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Kas (pronounced Kazz) is thrilled to have gained a position in a prestigious art high school. There she meets Jacob who boards in the same home as herself and with whom she very quickly develops a relationship. She also meets Marin, an aspiring actress, who is as driven as Kas herself toward perfection. Many times, Kas cannot finish an art assignment or tears it up as she never can believe it is quite good enough. Marin, very slender herself, makes an off-hand comment about helping Kas to lose some weight. That remark, compounded with her obsession to perfection and fuelled by some sort of self-loathing, causes her to begin a slide down the slippery slope to anorexia and bulimia. Told with a great deal of honesty and insight into the self-loathing that often accompanies this disease, this is a book for anyone who wonders what causes someone to go down this road and to begin to understand that at some point, the person really begins to lose control of everything in their lives.

Keturah is the village story-teller; this story is one she perhaps should not have told, for it appears to be true. It begins with Keturah wandering too far into the woods and meeting up with Death in the form of a man. As a result of wandering so far into the wood, he could demand her life but offers her a reprieve. If she will choose someone else from the village to die, her life will be spared. Keturah rejects every name Death suggests as she sees value in each one of them. As an alternate, she suggests she tell him an irresistable story which he allows her to do. To keep Death from taking her life, she must continue to meet with him and spin a story that will enchant and ultimately satisfy him. This book is written in an old world style but the story itself is other-worldly and has an eerie appeal that will satisfy lovers of a well-woven tale.
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This story had my heart in my throat right from the beginning- it feels exactly like we are sucked into the emotions of 15 year-old Francis whose dad has committed suicide. We are taken through the whole gamut of emotions he suffers: anger,shame,guilt and profound sadness. After refers to the year after his father’s death and anyone who thinks there is a quick fix for life’s problems needs to read this to realize that there is no easy way through grief and there is a huge range of emotions to work through on the way to healing. A slim volume. only 133 pages, this is nonetheless a gripping and realistic story of a young man’s struggle to come to terms with a great tragedy.
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Ready for a thrilling underwater , futuristic adventure? Then The Aquanauts is for you. If you happen to have read the City of Faar, part of the Pendragon series, or Monica Hughes, under the sea, you will already have a taste for this type of adventure.
Sixteen year old Greta Kovachi joins her father in his laboratory at the bottom of the ocean. Just a week-long trip during holidays sounds okay although there were other things she’d rather be doing. Some other rather odd-ball characters are there as well for reasons of their own, so at least she’s not stuck there alone. But it soon becomes obvious that this will be no ordinary summer vacation as they take their first trip on the tractor, a huge underwater machine, not too unlike a submarine. When Nicky is given the controls with disastrous results, they all soon find out that this is indeed a dangerous world they have entered. Then a freak acccident hurtles them all billions of years into the future and it becomes up to the group of young people who band together as the Aquanauts to save them all and find a way to travel back in time. Action-packed, fast-paced- this is a story to set your teeth on edge and be thankful for firm earh beneath your feet.
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