Stacy's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:12:17 -0700 60 Stacy's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories]]> 99300
Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include "turned," an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naĂŻve servant; "Cottagette," concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; "Mr. Peebles' Heart," a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; "The Yellow Wallpaper"; and three other outstanding stories.

These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women � and how they might be improved.

Collects:
—The Yellow Wallpaper
—Three Thanksgivings
—The Cottagette
—TłÜ°ů˛Ô±đ»ĺ
—Making a Change
—If I Were a Man
—Mr. Peebles' Heart]]>
129 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 0486298574 Stacy 5 4.05 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1892
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]]]> 32512
The fifth edition of this comprehensive anthology addresses the two key issues confronted by students approaching Shakespeare today: a lack of knowledge about the historical period and difficulty with the language of Shakespeare's plays. A richly illustrated general introduction offers insight into Shakespeare's England and background on the literary and cultural contexts in which Shakespeare wrote and produced plays. Each play is introduced by a descriptive essay designed to help students appreciate the cultural contexts and interpretive issues raised by the play, without dictating students' interpretations. Thoroughly revised and updated notes and glosses support student readers line by line, paraphrasing Elizabethan idioms in clear and accessible language.

New to This Edition

Expanded coverage of stage performance and film. Introductory essays for each play have been revised and updated to include additional information on historical and modern performances, describing how stage and film directors have dealt with interpretive and cultural issues.

New 16-page color section, “Shakespeare's World: A Visual Portfolio,� includes historical documents, art, and photos to allow students to grasp the cultural context in which Shakespeare wrote. The Visual Portfolio also includes photos and production stills taken from recent stage and film productions, to help students to visualize on-stage scenes and dramatic situations.

Completely revised and updated notes and glosses assist modern student readers by providing clear, accessible paraphrases and contexts for Shakespearean idioms and word-play, while incorporating state-of-the-art critical insight and scholarship on the plays.]]>
1744 William Shakespeare Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.57 1623 The Complete Works of Shakespeare [38 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
author: William Shakespeare
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1623
rating: 5
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2024/05/13
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Shakespeare needs no introduction. Everyone should read Shakespeare. Period.
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<![CDATA[Holy Bible: King James Version]]> 895345 1124 Anonymous 1585161519 Stacy 5 4.36 1611 Holy Bible: King James Version
author: Anonymous
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1611
rating: 5
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In my opinion, the King James version of the Bible is the only way to read the bible. I fully believe that everyone should read the bible like any other book. Do not get lost in one denomination's translation of the bible, but read it for yourself and find your own meaning.
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<![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)]]> 578329 346 V.C. Andrews 000615929X Stacy 3 3.66 1979 Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
author: V.C. Andrews
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1979
rating: 3
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The Qur'an 75303
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700Ěýtitles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theĚýseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateĚýtranslations by award-winning translators.]]>
456 Anonymous 0140449205 Stacy 0 3.52 632 The Qur'an
author: Anonymous
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.52
book published: 632
rating: 0
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I pride myself in having an open mind.
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Stacy 5 pottermania 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Belknap Press)]]> 139005
The text is reproduced from the second and third volumes of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson , a critical edition which draws on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last half century. Alfred R. Ferguson was founding editor of the edition, followed by Joseph Slater (until 1996).]]>
398 Ralph Waldo Emerson 0674267206 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.21 1844 The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Belknap Press)
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1844
rating: 5
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date added: 2013/08/01
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I love Emerson. Someday I will move to my own Walden Pond.
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<![CDATA[Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning]]> 1255192 170 Doug Buehl 0872072843 Stacy 4 4.08 1995 Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
author: Doug Buehl
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All]]> 9995621 240 Wendy Kopp 158648740X Stacy 3 3.22 2010 A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All
author: Wendy Kopp
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap]]> 7027642 336 Teach For America 0470432861 Stacy 4 3.62 2010 Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
author: Teach For America
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn]]> 4937721 Chapter 1: What Is Pyramid Response to Intervention?
Chapter 2: The Facts About RTI
Chapter 3: RTI Models
Chapter 4: Laying the A Professional Learning Community
Chapter 5: Learning CPR
Chapter 6: Tier 1: The Core Program
Chapter 7: Tier 2: The Supplemental Level
Chapter 8: Tier 3: The Intensive Level
Chapter 9: The Role of Behavioral Interventions
Chapter 10: Meeting Legal Requirements
Chapter 11: Putting It All Together
A Moral Responsibility]]>
132 Chris Weber 1934009334 Stacy 4 3.64 2008 Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn
author: Chris Weber
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average rating: 3.64
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<![CDATA["Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children]]> 10823748
Delpit's bestselling and paradigm-shifting first book, Other People's Children , focused on cultural slippage in the classroom between white teachers and students of color. Now, in "Multiplication is for White People" , Delpit reflects on two decades of reform efforts―including No Child Left Behind, standardized testing, the creation of alternative teacher certification paths, and the charter school movement―that have still left a generation of poor children of color feeling that higher educational achievement isn't for them.

In chapters covering primary, middle, and high school, as well as college, Delpit concludes that it's not that difficult to explain the persistence of the achievement gap. In her wonderful trademark style, punctuated with telling classroom anecdotes and informed by time spent at dozens of schools across the country, Delpit outlines an inspiring and uplifting blueprint for raising expectations for other people's children, based on the simple premise that multiplication―and every aspect of advanced education―is for everyone.]]>
256 Lisa D. Delpit 1595580468 Stacy 5 4.16 2011 "Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
author: Lisa D. Delpit
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average rating: 4.16
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<![CDATA[Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve--Even If It Means Picking a Fight]]> 11212744 Ěý
Steve Perry is like no other educator you’ve ever met.Ěý He “gets it.”Ě� He understands why some parents are downright panicked about what’s going on in their kidsâ€� classrooms, and how other parents, whose kids supposedly attend the “goodâ€� schools, still fear that their children are falling behind .Ěý As Principal of one of the best performing schools in America -- one that sends 100% of its mostly minority students to four-year colleges -- Perry delights in poking the system.Ěý Present him with a “truthâ€� about how education is supposed to work and â€� count on it â€� he’ll show it to be false.
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Dictatorial teacher’s unions despise Steve Perry.Ěý So do lazy teachers.Ěý So do entrenched, unimaginative school boards.Ěý So do reactionary “curriculum guardiansâ€� who â€� as a lure to get kids reading â€� cling to the same old stodgy texts.
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“That’s okay,â€� say Perry.Ěý That means he’s making a difference. ĚýIn this book, his priority is to help kids who don’t have the advantage of going to his school, Capital Prep.Ěý He wants to save your kid, and the kid next door, and the kid down the street from getting a typical third-rate American education.
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If you’re a parent who has worried recently about how depressed your child seems when he dresses for school in the morning…or how little of what happens during the school day seems to sink into her brainâ€� or how much of your child’s homework is busywork, you need this book.Ěý
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If you’re a teacher who is putting your heart and soul into the job but are surrounded by colleagues who are “phoning it in,� you need this book.
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If you’re a committed, forward-thinking principal who wants to get rid of the faculty bad apples, but are continually stymied by Mafia-style teachers-unions, you need this book.
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*If you’re a citizen who worries about the $1 trillion-plus GDP loss that America suffers every year because our system of education doesn’t measure up, you need this book.
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In this solution-oriented manifesto, Steve Perry covers the full range of issues holding back today’s students.Ěý He shows parents how to find great teachers (and get rid of the bad ones)…how to make readers out of kids who hate to read…how to make the school curriculum thrilling rather than sleep-inducing…how to conduct an all-important education “home audit”â€� how to “e-organizeâ€� if school boards and administrators aren’t getting the message…how to build a “school of the future,â€� and much more.
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The era of third-rate education is over.Ěý Steve Perry isn’t going to let the fools and scoundrels get away with it any longer.Ěý Push has come to shove!]]>
272 Steve Perry 0307720314 Stacy 5 3.52 2011 Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the Education They Deserve--Even If It Means Picking a Fight
author: Steve Perry
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average rating: 3.52
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Finally. A book about no excuses in education--just solid teaching and transformational leadership.
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Greek Lives 279476 translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.]]> 528 Plutarch 0192825011 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.00 100 Greek Lives
author: Plutarch
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 100
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This is a must read...It is the starting point of understanding any piece of literature (at least I think so).
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<![CDATA[The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)]]> 232109 186 Beverly Cleary 0380709244 Stacy 5 3.96 1965 The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)
author: Beverly Cleary
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1965
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)]]> 80671 Celebrating 40 years of a Judy Blume classic!

