Watertown Middle School Reading Club

Note from Mrs. M.:
I am a huge fan of the Twilight saga, so I was very excited to read The Host. I will warn you Twilight fanatics–The Host is nothing like the saga! But do not let that discourage you from reading this wonderful novel. I found the writing to be very [...]

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The Brethren by Beverly Lewis
Reviewed by Bethanie N.
WMS grade 8
The Brethren, the end of a trilogy, is a book with romance and mystery.
Anne, an Amish girl at the courting has given up her art. The art that she had so hard tried to keep from the People (other Amish) until her father the Preacher found [...]

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Tune in Anytime by Caroline Cooney
reviewed by Alexis N.
WMS grade 7
I just finished reading Tune in Anytime by Caroline by Cooney. This book is about a 16-year-old girl named Sophie who lives with her father in their 1,000,000 dollar mansion. Her parents fight a lot, so her mother went on a 6 month trip [...]

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The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu
reviewed by Levi B.
WMS grade 7
Charlotte Meilwetski is a very ordinary girl with fantasies of being the heroine like in the Greek myths. But when the time comes, will she have the nerve to save the Living………And the DEAD?
It all begins when a stray kitten demands to be [...]

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THE JUVIE THREE
by Gordon Korman
review from Teen Reads.com
Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone. All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy. A former juvenile delinquent himself, [...]

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CRICKET MAN
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
review from TeenReads.com
Kenny Sykes is on a mission. He is determined to make his mark somehow in his new town and his new school. In the meantime, he has appointed himself the secret savior of the hundreds of crickets who seem bound to commit suicide by jumping into Kenny’s pool. He [...]

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