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Check It Out -- Teen Literature Database
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91 book reviews found, page 1 of 19. Narrow results by selecting age range:
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12 Again
Audience: 4th Grade - 8th Grade
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Bernadette, an overworked mother of three boys, wishes that she were younger. While visiting her childhood home, she drinks a mysterious liquid and goes to bed. She wakes up on her fortieth birthday and discovers that she has returned to being twelve. In her childhood home, it is 1972; Bernadette's mother is still alive. Outside the home, it is modern times, and Bernadette goes to middle school, where she sees her son, Patrick, in computer class. Bernadette must enlist her son's help and study fairy magic to figure out how to get back to her 40-year-old self and family in the present day.
Date read: 06/11/2004
ISBN: 0525468994
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Airborn
Audience: 6th Grade - 9th Grade
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15 year old Matt is a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora, when he meets wealthy Kate de Vries. Kate has boarded the Aurora in search of huge, furry beasts with batlike wings and sharp claws that she read about in her dead grandfather's journal. Kate is convinced she will be able to locate these creatures in the sky over an uncharted island in the Pacificus. After pirates attack, the ship makes an emergency landing on an island that closely resembles the drawings in the journal and Matt finds himself joining Kate in the search.
Date read: 01/09/2006
ISBN: 0060531800
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Alien Feast
Audience: 5th Grade - 8th Grade
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Aliens have invaded Earth! They eat people-leaving nothing but their feet-and their latest victims are William's stepparents. William heads to the safety of his uncle Maynard's house and on the way runs into his friend Sophie. Her parents, famous scientists, have been kidnapped by the aliens. Now it's up to William, Sophie and Uncle Maynard to rescue Sophie's parents. Can they do it-or will the aliens eat them first?
Date read: 6/8/2009
ISBN: 1596432810
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Battle for the Castle
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
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William and Jason, both twelve, travel back to the Middle Ages using a magic token that has the power to shrink and enlarge living things. Once small, William and Jason are able to enter an enchanted toy castle and are magically transported to the medieval stronghold of Sir Simon. The boys, along with a young girl named Gudrin, and other residents of the castle face a fearsome army of rats that are under the spell of their gigantic leader. Will William, Jason and Gudrin be able to face the rats and win the battle for the castle?
Similar books: sequel to The Castle in the Attic
Date read: 3/3/2003
ISBN: 0823410102
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Be a Genie in Six Easy Steps
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
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Milly and Michael and their step-siblings Jess and Jason have just moved to a town in the country so their parents can open a used-book store. They don't like their new home and they all wish they could move back to London to go to their old schools and be with their old friends. Then they discover a book called The Genie Handbook, complete with a talking bookworm named Skribble. Skribble tells them they can become genies and grant wishes, and they all decide to go through genie training so they can wish to move back to London. Everything goes pretty well until they realize some scary-looking people are following them. What do they want, and will it ruin their plans?
Similar books: Five Children and It (Nesbit), Half Magic (Eager)
Date read: 4/5/2010
ISBN: 0061252190
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