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Entries Tagged as 'Book Reviews'

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

January 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments

Hello blog mates!  It has been over a month since the last blog, and I can’t stand it, so I must tell you about a great book that was just put on bookshelves last week.  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is the third book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.  [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Books · Children's Literature · Humorous Fiction · Realistic Fiction

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

The City of Embers by Jeanne DuPrau

October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I really hate to interrupt all of the Twilight blogging, but I did want to let you know about something I just discovered.  There is a movie currently in theaters and it is based on the book The City of Embersby Jeanne DuPrau.  I have  read this book, but I recently purchased a copy of [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Books · Children's Literature

Back to the Grind…

August 28th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Hello again, my friends!
Book Bytes is back from our summer hiatus!
I’ve been reading lots of interesting titles over the last few months, but the BIGGIE was a certain something that had teenage (and slightly older) girls out past their normal bedtimes. I’m talking nationwide midnight release parties that had nothing to do with a [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Books · Fantasy Fiction · Horror Fiction · Romance Fiction · YA Literature

“What my girlfriend doesn’t know” by Sonya Sones

May 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Hey!!!
the reason i am writing about this book is to inform all the girls out there about the greatest most wonderful book in the world! It’s called “What my girlfriend doesn’t know”. The author of this book is Sonya Sones. This book is about a boy named Robin who was teased and picked on in [...]

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

Dairy Queen

May 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Currently I have read the book “Dairy Queen”. I absolutely loved this book and could read it many more times!! I would never get tired of it.
D.J., is the daughter of a family, that lives on a dairy farm, she has many responsibilities since her father broke his knee and her brothers are off to [...]

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