Millions of fans young and old have been entertained by the quick wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischevious Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume's five Fudge books. And now, Puffin Books honors forty years of the book that started it all, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, with a special edition--featuring a new introduction from Judy--to celebrate this perennial favorite.

“As a kid, Judy Blume was my favorite author, and Tales of a Fourth Grade NothingĚýwas my favorite book.”—Jeff Kinney, author of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series]]>
144 Judy Blume Stacy 5 4.00 1972 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)
author: Judy Blume
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average rating: 4.00
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Flickering Shadows: A Novel 1061247 Kwadwo Agymah Kamau 0805054723 Stacy 4 3.80 1996 Flickering Shadows: A Novel
author: Kwadwo Agymah Kamau
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2000/01/01
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I do have to warn people...This book takes a little while to get into. Much like the unique vernacular of "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Kamau introduces you to this never-before read sub-culture, and you are left thinking why this book has never hit the main stream before.
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<![CDATA[Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret]]> 304996
"Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I can't wait until two o'clock God. That's when our dance starts. Do you think I'll get Philip Leroy for a partner? It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome. And I'd love to dance with him... just once or twice. Thank you God.]]>
149 Judy Blume Stacy 5 3.96 1970 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
author: Judy Blume
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average rating: 3.96
book published: 1970
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<![CDATA[From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics]]> 33180 276 Sarah K. Herz 0313324522 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 4.03 1996 From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics
author: Sarah K. Herz
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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This is a great resource book for identifying ways in which students can bridge the gap between contemporary literature to the canon. I loved it!
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Bridging English 487290 514 Joseph O. Milner 0130453064 Stacy 5 teachers 4.14 1993 Bridging English
author: Joseph O. Milner
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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This is quite possibly the best resource book for English teachers. I refer to it often. It is a must have for new ideas, great unit plans, and how to differentiate instruction.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God 37415 238 Zora Neale Hurston 0061120065 Stacy 5 3.98 1937 Their Eyes Were Watching God
author: Zora Neale Hurston
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1937
rating: 5
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Once you get used to the vernacular, this novel pulls you in to the inspiring story of Janie...If you want to see how an author is supposed to create a character, read this book.
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<![CDATA[The Boxcar Children 1-4 (The Boxcar Children, #1-4)]]> 93380
This boxed set includes the following
#1 The Boxcar Children : When four orphaned children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, they decide to call it home—and become the Boxcar Children!
#2 Surprise Island : As the Alden children explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island—and to a new friend—than meets the eye.
#3 The Yellow House Mystery : A long-lost clue leads the Alden children to a mysterious old house while on summer vacation.
#4 Mystery Ranch :
The Alden children make a discovery that leads them to investigate a mystery involving their family ranch.

What started as a single story aboutĚýthe Alden ChildrenĚýhas delighted readers for generations and sold more than 80 million books worldwide. Featuring timeless adventures, mystery, and classic illustrations, The Boxcar Children® series continues to inspire children to learn, question, imagine, and grow.]]>
672 Gertrude Chandler Warner 0807508543 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 4.23 1942 The Boxcar Children 1-4 (The Boxcar Children, #1-4)
author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1942
rating: 5
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When I was a child, I wanted to be a boxcar child...I have great memories of this book!
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Teachers and the Law 343606 496 David Schimmel 0205494951 Stacy 5 teachers 3.38 1981 Teachers and the Law
author: David Schimmel
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.38
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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I am currently reading this book in my masters class. It is highly fascinating. I am learning about hundreds of law cases that have happened in the educational realm. One might think that something like this would be dreary, but so far I am in love!
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Prom 170175 215 Laurie Halse Anderson 0142405701 Stacy 4 youngadultliterature 3.33 2005 Prom
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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I could picture the young female protagonist in this book as a student at Harmon. This is a very "real" story about one girl's quest to prove everyone wrong...Once a slacker--not always a slacker...
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Looking for Alaska 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]>
221 John Green 1435249151 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 3.97 2005 Looking for Alaska
author: John Green
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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This book follows one boy's life as he looks for Alaska, a beautiful, complex, unattainable girl who is the object of his affection. This is a book about love and heartache. The ending to this book will leave you spellbound. My jaw is still on the floor...and my bedroom is still littered with wet Kleenexes.
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Wide Awake 23231 I can't believe there's going to be a gay Jewish president.

As my mother said this, she looked at my father, who was still staring at the screen. They were shocked, barely comprehending.

Me? I sat there and beamed.

Everything seems to be going right in Duncan's life: The candidate he's been supporting for president has just won the election. Duncan's boyfriend, Jimmy, is with him to celebrate. Love and kindness appear to have won the day.

But all too quickly, things start to go wrong. The election is called into question... and Duncan and Jimmy's relationship is called into question, too. Suddenly Duncan has to decide what he's willing to risk for something he believes in... and how far he's willing to go to hold on to the people we hold dear.]]>
221 David Levithan 0375834664 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.74 2006 Wide Awake
author: David Levithan
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2008/06/30
date added: 2009/12/17
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This book is set in the future...A future where everyone truly is equal and everyone in America has healthcare...So far, I find it interesting...
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories 27999 The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace.

These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent.

