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This tween series is well written, and actually kind of funny. I enjoyed reading the books and would reccomend them to pre-teens. Some of the books do deal with issues such as divorce, and the enviroment, but they do so in a lighthearted kind of way.
1 - Worst Enemies/Best Friends (Beacon Street Girls #1) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Charlotte is new at Abigail Adams Junior High, and after an embarrassing moment in the cafeteria, all the girls at school hat her.
2 - Bad News/Good News (Beacon Street Girls #2) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Isabel moves into town and becomes friends with Maeve and Charlotte. But there is just one problem, Avery and Katani want nothing to do with her.
3 - Letters From The Heart (Beacon Street Girls #3) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Maeve's parents are separating, and her dad is moving out? Will her life ever be normal again?
4 - Out of Bounds (Beacon Street Girls)
- The school talent show is almost cancelled when the auditorium starts leaking.
5 - Promises, Promises (Beacon Street Girls #5) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Avery and Katani both decide to run for class president. Will their friendship survive the competition?
6 - Lake Rescue (Beacon Street Girls, No. 6)
- The girls take a class trip to Lake Rescue, New Hampshire.
7 - Freaked Out (Beacon Street Girls #7) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Julie Faber, a popular girl in school, throws a huge birthday party, but doesn't invite everyone in the BSG.
8 - Lucky Charm (Beacon Street Girls #8) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Marty is missing!
9 - Fashion Frenzy (Beacon Street Girls #9) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Katani's cousin invites her to help with a real fashion show in NYC.
10 - Just Kidding (Beacon Street Girls #10) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Isabel is caught up in the middle of a terrible gossip chain.
11 - Ghost Town (Beacon Street Girls #11) (Beacon Street Girls)
- While traveling to a ranch in Montana, the BSG is separated during a violent snowstorm.
12 - Time's Up (Beacon Street Girls)
- When Katani enters a young entrepaneur contest, she learns that she can't do everything alone.
13 - Green Algae and Bubble Gum Wars (Beacon Street Girls)
- When a Bubble Gum Factory opens in town, Avery and Katani find themselves on a different side of an enviromental issue.
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Isabel's Texas Two-Step (Beacon Street Girls)
- Isabel travels to Texas for her sisters Quincenera, and finds herself in a lot of trouble.
Maeve on the Red Carpet (Beacon Street Girls) (Beacon Street Girls)
- A real Hollywood Director is going to run a film camp at Maeve's dad's theater.
Freestyle with Avery (Beacon Street Girls) (Beacon Street Girls)
- While visiting her dad, Avery competes in a snowboarding competition and makes an interesting new friend.
Charlotte in Paris (Beacon Street Girls) (Beacon Street Girls)
- Charlotte visits her old friends in Paris.
Katani's Jamaican Holiday (Beacon Street Girls)
-Katani goes to Jamaica to help her Grandma keep the family business alive.
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
by James Patterson
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This book was an exciting read. There was lots of action and fighting, and the story moved at a great pace. It was a great action meets science fiction story. My only criticism would be that sometimes I didn't quite know what was going on. Content rating - lots of fighting, and gword used a lot in regular conversation.
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Max and the other member of her flock (Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gassman, and Angel) were all engineered in a secret lab called "the School." After escaping from the school, 
the flock made their home in a remote mountain location. The school's Eraser's (part human part wolf) have been on the hunt for the flock since they escaped, and have finally located their target. In a surprise attack, Max loses Angel, the youngest member of her flock. Max and her friends must use their special talents to find Angel and once again liberate her from the school.
Tunnels (Book 1)
by Roderick Gordon
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(My husband and I have an agreement, whoever reads the book first has to write the review. This is his review to write, but because he is so behind, I decided to be nice and write it for him.)
We had a really hard time deciding what rating to give this book. The story and the characters were both extremely well written, and there was always something going on. But for some reason we both had a hard time reading the book. I really enjoyed it, and I look forward to the next books in the series, but I probably couldn't read it again. However, I understand why people love the book, because the story was completely original and fun. It was a great book, but I think it will make an even better movie. With the content rating - the book was kind of scary sometimes and it took the Lord's name in vain a few times.
