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Title: A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Genre: Historical Fiction
Started: 1-08-2020
Finished: 1-12-2020
Pages: 290
Why I chose this book: I wanted to try reading something historical again after I finished my last historical book since it interested me so much.
Summary: The book takes place around the time the civil rights movement started to take place. The story is about a girl named Ann who is trying to survive in a community where blacks-

rmi_callmebob are discriminated. There was a nice rich man named Old Man Adams who left a will that says that the community of Kuckachoo has equal rights to the lad he left, both whites and blacks. The whites tried to frame up Uncle Bump, Ann's father figure, for planting weed seeds in the land. There was a lot of protests and retaliation between the whites and blacks. The KKK even went as far as to bomb a church, in which 4 young girls died. In the end, Ann - 5y

rmi_callmebob found evidence of whites framing up Uncle Bump. It was revealed in the court case that it was Mr. Mudge who was the one who planted the seeds and not Uncle Bump. This case only strengthened the civil rights movement. 5y

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Red Scarf Girl | Ji-Li Jiang

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Title: Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang
Genre: Historical Memoir
Started: 1-05-2020
Finished: 1-07-2020
Pages: 285
Why I chose this book: I wanted to try reading something historical
Summary: Jiang Ji-Li is what you might call the “perfect girl“ She is smart, active and a great leader, but when the Chinese Revolution starts, her life is suddenly turned upside down. She had many opportunities to become a great leader, but since her family has bad -

rmi_callmebob history because of her grandfather being a landlord. Her family is also rich, which makes the suspicions against her family higher. Eventually, the Red guards searched their house and took things that were considered one of the “Four Olds“ Her family's life was at its lowest. Her father was detained for being accused of listening to foreigner radio and her mother's salary was substantially reduced. Another blow came to the family when the Red - 5y

rmi_callmebob Guards finds a letter about the Jiang family's luxurious lifestyle and the exploitation of others. They took away most of their items and they are left with barely anything. Ji-Li was sent to work on the countryside and when she came back, she took care of her mother and forgave her father. Eventually, she moved to the US to bring the western and Chinese cultures together, the East West exchange. 5y

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War Storm | Victoria Aveyard

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Title: War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
Genre: YA fiction, dystopian, romance
Started: 1-02-2020
Finished: 1-05-2020
Pages: 657
Why I chose the book: This is the last book to the Red Queen series
Summary: After Cal betrayed Mare by choosing his crown aside from Mare, he now has responsibilities to face. Since he chose his crown and his title, that makes him betrothed to Evangeline Samos who already has her eyes on Elane. Both of them does not want -

rmi_callmebob to be married to each other since they already have eyes for other people. With this new kingdom, they create and alliance with the Scarlet Guard in order to take down Maven's kingdom, including the Lakelands. Maven had formed another alliance with Prince Bracken of Piedmont in return of rescuing his children from Montfort. The operation was lead by Iris, who had planned to take the alliance for her kingdom instead of Norta. The book ends in a - 5y

rmi_callmebob war between the two armies, with the Lakelands fleeing because of the sheer power of the Scarlet Guard, Montfort, and the Kingdom of the Rift. Mare tried to change Maven for the better, but the boy is beyond repair and they end up fighting without their abilities and in the end Maven is defeated. Mare wakes up promising to return for the Lakelands and the rest of the story is left unfinished. 5y

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King's Cage | Victoria Aveyard

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Title: King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
Genre: YA Fiction, Romance, Dystopian
Started: 12-22-2019
Finished: 12-30-2019
Pages: 544
Summary: It starts off with Mare surrendering herself to King Maven for the sake of the safety of her friends. She was sent to a prison-like room surrounded by Silent Stone, a type of stone that disables the ability to use powers. She spends her time in the grasp of the evil king, Maven trying to understand him and -

rmi_callmebob persuade him to release her. She almost succeeds, but Maven's late mother, Elara, remains in his head. She had successfully broken her son's mind starting from an early age. Everytime Maven starts to let down his wall's to Mare, Elara's voice comes in and reminds him to never open himself up to other people. In the Scarlet Guard there has been a mission to rescue Mare from Maven. Cameron, A Silencer is the new Newblood recruit who may just have - 5y

rmi_callmebob the power to save Mare. Mare's capture was all because of a Newblood traitor who can see into the future named Jon. He used Mare's trust to gain favour of the king, Maven. After a while, Maven has tricked the Lakeland King into making an alliance with the Kingdom of Norta by marrying his daughter, the princess, Iris. During their wedding there was an attack by the Scarlet Guard to rescue Mare when she found out that there are other Newbloods with- 5y

rmi_callmebob the same ability as hers, which is the power to control and generate lightning. After the rescue, they reside in the newly found kingdom, the Kingdom of the Rift, which is headed by a family of metal manipulators, House Samos. Cal, still the rightful heir to the throne has to make a decision to either take back his crown or to live with Mare in their newly established kingdom. Cal betrays Mare and chooses his crown. 5y

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The Honest Truth | Dan Gemeinhart

