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Jacobs.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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Morgan,
11th grade
Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813. Her
struggles as a slave and a mother have torn her. Divided by her desire to
run away and to protect her children led her to live in an attic for seven years. This book takes you on a journey through the
hardest and most painful times of her life to the happiest and joyful
times in this woman’s’ life. This
book was an okay read; if you like non-fiction books and history then try
reading this book. It only received two stars because there were too many
characters to keep track of and it seemed very slow at times.
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Jacques, Brian. Mossflower.
New York: Avon Books.
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Mr.
Greenlee
I
put off reading this book for a long time because the characters were
animals, but it had a great reputation as a well-written book, a classic
of animal fantasy. I finally started it, but I gave it up, not
because the characters were animals, but because they were
phony. Both
the thief and the warrior as heroes reminded me of RPG characters, and
while they both had histories sketched out, the portrayal of their characters seemed contrived: the constant "matey" and
exuberance
of the thief was especially overdone, and the unrelenting bravado of the
warrior was the same fault to a lesser degree.
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351
pgs, 800L
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Jacques, Brian. Redwall.
New York: Avon Books.
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1170L
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James, Henry. The
Turn of the Screw.
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Fairly Easy
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Troubled
Teens
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Jenkins, A. M.
Breaking Boxes.
New
York: Dell Laurel-Leaf.
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Charlie is a teenager that doesn’t have
any friends. His parents are
both gone and he lives with his brother.
One day at school, he gets in a fight with another teen named Brandon,
and they both get in school suspension.
While in detention they begin to realize that they don’t really
hate each other, but could actually be good friends.
The problem is Brandon
hangs out with the rich kids. When
they begin to hang out, Charlie finds Brandon
to be a real person, despite his social mask.
They shoot hoops, drive around in Brandon’s Corvette, and check
out chicks. Just as they begin
to become close friends Brandon
learns something about Charlie’s family that questions what he believes
in.
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Moderately difficult
271
pgs
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Teen
historical
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Jiang, Ji li. Red
Scarf Girl.
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Mr.
Greenlee
What
a horrible cover! No wonder
so few people choose this. It
reads, however, like an Anne
Frank of Communist China - a pretty good
book. It begins as she graduates sixth grade, when her society
starts falling apart. pretty soon, people are after her parents and
even her.
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National
Book Award
Winner
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Jin, Ha. Waiting.
| For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a
devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated,
clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of
his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was
young—a humble and touchingly loyal woman.
A man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting
claims of two utterly different women he moves through the political
minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and
stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. |
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National
Book Award
Winner
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Johnson, Charles. Middle
Passage.
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It
is 1830. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible
rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an
impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher. He jumps aboard the
first boat leaving New Orleans, the Republic, a slave ship en
route to collect members of a legendary African tribe, the Allmuseri.
Thus begins a daring voyage of horror and self-discovery. Peopled with vivid and unforgettable characters, nimble in its interplay
of comedy and serious ideas, this dazzling modern classic is a
perfect blend of the picaresque tale, historical romance, sea yarn,
slave narrative, and philosophical novel. |
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National
Book Award
Winner
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Jones, Edward P. The
Known World.
| Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and
former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual
mentor—William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in
antebellum Virginia’s Manchester County. Under
Robbins’s tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own
plantation—as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow,
Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart
at their plantation: slaves take to escaping under the cover of
night, and families who had once found love beneath the weight of
slavery begin to betray one… |
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National
Book Award
Winner
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Jones, James. From Here To Eternity.
| Set in the summer and autumn of 1941 at the
Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, former bugler Private Robert E. Lee
Prewitt, an infantryman from Kentucky and a self-described
"thirty-year man", struggles with his superiors.
Because he blinded a fellow soldier while boxing, the
stubborn Prewitt refuses to box for his company’s outfit and then
resists the "Treatment," a daily hazing ritual in which
the non-commissioned officers of his company run him into the
ground. The story also
follows several other members of G Company, including Captain Dana
“Dynamite” Holmes and First Sergeant Milt Warden, who begins an
affair with Holmes's wife Karen. |
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 Ireland,
autobiography
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Joyce, James. A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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