After arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, and together they become pirates, traveling the world of 1722, in search of treasure.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/25/2009

ISBN-10: 1582346658

ISBN-13: 9781582346656

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In Ancient Egypt, a sculptor's son is trying to save the life of his father, who was bitten by a cobra. While doing this, the son accidentally kills a dove, which is punishable by death. How does the boy escape?

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 0395826454

ISBN-13: 9780395826454

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Robbie has been waiting for baseball season to begin for months. He is stunned when he finds out that his friend forgot to turn in their applications, and they haven't been placed on a team. They find out they can play, but only if they can form a team of twelve players in one afternoon. In order to meet the deadline, Robbie invents a cousin to fill the last slot. Their team is allowed to play in the league, but when Robbie's cousin doesn't appear, his whole team might be dissolved. Can this last-minute team stay together for the season? Do they have any chance at winning? Find out how the Scrappers began in this first book in the series about the team.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 12/28/2009

ISBN-10: 0689819242

ISBN-13: 9780689819247

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Brendan's the best player on his baseball team. He would love to be in the playoffs, but he knows that his losing team will never make it. As his teammates make mistake after mistake, Brendan gets more and more frustrated with them. What's the point of being good at the game if you can't ever win? Then, Brendan's uncle surprises him with a trip to Wrigley Field. There, he tells Brendan the story of Ernie Banks, a Cubs player for nineteen years. Could thinking like Ernie Banks turn this season around? Check out other titles in the AllStar SportStory series by Fred Bowen.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 10/22/2009

ISBN-10: 156145155X

ISBN-13: 9781561451555

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Ms. Wurtz leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner of her classroom, with the instructions that students write to each other in it, but to tell no one that it's there! With this begins a secret feud among the various members of the class who think the book should be used only the way they think it should be. Will it be stories and pictures of rabbits, rainbows, and ballet or stories and drawings of mucus, worms, smelly feet, and robots?

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 3/19/2010

ISBN-10: 0823419320

ISBN-13: 9780823419326

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