GJSHS book reviews

Another fantasic book by Gail Giles. The athor of Dead Girls Don’t Write letters and Shattered Glass. Now with her newest book What Happened to Cass McBride. In this book Cass Mcbride, the popular rich girl in her school, is abducted by an enraged teen named Kyle. Kyle abductes Cass to [...]

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All junior high school girls will like this book because it
Involves crushes, bestfriends, and secrets. These are all
things that us girls have to deal with. It was very easy to
get into the mood of the book and to just loose track of
time while reading it. I sure did!
-7th grader

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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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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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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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“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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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 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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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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This is a book about an unlikely friendship between the high school’s biggest drug abuser (Colleen Minou) and a kid with cerebral palsy (Ben Bancroft) who is a straight A student and never does any thing wrong, nor has had a girl even talk to him. Ben wants to be a movie director and Colleen [...]

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This book is about a 13-year old girl named Mia, who has a huge secret.  She sees colors, but not just ordinary colors.  Every name, number and sound has a color.  For instance, her best friend Jenna’s name is a bright shimmering shade of green with some yellow highlights.  Mia doesn’t really know if she [...]

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I love this book.  This is probably the best book I have ever read.  This book was an easy read, fun and exciting.  Also, all of the issues that come up in this book are things that someone you know might be going through.  After reading this book I feel that you will know certain [...]

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This is a very deep book about the relationship between a young father and his baby. He and his girlfriend make a mistake that will end up lasting them a lifetime. Then tragedy strikes his girlfriend, which forces him to care for the baby all by himself. This poor boy has no idea what he’s [...]

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Melinda Sordino, going into her 9th year at school gets raped over her 8th grade summer, by the “popular” boy of the school Andy Evans. She calls the cops but in all the chaos she walks home. She tells no one about what happened that night. Now none of her friends will talk to her. When [...]

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