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Will's favorite thing to do is to dig tunnels. When his father goes missing, Will and his friend 
Chester dig the ultimate tunnel, and discover a whole new world under ground. Will finds out that the family he had known his whole life isn't his real family and his father and brother actually belong to the under ground world. With the evil Styx watching his every move, Will must find a way to rescue Chester and escape from his underground prison.
Ever
by Gail Carson Levine
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Ever is yet another brilliant story by Gail Carson Levine. In the book, Levine weaves classic fairy tale elements with basic mythology, immersing the reader in a whole new world. The story and language isn't quite as simple as it is in some of her other books, and would be easier understood by older children. The book is a must read for Gail Carson Levine fans.
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Kezi's life has been pledged to the one god, and unless she can find a way to thwart her fate, she has only one month to live. Olus, the god of the winds, falls in love with Kezi, and is unwilling to let her die. With the help of Olus, Kezi embarks on a perilous journey to become an immortal god. Can Kezi past the test, or is she doomed to die without love?
I got my advanced readers edition from the publisher - book is released on May 6, 2008
The Scarlet Stockings
: The Enchanted Riddle by Charlotte Kandel
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When I was younger I loved two things, reading and dancing. I haven't danced since college, but I still love reading about it. Most of the time when I read dancing books, I'm a little disappointed. Authors usually use the correct more complex terms for describing the dancing in detail. Which is good if you know what they are talking about. But, they usually do it in such a way that unless you have experience dancing the books are a little hard to read. This book was the complete opposite. All the terms and explanations were correct, but it was done in such a way that even people without any dance experience could enjoy this book. The author even incorporated the history of ballet into the book without making it feel like history. It was just another part of the mystery. The characters were real and believable, and the story was fun and enchanting. This is a great book for younger girls.
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Daphne has always had two lifelong dreams. One is to become a prima ballerina, and the other is to find her real parents. So when a mysterious package arrives at the orphanage addressed to Daphne, she hopes that one of her dreams is about to being fulfilled. When Daphne opens the package, she finds a beautiful pair of scarlet stockings and a book on teaching y
ourself ballet. On closer inspection of the book, she discovers a riddle written on the inside cover. Her desire to solve the riddle sends her on a quest of self discovery and puts her dreams within reach. But in the end, she must choose what she really wants from life, and then do what it takes to deserve it.
By: Rebecca,
on 4/23/2007
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Autism confounds researchers but one way of understanding it is to look through the lens of stress and coping. That is exactly what editors M. Grace Baron, June Groden, Gerald Groden and Lewis P. Lipsitt do in their book Stress and Coping in Autism. Contributions by researchers, clinicians, teachers, and persons living with autism illustrate how it is possible to reduce the impact of stress in autism by understanding both the science and the experience of it. Below we excerpt part of the introduction. To learn more be sure to visit our morning post, Helping Children With Autism Learn.
The construct of stress has expanded our understanding of both typical and atypical human development in a revolutionary way. Research into a number of disorders that are 
often comorbid with a diagnosis of autism, such as anxiety, shyness, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and thought disorder, already include a systematic theoretical and applied analysis of the contribution of stress to the disorder. Autism, in its own right, might also benefit from such a focus for a number of reasons.
Anxiety, an indicator that someone is experiencing stress, was associated with autism as early as Kanner’s (1943) first description of the syndrome. A few early clinical and research reports (e.g., Marks, 1987; Matson & Love, 1990) examined the correlation between fear and anxiety and autism. In 1994, Groden, Cautela, Prince, and Berryman presented the first systematic framework for using the concepts of stress and anxiety to describe and treat autism and proposed that those with autism may, in fact, have a special vulnerability to stress. We now have a better understanding that the clinical problems often associated with stress, such as anxiety, are more prevalent among people with pervasive developmental disabilities than in the general population.
