Oldies Book Summaries

The Duplicate by William Sleator
Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences whe the duplicate turns against him..

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.

Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself by Judy Blume
Sally was ten when she made herself a movie star. When her older brother Douglas became ill, the family traveled south to spend eight months in the sunshine of Florida and Sally Meets her friends Andrea, Barbara, and Shelby Peter and Georgia Blue Eyes and her unsuspecting enemy, Adolf Hitler. While she watched and waited, and kept a growing file of letters under her bed, Sally's Hitler played and important-though not starring- role in one of her grandest movie spectaculars.

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The heroes of this tale are animals-wild rabbits. This is picaresque saga of the maverick band who set out, against all odds, on a quest for a new home, a better society. How they succeed is an epic adventure and a compelling contempory odyssey of leadership found and leadership lost.

Those Summer Girls I Never Met by Richard Peck
Drew and Steph, ages almost-sixteen and fourteen, reluctantly take a Baltic cruise with their heretofore unknown grandmother, a singing star of the 1940s, and have the experience of a lifetime.

One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte
A n overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning-point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.