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Jack Sparrow The Coming Storm is about a boy named Jack. Jack was a pirate himself and a teenager. In the book they have lots of adventures and I’m going to tell you some of them. In the begining of the book the only thing Jack really wants to do is find the sword of Cortes. So he tries. The sword has the most power ever and you can do practically anything with it. On his way he runs into a girl named Arabella and Jack tells her that he is going to try to find the sword of cortes. Arabella was shocked. She could not believe he was going to do that. Since Arabella knew that that was really dangerous she asked him if she could go with her since she was a pirate herself. Jack didn’t want to be caught dead with a girl, but he tought he might need help. Later on in the book while they got their ship ready, there was a boy coming their way he saw them getting ready and he wanted to go with them Jack let him. His name was Fitzwilliam or Fitz for short. He was dressed up all nice with new clothing and very expensive materials. Their ship was the “Buccaneer.” When they were of and ready to sail they started their long journey. In the middle of sailing there there was a terrible storm and they almost got blown away! When they were tired enough they almost gave up but then they saw and island. They were very exited to see that when they got to the island they found two people, they were bays and they were nice. Their names were Tuman and Jean. Jack thought he would never find the Sword of Cortes. He asked Jean and Tumen and Jack expected the answer of a island very far away from were they were. Then they said this is the island. Jack could not believe what he had said. In a couple of days they went to go look for the Sword of Cortes. They found a lot of skulls and weird clues leading to the sword. They found a key along the way and brought it with them thinking it was important. When they came to a hallow place under the King’s bed the king had ruled a long time ago. Jack lifted up the bed and the key was useful afterall. There was a lock blocking the hallow room. Jack opened the room inside and all of the crew looked inside they were all amazed. If you want to find out if it was the Sword of Cortes or if it was something else exiting. To find out YOU have to read the book Jack Sparrow The Coming Storm. I think I would rate this book a 10 out of 10!

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Thora isn’t your normal girl-she has purple scales on her feet and a blowhole on her head. Yes, she’s half mermaid and half human.

Her gorgeous mermaid mother, Halla, married a man named Thor. But Thor disappeared before Thora could be born. So, Thora stays in a boat called the Loki, and there is a hole at the bottom for Halla to periodically check on Thora, since Halla has to be in water of course. The legend says “a half mermaid child must live 10 yrs. on land and 10 yrs. in water to be free”.A man named Mr. Walters discovers the baby Thora in the Loki and helped Halla raise Thora- he was practically her father. But when it was time for Mr. Walters to take Thora to live her 10 years on land things start to fall apart. Frooty de Mare, a snobby, rich man that wants to own the Loki is trying to get back at Thora to get the Loki. He owns many hotels and shops, and he wants the Loki just to be able to say he owns everything in Grimli. Meanwhile, Mr. Walters has to go across the world to the funeral for his brother. Since Thora is old enough, she will be left at Grimli for that short time.But when Frooty de Mare makes a new cinema with a “big surprise” on the opening night, Thora and her friends know something’s up. Holly de Mare, Thora’s bff, tries to get back Thora’s beautiful mermaid mother from Frooty de Mare. He captured her and put her in a tank as the “big surprise”.

Will Thora and Holly be able to get back Halla? Can Thora live the legend to be free? Read the book to find out!

This book, obviously, would be better for girls!

-Sophia R.

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This book is about Ted Hammond who loves to read mysteries. But, what will he do when a real life mystery takes place right in his home town!!! The answer; solve it.

One day when Ted is roaming around his neighborhood he spots a girls face in an old deserted farm house. He thinks that it is ghost but, tries not to think about it. When he goes back the next day he bravely goes into the farm house and discovers and family living there. He quickly becomes friends with the girl that lives there and learns why they are living their. The reasons is that their dad abused the mom and kids so they ran away. They had no were else to live so they decided to live in the farm house. Ted knows that if he tells everyone that they are living there they will be discovered and probably sent to jail. So instead of getting other people to help them he helps them. But, when times are desperate will he tell his mom?????

This is a great story and I would recommend it to anyone even if that person does not like mysteries. This book is a book that keeps you up all night reading page after page chapter after chapter. I think that boys and girls would like this book equally.

