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Book Title Author Book Review
10 Things I Hate About Me Randa Abdel-Fattah Book Review
2001 The Space Odyssey Author C. Clark Book Review
A Corner of the Universe Ann M. Martin Book Review
A Crack in the Line Michael Lawrence Book Review
A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Book Review
A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park Book Review
A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Book Review
A Million Junes Emily Henry Book Review
A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Book Review
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving Book Review
A Raisin in the Sun Lorainne Hansberry Book Review
A Separate Peace John Knowles Book Review
A Single Shard Linda Sue Park Book Review
A Tale Dark and Grimm Adam Gidwitz Book Review
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Book Review
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseni Book Review
Abduction Peg Kehret Book Review
Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt Book Review
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Book Review
After the War Carol Matas Book Review
Aliens on Vacation Clete Barrett Smith Book Review
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Robert Fulghum Book Review
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Book Review
Among the Hidden Margret Peterson Haddix Book Review
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Hank Green Book Review
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Book Review
Anna of Byzantium Tracy Barrett Book Review
Anne Frank: The Diary of Young Girl Anne Frank Book Review
Anything But Typical Nora Raleigh Baskin Book Review
April Morning Howard Fast Book Review
Ashes of Roses Mary Jane Auch Book Review
Atonement Ian McEwan - OOHS Review Book Review
Bad Boy Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Battle Scars John Wilson Book Review
Bearstone Will Hobbs Book Review
Being Me Lori Williams Book Review
Between Shades of Gray; also title Ashes in the Snow Sepetys Book Review
Bird by Bird Anne Lamott Book Review
Black Like Me John Howard Griffin Book Review
Blindness Jose Saramago Book Review
Boost Kathy Mackel Book Review
Boot Camp Todd Strasser Book Review
Bottled Up Jaye Murray Book Review
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Book Review
Breadcrumbs Anne Ursu Book Review
Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Book Review
Breaking Point Alex Flinn Book Review
Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes Book Review
Can't Get There from Here Todd Strasser Book Review
Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Book Review
Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman Book Review
Chanda's Secrets Allan Stratton Book Review
Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Book Review
Choosing Up Sides John H. Ritter Book Review
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Book Review
Code of Honor Alan Gratz Book Review
Copper Sun Sharon Draper Book Review
Coraline Neil Gaiman Book Review
Counting By 7s Holly Goldberg Sloan Book Review
Crack In The Line Michael Lawrence Book Review
Crash Jerry Spinelli Book Review
Crystal Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Cut Patricia McCormick Book Review
Dangerous Skies Suzanne Staples Book Review
David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell Book Review
Dead End in Norvelt 2 Jack Gantos Book Review
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Book Review
Divergent Veronica Roth Book Review
Don't Scream Joan Lowery Nixon Book Review
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey Margaret Peterson Haddix Book Review
Dope Sick Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Downriver Will Hobbs Book Review
Downsiders Neal Shusterman Book Review
Dragonwings Lawrence Yep Book Review
Drowned City Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Don Brown Book Review
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick Book Review
Dry Shusterman Book Review
Eight Plus One Robert Cormier Book Review
Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis Book Review
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin Book Review
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Book Review
Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan Book Review
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer Book Review
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Book Review
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston Book Review
Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser Book Review
Fire From Rock Sharon Draper Book Review
Flip David Lubar Book Review
Flush Carl Hiaasen Book Review
Flying Solo Ralph Fletcher Book Review
Freak the Mighty Sharon Creech Book Review
Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick Book Review
Game Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser Book Review
Give a Boy a Gun Todd Strasser Book Review
Go Set A Watchman Harper Lee Book Review
Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien - OOHS Review Book Review
Goodbye Vietnam Gloria Whelan Book Review
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Book Review
Green Glass Sea Ellen Kleges Book Review
Greenglass House Kate Milford Book Review
Gym Candy Carl Deuker Book Review
Half Upon A Time James Riley Book Review
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Book Review
