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Book Safari -- Children's Literature Database
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27 book reviews found, page 1 of 6. Narrow results by selecting age range:
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12 Again
Audience: 4th Grade - 8th Grade
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Bernadette, an overworked mother of three boys, wishes that she were younger. While visiting her childhood home, she drinks a mysterious liquid and goes to bed. She wakes up on her fortieth birthday and discovers that she has returned to being twelve. In her childhood home, it is 1972; Bernadette's mother is still alive. Outside the home, it is modern times, and Bernadette goes to middle school, where she sees her son, Patrick, in computer class. Bernadette must enlist her son's help and study fairy magic to figure out how to get back to her 40-year-old self and family in the present day.
Date read: 06/11/2004
ISBN: 0525468994
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Bad Luck Chair
Audience: 3rd Grade - 5th Grade
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The Bad Luck Chair has cursed every kid who ever sat in it - and now the bad luck has arrived at Addy's desk! The Chair's 'top left corner was chipped, and one leg was slime green. The dark, dreadful stain on its seat was shaped like a skull. And it had initials carved deep into its back. Bad Luck initials. B.L.' One of Addy's classmates has information on how to reverse the curse. Does Addy have what it takes to stand up to The Chair?
Similar books: Goosebumps
Date read: 9/11/2008
ISBN: 0525477942
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Cats in Krasinski Square
Audience: 2nd Grade - 5th Grade
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A little girl comes to pet the stray cats in Krasinski Square. She cannot feed them as there is no extra food in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. The girl's brave older sister, Mira, struggles to provide food for the two of them. Mira also secretly smuggles food into the Ghetto where the Jewish people are imprisoned. One day, the little girls and her cats are the brave ones as they face in German soldiers and their fierce attack dogs.
Date read: 06/25/2005
ISBN: 0439435404
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Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Audience: 5th Grade - 8th Grade
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This book is a collection of scary short stories from the South. All of them have African-American themes, and are best when they are read in the Dark-Thirty, which is the half hour before nightfall. Read these with a friend, or alone... if you dare!
Similar books: Sweet Whispers Brother Rush, Front Porch Stories at the One Room School
Date read: 7/27/1995
ISBN: 0679818634
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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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