The half-skinned steer --
The mud below --
55 miles to the gas pump --
The bunchgrass edge of the world --
A lonely coast --
Job history --
Pair a spurs --
People in Hell just want a drink of water --
The governors of Wyoming --
The blood bay --
Brokeback Mountain]]>
289 Annie Proulx 0684852225 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 4.01 1999 Close Range: Wyoming Stories
author: Annie Proulx
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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Proulx is such an amazing story writer. I first read her after watching Brokeback Mountain. She is amazing.
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<![CDATA[Wake Up, Sun! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2)]]> 73343 32 David L. Harrison 0394882563 Stacy 4 3.90 1986 Wake Up, Sun! (Step-Into-Reading, Step 2)
author: David L. Harrison
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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When I was in the second grade, I won a writing contest. The prize was a chance to meet the author of this book. I remember feeling super cool that I was meeting a REAL author. I was all, "Wow!" It helped ignite my love for books, reading, and for becoming a teacher.
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<![CDATA[Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle]]> 542796
Whatever the subject matter -- pheasant or flying saucer; lapping lake water or sonic boom; a deer hunt, a basketball, or a bud -- it is all poetry reflecting today's images and today's moods.

The editors spent several years bringing together 1200 poems they considered fine enough to include, then slowly and carefully sifted out of 114 which appear in the book.

Readers of Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . . and Other Modern Verse may well be tempted by Eve Merriam's suggestion in "How to Eat a Poem"



Don't be polite
Bite in.
Pick it up with your
fingers and lick
The juice that may
run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now,
whenever you are.
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144 Stephen Dunning 0688412319 Stacy 5 teachers 4.07 1966 Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle
author: Stephen Dunning
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1966
rating: 5
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This is a great book to use when introducing poetry to first timers.
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<![CDATA[Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction]]> 164994 576 Lawrence Boadt 0809126311 Stacy 4 4.04 1984 Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction
author: Lawrence Boadt
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average rating: 4.04
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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I love history. This book will change the way you read the Bible.
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<![CDATA[The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings]]> 107272 New to this


· Additional material on archaeology, including a new eight-page color insert


· "What to Expect" and "At a Glance" boxes that provide summaries of the material covered in each chapter


· A Website Study Guide at offering chapter summaries, glossary terms, guides for reading, and self-quizzes for students.


· Several new "Something to Think About" and "Some More Information" boxes


· More extensive treatments of Judaism and of the role of women in the history of early Christianity


· Nine new illustrations


· An Instructor's Manual containing chapter summaries, discussion questions, and possible examination questions

Ideal for undergraduate and seminary classes in the New Testament, Biblical Studies, and Christian Origins, The New A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 3/e , is an accessible, clearly written introduction that encourages students to consider the historical issues surrounding these writings.]]>
560 Bart D. Ehrman 0195154622 Stacy 5 4.26 1996 The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
author: Bart D. Ehrman
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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One can never question their world too much.
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When I Knew 441858 128 Robert Trachtenberg 0060571462 Stacy 4 3.98 2005 When I Knew
author: Robert Trachtenberg
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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This is a book filled with times when people "knew"...Witty, funny, and I can relate!
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<![CDATA[The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)]]> 114345
The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.

Little House in the Big Woods

Meet the Ingalls family—Laura, Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie, who all live in a cozy log cabin in the big woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s. Though many of their neighbors are wolves and panthers and bears, the woods feel like home, thanks to Ma’s homemade cheese and butter and the joyful sounds of Pa’s fiddle.

Farmer Boy

As Laura Ingalls is growing up in a little house in Kansas, Almanzo Wilder lives on a big farm in New York. He and his brothers and sisters work hard from dawn to supper to help keep their family farm running. Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.

Little House on the Prairie

When Pa decides to sell the log house in the woods, the family packs up and moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where Pa builds them their little house on the prairie! Living on the farm is different from living in the woods, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.

On the Banks of Plum Creek

The Ingalls family lives in a sod house beside Plum Creek in Minnesota until Pa builds them a new house made of sawed lumber. The money for the lumber will come from their first wheat crop. But then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm, and by the end of a week, there is no wheat crop left.

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Pa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet. Pa starts work on the first building of the brand new town, located on the shores of Silver Lake.

The Long Winter

The first terrible storm comes to the barren prairie in October. Then it snows almost without stopping until April. With snow piled as high as the rooftops, it’s impossible for trains to deliver supplies, and the townspeople, including Laura and her family, are starving. Young Almanzo Wilder, who has settled in the town, risks his life to save the town.

Little Town on the Prairie

De Smet is rejuvenated with the beginning of spring. But in addition to the parties, socials, and “literaries,� work must continue. Laura spends many hours sewing shirts to help Ma and Pa get enough money to send Mary to a college for the blind. But in the evenings, Laura makes time for a new caller, Almanzo Wilder.

These Happy Golden Years

Laura must continue to earn money to keep Mary in her college for the blind, so she gets a job as a teacher. It’s not easy, and for the first time she’s living away from home. But it gets a little better every Friday, when Almanzo picks Laura up to take her back home for the weekend. Though Laura is still young, she and Almanzo are officially courting, and she knows that this is a time for new beginnings.

The First Four Years

Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder have just been married! They move to a small prairie homestead to start their lives together. But each year brings new challenges—storms, sickness, fire, and unpaid debts. These first four years call for courage, strength, and a great deal of determination. And through it all, Laura and Almanzo still have their love, which only grows when baby Rose arrives.]]>
2700 Laura Ingalls Wilder 0060529962 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 4.35 1971 The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)
author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1971
rating: 5
read at: 1989/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
I have such fond memories of reading this book series. I wanted to be Laura!...
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Writing Down the Bones 1314907 171 Natalie Goldberg 1570622582 Stacy 5 teachers 4.18 1986 Writing Down the Bones
author: Natalie Goldberg
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 2003/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: teachers
review:
This is a great book for teachers who need some fresh ideas on how to teach writing to reluctant students. She is witty and this book is honest. It does not read like a manual.
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<![CDATA[Lighting Fires: How the Passionate Teacher Engages Adolescent Writers]]> 552789 208 Joe Tsujimoto 0867095040 Stacy 5 teachers 4.50 2001 Lighting Fires: How the Passionate Teacher Engages Adolescent Writers
author: Joe Tsujimoto
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: teachers
review:
I loved this book! I read it when I feel my teaching getting too stagnant and too teachy...He keeps me refreshed and he keeps my teaching "student friendly".
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The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Stacy 5 oldfavorites To me, The Bell Jar was the first book of feminist writing where I finally realized that I was not alone in my own confusion and frustration for being a strong woman. Plath is one of my favorites.]]> 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 5
read at: 1998/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: oldfavorites
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My most favorite English teacher of all time told me to go and read this book. I did. I also never returned the book to the library, and I am probably still on the debt list at my high school because of it.
To me, The Bell Jar was the first book of feminist writing where I finally realized that I was not alone in my own confusion and frustration for being a strong woman. Plath is one of my favorites.
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<![CDATA[One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories]]> 508291 288 Kevin Jennings 1555832636 Stacy 5 teachers 4.13 1994 One Teacher in Ten: Gay and Lesbian Educators Tell Their Stories
author: Kevin Jennings
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1994
rating: 5
read at: 2006/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: teachers
review:
This book is so honest--raw and so uncensored. When I read this book, I really found myself between the pages. It is a book of guidance, hope, and courage. You will cry. Finally, a voice for teachers like me!
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<![CDATA[The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question]]> 320879 The Full Spectrum includes a variety of writers—gay, lesbian, bisexual, straight, transitioning, and questioning—on a variety of subjects: coming out, family, friendship, religion/faith, first kisses, break-ups, and many others.

