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“The Help” by Kathryn Stockett (Penquin Books, 2002) Have you ever thought about what life was like in the deep South during the civil rights era of the 1960s? “The Help” will give you a taste of daily living for black maids working in white …

Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, A Robot Named Scorch and What It Takes to Win by Judy Dutton (Hyperion 2011) Don’t let the title fool you. Judy Dutton’s written documentary of a dozen high school teenagers caught up in an international competition is much more than …

“It Gets Better” edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Dutton Publishing 2011) As explained in the book’s Introduction by editor Dan Savage, “I didn’t need permission from parents or an invitation from a school. I could look into a camera, share my story, and …

Theodore Boone: The Abduction by John Grisham (Dutton Books 2011) In Grisham’s second book in the Theodore Boone series, the “kid lawyer” gets his friends to help in the search  for his best friend, April Finnemore.  She disappeared from her bedroom at night with no signs of …

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So begins the leap, the lark, the plunge into what is one of the most acclaimed novels of all time. One need search no …

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson If living in silence is so easy, why is living with a secret so hard? In this award-winning, ground-breaking story readers are sent in a silent twister of the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl…who has a secret. Repleted …