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Indian Paintbrush Nominees

In this blog, I will post my reviews of the official Indian Paintbrush Nominees for each year.  These will also be reviewed in my main blog, but I will make a "second" entry here for ease of discovery for those of you who would like to find them quickly. They will be posted in the same order that I read them, with the same dates as the original posts.
Current Indian Paintbrush List

Masterminds by Gordon Korman

4/1/2016

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Eli and his friends are growing up in the ideal town of Serenity, NM. None of them have ever been out of town--not even to just outside the city limits. They don't question this because they have everything they need in their town of 184 people. However, when Eli's best friend Randy convinces him to go on a bike ride out of town, Eli discovers that he can't leave--literally. He gets so sick right after the city limit sign that he collapses and has to be carried back to town. 

This is the first clue that Eli has about something being very strange in their little town, but then Randy is sent away and leaves Eli a note that changes how he thinks about everything.  And when his Internet changes on the night of a big storm, and Eli discovers that he and his friends have been being taught a different version of history, he really starts to wonder what is going on.

Told from the multiple viewpoints of Eli and four of his friends, Masterminds by Gordon Korman (Lexile: 730; Interest Level: Grades 3-7) is a page-turning, mysterious adventure story that is truly hard to put down.  Fans of Gordon Korman, Margaret Peterson Haddix, and other adventure stories will not be disappointed! 2016-2017 Indian Paintbrush Nominee (352 p.)

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