This one of a kind collection will, perhaps, help all readers see themselves and the world around them in ways they might never have imagined. We have partnered with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and a portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to them.]]>
288 David Levithan 0375832904 Stacy 2 youngadultliterature 3.83 2006 The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Question
author: David Levithan
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
I was expecting a lot of this book, but I was let down. The title is pretty bold, so one would think that the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community could really find sanctity in this book. The stories are safe--not honest, and they seem completely edited so that they sound like an after school special...Very disappointing!
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A Mango-Shaped Space 171020 221 Wendy Mass 0316058254 Stacy 4 youngadultliterature 4.21 2005 A Mango-Shaped Space
author: Wendy Mass
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2006/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
This book will make you cry.It is a book about a main character with a unique problem. I actually had not heard of this *gift* before I read this book. It a truly original story.
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<![CDATA[Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)]]> 250924 An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices.

Virginia Euwer Wolff's groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college—she just needs the money to get there.

When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons outside the classroom.]]>
200 Virginia Euwer Wolff 0805080708 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 3.69 1993 Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)
author: Virginia Euwer Wolff
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1993
rating: 5
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
This is the first book of the trilogy. You will read the first "poem" and you will be hooked. I love this author! You will devour anything by her.
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<![CDATA[Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy]]> 111044
When her beloved older sister is hospitalized after a sudden mental breakdown, Cookie is left behind to cope with a family torn apart by grief, friends who shun her, and her fear that she, too, might one day lose her mind.

Based on award-winning author Sonya Sones’s own true story, this novel explores the chilling landscape of mental illness, revealing glimmers of beauty and of hope along the way. Told in a succession of short and powerful poems, it takes us deep into the cyclone of the narrator’s emotions: despair, anger, guilt, resentment, and ultimately, acceptance.]]>
145 Sonya Sones 0064462188 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 3.91 1999 Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
author: Sonya Sones
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2006/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
I love novels written in the form of poetry...They are quick reads and they always make me cry!
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She’s Come Undone 5203
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.]]>
465 Wally Lamb 0671021001 Stacy 5 3.91 1992 She’s Come Undone
author: Wally Lamb
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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I like to credit this book for one of the reasons that I fell in love with books. I remember always riding my bike to the Johnson Public Library in my old hometown in southeast Kansas...I recall walking into the library one day, thinking, "I am too old to go to the young adult section," so I grabbed the coolest book at the time with the coolest title in the adult's section and read it cover to cover under my sheets. I was in middle school. I have never looked back.
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems 32959
With lines both comic and sad, Sandra Cisneros deftly-and dazzlingly-explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her acclaimed fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways presents her in an entirely new light. And for readers everywhere, here is a showcase of one of our most powerful writers at her lyrical best.

“Here the young voice of Esperanza ofĚý The House on Mango Street Ěýmerges with that of the grown woman/poet.Ěý My Wicked Wicked Ways Ěýis a kind of international graffiti, where the poet—bold and insistent—puts her mark on those traveled places on the map and in the heart.â€� —CherrĂ­e Moraga]]>
128 Sandra Cisneros 0679418210 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.17 1987 My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
author: Sandra Cisneros
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1987
rating: 5
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shelves: oldfavorites
review:
I heart Sandra Cisneros...Poets like her only come around once in a while.
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Kissing Kate 270367 Kate was Lissa's best friend. They've shared everything for four years. Then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending Lissa doesn't exist. Confused and alone, Lissa's left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. But with the help of a free-spirit new friend, Lissa's beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.

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198 Lauren Myracle 0142408697 Stacy 4 youngadultliterature 3.69 2003 Kissing Kate
author: Lauren Myracle
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2006/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
I learned that I am not the only one with a Kate in my former life.
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Parrotfish 522782

Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become Grady, a guy. While coming out as transgender feels right to Grady, he isn't prepared for the reaction he gets from everyone else. His mother is upset, his younger sister is mortified, and his best friend, Eve, won't acknowledge him in public. Why can't people just let Grady be himself?

Grady's life is miserable until he finds friends in some unexpected places -- like the school geek, Sebastian, who explains that there is precedent in the natural world (parrotfish change gender when they need to, and the newly male fish are the alpha males), and Kita, a senior who might just be Grady's first love.

From acclaimed writer Ellen Wittlinger, this is the groundbreaking story of one teen's search for self and his struggle for acceptance.

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294 Ellen Wittlinger 1416916229 Stacy 1 youngadultliterature 3.70 2007 Parrotfish
author: Ellen Wittlinger
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at: 2007/10/21
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
I just did not like this book. I could not get into it...I tried and tried, but each time I just wanted to throw it across the room and tell the girl/boy to just SHUT UP! I was upset that I could not get into it. It could have been a powerful story of extreme importance to our youth...Instead it was just a let down.
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The Realm of Possibility 1022836 it is always expanding, it is never what you think
it is. Everything around us was once deemed
impossible. From the airplane overhead to
the phones in our pockets to the choir girl
putting her arm around the metalhead.
As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist
within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits
are of our own world’s devising. And yet,
every day we each do so many things
that were once impossible to us.

Enter The Realm of Possibility and meet a boy whose girlfriend is in love with Holden Caulfield; a girl who loves the boy who wears all black; a boy with the perfect body; and a girl who writes love songs for a girl she can’t have.

These are just a few of the captivating characters readers will get to know in this intensely heartfelt new novel about those ever-changing moments of love and heartbreak that go hand-in-hand with high school. David Levithan plumbs the depths of teenage emotion to create an amazing array of voices that readers won’t forget. So, enter their lives and prepare to welcome the realm of possibility open to us all. Love, joy, and these stories will linger.]]>
210 David Levithan 0375828451 Stacy 4 youngadultliterature 3.88 2004 The Realm of Possibility
author: David Levithan
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
This book takes a little while to get into...It is a book written through poetry, recording the life of various high school students. It is not a fast read.
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Define "Normal" 222525 From National Book Award Finalist Julie Anne Peters

