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Check It Out -- Teen Literature Database
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70 book reviews found, page 1 of 14. 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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Afterlife
Audience: 7th Grade - 10th Grade
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When Chuy went to the club all he wanted to do was dance. The last thing he expected to happen was to be murdered. Chuy also never expected what would happen next. After being stabbed to death, Chuy becomes a ghost left to explore his world, find his murderer, and discover a way to move on.
Similar books: Restless: A Ghost Story by Rich Wallace
Awards won: YALSA Quick Picks 2004
Date read: 02/26/2007
ISBN: 0152047743
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Alien Secrets
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
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Puck has been expelled from school and is on her way to the planet Shoon to meet her parents. While on board the Cat's Cradle, she befriends an alien named Hush. Strange things begin to happen: she thinks she witnesses a murder; Hush's sacred treasure is stolen, and there are ghosts on board. Puck and Hush are afraid to trust anyone, even the captain. Will they be able to find the treasure and satisfy the ghosts' longings withoug tragic consequences?
Similar books: The Package in Hyperspace, Akiko on the Planet Smoo
Awards won: ALA Notable Book
Date read: 6/01/1997
ISBN: 0385309287
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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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Bleach Volume 6: The Death Trilogy Overture
Audience: 7th Grade - Adult
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As Ichigo Kurosaki & Uryu Ishida continue their battle, Hollows swarm into Karakura, heralding the arrival of their superior, the giant Hollow Menos Grande. Ichigo & Uryu must put their differences aside in order to save their town. Will the two be able to defeat this common enemy, and at what cost?
*Note- a Hollow is an evil spirit,*
This book is a good read for fans of action books and manga. I like this series because the characters have deep back-stories and has stunning detail during combat scenes.
Similar authors: Kishimoto, Masashi
Similar books: Naruto (Series)
Date read: 08/24/2006
ISBN: 1591167280
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