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Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell

February 12, 2015 by Elmien Ackerman

Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. I finished Eleanor & Park in three days. I have read it twice. Eleanor …

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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

January 27, 2015 by Elmien Ackerman

“LORELAI: But he’s our Boo Radley, and we don’t have a Boo Radley, unless you count the troubadour or Pete the pizza guy or the guy who talks to mailboxes.  RORY: Well, I think the point is that every town needs as many Boo Radley’s as they can get.”             …

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The Giver – Lois Lowry

December 9, 2014 by Elmien Ackerman

At the age of twelve children in the community receive their assignments (or rather the job that they will be performing for the rest of their lives). Up until then Jonas lived safely within the community, a place where there is no war, no hunger and no pain. But that was until Jonas was chosen …

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ranson Riggs

December 2, 2014 by Elmien Ackerman

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. The novel follows sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman as he travels to a remote island off the coast of Wales after a dreadful family tragedy. He discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss …

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BACK TO BACK JOHN GREEN Paper Towns – John Green

November 17, 2014 by Elmien Ackerman

The YA novel is written from the perspective of Quentin Jacobsen who has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. One night she climbs into his life dressed like a ninja and they set out for an all-night campaign for revenge. The next day Quentin arrives at school but there …

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The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

November 4, 2014 by Elmien Ackerman

The story is told from the point of view of 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, as she battles cancer. A tumour-shrinking medical miracle has bought Hazel a few years, but she has never been anything but terminal. While Hazel attends a church support group for cancer survivors, she meets Augustus Waters. Augustus has lost his leg due …

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Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn

October 24, 2014 by Elmien Ackerman

It is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary, but Nick’s beautiful wife, Amy has gone missing. Nick’s lies and odd behaviour has everyone questioning whether he had killed his wife… This really is an addictive novel as I was taken with the story from the start. I couldn’t put it down. The novel makes …

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