Posted on October 28, 2008 by Leigh R.
Prep
by Curtis Sittenfeld
PRIVATE SCHOOL? It’s much too expensive for the Fiora family. Lee’s father works at a mattress store, and her mother stays at home in South Bend, Indiana. When she gets a scholarship to Ault Academy, an east-coast prep school, she actually cries-after all the applications, she never actually believed that she would ever [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by Leigh R.
Define “Normal”
by Julie Anne Peters
Summary:
“PEER” COUNSELING? Jazz Luther isn’t what you’d call Antonia’s peer. She was a punk, wore black lipstick, listened to screamo music, and probably did drugs, have tattos, and a rap sheet as tall as she was. Antonia, on the other hand, was a studious straight-A student math-club-loving teachers-pet asked to be her peer [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by Leigh R.
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Summary:
AMIR AND Hassan are almost brothers. Both having lost their mother at a very early age, they nursed from the same woman, and grew up together. Their fathers grew up together as well, and are still very close. The one difference between them? Hassan and his father Ali are Amir and [...]
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