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Showing posts with label Book Bite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Bite. Show all posts
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Book Bite: "Great Expectations"

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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the ...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Book Bite: "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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"Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it's because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mo...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Book Bite: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

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"Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of othe...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Book Bite: "Pointe" by Brandy Colbert

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"I've been dancing so long that ballet has become an extension of me. I can no longer stretch my legs without pointing my toes, ...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Book Bite: "The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak

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“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitud...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Book Bite: "The Difference Between You and Me" by Madeleine George

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"If you do something, you become a target. People want to take you down. That’s a risk. But it’s better to do too much, better to ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Book Bite: "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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“Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Book Bite: "The Patron Saint of Pigs" by Lauren Myracle

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“Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.” - "The Patron Saint of Pigs" by Lauren ...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Book Bite: "A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle" by John Green

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“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Book Bite: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll

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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Book Bite: "The Jubilee Express" by Maureen Johnson

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“Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Book Bite: "Looking for Alaska"

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“I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though eve...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Book Bite: "Delirium" by Lauren Oliver

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“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day o...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Book Bite: "Same Difference" by Siobhan Vivian

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“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate yo...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Book Bite: "Wither" by Lauren DeStefano

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“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Book Bite: "Farewell Summer" by Ray Bradbury

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“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a boo...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Book Bite: "The Fault in Our Stars"

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Book Bite: "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

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“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought som...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Book Bite: "The Fault in Our Stars"

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"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world wil...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Book Bite: "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the ...