Blogs about: Grades 6 9
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Trouble on Titan
If the Titan colonists object to how they are treated, the Earth government can stop sending supplies. Tuck Benedict, of Earth, and David Torm, of Titan, form an unlikely friendship amidst the hostili… more →
Through the Ravenglass
Trouble on Titan
wrote 2 weeks ago: If the Titan colonists object to how they are treated, the Earth government can stop sending supplie … more →
Hills End
wrote 1 month ago: The isolated Australian lumber town of Hills End is destroyed by a violent storm while the residents … more →
Flight to Freedom
wrote 2 months ago: 1967. Communism has brought rationing, firing squads, forced agricultural labor, indoctrination, and … more →
Cart and Cwidder
wrote 4 months ago: Southern Dalemark used to be free. Now, Moril longs to reach the northern earldoms of Dalemark. For … more →
Down the Long Hills
wrote 4 months ago: The wagon train has been destroyed. With three-year-old Betty Sue, a knife, a horse, and the surviva … more →
A Beautiful Friendship
wrote 5 months ago: Because Sphinx has dangerous predators, Stephanie Harrington is frustrated to have less freedom than … more →
Citizen of the Galaxy
wrote 8 months ago: Sometimes slavery is being bought and sold, and sometimes slavery results from being bound by laws a … more →
Into the Trap: Character Blog & Reader Giveaway
wrote 9 months ago: Reader Engagement Project: Read, Review, Win! Readers win a free map of Into the Trap‘s fictio … more →
The White Mountains
wrote 2 years ago: As humans come of age they are “capped” by the Tripods. All doubts vanish as humans beco … more →
Johnny Tremain
wrote 2 years ago: Johnny is growing up in Boston during the years of British occupation. After he finds work with one … more →
Devil on my Back
wrote 2 years ago: Tomi unexpectedly finds himself outside the rigid society of the dome he grew up in as a member of t … more →
North to Freedom
wrote 2 years ago: At twelve, the only life David has known has been the concentration camp. He realizes how much he ha … more →
The Gammage Cup
wrote 2 years ago: When five Minnipins disturb the conformity and complacency of Slipper-on-the-Water, they are exiled. … more →
The Giver
wrote 2 years ago: The community in which Jonas lives is very orderly. Jobs, spouses, children, life and death are all … more →
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
wrote 2 years ago: What was it like for a youngster to live in communist China during the 1970s? To experience the last … more →
Dangerous Journey
wrote 2 years ago: The Hungarian government refuses to allow Latsi to join his parents in Sweden. When his grandmother … more →
Redwall
wrote 2 years ago: The peaceful creatures of Redwall Abbey must find the strength to protect their way of life from the … more →
Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers by John Gillespie and Catherine Barr
wrote 2 years ago: this very useful book is the Supplement to the First Edition. It covers “more than 2,600 title … more →
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
wrote 4 years ago: Sweethearts by Sara Zarr. Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008. 224 p. 978-0316014557 $16.99 Jennifer … more →
