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Book Safari -- Children's Literature Database
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18 book reviews found, page 1 of 4. Narrow results by selecting age range:
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City of Ember
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
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In Ember, everyone is assigned a job at the age of 12. The choice is random, drawn from a hat, but Lina still hopes that she will be assigned the job of Messenger. She wants to run through the city, perhaps even into the Unknown Regions. Lina becomes a messenger, but only through trading with Doon who longs to work in the Pipeworks. Through their jobs, Lina and Doon learn that the electrical outages and supply shortages in the city point to a insecure future. Will they find a way out of the city before its too late...and what if it's true that there is nothing beyond the city of Ember?
Similar books: The Giver (Lowry); Running out of Time (Haddix)
Date read: 02/07/2004
ISBN: 0375822739
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City of Names
Audience: 3rd Grade - 6th Grade
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When Howie receives his order from the book club, instead of 101 Pickle Jokes, he gets a book, the Secret Guide to North Mellwood. This book contains the 'true' names to all the places in town and identifies secret portals that allow him to instantly transport to anyplace in town. A second book order results in a mysterious overlay map for the first book. Soon he has involved his two best friends in his transporting adventures. They meet a mysterious stranger who is full of advice for them, including the fact that there is one special room that Howie needs to visit. Could it be the Hall of Babies?
Similar books: Great Interactive Dream Machine
Date read: 4/13/2004
ISBN: 0670035653
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Door to Time
Audience: 4th Grade - 6th Grade
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Jason and Julie Covenant are 11-year-old twins who have just moved with their family into Argo Manor, a creepy house, on the coast of England. The twins quickly become friends with a local boy named Rick and the three of them stumble upon a mystery. The house's previous owner, Ulysses Moore, left behind clues and codes to unlock a hidden and very mysterious wooden door. The three friends must discover the secrets hidden deep beneath the house and find the truth behind the disappearance of the eccentric Ulysses Moore.
Similar books: 39 clues, MVP*
Date read: 1/25/2007
ISBN: 0439774381
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Double Identity
Audience: 4th Grade - 7th Grade
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As Bethany approaches her 13th birthday, her parents begin acting odder than usual: Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he puts the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried that her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going.
The only clue Bethany has is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt Myrlie: 'She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth.' But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost.
Date read: 11/15/2006
ISBN: 0689873743
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Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Audience: 6th Grade - 8th Grade
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This book is set in Hanare, Zimbabwe in the year 2194. The children of General Matsika, the country's chief of security are sheltered in the family estate which is guarded by computer animated Dobermans and surrounded by electrified wire. Their desire for adventure is fulfilled beyond their wildest dreams after being kidnapped. Their mother hires three mutant detectives with special abilities to locate them. Future and past co-mingle in this book.
Similar books: Tripod series by Christopher
Date read: 12/01/1996
ISBN: 0140376410
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