GJSHS book reviews

Go Ask Alice is a great book.  It all starts when Alice goes to a party where someone puts LSD in her drink.  She thought the LSD was really cool and she oculdn’t wait to try other drugs.  She tried just about every drug there is: speed, cocaine, heroine, anything she could get her hands [...]

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This book is about a boy named Arthur who has severe asthma, and he gets caught up in a novel of puzzle’s, madness, and creatures. It all starts, in gym class where he has a severe asthma attack, and blacks out. Then two strange men show up, and give him what look’s like the minute [...]

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I absolutely loved this book. It was extremely entertaining. It is about a boy named walker, his dad just died. About a year later his mom announces that she has got a new job, as a stripper. He is absolutely shocked and angry. He does not want anyone to know about this, maybe not even [...]

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     This book is an interesting new book with a twist for those who have started and continued the Series of Unfortunate Events books. This book continues to tell the tale of the Baudelaire children whose parents died from a raging fire as told in the first book.  The children throughout this wild and [...]

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Yet another amazing novel by an amazing author, this one is named Wormwood.  Like the previous novel, this one is full of twists and turns, and has tons of suspense.  But this one is a bit harder to follow.  It takes place in old-time London.  It’s about this book named The Nemorensis.  It’s a book [...]

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Although it’s not on the cutting edge of the print medium, Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America (published in 2001) is still a great read. I’m impressed with Eric Nuzum’s research and writing style. The general focus of the book concerns the history of music censorship in the United States, how the “Parental Advisory: Explicit [...]

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I would give this books five stars.  It’s a book that you can read over and over again and still enjoy it as much as the first time you read it.  This book is not for everyone though.  I think that mostly girls would appreciate it.  The story is about a girl named Blue.  Her [...]

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This books was okay.  Some of the parts had you on the edge of your seat making your eyes never want to leave the page, but other parts aren’t as exciting.  It has a good plotline though.  A Greek god named Prometheous steals fire from the gods and gives it to the humans.  He is [...]

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“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve give me. That’s what I’d hope to give to you forever.”  This is a story that many of you may have seen [...]

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June 6, 1944 the allies storm onto Normandy beach hoping to invade Europe. Canadians and British as well as the Americans try to take the beach of Normandy from the Germans. The beach is broken up into 5 sections: Utah and Omaha for the Americans, Gold and Sword for the British, and Juno for the [...]

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This book called Trouble With Liberty was a really good book that i enjoyed. Its about this girl named liberty who moves to a diffeent school and who is really pretty and all the guys want to go out with her. Then she says something happens and not many people beileve her [...]

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This is the Sixth, and definitely the most action packed of the series so far.  Harry sets off to solve the mystery that is Lord Voldemort, while He who must not be named  is sending out his allies beginning to act openly, causing widespread chaos and paranoia in Britain.
This Book is a great read, and [...]

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This story is a about the town people of the little town of Holt.  There is Ike and Bobby, bothers who are dealing with their absence of their mother and taking on more responsibility around the house. Their father, Guthie, has to deal with his job as a teacher. He has trouble balancing his home [...]

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