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Three Cups of Tea

by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
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“Greg Mortenson recounts the experiences he had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their children.”

NHS High School wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer
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“In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.”

NHS High School wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The God of Animals: A Novel

by Aryn Kyle
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“Alice Winston is left to help support the family business by boarding the horses of their rich neighbors when her older sister runs away and her parents are no longer able to provide for the family.”

NHS High School wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )
The Book of Lost Things

by John Connolly
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“Twelve-year-old David's grief over his mother's death at the start of World War II intensifies with his father's remarriage and the impending birth of a sibling, so when his books begin talking to him, tempting him to enter a portal into a magical world, he decides to take the risk.”

NHS High School wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )
One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo as told through the history of the Buendia family.”

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Fever 1793

by Laurie Halse Anderson
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“Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.”

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by M. T. Anderson
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“ In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.”

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Born on a Blue Day

by Daniel Tammet
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“Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant, offers an inside look at his life, describing how his rare condition, which gives him incredible mental powers and a compulsive need for order and routine, has influenced every aspect of his life and what challenges he has faced while trying to be independent.”

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini
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“A novel set against the three decades of Afghanistan's history shaped by Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban, which tells the stories of two women, Mariam and Laila, who grow close despite their nineteen-year age difference and initial rivalry as they suffer at the hand of a common enemy: their abusive husband.”

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Jane Brontë
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“Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of the somber Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood uncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.”

NHS High School wrote this review Tuesday, May 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )