"When I step into this library,
I cannot understand why I ever
step out of it."
- Marie de Sevigne -
"I have always imagined Paradise
will be some kind of library."
- Jorge Luis Borges -
(i am the circle)
and the circle is me)
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Book Review: Unlocked
When you’re the janitor’s kid, you don’t have many friends. You don’t have any friends. Andy is no different, but when he hears a rumor that the school outcast, Blake, has a gun in his locker, he decides to make friends with Blake. When the boys do become friends, Andy must choose between protecting his only friend and protecting a school full of kids who could care less about him?
Read-alikes:
Just Another Hero by Sharon Draper
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Echo by Kate Morgenroth
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng
For older readers:
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult