Title: The Sparrow Author: Mary Doria Russell Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5 Stars
One of the best books I’ve read recently. Not your typical science fiction it follows the journey of a handful of people (priests and doctors mostly) on a journey into space for humanity’s first encounter with an alien civilization. The book explores the implications of discovering an alien culture on the religious, anthropological, linguistic, and philosophical understandings of human cultures.
The book flashes back and forth in time. The characters are some of the most compelling you will come across in literature. Particularly Emilio Sanchez. The first encounter with the aliens turns out to be deceptively peaceful but it is only later when they run into a separate species of alien that the book reaches its devastating ending.
The book won numerous awards. There is a sequel called “Children of God” that is also worth reading.
Title: The Hobbit Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: Middle School Book Genre: Fantasy Rating: 4 Stars
I prefer the Lord of the Rings from Tolkien but this story is delightful. And it is surprisingly funny. I’d forgotten how much humor the book has in it. It follows Bilbo Baggins as he is enlisted as a “professional burglar” on an adventure with Gandalf the Wizard and a group of dwarves who are determined to retrieve the gold that was stolen from them by Smaug, the Dragon.
The book is episodic with many different adventures along the way to the final battle with Smaug.
The Hobbit also lays the groundwork for what will become the adventures of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings so if you want to know more about the origin of the “Ring of Power” I would highly recommend this book.
Title: The Plot Against America Author: Philip Roth Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 Stars
Roth is one of my favorite writers working today and this is arguably his best novel. It is “historical fiction” set in an alternate world where Charles Lindberg defeats F.D.Roosevelt for the office of President and because of Lindberg’s anti-semitic beliefs allows the U.S.A. to remain isolated from the War against Nazi Germany. The story gets creepier and creepier as you see anti-semitic policies being implemented in this country in ways that parallels what really happened to Jews in Germany before and during WWII.
The main character of the novel is my favorite and has the same name as the author although you shouldn’t forget that this is actually a work of fiction. This book won lots of awards and I suspect Roth will one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Title: The Boxes Author: William Sleator Name: Emily Jiang Grade: 6th Rating:***** Genre: Sience Fiction Anne was given a big responsibility the day Uncle Marco left her two boxes. She was to keep them apart from each other so one was put in the basement and the other was put in the depths of her tousled closet. One day, her curiosity got so intense that she went to the basement to try to open the box; she couldn't open the metal one in her closet. She carefully removed the top and a crab-like creature scuttled out and meandered to the other end of the room. She let ou a scream and bolted up the stairs. That night, she had a dream- a vision of Uncle Marco telling her to open the metal box and the directions how. The following day, she didn't know wether to open it or not,so she went down to the basement to look at the other one. There were many crab critters, now! Will opening the metal box stop them or just make it worse? My favorite charecter is Henrey because he is supportive and helpful.
Title:The Hunger Games Author:Suzanne Collins Name:John Giammona-Wilber Grade:6 Reading Level:6 Book Genre:Science Fiction Rating:5 Stars
In the place once known as North America there is a country called Panem that has twelve districts. But, there used to be thirteen until the districts rebelled against the evil Capital. Twelve districts were beaten and one district was destroyed. But after that was over, every year one boy and one girl from each district were put in an arena in the capital to fight to the death on television. Katniss Everdeen of district twelve has a little sister named Primrose who is chosen to be in the games. But Katniss steps up to take her sister's place. Doing everything she can to get sponsors to send her survival items, Katniss pretends to be in love with the boy contestant from her district, Peeta, and the Capital makes a new rule. " If two contestants from the same district are the final two they may both go home." But the Capital can do much more than change the rules. They control everything in the arena, such as the weather. Katniss must face rain storms and fire balls. After weeks of hardship the games are coming to a close with Peeta and Katniss as the final two. They are waiting to be told that they won when the Capital says that the new rule has been revoked. Katniss and Peeta are both going to eat the poisoness killer berries, nightlock. But will they go through with it? Read The Hunger Games to find out. My favorite character is the contestant "Foxface" because she is very smart and makes it into the final four.
Title: Give Me Liberty Author: L.M. Elliot Emily Olsen Grade:6 Rating:5 Genre: Historical Fiction
Give Me Liberty is about Nathaniel, an endetured servent living in the time of the Revalution. When he is bought by Owen, a chubby, angered man, Nathaniel is scared for his life. Nathaniel purposely gets him a bad horse which causes a bad beating. When a librarian notices Nathaniel being beaten, he buys him off Owen and takes care of him. Basil, the savior of Nathaniel, and the librarian takes him to live at Eden's house. Eden is very impatient and is hostile towards Nathaniel. When Nathaniel finds his old but very close friend Moses in a prison, he tries to save him and steals from Basil. Will Nathaniel finnaly find peace, or will him and Basil forever ba at odds? Read the book!!!!!!
Title: Tales of the Greek Heroes Author:Roger Lancelyn Green Emily Olsen Rating:4 Grade: 6 Genre: Traditional Literature
This book is about almost all the Greek heroes/ Gods to ever exsist in Greek culture.From Zues to Madusa, this book has it all. One of the things about these stories is that they are simalar to other religion beliefs such as Christian, like when God made man for exsample. Zues breathed into him and made him out of his image just like God did in the bible. I really loved how Hermes was basicly like a servant between the Gods. They treated hom like a lower class citezen, but after a while, he started to be more impotant and the Gods treated him better. If you like a good myth book or you are looking for something different. I suggest this book. It was ok but it wasn't the best book I have ever read.
So, I've been telling my students what a great book this is for girls to read. Was I ever wrong!! Yes, it's a terrific book for girls, but it's actually written from a 16 year old boy's perspective, and it's really about his relationship with Stargirl. What I love about the book is that we all have a little bit of Leo (the main character) and a little bit of Stargirl in us. We have a need to conform and a need to spread our wings. The book made me want to do nice things for people!! Read this book. You'll think twice about the way you treat people who are "weird".
Title: Nancy Drew Model Crime Author: Caroline Keene Name: Ruth Lynam Grade: 6 Rating: 3.5 Review: In this thrilling book, the first in the mystifying trilogy, Nancy and her friends, George and Bess become bridesmaids for their friend, Sydney, who is a top-of-the-line model, and is getting married to TV-reality show spud, Vic. But as they are extremely in love, some "accidents" are discouraging the happy couple. First, Vic is almost poisened with jet fuil at his welcoming party, and Sydney's preordered wedding dress is ruined at the shop. Sydney multiple times calls off the wedding, but Vic's soothing voice comforts her into keep it on. Nancy, fed up with Syd's unhappyness, takes on the mystery, as her newest case. She convicts one of her fellow bridesmaids, but could it be someone else!?
My favorite charactor(s) are Bess and George because they are always suppotive of Nancy Drew and try there best to help her with her new case.
Crank Ellen Hopkins By Abby Martinez 6 grade This is a pretty sad book becaues its a true story. This book is about a girl named kristnia who was a great daughter as well as student until one wild trip to her dads in the summer . There she met Adam who she thoght was the love of her life, but when she was introduced to the monster by Adam an her dad it all took at turn for the worst . If you are wondering what the monster is it is pure chriatal meth . The monster had broght out a side of kristina she never saw before that side was Bree .Bree was powerful an loved the monster . After awhile Kristina was gone it was Bree who took over an thats what everyone called her, thats what she told everyone to call her . Will she every get over her adtoin. My faveorit character was Kristina because she was good girl but the moster took over and i belive somewhere deep down krisatina will rise again . I rate this book a five because of the detail i felt like i could feel what she was feeling.
Title: The Missing Series Book 1- Found Author: Margret Peterson Haddix By: Olivia Williamson Grade:6 Genre: Science fiction Rating: 5* This book is about two 13 year olds, Jonah and Chip, who are adopted. They both live in Liston, Ohio, and suddenly they both get this letter that says “You are one of the missing”. Jonah immediately tells his sister, Katherine (who’s not adopted), about the letter. Later in the book, they find out that this plane showed up at an airport 13 years ago when it wasn’t scheduled to. The weirdest part is, there we no adults on the plane, not even a pilot, just 36 babies! Jonah and Chip also figure out that there were on that plane, and have to find out why there were 36 babies, and not one adult on the plane. This is a really good book, so go to Barnes & Noble and read it! My favorite character is Katherine, because she sort of relates to me because of the picking on your brother thing (not that my brother is adopted).
new moon maxwell brown by stephenie meyer grade 6 ratting 4 my favorit character is jacob black. in new moon edward leaves bella . bella does not like the idea that edward left and she lives in a shadow that edward is still there until jacob came and comferted bella . bella is now doing crazy stuf just here edward's voice read this book to find out why edward comes back
Diary of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days Jeff Kiney By Tony Giusti 5 This book is about a boy named Greg Heffley who spends his whole summer in his house. Until his friend Rowly gets a member ship at the country club and they go there avery day and get a bunch of smoothies but rowly's dad kicks them out and gives them a bill of $83.00 so they start a lawn mowing business and they get in a fight so Greg mowes the lawn terrible and gets in trouble. So Greg goes to the town pool and tries to impress a girl that works as a life guard and goes there every day and his mom gets mad at him so he stops. Greg then goes on a vacation with his friend Rowley and it doesnt turn out so good first he gets in trouble for hitting Rowley with a rubber band and gets sent home so his mom buys them base ball tickets but Greg thinks his dad is kidnaping him so he calls the police and his dad gets really mad and wont talk to him but in the end they become father and son and Greg and Rowly have the best summer ever!
Title:The Indian In The Cupboard Auther:Lynne Reid Banks Name: Kelcie Koger Grade:7 This book is about this boy on his birthday got a cupboard from his brother and a plastic indian from his best friend. He puts the indian in his cupboard and locks it the the next morning he hears something comeing from the cupboard. He opens the cupboard and finds the plastic indian is alive. My favorite charecter was the indian bacause he gets kinda bossy at times but hes also very funny. For instance he bosses on what he thinks omri (one of the charecters) should get him and omri listens. Omri finally desides to show is best friend about the indian and his friend brings a cowboy to life without omris permision. Omri and his best friend have to take care of the little people and keep them a secret at the same time. after a short while of them being together th indian gets mad at the cowboy and shoots him with a bow and arrow everyone thinks the cowboy is dead. the when the cowboy is healed him and the indian become blood brothers by putting their own blood in each other. after that omri decides to agree with the indian and send him and the cowboy back to where they came from.
Title: Children of God Author: Mary Doria Russell Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: high school Book Genre: Sci Fi Rating: 4 Stars
Children of God is the sequel to Russell’s excellent novel, The Sparrow, and while not quite as good as its predecessor it is a worthy follow up. The book starts by introducing the reader to the (supposed) only remaining survivor of the expedition to the planet, Rakhat, where humans make their first contact with 2 different alien species. Emilio Sanchez, a Catholic priest, is that survivor and he is still dealing with the tragedy that befell him and his fellow travelers. He is in the midst of a crisis of faith and it takes him awhile to work up the courage to go back to the planet where he witnessed and experienced so much suffering. Without giving too much away, obviously he returns to Rakhat. Russell specializes in tragic, yet somehow satisfying endings in her novels.
Title: Deadline Author: Chris Cruthcher Name: Gloria Choi Grade:6th Deadline is a book about a boy named Ben who found out he was going to die in a year.He had refused to take treatment and tell anyone including his parents. He decided to try to have the best year by getting the girl he wanted and becoming a football hero. Everything goes well until he learns the secrets of many others.It a sad but enjoyable book.
Title: Secret of the Sirens Author: Julia Golding Name: Kacee Johnson Genre: Fantasy/ Mythology Grade: 6 Rating: 5 Secret of the Sirens is the first book in the Companions Quartet. Connie is an eleven year old girl who lives with her aunt in Hescombe, England. Connie and her aunt have an amazing gifts that lets them talk to animals. Connie's gift is much stronger than anyone else's. She is a universial companion, which means she can talk to all mythical creatures. She doesn't know how dangerous her gift is. For a school project, Connie endangers one of the most powerful creatures and puts the mythical world at risk of being discovered by those who have a gift. At the same time, she is being chased by the deadlist mythical creature yet!!!
Name:Christie Chaump Book:A Kiss in Time Book Genre:Fiction Grade:6 Rating:5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My book is called A Kiss in Time. The author is Alex Flinn. The subject of this book is how a princess is asleep for three hundred years and her true love wakes her up. Some main events are when Jack wakes Talia up with a kiss, when Talia starts to fall in love with Jack, and when Jack climbs up a hill for three days! I think the author wrote this book so you can understand how to stick to your biggest values. I think the characters are very realistic. I found the witch Malvolia very interesting because she is evil. It is very easy to understand and follow this great book. I think everyone in the whole world should read this book!! A Kiss in Time is the best book i have ever read!!! I would recommend it because it is very realistic and detailed!
Title: The Time Travelers Author: Linda Buckley- Archer Name: Kacee Johnson Genre: Science Fiction/Historical Fiction Grade: 6 Rating: 4 Peter Schock and Kate Dyer are taken to Kate's father's science lab to test out the Van de Graff antigravity machine. Not knowing that when dark matter and antigravity collide, a time warp is created. Kate and Peter are now stuck in the 18th century. A mysterious Tar-Man runs off with Peter and Kate's only hope of getting home. The children befriend a Mr. Giedon Seymore who wants to help the children back to their time of the 21st century. In their adventure, Kate and Peter meet some of the most famous people from the 18th century but they have a hard time of keeping the secrets of the future ( 1800-2005 ) from the past!!!
Title:Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls Author:Meg Cabot Name:Taylor Forte Grade: 6th Genre: realistic fiction rating:3 1/2
This book is about a girl named Allie Finkle. Soon she has to move to a scary run-down home. That means losing all her friends and her house. She freaks out. When the time comes to visit her new school to enroll she meets new people that she really thinks could be her friends. she starts to think that this whole moving thing isnt as bad as she thinks. Still she doesnt want to move. A couple days before she moves, they go to a chinese resturant and theres a turtle and she thinks someone is going to eat it because turtle soup is on the menu. She escapes from the resturant with the turtle and everyone is chasing her. When her uncle promises to keep the turle is she would come inside and pretend to like to move, she starts to get the hang out it and loves her new house!My favorite charecter is Allie becuase she is bold and daring.
Title: Eclipse Author: Stephenie Meyer Name: Taylor Forte Grade: 6th Genre: Fantasy Rating 5!!!!!!!!!!
This is the third book in the Twilight saga. Edward is finally reunited with Bella after their trip to italy, It seems like everything is in place. Bella comes home one day to realize someone has been through her clothing and things are missing. Also mysterious killings have been happening in Seattle. Edward and the Cullen family come to the conclusion that it is new born vampires killing.Still they cant figure out who made them or who is leading them. Alice trys to see but the creater is changing their mind so much on purpose so Alice can not see what they are thinking. Bella is the one all the vampires want to kill. Bella realizes that it is Victoria,the vicious vampire who is after her. The cullen vampires must fight to kill all of them so they do not hurt Bella. They also want the werewolves help. That means jacob Black,Bella's best friend, is going to help.But soon jacob kisses her,even when he knows she loves edward,Bela hates him now. Edward must stay with Bella.She doesnt want him to get hurt. After ALL of the new born vampires and victoria were brutley killed they are all safe. but Bella has another thing to worry about...marragie. Edward wants to marry her very badly. When jacob hears he runs away and no one can find him. he ran away becuase he loves Bella too and thinks she has made a wrong choice by picking Edward. Want to find out more? Read the 4th book Breaking Dawn. My favorite charecter(s) is Bella,Edward and Alice. I like them all becuase they are all very loyal and kind. Even though bBella is not a vampire i like her personality. i like Edward becuase he loves Bella and he ould do anything for anyone. i love Alice becuase she can see into the future and she is a bubbly person.
Title:The Secret Of Red Gate Farm Author:Carolyn Keene Grade:6 Name:Kylee Lush Genre:Mystery Rating:5:)
This book is about a young detective named Nancy Drew. Nancy is great at solving mysteries, and happens to stumble upon one when she goes to Red Gate Farm. There's a strange group of people renting land at Red Gate. The group calls themselves "The Black Snake Colony." When Nancy gets caught sleuthing, she barely slips out of this bad situation safely! And another time, Nancy is framed for using counterfeit money! I think that this is a very interesting book, and the characters are above and beyond funny, my favorite character is Bess. The author did an absolutely splendid job! I think that all people who love mystery should read this book, because it is a mystery phenomenon! :)
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Author: Jeff Kinney Name: Tori Ladd Genre: Realistic Fiction Rating: 5 stars This book made me laugh out loud. It is about a boy named Greg Hefley, who is on summer break. He usely goes on vacation to beach with his family every summer. They couldn't afford it this year, so they ended up going to a kid water park. On there way back, They stopped for gas. They ended up leaving there mom there. If you read this book, you will laugh out loud.
Title: Standford Wong Flunks Big-Time Author:Lisa Yee Name:Taylor Forte Grade: 6th Genre:realistic fiction Rating:4
This book is about a boy named Standford. Standford loves one thing the most,basketball. Now the hardest teacher in 6th grade flunks him! So to get on the A-team(basketball team) at school he must pass the english class. His father is so mad and demanding! He yells at Standford all the time. So his parents get him the worst tutor(what he calls her) Millecent Min. Millicent is a genious and even though shes susposed to be in 7th grade now she is taking college courses. He hates telling anyone about Millecent or summer school. He has a team he is on called the Roadrunners. One of them figure out that he is lying to them and saying that he is doing a summer job. standford cant believe that he is blackmailing him! his deal was that if he wouldnt tell anyone that Standford(who is the best playewr on the Roadrunners) has to lose against him every practice game he plays! Standford soon meets a sparkly eyed girl named EMily. He falls fast for her.but no one can know that Millicent is tutoring him! he makes her sign a contract! When EMily finds out Standford knows one thing, his life is offically over!My favorite charecter in this book is millicent and EMily. I like these two becuase Millicent is humorous and EMily is classy and proper.
Song of the Sparrow Author:Lisa Ann Sandell Maya Claiborne Genre:History Rating:***** Grade:6th This book is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Elaine. She is the daughter of a soldier in young Arther's army. She is the only girl in the whole army of men. She is not allowed to fight though because she is a girl so she is given the job to make healing potions for the wounded. She always dreams about the handsom Lancelot. She wishes that he would not see her as a little girl anymore. A new girl, Gwynivere, come and changes everything. She gets in between the love between Elaine and Lancelot. When things go bad can the only two women in the camp help to save their army? And is Elaine and Lancelot meant to be together or is there someone else that come along? read the book to find out! I love this book alot it was a great book and I suggest you read it too! I mainly suggest it for girls though.
name:jenny velasquez Author:Stephenie Meyer title:New Moon Rating:**** This book is about a girl named bella who falls in love with Edword but there is one thing she dosen't knoow about him that he is a vanpire and then one Bella talked to Edword and Edword didn't reall want to talk to her because he did not want to tell her that he was a vanpire because he would think she would be scared and tell every one hat he is a vanpire but no one would belive that they would think she is carzy so every time Bella went out Edword would all ways know wree she is and every time bella was introuble Edword will always be there before they could do anything to her and so form there Bella and Edword became friends and onec they just keept going out they fell in love and became boyfriend and girlfriends but it did not say ther boyfriend and girlfriend it just looked like it because they started to kiss bella did not know there wree bad vanpires and one day they went and played baseball and the bad vanpires came and said if they can play but when they came Bella had to act like a vanoire because if the bad vanpires new she was not a vanpire they would eat her so once they were going to play they se=melled Bella and they know she was not a vanpire so they wanted to eat her but Edwords family did not let them eat her so then the bad vanpires left so then a few months passed by and it was time for prome and Belaa was going with Edword and they danced all night and lived happily ever after.and if you wantto knoe more about the book you can find it at the libery.I suggest for boys and girls but mostly for girls
Tittle: Peak Author: Roland Smith Genre: Realistic Fiction Name: Jordan Buxton Grade: 6th Rating: 4
Peak is a book about a boy named Peak who as parents who love to climb Mount Everest. He also has the genes of climbing when he was born. Recently Peak has been climbing all the time. One day he decided to start climbing skyscrappers. He is only fifthteen and when someone noticed him he was reported and had to go to court to decide if he would have to go to jail. Sense his dad had a lot of money from climbing the tallest mountain in the world he paid for Peak to go home with him in Northern Canada instead of jail. When they both got to canada Josh, Peak's father, told Peak that he could try and climb Mount Everest when Josh had to take a group up to the top of the mountian. That was Peak's birthday present because he wanted to be the youngest one to the top. He was going to turn 16 in 4 months. Peak was so excited. Peak met a new friend Sun-jo and they both climbed very high up the mountain. Did they make it to the top? Were they sick? What happened? I suggest this book but only if you like adventure and dangerous events. Have fun reading!
Title:The Sea Of Monsters Author:Rick Riordan Name:Tyler Prince Grade:6 The book is about a kid named Percy Jackson. Percy has to go top an island to rescue his friend Grover. Percy goes to a camp called Camp Half-Blood. Percy id denied for the Quest and so he sneeks out of the camp to go rescue his friend Grover. Percy goes with his new friend Tyson. Percy goes on a ship to The sea of monsters where Grover was. Percy gets to the island and there is a cyclops. Percy has to fight the cyclops with Annabeth,Grover,Tyson,and Clarrsie.Percy rescues Grover. then they go back to camp half-blood With his Friend Chiron.
Title: Twilight Author: Unknown Name: Makenzie St.Cyr Grade: 6th Rating: 5 Twilight is a book about a tennager named kristen i think i cant remember but she meets this guy named Edward and he is a vampire and she falls in love with him. Edward is not the kind of vampire that sucks humans blood he is a friendly vampire and he falls in love with her to. Kristen lives with her mom but she was visiting her dad and that is when she meets Edward. then Edward takes Kristen home to to his parents the Collin's. They have a new vamoire in there family and his name is Jasper and they are still teaching him to not to drink there blood. Then Kristen and Edward are boyfriend and girlfriend can't tell you all of it!
neena colon 6/18/09 Book title:Sudenley a super natural. Author:Unknown suddenly a Super natural is aboout a girl that found a yearbook.She didnt know it would make a ghost haunt her.Then she relized when she saw the ghost.Then she asked if she needed help and she siad yes.The ghost said that she needed help finding the person that killed her.So she said ok and looked for the guy that killed her.Then she started investigating.then she found him and started tranporting words that the ghost said then the guy got reported for another crime.That is what happened in the book i read.
Title: Stolen Children Author: Peg Kehret Name: Tori Ladd Genre: Mystery Rating: 5 stars The book I read is called Stolen Children. The book was about a 14 year old girl named Amy, who was on her way to babysit a 3 year old named Kendra. When two men show up and somehow have a copy of the house key, they take Kendra out of her bed during her nap. They leave Kendra's toy cat, Tubby, on the cement. The two men come back to get the toywhen Amy sees them. Amy gets kidnapped, too. They take them to an abandoned hunting cabon. Amy tries countless times to escape, but always ends up a failer. One of the kidnappers, Smokey, has a gun and threatens to kill Amy. Amy finally comes up with an idea to drive the car and try and get to the main road. The engeine stops, and Amy tells Kendra to honk the horn countless times. A police officer drives by, recodnizing the girls, and takes them home safly. Amy and Kendra were lucky this time.
Title:All-American Girl Author:Meg Cabot Name: Taylor Forte genre:realistic fiction rating 5 This book is about a girl named Samantha Madison.Sam has a C- in her German class. Her parents arent to happy. They make her take an art class. Now Sam isnt to happy about that. She already knows shes very good at art but her parents still want for her to take it. Finally she goes to the art class and meets a boy named David. he liked her boots alot. She never thought that it was the presidents son who liked them. Then one day Sam doesnt want to do to art class and skips to go to the record store across the street. When she comes out of the record store, she sees the president arcoss the street. It was no big surprise becuase she lives in Washington D.C. As shes crossing the crosswalk, she sees a man next to her take out a gun. without thinking Sam jumps on him and saves the presidents life. Now her life has been upside down. Everyone suddenly likes her and shes going to the presidents house! Rumors are going around that she likes the presidents son. Soon, Sam thinks she really does like David and David likes her! Shes getting caught in tons of drama!Her sister is even making her dress up!What will she do? MY favorite charecter is Sam becuase she is the person nobody likes bnut she is a hero.
Title:The Missing: Found Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Name: Kacee Johnson Genre: Science Fiction/ Mystery Grade: 6 Rating: 5 Chip and Jonah are two 13 year old adopted kids living in Liston, Ohio. They start receiving messages saying that they are one of the missing. They tell Katherine ( Jonah's sister) about the freaky messages. Later, they find out that they were one of 36 babies on a mysterious plane that appeared and disappeared out of nowhere without a single trace. They conclude that Chip and Jonah's ages were reversed when they traveled to the 21st century. Soon an adoption conference comes up and all of the 36 babies are there. They now as a whole must decide to fix the time ripples in history or be captured and sent to the future.
Title:Paint the wind Author:julet Name:jenny Magana Velasquez Radding:**** This book is about a little girl that lives with her grandma and grandpa because while they were on a trip on a boat there was a big wave that came for them and her pernts gave there lives to save her and so that there only child was not killed and her perents jumped in the water and saved her so her perents died in the water so know she lives with her perents and so she is hidding something from her grandma and her grandma does not want anything in the house that will remind her of her mom so what she has is of her mom is horses because her mom loved horses so she is hidding horses of her mom and so one day her grandma find them and throws them away becaues of the hose keeper and she has to find away to get them back before the men come and get the trash and she only has three day to get them back. I suggest this book for boys and girls but mostly for girls.
Title: From the Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Bail E. Frankweiler Author: E.L.Konigsburg Name: Emily Jiang Grade:6th Rating:**** Genre: Realistic Fiction Claudia is about to each her parents some Claudia appreciation. Her plan was to run away. She wasn't going to pull off an old fashioned kind of running away, where you run away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on your back. She was going to have it all planned out. Her chosen aquaintance was going to be her rich brother, Jamie, and they would take the train to the Metropoltian Museum of Art. They packed their clothes in their instrument cases, and got on the train. When they got there, Jamie insisted that they walk, so that they would same money, and tried to be cheep as much as he could. Claudia always corrected Jamie's grammer, so they fought alot.They stayed there until it was closing time, hid in the bathroom, and slept in one of the beds on display. The next morning, the news people were crowded around a statue called the angel, and was given to the museum by Basil Franweiler. Claudia had to find out who made the statue and swore she wouldn't return home until she had.
Title: So B. It Author: Sarah Weeks Name: Mrs. Rice Rating:*** Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Although the book is slow to start, it's worth sticking with because the pace picks up about 3/4 the way through. Heidi It is a 12 year old girl who lives in Reno with her mentally disabled mother and Bernadette, a neighbor who basically cares for both of them. Heidi discovers a camera in the back of her mother's closet and has the film developed. To her surprise, it is filled with photos of her mother when she lived in a home for the disabled in New York. Heidi then leaves on a journey from Reno to New York to find out the truth about her mother's past as well as her own. I was a little disappointed in the fact that the book is based in Reno, but does not describe Reno in any way. I enjoyed the story over all, but found it a bit predictable.
Title: The Sword of Shannara Author: Terry Brooks Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: MS/HS Book Genre: Fantasy Rating: 2.5
I’m not a big fantasy fan but I thought I’d try this book on the recommendation of a friend. It reminded me how good J.R.R. Tolkien is and how bad Terry Brooks is in comparison. The book is not a complete waste of time but it seems pretty shallow and a direct attempt to copy Tolkien only instead of a “ring” the main character is on a quest for a sword. The most interesting character is Panamon Creel who unfortunately only appears in about half of the book. Avoid this book.
Name:Jaylan Franklin Book:beasties Author:Sleaor, William Genre:Non Fiction Rate:5 In this story there is a kid named Doug and his sister, Colette, go out side and Colette falls in hole.So Doug trys to get her out but he cant and eventually ends ud falling in and cant get out and it just gets worst from there I suggest this book beacause its a page turner
Ainsley Murdock title:Brittanys Big Suprise author:Deborah Abrahamso rating: ***** This book was a really good one about a girl named Brittany, and her best friend Charity. But there is one bad thing happening in her life. Its that this boy named Mickey is going to move right next to her. The story of Mickey is that he is a really bad kid and gets in trouble a lot. But when Brittany gets home from school one day she finds out big news from her parents, and that big suprise is that her mother is going to have a baby! Although she is so excited she gets annoying about it. She talks to her friends about it every single day and never stops. But once the baby is born, Brittany finds out from her parents that it is a girl. Brittany got to name the baby, and she picked Amber. When the doctors come out to tell Brittany and her family about the baby, thee is sad news. The baby was goning to be fine just she was born a little early so she was going to be very small for a while. But on Christmas the family finds out that Amber is going to be fine and she would be home really soon to spend time with her.
Name: jacob falconer Author: J.K Rowling Name of book: The Tales Of The Beedles Bard Grade: 6th rating: 5 stars
This book has a few fairy tales about muggles and wizards and there was one that had a wizardn that helped everyone but one day he decided not to help someone. The person who needed help wanted food and he said no and a pot started hopping around where ever he went and it made alot of noise. Then someone came and there daughter had warts so he said no to the kind lady and then he went back upstairs and the pot would jump around while warts came out too. then more people come and need more things and he says no and all these bad things happen. theres more stories and each time a storie end dumbledore would come out and talk about them in his point of view. Its a really good book for people that read Harry Potter and like wizard stories.
Title: Every soul a star Author: Unknown Name: Makenzie St.Cyr Rating: 4 1/2 Grade: 6th The book that i read was called every soul a star and it is about four kids that have a rough life and they all live where there aren't much kids to play with. There names are Ally, Jeff, Alex, and Kritena. These kids all wish that they could have better lives. These kids only have mom's and it is hard for the boys. Ally's mom studies the sky and teaches Ally everything she knows.Ally lives in a small town in a small house. Jeff's mom works in realastate and they live in New Jersey. Alex's mom works at a dental office in California and they live in a pretty good size house. Kristan's mom works as a nurse in Oregon and they live in a huge house. They all see a shoting star and they make a wish and there wish comes true.
Title: Cleopatra:The life and death of a Pharoah Author: Edith Flamarion Emily Olsen Rating:3 Grade: 6
This is a biography about Cleopatra, a great pharaoh of Egypt back in the 304 B.C. I liked this book because of the very detailed and descriptive point of view like someone was actually there telling the story. Cleopatra was a good person she cared and she loved every one of her citizens. Sadly she committed suicide because of the pain and horrible things going on in her life. I think I personally enjoyed that Cleopatra was very interesting and complex. She rules a country that has been thriving for years. As well as developing technology to ancient extremes. She has to rule a country. Herself. She struggles, and slowly starts to fail. Killing herself was wrong, but she had her reasons. I recommended this book if you like biographies.
Title:The Book Thief Author: Markus Zusat Miss Kaller Rating: 5 Genre: Historical Fiction
The story takes place in Germany during World War II. That is where we meet Liesel, a mysterious 10 year old girl, who although she cannot read- is fascinated by books and what is within them. When we meet Liesel she is on a journey to meet her new "family", once there she convinces her father to read to her the first book that she stole. I could not put this book down! I felt for Liesel when she was made fun of at school and the struggles that she faces during the height of Hitler's reign. The challenges that children face when war is at their doorstep, for example, being hungry with very limited access to food. I loved how the story was told and will not reveal the narrator because it is one of the things that makes this such an intriguing read. Liesel struggles with the friendship that she develops with a Jewish man that her family has taken in. The subject matter is depressing at times, but I was always rooting for her until the end of the book. I love historical fiction, when you know that this story did not happen but it feels so real and possible.
Title: True Notebooks Author: Mark Salzman Miss Kaller Rating: 4 Genre: Nonfiction
Have you ever wondered what happens to kids who have committed crimes serious enough that they will spend most of their lives in jail? Salzman gives a memorable depiction of some of America's youth who have made choices that they cannot change back. Salzman was somewhat "tricked" into taking on a writing teacher position at Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles. His students were mostly gang members who had committed a 187 (murder). We are introduced to kids from all different walks of life who ultimately ended up in a gang for whatever reason. Through Salzman's eyes we see all of the potential in these young men who are for the most part still adolescents. It is heartbreaking to read their writings when they come to terms with what led them to a gang life and what that life has left them with. I felt sympathy for these boys, but could not help but wonder about their victims and families. It is a tragic reality in which there are no winners. As I was reading, I wondered where these boys were now? Salzman's class provided them the opportunity to experience some form of freedom, which almost felt cruel because for many they were well on their way to a life term in prison. Salzman managed to make me feel sorry for these criminals and half formed young men who gave away their chance at a real life before realizing the consequences of their actions.
Name:Christie Chaump Book:Maximum Ride Author:James Patterson Genre:Fiction Rating:5 My book is Maximum Ride. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about a bunch of kids who are abandoned by their parents and go on an adventure to find their parents and run from the Erasers. A few main events are when Max figures out all the passwords to important things,when everyone finds their parents, and when Max practically saves the world! I think the author wrote this book so you can understand how to survive on your own. I think the characters are very dramatic. I found that Max is 98% human and 2% bird interesting because i don't know anyone that is a bird. It is actually pretty easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book because it is like when you put the book down you want to read more. It is sooooo good!!
Title:The Titan Curse Author:Rick Riordan By:Tyler Prince Grade:5 Genre:Fansty Percy Jacson goes to a school beacuse Grover one of his best friends calls him beacuse their are two half-bloods. Percy has to go get the half-bloods and take them to camp half-blood. Then Percy had to go and find his friend Annabeth. Percy then has to go to SanFransico beacuse the place that Annabeth is at is by te bay. Percy saves Annabeth and they go back to camp half-blood.
Title: Bicycle Diaries Author: David Byrne Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: HS Book Genre: Non-Fiction Rating: 4
This book chronicles David Byrne’s travels around the world and is bicycle rides in many major cities. David Byrne was the lead singer for the new wave band, Talking Heads, in case you didn’t know. His reflections on urban landscapes are pretty interesting if you are interested in the subject. He always takes his bicycle when he tours so he often has a unique perspective on different cities he has visited. The book is organized by cities/countries and I found the European city chapters most interesting.
Title: The Assault Author: Harry Mulisch Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: HS Book Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: 5 stars
This book takes place at the end of World War II in Holland. At the beginning of the novel a man who has collaborated with the NAZIs is murdered in front of a house next door to the house of the main character (Anton) and his family. The neighbors move the body in front of Anton’s house. The Nazis show up and assume that Anton’s family is involved in the murder and before you know it Anton is taken away, his brother is chased by the Nazis and his parents disappear. That’s just the first chapter.
The rest of the novel follows Anton throughout his life as a young, middle-aged, and old man, as he pieces together what happened to his family and why. It’s like a murder mystery that takes place over decades and leads up to one of the most shattering ending I’ve ever encountered in literature. Highly recommended!
Title:Pish Posh Author:Ellen Potter Name:Taylor Forte Grade:6th Genre:mystery Rating:2 1/2
This book is about a girl named Clara. her father owns a resturant named pish posh. shes an odd eleven year od girl. She has over 100 black dresses and wears her favorite black sunglasses everyday. NOBODY knows to mess with her. in Pish Posh she sits at her own table and looks for people who are "nobodys". Shes sees a man named Dr.Piff everyday. One day she finally decides to go up to him and tell him hes a nobody and that he is not welcomed back to Pish Posh. A couple days after that, he dies.Before he died he told Clara that there is something mysterious that is right under her nose. She must find it out. Clara invites her old teacher to pish Posh. Since there is said to be an old painting by a fmous artist Clara decides to show her what is the painting looks like. When the teacher gets into the kitchen to see the painting,she sees the soup cook,Audrey.The teacher shows Clara a painting that looks exactly like Audrey. Then Clara asks Annabelle to steal files from dr.piffs office about Audrey. It turns out Audrey is very old,older than Dr.Piff. What will Clara find out? My favorite charecter is Clara becuase she is mysterious and curious.
This book is about a girl named D.J. that tries out for the high school football team. D.J. lives on a farm with her family. She isn't the typical high school girl. D.J. is very tall and athletic. She had always played football with her older brothers that now play college football. Football makes her feel so free and happy. So when school starts, she decides to try out. At first, the boys that are on the football team, are reluctant to accept her. But as the story goes on, she begins to become very important to her team. Suddenly, she has to make a decision between football and basketball. Which will she choose? And to help the problem, her brother gets hurt. This book was very good, and there are two more goods in the series.
Title: A Curse Dark as Gold Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Historical Fiction/ Mystery Rating: 2
Charlotte and Rosie Miller's father has just died, and the Miller's wool mill rests in Charlotte's hands. Her father left no money for his daughters, instead he left them debt to pay off. They are struggling for money and their workers are quitting. Charlotte and Rosie's uncle comes to the mill to try to get the girls settled into a "normal" life. To do so, they would have to sell the mill, their father's favorite possession (other than his family) and the only remnant of their mother and father. A mysterious Jack Spinner prepares to offer them gold thread that could save the mill, in exchange for a room filled with straw. But Charlotte finds it was easier said than done, for she can't seem to find it that easily. All of a sudden, people start bringing up "The Stirwaters' Curse" and it so happens the curse starts to fulfill to its name. Will Charlotte find that the mill's curse is to terrifying? Will she sell the mill? Will she continue finding straw for Jack Spinner? Read and find out!!!
Title: Attack of the Fiend Author: Joseph Delaney Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Fantasy/ Horror Rating: 5
Tom Ward is in his second year as the Spook's apprentice. It is a terrifying job with lots of excitement. The last time Tom visited his brother's farm, he was left with three trunks in room his mother left for him in her will. His master feels the time is right for Tom to go to the farm and retrieve his Mam's trunks. When he got there, the house was deserted, trashed, destroyed, and the house was lacking his trunks. Tom and Father Stocks go to the magistrate's house to report his missing family due to the Malkin witch clan. The housekeeper, Mistress Wurmade summons a demon to kill Tom and retrieve the keys to his trunks. He failed and Tom ran away to find Alice and the Spook. He bargains with Mab Mouldheel, leader of the Mouldheels. She knows a way to rescue Tom's family and he has the keys to the trunks that she wants. He betrayed her and she betrayed him. She decided to go against what she believed and help the other clans raise the Fiend from Hell. Will Tom be able to save the county from its destruction?
Sunny Skyland is my favorite human character. Snickers is my favorite character as in a animal. Sunny skyland is a foster kid,but she wasn't always a foster child she went to live with her grandma's sister when her grandma and her mom died, but her grandma's sister could not take care of her so she asked her son jerod if he could take care of her and he said yes.That didn't last long jerod lift Sunny in a hotle room.Sunny and Starr had got spit up. She has been in many different foster homes. Sunny lived with Rita when she ranaway looking for her twin sister Starr. The only problem was that she didn't have any money. One day Sunny was going to the store to buy some twinkies, they are her favorite food, and while she was walking she found eight hundred dollars. Sunny than stared to thing of a plan to go to Washinton D.C, where her and Starr was spit apart,at only three years old.I would tell anyone this is a action packed book and now is one of my favortie books
This book is about a lot of things but on fact i can tell you is that this book is about vampires not twilight vampires about vampires being marked, with a moon on there forhead. when this hunter comes and marked you would have to go to the house of night or died. So thats what happened to Zoey Redbird she got marked and moved to the house of night sadly all her human friends hated her because of it. But Zoey is not like any fledgling. She was been choosen by Nyx, the powerful goddness. i will say that you should read it if you like vampires its just another thought about them.
Title: Switchers Author: Kate Thompson Name: Emily Jiang Grade: 6th Rating: *** Genre: fantasy Tess was used to not having friends. Her dad's promotions took them everywhere.Now they had landed in Dublin, in Ireland. On the first day of scchool, she took the bus home, and a strange boy was following her from across the street, smoking. The next day was the same, only he introduced himself. He told her his name, which was Kevin, but she didn't listen, and just walked faster. When he said that he knew her secret, that was when he got her attention. She denied it, and rushed home. The truth was, Tess did have a sectret that not even her parents knew. She could turn into animals, and found out the morning she woke up as a bear. On Saterday, she went out into the park and hid in a cave while she transformed into a squirrel. She started to collect nuts and berries, when she met a chipmunk. They played together, and Tess had to get home. On the way, Tess thought about the chipmunk, and she rememberedsomething-there were no chipmunks in Dublin. Than a horrible thought stuck her. What if the chipmunk was Kevin and her did know?Find out in the book. My favorite charecter is Kevin because, although he smokes, he is playful and friendly.
Title: Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man Author: Wendelin Van Draanen Name: Emily Jiang Grade: 6th Rating: ***** Genre: Mystery Sammy was very daring on Halloween. Dressed as the Marsh monster, she decided to knock on the door of the bush house. Like it's name, The bush house was scary because of the twisted,gnarled bushes that devour the house, leaving only the stairs to the entrance. She walked up the creaking steps, and was about to knock when she noticed the door slightly open. Walking inside to snoop around, like she always does, she runs face to face with a Frankenstein on a chair.She almost runs outside, but saw that the man was struggling to get out. Sammy untied him, but he had a hole in his neck. He told her that he had trachonomy. He explained that a man in a glowing skelleton suit walked in, tied him to the chair, and took some things. Sammy is determined to solve this mystery, but she has other plans, too. She has an archenemy's party to crash!
Waffles and Spagetti Chad Eastham Emily Olsen 6th grade Rating:5
This book is a comedy that has very interesting views on the brains, minds, and thoughts of boys and girls. It compares guy’s brains to waffles because they compartmentalize everything. They compare girl’s brains to spaghetti because all their thoughts are connected in one way or another. They tell stories about people who already went through their preteens and have experienced the things we are going through. I enjoyed this book because it had funny stories about real people. There was a story about a kid who was really attached to boys and had to go get help. Love this book.
Title: Sammy Keyes and the Runnaway Elf Author:WENDELIN VAN DRANNEN Name:Emily Jiang Grade: 6th Rating:***** Genre: mystery Sammy Keyes is in trouble again, like always. at the parade, Sammy was in charge of a dog called Marique because his owner is hurt. During the parad, some mysterious people in hoods walked in, carrying cats,that obviously caught the dogs' attention. Marique also ran away, and Sammy was in charge of him! She hopes that the owner is understanding, but she is very wrong.Someone also gave her a call and told her that they had Marique and they need 50,000 dollars in exchange for him, or they'll kill him. Even worse, she was blackmailing Sammy into finding Marique, or she'll give away where she lives: Sammy lives illegally with her grandmother. She also meets a depressed little girl that looks like an elf, and tried to make her happy.
Title: Palace of Mirrors Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: *****
Cecelia has always known that she is the "true princess" of Sualia. Her whole life Cecelia has learned the proper educate and geography of the world. No one but her nanny, Sir Stephen, and her best friend Harper know about her secret life. Cecelia has had some warnings that she is in danger, so Nanny decides that she must leave to the palace. So she and Harper travel to the Palace of MIrrors where she will be safe from her enemies. When Cecelia and Harper get to the palace, Cecelia tells Desmia ( the princess) that she is the "true princess". Desmia doesn't believe her, because she has been told an entirely different story about "true princesses". Together, Cecelia and Desmia discover the fate of their country and family.
Title: Cleopatra Author: Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Biography Rating: 3
Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt, ruling with her brother. When she was twenty, she was driven out of her country. She teamed up with the Roman Republic and fell in love with Ceaser. They were head over heels in love and forgot about the war. Cleopatra had a son before a few years before her husband was murdered by the senators of Rome. She married Antony to try to finish what she and her previous husband started. They conquered Egypt and Cleopatra returned to the throne after her brother was murdered. Cleopatra and Antony had three children. The Romans rebelled against Cleopatra and declared war on her. Her second husband was murdered and she didn't have anything left to live for, so she committed suicide. The End!
Title: How The Wolf Became The Dog Author: John Zeaman Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Informational Rating: ****
Dogs have been a man's best friend for VERY long period of time. Normally people don't know that their dogs are one not-so friendly animal: the wolf. All dogs, from snow dogs to chihuahuas, are the descendants of wolves. Wolves were first bred to be loving, tamed, companions and hunting dogs. They are social animals, which is why are dogs are so gentle. Many of the world's dogs are feral, which means they are wild and untamed. Although scientists are not sure about when the domestication started, dogs that symbolize the Great Dane were often shown in Egyptian murals and books. If this hypothesis is correct, that means that wolves have been bred and domesticated before 10,000 BC!
Name:Christie Chaump Title:Maximum Ride Schools Out Forever Author:James Patterson Grade:6 Rating:5!!!! My book is called Maximum Ride Schools Out Forever. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about six kids who are abandoned by their parents and travel to Florida to find them,also to run from the Erasers. Some main events are when the flock finds two kids who work for the Erasers and try to capture Max, when Iggy finds his family but runs away because they didn't treat him right, and when the whole flock finds out they were living with an evil whitecoat. I think the author wrote this book to tell you how hard it is to live on your own. The characters are very dramatic. I found the Erasers interesting because they are deformed weirdos! It is very easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book if you like dramatic books. If you do read it, you will never put it down!!
Title: Deep Down Popular Author: Phoebe Stone Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Realistic Fiction Rating: 5
At school, Jessie Lou Ferguson is the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, away from the populars. She thinks about Conrad Parker Smith, the most popular kid of their small town, every minute of the day, even though he doesn't know she exists. While playing soccer, Conrad breaks his leg. Since he and Jessie Lou live on the same street, Jessie Lou was assigned to walk Conrad home every day. But as Conrad is recovering, his friends agree Conrad can't be popular, because he is hanging out with Jessie Lou more than he realized. But as Jessie Lou and Conrad become close friends, Conrad's leg is healing. When Conrad recovers, will he go back to being popular, or will he and Jessie Lou's relationship go deeper in love? I really liked this book, because it's a classic first love story. If you read this book, I'm sure you'll be asking for more!!!
Clay Jensen's life was normal, until he found a package on his doorstep. The package contained tapes from Hannah Baker. Hannah had commited suicide. As Clay listens to the tapes, he finds out why Hannah decided to end her life. And Clay is one of the reasons. A map also came with the tapes. The map shows certain places that showed significance in Hannah's death. Clay was not the only one that recieved the tapes. Twelve other people also found a package on their doorstep. "13 Reasons Why" is a really good book, but its also depressing. I really connected with all the characters. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Title: Beastly Author: Alex Flinn Name: Kirstie A. Eslit Grade: 8 Genre: Fiction Rating: 5
If the rating for this was until 10....I'd definitely give this book a 10.5. This book is really great I'm glad I read it. It's about a "perfect" 16 year old guy named Kyle Kingsbury. He is transformed into a beast by a witch in his class. Kyle becomes a beast because of what he has done to the witch and the people around him. While he's a beast, Kyle gets moved from his father's house in Manhattan to his own "castle" in Brooklyn. There he lives without a father ever seeing, but talks, to him. Kyle isn't alone though...he now lives his maid Magda and Will, his blind teacher. Over time, Kyle starts changing his attitude. Meaning he's a lot nicer, he sees more of the world, plants roses for his greenhouse, and cares for others even though he's like a prisoner in his own home! After living there for a long time, Adrian, (a.k.a Kyle) saw and caught someone break into his home. In a result for that, the trespasser was either going to be thrown out a window from the 5th floor, or be released but don't say anything or else he would show the police evidence that the trespasser broke in. Instead, the trespasser, offered to save his life for his daughter to stay with Adrian like a prisoner. That’s how he met Lindy. When she first moves in, she doesn’t say much and hate Adrian for what he’s doing to her. Over time Lindy gets over it because of how nicely Adrian, Magda, and Will’s treating her. She starts learning with them, eating with them, talking to them, etc. A year has already passed and during the time, Adrian and Lindy start falling for each other. Adrian loved her so much that when she wanted to see her father, he let her go back to him. But you’ll have to read the book to find out about the ending. =]
Rating: 3, good This book is about a girl named Lucy and an old family curse. The curse won’t be broken unless she performs 3 impossible tasks without any help from anyone. The curse ensures that Lucy will have a baby girl before age 18, and then after that she will go insane. Lucy’s birth mother, Miranda, is insane and if Lucy doesn’t perform the tasks which are stated in the song, Scarborough Fair, she will go insane and then her daughter will and so on, just like what happened to the many generations before her. The tasks that Lucy must perform include: making a magical shirt without a needle or any seems; to find an acre of land between the salt water and the sea strand, whatever that means; and then to plow that land with a goats horn and then sow it with just one grain of corn. If Lucy doesn’t manage to complete the tasks then her daughter will be cursed too.
Rating: 4.5, really good Damen, who is immortal, has been following Ever for over 400 years of his 600 years alive. He finds her during all of her reincarnations, but then she always dies. But then when Ever is almost dead this time Damen saves her and takes her and gets her to drink his immortal elixir. Now Ever has lots of magical powers and can make something appear by just thinking about it. But then everything goes wrong when Roman (also immortal) puts a spell over the whole school and poisons Damen. Nobody likes Ever now, but she knows that its because of Roman. When she finds out more, she finds out that she has the choice whether to save Damen or her family. But she doesn’t have much time until the blue moon which is the only time she can reverse the spell.
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows J.K. Rowling Nick Heward Seventh grade
If I had to give this book a rating from one to five, I would give it four and a half, I liked it a lot. In this book Harry Potter had to find and destroy Voldemorts remaining horcruxes, there was a ring, cup, necklace, crown, and voldemorts pet snake. In the beginning Harry had to find the sword of Gryffindor, that was the only thing that they new could destroy the horcruxes, the crown destroyed itself in a fire. During the story, Voldemort was trying to find the elder wand, he thought that with that wand he could kill Harry, because there was a connection between their old wands that wouldn’t let him kill him. When Harry was a baby Voldemort tried to kill him, but the spell came back and almost killed him. In the fourth book Voldemort used Harry’s blood to come back to life, there was a connection that they didn’t know about that was protecting Harry from Voldemort. Later in the book Harry learned that to have a wand work for you the best that it can, you have to be its master. In the end Harry was the real master of the elder wand, Voldemorts spell bounced off Harry and Voldemort ended up killing himself. I think that if I had to pick a favorite character I would pick Ron, I like him the best because he made jokes and seemed the toughest.
