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Ophelia by Lisa Klein

maurie M. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2010, 4:11 am
Ophelia, by Lisa Klein, is a retelling of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the eyes of the world’s most famous spurned lover. A young and blossoming girl, Ophelia catches the eye of the dark prince Hamlet, and the well-known story unfolds with just enough innovation to make it interesting. W...
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Ringworld by Larry Niven

maurie M. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2010, 3:27 pm
Louis Wu has seen it all. Jaded, bored with a world that has no more to offer him, he spends his two hundredth birthday reminiscing about his youth, the good old days when caprice ruled his actions and the world seemed endless in its capacity for excitement. The spark of adventure is still inside hi...
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The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

maurie M. posted an article on - Aug 23, 2010, 9:24 pm
In the fall of 1937, a young Chinese man named Stephen is stricken with tuberculosis. Despite the deteriorating political situation in eastern Asia due to Japan’s budding imperialism, Stephen is sent to a small Japanese village called Tarumi, where his family owns a summer house, to rest...
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Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont

maurie M. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2010, 3:15 pm
Gossip of the Starlings, by Nina de Gramont, is a boarding school story with a twist. Catherine arrives at Esther Percy School for Girls, having been forced from her old (coed) school for boy-related reasons. The school seems rigid, constraining, lonely, until Sky Butterfield chooses Catherine as he...
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The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

maurie M. posted an article on - Aug 16, 2010, 12:51 pm
True to its title, the book teaches the fundamental principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh. Charmingly simple, yet strikingly profound, Hoff beautifully introduces his readers to Taoism. Take a moment and consider the concept of this book: eastern philosophy explained using a children's stor...
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Intuition by Allegra Goodman

maurie M. posted an article on - Jun 8, 2010, 5:48 pm
In the Philpott Institute, several young postdocs research a possible cure for cancer. Sandy Glass and Marion Mendelssohn run the lab. In the beginning of the novel, Glass and Mendelssohn tell Cliff Bannaker, one of the postdocs, to discontinue his work on the RSV-7 virus. They told him once before,...
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Crossing by Andrew Xiz Fukuda

maurie M. posted an article on - May 24, 2010, 3:10 pm
The book Crossing is the tale of Xing Xu, a young chinese immigrant who is one out of two asians attending an almost exclusively white high school in New York. With the onset of the school year, Xing again faces another period of prolonged social isolation with only his sole friend and fellow asian ...
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Elli Friedmann

maurie M. posted an article on - May 22, 2010, 10:19 am
Elli was thirteen years old; clever, ambitious, funny, and terribly excited about her new bike. She had friends and a crush and a wonderful family—a pretty good life. Until the Nazis invaded her town. In one fell swoop, her life came out from under her. Her school was closed permanently, and all o...
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English Passengers by Matthew Kneale

maurie M. posted an article on - May 2, 2010, 1:19 pm
Set in the mid-19th century, when British imperialism was at its pinnacle and explorers were mapping the last uncharted corners of the globe, English Passengers spins a delicious yarn of intrigue, torment, and reckless lawbreaking on the high seas and within the plains and forests of Tasmania. It is...
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Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri

maurie M. posted an article on - Mar 12, 2010, 5:08 pm
One night, five children mysteriously disappear from their homes in Paris, Glasgow, Rome, and London. Five years later, the five teenagers and their governess, Madame Vileroy, arrive at an exclusive holiday party in New York. The Faust "family" has just enrolled in Marlowe, a school for elite studen...
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The Wave by Todd Strasser

maurie M. posted an article on - Mar 9, 2010, 8:19 pm
The Wave, by Todd Strasser, is the story of Gordon High School, a regular American institution of lockers and bells, dreaded phys ed and social cliques. The novel takes place in the early 1970s, separated by years and oceans from the genocide of World War II. As they learn about the Holocaust in his...
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Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

maurie M. posted an article on - Jan 25, 2010, 6:54 pm
Lee Fiora is a modest girl from the Midwest, blessed by luck and hours of effort, who has won a place and a scholarship to the Ault school, a prestigious Northeastern boarding school. Vineyard Vines, Ralph Lauren and J. Crew labels are everywhere to be seen, while the school demands more academicall...
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Nightlight: A Parody by The Harvard Lampoon

maurie M. posted an article on - Jan 10, 2010, 8:35 pm
For those of you who desire the short, sweet version, Nightlight is a parody of Twilight. The basic storyline is similar enough to mock Twilight, yet different enough to be its own work of fiction. Belle Goose moves from Pheonix to Switchblade, Oregon to live with her father Jim, a window wiper. Bel...
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Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson

maurie M. posted an article on - Jan 4, 2010, 8:44 pm
Kate Malone is one of those over-achievers; every school has one. Not only is she a straight-A student with especially outstanding grades in math and science, she also happens to be a long distance-running track superstar. She is a minister's daughter. She is dating Mitchell "Mitch" Pangborn III, wh...
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Sacred Scars by Kathleen Duey

maurie M. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2009, 12:29 am
WARNING: The following review contains spoilers of Skin Hunger, the first book in this series. If you have not read Skin Hunger, dash off to your local library as fast as you can and read it! Then you may read this review, and subsequently Sacred Scars, at your leisure. When we left Sadima at the en...
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Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

maurie M. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 5:07 pm
It is the peak of immigration in New York City, at the dawn of the twentieth century. Shouts in dozens of languages whoop through the air and smells from every dish imaginable waft through the streets of the Lower East Side. Tenements, rickety but home, climb the sky, fire escapes snaking down. The ...
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Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

maurie M. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 10:42 pm
On her way home from school, Sophie Amundsen finds two notes in her mailbox. On each note is written a simple, yet infinitely profound question. "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" These questions are the humble beginnings of Sophie's very own basic course in Philosophy being taught...
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Double Helix by Nancy Werlin

maurie M. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 8:18 pm
Eli Samuels, high school senior, soon to be high school graduate, is looking for a job. On a drunken impulse, he writes an embarrassing email to Dr. Quincy Wyatt, the most famous geneticist in the world, asking for a job at Wyatt Transgenics, Dr. Wyatt’s company. Eli regrets the email as soon as h...
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The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld

maurie M. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 6:39 pm
Millennia in the future, light-years away, the Risen Empire spans eighty planets. To the people of the empire, the Risen Emperor, inventor of immortality, and his eternally young sister, the Child Empress, are more than rulers- they are gods. They have ruled for sixteen hundred years, and the empire...
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