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Night Light (Restoration #2)
Night Light (Restoration #2)
Terri Blackstock | 2006 | Mystery
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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In the second book set in a world were modern technology has died, the Branning family tries to help four kids who have been abandoned by their mother. Can they provide for four extra mouths? Where is the mother? The mystery isn't that strong, but watching the characters deal with their situation kept me turning the pages.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-night-light-by-terri.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain | 1876 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)
7.9 (16 Ratings)
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"On my eighth birthday my mother gave me a hardcover copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The inscription read: ‘Here is the brother you said you wanted.’ I was having trouble in school—particularly reading—and a psychologist had recently tested me and informed my mother and the school that I was, in the parlance of the day, ‘retarded.’ My mother steadfastly refused to accept this, saying, ‘You just haven’t found anything you care enough about to read.’ It turned out I was dyslexic and perhaps mildly autistic. It took me months, and when I was done, I could read, and I had indeed been given a brother—two, in fact, and I have visited with them every year since my eighth birthday."

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    Zulu

    Caryl Ferey

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    As a child, Ali Neuman and his mother escaped the Inkatha, a militant political party. Now a police...

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My Old Sweetheart
My Old Sweetheart
Susanna Moore | 1982 | Fiction & Poetry
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"She’s an extremely talented writer. Her first novel, set in the 1950s, is about a woman who grew up with a very eccentric mother, which, of course, is why I related to it."

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