This thoughtful, wry story is about two girls—a "punk" and a "prep"—who find themselves facing each other in a peer-counseling program and discover that they have some surprising things in common. A new reading-group guide written by the author is included in the back of this paperback edition.]]>
196 Julie Anne Peters 0316734896 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.84 2000 Define "Normal"
author: Julie Anne Peters
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2000
rating: 3
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shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
This book is utterly predictable. Not my favorite. Blah blah, alterna teen meets a priss who has a lesson to learn from the alterna-teen...She learns not to judge people on appearances (duh) and she learns a little about herself (yawn).
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Annie on My Mind 595375 Ěý
Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.”]]>
234 Nancy Garden 0374404143 Stacy 5 youngadultliterature As a teacher, this book is always borrowed from my room and never returned. I always buy a couple of copies because I know that the students borrowing it are the ones who need it. ]]> 4.02 1982 Annie on My Mind
author: Nancy Garden
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1982
rating: 5
read at: 2006/01/01
date added: 2009/12/17
shelves: youngadultliterature
review:
A great teacher friend told me about this book. I read it and fell in love. It is a great high school love story. I wish I would have had a book like this in high school because it would have given me the strength and courage I needed to come out.
As a teacher, this book is always borrowed from my room and never returned. I always buy a couple of copies because I know that the students borrowing it are the ones who need it.
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<![CDATA[The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)]]> 1113287
For Abe's father, Hubert, there's nothing better than presenting larger-than-life Hollywood fantasies on his vast silver screen. Nothing, that is, except gleefully sparring with Turner West--a funeral home operator who doesn't much appreciate the noise and merriment from the drive-in next door. Within the lively orbit of this ongoing feud is Abe's mother, Edna Marie, whose calm radiance conceals deep secrets; his sister, Louise, who blossoms almost too quickly into a stunning, willful young woman; and Judge Lester, a clumsy man on the ground who turns graceful when he takes to the sky, towing the Flamingo banner behind his small plane. Then Abe falls for Turner's beautiful daughter Grace. That's when, long before the Fourth of July festivities, the fireworks really begin. . . .]]>
309 Larry Baker 0345427025 Stacy 5
This book is unlike any coming of age novel I have ever read. Living in the world's largest drive-in movie theatre, the Lee family teaches the reader what it means to love and lose. The narrator is one of the most genuine voices I have read. I love it...totally love it.]]>
3.83 1997 The Flamingo Rising (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
author: Larry Baker
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2000/06/01
date added: 2009/12/17
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As an English teacher, I have read many "good" books, but this is my favorite book of all time. I read it each and every summer. It is like an old friend.

This book is unlike any coming of age novel I have ever read. Living in the world's largest drive-in movie theatre, the Lee family teaches the reader what it means to love and lose. The narrator is one of the most genuine voices I have read. I love it...totally love it.
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The Pickup 96334 288 Nadine Gordimer 0142001422 Stacy 0 3.57 2001 The Pickup
author: Nadine Gordimer
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at: 2008/11/08
date added: 2008/11/08
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<![CDATA[Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Inquiry-Based Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Grades 3-5]]> 845976 176 Alfred W. Tatum 1571103937 Stacy 0 teachers 4.09 2005 Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Inquiry-Based Teaching in Diverse Classrooms, Grades 3-5
author: Alfred W. Tatum
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at: 2008/11/08
date added: 2008/11/08
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<![CDATA[When You Are Engulfed in Flames]]> 1044355 When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense.

Or how about...

when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game.

Oh, all right...

David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo.

Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire.
(front flap)]]>
323 David Sedaris 0316143472 Stacy 0 to-read 4.08 2005 When You Are Engulfed in Flames
author: David Sedaris
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir]]> 79198
He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals, who weren't "real men"—or Christians, for that matter. But Jennings found his salvation in school, inspired by his mother. Self-taught, from Appalachia, her formal education had ended in sixth grade, but she was determined that her son would be the first member of their extended family to go to college, even if it meant going North. Kevin, propelled by her dream, found a world beyond poverty. He earned a scholarship to Harvard and there learned not only about history and literature, but also that it was possible to live openly as a gay man.

But when Jennings discovered his vocation as a teacher and returned to high school to teach, he was forced back into the closet. He saw countless teachers and students struggling with their sexual orientation and desperately trying to hide their identity. For Jennings, coming out the second time was more complicated and much more important than the first—because this time he was leading a movement for justice.

Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son is that rare memoir that is both a riveting personal story and an inside account of a critical chapter in our recent history. Creating safe schools for teenagers is now a central part of the progressive agenda in American education. Like Paul Monette's landmark Becoming a Man, Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, and Rick Bragg's All Over but the Shoutin', Kevin Jennings's poignant, razor-sharp memoir will change the way we see our contemporary world.]]>
267 Kevin Jennings 0807071463 Stacy 4 4.13 2006 Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir
author: Kevin Jennings
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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Uglies (Uglies, #1) 24770
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever....]]>
425 Scott Westerfeld 0689865384 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.85 2005 Uglies (Uglies, #1)
author: Scott Westerfeld
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2008/06/30
date added: 2008/06/30
shelves: youngadultliterature
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I will let you know when I finished!
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The Usual Rules 226796
Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.

Absent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. He takes her back with him to California, where she re-invents her life: Wendy now lives more or less on her own in a one-room apartment with a TV set and not much else. Wendy's new circle now includes her father's cactus-grower girlfriend, newly reconnected with the son she gave up for adoption twenty years before; a sad and tender bookstore owner who introduces her to the voice of Anne Frank and to his autistic son; and a homeless skateboarder, on a mission to find his long-lost brother.

Over the winter and spring that follow, Wendy moves between the alternately painful and reassuring memories of her mother and the revelations that come with growing to know her real father for the first time. Pulled between her old life in Brooklyn and a new one 3,000 miles away, our heroine is faced with a world where the usual rules no longer apply but eventually discovers a strength and capacity for compassion and survival that she never knew she possessed.

At the core of the story is Wendy's deep connection with her little brother, back in New York, who is grieving the loss of their mother without her. This is a story about the ties of siblings, about children who lose their parents, parents who lose their children, and the unexpected ways they sometimes find one another again. Set against the backdrop of global and personal tragedy, and written in a style alternately wry and heartbreaking, The Usual Rules is an unexpectedly hopeful story of healing and forgiveness that will offer readers, young and old alike, a picture of how, out of the rubble, a family rebuilds its life.
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400 Joyce Maynard 0312283695 Stacy 2 youngadultliterature 3.98 2003 The Usual Rules
author: Joyce Maynard
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2003
rating: 2
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Are We There Yet? 23227 together. But then Elijah meets Julia, and soon the brothers aren’t together nearly as much. And then Julia meets Danny and soon all three of them are in a mixed-up, turned-around, never-what-you-expect world of brothers, Italy, and love.

Are We There Yet? isn’t about a place on a map, it’s about a place in the heart. David Levithan has written a magical story of a journey definitely worth taking.]]>
215 David Levithan 037582846X Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.47 2005 Are We There Yet?
author: David Levithan
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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Monster 44184 Monster.

Fade In: Interior Court. A guard sits at a desk behind Steve. Kathy O'Brien, Steve's lawyer, is all business as she talks to Steve.

O'Brien
Let me make sure you understand what's going on. Both you and this king character are on trial for felony murder. Felony Murder is as serious as it gets. . . . When you're in court, you sit there and pay attetion. You let the jury know that you think the case is a serious as they do. . . .

Steve
You think we're going to win ?

O'Brien (seriously)
It probably depends on what you mean by "win."

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout.

Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of "the system," cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison, where he may spend all the tomorrows of his life.

