Posts Tagged ‘Amulet’

The Girls, by Tucker Shaw

June 26, 2009

girlsSummary:  Inspired by Clare Booth Luce’s “The Women,” students at the Maroon Bells School for Girls in Aspen, Colorado, experience bonding, jealousy, competition, and fighting over boys as they make decisions about their lives.

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Test by William Sleator

May 4, 2008

Summary: In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person’s entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test. 298 p., Amulet Books.

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