Blogs in January 1970

No Turning Back 1st January 1970

Grade 4-8. Sipho’s idyllic country life ends when his nurturing grandmother dies and he returns to his mother’s shack. Shocked to discover he now has a stepfather who is brutal and abusive, Sipho lasts for six months before running...

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Breaking Dawn (Twilight 4) 1st January 1970

Twilight tempted the imagination . . . New Moon made readers thirsty for more . . . Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon . . . And now – the book that everyone has been waiting for...

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Where Things Come Back 1st January 1970

John Corey Whaley of Springhill wrote a coming-of-age novel about a teen named Cullen Witter, the disappearance of his brother Gabriel and the sudden fame his small Arkansas town receives after a visitor spots a woodpecker considered extinct. “Where...

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Disneylanders 1st January 1970

Casey (short for Acacia, but don’t call her that) is spending a few summer days with her parents at Disneyland. Just like they do every summer. Except this summer is different. Casey’s best friend has dumped her. She starts...

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Adventures of an Ice Princess 1st January 1970

Clarissa has been together with Kieran for eight years. On the night she believes he is going to propose, he actually breaks off the relationship. With nothing to keep her, she decides to head for Antarctica with 2 friends.

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