A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Imagine that you are twelve-years-old enjoying hanging out with your friends learning to rap and dance when the village where you all live is attacked by rebels. You see people you know brutally killed and are separated from family. It is a matter of day to day survival for you and your friends until you become apart of the army and it is your life or theirs. Then all at once you are sent with some other boys to a school to become prepared to go back to a regular life. Is it possible? Did any of your family survive? Is the fighting away for good or will it come back?  This is a tough read to realize this really happened and how luck saved Ismael.
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My Antonia

 I enjoyed this book as I grew up near where the story takes place. We get to know Jim and Antonia (Toni), their families and friends during the late 1800's. The conflicts between the families who had newly immigrated to the United States from Scandinavia and the differences the town and country folks placed on each other. We see how they change over the years, what they did and where they ended up living. Can what they experienced be similiar to the lives of immigrants today?
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Book two

The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester. Have you ever wanted to fly under your own power? That's what Piper McCloud can do. She has been floating since she was a baby. Her parents have kept her isolated from her community until a Fourth of July picnic when the community sees her fly! She is taken to a special school with other children, plants and animals which have special powers. Something is not quite right with the school and Piper and the other kids try to escape and go home to their families. Will it work or will they be there forever?
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Book One

Girlfriend Material by Melissa Kantor. Kate was enjoying a summer with her BFF, swimming, playing tennis and taking a writing class. Now her mom says that the two of them will be going to Cape Cod to stay with her mom's BFF. When they arrive Kate and Sarah who had fun ten years ago can't connect. Kate's mom makes changes in her life. Will Kate's parents get a divorce? Will Kate and Sarah ever get along? Will this summer go on and on and on? Read and find out!
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