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Title: The Honest Truth
Genres: Novel, Fiction
Started: 12-19-2019
Finished: 12-21-2019
Pages: 240
Why this book? This book was recommended to me by my previous LA teacher
Summary: It is about a boy named Mark who has cancer and is still struggling to adapt to his life. He remembers his promise to his grandfather about climbing Mount Rainer. In order to do this, he left home with his dog, Beauchamp or just Beau, and set on a course to travel to -

rmi_callmebob Mount Rainer. He went to the bus station headed to Spokane and purchased 2 tickets, the other one supposedly for his father. Mark's mother receives a call informing her that her son has went missing. In a panic, Mark's mom called Jess, Mark's best friend is she had seen him, but she doesn't know either. Mark's disappearance is especially concerning since Mark has cancer that was discovered 7 years ago. Ever since then, Mark has lost the will to - (edited) 5y

rmi_callmebob live. Along his journey, he went to several places where he encountered multiple experiences. His first place was an all night restaurant where he ordered toast and scrambled eggs with bacon for his dog, Beau who was in his bag. When asked where his parents where, Mark said that his father isn't around. In the restaurant's TV screen came the missing child report about him. In fear of the waitress reporting him to the police he left in a hurry. - 5y

rmi_callmebob He was beaten by teenage passersbys who took $20 from him. Bruised and with a black eye, he found himself in a Spanish restaurant where he asked to use the telephone. He tipped the police the wrong information, but the phone call was tracked to have come from Seattle. Mark then went to a bus and met a little girl with divorced parents and somehow, mark has convinced the girl to forgive her father. While on another bus to his destination, he was - 5y

rmi_callmebob kicked out by the driver and Mark chose to be dropped with 31 miles to walk before reaching the mountain. The weather worsened and Mark found himself giving up, until a truck driver offered to help Mark. He was dropped off at the mountain where he almost lost his dog and only at that moment that Mark had realized how important life was. He passed out at the mountain, but help had come after hearing Beau bark to passerbys. (edited) 5y

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Cruel Crown | Victoria Aveyard

Title: Cruel Crown by Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Young adult fiction, dystopian
Started: 12-12-2019
Finished: 12-17-2019
Pages: 208
Summary: Queen Song is a story about the previous Singer queen, Coriane Jacos, and her downfall. Coriane came from one of the noble houses, but they were quite poor compared to the others. She was a Singer, meaning that she can control people by singing and saying what she wants them to do. She never used this power -

rmi_callmebob for the evil, however. She fell in love with the prince and the prince fell in love with her as well, but there is someone in the way, and that is Elara Merandus, the whisper. House Merandus desperately wants the crown and Elara is their only way to it. They use their ability to control people's minds to get what they want, and they use it on Coriane to keep her away from the prince. This doesn't work all too well, since Coriane got married to - (edited) 5y

rmi_callmebob the prince. This made Elara furious and tries her best to make Coriane die by giving her depressive thoughts. Coriane was strong to fight the thoughts, but never strong enough against Elara and she was found dead. She left behind a baby boy named Tiberias “Cal“ Calore. Since Elara is the lady in waiting, she got to replace the late queen Coriane as queen. She married the king, but not for love, but instead power. House Merandus has - 5y

rmi_callmebob succeeded in seizing the throne.

Steel Scars is a story about Farley, the general of the Scarlet Guard, a group of Red rebels against the Silver royalty. She was born in the Lakelands, the enemy kingdom of the kingdom of Norta. The Guards' motive is to destroy the Silver monarchy, and set the Reds free from poverty and slavery. This rebellion has been going on for as long as she was a alive and she won't stop fighting until freedom is achieved. 5y

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Glass Sword | Victoria Aveyard

Book name: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Genre: Young adult, dystopian, romance
Pages: 464
Started: 10-10-2019
Finished: 1-29-2019
It is the second book in the Red Queen series
Summary: As Mare Barrow's story continues, she learns more and more about her hidden powers and discovers more people just like her. She goes on a journey to recruit Newbloods, people who have Red blood but have Silver abilities, just like Mare. -

rmi_callmebob She comes across Maven Calore, the traitor, and his controlling mother, Elara. There was a war between Silvers and Newbloods and unfortunately, Shade, Mare's brother, got killed in exchange for the life of the evil queen, Elara. (edited) 5y

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Scarlet. Marissa Meyer | Marissa Meyer

Title: Scarlet
Author: Marissa Meyer
Pages: 454
Genres: Young adult fiction, Sci-fi, Romance
Date Started: December 1, 2019
Date Completed: December 12, 2019
How did you choose this book: It is the 2nd book in The Lunar Chronicles series.
Summary: Scarlet Benoit a Parisian girl who's grandmother went missing. She encounters someone named Wolf who may know about her grandmother's whereabouts. While on their journey she met Cinder -

rmi_callmebob - the runaway cyborg from the Eastern Commonwealth. Cinder herself have been looking for answers on who she truly is and Scarlet's grandmother may know about Cinder's forgotten past. 5y

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Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles | Marissa Meyer

Title: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Pages: 387
Genres: YA fiction, Sci-fi, Romance
Started: September 20, 2019
*I took a short break from reading this book.
Completed: November 29, 2019
How did you choose this book: I was interested in this book since last year and had just recently bought it.
Summary: There is a cyborg mechanic named Cinder living in the Eastern Commonwealth. She finds something about her past that will change her life forever.

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Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard

Genre: Young adult fiction
Date Started: Sometime in September 2017
Date Completed: October 25, 2017
How did you choose this book: It was recommended to me by my LA teacher at my previous school.
Write a brief summary of the novel: The book revolves around a protagonist named Mare Barrow. She found out that she had powers she didn't know she could possess. This discovery turned her seemingly normal life into a complicated one full of surprises.

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The Selection | Kiera Cass

Title: The Selection by Kiera Cass
Genres: Romance, Dystopian, Young adult fiction
328 pages
Started: 9-12-2019
Finished: 9-30-2019
Why I chose the book: It is currently the only book in my house that I am interested in reading for now.
Summary: It is about a girl named America Singer who suddenly became part of the Selection. It is an event for all girls to have a chance of marrying the prince and America may just have that chance.

LibrarianRyan At least your honest on why you chose it. 5y

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