Category: Avi
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If you know a kid who likes adventures on the high seas you might recommend The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Charlotte Doyle is a young girl, only thirteen, and is traveling from England to America by ship to meet the rest of her family who had traveled ahead while she finished her…
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City of Orphans by Avi takes place in New York City but in 1893. It tells the story of two young teenagers, Maks Geless and his new friend Willa. Maks is a newsie just trying to help his family make ends meet when he starts getting harassed by the Plug Ugly Gang. One day he…
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Today’s book is one that I found really fascinating but one that is also rather disturbing in some ways. Nothing But The Truth is a teen novel by Avi and tells the story of Philip Malloy. It opens with Philip finding out that he is unable to try out for the high school track team…