Adam knows he doesn't stand a chance at making the soccer team. He loves soccer, but he has no talent for it. On his way home in a storm, lightning hits, and he falls to the ground. Suddenly, though he is alone, he hears voices. Adam plays detective, and he learns that his freckles are talking to each other! If only Adam can find a way to make his freckles work for him, maybe he has a chance at making the soccer team after all.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 10/22/2009

ISBN-10: 014036482X

ISBN-13: 9780140364828

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Socks is a cat who feels that he's being replaced by a baby. Can he and the baby learn to live together?

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 2/16/2010

ISBN-10: 0688200672

ISBN-13: 9780688200671

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In Massachusetts in the 1700s, Deborah Sampson was a 'give-away child'. When her parents could no longer look after her, she was passed around to live with several different people. She finally became an indentured servant to Deacon Thomas and his family until she turned eighteen. Although she was a servant in each place, she also learned to read and write. After her eighteenth birthday, a disgusting man insisted she marry him. To escape him, she dressed as a boy, ran away and finally enlisted in the army to fight in the Revolutionary War. In the army, Deborah discovers the horrors of war but also discovers the joys of friendship. Deborah tells her true story of adventure, deception, war and honor. You won't be able to put it down.

Reviewed by: hap

Date read: 9/10/2009

ISBN-10: 080508200X

ISBN-13: 9780805082005

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In 1942, in the village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, 11-year-old Milada has just celebrated her birthday with her loving family. Though the village is under Nazi rule and food is in short supply, the family is happy. Then, in the middle of the night soldiers suddenly burst into their home and herd the family to a school gym to await further orders. They are separated, and Milada is taken to a center in Poland, where she is retrained to be a perfect German citizen, because her features are what the Nazis consider the Aryan ideal. After two years, she is adopted by a high ranking German officer and his family. Based on true events, it is the story of love and loss and the many emotions in between.

Reviewed by: ewl

Date read: 5/19/2009

ISBN-10: 0618535799

ISBN-13: 9780618535798

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Commenter: Grace, grade 5

When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave who was murdered in his very room in the year 1800. Travel with Kenny back in time as he tries to devise a plan to change history.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0531083829

ISBN-13: 9780531083826

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