GJSHS book reviews

written by students and staff

Entries from April 2006

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

April 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Fever 1793 is a great book for people who like to read about dramatic, bad times that are based on events that actually occured with “real” people in “real” times. Fever 1793 is a book that describes the life of the protagonist, Maddie, a young girl who’s mother owns a cafe with her grandfather in [...]

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Tags: Historical Fiction

Electric Dreams by Caroline Kettlewell

April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

The book says “Sometimes your students are the only ones crazy enough to believe in you.” I say “it was great to read about believing in students!” Anyone want to build a car?

Electric Dreams takes place in a poor rural North Carolina High School where beating all the odds, both a young and a veteran [...]

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Tags: Nonfiction

A Face First by Priscilla Cummings

April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

This book was written by an author who used to live in Granby so if you want to read a book by an author you might know this is a book for you. This book is about a girl, Kelley Ann Brennan, who lives in Maryland. She gets into a car accident and gets severely [...]

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Tags: Realistic Fiction