Vote by Gary Paulsen

Kevin is running against Cash.  Cash is everything you want in a person.  Kevin is jealous of Cash's qualities, so he decides to run against him.  Kevin really, really wants to win, to impress Tina, his so-called girlfriend.  Kevin does not believe that he will win though.  Cash's posters are on every hall wall of the school.  Then, Kevin discovers that Cash is no good without Katie, his manager, because he does not know anything that he would do, and now, to get elected, he just has a smiling face.  Kevin figures it is basically him against Katie!  Realistic fiction lovers will enjoy this.
                                                                                 

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Absolutly Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech

Mary Lou Finney is not happy about her summer assignment to write a journal.  Mary Lou is trying to find out who she is.  She is having problems with her friend who is the definition of boy crazy.  Between all of these problems, Mary Lou's cousin Carl Ray is coming to stay with them.  Mary Lou hates him; he doesn't make his bed or clean his room and the worst part is that her mother makes her clean Carl Ray's room!  Then, Carl Ray gets a lot of money just as their neighbor dies.  Carl Ray buys a car, and some other things, and drives down to his house with Mary Lou.  Mary Lou hates her stay at her aunt's house.  At her aunt's house, there is no plumbing, electricity, or TV.  Suddenly everything unfolds with sadness and shock.    Read this book to find out more!
                                                                                 

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Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

Heartbeat is about Annie, a girl who loves to run.  Her best friend is trying to get her to try out for the girls running team.  Annie tells her best friend that she only likes  running by herself in her bare feet.  Her best friend, Max, tells her how he  is trying out for the boys running team.  Max also likes running barefoot.  So Max is saving up for a pair of running shoes.  Annie is saving up for drawing paper and charcoal pencils.  In Annie's art class they have to draw the same apple for one hundred days.  Some people think the project is boring but Annie thinks she could draw the apple from the bottom and the top.  On top of all that her mother is having a baby!  This book is a great family story filled with adventure.
                                                                             

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The Last Present by Wendy Mass

The Last present is the last book in the birthday series containing: 11 Birthdays, Finally, 13 Gifts.  In The Last Present, two friends don't talk to each other for a whole year.  Then they were allowed to talk.  They also got to go into the past and fix things that go wrong.  Grace, who is about to be able to see into the future, gets paralyzed.  So Grace won't see into the future they have to fix her birthdays.  Then, they figure they might need someone to see into the future.  This book is great for fiction fans.
                                                                                 

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The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Sophie and three of her uncles and two of her cousins are going to England to see Bompie and they are going by boat! The crazy part is Sophie is the only girl on the ship.  The rest of the crew thinks Sophie will clean and cook for them but no siree is this girl gonna do that.  Sophie wants to do everything the boys do.  Along the journey one of her cousins, Cody, wonders what happened to Sophie's real parents because Sophie is adopted.  Meanwhile, Sophie is having these weird dreams about a girl.  The dreams scare her.  When they get to England and find Bompie all the answers are revealed!  Read the book to find out!
                                                                               

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