As a way of coping with the horrific events that entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides to transcribe his trial into a script, just like in the movies. He writes it all down, scene by scene, the story of how his whole life was turned around in an instant. But despite his efforts, reality is blurred and his vision obscured until he can no longer tell who he is or what is the truth. This compelling novel is Walter Dean Myers's writing at its best.]]>
281 Walter Dean Myers 0064407314 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.74 1999 Monster
author: Walter Dean Myers
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath]]> 99375
With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's The Bell Jar and Ariel , a welcoming introduction for newcomers, and an unflinching valentine for the devoted.]]>
272 Stephanie Hemphill 037583799X Stacy 5 3.79 2007 Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
author: Stephanie Hemphill
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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Bronx Masquerade 72441 176 Nikki Grimes 0142501891 Stacy 3 3.95 2001 Bronx Masquerade
author: Nikki Grimes
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2001
rating: 3
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Island of the Blue Dolphins 233818 here

In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.

This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.]]>
184 Scott O'Dell 0440439884 Stacy 5 3.82 1960 Island of the Blue Dolphins
author: Scott O'Dell
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 38990 232 Alison Bechdel 0618477942 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.12 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
author: Alison Bechdel
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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date added: 2008/01/20
shelves: oldfavorites
review:
By far I think that this is the best book ever written. Maybe it is the genre, maybe the content, but I could not put this book down. It made me remember my own childhood, my own family, and it made me celebrate the oddness of it all.
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Catalyst 170171 Speak, Catalyst is a novel that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 232 Laurie Halse Anderson 0142400017 Stacy 4 3.62 2002 Catalyst
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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Patience & Sarah 31186
First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country.

Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.

Features an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue.]]>
225 Isabel Miller Stacy 5 3.91 1969 Patience & Sarah
author: Isabel Miller
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average rating: 3.91
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<![CDATA[Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)]]> 162902
I am trying to write my
way out of the closed box
redolent of cedar. Satan
comes to me in the locked box
and says, I'll get you out. Say
My father is a shit
. I say
my father is a shit and Satan
laughs and says, It's opening.]]>
72 Sharon Olds 0822953145 Stacy 4 4.23 1980 Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
author: Sharon Olds
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.23
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't]]> 76865
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:
Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.

The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.

A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.

The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.]]>
300 Jim Collins 0066620996 Stacy 5 4.12 2001 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
author: Jim Collins
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A Room of One's Own 87682 A Room of One's Own is considered Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.]]>
186 Virginia Woolf 0747515751 Stacy 3 4.02 1929 A Room of One's Own
author: Virginia Woolf
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average rating: 4.02
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American Primitive 178959
Her most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of America, both within our bodies and outside.

"American Primitive enchants me with the purity of its lyric voice, the loving freshness of its perceptions, and the singular glow of a spiritual life brightening the pages." -- Stanley Kunitz

"These poems are natural growths out of a loam of perception and feeling, and instinctive skill with language makes them seem effortless. Reading them is a sensual delight." -- May Swenson]]>
88 Mary Oliver 0316650048 Stacy 5 4.39 1983 American Primitive
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Glass (Crank, #2) 270804 Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep going, to face the pressures of day-to-day life. She needs it to feel alive.

Once again the monster takes over Kristina's life and she will do anything for it, including giving up the one person who gives her the unconditional love she craves -- her baby.

The sequel to Crank, this is the continuing story of Kristina and her descent back to hell. Told in verse, it's a harrowing and disturbing look at addiction and the damage that it inflicts.

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681 Ellen Hopkins 1416940901 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 4.29 2007 Glass (Crank, #2)
author: Ellen Hopkins
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average rating: 4.29
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rating: 3
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How disturbing...So disturbing...Addictin to drugs + teenage pregnancy = disaster..and it just keeps getting worse.
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<![CDATA[Raise the Roof: The Inspiring Inside Story of the Tennessee Lady Vols' Groundbreaking Season in Women's College Basketball]]> 599993
So says Pat Summitt, the legendary coach whose Tennessee Lady Vols entered the 1997-98 season aiming for an almost unprecedented "three-peat" of NCAA championships.ĚýĚý Raise the Roof takes you right inside the locker room of her amazing team, whose inspired mixture of gifted freshmen and seasoned stars produced a standard of play that would change the game of women's basketball forever.

The 1997-98 season started innocently enough.ĚýĚýOne Saturday in August, four young freshmen--Semeka Randall, Tamika Catchings, Ace Clement and Teresa Geter--arrived on the Tennessee campus to begin their college careers.ĚýĚýWelcoming them were a number of players from the previous year, including Chamique Holdsclaw and Kellie Jolly.ĚýĚýBut that night, in a sign of things to come, a simple pickup game turned into an amazing display of basketball brilliance--freshmen against established players, and with barely a shot missed by either side.ĚýĚýSuddenly Pat Summitt glimpsed the fast, aggressive and hugely talented.ĚýĚýThis might be the team she'd worked her whole career to coach.

As the season got under way, other dramas unfolded.ĚýĚýAfter one emotional team meeting, Summitt realized that many on the team were playing for something more than just the glory of the all four freshmen, for example, came from single-parent homes, and the tough circumstances of the majority of the other players seemed to add an extra edge to their desire to win it all.ĚýĚýFurther, Chamique Holdsclaw, widely regarded as the greatest female player ever, was being dogged by questions about turning pro--and she seemed reluctant to rule it out.ĚýĚýMeanwhile, another member of the team began to notice the unwelcome attentions of a fan, who soon turned out to be a full-fledged stalker.

All this was behind the scenes; out on the court, the win column was swelling with every 8-0, 15-0, 21-0.ĚýĚýAs 1997 turned into 1998, Pat Summitt began privately to admit that this team had changed these kids were so lovable, funny and eager to please that she simply had to let them into her heart.ĚýĚýAlong the way, the Lady Vols were redefining what women were capable of, trading in old definitions of femininity for new ones--in short, they were keeping score.ĚýĚýAnd by the time they entered the NCAA Final Four tournament in Kansas City, Summitt found herself believing the despite all the distractions, the 1997-98 Lady Vols could go undefeated, and, in doing so, raise the roof off the sport of women's basketball.

Packed with the excitement of a season on the brink of perfection and filled with the comedy and tragedy of one year in the life of a basketball team, Raise the Roof will have readers cheering from the bench for a team of all-conquering players and their astonishing coach.]]>
304 Pat Summitt 0767903293 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 4.47 1998 Raise the Roof: The Inspiring Inside Story of the Tennessee Lady Vols' Groundbreaking Season in Women's College Basketball
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Pat Summitt never lets me down. She is an amazing coach and I would love to crawl inside her mind for one day. This book does not disappoint. I would loved to have been a Lady Vol.
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<![CDATA[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]]> 22628 offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.

