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This page is for you to create book reviews for our class wiki. You will need to complete ONE book review each month. These reviews will be part of your LA grade! When you are finished with your review, copy and paste it into the Book Review page on the navigation bar. Remember only one person at a time can edit the common Book review Page.  **Title: A Door Near Here Author: Heather Quarles Genre: Realistic Fiction Short Summary: this story is about a 15 year old named Katherine whose mom has been sitting in bed for weeks because she lost her job. She has only been eating small amounts of food and because she is an alcoholic, has been drinking lots of alcohol. Money and food are running low and everyone is worried that their teachers are going to call the department of social security. With Douglas, 1 year younger, Tracey, 2 years younger, and her youngest sister Alisa who is 8 years old a lot of stress has overcome Katherine. Alisa is really into the Narnia books and will not stop beilieving in them for one second and keeps looking for the door to Narnia so she can find Aslan so he can cure her mother. There is always one question in your mind when reading this story, Are they going to survive. Reviewer (user name only):Samm61
 * __ September Review __

**Title:** The Outsiders __ Title: The Face On The Milk Carton Author: Caroline B. Cooney Genre: Realistic Fiction Short Summary: Janie Johnson has a great life, two loving parents and tons of caring friends. She doesn’t like her name though. But when takes her friend’s milk carton to see the missing child, she thinks she knows that child. She does know that child, its herself. Now she doesn’t like the sound of having a new name. Reviewer (user name only):samm61 December Review __** **Title: Author: Genre: Short Summary: Reviewer (user name only):**
 * __October Review__**
 * Author:** S.E. Hinton
 * Genre:** Realistic fiction/Boys read
 * Short Summary:** Ponyboy has a hard life. His parents died, now his oldest brother Darren (Darry) is in charge and Sodapop, the middle brother, always gets stuck in the middle of their fights. Darry is 20 and has always wanted to go to college but because he is in charge he can’t. Soda is a dropout along with Steve, his best buddy. They both work at a gas station and Pony is 14, has great grades, and is the only one in his gang that is still in school. Johnny needs their gang. His mother and father fight, don’t care about him, his father belts him, and most of the time Johnny sleeps in a vacant lot. Two-Bit is the wisecracker of the group. Unless someone is hurt or something bad has happened he can’t take a single thing seriously. Dallas (Dally) is the hoodlum of the gang. He was arrested at age ten and I think that says enough. They and other lower class are called greasers and don’t have the best reputation. There are two sides; greasers and socs. Socs are mean, rich, they jump greasers, and they wear nice outfits. Greasers have long, greasy hair, usually wear leather jackets and stick together. But Pony learns that there are only slight differences between them and that it is rough everywhere.
 * Reviewer (user name only):Samm61**
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