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows J.K. Rowling Nick Heward Seventh grade
If I had to give this book a rating from one to five, I would give it four and a half, I liked it a lot. In this book Harry Potter had to find and destroy Voldemorts remaining horcruxes, there was a ring, cup, necklace, crown, and voldemorts pet snake. In the beginning Harry had to find the sword of Gryffindor, that was the only thing that they new could destroy the horcruxes, the crown destroyed itself in a fire. During the story, Voldemort was trying to find the elder wand, he thought that with that wand he could kill Harry, because there was a connection between their old wands that wouldn’t let him kill him. When Harry was a baby Voldemort tried to kill him, but the spell came back and almost killed him. In the fourth book Voldemort used Harry’s blood to come back to life, there was a connection that they didn’t know about that was protecting Harry from Voldemort. Later in the book Harry learned that to have a wand work for you the best that it can, you have to be its master. In the end Harry was the real master of the elder wand, Voldemorts spell bounced off Harry and Voldemort ended up killing himself. I think that if I had to pick a favorite character I would pick Ron, I like him the best because he made jokes and seemed the toughest.
Title:Maximum Ride Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports Author:James Patterson Name:Christie Chaump Grade:6 Rating:5!!!! My book is Maximum Ride Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about a girl/bird hybrid that was made in a factory. A few main events are when Max finds out that Jeb is her dad, Dr. Martinez is her mom, and Ella and Ari are her half brother and sister, when Max and Fang split up into different groups, and when Max has to save the world again. I think the author wrote this book so you know that anything is possible! The characters are very realistic. I found the Flyboys interesting because they are like robots and are redesigned to look like Erasers. It is easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book because it is like you want to be apart of the journey too! The series:
The Fugitives -The Angel Experiment -Schools Out-Forever -Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports The Protectors -The Final Warning -Max
Title: A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning Author: Lemony Snicket Name: Kirstie A. Eslit Grade: 8 Genre: Fiction Rating: 5
Second time reading this series because I love it! This book is about three children named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They have become orphans because their parents have died by a huge fire that destroyed their entire house! When recieving this news, the children were out on Briny Beach for the day until Mr.Poe came and told them what has happened. Kindly, Mr.Poe took them in for a while just until he has found a gaurdian for them to stay in. Once Mr.Poe has, its an "uncle" the kids don't know about named Count Olaf. He told them that he was an actor as well as a count. Ariving there, they meet a nice lady named Justice Strauss who they thought was married to Count Olaf. Turns out, she was a neighbor. Right next door to that beautiful house they thought they were going to live in was a big, dirty looking, messy house; the place where the Count lived in and now the childrens home too. So ever since the orphans have lived there, COunt Olaf has treated them like tehey were slaves instead of children; by giving them a whole list of chores to do that would take hours! Not all was that bad for the orphans though, they had some fortunate things thanks to Justice Strauss.=] She helped them in what they needed, she let them use her library,etc. But it was just that, the rest was all misfortunes. From the beginning, Count Olaf had known about the Baudelaire fortune and tried all he can to get it. He couldn't though, because on their first day there, he asked the children "to help make the house cleaner by using some of the fortune." When Mr.Poe heard that, he said, right then and there, that the fortune was not to be used until Violet comes of age.(Violet is the oldest, then Klaus, then Sunny). Later on in the book, Olaf hatches a plan to marry Violet to get the money. How does she get married at theat age may you ask? Well, it supposeably was a "play" that was made but used a real judge(meaning Justice Strauss-she didn't know at all!) and a marriage cerftificate. If Violet didnt go through with it, poor little Sunny was going to be dropped hundreds of feet from the top of the tower!
That's all I am going to say read the book, and the series, to find out about the ending. =] I would definately recommend this book to many people.
Title: A Crooked Kind Of Perfect Author: Linda Urban Name: Kirstie A. Eslit Grade: 8 Genre: Fiction Rating: 5
This book is mainly about a girl named Zoe Elias who has big dreams in music. She plays the piano! and hopes to end up in Carnegie Hall. She starts out small at first meaning lessons. But as time goes by, she goes from a card board piano, to a baby grand piano, to a regular piano. As her piano skills start to accumulate, she actually Does end up in Carnegie Hall in a competition. In this book, Zoe plays the piano for her enjoyment because she's dedicated too. To know what happens to her in Carnegie Hall, I'd suggest you read it. Not just to fnd out but to read it for YOUR enjoyment and to find out what she does next.
This is a great book if you want to read about a regular, but maybe not normal, kid. It seems like so many books these days focus on kids with super powers. And really, how many of us have super powers?
In this novel wel meet Gary W. Boone, a seventh grader obsessed with jokes. He's maybe a little OCD when it comes to jokes and his dad makes a bet with him to not tell jokes at all. Unfortunately it's during the same time Gary is getting ready for the school talent show.
Gary is like a lot of kids. He struggles with who he should be friends with, whether he should play sports with the popular boys and living with parents that just don't understand him.
If you like reading about real kids, you will probably enjoy reading about Gary and how he learns to make a bad situation, well, funny.
Title: Extras Author: Scott Westerfield Name: Caryn Neidhold Grade: Life Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 5 Stars
This is the fourth book in the Pretties Trilogy. Okay, you might be asking yourself how a trilogy could have four books, but when Scott Westerfield's fans wrote him begging for more after reading Pretties, Uglies and Extras (all great books by the way).
Scott Westerfield is so imaginative and this book takes place in a future version of a Japanese city. (The previous three books were set in a future North America.) He is amazing at envisioning how the Japanese culture might change under certain circumstances.
Aya is fifteen and can't get surged (surgery to alter your appearance) until she's sixteen because her parents are too old fashioned. In her culture you earn credits based on your popularity. Everyone has face rank calculated by how often people in your city mention your name or watches your feed (think Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Aya's face rank is low, too low.
Aya is plotting to break a story that will jump her face rank. But in the process learns the true consequences of a high face rank and changes society as remarkably as Tally Youngblood did in the first three books.
Great writer. If you love sci fi, social commentary, great characters, action, a fast plot or all of the above, read this series.
Title: Hamlet Author: William Shakespeare Name: Caryn Neidhold Grade: Life Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Play Rating: 5 Stars
Okay, it may be a few years before you read Shakespeare but know that Hamlet is a great place to start along with Romeo and Juliet. The school library has an edition with notes at the bottom of each page to explain the vocabulary and phrases that meant a lot back then but don't mean the same things now. Can you imagine that 400 years from now saying "cool" might mean something other than "that's great for you" or "cold".
Hamlet is the son of a dead king. His mother married his uncle (his father's brother) too soon after the funeral and Hamlet's really upset. On top of it all, his father's ghost comes back to ask Hamlet to get revenge for being killed by his brother (now his step father!). Naturally, this makes Hamlet a little crazy and sadly, makes the girl he loves crazy too.
In typical Shakespearian style, Hamlet gets his revenge but pretty much everyone dies in the process.
To understand Shakespeare I personally recommend reading as many versions as possible (meaning adapatations, I'm blogging a version by John Marsden that's great), reading Cliff Notes, and watching as many movie versions as possible including the Simpsons!
You might wonder after reading a little Shakespeare why in the world he's still so popular after all these years. I actually think it's because Shakespeare was not only a great writer but he also really understood human beings. He understands how people think and why people do such strange things. Shakespeare makes such incredible comments in his plays about life. From this play, the most famous observation is Hamlet's statement: To be or not to be, that is the question.
Title: Hamlet Author: John Marsden Name: Caryn Neidhold Grade: Life Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Fiction Rating: 5 Stars
Remember this book for high school. If you are assigned to read Hamlet by Shakespeare you should also read this adaptation by John Marsden.
Shakespeare is considered a brilliant writer but plays can't always let you inside a person's head. John Marsden does an incredible job bringing the reader into Hamlet's mind and experiencing Hamlet's journey into what feels like mental illness.
Hamlet is a teen in this book and has a lot to deal with. His father, the king, is dead. His mother married his uncle way too soon after the funeral and now his father's ghost comes back to ask for revenge. The ghost tells Hamlet that he, the king, was murdered by his own brother. Isn't that Hamlet's new step-father?
Ophelia gets more attention in this book than in Shakespeare's Hamlet. She is obsessed with Hamlet but events and castle protocol keep them apart. Her father's death pushes her over the edge.
Just like parents making you eat yucky vegetables because they're good for you, high school English teachers will make you read "boring" books because they're good for you too. If Hamlet is part of your high school reading list, be sure to read John Marsden's Hamlet to make "boring" into interesting.
Title: Shattered Author: Kathi Baron Name: Caryn Neidhold Grade: Life Reading Level: College Level Book Genre: Fiction Rating: 2 Stars or 5 Stars ???
I should have loved this book.
Cassie is a teen violin prodigy until her father smashes her violin. Cassie runs away to see her grandfather -- the same grandfather who gave her the violin -- the same grandfather her father will have nothing to do with and Cassie doesn't know why.
Cassie's journey is not just to her grandfather's house, it's a journey in understanding and healing.
You might be wondering why as a violinist, violin teacher, fairly obsessed reader and musician I didn't like this book. . . It's the writing style. Maybe it feels like the writer was working too hard to sound like a teen or maybe that she didn't work hard enough. Also, this book is in first person, present tense and I can't tell if that's what bothered me. Hopefully it won't bother you.
Tile: Into the Wild Author: Erin Hunter Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Rating: ***** Genre: Adventure Rusty is an average kittypet living with the Twolegs. He decides to go hunting in the forest behind his house. He encounters three wild cats who ask him to join their clan, Thunderclan. He agrees and goes to the Clan camp to begin his training as a warrior. While being an apprentice, Rusty was given the name Firepaw. Firepaw went hunting for the Clan, and had to bring back food. He encountered a cat from Shadowclan. He fought her and then fed her because she was so weak. He went back to camp, got in trouble, and had to take care of the cat. Firepaw had to get back to training. The night of the full moon was a night of feasting and Firepaw went with. One clan said they wanted more hunting area, and if they didn't get it, they would invade the camps. He and his mentor, Bluestar, clan leader of Tunderclan, worked hard to get to a mystical rock that had special powers. The rock worked its magic. They ran back to camp to tell the others about the invasion. But when they got there, Shadowclan was already attacking. Was Firepaw really ready though? Or would he chicken out in his first battle?
Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Author: Stephen King Name: Sarah Stynen Grade: 7th Rating: 5 Stars Genre: Thriller Trisha, a nine year old girl that is completely IN LOVE with a base ball player named Tom Gordon, goes on a hike with her mom and brother. During the hike Trisha had to take a bathroom break and headed into the bushes some. When she was done she took a short cut up the hill some to catch up with her mom and her brother but it just led her deeper and deeper into the woods. Through her terrifying hike, all alone, she starts seeing a creature, she would also have flash backs about her life with her family. My favorite character would have to be Trisha, because the author really describes her so it's like I've have known her for a long time.
I think I would definitely recommend this book for all of my friends because it is one of my favorite books so far. :]
Title:The Final Warning Auther:James Patterson Name:Amy Miecznikowski Grade:7th Rating:5 stars!!! Genre:Adventure This story is about 6 kids and a dog who grew up in a science lab they call the School. they aren't just normal kids though, they have wings (even the dog). They also have individual powers. There names are Max (the leader and 14), Iggy (blind and 14), Fang(just 14), Nudge (11), Gazzy (also known as The Gasman and 8), Angel(related to Gazzy and 6), and Total (there dog). In this book, they go to Antartica. The kids have many enemy's. In this book, a man captures them and try's to sell them for Alot of money (500 million dollars).
I would recomend this book to every one who likes adventure. When i read the series, i couldn't put the books down. These are probably the best books i have ever read
Title:Saving the world and other extreme sports Author:James Patterson Name:Amy Miecznikowski Grade:7th Rating:5 stars!!! Genre:Adventure This book is about 6 kids and a dog. They grew up in a science lab they call the School. At the School, the kids (and dog) were experiments, not people. After a man named Jeb had helped them escaped, he had betrayed them and worked at the School. In this book, the kids (and the dog) face many challenges such as defeating a boy named Omega, who was designed to destroy them. he had gone through years of training, learned every thing he needed to know about how to defeat them. They face many other dangers and challenges.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure. I could not put the series down until i finished it. I would even recommend this to people who don't like adventure books.
Title: When It Happens Author:Susane Colasanti Name: Robyn Neidhold Grade: 8th Rating: 4 starts Genre: Romance Tobey and Sara have are finally seniors, and are searching for their soul mate, Tobey; a, guy who only cares about his band and nothing else and recently had a "fling" with Cynthia, Sara; a straight A student who is head-over-heels for Dave, the new hot jock at the school. But when they first meet, they can't stop thinking of each other and in the end, i think everyone will be happy.
Title: Poison Study Author: Maria V. Snyder Name: Robyn Neidhold Grade: 8th Rating: beyond 5 stars Genre: fiction Yelena, was currently a orphan/slave, but is now a prisoner because she killed the son of the man that was holding her a slave to save the other orphans from the torture she had to endure. but when she is brought out of the prison to be given a second chance by Valek, the commanders assassin to either face the death penalty or be the commanders food taster. Yelena tells him that she is not a fool and will risk being poisoned. Now Yelena faces day long lessons on how to detect poison and also getting poisoned almost every day. but there is one more problem, General Brazell, the father of the son she killed is now seeking revenge in the most interesting ways...
this is one of my most favorite books! i read it in two days, and it usually takes me about 2 weeks to read a chapter book.
Title: Magic Study Author: Maria V. Snyder Name: Robyn Neidhold Grade: 8th Genre: fantasy Rating: beyond 5 stars Yelena is now on her way to find her long lost family, but also is running away from her home in Ixia because she has new found magical abilities, but as she goes on with her studies in magic, she soon finds that she has an unusual magical ability, and she is now the first real souldfinder ever known to history. but most people are scared and unhappy with this new ability because there have been similar abilities to this one and all of those magicians have ended badly.
Title: Fire Study Author: Maria V. Snyder Name: Robyn Neidhold grade: 8th rating: beyond 5 stars Genre: fantasy Now Yelena is faced with new problems;both homes, Sitia and Ixia are likely to start a war, and there is a new murder on the loose. he has killed several girls to gain their blood, and is now after Yelena, but the other problem is, is that the master magician is on the killers side. now Yelena has to stop a war that has been going on for centuries.
Run Away Twins Peg Kehert Jenny Huam 6th This book is about two girls Starr and Sunny. They are twins. They were seperated when they were only three years old. There mom and grandma was killed in a car accident. At there funeral the girls were tooken in different cars. After that they didnt see each other again. Sunny was tooken to a foster home. While Starr was tooken the a really big house. Starr was adopted by the people who live in that big house. Sunny was moving from foster home to foster home. One day sunny went on a walk and found a bag full of money. She reported the bag fll of money. No one claimed it. Sunny wanted to find her sister really badly. So she took the money she had found and hide it in her room. when her foster mom was gone she left for the bus station. she found a dog she took him with her everywhere she went. while she was in a feild hail started to come down. thery hide under a tree they were safe but then a torrnado hit. she had lost her backpack. with hlaf of her money in it. she screemed. her dog got so scared he rad a branch borke off and and hit her dog in her head. he pasted out. finally she had found her sister she didnt remember her at all. sunny was really mad so she wanted to leave. so she got on a plane and flew back to her foster home she was longing to go back to. she didnt want to leave her foster mom again.
This book is a series and a boy name Adam. He gets a letter from his friend,and he`s ask to give it to his freinds dad. So he ask his mom and she says no. So his freinds Nancy fiends him a ride to ohio. So when he`s in the car going to ohio. The car crashes and he has to walk the way. When he`s walking he see`s a man, and that man turns out to be his freinds with a snake around his head. So he takes him to town and to his home. Next he`s at his house then he sees every one buy his dad.So he asks where he is. Hes at jail so then he leaves next moring to frind his dad. Then he founfd him and gave it to his dad. Then he gives it to the dad.
Title: Inkspell Author: Cornelia Funke Recently I read the second book in the Ink series, Inkspell. It was written by Cornelia Funke. I know what you're thinking, that this book is just a stupid book about fairies and whatnot it's really not. It is about a girl who's father can read characters out of books into his own world. Once he read his wife into the book on accident when he read out a character named Dustfinger. This was before he knew of his powers. That was the first book. In the second one the girl I earlier mentioned, Meggie, reads herself into the story and the books about how her family follows her and the dad gets wounded which makes the whole story about how they have to save him and protect eveyone. This book has soooooo many good twists and turns in it. That wasn't the most complimenting summary but this is truly one of my favorite books. Please read it!
Title:Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Author: Ally Carter Sophie Zhang Advisory:Mrs.Neidhold This is a story about a girl named Cammie who is a spy. She goes on a learning mission and her goal is to lose anybody that's trailing her. After wandering for hours seemingly aimlessly she returns proudly only to find she'd been trailed! After all who would suspect the innocent looking teenage boys? That could've been the end but it wasn't when the boys move into her school. Cammie, being a spy, is naturally suspicious but what are the boys there for anyway?
Title: Things Not Seen Author: Andrew Clements Sophie Zhang Advisory:Mrs.Neidhold This book is about a boy who wakes up one morning to find he's invisible. He soon realizes all the advantages he could have...and also the downfalls. One day at the library he meets a girl who is blind. I know! Perfect right? He's invisible and she can't see to notice. Unfortunately when she trips and grabs his bare shoulder she realizes that he is wearing nothing in the dead of winter. What would you think? Of course she doesn't know he's invisible so she obviosly doesn't believe him when he says he is and is only invisible with nothing on. Eventually they become friends but will the boy ever be the same?
Title:Fever 1793 Author:Laurie Halse Anderson Jordyn Dolan Advisory:Mrs.Nieldhold This book is one of my all time favorites!Its about this young girl whos family owns a coffee house in Philadelphia in 1793...when yellow fever hit the world! Matilda Cool(thats the girl)has to survive everything from a robbery, to family deaths, to actually surving the yellow fever! This historical fiction brought me to tears more than once so I hope you will enjoy it as much as i have!!!!
Title:Chicken Soup for the Teanagers Soul 3 Authors:short stories from all different authors Jordyn Dolan Advisory:Mrs.Neildhold I have always loved these books and when i found out that they had one for teenagers i couldn't wait to get it! There are 9 chapters; relationships, friendship, the power of love, family, lessons, tough stuff, overcoming obstacles, self-discovery, and growing up. My favorite chapter is friendship because thats the one that is the most personal to me but I really liked all of the other chapters too. If you read some of these storys you realize that your troublems aren't nearly as bad. Hope that you love these books and this one especially this one, as much as I do!
Title: Castaways of the Flying Dutchmen Author: Brian Jacques Name: Austin Lee Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold Grade: 8th Rating: ****
Its true, one of Brian Jacques best books =) I've read some of his Redwall series, but I think this book beats all of his Redwall books. It's Jacques first book that doesn't tie into Redwall.
Anyways, a mute kid ends up on the legendary Flying Dutchmen. He works as the cook. Eventually he comes arcoss a dog named Denmark. The captain of the Dutchmen went mad and killed some of the crew. An angel curses the ship, making it sail for an eternity. Boy and dog manages to get off the ship.
From there they travel to a village where they help the village people save their village from demolition through many puzzles and stuff. =)
Title: Nation Author: Terry Pratchet Name: Austin Lee Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold Grade: 8th Rating: ****
It's Pratchet's best book as far as I know. Its the only one I've read of his.
To become a man, Mau has to get to Nation and a series of challenges. Then a tsunami strikes Nation and its people. Now Mau has to rebuild his Nation and tradtions w/ Daphne, a girl who survived the tsunami. Soon others come to island, and Mau becomes chief. THey discover a secret on the island and then defy death... *this is where you go BUM BUM BUM!*
Title: A Watcher in the Woods Author: Florence Engel Randall Name: Sarah Stynen Grade: 7th Advissory: Mrs. Neidhold Rating: 4 Stars
In this story Jan, a fifteen year old girl, and her family move into a house in the woods. Jan's dad is a proffesor and she aslo has a little sister Ellie and a mom. There is someone in the woods and jan is trying to figure out who it is. Mrs. Allywood, the lady they bought the house from can see the watcher, Ellie can hear the watcher, and Jan can feel. The watcher is trying to help Mrs. Allywoods daughter, who dissapeared on a walk one day so you'll have to read the rest to figure out what happens (its good). I would recomend this book to my friends because it is one of the best books I've read.
Well today i am doing a blog on Diary of a Whimpy kid. This book was about how this kid named Greg Hefly is a whimpy kid obviously. Well Greg just writes about how he wants to work out through the rest of the winter, Greg likes to play a lot of video games and he want this game called tmisted wizard so what he does to get twisted wizard he tell his friend Rowley that they are going to do a time capsole, so rowlaey puts the game twisted wizard in the time capsole so Greg digs up the time capsole and gets the game and Rowley also put a few dollers in the time capsole and Greg took that to. So if you want to read more of this book you can find it at the northwest libray
Title:The Battle Of Labarenth Author: Rick Riordan Genre:Fanstay Grade:6 The book is about Percy have ing to go and try to kill an army that is working for Kronos. Kronos is a god that is trying to get revenge on the gods of olmpus. Percy goes thourgh a secret tunnel so he can go and try to stop Kronos before he gets to Camp Half-Blood. So Percy goes out thourghthe tunnels with a few of his friends Annebeth,Grover, and Tyson(hes actually his brother). Percy and his friends go out and meets some new gods and some freaky ones too. But towards the end of the book Percy is too late beacuse Kronos has been revived
The book the outsiders is about a gangs and, brotherhood. The main character is Ponyboy Curtis. This Book is a great book, for children at least 12 years old. The book starts off as ponyboy walking home from the movies and three guys jump out of there car and geat him up. The people that beat him up were called the socs, and ponyboy is called a greser because of all the grease he put in his hair so if you want tt read more of this book you can find it at the billinghurst library
Lisa Nyberg read, The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Sept 2009) In true Sparks style, a romance-filled plot filled with character conflict and plot twists and turns. The story was slow to unfold and I felt like I was back in high school, but as Ronnie finds meaning in the events that happen over the summer, she comes to understand what love really means. A coming-of-age and wisdom tale.
Title: Eragon Author: Christopher Paolini Genre: Fantasy, of course... Grade: 8th Name: Ashley Sumner, C.Neidhold Advisory.
Eragon is an all-aroud good book. The story is just one of those that you keep thinking about after you are done reading. But, there are a few places in the book that I got really bored in, and I actually put the book down for a good period of time. Eragon is about a boy called Eragon, and it's his journey through his country to help save it. He finds this egg in a forest, and it eventually hatches and makes a mark on his hand. That starts his whole journey with a dragon-less dragon rider, then a yound man, then an elf that has been poisones. They go to that Varden, and have the battle of a lifetime. So ends a good book!
Title/Author: Harry Potter 7; J.K. Rowling. Genre: Fantasy Grade: 8th Name: Ashley Sumner; C.Neidhold Advisory.
Wow! This book was amazing! Of course, we all know who Harry Potter is. This is the final book, and it definately tops the rest. In this book, Harry journeys around the country in search of "Horcruxes." In the end, he ends up back at Hogwarts, attempting to find the last one. Soon, a huge battle erupts between death eaters, and the students of Hogwarts. Harry eventually kills Voldemort, and everything becomes calm again. He lives a happy live with Ginny, and even has a couple kids! It's just a great book to read, anf I recommend it over any others.
Amazing story and very well-written. It really opened my eyes to subjects I had never really thought about before.
In the story, Thyme Gilcrest is pressured to succeed in high school, and stay in the top 20 GPA of her year. She strives to keep her GPA and participate in as many extra curricular activities as possible. For her, It's all about the college applications.
Thyme is convinced she has ADHD and needs medication for it. She pesters her parents about going to a psychiatrist, but they know there's nothing wrong with her. So, when she is told that a friend of hers had been misdiagnosed with ADD, leaving him a full bottle of Ritalin, Thyme takes it from his room.
Eventually, Thyme becomes addicted and needs to find ways to get more Ritalin. She developes a complex trading system with other students at her school, and before she knows it, she is labeled a dealer. Then one day, an old friend of hers commits suicide due to drug addiction, and Thyme knows it time to stop.
Title: Sally Ride: A Space Biography Author: Barbara Kramer Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Biography Rating: 3
Sally Ride was the first woman to venture in space on June 18, 1983. But how did she get to where she is now? This book tells the story of Sally Ride's life. From being very successful in school to applying a job for NASA. From training to being launched into space to divorcing her husband. And launching off into space for the last time. This book has it all! I thought that before I read this book it would be boring and too informational. Turns out, I was wrong!!!
name=michael collins book=a tail of despereaux advisory=mrs. neihold
I read a book called a Tail Of Despereaux. I liked the book. It was about a mouse that was diffrent than all the others. And just because he was diffrent he was sent to the dungun. to die. he faced many hardships and was helped by many people along his jurney, and he dreamed of getting back to his princes pea.(kind off cheezy) i would not recemend this book to a freind because they would start cracking up and i would never here the end off it but all in all i liked the book.
Tom sawyer was to me a good book. tom sawyer was about a boy who loved adventure. he was always trying to just have an adventure or make something of his life. he and him best freind huck go on many trips and jurneys including running off to an island and making every wone think the were dead. how ever when they got back toms aunt had a cow. he has a little anoying cousin named sid and a lover named becky thatcher. i would reckemend this book to anybody.
Title:Max A Maximum Ride Novel Author:James Patterson Name:Christie Chaump Grade:6 Rating:5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My book is Max A Maximum Ride Novel. The author is James Patterson. The subject of this book is about how Max has to save her mom and be a hero. A few main events are when Max's mom goes missing in Hawaii, when the flock was being attacked by an octopus, when Max finally grows her gills, and when Fang and Max get in a "special relationship." I think the author wrote this book so you know what it is like to be a hero. I think the characters are very real. I found the underwater gills that Max and Angel have interesting because they can swallow water and it goes out their gills! It is easy to follow. I think everyone should read this series because it is fast-paced, enjoyable, and exhilerating!!! Best series I've ever read!!
The Fugitives: -The Angel Experiment -Schools Out-Forever -Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports The Protectors: -The Final Warning -Max
The reptile room, Lemony Snicket Nick Heward Seventh grade
I would give it a three, I didn’t like it much because they kept explaining things and what words meant, it wasn’t a very good book In this story three siblings, Violet, Sonny, and Klaus Bauldidare get taken away from their horrible uncle, Count Olaf, they got taken to a distant relative named Uncle Monty, he was a snake scientist getting ready to go on a trip to Peru to try and find new snakes. Him and the children were getting ready to go on the trip, Uncle Monty hired an assistant to go on the trip with them, the assistant turned out to be Count Olaf, he threatened cut off sonny’s toes if they told Uncle Monty who he was. The children were very scared of count Olaf, he injected poison into Uncle Monty’s head and then put another hole so it looked like a snake had bitten him.
Title: The Red Wolf Author: Alvin, Virginia, and Robert Silverstein Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Genre: Informational Rating: 4
The Red Wolf is an endangered animal on the brink of going extinct. There are very few red wolves, but that's not stopping the ESA from trying to save the red wolf. The ESA has taken in all of the red wolves into captivity to recreate the wolf species. They tried mating the wolves and curing them from injuries. Many wolves died in the process and the same amount were born to take their place. The species was struggling to recreate, but it finally worked and the wolf-coyote muts were released into their natural habitats and the species grew in size. Today, the species is still endangered, but scientists are watching over them and learning of their actions. The wolf grows stronger every day, and soon enough they won't be endangered!!!
The book i read was a traditional lidature book. The book was called When we Were Very Young, this book would be a great for people that like poems i gave this book a 4 star rating because I mean to me i am not a very big fan of poetry books, but it wasnt a bad book. This book is preatty old book, lets say about 35 yars old. I didnt find this book at this libray, but you might be able to find it somewhere else. I think it is for a kid any age because it is poetry, and it is not a hard book to read, so read this book if you like poetry
The I read was called Cleavland Cavaliers. It is about how the Cleavland Cavalieres have struugled and been very good. Thei is a basketball book and i picked it because the Cleavland Cavalieres are my favorite team. You can find this book in the library at Billinghurst Middle School. Well the cavaliers are a very good team now as the book says, and I know they are. So if you want to read this book it is at the Billinghurst Libray.
Book Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tile: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Author: Roald Dahl Ashley Gao 7th grade
Willy Wonka decides to let 5 children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release 5 golden tickets in 5 separate chocolate bars. The tickets soon were found and the special boy that found the last golden ticket was little Charlie Bucket. With his grandpa, Charlie joins the rest of the children to explore the chocolate factory. Charlie comes from a poor family but loves chocolate and always dreams about it too. Every morning when he walks to school he would walk right past the chocolate factory and would take a good sniff. Then he would continue his way to school. His family is so poor that they have to save up their money, to buy charlie a bar of chocolate for his birthday. The other 4 lucky winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormous fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled- rotton brat; Violet Beauregarde, a dim- witted gum- chewer; Mike Teavee, a toy- pistol- toting gangster- in- training who is obsessed with television. Posted by <3 Ash <3 at 3:47 PM 0 comments
Book Review of So B. It Title: So B. It Author: Sarah Weeks Ashley Gao 7th grade This book is about a 12 year old girl named Heidi, that lives with her mental mother and Bernadette (her caretaker). She doesn't know anything about herself, all she knows is that Bernadette found them in front of her door step. Heidi's mother only knows 23 words, but the word that really stands out and the one that her mother says a lot is the word "soof" that drives Heidi all the way across the country to determine the meaning of this particular word, that can possibly reveal her past. My favorite character in this book is Heidi.
Robert Dalpe 8th grade Title- Tales of Terror- Dracula Genre- Horror, adventure Rating: 5 stars
Jonathan Harker was in Translyvania, on his way to see the count at Dracula Castle.When he arrived at the castle at night, he met the count and was showed to a room, the room he would be staying in. Harker's job was to advise the count on the purhase of some property.Harker could not stop wondering about the count's sharp nails, and pointed teeth. Harker was told that he would not see the count during the day, but instead at night. One night, the man wandered out of his room, and came to a chamber with three weird looking women in there. The count then emerged and saved Harker from the weird women, giving them a bag with something living inside it. Harker now thought he was doomed, with all this weird stuff happening and no escape. Harker then, one day, ventured and found boxes open on the floor, one with the count in it!!!He was laying as if he was dead. The next day, Harker went to the boxes again, and found the count once more, but he looked younger and had blood on his skin. Harker realized he had to get out, but Count Dracula thought otherwise....
Title: Guys Like Girls Who..... Author: Chad Eastham Name: Sarah Hedaria Grade: 6th Reading Level: 6th Book Genre: Christian Rating: 5
This book was so good. This book was more of a guide for girls than a story. It had chapters and everything. Chad gives some really good examples of situations a girl could be in. How to fix them and what not to do. Chad has traveled all around the world talking to girls our age. He also gives a boys point of view to the girls reading. He also has talked to girls who struggle being themselves. Since he is a guy he knows how they feel and how they think. Which is way different from the way a girl thinks. He gives you examples that could really happen to you in life. I love this book so much. I now have a fresh start with boys. I recommend this book to girls, guys can read it to but that would be really weird. If you have a friend that doesn't read the blogs and you have the book, let her borrow it. That is what I am doing.
Book:The Search for Nefertiti Author: Dr. Joanne Fletcher Reading Level: High School Rating: 5 Name Cate Disbrow Mrs. Neilhold
I would say this is now one of my favorite books. The story is about a famous egyptologist who is trying to redisvover one of the earliest ledgends in ancient egypt the changed history. I loved it, I'm interested in ancient Egypt myself, it is sort of on the long side, but it is enjoyful and definetely worth recommending just the same.
Title: The Sea Captain's Wife Author: Martha Hodes Name: Leslie Dandois Grade: Teacher Book Genre:Biography Rating:4
Martha Hodes tells the compelling story of Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly. Eunice was born white and poor in New England in 1831. Ms. Hodes researches Eunice's life through family letters. It starts in New England where she is a lower class working women living a hard life. She marries William stone and has two children. The family moves to the south right before the start of the civil war. Her husband sign's up to fight for the south while her brothers fight for the north. Eunice moves back north during this time to be near her family. She is living at poverty level, barley able to support her children. Her husband dies during the war. The next phase of the book accounts her second marriage to a Cayman seaman of color. She lives the rest of her life in the Cayman Islands. This book is interesting and shows the hardships of the time Eunice lived. It also explores race, class, and the Civil War.
Title: The Call of the Wild Author: Jack London Name: Taryn Goddard Grade:8 Rating: 4
The Call of the Wild is a classic. It is probably around 100-110 years old. Some of the lingo in this book was a little hard to understand but overall, a great book. I really liked this book because I LOVE dogs and wolves and also because I like to know about the history of dog sledding. I would one day like to go to Alaska to watch dog sledding. I also like how the main character isn’t a human. Having most books being narrated by humans gets a little boring, but being able to see the world in a dog’s point of view is different and interesting. My favorite character would have to be Buck, because he is the only character who makes it through the entire book. He is a strong willed dog and has an amazing story. He realizes he can trust humans after being abused by them, and learns to embrace his wild side.
Title: Walk Two Moons Author:Sharon Creech Name:Taryn Goddard Grade:8 Rating:5
Walk Two moons. A title that is both interesting and puzzling. Ok, ill cut to the chase. This is a sad and amazing book. I will not spoil it. Ok. Here it goes. A 13 year old girl named Sal goes looking for her mom, who moved from kentucky to idaho a couple of years ago, with her grand parents. While on their trip, Sal talks about her experiences.Her and her dad recently moved to ohio. She tells them about her friend who also shares an experience like her own. There are many twists and turns in this book but overall i highly recommend it to people who like classics.
This book is all about a man named Charlie Gordon. When Charlie was a boy his mom wanted to put him in a home because he is metally challenged. Charlie gets an operation that triples his IQ. When Charlie becomes smarter than his doctors he finds a flaw in there reaserch for his operation. A rat named Algernon also gets the operation. Algernon soon dies and Charlie wonders if the same will happen to him. My favorite character is Charlie because he is so brave and goes through so much. This is my new favorite book and im going to read it many more times. The book is all of Chalie's journal entries. I would recommend this book to everybody who is looking for something to read. This book will make you cry, it made me cry.
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Author:Samual Clements or Mark Twain
Name: Thomas Brandt
Grade: 8th
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating: 3
This book is about a boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn see a murder in the graveyard and they know who did it. But the man that did it framed another man named Muff Potter. The boys have adventures and then save Muff. I liked this book because it was written back then and still relates to today. I would recommend this book to everybody. I would rate this book a 3 becuse it was okay.
Levi Pallavicini 7th grade Title: Chicken Hawk Author: Robert Mason Rating: 5 The book I read was called Chickenhawk. I got this book at Barns & Noble. It was written by an ex Vietnam helicopter pilot named Robert Mason. He described the landing zones or as they called them, LZ's. I give this book a five star rating because it is just a very descriptive book. It is the perfect book if you like war history. It is a non-fiction book and is really intense. He also said that at night, he could see the tracer bullets from machine guns on the ground.He described the bright orange and red softball sized bullets sailing past them. He also said that sometimes he could hear the clik of the bullets go through the cockpit. Overall, this book was a good read. I highly recomend it!!!
Title: Pendragon 1 The Merchant of Death Author: D.J.MacHale Name: Dallin Arnold Grade:8th Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold Rating: 5
This book is about a 14 year old boy named Bobby Pendragon who is in the 8th grade. His Uncle Press tells him that he has some friends that need their help. What Bobby doesn't know, is that those friends are on a territory, or planet named Denduron and that he is someone called a traveler. Travelers are people that can travel through flumes. Flumes can transport people through time and space. There are two tribes on Denduron, the Milago and the Bedoowan. The Bedoowan keep the Milago in a primitive age by forcing them to mine a dangerous mineral called glaze. The Milago also discover an extremely explosive mineral called tak which they plan to use to overrun the Bedoowan. Meanwhile, Bobby and Press are fighting an evil demon named Saint Dane who is trying to control Halla; anything and anytime that ever exists. His first stop is to make a rivalry between the two tribes of Denduron to turn the territory upside down. Read this book and the rest of the series to discover the fate of Denduron and if Bobby and the rest of the travelers can prevent Saint Dane from continuing on and controlling the universe.
Title: Nancy Drew GReen-eyed Monster Author: Caroline Keene Name: Ruth Lynam Grade: 6 Rating:4 stars**** Review: Nancy Drew and one of her trusty best friends, George, have been dragged to a green festival by Nancy's other BFF, Bess. Even though Bess and George are cousins, they are totally different! While Bess raves about how all the modern stars are getting into being green, they buy some raffle tickets to win various 'green' prizes. Nancy, after seeing many eco-friendly exibets, tries to drag her friends from the fair, but they want to stay for the awarding on the prizes of the raffle. As it turns out, George wins the grand prize, a 5 day 'green' vacation in Costa Rica!! Nancy and Bess come as her guests and they enjoy coming to know some reporters for the press tour the resort is holding. But as the vacation starts, bad things start to happen. Luggage is stolen, bus drivers are drugged, and precous ogs are kidnapped. Nancy uncovers huge evidence while sneaking into the owners offices, but will her conclusion be true? Or will other secrets need to be uncovered to discover the true identity of the sabitour?
Title: Pendragon 2 The Lost City of Faar Author: D.J.MacHale Name: Dallin Arnold Grade: 8th Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold Rating: 5
This is the 2nd book in the Pendragon series and takes Bobby Pendragon to the territory of Cloral. Cloral is completely covered in water and people have lived there by making giant, floating, cities. They have lots of technology that allow you to breathe underwater and transport very quickly above and underwater. The traveler on Cloral's name is Spader who rescues Bobby and Press from a near death situation by a killer shark. Spader explains everything about Cloral to Bobby including the underwater crops and the myth of the Lost City of Faar. Faar was once the only part of Cloral that wasn't underwater until it mysteriously sunk deep beneath the surface. They discover that an entire city had been poisoned which had Spader's father living there. They find and old map in Spader's mom's apartment which they think is a map to the city of Faar. Saint Dane is also looking for it and was the one who poisoned the whole city and the crop the city used for food. Soon every crop on Cloral will be poisoned and every living soul living there will die. Bobby's last hope is to find the city of Faar and discover a cure for the poison, but will they find it before Saint Dane and have enough time to save Cloral. The only way to find out is to read the book. It is a definite 5 stars.
Deadly Invaders Denise Grady Ruth Lynam 6th grade 5 stars***** Review: In this non-fiction biography, the author, a reporter for New York Time, is sent to the center of a dedly epidemic, in Angola, Africa. She is reporting on a deadly horrific diesease, known as Marburg Fever. Aid groups have sent dozens of doctors down to a city in Angola, Uige, to try to find a cure for this terrible diesease. This illness can attack so quickly and catastrophicly, that sometinmes when doctors check on "alerts" in villages, by the time they get their, the supposed pation is dead. This diesease doesn't spread through the air, but anyone who touches and fluid from a victom's body, are infected. The author tells about her scary symtom of Marburg, and how she could have easily been infected at almost any time. Then she has shorter reports on other dieseases, like SARS, and West Nile Diesease. This book is a representation of the dangerous, horrific world that we live in.
Title: Pendragon 3 The Never War Author: D.J. MacHale Name: Dallin Arnold Grade: 8th Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold Rating: 4
This book is the 3rd of the Pendragon series and is when Bobby goes to First Earth. First Earth takes place in the 1900's when the Hindenburg exploded. The traveler, Gunny, works at a hotel and gives Bobby a place to stay. They find out that Saint Dane is working behind who rival groups of gangs. Luckily, one of the gangs is staying in the hotel. Bobby is able to earn their trust and get as much information as possible from them. It turns out, the leader of the gang has some important information about how to build nuclear weapons which he plans to give to Germany. Bobby has been planning to save the Hindenburg ever since he discovered the information about the technology on it. He gets faced with the situation to let all of the people on the Hinderburg die or destroy in and all of the technology about to be given to Germany if the Hindenburg survives. Will he be able to have the guts to destroy it and kill all of the people on it, or will he give in and save those people's lives.
Title: Speak Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Name: Taylor Speirer Grade: 7th Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold Rating: 5
This book is one of the many books that Laurie Halse Anderson has written. I think this one is by far the best. Speak is about a girl going into her new high school Merriweather High. She is starting a new school year with a completely wrong attitude, the wrong clothes, and not one friend. Melinda has no friends starting high school because she called the cops at her end of the year Middle School party, and a bunch of people got arrested and now despise her for that. All throughout the book Melinda is trying to talk to her old best friend and she tries to make other new friends but just can't seem to find any that she could keep. I would highly recommend this book to others especially girls.
Title: Fever Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Name: Taylor Speirer Grade: 7th Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold Rating: 5
Fever is about a girl that is an only child and her mom and grandfather own a coffee shop. The story takes place in Philadelphia in the year 1793. Mattie Cook is just a small town girl that can't really talk to anyone because she is at home doing chores or either helping her mom and granfather at the coffee shop. One day, their servant that helped out at the shop didn't show up, and she usually shows up everyday on time. Mattie's mom goes to Emily's house and talks to her family. They say that she has died from yellow fever. Yellow Fever killed only a couple people at the start, then it hit Philadelphia hard. Tons of people were dying every day by yellow fever. They started taking the people that were healthy out of town to keep them from getting sick. However if you had any touch of the sickness on you if you were on the wagon going out of town they would just throw you out on the street in the blazing hot sun just letting you lay on the ground until you die. I think this book is the strongest out of Laurie Halse Anderson's books. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to read about a dangerous epidemic that happened many years ago.
The House of the Scorpion was a fenominal book. It's about a kid named Matt who thinks he is a human but later he finds out he is the clone of a reining drug lord. The drug lord plans to use Matt for a new heart when his hert goes out. When Matt finds out why he was created, he runs away. When he gets to were he's going, the people hate him because he's a clone. He then runs away to the convent of Santa Clara were his best friend Maria is.
Title:Transal Saga Author: Gary Pualsen Name: Christopher Plateros Grade:8th Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold Rating:5
This book was about how a boy named Mark was hiking in a desert when all of a sudden he gets bit by a snake, and teleports/ pops up in an entirely new place where the trees are leaves are red and so is the grass. As he realises that he won't go home for a while he starts surviveing all by his lonesome in a diffrent world. But then he finds that there is life on the planet other then the animals he hunts and his monkey bear campanion Willy, by finding an arrow in a tree of course human made so he sets out to find these people which he named "The Black Arrow People" and that's about where the story takes off where he knows he can't get off of the world,but he can still stay with the other people. But he does come to problems ahead in time, because there is more far advanced peoples on this world.
Title: The Glass Castle (A Memoir) Author: Jeannette Walls Name: Miss Kaller Teacher Rating: 5
The book begins in the present with Jeannette recognizing her mother on the streets of New York- she is homeless. Jeannette tries to understand the choices that her parents made in raising her and her siblings. In order to do this, Jeannette takes the reader all the way back to her first memories to explain how this came to be; living in a trailer in Nevada when she was three. Jeannette's family moved around a lot, Battle Mountain, Phoenix, and a small town in Virginia figure prominently in her story. Eventually, she takes charge of her destiny and moves to New York. Jeannette faced many challenges and situations that on the surface, may seem depressing, but the tone of the book kept me from feeling bad for her. Rather, I envied her ability to adapt to many circumstances and persevere in spite of the craziness that she was often engulfed in.
This book definately caught my attention. It's about a homiside detective who is supposedly a medium for the Florida police department. The setting is supposed to be a place where a lot of unexpected murders have been ocurring. But each crime has something in common, all the victims are women who wre walking alone at night. The medium has a dream of being stuck in the same building as the killer. It's not long before one of the sherrif's wives is kidnapped by the suspect sending the police on an expedition searching for a killer who has been spotted all over the country. This book is full of suspense and is recommended to anyone who likes murder mysteries and a little extra chill up your spine.
Title: Things the Grandchildren Should Know Author: Mark Oliver Everett Name: Mr. Wilhite Reading Level: HS Book Genre: Memoir Rating: 4
This author is one of my favorite musical artists (the band, Eels) and this memoir traces his life from childhood to alternative music success. The most interesting thing about the book is how straightforward it is as he discusses his rather tragic upbringing. His father (a famous physicist) died when Everett was a boy, his mother died of cancer, and his sister committed suicide, leaving him as the sole survivor of his family. He has every right to be depressed but he also has the ability to lace his story with great humor and wit. The book starts out a little weak but the narrative grows stronger and hooks you. Anyone interested in the ins and outs of the music industry will find this compelling reading.
Title: Sophie Scholl & the White Rose Author: Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn Name: Mr. Wilhite Grade: Teacher Reading Level: College Book Genre: History Rating: 5 Stars
This book was partially the basis for a film made a few years ago and I finally got around to reading it. Sophie Scholl is one of the great heroes of the 20th Century. She was a German college student living in Munich during World War II. When she, her brother Hans, and several other students refused to go along with the policies of the Nazi regime and actively started to protest, they were caught, put on trial, and executed by being beheaded. Reading this historical account of her history, capture, interrogation, and death makes you realize how few people have the kind of courage she displayed during one of the darkest times in recent human history. The White Rose of the title refers to the secret society of protesters that she helped lead in protest against Hitler.
Title: The Clown Author: Heinrich Boll Name: Addison Wilhite Reading Level: HS Book Genre: Fiction Rating: 5 stars
Set just after WWII in Germany this novel explores the career and downfall of the character Hans Schnier, a professional clown who makes his living performing around the country in clubs. Schnier's problem is he can't help himself from being brutally honest with every person in his life. Even though his honesty is (almost) completely truthful that is no way to maintain healthy relationships with his friends, family, agent, and most importantly, the love of his life, Marie. People don't like to be told the truth and by the end of the book Hans is left alone and penniless. The novel asks the question whether or not you can be an authentic and honest human being and still live in this world. I love this book!
Title: Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic Author: Ron Miller Name: Kacee Johnson Grade: 6 Rating: 3 Genre: Informational
This book is about the basics of movie magic. It talks about matte paintings combined with the focus of the camera. It reveals the secrets about makeup effects and stunt doubles. People turn into miniature and others people have doubles. It explains how the movie Nightmare Before Christmas was made all out of clay. It reveals all things magical to the movie screen. With the secrets revealed, what will come next? P.S. If you read this book about special effects, movies will be SO different. Trust me!!!!
Magyk is about the Heaps, a family of wizards who have six sons. The father of the Heap family, Silas, is the seventh son in his family. Tradition says that the seventh son of a seventh son will be very powerful in the art of magic. Shortly after the Heap's seventh son is born,he is pronounced dead and taken away by the midwife. Silas soon finds a newborn baby girl who was abandoned in the nearby woods. He brings her home and names her Jenna. Jenna becomes a part of the Heap family and takes the place of their son. Ten years later, the Heap family is joined by Boy 412, a member of the Young Army. How is Boy 412 connected to the Heap family, and where did Jenna come from? This is a story full of adventure that focuses on the strength of family unity.
The main character in Fairest is Aza who is the sister of Areida who was Ella's friend in the book Ella Enchanted by the same author. Aza is considered to be unattractive and is large in comparison to the rest of her family and her neighbors. Although Aza isn't pretty, she has a beautiful singing voice. She learns how to throw her voice to make it sound like it's coming from a different place or object. She becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Ivy, who commands her to do a task that is dishonest. Aza eventually finds who she really is and what an important role her talents play in the kingdom.
Title: Sisterhood of the Travelng pants Author:Ann Brashares Name: Taylor Forte Grade: 6 Genre:Realistic fiction Rating 5 This is about the summer of four girls named Carmen,Tibby,Bbridget, and Lena. They are four best friends who all are going to have an amazing summer. Carmen buys special pants at a second hand store and they all magicly fit every one of the girls. They dont get to spend the summer together so the write letters and send the pants to each other to have good experiences in them. Lena is going to Greese,Carmen is visiting her father, Tibby is staying home,and Bridget is going to a soccor camp in Baja. Lena has bad experiences the first time she goes to Greese. She meets this boy Kostos and he accidently sees her naked. Carmen figures out that her father is going to marry a new wife and has a whole new family,Bridget is in love with a soccor coach, and Tibby meets a girl named Baily. Baily has cancer and Tibby is really good friends with her. They hang out everyday. Soon, Baily is in the hospital again. Tibby doesnt know whats going to happen. Carmen gets so mad at her father she flys home and doesnt want to see him again. Bridget is getting depressed becuase the boy she loves wont be with her. Last but no least,Lena tells her family about Kostos and her gradfather gets mad and punches Kostos grandfather. Will things ever be right? My favorite charecter is Bridget and Lena becuase Bridget is full of adventure and Lena is very shy and well spoken.I highly think this book deseveres a five star!
Name: Zuriah Q. Grade: 6 Title: Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow pague Author: Brandon Mull Genre: fantacy My ratings: *****(five stars!) Fablehaven is a very suspenceful book filled with a ton of twists and turns. the main character is Kendra Sorsen. Kendra is a 13 year old girl with magical powers who is spending the summer at her grandparent's house, a magical creature preserve called fablehaven. when fable haven isover thrown by a mysterious dark creature Kendra's friends and family are being turned into shadow people! I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading fantacy and loves suspence. i loved it so I hope tou will lke it too.
Title: The Sparrow
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Mary Doria Russell
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 5 Stars
One of the best books I’ve read recently. Not your typical science fiction it follows the journey of a handful of people (priests and doctors mostly) on a journey into space for humanity’s first encounter with an alien civilization. The book explores the implications of discovering an alien culture on the religious, anthropological, linguistic, and philosophical understandings of human cultures.
The book flashes back and forth in time. The characters are some of the most compelling you will come across in literature. Particularly Emilio Sanchez. The first encounter with the aliens turns out to be deceptively peaceful but it is only later when they run into a separate species of alien that the book reaches its devastating ending.
The book won numerous awards. There is a sequel called “Children of God” that is also worth reading.
Title: The Hobbit
ReplyDeleteAuthor: J.R.R. Tolkien
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: Middle School
Book Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4 Stars
I prefer the Lord of the Rings from Tolkien but this story is delightful. And it is surprisingly funny. I’d forgotten how much humor the book has in it. It follows Bilbo Baggins as he is enlisted as a “professional burglar” on an adventure with Gandalf the Wizard and a group of dwarves who are determined to retrieve the gold that was stolen from them by Smaug, the Dragon.
The book is episodic with many different adventures along the way to the final battle with Smaug.
The Hobbit also lays the groundwork for what will become the adventures of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings so if you want to know more about the origin of the “Ring of Power” I would highly recommend this book.
Title: The Plot Against America
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Philip Roth
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 Stars
Roth is one of my favorite writers working today and this is arguably his best novel. It is “historical fiction” set in an alternate world where Charles Lindberg defeats F.D.Roosevelt for the office of President and because of Lindberg’s anti-semitic beliefs allows the U.S.A. to remain isolated from the War against Nazi Germany. The story gets creepier and creepier as you see anti-semitic policies being implemented in this country in ways that parallels what really happened to Jews in Germany before and during WWII.