Blogged By: Maranda W.

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This book is about a boy named Greg who is in middle school. Greg has a wacky life because of his brother Rodrick. For example his brother Rodrick locked him into the girls bathroom in his grandfather’ s condo. Another wacky thing that happened was when Greg’s parents went out of town Rodrick through a party for all of his friends. Also there was a time when Greg joined the swim team and Greg hated it. The pool was always cold. However Greg found a way to get around it: every time the swim class started, Greg would ask his coach if he could go to the restroom and the coach would say yes. Then Greg would go to the restroom and stay there until the class was over. If you want to know if there are any more crazy situations you are going to have to read the book Diary of a Whimpy Kid#2 Rodrick Rules. I think this book would appeal to boys and girls because it is a humorous book.

By: Lauren W

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Have you ever read a book about how friends get along? The book, The Boy Next Door, by Laura Dower, is about how Taryn and Jeff’s friendship changes when they get to middles school. Things change in middle school because Taryn starts to hang out with girls more and Jeff starts to hang out with boys more. The main characters of the book are Taryn and Jeff. This book is about how friends can get along well and sometimes don’t get along so well. One of my favorite parts in the book is when there is an awesome carnival at school and Taryn is the carnival crew leader. I like this part of the book because there are a lot of crazy things happening. For example, the school’s principal wore swim trunks, a Hawaiian shirt, and lei to the carnival. The book might teach some people a lesson about friendship. I would give this book 7 out of 10. I would give this book that rating because it grabbed me but it was not my favorite book. I would recommend this book to girls because Taryn has a little crush on a boy and there is other girly stuff like wearing make-up. I don’t think boys would really enjoy reading the book. This book’s grade level is probably 3^rd grade and up and there are 158 pages. The chapters switch from Taryn’s point of view to Jeff’s point of view, which is really interesting in a good way. This is the Candy Apple Book series so if you are interested in other books like this just go to a library or to a book store and get other Candy Apple Books. This was a GOOD book!

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Claire P.

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    In the book Shadow Horse by Alison Hart it tells the story of a girl named Jasmine Schuler who is accused guilty, by a man named Hugh Robicheaux the real killer, of killing a horse named Whirlwind, a  champion horse she loved.  She is sent to Second Chance Farm for forty-five days in foster care and under probation.  The owner of the farm is Miss Hahn.  She meets a boy named Chase there and at first she couldn’t stand him, but then she started to get a crush on him.  They go to a killers auction where people buy loads of horses and bring them to slaughter houses.  The meat is then shipped to Europe and Japan where horse steak is considered a delicacy.  They go there to save horses from suffering, but if they are really sick they buy them just to put them to sleep.  Jasmine (aka Jas) saw a horse and knew his disease, so they bought him and Jas thought he looked like a horse that she had before -Aladdin-on High Meadows Farm, the farm that she and her grandfather worked on.  When they got back, Jas decided to name her new horse Shadow.  Later Dr. Danvers-Hugh’s old vet- found out there was a microchip in Shadow’s neck.  They use microchips to tell horses apart.  But then Jas actually found out that “Shadow” really was Aladdin and that Hugh had used a ringer for Aladdin and  Whirlwind, although we don’t know how he got the same microchip into both horses’ necks.  A ringer is a replacement that looks exactly the same.  Now that she got the proof to prove Hugh guilty, all she had to do is find the real Whirlwind… This is a FANTASTIC mystery book and I would recommend this book to all genders.

 

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This is the sequel to Ribbons. Robin’s parents’ arguing is even worse than before. Sometimes Robin just wants to get out of the house and visit her grandma. One day when Robin is visiting he grandma they decide to take a walk through china town. When they get there the stop to eat at a restaurant and get something to eat. When they walk in the waiter rushes up to them and says “Your perfect!! “ Of course Robin and her grandma have no idea what he is talking. They waiter explains to them that their cook just found out that his wife and one of his kids have died ☹. Now, he won’t do anything but sit and cry. So the waiter wants Robin and her grandma to pretend to be his wife and kid.  They agree to do it because they think that it will only be for one day but, when the waiter ask them to come back tomorrow they can’t say no. When they arrive home Robin’s parents are fighting again so Robin decides to make a rule. The rule that she makes is, no matter what happened that day the whole family must eat dinner together and be happy about it.  Then one day when they go back to the restaurant to find that the restaurant closed and all the money gone!!! Where is the cook? Where is all the money? It is up to Robin and her grandma to find out!