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad (for AP courses) Book Review
Hero S.L. Rottman Book Review
Hero S.L. Rottman Book Review
Heroes Robert Cormier Book Review
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Book Review
Hidden Figures Young Reader Margot Lee Shetterly Book Review
Hoot Carl Hiaasen Book Review
Hope was Here Joan Bauer Book Review
How to Read Novels Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Book Review
I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai Book Review
I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan Book Review
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou Book Review
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (OLMS) Maya Angelou Book Review
If I Grow Up Todd Strasser Book Review
If I Should Die Before I Wake Han Nolan Book Review
In Cold Blood Truman Capote Book Review
Inside the Walls of Troy Clemence McLaren Book Review
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer Book Review
Invisible Pete Hautman Book Review
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Book Review
Jesse Gary Soto Book Review
Journey to Jo'Burg Beverly Naidoo Book Review
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Book Review
Just Ella Margaret Petterson Haddix Book Review
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Book Review
Just Mercy Adapted For Young Adults (OOMS) Bryan Stevenson Book Review
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann Book Review
Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse Book Review
Life as We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer Book Review
Lion - A Long Way Home: A Memoir Saroo Brierley Book Review
Lions of Little Rock Kirsten Levine Book Review
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers Book Review
London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd Book Review
Long Way Down Jason Reynolds Book Review
Lord of the Flies William Golding Book Review
Love That Dog Sharon Creech Book Review
Lupita Manana Patricia Beatty Book Review
March Book 1 John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell Book Review
Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell Block 25 Richard Paul Evans Book Review
Missing Since Monday Ann M. Martin Book Review
Mississippi Trial 1955 Chris Crowe Book Review
Mississippi Trial 1955 Chris Crowe - OLMS review Book Review
Monkey Island Paula Fox Book Review
Monster Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder Book Review
My Brother Sam is Dead James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier Book Review
Naughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman Book Review
Night Elie Wiesel Book Review
Nightjohn Gary Paulsen Book Review
No Summit Out of Sight Jordan Romero Book Review
Number the Stars Lois Lowry Book Review
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Book Review
On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer Book Review
On the Fringe Various; edited Don Gallo Book Review
On Writing Stephen King Book Review
On Writing the College Application Essay Harry Bauld Book Review
One Crazy Summer Rita William-Garcia Book Review
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey Book Review
One Of Us Is Lying Karen M. McManus Book Review
Out Of My Mind Sharon Draper Book Review
Outliers: a story of success Malcolm Gladwell Book Review
Pay It Forward Catherine Ryan Hyde Book Review
Payback Time Carl Deuker Book Review
Penny from Heaven Jennifer L. Holm Book Review
Petey Ben Mikaelsen Book Review
Petey Ben Mikaelsen Book Review
Please Stop Laughing at Me Jodee Blanco Book Review
Pretties Scott Westerfeld Book Review
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Book Review
Rain Reign Ann M. Martin Book Review
Ready Player One Ernest Cline Book Review
Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li Jiang Book Review
Refugee Alan Gratz Book Review
Rocket Boys Homer Hickam Book Review
Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Book Review
Romiette and Julio Sharon Draper Book Review
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Scorpions Walter Dean Myers- reviewed for middle schools Book Review
Scythe Neil Shusterman Book Review
Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Book Review
Shiver Maggie Stiefvater Book Review
Silent to the Bone E. L. Konigsburg Book Review
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight J.R.R. Tolkien Book Review
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie David Lubar Book Review
So Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins Book Review
Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson - OHS review Book Review
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson - OLHS review Book Review
Speak Laurie Halse Anderson - reviewed for middle schools Book Review
Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz Book Review
Street Love Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Stuck in Neutral Terry Trueman Book Review
Stuck In Neutral Terry Trueman Book Review
Success Express for Teens Sean Covey Book Review
Sunrise Over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers Book Review
Taking Flight Micahaela DePrince and Elaine DePrince Book Review
The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make Sean Covey Book Review
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey Book Review
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Book Review
The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary Pearson Book Review
The Awakening Kate Chopin Book Review
The Bar Code Tattoo Susan Weyn Book Review
The Battle of Jericho Sharon Draper Book Review
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Book Review
The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver - OOHS Review Book Review
The Beast Walter Dean Myers Book Review
The Beasties William Sleator Book Review
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison - OOHS Review Book Review
The Book Thief Markus Zusak Book Review
The Book Thief Markus Zusak Book Review
The Boy In Striped Pajamas John Boyne Book Review
The Brimstone Journals Ron Koertge Book Review
The Chosen Chaim Potok Book Review
The Creek Jennifer L. Holm Book Review
The Dead and the Gone Susan Beth Pfeffer Book Review
The Eyes of Kid Midas Neal Shusterman Book Review
The Frog Princess ED Baker Book Review
The Giver Lois Lowry Book Review
The Glass Castle Jeannette Wells Book Review
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman Book Review
The Grimm Legacy Shulman Book Review
The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Book Review
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Book Review
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Book Review
The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer Book Review
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros - OHS review Book Review
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros - OLHS review Book Review
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Book Review
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins - OLMS review Book Review
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot - OLHS review Book Review
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot - OOHS review Book Review
The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells Book Review
The Jacket Andrew Clements Book Review
The Johnstown Flood David McCullough Book Review
The Jungle Upton Sinclair Book Review
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini - OHS review Book Review
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini - OLHS review Book Review
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini - OOHS review Book Review
The Laramie Project Moises Kaufman Book Review
The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter Book Review
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie Book Review
The Lottery Rose Irene Hunt Book Review
The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline Book Review
The Martian Andy Weir Book Review
The Nightingale Kristin Hannah Book Review
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Young Readers Edition Michael Pollan Book Review
The Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline Book Review
The Other Wes Moore Wes Moore Book Review
The Outsiders S.E. Hinton Book Review
The Parable Of The Sower Harry N. Abrams Book Review
The Pigman Paul Zindel Book Review
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Book Review
The Road Cormac McCarthy Book Review
The Running Dream Wendelin Van Draanen Book Review
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Book Review
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd Book Review
The Shadow Club Neal Shusterman Book Review
The Sisters Grimm:The Fairy Tale Detectives Buckley Book Review
The Sledding Hill Chris Crutcher Book Review
The Soloist Steve Lopez Book Review
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Book Review
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Book Review
The Thief Megan Whalen Turner Book Review
The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Book Review
The Time Machine H.G. Wells Book Review
The True Meaning of Smekday Adam Rex Book Review
The Unwinding George Packer Book Review
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Christopher Paul Curtis Book Review
The Wave Todd Strasser Book Review
The Wednesday Wars Gary Schmidt Book Review
The Westing Game Ellen Raskin Book Review
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Book Review
They Call Me Hero Daniel Hernandez Book Review
This Side of Paradise Steve Layne Book Review
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortensen and Greg Oliver Relin Book Review
Tiger Lily Jodi Lynn Anderson Book Review
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Book Review
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee - OLMS Book Review
Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen Book Review
Trapped Michael Northrop Book Review
Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom Book Review
Twerp Mark Goldblatt Book Review
Twisted Summer Willo Davis Roberts Book Review
Two Miserable Presidents Steve Sheinkin Book Review
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Book Review
Ungifted Gordon Korman Book Review
Unwind Neal Shusterman Book Review
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix Book Review
Warriors Don't Cry Melba Patillo Beals Book Review
Water Buffalo Days Huynh Quang Nhuong Book Review
Watership Down Richard Adams Book Review
We Were Liars E. Lockhart Book Review
Whale Talk Chris Crutcher Book Review
When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park Book Review
Where the Red Fern Grows Veronica Asbury Book Review
Woodsong Gary Paulsen Book Review
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks Book Review
Zap Paul Fleischman Book Review
Zeitoun David Eggers Book Review