The main character of the novel is my favorite and has the same name as the author although you shouldn’t forget that this is actually a work of fiction. This book won lots of awards and I suspect Roth will one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Title: The Boxes
ReplyDeleteAuthor: William Sleator
Name: Emily Jiang
Grade: 6th
Rating:*****
Genre: Sience Fiction
Anne was given a big responsibility the day Uncle Marco left her two boxes. She was to keep them apart from each other so one was put in the basement and the other was put in the depths of her tousled closet. One day, her curiosity got so intense that she went to the basement to try to open the box; she couldn't open the metal one in her closet. She carefully removed the top and a crab-like creature scuttled out and meandered to the other end of the room. She let ou a scream and bolted up the stairs. That night, she had a dream- a vision of Uncle Marco telling her to open the metal box and the directions how. The following day, she didn't know wether to open it or not,so she went down to the basement to look at the other one. There were many crab critters, now! Will opening the metal box stop them or just make it worse?
My favorite charecter is Henrey because he is supportive and helpful.
Title:The Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Suzanne Collins
Name:John Giammona-Wilber
Grade:6
Reading Level:6
Book Genre:Science Fiction
Rating:5 Stars
In the place once known as North America there is a country called Panem that has twelve districts. But, there used to be thirteen until the districts rebelled against the evil Capital. Twelve districts were beaten and one district was destroyed. But after that was over, every year one boy and one girl from each district were put in an arena in the capital to fight to the death on television. Katniss Everdeen of district twelve has a little sister named Primrose who is chosen to be in the games. But Katniss steps up to take her sister's place. Doing everything she can to get sponsors to send her survival items, Katniss pretends to be in love with the boy contestant from her district, Peeta, and the Capital makes a new rule. " If two contestants from the same district are the final two they may both go home." But the Capital can do much more than change the rules. They control everything in the arena, such as the weather. Katniss must face rain storms and fire balls. After weeks of hardship the games are coming to a close with Peeta and Katniss as the final two. They are waiting to be told that they won when the Capital says that the new rule has been revoked. Katniss and Peeta are both going to eat the poisoness killer berries, nightlock. But will they go through with it? Read The Hunger Games to find out. My favorite character is the contestant "Foxface" because she is very smart and makes it into the final four.
Title: Give Me Liberty
ReplyDeleteAuthor: L.M. Elliot
Emily Olsen
Grade:6
Rating:5
Genre: Historical Fiction
Give Me Liberty is about Nathaniel, an endetured servent living in the time of the Revalution. When he is bought by Owen, a chubby, angered man, Nathaniel is scared for his life. Nathaniel purposely gets him a bad horse which causes a bad beating. When a librarian notices Nathaniel being beaten, he buys him off Owen and takes care of him. Basil, the savior of Nathaniel, and the librarian takes him to live at Eden's house. Eden is very impatient and is hostile towards Nathaniel. When Nathaniel finds his old but very close friend Moses in a prison, he tries to save him and steals from Basil. Will Nathaniel finnaly find peace, or will him and Basil forever ba at odds? Read the book!!!!!!
Title: Tales of the Greek Heroes
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Roger Lancelyn Green
Emily Olsen
Rating:4
Grade: 6
Genre: Traditional Literature
This book is about almost all the Greek heroes/ Gods to ever exsist in Greek culture.From Zues to Madusa, this book has it all. One of the things about these stories is that they are simalar to other religion beliefs such as Christian, like when God made man for exsample. Zues breathed into him and made him out of his image just like God did in the bible. I really loved how Hermes was basicly like a servant between the Gods. They treated hom like a lower class citezen, but after a while, he started to be more impotant and the Gods treated him better. If you like a good myth book or you are looking for something different. I suggest this book. It was ok but it wasn't the best book I have ever read.
Title: Stargirl
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Jerry Spinelli
Name: Mrs. Rice
Rating:4
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
So, I've been telling my students what a great book this is for girls to read. Was I ever wrong!! Yes, it's a terrific book for girls, but it's actually written from a 16 year old boy's perspective, and it's really about his relationship with Stargirl. What I love about the book is that we all have a little bit of Leo (the main character) and a little bit of Stargirl in us. We have a need to conform and a need to spread our wings. The book made me want to do nice things for people!! Read this book. You'll think twice about the way you treat people who are "weird".
Title: Nancy Drew Model Crime
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Caroline Keene
Name: Ruth Lynam
Grade: 6
Rating: 3.5
Review:
In this thrilling book, the first in the mystifying trilogy, Nancy and her friends, George and Bess become bridesmaids for their friend, Sydney, who is a top-of-the-line model, and is getting married to TV-reality show spud, Vic. But as they are extremely in love, some "accidents" are discouraging the happy couple. First, Vic is almost poisened with jet fuil at his welcoming party, and Sydney's preordered wedding dress is ruined at the shop. Sydney multiple times calls off the wedding, but Vic's soothing voice comforts her into keep it on. Nancy, fed up with Syd's unhappyness, takes on the mystery, as her newest case. She convicts one of her fellow bridesmaids, but could it be someone else!?
My favorite charactor(s) are Bess and George because they are always suppotive of Nancy Drew and try there best to help her with her new case.
Crank
ReplyDeleteEllen Hopkins
By Abby Martinez
6 grade
This is a pretty sad book becaues its a true story. This book is about a girl named kristnia who was a great daughter as well as student until one wild trip to her dads in the summer . There she met Adam who she thoght was the love of her life, but when she was introduced to the monster by Adam an her dad it all took at turn for the worst . If you are wondering what the monster is it is pure chriatal meth . The monster had broght out a side of kristina she never saw before that side was Bree .Bree was powerful an loved the monster . After awhile Kristina was gone it was Bree who took over an thats what everyone called her, thats what she told everyone to call her . Will she every get over her adtoin. My faveorit character was Kristina because she was good girl but the moster took over and i belive somewhere deep down krisatina will rise again . I rate this book a five because of the detail i felt like i could feel what she was feeling.
Title: The Missing Series Book 1- Found
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Margret Peterson Haddix
By: Olivia Williamson
Grade:6
Genre: Science fiction
Rating: 5*
This book is about two 13 year olds, Jonah and Chip, who are adopted. They both live in Liston, Ohio, and suddenly they both get this letter that says “You are one of the missing”. Jonah immediately tells his sister, Katherine (who’s not adopted), about the letter. Later in the book, they find out that this plane showed up at an airport 13 years ago when it wasn’t scheduled to. The weirdest part is, there we no adults on the plane, not even a pilot, just 36 babies! Jonah and Chip also figure out that there were on that plane, and have to find out why there were 36 babies, and not one adult on the plane. This is a really good book, so go to Barnes & Noble and read it!
My favorite character is Katherine, because she sort of relates to me because of the picking on your brother thing (not that my brother is adopted).
new moon
ReplyDeletemaxwell brown
by stephenie meyer
grade 6
ratting 4
my favorit character is jacob black. in new moon edward leaves bella . bella does not like the idea that edward left and she lives in a shadow that edward is still there until jacob came and comferted bella . bella is now doing crazy stuf just here edward's voice read this book to find out why edward comes back
Diary of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days
ReplyDeleteJeff Kiney
By Tony Giusti
5
This book is about a boy named Greg Heffley who spends his whole summer in his house. Until his friend Rowly gets a member ship at the country club and they go there avery day and get a bunch of smoothies but rowly's dad kicks them out and gives them a bill of $83.00 so they start a lawn mowing business and they get in a fight so Greg mowes the lawn terrible and gets in trouble. So Greg goes to the town pool and tries to impress a girl that works as a life guard and goes there every day and his mom gets mad at him so he stops. Greg then goes on a vacation with his friend Rowley and it doesnt turn out so good first he gets in trouble for hitting Rowley with a rubber band and gets sent home so his mom buys them base ball tickets but Greg thinks his dad is kidnaping him so he calls the police and his dad gets really mad and wont talk to him but in the end they become father and son and Greg and Rowly have the best summer ever!
Title:The Indian In The Cupboard
ReplyDeleteAuther:Lynne Reid Banks
Name: Kelcie Koger
Grade:7
This book is about this boy on his birthday got a cupboard from his brother and a plastic indian from his best friend. He puts the indian in his cupboard and locks it the the next morning he hears something comeing from the cupboard. He opens the cupboard and finds the plastic indian is alive. My favorite charecter was the indian bacause he gets kinda bossy at times but hes also very funny. For instance he bosses on what he thinks omri (one of the charecters) should get him and omri listens. Omri finally desides to show is best friend about the indian and his friend brings a cowboy to life without omris permision. Omri and his best friend have to take care of the little people and keep them a secret at the same time. after a short while of them being together th indian gets mad at the cowboy and shoots him with a bow and arrow everyone thinks the cowboy is dead. the when the cowboy is healed him and the indian become blood brothers by putting their own blood in each other. after that omri decides to agree with the indian and send him and the cowboy back to where they came from.
Title: Children of God
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Mary Doria Russell
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: high school
Book Genre: Sci Fi
Rating: 4 Stars
Children of God is the sequel to Russell’s excellent novel, The Sparrow, and while not quite as good as its predecessor it is a worthy follow up. The book starts by introducing the reader to the (supposed) only remaining survivor of the expedition to the planet, Rakhat, where humans make their first contact with 2 different alien species. Emilio Sanchez, a Catholic priest, is that survivor and he is still dealing with the tragedy that befell him and his fellow travelers. He is in the midst of a crisis of faith and it takes him awhile to work up the courage to go back to the planet where he witnessed and experienced so much suffering. Without giving too much away, obviously he returns to Rakhat. Russell specializes in tragic, yet somehow satisfying endings in her novels.
Title: Deadline
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Chris Cruthcher
Name: Gloria Choi
Grade:6th
Deadline is a book about a boy named Ben who found out he was going to die in a year.He had refused to take treatment and tell anyone including his parents. He decided to try to have the best year by getting the girl he wanted and becoming a football hero. Everything goes well until he learns the secrets of many others.It a sad but enjoyable book.
Title: Secret of the Sirens
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Julia Golding
Name: Kacee Johnson
Genre: Fantasy/ Mythology
Grade: 6
Rating: 5
Secret of the Sirens is the first book in the Companions Quartet. Connie is an eleven year old girl who lives with her aunt in Hescombe, England. Connie and her aunt have an amazing gifts that lets them talk to animals. Connie's gift is much stronger than anyone else's. She is a universial companion, which means she can talk to all mythical creatures. She doesn't know how dangerous her gift is. For a school project, Connie endangers one of the most powerful creatures and puts the mythical world at risk of being discovered by those who have a gift. At the same time, she is being chased by the deadlist mythical creature yet!!!
Name:Christie Chaump
ReplyDeleteBook:A Kiss in Time
Book Genre:Fiction
Grade:6
Rating:5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My book is called A Kiss in Time. The author is Alex Flinn. The subject of this book is how a princess is asleep for three hundred years and her true love wakes her up. Some main events are when Jack wakes Talia up with a kiss, when Talia starts to fall in love with Jack, and when Jack climbs up a hill for three days! I think the author wrote this book so you can understand how to stick to your biggest values. I think the characters are very realistic. I found the witch Malvolia very interesting because she is evil. It is very easy to understand and follow this great book. I think everyone in the whole world should read this book!! A Kiss in Time is the best book i have ever read!!! I would recommend it because it is very realistic and detailed!
Title: The Time Travelers
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Linda Buckley- Archer
Name: Kacee Johnson
Genre: Science Fiction/Historical Fiction
Grade: 6
Rating: 4
Peter Schock and Kate Dyer are taken to Kate's father's science lab to test out the Van de Graff antigravity machine. Not knowing that when dark matter and antigravity collide, a time warp is created. Kate and Peter are now stuck in the 18th century. A mysterious Tar-Man runs off with Peter and Kate's only hope of getting home. The children befriend a Mr. Giedon Seymore who wants to help the children back to their time of the 21st century. In their adventure, Kate and Peter meet some of the most famous people from the 18th century but they have a hard time of keeping the secrets of the future ( 1800-2005 ) from the past!!!
Title:Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Meg Cabot
Name:Taylor Forte
Grade: 6th
Genre: realistic fiction
rating:3 1/2
This book is about a girl named Allie Finkle. Soon she has to move to a scary run-down home. That means losing all her friends and her house. She freaks out. When the time comes to visit her new school to enroll she meets new people that she really thinks could be her friends. she starts to think that this whole moving thing isnt as bad as she thinks. Still she doesnt want to move. A couple days before she moves, they go to a chinese resturant and theres a turtle and she thinks someone is going to eat it because turtle soup is on the menu. She escapes from the resturant with the turtle and everyone is chasing her. When her uncle promises to keep the turle is she would come inside and pretend to like to move, she starts to get the hang out it and loves her new house!My favorite charecter is Allie becuase she is bold and daring.
Title: Eclipse
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Stephenie Meyer
Name: Taylor Forte
Grade: 6th
Genre: Fantasy
Rating 5!!!!!!!!!!
This is the third book in the Twilight saga. Edward is finally reunited with Bella after their trip to italy, It seems like everything is in place. Bella comes home one day to realize someone has been through her clothing and things are missing. Also mysterious killings have been happening in Seattle. Edward and the Cullen family come to the conclusion that it is new born vampires killing.Still they cant figure out who made them or who is leading them. Alice trys to see but the creater is changing their mind so much on purpose so Alice can not see what they are thinking. Bella is the one all the vampires want to kill. Bella realizes that it is Victoria,the vicious vampire who is after her. The cullen vampires must fight to kill all of them so they do not hurt Bella. They also want the werewolves help. That means jacob Black,Bella's best friend, is going to help.But soon jacob kisses her,even when he knows she loves edward,Bela hates him now. Edward must stay with Bella.She doesnt want him to get hurt. After ALL of the new born vampires and victoria were brutley killed they are all safe. but Bella has another thing to worry about...marragie. Edward wants to marry her very badly. When jacob hears he runs away and no one can find him. he ran away becuase he loves Bella too and thinks she has made a wrong choice by picking Edward. Want to find out more? Read the 4th book Breaking Dawn. My favorite charecter(s) is Bella,Edward and Alice. I like them all becuase they are all very loyal and kind. Even though bBella is not a vampire i like her personality. i like Edward becuase he loves Bella and he ould do anything for anyone. i love Alice becuase she can see into the future and she is a bubbly person.
Title:The Secret Of Red Gate Farm
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Carolyn Keene
Grade:6
Name:Kylee Lush
Genre:Mystery
Rating:5:)
This book is about a young detective named Nancy Drew. Nancy is great at solving mysteries, and happens to stumble upon one when she goes to Red Gate Farm. There's a strange group of people renting land at Red Gate. The group calls themselves "The Black Snake Colony." When Nancy gets caught sleuthing, she barely slips out of this bad situation safely! And another time, Nancy is framed for using counterfeit money! I think that this is a very interesting book, and the characters are above and beyond funny, my favorite character is Bess. The author did an absolutely splendid job! I think that all people who love mystery should read this book, because it is a mystery phenomenon! :)
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Jeff Kinney
Name: Tori Ladd
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Rating: 5 stars
This book made me laugh out loud. It is about a boy named Greg Hefley, who is on summer break. He usely goes on vacation to beach with his family every summer. They couldn't afford it this year, so they ended up going to a kid water park. On there way back, They stopped for gas. They ended up leaving there mom there. If you read this book, you will laugh out loud.
Title: Standford Wong Flunks Big-Time
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Lisa Yee
Name:Taylor Forte
Grade: 6th
Genre:realistic fiction
Rating:4
This book is about a boy named Standford. Standford loves one thing the most,basketball. Now the hardest teacher in 6th grade flunks him! So to get on the A-team(basketball team) at school he must pass the english class. His father is so mad and demanding! He yells at Standford all the time. So his parents get him the worst tutor(what he calls her) Millecent Min. Millicent is a genious and even though shes susposed to be in 7th grade now she is taking college courses. He hates telling anyone about Millecent or summer school. He has a team he is on called the Roadrunners. One of them figure out that he is lying to them and saying that he is doing a summer job. standford cant believe that he is blackmailing him! his deal was that if he wouldnt tell anyone that Standford(who is the best playewr on the Roadrunners) has to lose against him every practice game he plays! Standford soon meets a sparkly eyed girl named EMily. He falls fast for her.but no one can know that Millicent is tutoring him! he makes her sign a contract! When EMily finds out Standford knows one thing, his life is offically over!My favorite charecter in this book is millicent and EMily. I like these two becuase Millicent is humorous and EMily is classy and proper.
Song of the Sparrow
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Lisa Ann Sandell
Maya Claiborne
Genre:History
Rating:*****
Grade:6th
This book is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Elaine. She is the daughter of a soldier in young Arther's army. She is the only girl in the whole army of men. She is not allowed to fight though because she is a girl so she is given the job to make healing potions for the wounded. She always dreams about the handsom Lancelot. She wishes that he would not see her as a little girl anymore. A new girl, Gwynivere, come and changes everything. She gets in between the love between Elaine and Lancelot. When things go bad can the only two women in the camp help to save their army? And is Elaine and Lancelot meant to be together or is there someone else that come along? read the book to find out! I love this book alot it was a great book and I suggest you read it too! I mainly suggest it for girls though.
name:jenny velasquez
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Stephenie Meyer
title:New Moon
Rating:****
This book is about a girl named bella who falls in love with Edword but there is one thing she dosen't knoow about him that he is a vanpire and then one Bella talked to Edword and Edword didn't reall want to talk to her because he did not want to tell her that he was a vanpire because he would think she would be scared and tell every one hat he is a vanpire but no one would belive that they would think she is carzy so every time Bella went out Edword would all ways know wree she is and every time bella was introuble Edword will always be there before they could do anything to her and so form there Bella and Edword became friends and onec they just keept going out they fell in love and became boyfriend and girlfriends but it did not say ther boyfriend and girlfriend it just looked like it because they started to kiss bella did not know there wree bad vanpires and one day they went and played baseball and the bad vanpires came and said if they can play but when they came Bella had to act like a vanoire because if the bad vanpires new she was not a vanpire they would eat her so once they were going to play they se=melled Bella and they know she was not a vanpire so they wanted to eat her but Edwords family did not let them eat her so then the bad vanpires left so then a few months passed by and it was time for prome and Belaa was going with Edword and they danced all night and lived happily ever after.and if you wantto knoe more about the book you can find it at the libery.I suggest for boys and girls but mostly for girls
Tittle: Peak
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Roland Smith
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Name: Jordan Buxton
Grade: 6th
Rating: 4
Peak is a book about a boy named Peak who as parents who love to climb Mount Everest. He also has the genes of climbing when he was born. Recently Peak has been climbing all the time. One day he decided to start climbing skyscrappers. He is only fifthteen and when someone noticed him he was reported and had to go to court to decide if he would have to go to jail. Sense his dad had a lot of money from climbing the tallest mountain in the world he paid for Peak to go home with him in Northern Canada instead of jail. When they both got to canada Josh, Peak's father, told Peak that he could try and climb Mount Everest when Josh had to take a group up to the top of the mountian. That was Peak's birthday present because he wanted to be the youngest one to the top. He was going to turn 16 in 4 months. Peak was so excited. Peak met a new friend Sun-jo and they both climbed very high up the mountain. Did they make it to the top? Were they sick? What happened? I suggest this book but only if you like adventure and dangerous events. Have fun reading!
Title:The Sea Of Monsters
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Rick Riordan
Name:Tyler Prince
Grade:6
The book is about a kid named Percy Jackson. Percy has to go top an island to rescue his friend Grover. Percy goes to a camp called Camp Half-Blood. Percy id denied for the Quest and so he sneeks out of the camp to go rescue his friend Grover. Percy goes with his new friend Tyson. Percy goes on a ship to The sea of monsters where Grover was. Percy gets to the island and there is a cyclops. Percy has to fight the cyclops with Annabeth,Grover,Tyson,and Clarrsie.Percy rescues Grover. then they go back to camp half-blood With his Friend Chiron.
Title: Twilight
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Unknown
Name: Makenzie St.Cyr
Grade: 6th
Rating: 5
Twilight is a book about a tennager named kristen i think i cant remember but she meets this guy named Edward and he is a vampire and she falls in love with him. Edward is not the kind of vampire that sucks humans blood he is a friendly vampire and he falls in love with her to. Kristen lives with her mom but she was visiting her dad and that is when she meets Edward. then Edward takes Kristen home to to his parents the Collin's. They have a new vamoire in there family and his name is Jasper and they are still teaching him to not to drink there blood. Then Kristen and Edward are boyfriend and girlfriend can't tell you all of it!
neena colon 6/18/09
ReplyDeleteBook title:Sudenley a super natural.
Author:Unknown
suddenly a Super natural is aboout a girl that found a yearbook.She didnt know it would make a ghost haunt her.Then she relized when she saw the ghost.Then she asked if she needed help and she siad yes.The ghost said that she needed help finding the person that killed her.So she said ok and looked for the guy that killed her.Then she started investigating.then she found him and started tranporting words that the ghost said then the guy got reported for another crime.That is what happened in the book i read.
Title: Stolen Children
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Peg Kehret
Name: Tori Ladd
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 5 stars
The book I read is called Stolen Children. The book was about a 14 year old girl named Amy, who was on her way to babysit a 3 year old named Kendra. When two men show up and somehow have a copy of the house key, they take Kendra out of her bed during her nap. They leave Kendra's toy cat, Tubby, on the cement. The two men come back to get the toywhen Amy sees them. Amy gets kidnapped, too. They take them to an abandoned hunting cabon. Amy tries countless times to escape, but always ends up a failer. One of the kidnappers, Smokey, has a gun and threatens to kill Amy. Amy finally comes up with an idea to drive the car and try and get to the main road. The engeine stops, and Amy tells Kendra to honk the horn countless times. A police officer drives by, recodnizing the girls, and takes them home safly. Amy and Kendra were lucky this time.
Title:All-American Girl
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Meg Cabot
Name: Taylor Forte
genre:realistic fiction
rating 5
This book is about a girl named Samantha Madison.Sam has a C- in her German class. Her parents arent to happy. They make her take an art class. Now Sam isnt to happy about that. She already knows shes very good at art but her parents still want for her to take it. Finally she goes to the art class and meets a boy named David. he liked her boots alot. She never thought that it was the presidents son who liked them. Then one day Sam doesnt want to do to art class and skips to go to the record store across the street. When she comes out of the record store, she sees the president arcoss the street. It was no big surprise becuase she lives in Washington D.C. As shes crossing the crosswalk, she sees a man next to her take out a gun. without thinking Sam jumps on him and saves the presidents life. Now her life has been upside down. Everyone suddenly likes her and shes going to the presidents house! Rumors are going around that she likes the presidents son. Soon, Sam thinks she really does like David and David likes her! Shes getting caught in tons of drama!Her sister is even making her dress up!What will she do? MY favorite charecter is Sam becuase she is the person nobody likes bnut she is a hero.
Title:The Missing: Found
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Name: Kacee Johnson
Genre: Science Fiction/ Mystery
Grade: 6
Rating: 5
Chip and Jonah are two 13 year old adopted kids living in Liston, Ohio. They start receiving messages saying that they are one of the missing. They tell Katherine ( Jonah's sister) about the freaky messages. Later, they find out that they were one of 36 babies on a mysterious plane that appeared and disappeared out of nowhere without a single trace. They conclude that Chip and Jonah's ages were reversed when they traveled to the 21st century. Soon an adoption conference comes up and all of the 36 babies are there. They now as a whole must decide to fix the time ripples in history or be captured and sent to the future.
Title:Paint the wind
ReplyDeleteAuthor:julet
Name:jenny Magana Velasquez
Radding:****
This book is about a little girl that lives with her grandma and grandpa because while they were on a trip on a boat there was a big wave that came for them and her pernts gave there lives to save her and so that there only child was not killed and her perents jumped in the water and saved her so her perents died in the water so know she lives with her perents and so she is hidding something from her grandma and her grandma does not want anything in the house that will remind her of her mom so what she has is of her mom is horses because her mom loved horses so she is hidding horses of her mom and so one day her grandma find them and throws them away becaues of the hose keeper and she has to find away to get them back before the men come and get the trash and she only has three day to get them back.
I suggest this book for boys and girls but mostly for girls.
Title: From the Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Bail E. Frankweiler
ReplyDeleteAuthor: E.L.Konigsburg
Name: Emily Jiang
Grade:6th
Rating:****
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Claudia is about to each her parents some Claudia appreciation. Her plan was to run away. She wasn't going to pull off an old fashioned kind of running away, where you run away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on your back. She was going to have it all planned out. Her chosen aquaintance was going to be her rich brother, Jamie, and they would take the train to the Metropoltian Museum of Art. They packed their clothes in their instrument cases, and got on the train. When they got there, Jamie insisted that they walk, so that they would same money, and tried to be cheep as much as he could. Claudia always corrected Jamie's grammer, so they fought alot.They stayed there until it was closing time, hid in the bathroom, and slept in one of the beds on display. The next morning, the news people were crowded around a statue called the angel, and was given to the museum by Basil Franweiler. Claudia had to find out who made the statue and swore she wouldn't return home until she had.
Title: So B. It
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Sarah Weeks
Name: Mrs. Rice
Rating:***
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Although the book is slow to start, it's worth sticking with because the pace picks up about 3/4 the way through. Heidi It is a 12 year old girl who lives in Reno with her mentally disabled mother and Bernadette, a neighbor who basically cares for both of them. Heidi discovers a camera in the back of her mother's closet and has the film developed. To her surprise, it is filled with photos of her mother when she lived in a home for the disabled in New York. Heidi then leaves on a journey from Reno to New York to find out the truth about her mother's past as well as her own. I was a little disappointed in the fact that the book is based in Reno, but does not describe Reno in any way. I enjoyed the story over all, but found it a bit predictable.
