Hannah on March 31st, 2010

We need your pick for the background!  Choose your favorite and post a comment with your choice.  On April 30th we will count up the votes and in May the Winner’s Picture will be our background for a year. Your Choices: Choice A:   Andrea from St. Rita of Cascia School Choice B:  Divya from Waubonsie [...]

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Pat Schwartz on March 31st, 2010

Candy Sushi Fun was had by all

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Hannah on March 30th, 2010

Ellie is at it again.  Her journal has been kept since the war began, now that its “over” ( I use the term loosely), her book has been published and she is raising Gavin (the young deaf boy she and her friends helped out in the war) on her own while trying to keep her [...]

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Pat Schwartz on March 29th, 2010

Abraham Lincoln Winners           1. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 2. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult   3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak   Rebecca Caudill Winners                               1. All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn 2. Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf 3. Elephant [...]

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Hannah on March 27th, 2010

Book three of this fantastic series.  Miranda’s journal is back!  It’s been almost a month since she last wrote in it.  Spring is on it’s way, or what can pass for spring anyway.  With the spring comes the fish in the river.  Miranda’s brothers go fishing and when they return there are plenty of fish, [...]

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Hannah on March 25th, 2010

The Keys to the Kingdom Series is about a young boy who was once a normal boy, but it is now the heir to the Architect of everything.  His name is Arthur and he just wants to go home and be normal, but the house where everything in creation comes from pulls him back in.  [...]

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Pat Schwartz on March 22nd, 2010

The day after turning 13, Josh receives the news that he will be spending the next several months with his dad in Chicago. Mom has to go to Florida to help grandma recover from a fall. After 8 years of being the “SHARED KID,” it’s just easier to let mom and dad think Josh is [...]

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Hannah on March 22nd, 2010

Book 2 in the Strange Angels Saga.  In book one Dru and her Dad are hunters of the things that go bump in the night.  In book two she is a rare and precious commodity.  She is supposed to be safe at the Schola that Christophe had her sent to (a school full of guys and no [...]

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Hannah on March 18th, 2010

Dru travels the continent with her father hunting all the things that go bump in the night.  Blessed with “the touch,” as her grandmother called her gift, she helps her dad see what only those with her gift can see, elements of the real world that help them survive.  Like her grandmother’s owl that shows up [...]

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Pat Schwartz on March 11th, 2010

Betraying Season by Marissa Doyle (good) A Well-Timed Enchantment by Vivian Vande Velde (interesting) Keeper of the Grail by Michael Spradlin (love historical fiction) Jerk California by Jonathan Friesen (just started) What are you reading?

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