Audience: High School
Rating: A-
Synopsis:
Straight A, type A Kate has a plan. She’s mapped out her life and the next step should be MIT. She’s so sure of her plan that it’s the only college she’s applied to. But, for the first time in Kate’s life, a plan may not [...]

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Alex Cold Adventures: Book 3
Audience: Middle School
Rating: C
Synopsis:
Alex Cold and Nadia are adventuring in Africa in this book. This time they are fighting to save a tribe of Pygmies from their enslavement within a Bantu village. Like The City of the Beasts and Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, they go on [...]

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Audience: 10 and up
Rating: B+
Synopsis:
Michael Arroyo loves baseball more than anything in the world. It has always been his and his father’s dream that Michael would pitch at the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania. But now his father’s gone and Michael and his brother Carlos are on their own. [...]

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