Title: The Sword of Shannara
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Terry Brooks
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: MS/HS
Book Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 2.5
I’m not a big fantasy fan but I thought I’d try this book on the recommendation of a friend. It reminded me how good J.R.R. Tolkien is and how bad Terry Brooks is in comparison. The book is not a complete waste of time but it seems pretty shallow and a direct attempt to copy Tolkien only instead of a “ring” the main character is on a quest for a sword. The most interesting character is Panamon Creel who unfortunately only appears in about half of the book. Avoid this book.
Name:Jaylan Franklin
ReplyDeleteBook:beasties
Author:Sleaor, William
Genre:Non Fiction
Rate:5
In this story there is a kid named Doug and his sister, Colette, go out side and Colette falls in hole.So Doug trys to get her out but he cant and eventually ends ud falling in and cant get out and it just gets worst from there I suggest this book beacause its a page turner
Ainsley Murdock
ReplyDeletetitle:Brittanys Big Suprise
author:Deborah Abrahamso
rating: *****
This book was a really good one about a girl named Brittany, and her best friend Charity. But there is one bad thing happening in her life. Its that this boy named Mickey is going to move right next to her. The story of Mickey is that he is a really bad kid and gets in trouble a lot. But when Brittany gets home from school one day she finds out big news from her parents, and that big suprise is that her mother is going to have a baby! Although she is so excited she gets annoying about it. She talks to her friends about it every single day and never stops. But once the baby is born, Brittany finds out from her parents that it is a girl. Brittany got to name the baby, and she picked Amber. When the doctors come out to tell Brittany and her family about the baby, thee is sad news. The baby was goning to be fine just she was born a little early so she was going to be very small for a while. But on Christmas the family finds out that Amber is going to be fine and she would be home really soon to spend time with her.
Name: jacob falconer
ReplyDeleteAuthor: J.K Rowling
Name of book: The Tales Of The Beedles Bard
Grade: 6th
rating: 5 stars
This book has a few fairy tales about muggles and wizards and there was one that had a wizardn that helped everyone but one day he decided not to help someone. The person who needed help wanted food and he said no and a pot started hopping around where ever he went and it made alot of noise. Then someone came and there daughter had warts so he said no to the kind lady and then he went back upstairs and the pot would jump around while warts came out too. then more people come and need more things and he says no and all these bad things happen. theres more stories and each time a storie end dumbledore would come out and talk about them in his point of view. Its a really good book for people that read Harry Potter and like wizard stories.
Title: Every soul a star
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Unknown
Name: Makenzie St.Cyr
Rating: 4 1/2
Grade: 6th
The book that i read was called every soul a star and it is about four kids that have a rough life and they all live where there aren't much kids to play with. There names are Ally, Jeff, Alex, and Kritena. These kids all wish that they could have better lives. These kids only have mom's and it is hard for the boys. Ally's mom studies the sky and teaches Ally everything she knows.Ally lives in a small town in a small house. Jeff's mom works in realastate and they live in New Jersey. Alex's mom works at a dental office in California and they live in a pretty good size house. Kristan's mom works as a nurse in Oregon and they live in a huge house. They all see a shoting star and they make a wish and there wish comes true.
Title: Cleopatra:The life and death of a Pharoah
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Edith Flamarion
Emily Olsen
Rating:3
Grade: 6
This is a biography about Cleopatra, a great pharaoh of Egypt back in the 304 B.C. I liked this book because of the very detailed and descriptive point of view like someone was actually there telling the story. Cleopatra was a good person she cared and she loved every one of her citizens. Sadly she committed suicide because of the pain and horrible things going on in her life. I think I personally enjoyed that Cleopatra was very interesting and complex. She rules a country that has been thriving for years. As well as developing technology to ancient extremes. She has to rule a country. Herself. She struggles, and slowly starts to fail. Killing herself was wrong, but she had her reasons. I recommended this book if you like biographies.
Title:The Book Thief
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Markus Zusat
Miss Kaller
Rating: 5
Genre: Historical Fiction
The story takes place in Germany during World War II. That is where we meet Liesel, a mysterious 10 year old girl, who although she cannot read- is fascinated by books and what is within them. When we meet Liesel she is on a journey to meet her new "family", once there she convinces her father to read to her the first book that she stole. I could not put this book down! I felt for Liesel when she was made fun of at school and the struggles that she faces during the height of Hitler's reign. The challenges that children face when war is at their doorstep, for example, being hungry with very limited access to food. I loved how the story was told and will not reveal the narrator because it is one of the things that makes this such an intriguing read. Liesel struggles with the friendship that she develops with a Jewish man that her family has taken in. The subject matter is depressing at times, but I was always rooting for her until the end of the book. I love historical fiction, when you know that this story did not happen but it feels so real and possible.
Title: True Notebooks
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Mark Salzman
Miss Kaller
Rating: 4
Genre: Nonfiction
Have you ever wondered what happens to kids who have committed crimes serious enough that they will spend most of their lives in jail? Salzman gives a memorable depiction of some of America's youth who have made choices that they cannot change back. Salzman was somewhat "tricked" into taking on a writing teacher position at Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles. His students were mostly gang members who had committed a 187 (murder). We are introduced to kids from all different walks of life who ultimately ended up in a gang for whatever reason. Through Salzman's eyes we see all of the potential in these young men who are for the most part still adolescents. It is heartbreaking to read their writings when they come to terms with what led them to a gang life and what that life has left them with. I felt sympathy for these boys, but could not help but wonder about their victims and families. It is a tragic reality in which there are no winners. As I was reading, I wondered where these boys were now? Salzman's class provided them the opportunity to experience some form of freedom, which almost felt cruel because for many they were well on their way to a life term in prison. Salzman managed to make me feel sorry for these criminals and half formed young men who gave away their chance at a real life before realizing the consequences of their actions.
Name:Christie Chaump
ReplyDeleteBook:Maximum Ride
Author:James Patterson
Genre:Fiction
Rating:5
My book is Maximum Ride. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about a bunch of kids who are abandoned by their parents and go on an adventure to find their parents and run from the Erasers. A few main events are when Max figures out all the passwords to important things,when everyone finds their parents, and when Max practically saves the world! I think the author wrote this book so you can understand how to survive on your own. I think the characters are very dramatic. I found that Max is 98% human and 2% bird interesting because i don't know anyone that is a bird. It is actually pretty easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book because it is like when you put the book down you want to read more. It is sooooo good!!
Title:The Titan Curse
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Rick Riordan
By:Tyler Prince
Grade:5
Genre:Fansty
Percy Jacson goes to a school beacuse Grover one of his best friends calls him beacuse their are two half-bloods. Percy has to go get the half-bloods and take them to camp half-blood. Then Percy had to go and find his friend Annabeth. Percy then has to go to SanFransico beacuse the place that Annabeth is at is by te bay. Percy saves Annabeth and they go back to camp half-blood.
Title: Bicycle Diaries
ReplyDeleteAuthor: David Byrne
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: HS
Book Genre: Non-Fiction
Rating: 4
This book chronicles David Byrne’s travels around the world and is bicycle rides in many major cities. David Byrne was the lead singer for the new wave band, Talking Heads, in case you didn’t know. His reflections on urban landscapes are pretty interesting if you are interested in the subject. He always takes his bicycle when he tours so he often has a unique perspective on different cities he has visited. The book is organized by cities/countries and I found the European city chapters most interesting.
Title: The Assault
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Harry Mulisch
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: HS
Book Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: 5 stars
This book takes place at the end of World War II in Holland. At the beginning of the novel a man who has collaborated with the NAZIs is murdered in front of a house next door to the house of the main character (Anton) and his family. The neighbors move the body in front of Anton’s house. The Nazis show up and assume that Anton’s family is involved in the murder and before you know it Anton is taken away, his brother is chased by the Nazis and his parents disappear. That’s just the first chapter.
The rest of the novel follows Anton throughout his life as a young, middle-aged, and old man, as he pieces together what happened to his family and why. It’s like a murder mystery that takes place over decades and leads up to one of the most shattering ending I’ve ever encountered in literature. Highly recommended!
Title:Pish Posh
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Ellen Potter
Name:Taylor Forte
Grade:6th
Genre:mystery
Rating:2 1/2
This book is about a girl named Clara. her father owns a resturant named pish posh. shes an odd eleven year od girl. She has over 100 black dresses and wears her favorite black sunglasses everyday. NOBODY knows to mess with her. in Pish Posh she sits at her own table and looks for people who are "nobodys". Shes sees a man named Dr.Piff everyday. One day she finally decides to go up to him and tell him hes a nobody and that he is not welcomed back to Pish Posh. A couple days after that, he dies.Before he died he told Clara that there is something mysterious that is right under her nose. She must find it out. Clara invites her old teacher to pish Posh. Since there is said to be an old painting by a fmous artist Clara decides to show her what is the painting looks like. When the teacher gets into the kitchen to see the painting,she sees the soup cook,Audrey.The teacher shows Clara a painting that looks exactly like Audrey. Then Clara asks Annabelle to steal files from dr.piffs office about Audrey. It turns out Audrey is very old,older than Dr.Piff. What will Clara find out? My favorite charecter is Clara becuase she is mysterious and curious.
Title:Dairy Queen
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Catherine Murdock
Name:Hannah Sweeney
Grade:7th
Rating:4.5
This book is about a girl named D.J. that tries out for the high school football team. D.J. lives on a farm with her family. She isn't the typical high school girl. D.J. is very tall and athletic. She had always played football with her older brothers that now play college football. Football makes her feel so free and happy. So when school starts, she decides to try out. At first, the boys that are on the football team, are reluctant to accept her. But as the story goes on, she begins to become very important to her team. Suddenly, she has to make a decision between football and basketball. Which will she choose? And to help the problem, her brother gets hurt. This book was very good, and there are two more goods in the series.
Title: A Curse Dark as Gold
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Elizabeth C. Bunce
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Historical Fiction/ Mystery
Rating: 2
Charlotte and Rosie Miller's father has just died, and the Miller's wool mill rests in Charlotte's hands. Her father left no money for his daughters, instead he left them debt to pay off. They are struggling for money and their workers are quitting. Charlotte and Rosie's uncle comes to the mill to try to get the girls settled into a "normal" life. To do so, they would have to sell the mill, their father's favorite possession (other than his family) and the only remnant of their mother and father.
A mysterious Jack Spinner prepares to offer them gold thread that could save the mill, in exchange for a room filled with straw. But Charlotte finds it was easier said than done, for she can't seem to find it that easily.
All of a sudden, people start bringing up "The Stirwaters' Curse" and it so happens the curse starts to fulfill to its name.
Will Charlotte find that the mill's curse is to terrifying? Will she sell the mill? Will she continue finding straw for Jack Spinner?
Read and find out!!!
Title: Attack of the Fiend
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Joseph Delaney
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Fantasy/ Horror
Rating: 5
Tom Ward is in his second year as the Spook's apprentice. It is a terrifying job with lots of excitement.
The last time Tom visited his brother's farm, he was left with three trunks in room his mother left for him in her will. His master feels the time is right for Tom to go to the farm and retrieve his Mam's trunks. When he got there, the house was deserted, trashed, destroyed, and the house was lacking his trunks.
Tom and Father Stocks go to the magistrate's house to report his missing family due to the Malkin witch clan. The housekeeper, Mistress Wurmade summons a demon to kill Tom and retrieve the keys to his trunks. He failed and Tom ran away to find Alice and the Spook. He bargains with Mab Mouldheel, leader of the Mouldheels. She knows a way to rescue Tom's family and he has the keys to the trunks that she wants. He betrayed her and she betrayed him. She decided to go against what she believed and help the other clans raise the Fiend from Hell. Will Tom be able to save the county from its destruction?
Title: Runaway Twin
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Peg Kehret
Name: Adrianna Jones
Grade: 6*
Rating: 4
Sunny Skyland is my favorite human character. Snickers is my favorite character as in a animal. Sunny skyland is a foster kid,but she wasn't always a foster child she went to live with her grandma's sister when her grandma and her mom died, but her grandma's sister could not take care of her so she asked her son jerod if he could take care of her and he said yes.That didn't last long jerod lift Sunny in a hotle room.Sunny and Starr had got spit up. She has been in many different foster homes. Sunny lived with Rita when she ranaway looking for her twin sister Starr. The only problem was that she didn't have any money. One day Sunny was going to the store to buy some twinkies, they are her favorite food, and while she was walking she found eight hundred dollars. Sunny than stared to thing of a plan to go to Washinton D.C, where her and Starr was spit apart,at only three years old.I would tell anyone this is a action packed book and now is one of my favortie books
Tittle: Marked
ReplyDeleteAuthor: P.C. Cast + Kristin Cast
Name: Sabrina Harrison
Grade:8th
Rating:5
This book is about a lot of things but on fact i can tell you is that this book is about vampires not twilight vampires about vampires being marked, with a moon on there forhead. when this hunter comes and marked you would have to go to the house of night or died. So thats what happened to Zoey Redbird she got marked and moved to the house of night sadly all her human friends hated her because of it. But Zoey is not like any fledgling. She was been choosen by Nyx, the powerful goddness. i will say that you should read it if you like vampires its just another thought about them.
Title: Switchers
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Kate Thompson
Name: Emily Jiang
Grade: 6th
Rating: ***
Genre: fantasy
Tess was used to not having friends. Her dad's promotions took them everywhere.Now they had landed in Dublin, in Ireland. On the first day of scchool, she took the bus home, and a strange boy was following her from across the street, smoking. The next day was the same, only he introduced himself. He told her his name, which was Kevin, but she didn't listen, and just walked faster. When he said that he knew her secret, that was when he got her attention. She denied it, and rushed home. The truth was, Tess did have a sectret that not even her parents knew. She could turn into animals, and found out the morning she woke up as a bear. On Saterday, she went out into the park and hid in a cave while she transformed into a squirrel. She started to collect nuts and berries, when she met a chipmunk. They played together, and Tess had to get home. On the way, Tess thought about the chipmunk, and she rememberedsomething-there were no chipmunks in Dublin. Than a horrible thought stuck her. What if the chipmunk was Kevin and her did know?Find out in the book. My favorite charecter is Kevin because, although he smokes, he is playful and friendly.
Title: Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Wendelin Van Draanen
Name: Emily Jiang
Grade: 6th
Rating: *****
Genre: Mystery
Sammy was very daring on Halloween. Dressed as the Marsh monster, she decided to knock on the door of the bush house. Like it's name, The bush house was scary because of the twisted,gnarled bushes that devour the house, leaving only the stairs to the entrance. She walked up the creaking steps, and was about to knock when she noticed the door slightly open. Walking inside to snoop around, like she always does, she runs face to face with a Frankenstein on a chair.She almost runs outside, but saw that the man was struggling to get out. Sammy untied him, but he had a hole in his neck. He told her that he had trachonomy. He explained that a man in a glowing skelleton suit walked in, tied him to the chair, and took some things. Sammy is determined to solve this mystery, but she has other plans, too. She has an archenemy's party to crash!
Waffles and Spagetti
ReplyDeleteChad Eastham
Emily Olsen
6th grade
Rating:5
This book is a comedy that has very interesting views on the brains, minds, and thoughts of boys and girls. It compares guy’s brains to waffles because they compartmentalize everything. They compare girl’s brains to spaghetti because all their thoughts are connected in one way or another. They tell stories about people who already went through their preteens and have experienced the things we are going through. I enjoyed this book because it had funny stories about real people. There was a story about a kid who was really attached to boys and had to go get help. Love this book.
Title: Sammy Keyes and the Runnaway Elf
ReplyDeleteAuthor:WENDELIN VAN DRANNEN
Name:Emily Jiang
Grade: 6th
Rating:*****
Genre: mystery
Sammy Keyes is in trouble again, like always. at the parade, Sammy was in charge of a dog called Marique because his owner is hurt. During the parad, some mysterious people in hoods walked in, carrying cats,that obviously caught the dogs' attention. Marique also ran away, and Sammy was in charge of him! She hopes that the owner is understanding, but she is very wrong.Someone also gave her a call and told her that they had Marique and they need 50,000 dollars in exchange for him, or they'll kill him. Even worse, she was blackmailing Sammy into finding Marique, or she'll give away where she lives: Sammy lives illegally with her grandmother. She also meets a depressed little girl that looks like an elf, and tried to make her happy.
Title: Palace of Mirrors
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: *****
Cecelia has always known that she is the "true princess" of Sualia. Her whole life Cecelia has learned the proper educate and geography of the world. No one but her nanny, Sir Stephen, and her best friend Harper know about her secret life.
Cecelia has had some warnings that she is in danger, so Nanny decides that she must leave to the palace. So she and Harper travel to the Palace of MIrrors where she will be safe from her enemies.
When Cecelia and Harper get to the palace, Cecelia tells Desmia ( the princess) that she is the "true princess". Desmia doesn't believe her, because she has been told an entirely different story about "true princesses". Together, Cecelia and Desmia discover the fate of their country and family.
Title: Cleopatra
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Diane Stanley & Peter Vennema
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Biography
Rating: 3
Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt, ruling with her brother. When she was twenty, she was driven out of her country. She teamed up with the Roman Republic and fell in love with Ceaser. They were head over heels in love and forgot about the war. Cleopatra had a son before a few years before her husband was murdered by the senators of Rome. She married Antony to try to finish what she and her previous husband started. They conquered Egypt and Cleopatra returned to the throne after her brother was murdered. Cleopatra and Antony had three children. The Romans rebelled against Cleopatra and declared war on her. Her second husband was murdered and she didn't have anything left to live for, so she committed suicide. The End!
Title: How The Wolf Became The Dog
ReplyDeleteAuthor: John Zeaman
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Informational
Rating: ****
Dogs have been a man's best friend for VERY long period of time. Normally people don't know that their dogs are one not-so friendly animal: the wolf. All dogs, from snow dogs to chihuahuas, are the descendants of wolves. Wolves were first bred to be loving, tamed, companions and hunting dogs. They are social animals, which is why are dogs are so gentle. Many of the world's dogs are feral, which means they are wild and untamed. Although scientists are not sure about when the domestication started, dogs that symbolize the Great Dane were often shown in Egyptian murals and books. If this hypothesis is correct, that means that wolves have been bred and domesticated before 10,000 BC!
Name:Christie Chaump
ReplyDeleteTitle:Maximum Ride Schools Out Forever
Author:James Patterson
Grade:6
Rating:5!!!!
My book is called Maximum Ride Schools Out Forever. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about six kids who are abandoned by their parents and travel to Florida to find them,also to run from the Erasers. Some main events are when the flock finds two kids who work for the Erasers and try to capture Max, when Iggy finds his family but runs away because they didn't treat him right, and when the whole flock finds out they were living with an evil whitecoat. I think the author wrote this book to tell you how hard it is to live on your own. The characters are very dramatic. I found the Erasers interesting because they are deformed weirdos! It is very easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book if you like dramatic books. If you do read it, you will never put it down!!
Title: Deep Down Popular
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Phoebe Stone
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Rating: 5
At school, Jessie Lou Ferguson is the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, away from the populars. She thinks about Conrad Parker Smith, the most popular kid of their small town, every minute of the day, even though he doesn't know she exists.
While playing soccer, Conrad breaks his leg. Since he and Jessie Lou live on the same street, Jessie Lou was assigned to walk Conrad home every day. But as Conrad is recovering, his friends agree Conrad can't be popular, because he is hanging out with Jessie Lou more than he realized. But as Jessie Lou and Conrad become close friends, Conrad's leg is healing.
When Conrad recovers, will he go back to being popular, or will he and Jessie Lou's relationship go deeper in love?
I really liked this book, because it's a classic first love story. If you read this book, I'm sure you'll be asking for more!!!
Title: 13 Reasons Why
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Jay Asher
Hannah Sweeney
Grade: 7th
Rating: 4.5
Clay Jensen's life was normal, until he found a package on his doorstep. The package contained tapes from Hannah Baker. Hannah had commited suicide. As Clay listens to the tapes, he finds out why Hannah decided to end her life. And Clay is one of the reasons.
A map also came with the tapes. The map shows certain places that showed significance in Hannah's death.
Clay was not the only one that recieved the tapes. Twelve other people also found a package on their doorstep. "13 Reasons Why" is a really good book, but its also depressing. I really connected with all the characters. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Title: Beastly
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Alex Flinn
Name: Kirstie A. Eslit
Grade: 8
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5
If the rating for this was until 10....I'd definitely give this book a 10.5. This book is really great I'm glad I read it.
It's about a "perfect" 16 year old guy named Kyle Kingsbury. He is transformed into a beast by a witch in his class. Kyle becomes a beast because of what he has done to the witch and the people around him. While he's a beast, Kyle gets moved from his father's house in Manhattan to his own "castle" in Brooklyn. There he lives without a father ever seeing, but talks, to him. Kyle isn't alone though...he now lives his maid Magda and Will, his blind teacher. Over time, Kyle starts changing his attitude. Meaning he's a lot nicer, he sees more of the world, plants roses for his greenhouse, and cares for others even though he's like a prisoner in his own home! After living there for a long time, Adrian, (a.k.a Kyle) saw and caught someone break into his home. In a result for that, the trespasser was either going to be thrown out a window from the 5th floor, or be released but don't say anything or else he would show the police evidence that the trespasser broke in.
Instead, the trespasser, offered to save his life for his daughter to stay with Adrian like a prisoner. That’s how he met Lindy. When she first moves in, she doesn’t say much and hate Adrian for what he’s doing to her. Over time Lindy gets over it because of how nicely Adrian, Magda, and Will’s treating her. She starts learning with them, eating with them, talking to them, etc. A year has already passed and during the time, Adrian and Lindy start falling for each other. Adrian loved her so much that when she wanted to see her father, he let her go back to him. But you’ll have to read the book to find out about the ending. =]
Impossible
ReplyDeleteBy, Nancy Werlin
Sammie Heward
7th grade
Rating: 3, good
This book is about a girl named Lucy and an old family curse. The curse won’t be broken unless she performs 3 impossible tasks without any help from anyone. The curse ensures that Lucy will have a baby girl before age 18, and then after that she will go insane. Lucy’s birth mother, Miranda, is insane and if Lucy doesn’t perform the tasks which are stated in the song, Scarborough Fair, she will go insane and then her daughter will and so on, just like what happened to the many generations before her. The tasks that Lucy must perform include: making a magical shirt without a needle or any seems; to find an acre of land between the salt water and the sea strand, whatever that means; and then to plow that land with a goats horn and then sow it with just one grain of corn. If Lucy doesn’t manage to complete the tasks then her daughter will be cursed too.
Blue Moon
ReplyDeleteBy, Alyson Noel
Sammie Heward
7th grade
Rating: 4.5, really good
Damen, who is immortal, has been following Ever for over 400 years of his 600 years alive. He finds her during all of her reincarnations, but then she always dies. But then when Ever is almost dead this time Damen saves her and takes her and gets her to drink his immortal elixir. Now Ever has lots of magical powers and can make something appear by just thinking about it. But then everything goes wrong when Roman (also immortal) puts a spell over the whole school and poisons Damen. Nobody likes Ever now, but she knows that its because of Roman. When she finds out more, she finds out that she has the choice whether to save Damen or her family. But she doesn’t have much time until the blue moon which is the only time she can reverse the spell.
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows
ReplyDeleteJ.K. Rowling
Nick Heward
Seventh grade
If I had to give this book a rating from one to five, I would give it four and a half, I liked it a lot.
In this book Harry Potter had to find and destroy Voldemorts remaining horcruxes, there was a ring, cup, necklace, crown, and voldemorts pet snake. In the beginning Harry had to find the sword of Gryffindor, that was the only thing that they new could destroy the horcruxes, the crown destroyed itself in a fire. During the story, Voldemort was trying to find the elder wand, he thought that with that wand he could kill Harry, because there was a connection between their old wands that wouldn’t let him kill him. When Harry was a baby Voldemort tried to kill him, but the spell came back and almost killed him. In the fourth book Voldemort used Harry’s blood to come back to life, there was a connection that they didn’t know about that was protecting Harry from Voldemort. Later in the book Harry learned that to have a wand work for you the best that it can, you have to be its master. In the end Harry was the real master of the elder wand, Voldemorts spell bounced off Harry and Voldemort ended up killing himself.
I think that if I had to pick a favorite character I would pick Ron, I like him the best because he made jokes and seemed the toughest.
Harry Potter and the deathly hollows
ReplyDeleteJ.K. Rowling
Nick Heward
Seventh grade
If I had to give this book a rating from one to five, I would give it four and a half, I liked it a lot.
In this book Harry Potter had to find and destroy Voldemorts remaining horcruxes, there was a ring, cup, necklace, crown, and voldemorts pet snake. In the beginning Harry had to find the sword of Gryffindor, that was the only thing that they new could destroy the horcruxes, the crown destroyed itself in a fire. During the story, Voldemort was trying to find the elder wand, he thought that with that wand he could kill Harry, because there was a connection between their old wands that wouldn’t let him kill him. When Harry was a baby Voldemort tried to kill him, but the spell came back and almost killed him. In the fourth book Voldemort used Harry’s blood to come back to life, there was a connection that they didn’t know about that was protecting Harry from Voldemort. Later in the book Harry learned that to have a wand work for you the best that it can, you have to be its master. In the end Harry was the real master of the elder wand, Voldemorts spell bounced off Harry and Voldemort ended up killing himself.
I think that if I had to pick a favorite character I would pick Ron, I like him the best because he made jokes and seemed the toughest.
Title:Maximum Ride Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
ReplyDeleteAuthor:James Patterson
Name:Christie Chaump
Grade:6
Rating:5!!!!
My book is Maximum Ride Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports. The author is James Patterson. The subject of the book is about a girl/bird hybrid that was made in a factory. A few main events are when Max finds out that Jeb is her dad, Dr. Martinez is her mom, and Ella and Ari are her half brother and sister, when Max and Fang split up into different groups, and when Max has to save the world again. I think the author wrote this book so you know that anything is possible! The characters are very realistic. I found the Flyboys interesting because they are like robots and are redesigned to look like Erasers. It is easy to follow. I think everyone should read this book because it is like you want to be apart of the journey too!
The series:
The Fugitives
-The Angel Experiment
-Schools Out-Forever
-Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The Protectors
-The Final Warning
-Max
Title: A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Lemony Snicket
Name: Kirstie A. Eslit
Grade: 8
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5
Second time reading this series because I love it! This book is about three children named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They have become orphans because their parents have died by a huge fire that destroyed their entire house! When recieving this news, the children were out on Briny Beach for the day until Mr.Poe came and told them what has happened. Kindly, Mr.Poe took them in for a while just until he has found a gaurdian for them to stay in. Once Mr.Poe has, its an "uncle" the kids don't know about named Count Olaf. He told them that he was an actor as well as a count. Ariving there, they meet a nice lady named Justice Strauss who they thought was married to Count Olaf. Turns out, she was a neighbor. Right next door to that beautiful house they thought they were going to live in was a big, dirty looking, messy house; the place where the Count lived in and now the childrens home too. So ever since the orphans have lived there, COunt Olaf has treated them like tehey were slaves instead of children; by giving them a whole list of chores to do that would take hours! Not all was that bad for the orphans though, they had some fortunate things thanks to Justice Strauss.=] She helped them in what they needed, she let them use her library,etc. But it was just that, the rest was all misfortunes.
From the beginning, Count Olaf had known about the Baudelaire fortune and tried all he can to get it. He couldn't though, because on their first day there, he asked the children "to help make the house cleaner by using some of the fortune." When Mr.Poe heard that, he said, right then and there, that the fortune was not to be used until Violet comes of age.(Violet is the oldest, then Klaus, then Sunny). Later on in the book, Olaf hatches a plan to marry Violet to get the money. How does she get married at theat age may you ask? Well, it supposeably was a "play" that was made but used a real judge(meaning Justice Strauss-she didn't know at all!) and a marriage cerftificate. If Violet didnt go through with it, poor little Sunny was going to be dropped hundreds of feet from the top of the tower!
That's all I am going to say read the book, and the series, to find out about the ending. =] I would definately recommend this book to many people.
Title: A Crooked Kind Of Perfect
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Linda Urban
Name: Kirstie A. Eslit
Grade: 8
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5
This book is mainly about a girl named Zoe Elias who has big dreams in music. She plays the piano! and hopes to end up in Carnegie Hall. She starts out small at first meaning lessons. But as time goes by, she goes from a card board piano, to a baby grand piano, to a regular piano. As her piano skills start to accumulate, she actually Does end up in Carnegie Hall in a competition. In this book, Zoe plays the piano for her enjoyment because she's dedicated too. To know what happens to her in Carnegie Hall, I'd suggest you read it. Not just to fnd out but to read it for YOUR enjoyment and to find out what she does next.
Title: Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Louis Sachar
Name: Caryn Neidhold
Reading Level: Life
Genre: Middle Grade Fiction
Rating: 4 Stars
This is a great book if you want to read about a regular, but maybe not normal, kid. It seems like so many books these days focus on kids with super powers. And really, how many of us have super powers?
In this novel wel meet Gary W. Boone, a seventh grader obsessed with jokes. He's maybe a little OCD when it comes to jokes and his dad makes a bet with him to not tell jokes at all. Unfortunately it's during the same time Gary is getting ready for the school talent show.
Gary is like a lot of kids. He struggles with who he should be friends with, whether he should play sports with the popular boys and living with parents that just don't understand him.
If you like reading about real kids, you will probably enjoy reading about Gary and how he learns to make a bad situation, well, funny.
Title: Extras
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Scott Westerfield
Name: Caryn Neidhold
Grade: Life
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the fourth book in the Pretties Trilogy. Okay, you might be asking yourself how a trilogy could have four books, but when Scott Westerfield's fans wrote him begging for more after reading Pretties, Uglies and Extras (all great books by the way).
Scott Westerfield is so imaginative and this book takes place in a future version of a Japanese city. (The previous three books were set in a future North America.) He is amazing at envisioning how the Japanese culture might change under certain circumstances.
Aya is fifteen and can't get surged (surgery to alter your appearance) until she's sixteen because her parents are too old fashioned. In her culture you earn credits based on your popularity. Everyone has face rank calculated by how often people in your city mention your name or watches your feed (think Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Aya's face rank is low, too low.
Aya is plotting to break a story that will jump her face rank. But in the process learns the true consequences of a high face rank and changes society as remarkably as Tally Youngblood did in the first three books.
Great writer. If you love sci fi, social commentary, great characters, action, a fast plot or all of the above, read this series.
Title: Hamlet
ReplyDeleteAuthor: William Shakespeare
Name: Caryn Neidhold
Grade: Life
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Play
Rating: 5 Stars
Okay, it may be a few years before you read Shakespeare but know that Hamlet is a great place to start along with Romeo and Juliet. The school library has an edition with notes at the bottom of each page to explain the vocabulary and phrases that meant a lot back then but don't mean the same things now. Can you imagine that 400 years from now saying "cool" might mean something other than "that's great for you" or "cold".
Hamlet is the son of a dead king. His mother married his uncle (his father's brother) too soon after the funeral and Hamlet's really upset. On top of it all, his father's ghost comes back to ask Hamlet to get revenge for being killed by his brother (now his step father!). Naturally, this makes Hamlet a little crazy and sadly, makes the girl he loves crazy too.
In typical Shakespearian style, Hamlet gets his revenge but pretty much everyone dies in the process.
To understand Shakespeare I personally recommend reading as many versions as possible (meaning adapatations, I'm blogging a version by John Marsden that's great), reading Cliff Notes, and watching as many movie versions as possible including the Simpsons!
You might wonder after reading a little Shakespeare why in the world he's still so popular after all these years. I actually think it's because Shakespeare was not only a great writer but he also really understood human beings. He understands how people think and why people do such strange things. Shakespeare makes such incredible comments in his plays about life. From this play, the most famous observation is Hamlet's statement: To be or not to be, that is the question.
Read this play to find out if there's an answer.
Title: Hamlet
ReplyDeleteAuthor: John Marsden
Name: Caryn Neidhold
Grade: Life
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5 Stars
Remember this book for high school. If you are assigned to read Hamlet by Shakespeare you should also read this adaptation by John Marsden.
Shakespeare is considered a brilliant writer but plays can't always let you inside a person's head. John Marsden does an incredible job bringing the reader into Hamlet's mind and experiencing Hamlet's journey into what feels like mental illness.
Hamlet is a teen in this book and has a lot to deal with. His father, the king, is dead. His mother married his uncle way too soon after the funeral and now his father's ghost comes back to ask for revenge. The ghost tells Hamlet that he, the king, was murdered by his own brother. Isn't that Hamlet's new step-father?
Ophelia gets more attention in this book than in Shakespeare's Hamlet. She is obsessed with Hamlet but events and castle protocol keep them apart. Her father's death pushes her over the edge.
Just like parents making you eat yucky vegetables because they're good for you, high school English teachers will make you read "boring" books because they're good for you too. If Hamlet is part of your high school reading list, be sure to read John Marsden's Hamlet to make "boring" into interesting.
Title: Shattered
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Kathi Baron
Name: Caryn Neidhold
Grade: Life
Reading Level: College Level
Book Genre: Fiction
Rating: 2 Stars or 5 Stars ???
I should have loved this book.
Cassie is a teen violin prodigy until her father smashes her violin. Cassie runs away to see her grandfather -- the same grandfather who gave her the violin -- the same grandfather her father will have nothing to do with and Cassie doesn't know why.
Cassie's journey is not just to her grandfather's house, it's a journey in understanding and healing.
You might be wondering why as a violinist, violin teacher, fairly obsessed reader and musician I didn't like this book. . . It's the writing style. Maybe it feels like the writer was working too hard to sound like a teen or maybe that she didn't work hard enough. Also, this book is in first person, present tense and I can't tell if that's what bothered me. Hopefully it won't bother you.
Tile: Into the Wild
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Erin Hunter
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Rating: *****
Genre: Adventure
Rusty is an average kittypet living with the Twolegs. He decides to go hunting in the forest behind his house. He encounters three wild cats who ask him to join their clan, Thunderclan. He agrees and goes to the Clan camp to begin his training as a warrior. While being an apprentice, Rusty was given the name Firepaw.
Firepaw went hunting for the Clan, and had to bring back food. He encountered a cat from Shadowclan. He fought her and then fed her because she was so weak. He went back to camp, got in trouble, and had to take care of the cat.
Firepaw had to get back to training. The night of the full moon was a night of feasting and Firepaw went with. One clan said they wanted more hunting area, and if they didn't get it, they would invade the camps. He and his mentor, Bluestar, clan leader of Tunderclan, worked hard to get to a mystical rock that had special powers. The rock worked its magic. They ran back to camp to tell the others about the invasion. But when they got there, Shadowclan was already attacking.
Was Firepaw really ready though? Or would he chicken out in his first battle?
Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Stephen King
Name: Sarah Stynen
Grade: 7th
Rating: 5 Stars
Genre: Thriller
Trisha, a nine year old girl that is completely IN LOVE with a base ball player named Tom Gordon, goes on a hike with her mom and brother. During the hike Trisha had to take a bathroom break and headed into the bushes some. When she was done she took a short cut up the hill some to catch up with her mom and her brother but it just led her deeper and deeper into the woods. Through her terrifying hike, all alone, she starts seeing a creature, she would also have flash backs about her life with her family.
My favorite character would have to be Trisha, because the author really describes her so it's like I've have known her for a long time.
I think I would definitely recommend this book for all of my friends because it is one of my favorite books so far. :]
Title:The Final Warning
ReplyDeleteAuther:James Patterson
Name:Amy Miecznikowski
Grade:7th
Rating:5 stars!!!
Genre:Adventure
This story is about 6 kids and a dog who grew up in a science lab they call the School. they aren't just normal kids though, they have wings (even the dog). They also have individual powers. There names are Max (the leader and 14), Iggy (blind and 14), Fang(just 14), Nudge (11), Gazzy (also known as The Gasman and 8), Angel(related to Gazzy and 6), and Total (there dog). In this book, they go to Antartica. The kids have many enemy's. In this book, a man captures them and try's to sell them for Alot of money (500 million dollars).
I would recomend this book to every one who likes adventure. When i read the series, i couldn't put the books down. These are probably the best books i have ever read
Title:Saving the world and other extreme sports
ReplyDeleteAuthor:James Patterson
Name:Amy Miecznikowski
Grade:7th
Rating:5 stars!!!
Genre:Adventure
This book is about 6 kids and a dog. They grew up in a science lab they call the School. At the School, the kids (and dog) were experiments, not people. After a man named Jeb had helped them escaped, he had betrayed them and worked at the School. In this book, the kids (and the dog) face many challenges such as defeating a boy named Omega, who was designed to destroy them. he had gone through years of training, learned every thing he needed to know about how to defeat them. They face many other dangers and challenges.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure. I could not put the series down until i finished it. I would even recommend this to people who don't like adventure books.
Title: When It Happens
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Susane Colasanti
Name: Robyn Neidhold
Grade: 8th
Rating: 4 starts
Genre: Romance
Tobey and Sara have are finally seniors, and are searching for their soul mate, Tobey; a, guy who only cares about his band and nothing else and recently had a "fling" with Cynthia, Sara; a straight A student who is head-over-heels for Dave, the new hot jock at the school. But when they first meet, they can't stop thinking of each other and in the end, i think everyone will be happy.
Title: Poison Study
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Maria V. Snyder
Name: Robyn Neidhold
Grade: 8th
Rating: beyond 5 stars
Genre: fiction
Yelena, was currently a orphan/slave, but is now a prisoner because she killed the son of the man that was holding her a slave to save the other orphans from the torture she had to endure. but when she is brought out of the prison to be given a second chance by Valek, the commanders assassin to either face the death penalty or be the commanders food taster. Yelena tells him that she is not a fool and will risk being poisoned. Now Yelena faces day long lessons on how to detect poison and also getting poisoned almost every day. but there is one more problem, General Brazell, the father of the son she killed is now seeking revenge in the most interesting ways...
this is one of my most favorite books! i read it in two days, and it usually takes me about 2 weeks to read a chapter book.
Title: Magic Study
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Maria V. Snyder
Name: Robyn Neidhold
Grade: 8th
Genre: fantasy
Rating: beyond 5 stars
Yelena is now on her way to find her long lost family, but also is running away from her home in Ixia because she has new found magical abilities, but as she goes on with her studies in magic, she soon finds that she has an unusual magical ability, and she is now the first real souldfinder ever known to history. but most people are scared and unhappy with this new ability because there have been similar abilities to this one and all of those magicians have ended badly.
Title: Fire Study
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Maria V. Snyder
Name: Robyn Neidhold
grade: 8th
rating: beyond 5 stars
Genre: fantasy
Now Yelena is faced with new problems;both homes, Sitia and Ixia are likely to start a war, and there is a new murder on the loose. he has killed several girls to gain their blood, and is now after Yelena, but the other problem is, is that the master magician is on the killers side. now Yelena has to stop a war that has been going on for centuries.
Run Away Twins
ReplyDeletePeg Kehert
Jenny Huam
6th
This book is about two girls Starr and Sunny. They are twins. They were seperated when they were only three years old. There mom and grandma was killed in a car accident. At there funeral the girls were tooken in different cars. After that they didnt see each other again. Sunny was tooken to a foster home. While Starr was tooken the a really big house. Starr was adopted by the people who live in that big house. Sunny was moving from foster home to foster home. One day sunny went on a walk and found a bag full of money. She reported the bag fll of money. No one claimed it. Sunny wanted to find her sister really badly. So she took the money she had found and hide it in her room. when her foster mom was gone she left for the bus station. she found a dog she took him with her everywhere she went. while she was in a feild hail started to come down. thery hide under a tree they were safe but then a torrnado hit. she had lost her backpack. with hlaf of her money in it. she screemed. her dog got so scared he rad a branch borke off and and hit her dog in her head. he pasted out. finally she had found her sister she didnt remember her at all. sunny was really mad so she wanted to leave. so she got on a plane and flew back to her foster home she was longing to go back to. she didnt want to leave her foster mom again.
tittle:boy no more
ReplyDeleteName:Branden fong
This book is a series and a boy name Adam. He gets a letter from his friend,and he`s ask to give it to his freinds dad. So he ask his mom and she says no. So his freinds Nancy fiends him a ride to ohio. So when he`s in the car going to ohio. The car crashes and he has to walk the way. When he`s walking he see`s a man, and that man turns out to be his freinds with a snake around his head. So he takes him to town and to his home. Next he`s at his house then he sees every one buy his dad.So he asks where he is. Hes at jail so then he leaves next moring to frind his dad. Then he founfd him and gave it to his dad. Then he gives it to the dad.
Title: Inkspell
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Cornelia Funke
Recently I read the second book in the Ink series, Inkspell. It was written by Cornelia Funke. I know what you're thinking, that this book is just a stupid book about fairies and whatnot it's really not. It is about a girl who's father can read characters out of books into his own world. Once he read his wife into the book on accident when he read out a character named Dustfinger. This was before he knew of his powers. That was the first book. In the second one the girl I earlier mentioned, Meggie, reads herself into the story and the books about how her family follows her and the dad gets wounded which makes the whole story about how they have to save him and protect eveyone. This book has soooooo many good twists and turns in it. That wasn't the most complimenting summary but this is truly one of my favorite books. Please read it!
Title:Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Ally Carter
Sophie Zhang
Advisory:Mrs.Neidhold
This is a story about a girl named Cammie who is a spy. She goes on a learning mission and her goal is to lose anybody that's trailing her. After wandering for hours seemingly aimlessly she returns proudly only to find she'd been trailed! After all who would suspect the innocent looking teenage boys? That could've been the end but it wasn't when the boys move into her school. Cammie, being a spy, is naturally suspicious but what are the boys there for anyway?
Title: Things Not Seen
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Andrew Clements
Sophie Zhang
Advisory:Mrs.Neidhold
This book is about a boy who wakes up one morning to find he's invisible. He soon realizes all the advantages he could have...and also the downfalls. One day at the library he meets a girl who is blind. I know! Perfect right? He's invisible and she can't see to notice. Unfortunately when she trips and grabs his bare shoulder she realizes that he is wearing nothing in the dead of winter. What would you think? Of course she doesn't know he's invisible so she obviosly doesn't believe him when he says he is and is only invisible with nothing on. Eventually they become friends but will the boy ever be the same?
Title:Fever 1793
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Laurie Halse Anderson
Jordyn Dolan
Advisory:Mrs.Nieldhold
This book is one of my all time favorites!Its about this young girl whos family owns a coffee house in Philadelphia in 1793...when yellow fever hit the world! Matilda Cool(thats the girl)has to survive everything from a robbery, to family deaths, to actually surving the yellow fever! This historical fiction brought me to tears more than once so I hope you will enjoy it as much as i have!!!!
Title:Chicken Soup for the Teanagers Soul 3
ReplyDeleteAuthors:short stories from all different authors
Jordyn Dolan
Advisory:Mrs.Neildhold
I have always loved these books and when i found out that they had one for teenagers i couldn't wait to get it! There are 9 chapters; relationships, friendship, the power of love, family, lessons, tough stuff, overcoming obstacles, self-discovery, and growing up. My favorite chapter is friendship because thats the one that is the most personal to me but I really liked all of the other chapters too. If you read some of these storys you realize that your troublems aren't nearly as bad. Hope that you love these books and this one especially this one, as much as I do!
Title: Castaways of the Flying Dutchmen
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Brian Jacques
Name: Austin Lee
Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold
Grade: 8th
Rating: ****
Its true, one of Brian Jacques best books =) I've read some of his Redwall series, but I think this book beats all of his Redwall books. It's Jacques first book that doesn't tie into Redwall.
Anyways, a mute kid ends up on the legendary Flying Dutchmen. He works as the cook. Eventually he comes arcoss a dog named Denmark. The captain of the Dutchmen went mad and killed some of the crew. An angel curses the ship, making it sail for an eternity. Boy and dog manages to get off the ship.
From there they travel to a village where they help the village people save their village from demolition through many puzzles and stuff. =)
Title: Nation
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Terry Pratchet
Name: Austin Lee
Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold
Grade: 8th
Rating: ****
It's Pratchet's best book as far as I know. Its the only one I've read of his.
To become a man, Mau has to get to Nation and a series of challenges. Then a tsunami strikes Nation and its people. Now Mau has to rebuild his Nation and tradtions w/ Daphne, a girl who survived the tsunami. Soon others come to island, and Mau becomes chief. THey discover a secret on the island and then defy death... *this is where you go BUM BUM BUM!*
Title: A Watcher in the Woods
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Florence Engel Randall
Name: Sarah Stynen
Grade: 7th
Advissory: Mrs. Neidhold
Rating: 4 Stars
In this story Jan, a fifteen year old girl, and her family move into a house in the woods. Jan's dad is a proffesor and she aslo has a little sister Ellie and a mom. There is someone in the woods and jan is trying to figure out who it is. Mrs. Allywood, the lady they bought the house from can see the watcher, Ellie can hear the watcher, and Jan can feel. The watcher is trying to help Mrs. Allywoods daughter, who dissapeared on a walk one day so you'll have to read the rest to figure out what happens (its good). I would recomend this book to my friends because it is one of the best books I've read.
Collin Crown
ReplyDelete6 grade
1/14/10
Well today i am doing a blog on Diary of a Whimpy kid. This book was about how this kid named Greg Hefly is a whimpy kid obviously. Well Greg just writes about how he wants to work out through the rest of the winter, Greg likes to play a lot of video games and he want this game called tmisted wizard so what he does to get twisted wizard he tell his friend Rowley that they are going to do a time capsole, so rowlaey puts the game twisted wizard in the time capsole so Greg digs up the time capsole and gets the game and Rowley also put a few dollers in the time capsole and Greg took that to. So if you want to read more of this book you can find it at the northwest libray
Title:The Battle Of Labarenth
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Rick Riordan
Genre:Fanstay
Grade:6
The book is about Percy have ing to go and try to kill an army that is working for Kronos. Kronos is a god that is trying to get revenge on the gods of olmpus. Percy goes thourgh a secret tunnel so he can go and try to stop Kronos before he gets to Camp Half-Blood. So Percy goes out thourghthe tunnels with a few of his friends Annebeth,Grover, and Tyson(hes actually his brother). Percy and his friends go out and meets some new gods and some freaky ones too. But towards the end of the book Percy is too late beacuse Kronos has been revived
Collin Crown
ReplyDeletethe Outsiders
Mrs.Lundy 6 grade
The book the outsiders is about a gangs and, brotherhood. The main character is Ponyboy Curtis. This Book is a great book, for children at least 12 years old. The book starts off as ponyboy walking home from the movies and three guys jump out of there car and geat him up. The people that beat him up were called the socs, and ponyboy is called a greser because of all the grease he put in his hair so if you want tt read more of this book you can find it at the billinghurst library
Lisa Nyberg read,
ReplyDeleteThe Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Sept 2009)
In true Sparks style, a romance-filled plot filled with character conflict and plot twists and turns. The story was slow to unfold and I felt like I was back in high school, but as Ronnie finds meaning in the events that happen over the summer, she comes to understand what love really means. A coming-of-age and wisdom tale.
Title: Eragon
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Christopher Paolini
Genre: Fantasy, of course...
Grade: 8th
Name: Ashley Sumner, C.Neidhold Advisory.
Eragon is an all-aroud good book. The story is just one of those that you keep thinking about after you are done reading. But, there are a few places in the book that I got really bored in, and I actually put the book down for a good period of time. Eragon is about a boy called Eragon, and it's his journey through his country to help save it. He finds this egg in a forest, and it eventually hatches and makes a mark on his hand. That starts his whole journey with a dragon-less dragon rider, then a yound man, then an elf that has been poisones. They go to that Varden, and have the battle of a lifetime. So ends a good book!
Title/Author: Harry Potter 7; J.K. Rowling.
ReplyDeleteGenre: Fantasy
Grade: 8th
Name: Ashley Sumner; C.Neidhold Advisory.
Wow! This book was amazing! Of course, we all know who Harry Potter is. This is the final book, and it definately tops the rest. In this book, Harry journeys around the country in search of "Horcruxes." In the end, he ends up back at Hogwarts, attempting to find the last one. Soon, a huge battle erupts between death eaters, and the students of Hogwarts. Harry eventually kills Voldemort, and everything becomes calm again. He lives a happy live with Ginny, and even has a couple kids! It's just a great book to read, anf I recommend it over any others.
Rx
ReplyDeleteTracy Lynn
Gina King
grade 7
Amazing story and very well-written. It really opened my eyes to subjects I had never really thought about before.
In the story, Thyme Gilcrest is pressured to succeed in high school, and stay in the top 20 GPA of her year. She strives to keep her GPA and participate in as many extra curricular activities as possible. For her, It's all about the college applications.
Thyme is convinced she has ADHD and needs medication for it. She pesters her parents about going to a psychiatrist, but they know there's nothing wrong with her. So, when she is told that a friend of hers had been misdiagnosed with ADD, leaving him a full bottle of Ritalin, Thyme takes it from his room.
Eventually, Thyme becomes addicted and needs to find ways to get more Ritalin. She developes a complex trading system with other students at her school, and before she knows it, she is labeled a dealer. Then one day, an old friend of hers commits suicide due to drug addiction, and Thyme knows it time to stop.
Title: Sally Ride: A Space Biography
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Barbara Kramer
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Biography
Rating: 3
Sally Ride was the first woman to venture in space on June 18, 1983. But how did she get to where she is now? This book tells the story of Sally Ride's life. From being very successful in school to applying a job for NASA. From training to being launched into space to divorcing her husband. And launching off into space for the last time. This book has it all!
I thought that before I read this book it would be boring and too informational. Turns out, I was wrong!!!
name=michael collins
ReplyDeletebook=a tail of despereaux
advisory=mrs. neihold
I read a book called a Tail Of Despereaux. I liked the book. It was about a mouse that was diffrent than all the others. And just because he was diffrent he was sent to the dungun. to die. he faced many hardships and was helped by many people along his jurney, and he dreamed of getting back to his princes pea.(kind off cheezy) i would not recemend this book to a freind because they would start cracking up and i would never here the end off it but all in all i liked the book.
name=michael collins
ReplyDeletebook=tom sawyer
advisory=mrs. neihold
Tom sawyer was to me a good book. tom sawyer was about a boy who loved adventure. he was always trying to just have an adventure or make something of his life. he and him best freind huck go on many trips and jurneys including running off to an island and making every wone think the were dead. how ever when they got back toms aunt had a cow. he has a little anoying cousin named sid and a lover named becky thatcher. i would reckemend this book to anybody.