Autism has long been seen as a problem of faulty or different arousal responses to environmental intrusions (Dawson & Levy, 1989). This has given rise to continued speculation about the role of such patterns of arousal as diagnostic markers or even indicators or subtypes of autism. As early as 1979, Piggott’s review of selected basic research in autism suggested that, “Children called autistic probably represent a complex of clinically similar manifestations in a variety of difference physiological disturbance[s]. Objective markers are needed as to allow the demarcation of subgroups of autistic children for further study” (p. 199). More recently, Tordjman, Spitz, Corinne, Carlier, and Roubertoux (1998) offered a stress-based model of autism, integrating biological and behavioral profiles of individuals wish ASD. They propose that stress and anxiety may be core problems of autism and that an analysis of differential responses to stress can lead to the identification of different subtypes. Similarly, Porges’s The Listening Project (2002) documents hyperarousal and vagal disruptions in children with autism and offers a biologically based behavioral intervention designed to stimulate the social behavior of children with autism.
Some of the known biological or behavioral effects of stress (see McEwen, 2002; Sapolsku, 1998) can be seen in persons with autism. For example, there is recent evidence (Krause, He, Gershwin, & Shoenfeld, 2002) of suppressed immune system function in some persons with autism. Under- or oversentivity to pain is a hallmark behavioral symptom for many with autism, and turbulent sensory and perceptual experiences are documented regularly in first-hand reports (e.g., Jones, Quigney, & Huws, 2003). Fur
(Taken from the front Cover) Welcome to the world of Kersten Campbell! She's a mother of 5 children, a devoted wife, and an extremely enthusiastic homemaker. As she strives to have sanity in her crazy household, Campbell infuses her humor in every situation that she comes up against. Whether it's her two-year-old creating a mushroom cloud of powdered milk in the kitchen or trying to sleep in a tent with five children on a campout, Campbell works with her family to overcome their problems and find laughter in all situations.
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- Bobby finds out that he is the new traveler from second earth and travels to Denduron to stop Saint Dane from winning the territory. 
- Bobby and Uncle Press take the fight to Cloral, a world covered with water. They must find the Lost City of Faar before Saint Dane can use it in his scheme for Halla domination.
- Bobby finds himself in a swanky Manhattan hotel in 1933. Bobby and Spader must find First Earth's turning point while dealing with gangsters and rumors of another war.
- Bobby travels to Veelox to find the territory almost completely deserted. Its inhabitants all prefer to live in the virtual world rather than reality. Can Bobby stop Saint Dane or will a "perfect" reality be impossible to give up?
- There is a plague on Eelong and the only way to cure it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Plus Mark and Courtney decide to travel the flumes themselves. How far is Bobby willing to go to stop Saint Dane?
- Saint Dane is controlling Zadaa's water supply and almost instigates a war between the Batu and the Rokador. Also, Saint Dane is starting to mess with Bobby's friend on Earth.
- Quillian is on the verge of destruction and Bobby must enter the Quillian Games to stop the madness. The Games are being used to control the people and Bobby must beat the game and destroy the system to save the people.
- The leaders of Rayne are keeping a terrible secret from their people, that may lead to their ultimate destruction. Can Bobby find the truth before another domino on his quest to save Halla falls for good?
- The convergence has started on Second Earth and Bobby is missing. Can the Travelers stop Saint Dane in time or will Earth finally surrender?
- Ella's family wants to keep her from attending princess school and its royal ball.
- Snow's stepmother tries to kill her at the Princess School Maiden Games.
- Madame Gothel discovers that Rapunzel has been sneaking out of her tower.
- Rose is sick of everyone fawning over her and she is determined to do something about it.
- Rapunzel disguises herself as a prince so she can compete in the Charm School Jousting Tournament.
- Snow's father has physically returned from sea, but he doesn't remember who he is.
- Rose gets the part of Princess Perfecta in the school play and must act with someone who really does want to kill her.
- I can't find this book anywhere. Does anyone know where you can get it?
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I read the book also and thought it was very entertaining. I was interested in the story from the very beginning, and I never lost interest. I thought the author did a good job introducing general Christian ideals into the story without making it awkward or forcing anything. (The beginning reminded me of the Old Testament and towards the end it was more like the New Testament in terms of what was happening in the story.) I'm glad I took the time to read it.