Hannah on January 18th, 2010

Lyn has grown up knowing only Glad culture.  Her mother has tried to talk her into becoming a Glad wife like her, but Lyn doesn’t want to watch 7 husbands die in the arena.  She is a pacifist and wants nothing more than to leave the Gladiator lifestyle behind her.  But when her 7th gladiator [...]

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Hannah on January 14th, 2010

ATTENTION,  ATTENTION!!!!  OUR BLOG NEEDS AN AWESOME BACKGROUND, AND WE NEED YOUR DESIGNS!!!!  If you would like to: see your artwork on our blog participate in an online contest where the teens of Aurora choose whose artwork rocks the hardest and possibly win the contest and have your design become the background for our blog [...]

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Hannah on January 12th, 2010

Five kids across Europe disappear in one night, never to be heard from again.  A few years, later five teenagers show up in New York at a party and will soon attend the best high school there.  Their governess Madame Vileroy is not as she appears to the outside world.  She gives the teens special abilities [...]

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Hannah on January 7th, 2010

 I was reading one of my favorite authors blogs today and she was talking about a topic that I’ve been pondering about myself.  There have been several books that I have started this year that I could only read about half-way in before I just couldn’t read anymore.  It wasn’t that the books were [...]

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Angie on January 7th, 2010

ok, so there’s a 6th grade girl who reads everything(!) . her reading level is 11th grade, but her mom doesn’t want her reading stuff with certain subjects (you know what I’m talking about) in it. what kind of books do you think she would like? post here plz thnx

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