Pop by Gordon Korman by Tracy Howard - Sunday, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:28pm

I liked this story. I did. I just didn't really believe the main plot line.

Marcus Jordan is the new kid in town, and wanna-be quarterback of the high school football team. It's just not reasonable that it would take a smart kid like Marcus so long to figure out that his anonymous 50 year old football buddy and coach has something seriously wrong with him.

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"Be First" Teen Reading Group by Tracy Howard - Sunday, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:02pm

Join McNally Robinson Booksellers at Grant Park's "Be First" Teen Reading Group and read a book before it's even been published. You too can share the anticipation and excitement we booksellers feel when we get a "reading copy" of an upcoming novel that isn't for sale yet! Our "Be First" Teen Reading Group is a book club with a difference.

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Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson by Joan Marshall - Sunday, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:42pm

In this compelling sequel to Chains, Anderson uses the American Revolution as the backdrop to the lives of Curzon and Isabel, escaped black slaves who long for freedom and search for family. Readers will be appalled at the treatment of slaves and horrified at the starvation and ragged living conditions that Curzon endures as a recruit in Washington's army. Isabel wears an iron neck ring so her master can chain her up like an animal and Curzon and his fellow soldiers stand barefoot in the snow.

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The Mediocre Assassin's Handbook by Tamara Sheehan by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:31pm

Hyabusa Jao isn't much of an assassin--at least he hasn't been since his partner and lover Waya was killed. Jao's sadistic boss has given him one more chance to get his head straight, if he doesn't: he won't be a mediocre assassin, he'll be a dead one.

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