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Entries Tagged as 'Audiobooks'

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton–7th grade Literacy Class

December 2nd, 2008 · 27 Comments

Hello 7th grade students!
I hope you enjoyed reading The Outsiders as much as I did.  This is such a great book about social cliques and how those cliques can affect society and change people’s lives.  It amazes me that S.E. Hinton was only in high school when she wrote and published it!  Later, we will [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Book Reviews · Books · Realistic Fiction · YA Literature

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

November 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Apparently I am very good at interrupting Twilight bloggers and I also have a thing for books that are made into movies.  So, I would like to interrupt for a moment to let you in on another book/movie combination.  The Boy in the Striped Pajamas based on the book by the same name, written by [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Book Reviews · Books · Historical Fiction · YA Literature

Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams

October 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Sorry so long without a post, dear readers, but last week was fall break and I was on my honeymoon!
My new husband, Daniel, and I went to Walt Disney World and Univeral in Orlando and I got to attend Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights for the first time. It was the super-scariest event I’ve ever attended [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Book Reviews · Books · Mystery Fiction · YA Literature