SmileySusan rated Island of the Blue Dolphins: 5 stars
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, …
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Avid book collector. This just means I own more books than I've read. Fan of #horror, #fantasy and #historical fiction, but open to other genres. Based somewhere near the Austin airport, as it helps me visit bookstores and coffee shops around the world. USN vet. ✈
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SmileySusan rated Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: 5 stars
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
This is the diary of a young Jewish girl whose family went into hiding from the Nazis in 1942 when …
SmileySusan rated The Lightning Thief: 3 stars
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief is a 2005 American-fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick …
SmileySusan rated Blood promise: 3 stars
Blood promise by Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart …
SmileySusan rated The Beasties: 5 stars
SmileySusan rated Betrayed: 3 stars
Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast., PC Cast
Zoey, High Priestess in training, has managed to settle in at the House of Night and come to terms with …
SmileySusan rated Fascination: 3 stars
Fascination by Stephenie Meyer (Twilight, #1)
Bella, dix-sept ans, décide de quitter l'Arizona ensoleillé où elle vivait avec sa mère, pour s'installer chez son père. Elle …
SmileySusan rated The Pursuit of the Pankera: 5 stars
The Pursuit of the Pankera by J. R. R. Tolkien
Robert A. Heinlein wrote The Number of the Beast, which was published in 1980. In the book Zeb, Deety, Hilda …
SmileySusan rated Number the Stars: 5 stars
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, …
SmileySusan rated A Game of Thrones: 5 stars
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels …
SmileySusan rated The Van Alen legacy: 5 stars
The Van Alen legacy by Melissa De La Cruz (Blue Bloods)
Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods--an ancient group of vampires--now find themselves …
SmileySusan rated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: 5 stars
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended …
SmileySusan rated The Help: 5 stars
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from …
SmileySusan rated Milkweed: 4 stars
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
He’s a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham.
He’s a boy who lives …
SmileySusan rated Memoirs of a Geisha: 3 stars
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions …