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Wonder what your kids are coming across in the books they're reading? Bookalachi is your source for parent reviews of kid and teen books! More than a just a synopsis; we look at the content (e.g. social themes, drug/alcohol use, violence, sweary words, etc) and give parents the 411 on content.


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Recent Reviews

Book Review: Beautiful Creatures

April 3, 2010

Beautiful-CreaturesA fairly mild book for the supernatural genre. Had a lot of Civil War history and history of the South. It’s interesting as the story is told from the first person perspective of a teen boy.

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Book Review: Conspiracy 365 February

March 28, 2010

goOn New Year’s Eve, Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning…”They killed your father. They’ll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days. Hurled into a life on the run the 15-year-old fugitive is isolated and alone. (Feburary)

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Book Review: The Last Song

March 24, 2010

The-Last-SongSeventeen-year-old Ronnie is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father, and while things get off to a rocky start, she begins to understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.

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Book Review: School of Fear

March 23, 2010

goTwelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu and thirteen-year-old Garrison are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together, with no adult assistance, to face their fears.

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