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1. Mrs. Abraham Says:
   December 21st, 2007 at 10:33 pm

   I read Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica. It was about a man named Josh Cameron who was the star of the Boston Celtics and a twelve-year-old girl who was the daughter he never knew he had. Her mother had been his college girlfriend, but she left him to go abroad to school. She ended up having his baby and when she got sick and eventually died, she told Molly about her dad. Molly did whatever she could to meet Josh, but he didn’t want to have anything to do with her. She finally was able to spend some time with him. They slowly made some progress and then he said some mean things about how he felt and she overheard him. She ran away and would’t talk to him for weeks. When they got back together again she thought that maybe he wanted her this time. His agent told her that he couldn’t let anyone know who she was and that she should just leave him alone. She got upset again but gave him a chance to do the right thing. He did his typical thing and left her. She did her typical thing and ran away, to meet him at the corner of 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza, the giant Christmas tree in New York City.

2. jabraham Says:
   March 12th, 2008 at 9:48 am

   I read The Aurora County All-Stars. It was about a boy named House who befriended Mr. Boyd, an eccentric old man everyone thought killed kids. When Mr. Boyd dies, House doesn’t know what to do. He takes the dog, Eudora Welty, and his sister Honey loves her. The annual and only baseball game of the season is in jeopardy because of the big fourth of July celebration. House goes up against Finesse over the whole production. She is the one who tripped him and broke his elbow. She wants only the play on fourth of July and House only wants the baseball game. In the end they come to a compromise to allow both to happen. This is a great baseball book.

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