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Book Reviews

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Cinder, Reviewed by Aditi, 13

Growing up, I don’t think there was anything I enjoyed more than a classic fairy tale, and, of course, watching ...
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A Tribute to Bobby Hutton

A Tribute to Bobby Hutton Emma, 9 I didn’t know much about Bobby Hutton until recently, when I read about ...

100 Days of Sunlight, Reviewed by Nora, 13

What are five things you take for granted? I could start by assuming that you take your senses for granted ...
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Red and Blue

Red and Blue are the colors we built a country from,   Red like the blood we spilled for freedom ...

All We Can Do Is Wait, Reviewed by Sita, 13

All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson is an incredibly moving story about life, death, and the gray ...
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Apples, a poem by Mason, 9

Apples A sweet fruit, round like a ball. Pieces split with a slice of a knife. Pushing and shoving, hands ...

The Unteachables, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12

The Unteachables is the perfect book for this quarantine, especially because it reminds us of those glorious days at school ...

Three Days Till EOC, Reviewed by Anya, 14

When you are an avid reader, or anyone who reads books at all, there comes a point when all of ...

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, Reviewed by Grace, 11

Throughout my entire eleven years on this earth, a handful of books have truly spoken to me. One of these ...

The Dog Who Lost His Bark, Reviewed by Alisa, 11

On an April morning, my sister Cici and I went to the Concord library to check out some animal books ...

Restart by Gordon Korman, Reviewed by Serena, 9

I was looking around the library for something to read when my eye caught sight of a book with a ...

The Mysterious Benedict Society, Reviewed by Alexis, 13

Imagine there is an evil man, hungry for control, who has invented a machine that can control what people think ...