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Teen Ink Magazine, October 2007 : Books Articles

Always Running
by Alex S., Issaquah, WA
     Many people have lives that are filled with one fortunate event after another. Even as they watch the news, they don’t understand how the other half, the less fortunate half, lives. Luis J.
Continue... 		Audrey Hepburn’s Neck
by Chelsey S., Rutledge, PA
     As a native of Japan, Toshi Okamoto has always been mesmerized by foreigners and fixated on dating thin American women. The strange yet riveting novel Audrey Hepburn’s Neck tells the story of how 23-year-old Toshi grows physically, mentally, and sexually.
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Into Thin Air
by Peter R., Dulles, VA
     Jon Krakauer does an exceptional job portraying the horrors of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster in this eyewitness account. He recounts the events leading up to it in vivid detail. Readers will find Krakauer’s work an incredibly powerful story of survival.
Continue... 		Me Talk Pretty One Day
by Nicholas J., San Francisco, CA
     “I know the thing that you speak exact now. Talk me more, you, plus, please, plus,” says David Sedaris, “talking pretty” in his book. This comes from a story about the absurdities of taking French lessons.
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Next
by Michael S., Saddle River, NJ
     We can always rely on Michael Crichton to deliver fast-paced, thought-provoking novels about the progression of science and technology. Next is a science-gone-too-far novel (a la Jurassic Park) with myriad storylines that weave seamlessly together as the plot thickens.
Continue... 		Second Draft of My Life
by Jim S., Owings Mills, MD
     In her novel Second Draft of My Life, Sara Lewis manages to do something that no other author has achieved: make me burst out laughing and need to calm myself before I could read more.
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