This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER

This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

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213 Stephen Chbosky Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 4.24 1999 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
author: Stephen Chbosky
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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It took me a couple of times before I could get through this book. I don't know what makes it so hard to commit to...This book is warped and twisted and laugh out loud funny. More than once he reminded me of myself.
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Speak 439288
In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.]]>
202 Laurie Halse Anderson 014131088X Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 4.01 1999 Speak
author: Laurie Halse Anderson
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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I love this author. She is such a storyteller. Very rarely do I read a YAL book that portrays high school realistically, but his one has done it. I love this book!
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<![CDATA[Name All the Animals: A Memoir]]> 228456 Name All the Animals brilliantly explores the power and limitations of a family's faith. Smith was 15 when her older brother, Roy, was killed in a car accident, and her memoir follows her family as they attempt to put their lives back together. Her parents try to take comfort in their strong Catholic faith but are nonetheless shattered. For her part, Smith wonders why God has abandoned her. She finds cold comfort in Catholic symbols and rituals, feeling a connection to Roy only when she enters the old fort they had built together.

An engaging storyteller, Smith crafts her memoir to read like a novel, interspersing moving flashbacks of the times she spent with her brother with amusing portraits of the nuns at her parochial school, who sneak out of the infirmary to play cards and make autumnal visits to a secret swimming pool. As a child, Smith wonders why her father blesses her and Roy every morning, touching a relic to their foreheads, mouths, and hands, mentioning each individual body part. "He's got to name us, like Adam named the animals," Roy explained. "To keep track of them." The near impossibility of "keeping track," and the changing nature of faith are just two of the poignant messages in this unforgettable debut.]]>
352 Alison Smith 0743255232 Stacy 0 youngadultliterature, to-read 3.68 2004 Name All the Animals: A Memoir
author: Alison Smith
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average rating: 3.68
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<![CDATA[Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems]]> 836062 Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining her other friendships doesn't seem so important anymore. Sarah thought she knew Robin. But Robin eats danger for breakfast, pushes the limits way too far, and forces Sarah to question everything in her life - everything Sarah thought she had wanted.
In stunning verse, this novel slowly reveals the complexities of friendship - the power it has to define, destroy, and eventually heal again.]]>
272 Stephanie Hemphill 0786837454 Stacy 2 youngadultliterature 3.56 2005 Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems
author: Stephanie Hemphill
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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<![CDATA[Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them]]> 41899 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl.

Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world, which means that the dollars and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope most sincerel that passing wizards feel more charitable if they ever see you being attacked by a Manticore.

-Albus Dumbledore

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128 Newt Scamander 0439321603 Stacy 5 3.95 2001 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
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<![CDATA[Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)]]> 32886 272 bell hooks 0060938293 Stacy 3 4.36 2002 Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, #2)
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Living History 56073 Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady.

Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.

The only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she crisscrossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice -- as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics.]]>
567 Hillary Rodham Clinton 0743222253 Stacy 5 3.76 2003 Living History
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average rating: 3.76
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I started reading this book the other night, because I was jonesing for some nonfiction. Future President Hillary R. Clinton is a fantastic storyteller. She starts her book by telling you what influenced her life the most, including her political views, views on family, and views on equal rights. So far, this book is fabulous. What a powerful, interesting woman!
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Between Mom and Jo 496102
Nick's emotional struggle to redefine his relationships with his parents will remind readers that a family's love can survive even the most difficult times.]]>
240 Julie Anne Peters 0316739065 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature I still think that this book is important for people who, in fact, have two moms. We need more books that deal with the flip side of being gay. Overall, it was alright.]]> 3.92 2006 Between Mom and Jo
author: Julie Anne Peters
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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This book follows the life of a boy who has two moms. The book started off great. I was so quick to jump and say that I loved it; however, the book got predictable. Very predictable.
I still think that this book is important for people who, in fact, have two moms. We need more books that deal with the flip side of being gay. Overall, it was alright.
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Hear Me Out 1184649 Planned Parenthood of Toronto 1896764878 Stacy 2 4.17 2005 Hear Me Out
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Digging to America 698
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an “arrival party,� an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined.

Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife’s death, suddenly all the values she cherishes—her traditions, her privacy, her otherness—are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded.

A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.]]>
277 Anne Tyler 0307263940 Stacy 0 to-read 3.59 2006 Digging to America
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Falling Up 30120 Millie McDeevit screamed a scream, so loud it made her eyebrows steam.
She screamed so loud, her jawbone broke,
Her tongue caught fire, her nostrils smoked...

Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.

Shel Silverstein, theĚýNew York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound.

So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind.

Story List
- Advice
- Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels
- Alphabalance
- Bad Cold
- A Battle in the Sky
- The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow
- Best Mask?
- Big Eating Contest
- Bituminous?
- Blood-Curdling Story
- Body Language
- Camp Wonderful
- Carrots
- Castle
- Cat, a Kid, and a Mom
- Cat Jacks
- Cereal
- Christmas Dog
- Clean Gene
- Complainin' Jack
- Cookwitch Sandwich
- Crazy Dream
- Crystal Ball
- Danny O'Dare
- The Deadly Eye
- Dentist Dan
- Description
- Diving Board
- Don the Dragon's Birthday
- Eggs Rated
- Falling Up
- Feeding Time
- The Folks Inside
- Foot Repair
- Forgetful Paul Revere
- The Former Foreman's Story
- Furniture Bash
- Gardener
- Glub-Glub
- The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu
- Golden Goose
- Hand Holding
- Hard to Please
- Haunted
- Headless Town
- Headphone Harold
- Help!
- Hi-Monster
- Human Balloon
- Hungry Kid Island
- Hypnotized
- Ice Cream Stop
- Imagining
- In the Land of...
- James
- Kanga Ruby
- Keepin' Count
- Keep-Out House
- Little Hoarse
- Little Pig's Treat
- Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue
- Long Scarf
- Lyin' Larry
- Mari-Lou's Ride
- Medusa
- Mirror, Mirror
- Mister Moody
- Molly's Folly
- Monkey
- Morgan's Curse
- Mummy
- Music Lesson
- My Nose Garden
- My Robot
- My Sneaky Cousin
- The Nap Taker
- Needles and Pins
- New World
- No
- No Grown-Ups
- No Thank You
- Noise Day
- Nope
- Obedient
- Ooh!
- One Out of Sixteen
- People Zoo
- Pinocchio
- Plugging In
- Poison-Tester
- Porky
- Quality Time
- Reachin' Richard
- Red Flowers for You
- Remote-a-Dad
- Rotten Convention
- Runners
- Sack Race
- Safe?
- Scale
- Screamin' Millie
- Settin' Around
- Shanna in the Sauna
- Sharing
- Shoe Talk
- Short Kid
- Show Fish
- Sidewalking
- Smile Makers
- Snowball
- Somethin' New
- Sorry I Spilled It
- Spoiled Brat
- Stone Airplane
- Stork Story
- Strange Restaurant
- Stupid Pencil Maker
- Sun Hat
- Sybil the Magician's Last Show
- Tattooin' Ruth
- Tell Me
- They Say I Have...
- Tongue Sticker-Outer
- The Toy Eater
- Three O'clock
- Three Stings
- Turkey?
- Unfair
- Use for a Moose
- The Voice
- Warmhearted
- Wastebasket Brother
- Weavers
- Web-Foot Woe
- Weird-Bird
- We're Out of Paint, So�
- When I Was Your Age
- Why Is It?
- Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
- Writer Waiting
- Yuck]]>
178 Shel Silverstein 0060513098 Stacy 4 4.36 1996 Falling Up
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Romiette and Julio 266668 336 Sharon M. Draper 0613337239 Stacy 2 3.94 1999 Romiette and Julio
author: Sharon M. Draper
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.94
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rating: 2
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Where the Wild Things Are 19543 38 Maurice Sendak 0099408392 Stacy 4 4.25 1963 Where the Wild Things Are
author: Maurice Sendak
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.25
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar 4948
One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through three plums--and still he was hungry. When full at last, he made a cocoon around himself and went to sleep, to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!

