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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems"The Black Cat"
"The Black Cat"Page 203
Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?by Scott Peeples
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Book Jacket Summary
On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.
Bronwyn, The Brain, is Yale-Bound and never breaks a rule.
Addy, The Beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Nate, The Criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, The Athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, The Outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app.
Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death really wasn't much of an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all for of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they jus the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose?
Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.
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One of Us is LyingBook Trailer
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Back of Book Summary
Rafe has been out since the 8th grade, and he's fine with it, and so is everyone else. But sometimes he just wants to be a regular guy, not the gay guy. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to become "openly straight" instead. The transformation works: Rafe revels in a group of straight guy friends and the freedom of living without a label. But when he falls in love with one of his new friends...who doesn't know that love is a possibility.
Openly Straight is a funny, smart novel about being out, being real, and all the things "being yourself" can mean.
AccoladesYALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsWinner SCBWI Sid Fleischman Award 4 HumorElizabeth Walden Award FinalistLambda Literary Award FinalistBanned Book!
Rafe has been out since the 8th grade, and he's fine with it, and so is everyone else. But sometimes he just wants to be a regular guy, not the gay guy. So when he transfers to an all-boys' boarding school in New England, he decides to become "openly straight" instead. The transformation works: Rafe revels in a group of straight guy friends and the freedom of living without a label. But when he falls in love with one of his new friends...who doesn't know that love is a possibility.
Openly Straight is a funny, smart novel about being out, being real, and all the things "being yourself" can mean.
AccoladesYALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsWinner SCBWI Sid Fleischman Award 4 HumorElizabeth Walden Award FinalistLambda Literary Award FinalistBanned Book!
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Back of Book Summary
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of mental problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside himself that he never knew existed.Inspired by his own experiences growing up, award winning author, Sherman Alexie chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of mental problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside himself that he never knew existed.Inspired by his own experiences growing up, award winning author, Sherman Alexie chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
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Here's an awesome student-made book trailer I found on YouTube!