, moral dilemmas (for example: "Would you rather eat a rat with the fur still on or eat sewage straight from the pipe?").

Natalie's summer will be fine, she guesses, but she knows that at the end of it, her beautiful, brilliant older sister Claire will be off to college. Claire is embracing her future, telling Natalie at the opening of the book, "I have this roar in my head…of anticipation. That it's all just starting. Stuff I don't even know about." As for Natalie, when she imagines Claire leaving for school, she feels sick to her stomach. 

Claire's future is bright, and her summer is sure to be glorious --- until one second changes things for Claire and her entire family forever. (Read the rest of the review at teenreads.com.)

Julius Caesar

 

 

Wilbur Weston Wants to Friend You on Facebook

 

 

Let It Snow SC LET

An entertaining way to while away a chilly winter evening, LET IT SNOW contains stories by Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle.

Johnson is particularly funny,

"Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size. Debbie didn't fool around when it came to the butter and sugar." (from the first story, "The Jubilee Express")

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Strange Angels

Despite the tacky-looking cover that makes this book look like a bad television show, everybody who has read this has liked it lots.

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