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I'm so excited that I finished NaNoWriMo! I'm so glad I decided to try. There were times when I was worried that I wouldn't make...

This book was for both the Book Awards Challenge and the Four-legged Friends challenge. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, by Ter...

This book is from my Four-legged Friends Challenge list. Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book Eight: The Outcast, by Kathryn Lasky, is the story o...

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, is the story of a black family living in Mississippi in the 1930's. Nine-year- old C...

The Best of Poe, by Edgar Allen Poe, is a collection of short stories and poems including The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The...

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, is the story of two boys who discover an amazing carnival with a calliope that plays by it...

Here's my list for the "What's in a name" challenge: 1. Black Beauty by Anne Sewell (a book with a color in its title) 2....

The Kingdom Keepers, by Ridley Pearson, is the story of five teenagers who find themselves transported to Disney World at night whenever the...

The Shadow Thieves, by Ann Ursu, is the story of 13-year-old Charlotte, an ordinary girl who lives an ordinary life. But her life transforms...

(This book was on both my RIP challenge list and my Four-Legged Friends challenge list.) The Sight, by David Clement-Davies, is the story of...

The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury, is a book about eight boys who, with help from a sinister man, embark on a fantastical journey through ...

Midnighters: The Secret Hour, by Scott Westerfield, is the story of a group of teenagers who live in a town called Bixby, Oklahoma. In Bixby...

MacBeth, by William Shakespeare, is the story of a Scottish nobleman named MacBeth and his fall from glory due his hunger for power. After a...

Vampire Plagues: London, 1850 , by Sebastian Rook, is the story of Jack, a twelve- year-old urchin living by the docks of London. When a shi...

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the story of the Baskerville family, who have been haunted by a monstrous hound...

The House With a Clock in Its Walls , by John Bellairs, is the story of ten-year-old Lewis, who leaves his home to live with his eccentric U...

Ptolemy's Gate , third in the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, is the story of seventeen-year-old Kitty Jones, who has had an enco...

I read Cracker! The Best Dog In Vietnam , by Cynthia Kadohata, for the four-legged friends challenge. This book was about a boy named Willie...

The New Big Book of US Presidents was by Todd Davids and Marc Frey. There isn't much to say about this one. It was basically your typica...

The Golem's Eye, by Jonathan Stroud, is the sequel to The Amulet of Samarkand. It is the story of a fourteen-year-old magician named Nat...