Title:Max A Maximum Ride Novel
ReplyDeleteAuthor:James Patterson
Name:Christie Chaump
Grade:6
Rating:5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My book is Max A Maximum Ride Novel. The author is James Patterson. The subject of this book is about how Max has to save her mom and be a hero. A few main events are when Max's mom goes missing in Hawaii, when the flock was being attacked by an octopus, when Max finally grows her gills, and when Fang and Max get in a "special relationship." I think the author wrote this book so you know what it is like to be a hero. I think the characters are very real. I found the underwater gills that Max and Angel have interesting because they can swallow water and it goes out their gills! It is easy to follow. I think everyone should read this series because it is fast-paced, enjoyable, and exhilerating!!! Best series I've ever read!!
The Fugitives:
-The Angel Experiment
-Schools Out-Forever
-Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
The Protectors:
-The Final Warning
-Max
The reptile room,
ReplyDeleteLemony Snicket
Nick Heward
Seventh grade
I would give it a three, I didn’t like it much because they kept explaining things and what words meant, it wasn’t a very good book
In this story three siblings, Violet, Sonny, and Klaus Bauldidare get taken away from their horrible uncle, Count Olaf, they got taken to a distant relative named Uncle Monty, he was a snake scientist getting ready to go on a trip to Peru to try and find new snakes. Him and the children were getting ready to go on the trip, Uncle Monty hired an assistant to go on the trip with them, the assistant turned out to be Count Olaf, he threatened cut off sonny’s toes if they told Uncle Monty who he was. The children were very scared of count Olaf, he injected poison into Uncle Monty’s head and then put another hole so it looked like a snake had bitten him.
Title: The Red Wolf
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Alvin, Virginia, and Robert Silverstein
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Genre: Informational
Rating: 4
The Red Wolf is an endangered animal on the brink of going extinct. There are very few red wolves, but that's not stopping the ESA from trying to save the red wolf. The ESA has taken in all of the red wolves into captivity to recreate the wolf species. They tried mating the wolves and curing them from injuries. Many wolves died in the process and the same amount were born to take their place. The species was struggling to recreate, but it finally worked and the wolf-coyote muts were released into their natural habitats and the species grew in size. Today, the species is still endangered, but scientists are watching over them and learning of their actions. The wolf grows stronger every day, and soon enough they won't be endangered!!!
Collin Crown
ReplyDelete6th grade
rating:4
Mrs.Lundy
The book i read was a traditional lidature book. The book was called When we Were Very Young, this book would be a great for people that like poems i gave this book a 4 star rating because I mean to me i am not a very big fan of poetry books, but it wasnt a bad book. This book is preatty old book, lets say about 35 yars old. I didnt find this book at this libray, but you might be able to find it somewhere else. I think it is for a kid any age because it is poetry, and it is not a hard book to read, so read this book if you like poetry
Collin Crown
ReplyDelete6th grade
Mrs.Lundy
The I read was called Cleavland Cavaliers. It is about how the Cleavland Cavalieres have struugled and been very good. Thei is a basketball book and i picked it because the Cleavland Cavalieres are my favorite team. You can find this book in the library at Billinghurst Middle School. Well the cavaliers are a very good team now as the book says, and I know they are. So if you want to read this book it is at the Billinghurst Libray.
Book Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
ReplyDeleteTile: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Ashley Gao 7th grade
Willy Wonka decides to let 5 children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release 5 golden tickets in 5 separate chocolate bars. The tickets soon were found and the special boy that found the last golden ticket was little Charlie Bucket. With his grandpa, Charlie joins the rest of the children to explore the chocolate factory.
Charlie comes from a poor family but loves chocolate and always dreams about it too. Every morning when he walks to school he would walk right past the chocolate factory and would take a good sniff. Then he would continue his way to school. His family is so poor that they have to save up their money, to buy charlie a bar of chocolate for his birthday.
The other 4 lucky winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormous fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled- rotton brat; Violet Beauregarde, a dim- witted gum- chewer; Mike Teavee, a toy- pistol- toting gangster- in- training who is obsessed with television.
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Book Review of So B. It
Title: So B. It
Author: Sarah Weeks
Ashley Gao 7th grade
This book is about a 12 year old girl named Heidi, that lives with her mental mother and Bernadette (her caretaker). She doesn't know anything about herself, all she knows is that Bernadette found them in front of her door step. Heidi's mother only knows 23 words, but the word that really stands out and the one that her mother says a lot is the word "soof" that drives Heidi all the way across the country to determine the meaning of this particular word, that can possibly reveal her past. My favorite character in this book is Heidi.
Robert Dalpe
ReplyDelete8th grade
Title- Tales of Terror- Dracula
Genre- Horror, adventure
Rating: 5 stars
Jonathan Harker was in Translyvania, on his way to see the count at Dracula Castle.When he arrived at the castle at night, he met the count and was showed to a room, the room he would be staying in. Harker's job was to advise the count on the purhase of some property.Harker could not stop wondering about the count's sharp nails, and pointed teeth.
Harker was told that he would not see the count during the day, but instead at night. One night, the man wandered out of his room, and came to a chamber with three weird looking women in there. The count then emerged and saved Harker from the weird women, giving them a bag with something living inside it.
Harker now thought he was doomed, with all this weird stuff happening and no escape. Harker then, one day, ventured and found boxes open on the floor, one with the count in it!!!He was laying as if he was dead. The next day, Harker went to the boxes again, and found the count once more, but he looked younger and had blood on his skin. Harker realized he had to get out, but Count Dracula thought otherwise....
Title: Guys Like Girls Who.....
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Chad Eastham
Name: Sarah Hedaria
Grade: 6th
Reading Level: 6th
Book Genre: Christian
Rating: 5
This book was so good. This book was more of a guide for girls than a story. It had chapters and everything. Chad gives some really good examples of situations a girl could be in. How to fix them and what not to do. Chad has traveled all around the world talking to girls our age. He also gives a boys point of view to the girls reading. He also has talked to girls who struggle being themselves. Since he is a guy he knows how they feel and how they think. Which is way different from the way a girl thinks. He gives you examples that could really happen to you in life. I love this book so much. I now have a fresh start with boys. I recommend this book to girls, guys can read it to but that would be really weird. If you have a friend that doesn't read the blogs and you have the book, let her borrow it. That is what I am doing.
Book:The Search for Nefertiti
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Dr. Joanne Fletcher
Reading Level: High School
Rating: 5
Name Cate Disbrow
Mrs. Neilhold
I would say this is now one of my favorite books. The story is about a famous egyptologist who is trying to redisvover one of the earliest ledgends in ancient egypt the changed history. I loved it, I'm interested in ancient Egypt myself, it is sort of on the long side, but it is enjoyful and definetely worth recommending just the same.
Title: The Sea Captain's Wife
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Martha Hodes
Name: Leslie Dandois
Grade: Teacher
Book Genre:Biography
Rating:4
Martha Hodes tells the compelling story of Eunice Richardson Stone Connolly. Eunice was born white and poor in New England in 1831. Ms. Hodes researches Eunice's life through family letters. It starts in New England where she is a lower class working women living a hard life. She marries William stone and has two children. The family moves to the south right before the start of the civil war. Her husband sign's up to fight for the south while her brothers fight for the north. Eunice moves back north during this time to be near her family. She is living at poverty level, barley able to support her children. Her husband dies during the war. The next phase of the book accounts her second marriage to a Cayman seaman of color. She lives the rest of her life in the Cayman Islands. This book is interesting and shows the hardships of the time Eunice lived. It also explores race, class, and the Civil War.
Title: The Call of the Wild
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Jack London
Name: Taryn Goddard
Grade:8
Rating: 4
The Call of the Wild is a classic. It is probably around 100-110 years old. Some of the lingo in this book was a little hard to understand but overall, a great book.
I really liked this book because I LOVE dogs and wolves and also because I like to know about the history of dog sledding. I would one day like to go to Alaska to watch dog sledding. I also like how the main character isn’t a human. Having most books being narrated by humans gets a little boring, but being able to see the world in a dog’s point of view is different and interesting.
My favorite character would have to be Buck, because he is the only character who makes it through the entire book. He is a strong willed dog and has an amazing story. He realizes he can trust humans after being abused by them, and learns to embrace his wild side.
Title: Walk Two Moons
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Sharon Creech
Name:Taryn Goddard
Grade:8
Rating:5
Walk Two moons. A title that is both interesting and puzzling. Ok, ill cut to the chase. This is a sad and amazing book. I will not spoil it. Ok. Here it goes. A 13 year old girl named Sal goes looking for her mom, who moved from kentucky to idaho a couple of years ago, with her grand parents. While on their trip, Sal talks about her experiences.Her and her dad recently moved to ohio. She tells them about her friend who also shares an experience like her own. There are many twists and turns in this book but overall i highly recommend it to people who like classics.
Title: Flowers for Algernon
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Daniel Keyes
Name: Thomas Brandt
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating: 5
This book is all about a man named Charlie Gordon. When Charlie was a boy his mom wanted to put him in a home because he is metally challenged. Charlie gets an operation that triples his IQ. When Charlie becomes smarter than his doctors he finds a flaw in there reaserch for his operation. A rat named Algernon also gets the operation. Algernon soon dies and Charlie wonders if the same will happen to him. My favorite character is Charlie because he is so brave and goes through so much. This is my new favorite book and im going to read it many more times. The book is all of Chalie's journal entries. I would recommend this book to everybody who is looking for something to read. This book will make you cry, it made me cry.
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Samual Clements or Mark Twain
Name: Thomas Brandt
Grade: 8th
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating: 3
This book is about a boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn see a murder in the graveyard and they know who did it. But the man that did it framed another man named Muff Potter. The boys have adventures and then save Muff. I liked this book because it was written back then and still relates to today. I would recommend this book to everybody. I would rate this book a 3 becuse it was okay.
Levi Pallavicini
ReplyDelete7th grade
Title: Chicken Hawk
Author: Robert Mason
Rating: 5
The book I read was called Chickenhawk. I got this book at Barns & Noble. It was written by an ex Vietnam helicopter pilot named Robert Mason. He described the landing zones or as they called them, LZ's. I give this book a five star rating because it is just a very descriptive book. It is the perfect book if you like war history. It is a non-fiction book and is really intense. He also said that at night, he could see the tracer bullets from machine guns on the ground.He described the bright orange and red softball sized bullets sailing past them. He also said that sometimes he could hear the clik of the bullets go through the cockpit. Overall, this book was a good read. I highly recomend it!!!
Title: Pendragon 1 The Merchant of Death
ReplyDeleteAuthor: D.J.MacHale
Name: Dallin Arnold
Grade:8th
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating: 5
This book is about a 14 year old boy named Bobby Pendragon who is in the 8th grade. His Uncle Press tells him that he has some friends that need their help. What Bobby doesn't know, is that those friends are on a territory, or planet named Denduron and that he is someone called a traveler. Travelers are people that can travel through flumes. Flumes can transport people through time and space. There are two tribes on Denduron, the Milago and the Bedoowan. The Bedoowan keep the Milago in a primitive age by forcing them to mine a dangerous mineral called glaze. The Milago also discover an extremely explosive mineral called tak which they plan to use to overrun the Bedoowan. Meanwhile, Bobby and Press are fighting an evil demon named Saint Dane who is trying to control Halla; anything and anytime that ever exists. His first stop is to make a rivalry between the two tribes of Denduron to turn the territory upside down. Read this book and the rest of the series to discover the fate of Denduron and if Bobby and the rest of the travelers can prevent Saint Dane from continuing on and controlling the universe.
Title: Nancy Drew GReen-eyed Monster
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Caroline Keene
Name: Ruth Lynam
Grade: 6
Rating:4 stars****
Review:
Nancy Drew and one of her trusty best friends, George, have been dragged to a green festival by Nancy's other BFF, Bess. Even though Bess and George are cousins, they are totally different! While Bess raves about how all the modern stars are getting into being green, they buy some raffle tickets to win various 'green' prizes. Nancy, after seeing many eco-friendly exibets, tries to drag her friends from the fair, but they want to stay for the awarding on the prizes of the raffle. As it turns out, George wins the grand prize, a 5 day 'green' vacation in Costa Rica!! Nancy and Bess come as her guests and they enjoy coming to know some reporters for the press tour the resort is holding. But as the vacation starts, bad things start to happen. Luggage is stolen, bus drivers are drugged, and precous ogs are kidnapped. Nancy uncovers huge evidence while sneaking into the owners offices, but will her conclusion be true? Or will other secrets need to be uncovered to discover the true identity of the sabitour?
Title: Pendragon 2 The Lost City of Faar
ReplyDeleteAuthor: D.J.MacHale
Name: Dallin Arnold
Grade: 8th
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating: 5
This is the 2nd book in the Pendragon series and takes Bobby Pendragon to the territory of Cloral. Cloral is completely covered in water and people have lived there by making giant, floating, cities. They have lots of technology that allow you to breathe underwater and transport very quickly above and underwater. The traveler on Cloral's name is Spader who rescues Bobby and Press from a near death situation by a killer shark. Spader explains everything about Cloral to Bobby including the underwater crops and the myth of the Lost City of Faar. Faar was once the only part of Cloral that wasn't underwater until it mysteriously sunk deep beneath the surface. They discover that an entire city had been poisoned which had Spader's father living there. They find and old map in Spader's mom's apartment which they think is a map to the city of Faar. Saint Dane is also looking for it and was the one who poisoned the whole city and the crop the city used for food. Soon every crop on Cloral will be poisoned and every living soul living there will die. Bobby's last hope is to find the city of Faar and discover a cure for the poison, but will they find it before Saint Dane and have enough time to save Cloral. The only way to find out is to read the book. It is a definite 5 stars.
Deadly Invaders
ReplyDeleteDenise Grady
Ruth Lynam
6th grade
5 stars*****
Review: In this non-fiction biography, the author, a reporter for New York Time, is sent to the center of a dedly epidemic, in Angola, Africa. She is reporting on a deadly horrific diesease, known as Marburg Fever. Aid groups have sent dozens of doctors down to a city in Angola, Uige, to try to find a cure for this terrible diesease. This illness can attack so quickly and catastrophicly, that sometinmes when doctors check on "alerts" in villages, by the time they get their, the supposed pation is dead. This diesease doesn't spread through the air, but anyone who touches and fluid from a victom's body, are infected. The author tells about her scary symtom of Marburg, and how she could have easily been infected at almost any time. Then she has shorter reports on other dieseases, like SARS, and West Nile Diesease. This book is a representation of the dangerous, horrific world that we live in.
Title: Pendragon 3 The Never War
ReplyDeleteAuthor: D.J. MacHale
Name: Dallin Arnold
Grade: 8th
Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold
Rating: 4
This book is the 3rd of the Pendragon series and is when Bobby goes to First Earth. First Earth takes place in the 1900's when the Hindenburg exploded. The traveler, Gunny, works at a hotel and gives Bobby a place to stay. They find out that Saint Dane is working behind who rival groups of gangs. Luckily, one of the gangs is staying in the hotel. Bobby is able to earn their trust and get as much information as possible from them. It turns out, the leader of the gang has some important information about how to build nuclear weapons which he plans to give to Germany. Bobby has been planning to save the Hindenburg ever since he discovered the information about the technology on it. He gets faced with the situation to let all of the people on the Hinderburg die or destroy in and all of the technology about to be given to Germany if the Hindenburg survives. Will he be able to have the guts to destroy it and kill all of the people on it, or will he give in and save those people's lives.
Title: Speak
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Laurie Halse Anderson
Name: Taylor Speirer
Grade: 7th
Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold
Rating: 5
This book is one of the many books that Laurie Halse Anderson has written. I think this one is by far the best. Speak is about a girl going into her new high school Merriweather High. She is starting a new school year with a completely wrong attitude, the wrong clothes, and not one friend. Melinda has no friends starting high school because she called the cops at her end of the year Middle School party, and a bunch of people got arrested and now despise her for that. All throughout the book Melinda is trying to talk to her old best friend and she tries to make other new friends but just can't seem to find any that she could keep. I would highly recommend this book to others especially girls.
Title: Fever
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Laurie Halse Anderson
Name: Taylor Speirer
Grade: 7th
Advisory: Mrs. Neidhold
Rating: 5
Fever is about a girl that is an only child and her mom and grandfather own a coffee shop. The story takes place in Philadelphia in the year 1793. Mattie Cook is just a small town girl that can't really talk to anyone because she is at home doing chores or either helping her mom and granfather at the coffee shop. One day, their servant that helped out at the shop didn't show up, and she usually shows up everyday on time. Mattie's mom goes to Emily's house and talks to her family. They say that she has died from yellow fever. Yellow Fever killed only a couple people at the start, then it hit Philadelphia hard. Tons of people were dying every day by yellow fever. They started taking the people that were healthy out of town to keep them from getting sick. However if you had any touch of the sickness on you if you were on the wagon going out of town they would just throw you out on the street in the blazing hot sun just letting you lay on the ground until you die. I think this book is the strongest out of Laurie Halse Anderson's books. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to read about a dangerous epidemic that happened many years ago.
Levi Pallavicini
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Nancy Farmer
House of the Scorpion
Grade: 7
Advisory: Ms.Borba
Rate: 5
The House of the Scorpion was a fenominal book. It's about a kid named Matt who thinks he is a human but later he finds out he is the clone of a reining drug lord. The drug lord plans to use Matt for a new heart when his hert goes out. When Matt finds out why he was created, he runs away. When he gets to were he's going, the people hate him because he's a clone. He then runs away to the convent of Santa Clara were his best friend Maria is.
Title:Transal Saga
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Gary Pualsen
Name: Christopher Plateros
Grade:8th
Advisory: Mrs.Neidhold
Rating:5
This book was about how a boy named Mark was hiking in a desert when all of a sudden he gets bit by a snake, and teleports/ pops up in an entirely new place where the trees are leaves are red and so is the grass. As he realises that he won't go home for a while he starts surviveing all by his lonesome in a diffrent world. But then he finds that there is life on the planet other then the animals he hunts and his monkey bear campanion Willy, by finding an arrow in a tree of course human made so he sets out to find these people which he named "The Black Arrow People" and that's about where the story takes off where he knows he can't get off of the world,but he can still stay with the other people. But he does come to problems ahead in time, because there is more far advanced peoples on this world.
Title: The Glass Castle (A Memoir)
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Jeannette Walls
Name: Miss Kaller
Teacher
Rating: 5
The book begins in the present with Jeannette recognizing her mother on the streets of New York- she is homeless. Jeannette tries to understand the choices that her parents made in raising her and her siblings. In order to do this, Jeannette takes the reader all the way back to her first memories to explain how this came to be; living in a trailer in Nevada when she was three. Jeannette's family moved around a lot, Battle Mountain, Phoenix, and a small town in Virginia figure prominently in her story. Eventually, she takes charge of her destiny and moves to New York. Jeannette faced many challenges and situations that on the surface, may seem depressing, but the tone of the book kept me from feeling bad for her. Rather, I envied her ability to adapt to many circumstances and persevere in spite of the craziness that she was often engulfed in.
Blood Dreams
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Kay Hooper
Name: Cate Disbrow
Grade: 7
Rating:4
This book definately caught my attention. It's about a homiside detective who is supposedly a medium for the Florida police department. The setting is supposed to be a place where a lot of unexpected murders have been ocurring. But each crime has something in common, all the victims are women who wre walking alone at night. The medium has a dream of being stuck in the same building as the killer. It's not long before one of the sherrif's wives is kidnapped by the suspect sending the police on an expedition searching for a killer who has been spotted all over the country. This book is full of suspense and is recommended to anyone who likes murder mysteries and a little extra chill up your spine.
Title: Things the Grandchildren Should Know
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Mark Oliver Everett
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Reading Level: HS
Book Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4
This author is one of my favorite musical artists (the band, Eels) and this memoir traces his life from childhood to alternative music success. The most interesting thing about the book is how straightforward it is as he discusses his rather tragic upbringing. His father (a famous physicist) died when Everett was a boy, his mother died of cancer, and his sister committed suicide, leaving him as the sole survivor of his family. He has every right to be depressed but he also has the ability to lace his story with great humor and wit. The book starts out a little weak but the narrative grows stronger and hooks you. Anyone interested in the ins and outs of the music industry will find this compelling reading.
Title: Sophie Scholl & the White Rose
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn
Name: Mr. Wilhite
Grade: Teacher
Reading Level: College
Book Genre: History
Rating: 5 Stars
This book was partially the basis for a film made a few years ago and I finally got around to reading it. Sophie Scholl is one of the great heroes of the 20th Century. She was a German college student living in Munich during World War II. When she, her brother Hans, and several other students refused to go along with the policies of the Nazi regime and actively started to protest, they were caught, put on trial, and executed by being beheaded. Reading this historical account of her history, capture, interrogation, and death makes you realize how few people have the kind of courage she displayed during one of the darkest times in recent human history. The White Rose of the title refers to the secret society of protesters that she helped lead in protest against Hitler.
Title: The Clown
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Heinrich Boll
Name: Addison Wilhite
Reading Level: HS
Book Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5 stars
Set just after WWII in Germany this novel explores the career and downfall of the character Hans Schnier, a professional clown who makes his living performing around the country in clubs. Schnier's problem is he can't help himself from being brutally honest with every person in his life. Even though his honesty is (almost) completely truthful that is no way to maintain healthy relationships with his friends, family, agent, and most importantly, the love of his life, Marie. People don't like to be told the truth and by the end of the book Hans is left alone and penniless. The novel asks the question whether or not you can be an authentic and honest human being and still live in this world. I love this book!
Title: Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Ron Miller
Name: Kacee Johnson
Grade: 6
Rating: 3
Genre: Informational
This book is about the basics of movie magic. It talks about matte paintings combined with the focus of the camera. It reveals the secrets about makeup effects and stunt doubles. People turn into miniature and others people have doubles. It explains how the movie Nightmare Before Christmas was made all out of clay. It reveals all things magical to the movie screen. With the secrets revealed, what will come next?
P.S. If you read this book about special effects, movies will be SO different. Trust me!!!!
Title: Septimus Heap Book 1: Magyk
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Angie Sage
Name: Mackenzie Rader
Grade: 7th
Teacher: Mrs. Neidhold
Magyk is about the Heaps, a family of wizards who have six sons. The father of the Heap family, Silas, is the seventh son in his family. Tradition says that the seventh son of a seventh son will be very powerful in the art of magic. Shortly after the Heap's seventh son is born,he is pronounced dead and taken away by the midwife. Silas soon finds a newborn baby girl who was abandoned in the nearby woods. He brings her home and names her Jenna. Jenna becomes a part of the Heap family and takes the place of their son. Ten years later, the Heap family is joined by Boy 412, a member of the Young Army. How is Boy 412 connected to the Heap family, and where did Jenna come from? This is a story full of adventure that focuses on the strength of family unity.
Title: Fairest
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Gail Carson Levine
Name: Mackenzie Rader
Grade: 7
Teacher: Mrs. Neidhold
The main character in Fairest is Aza who is the sister of Areida who was Ella's friend in the book Ella Enchanted by the same author. Aza is considered to be unattractive and is large in comparison to the rest of her family and her neighbors. Although Aza isn't pretty, she has a beautiful singing voice. She learns how to throw her voice to make it sound like it's coming from a different place or object. She becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Ivy, who commands her to do a task that is dishonest. Aza eventually finds who she really is and what an important role her talents play in the kingdom.
Title: Sisterhood of the Travelng pants
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Ann Brashares
Name: Taylor Forte
Grade: 6
Genre:Realistic fiction
Rating 5
This is about the summer of four girls named Carmen,Tibby,Bbridget, and Lena. They are four best friends who all are going to have an amazing summer. Carmen buys special pants at a second hand store and they all magicly fit every one of the girls. They dont get to spend the summer together so the write letters and send the pants to each other to have good experiences in them. Lena is going to Greese,Carmen is visiting her father, Tibby is staying home,and Bridget is going to a soccor camp in Baja. Lena has bad experiences the first time she goes to Greese. She meets this boy Kostos and he accidently sees her naked. Carmen figures out that her father is going to marry a new wife and has a whole new family,Bridget is in love with a soccor coach, and Tibby meets a girl named Baily. Baily has cancer and Tibby is really good friends with her. They hang out everyday. Soon, Baily is in the hospital again. Tibby doesnt know whats going to happen. Carmen gets so mad at her father she flys home and doesnt want to see him again. Bridget is getting depressed becuase the boy she loves wont be with her. Last but no least,Lena tells her family about Kostos and her gradfather gets mad and punches Kostos grandfather. Will things ever be right? My favorite charecter is Bridget and Lena becuase Bridget is full of adventure and Lena is very shy and well spoken.I highly think this book deseveres a five star!
Name: Zuriah Q.
ReplyDeleteGrade: 6
Title: Fablehaven Grip of the Shadow pague
Author: Brandon Mull
Genre: fantacy
My ratings: *****(five stars!)
Fablehaven is a very suspenceful book filled with a ton of twists and turns. the main character is Kendra Sorsen. Kendra is a 13 year old girl with magical powers who is spending the summer at her grandparent's house, a magical creature preserve called fablehaven. when fable haven isover thrown by a mysterious dark creature Kendra's friends and family are being turned into shadow people! I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading fantacy and loves suspence. i loved it so I hope tou will lke it too.