Book Summary: Stargirl, living now in Pennsylvania, tells her own story this time, in “the world’s longest letter,” which is actually a series of journal entries. New in town, homeschooled, and feeling rejected by Leo, the 16-year-old narrator of the first book who had fallen under her spell, she is lonely and sad — her [...]
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Book Summary: Teenaged Marina has always been a churchgoing Christian, but then her mother joins a charismatic-leader sect and her life changes drastically. First they’re pulled out of school. Then there’s no television (here we go again), no caffeine, and no friends unless they’re religious. Finally, the leader of their church decides that the world [...]
Book Summary: Cammie Morgan is a typical teenager, other than the fact that she’s a super-genius who goes to an all-girl spy school. On her first surveillance mission, she’s pretending to be a nice normal girl out for a nice normal night of fun at the carnival, when a nice normal boy looking for same [...]
Book Summary: When homeschooled teenagers Matt and Stephanie Cosgrove rescue a lost sailor, his hard-luck story launches them into a desperate search for a Confederate treasure… in the dark of a gunrunner moon. Wagner looked up at them, his face suddenly full of hope. "If you help me, I'll…I'll give you a million dollars,OK? Make [...]