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 Half Blood Prince | Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling This Great novel by J.K Rowling is about Harry's 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardry and how the war against Voldemort isn't going so well even the Muggle goverments are noticing. Ron keeps scanning the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent for long periods of time and the Order of the Phoenix has suffered from losses already. and amongst all that life goes on Sixth-year students learn to apparate. The Weasley twins expand their buisness. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, thought Harry recieves some extraordinary help from the Half Blood Prince. |
 Into the Wild | The Warriors Series- Into the Wild by Erin Hunter This appealing series about a young, house cat named Rusty who learns about a wild cat clan in the woods named Thunder clan he also learned about the four other clans Shadow clan, Wind clan and River clan. Rusty dreams of being a clan cat and soon he meets three clan cats Bluestar, Lionheart, and Graypaw. Bluestar who is the clans leader asked him to be apart of the clan and Rusty's extraordinary journey starts there. |
 Emily Windsnap | The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler This novel told by Emily Windsnap is a very interesting novel. Emily has a big secret that she didn't know until the first day of seventh grade swim class. She had never been able to get in the water before and as it turned out swimming came naturally to her. Very naturally. In fact you might even say....Well it's true Heres my secret is that I figured out that I'm a mermaid. |
 | Nim's Island by Wendy Orr A Girl, an iguana, an Island and email. Meet Nim, a modern day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she's not afraid when her scientist dad goes off for three days to go and study plankton leaving her alone on the island. Besides it's not as if no one's looking after her. She's got a sea lion to mother and an iguana for comic relief. She also has an interesting new email pal. But when her dad's cell-phone calls stop coming disaster seems near. Nim needs to be stronger and braver then she ever has before. |
 Danger at the Zoo | A Kit Mystery- Danger at the Zoo by Kathleen Ernst Kit lands a summer job with her local newspaper. As she noses around the zoo gathering facts for the kids column, Kit stumbles into some strange monkey business, her reporter instincts tell her she's onto something worth trying to investigate and she's determined to get the whole story. |
 Because of Winn-Dixie | Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamill This heartbreaking novel by Kate DiCamillo is about a girl named Opal and how she finds this stray dog in the Winn-Dixie supermarket in her new hometown. She wants to keep him so badly but her dad the preacher says no but they can keep them until they find him a home. Opals journey to keep Winn- Dixie starts there and ends in a very happy way. |
 How to be President | How to be President by Stephen P. Williams You've won the election, you wake up on your first day in the White House. Where's the bathroom? How do you get breakfast? Where do you sit at a cabinet meeting? When can you use air force one? This essential, illustrated employee manual explains the real nuts and bolts of being the President of the United States. |
Sources:Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, Nim's Island, A Kit Mystery- Danger at the Zoo, Because of Winn- Dixie and How to be President
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