The brilliantly innovative Eric Carle has dramatized the story of one of Nature's commonest yet loveliest marvels, the metamorphosis of the butterfly. This audiobook will delight as well as instruct the very youngest listener.]]>
26 Eric Carle 0241003008 Stacy 5 4.34 1969 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
author: Eric Carle
name: Stacy
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1969
rating: 5
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Goodnight Moon 32929
In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.]]>
32 Margaret Wise Brown 0060775858 Stacy 5 4.31 1947 Goodnight Moon
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The Crucible 17250
Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, "Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."

WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.
(back cover)]]>
143 Arthur Miller 0142437336 Stacy 4 3.60 1953 The Crucible
author: Arthur Miller
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average rating: 3.60
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Godless 4043 Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting -- and dangerous.

When the Chutengodians hold their first ceremony high atop the dome of the water tower, things quickly go from merely dangerous to terrifying and deadly. Jason soon realizes that inventing a religion is a lot easier than controlling it, but control it he must, before his creation destroys both his friends and himself.

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198 Pete Hautman 1416908161 Stacy 3 youngadultliterature 3.59 2004 Godless
author: Pete Hautman
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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For such a "brave" title, I expected a lot more from this book. Basically, a boy is sick and tired of blindly being forced to follow his parent's religion, so he goes and invents one of his own...His involves worshipping the town's water tower. I expected more drama and more "soul searching". This book felt like it was told too fast. I was left disappointed.
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The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]>
96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Stacy 5 oldfavorites 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
author: Ernest Hemingway
name: Stacy
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1952
rating: 5
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Too many people (women) hate Hemingway, because they find him a tad too misogynistic for their liking...I find him fabulous. I was able to tour his home while I was in Key West. It made me love him more.
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In Our Time 4652
"In Our Time" provides key insights into Hemingway's later works.]]>
156 Ernest Hemingway Stacy 5 3.74 1924 In Our Time
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<![CDATA[The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway]]> 4625 THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR

In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection. For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.]]>
650 Ernest Hemingway 0684843323 Stacy 5 4.30 1987 The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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The Reader 101299
When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.]]>
216 Bernhard Schlink 0375408266 Stacy 5 3.78 1995 The Reader
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average rating: 3.78
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What an amazing story! I completely fell in love with the tragedy that is this novel. You will cry...You will be outraged!
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Splintering: Poems 1154685
It's about the aftermath. It's about what happens after a stranger breaks into a house and attacks a family. It's about the sisters who must barricade themselves behind a splintering door while tethered on the phone to 911. It's about the father who nearly dies. It's about the son who hides. And everything after.
Told in alternating perspectives, this is a powerful, moving story about a family that has its facade shattered by a random act of violence -- and must deal with what is discovered underneath.]]>
184 Eireann Corrigan 043948992X Stacy 5 youngadultliterature 3.43 2004 Splintering: Poems
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average rating: 3.43
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This book recreates one traumatic event that happens to a family in a series of poems. I thought, "An entire book about the same thing?", but I was wrong...a page turner...
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The World According to Garp 7069 610 John Irving 0345915593 Stacy 5 4.11 1978 The World According to Garp
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Before you die, you must read this book! Outstanding!
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The Scarlet Letter 12296 279 Nathaniel Hawthorne 0142437263 Stacy 3 3.43 1850 The Scarlet Letter
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<![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 Stacy 2 3.82 1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Great Gatsby 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]>
180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Stacy 4 3.93 1925 The Great Gatsby
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<![CDATA[Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers]]> 80673 chilling. It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors ... so I began to speak out about my experiences. And once I did, I found that I wasn't as alone as I'd thought."
—from Judy Blume's introduction to Places I Never Meant to Be

Judy Blume is not alone: Many of today's most distinguished authors of books for young people have found their work censored or challenged. Eleven of them have contributed original stories to this collection. Along with a story written by the late Norma Klein when she was a student at Barnard College, they comprise a stunning literary achievement as well as a battle cry against censorship.

Contributors:
� David Klass
� Norma Klein
� Julius Lester
� Chris Lynch
� Harry Mazer
� Norma Fox Mazer
� Walter Dean Myers
� Katherine Paterson
� Susan Beth Pfeffer
� Rachel Vail
� Jacqueline Woodson
� Paul Zindel]]>
208 Judy Blume 0689842589 Stacy 5 3.76 1999 Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
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<![CDATA[Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume]]> 37750
Judy Blume

Whether laughing to tears reading "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great" or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments in "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of essays, twenty-four notable female authors write straight from the heart about the unforgettable novels that left an indelible mark on their childhoods and still influence them today. After growing up from "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" into "Smart Women," these writers pay tribute, through their reflections and most cherished memories, to one of the most beloved authors of all time.]]>
275 Jennifer O'Connell 1416531041 Stacy 4 3.50 2007 Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
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<![CDATA[Here's to You, Rachel Robinson]]> 37761 196 Judy Blume 0330398067 Stacy 4 3.82 1993 Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
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It's Not the End of the World 37755 Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now he was going to Las Vegas to get divorced and her mother was pleased! She had only a few days to get the two of them together in the same room. Maybe, if she could, they would just forget about the divorce. Then the Newman family could be its old self again -- maybe. But Karen knew something she didn't know last that sometimes people who shouldn't be apart are impossible together.
So she felt like yelling at Mrs. Singer. And then Mrs. Singer did a surprising thing....]]>
176 Judy Blume 0689842937 Stacy 4 3.78 1972 It's Not the End of the World
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Double Fudge (Fudge, #5) 80672
Fudge is obsessed with money. He’s making his own “Fudge Bucks� and has plans to buy the entire world. But life gets really crazy when Fudge and his older brother, Peter, run into their long-lost relatives, the Howie Hatchers. Now they have to deal with annoying twin cousins and a weird younger cousin, coincidentally named Farley Drexel Hatcher—just like Fudge! Their names aren’t the only similarity, and before long, mini-Fudge is causing just as much trouble as Fudge always has!

“As a kid, Judy Blume was my favorite author,ĚýandĚý Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Ěýwas my favorite book.”—Jeff Kinney, author of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series

Love Fudge, Peter, and Sheila? Read all the books featuring your favorite characters:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Superfudge
Fudge-a-Mania]]>
240 Judy Blume 0142408786 Stacy 4 3.98 2002 Double Fudge (Fudge, #5)
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