The Sky is Everywhereby Jandy Nelson Book SummaryYears ago, I was crashed in Gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing.  I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”  Kissing Joe, I believe this, for the first

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Looking for Alibrandiby Melina MarchettaBook SummaryIt’s my birthday today. I’m not seventeen anymore.  The seventeen that Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth.  But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after seventeen, and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die.Josephine Alibrandi is

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 Flash Burnoutby L.K. Madigan Book Summary:She flips through the photos, her face impassive.  “Too bad about the flash burnout on this one.” I look over at the shot she’s indicating. “The what?” “The flash burnout.  You got too close to the subject.  So the flash overexposed her.  Well, me, I mean.”15-year-old Blake is a pretty normal guy living

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