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The Pineville Heist - Street Tour ( Review )

Title: The Pineville Heist Author: Lee Chambers Pages: 196 Published: March 28th 2012 You can find this review here: goodreads Summary:  Seventeen year old Aaron stumble into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. Terrified, Aaron tells his shocking tale to Amanda Becker, his drama teacher, but it doesn't take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school the pair are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back and wipe out the evidence. Review: A book full of action? Give me a 100 of those! In the beginning I was like "Yeah, I guess this will be an okay book" and when I was finished I was like "OMG! GIVE ME MORE NOW!" The plot was great, and it started out like many action books, but it was the

Book Review: Confessions Of a Teenage Hermaphrodite

Title:  Confessions Of a Teenage Hermaphrodite Author: Lianne Simon Pages: 232 Published: September 18th 2012 Summary:  Jamie was born with a testis, an ovary, and a pixie face. He can be a boy after minor surgery and a few years on testosterone. That's what his parents always say, but he sees an elfin princess in the mirror. To become the man his parents expect, Jamie must leave a little girl's dreams. At sixteen, the four-foot-eleven soprano leaves home school for a boys' dorm at college. The elfin princess can live in the books Jameson reads and nobody has to find out he isn't like the other boys. When a medical student tells Jamie he should have been raised female, he discovers the life he could have as a girl. The elfin princess can thrive, but will she risk losing her family and her education for a boyfriend who may desert her, or a toddler she may never be allowed to adopt. Review:  Omg, I used so much time on this review. Actually I wrote this r