This book is a great book. It is NOT a mystery! I think that girls will like this book more that boys. I hope that you will read this book.

Blogged by : Maranda W.

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           The story Midnight Library by Damien Graves is not a ordinary story. This book has three stories that are very mysterious. The first story is called Liar and it is about a young girl named Lauren. It is Laurens birthday and her parents usually work late, so when she got home from school she expected for there to be nobody there. Later on Laurens dad came home to celebrate Laurens birthday. To Laurens surprise, her father got Lauren her very own computer. Lauren goes on to her computer and decides that when she is on the Internet, she should be a fashion model with long blond hair named Jennifer. Soon Lauren finds out that she is telling all these make believe things to kids in her class. Lauren is afraid because now when she goes on the computer she will have to lie to keep the truth secret. Next thing Lauren knows, she is a figment of Jennifer’s imagination. The next story is called Tickets Please which is about three kids named Brian, Craig, and Emily. Brian, Craig, and Emily are going to a basketball game and they need to get there by train but there is one problem and that is when they get to the train station, they have no money. While the kids are thinking of something to do, Brian tells Craig and Emily about his Great Uncle Ray. Brian’s Great Uncle Ray was once on a train ride to a basketball game and suddenly he disappeared with his foam finger laying neatly on his seat. Brian comes up with this crazy plan to sneak on the train without a ticket and so Brian talks Craig and Emily into it. Later on, Brian sees a familiar man on the train and it was the same man that was selling tickets at the train station. To Brian’s astonishment, he finds out the strange man is his Great Uncle Ray. The last story is called Killing time with three girls; Alexis, Amber, and Tori. The three girls are at Alexis’s house and suddenly Alexis started to faint.  Alexis was just acting because she was excited about drama class where they play wink murder. Wink murder is a game where somebody winks at another person and pretends to die dramatically. Alexis cannot wink so her friend Tori said ” Don’t worry because someday you will be a good wink murderer”. When Alexis learns how to wink, she winked at Tori and then Tori fainted. The next day Alexis went on a feild trip with her class and winked at a dog at the animal shelter where they were because the dog seemed to like Alexis  but the  next thing she knows the dog fainted. Then Alexis remembered what Tori had said which was” Someday you will be a good wink murderer”. 

Alexandra C.   

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The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley is about to girls named Sabrina and Daphne Grimm(as you already know) . This time it takes place in New York City! This time Puck got hurt. So, they go to New York City.In New York City there’s a secret land of Farie . There they find a remedy to cure Puck. Then all of a sudden the king , Orbeon, gets killed and its up to Sabrina to find out who killed him and why? On the way Sabrina and her sister find out a secrets about there mother. Will they find out who killed the king ? Will Sabrina quit her detective work? Will Puck ever get out of his stinky cocoon? Find out in The Sisters Grimm book 4.

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    Soldier X stands for soldier Alexander. In soldier X Alexander goes to war. He meets a couple of people and they become his friends. The main characters in this story are Alexander, Tamara, Jakob, and Dobelmen. In the beginning of the story,  in the war against Russia Alexander gets shot in the arm. Then he is stuck down in this huge ditch and can’t get out. Dead Russian people get killed and fall in the same ditch that Alexander is in.  The only way he can get out a live is to change his clothes with the Russians clothes. He ends up getting out of the ditch and Russian soldiers think that he is from Russia because he is wearing Russian clothes. The Russians then take Alexander to the hospital for help and he ends up recovering well. When he is there at the hospital he meets a girl named Tamara. He has a crush on her. Tamara ends up liking Alexander too. Tamara has always dreamed of living in California. If you want to figure out if they make it to California or if they end up dying or getting hurt, read Soldier X by: Don Wulffson.

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Nancy Drew books are great mystery books to read!! Out of all the Nancy Drew books I’ve read this is my favorite ! In this book Nancy Drew is hired by a girl named Portia. Portia was dethroned from a beauty pageant because  she “stole” dresses from the store Fleur .  The only way to investigate this crime is to join the pageant this year!! Will Nancy find out who set up Portia? Will there be an unexpected twist? Hope you read this book and anwser these questions for yourself!!

blogged by: Ione G.

Mrs. Phillips class

Realistic Fiction

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The story Animorphs by K.A. Applegate is about these aliens called Hork Bajir. There is one Hork Bajir named Aldrea and she is the main character. Aldrea’s father needs to go to a different planet  to train to become a warrior. Aldrea gets inspired by her father and wants to become a warrior just like him. There is one problem and that is Aldrea also wants to be like every other female Hork Bajir and she knows that girls are not born to be warriors. Every girl should have a tail blade smaller than males and to not do any fighting.  Aldrea’s father thinks if Aldrea wants to become a warrior then he should take his whole family with him. Aldrea gets into wild adventures and morphs into other animals. Aldrea’s father gets asked to go into this one place called Father Deep or known as The Deep. Father Deep is a place that no Hork Bajir has made it out of there alive. Aldrea and her family made it past the guardiansof Father Deep and made it past where any Hork Bajir has gone. Aldrea’s biggest challenge is getting in a fight with a Yeerk. A Yeerk can take over any humans body. I will not tell you any more of the story because I want you to go and get this adventurous story.

-Alexandra C.

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In the future, a young orphan named Cosmo Hills escapes from a terrible orphanage. In the orphanage the boys are tested on and worked to exhaustion. While he is escaping he falls from a rooftop and is about to die. But he sees things in the air that are sucking his life. That’s when a group of kids shows up. They start to shoot the things so he won’t die. Later he finds out that the things are parasites that suck people’s life only when they are hurt. The group of kids are called the Supernaturalists. Their group consists of the leader, Stefan, the medic, Ditto, and the kid Mona. The Supernaturalists patrol the city wiping out parasites when they are needed. But is that actually what they are supposed to do? Well if you want to find out you have to read this book. I think this book would be mainly for boys but girls can read it too. Happy Reading!

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Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson is about a girl named Mia who has to move from England to Brazil. Mia has to live with Mr.Carter, her Uncle, who collects glass eyes, Mrs.Carter, her aunt, who is obsessed with cleanliness, and her two twin cousins Beatrice & Gwendolyn who are arrogant. On her trip to Brazil Mia met Miss Minton, the Carters’ new governess. She also met a young actor named Clovis and promised to see his show in Manaus, the town nearest to where the Carters live. Mia became good friends with Miss Minton and Miss Minton becomes good friends with her. The Carters have Indians as servants and Mia becomes good friends with them. One day Mia meets an Indian/English boy named Finn and becomes great friends with him. Two men from England come looking for Finn to take him to England to inherit Westwood because his father and uncle had died and only boys can inherit Westwood. Finn doesn’t want to inherit Westwood and tries to escape to the Xanti Indians. I think that this story girls would like better. If I rated it 1-10 I’d give it a 9.

-Morgan R.

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Emily: your typical junior high student with the typical junior high problems. Emily’s life is just going all wrong. She has a crush on a boy because she thought he had a crush on her, but now she’s not sure, her mom and dad are either fighting or all lovey-dovey, her bff (best friend forever) Sandra, is acting weird, and she’s trying to get a job.

Emily is given a kit “Flashcards of my Life”, it’s a deck of cards she writes on about her life.

So, Emily likes Andrew-a lot. She gets to have gym class with him, where they dance. But she’s starting to think that Andrew likes her bf (best friend) Sarah W. She has two bfs named Sarah- Sarah W. and Sarah J. They’re not really good friends. They’re rich, bossy, and always get what they want.

Later, Emily finds out that her bff, Sandra, is dating Mike. Mike has the locker right next to Emily. And when they were younger, Mike and Emily kissed! (gross) This was not something Emily was going to mention to Sandra. So that’s why she was acting weird.

Emily is going on a roller coaster with Andrew (no, not literally). Up, down, up, down. Andrew seems to like Emily, then he doesn’t. He doesn’t wnat to be partners at dance, then invites her to his house. What’s a girl to do?

What will happen to Sandra? Will she stay friends with Emily after not telling her about Mike? Will Andrew become Emily’s Boyfriend? And how will Emily survive junior high? Read this book to find out about Emily and her friends, enemies, and everything in between.

Not reccomended for boys!

Blogged by Sophia R.

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This book takes place in a farm and the main characters, T.P. and Mocha are both dogs and T.P. does not like Mocha because he is to annoying. When T.P. wakes up he is very suspicious because he finds many different sounds in the morning. T.P. sees that his kid owner Jeff is going to the door and answers it. T.P. finds that there is a big box in the middle of the porch and the box was making very different noises. Jeff comes in with the box and opens it. Out comes a dark brown little puppy bouncing all over the place. T.P. was amazed and so was Jeff’s parent. Jeff and his parents only agreed to have the little pup until their owners were back from vacation. The owner was Jeff’s friend. They named the little puppy Mocha. Mocha drives T.P. CRAZY because Mocha keeps on asking questions. T.P. set a rule that Mocha can only ask 3 questions at a time. Everything was going fine until Jeff, Jeff’s friend (Mocha’s owner), Mocha, and T.P. went for a walk. T.P. went by the lake for a walk until he found a goose. All of a sudden the goose starts attacking T.P. because he was by the gooses eggs. T.P. manages to escape and he goes by Jeff, Jeff’s friend, and Mocha. They all go by where T.P. was attacked and Jeff’s friend throws a ball in the lake. T.P. was shocked and Mocha goes running after it. The same goose that attacked T.P., attacked Mocha! The goose was starting to drown Mocha. Will Mocha survive? Will T.P. save Mocha? If you want to know, read this book, Goosed. I think this book will appeal to boys and girls. The book is only 125 pages long and did not take me long to read. This books vocabulary is not hard either. This book is fantasy because the animals talk. Bill Wallace is one of my favorite authors because he often writes animal books and I love animals. I recommend this book to whoever likes animals.

David G.

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In this book a girl named Anastasia writes in her diary. I thought it was an interesting book. In this story she writes about the days of her life. That may sound boring but can you imagine riding your bike down the hallway or roller blading  down the stairs in a huge castle in Russia?  Its awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also during winter getting snow and freezing it to get a frozen snow mountain to sled down ? There’s so much more fun and tragedy. Hope U read this book!!

blogged by : Ione G.

mrs. phillips class

Historical Fiction

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The SistersGrimm by Michael Buckley is an awesome book. It’s the 3 book in the series.   Its about a girl named Sabrina and Daphne.  In this story they fight a girl named LITTLE  RED RIDING HOOD except thet she turned evil! And pet ” kitty ” is  a BIG SCALY MONSTER!!! Other than that her Uncle decided to show up and get them into trouble like almost getting eaten by a giant hermit crab or freaky chicken witches but it’s  a normal day for Sabrina Grimm. All she can think about is getting her  parents back!! and … and… well I’ll  leave that up to U to find out!! Its an awesome book and I hope you read it!!

blogged by : Ione G.

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Fantasy

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The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his friends Dallas, Johnny, Two-Bit and his brothers Sodapop and Darry. There is a feud between the Soc’s, the rich kids, and the Greasers, the kids from the wrong side of the tracks.  One night Johnny and Ponyboy were hanging out at the park and they were attacked by the Soc’s.  One of them starts drowning Ponyboy in a fountain while Johnny is getting beaten up. This is a classic, well written book about the hardships between two different classes of people. To see what happens you have to read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I give this book my highest recommendation. This book is an advanced reader’s book and for grades 5^th and up. This book is a must read.

Jose R

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Angelfish by Laurence Yep is about a girl named Robin. One day Robin is coming back from ballet class with her friends she accidentally throws her bag at the fish store window. She breaks the window. She does not want to tell her mother because she knows that it cost a lot of money to replace a window. When the grumpy man comes out he tells Robin that to pay for the cost of the window she must work everyday after ballet class for one hour. Though she doesn’t want to Robin knows that she must work with this grumpy old man. She decides that she can trust her grandma and tells her that she broke the window. Working together Robin and her grandma discover many interesting things about this man. But the most surprising thing is…

This book probarly would apeal more to girls than boys. This book is part of a series but, you don’t have to read the series in order to understand this book. The other tow books in the series are Ribbons and The Cook’s Family.

Blogged by: Maranda w.

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This is a fun book I read. Charlotte’s (she’d rather be called Charlie, so that’s what I’ll say) world is being turned upside. Her new teacher is beyond bad,( she calls Charlie Charlotte-GROSS!), she’s forced to sit by the obnoxious teacher’s pet, Jamie, her single mother, who she calls Joe, can’t keep up with their apartment bills, and they’re assinged a victorian times project. Let me slow down. Jo, Charlie’s mom is left without a job, so she starts working for a family, Mark, and his son Robin. She takes care of Robin and brings him to their apartment when his dad, Mark, is busy. Weird though… whenever Jo goes to pick-up Robin Jo dresses up, you know, perfume, heels, skirt, her special sweater. Charlie thinks she kind of likes Mark…ooooh!
At school, Charlie decides to make a diary for her victorian times project. Part of this book is the diary. In the diary there is a girl named Lottie, she work as a maid to make money, for a very strict master I must say!
Later on, Mark invites Jo and Charlie to go with Robin and him to the amusement park. Charlie reluctantly goes with Jo (and Jo is of course very happy). They have a nice time. However Jo and Mark go on some lovey-dovey ride while Jo and Robin just watch. But what was that? Did Jo and Mark just kiss? Charlie wanted to puek. But she started to tell Robin that his father doesn’t love him, and he will get rid of him. This is not true, of course. But Robin is young and shy, and this startled him. Later on in the night, when Mark was going to say goodnight to Robin. He was gone. He ran away. Charlie felt terribly guitly for telling him those bad things, causing him to run away. Everyone was looking for him, including the cops.
What happens to Robin, will he be found? Will Mark and Jo marry? Read this book to find out!

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This book is all about convincing Ivy’s dad not to move to Europe. The girls also found out who their parents are their dad is Karl Lazar and their mom is well she died when they were born. The girls do many things and face many obstacles to do this. The first thing they do is make a presentation of what is bad about Europe and good about Franklin Grove. Well that didn’t work a bit. Next they tried finding the perfect girl for Mr. Vega and that just made him want to move to Europe even more because she was saying stuff that was great in Europe. Then they just kept on trying to figure out stuff to convince him to stay. Well who is this Karl Lazar and what happened to him? Read this book to find out.

Saliha H.

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In this book the main characters are Renny Harding and Bryce McCormick. Renny plays for the Blue Hornets and Bryce plays or the Yellow Jackets. Renny and Bryce don’t like each other at first. The only reason Bryce doesn’t like Renny is because The Blue Hornets beat the Yellow Jackets. The Yellow Jackets were undefeated until the Blue Hornets beat them. If the Yellow Jackets beat the Orange Crush then they would go on to the play – offs. What Renny and Bryce don’t notice is that Coach Harrelson is watching players play for next year. Coach Harrelson is the  soccer coach for Renny’s and Bryce’s highschool.  He  is scouting for players.  Turk Walters plays for the Orange Crush and Turk Walters fouls people a lot  on purpose.  Bryce goes up to Turk and asks him if he would foul Renny in the game on Saturday. If you want to know if Renny gets hurt by Turk or if Renny’s team goes to the play offs and beats the Yellow Jackets again, or if Renny or Bryce makes the highschool soccer team next year, read Soccer Duel by Matt Christopher.

Jack S.

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This book is about a boy named Ricky who lives on a farm. Ricky has hated every single dog in the universe because when he was a little boy he was attacked by a dog and had to go to the hospital due to his bad injuries. Then came a long a stray dog that was starving to death. Ricky looks at the dog and if the dog even comes close to him, he threatens to kill him. One day when Ricky’s mom came outside to feed the cats and the stray dog came to eat also but the cats started to attack him so the stray dog was about to starve to death. One night when Ricky was eating dinner, he saw the stray dog outside and gave him his leftovers from dinner even though he hated dogs. Ricky fed him a couple of times and started to have feelings for the dog. Will Ricky keep the dog with his fear of dogs or will he let him starve to death? If you want to find out, read this book, A Dog Called Kitty. I think both boys and girls with like this book. This book does not have a hard vocabulary and I recommend this book to whomever likes the farm life. I hope you read this great book, A Dog Called Kitty.

Blogged by: David G.

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This is a fun book filled with romance and adventure you won’t want to put down. It’s about Mr. Penderwick and his four daughters, Skye, A Math Wiz, Jane, The Romantic Writer, Rosalind, The Oldest and Wisest, and lastly, the youngest, Batty-and she’s just adorable! They go on a family vacation in a rented cottage at Arundel, home of snooty Mrs. Tifton, her son, Jeffery, and her boyfriend, Dexter. Now, let me get something straight about Mrs. Tifton. She is rude, judgmental, lives in a gorgeous mansion complete with large gardens, has such a short liesh on Jeffery (it’s already been planned he has to go to military school. He doesn’t want to go, and he hates the way his mother acts), and Dexter…not the warmest of fellows, meaning he is perfect for Mrs. Tifton! Ha ha! Later on, the girls become great friends with Jeffery, Mrs. Tifton’s son, and Cagney, who takes care of Mrs. Tifton’ s gardens so she could win the garden contest. However, Mrs. Tifton doesn’t believe that the Penderwick girls are the “right people” for Jeffery to hang out with, same with Dexter. The girls do tend to run around and get themselves into trouble, but they are sweet and kind. Mrs. Tifton then goes too far everytime she spots the children playing her garden by calling the girls names, insulting the Penderwick family, and making fun of their mother that passed away. Mrs. Tifton has gotten furious at the innocent girls and wants them out. How awful! The big shock in the book was when the girls are at Jeffery’s birthday party. Mrs. Tifton is being her usual rude self, except she had Dexter there to silently cheer her on. Great. But then, the girls and Jeffery start playing outside when Mrs. Tifton comes outside with Dexter and starts dancing. The children weren’t spotted yet, so they listened in on their conversation. Mrs. Tifton was asking if they should get married, because “when a child’s mother is happy the child is” (NOT!) and they planned to send him off. How cruel! What’s going to happen to Jeffery? Will his mom marry Dexter? Will Jeffery be sent off? To know these juicy secrets, read The Penderwicks. I enjoyed this book a lot, which means it’s very good since I don’t like reading! Boy or girl, you’ll love it.

Sophia R.

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This book is about a boy named Hank, who has two friends, Frankie and Ashley. It’s the first day of fourth grade and the class had to write a 5 paragraph essay. Hank doesn’t want to write the essay so he does a living essay of Niagara Falls, his vacation place. Hank thinks that having a living essay is a good thing, but he is completely wrong! The tube that had the water running through to make a water fall was made of cardboard,which got soggy and exploded. I Loved this book, it was amazing!!!! I would recommend this book to all ages (except for really really young kids). It is a very funny book!

Austin W.

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WARNING!!!!! YOU MUST LOOK AT ANGEL EXPIREMENT FIRST!!!! If you have, read on. This book is the 2nd in the series. But this time they learn they have to save the world. During a battle against Ari,an eraser ,bangs Fang`s head on a rock and he has to go to the hospital but going to the hospital could tell the world they have wings, that is bad, real bad. but they have to go so they do. To find out if Max and her flock get known around the world and save the world…read Maximum ride book 2. I rate this book 10 of 10!

Jose R

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The book These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a very good book, but only if you are into Historical Fiction. In this book Laura is going to go to “teacher’s examinations” hoping to get a good school to teach. She soon takes the examinations and thinks that they are very hard. In the mail the next day she gets her results and finds out that she got a good school! Laura soon stays with Mrs. Brewster’s because her school is so far away. Pa and Laura are soon on there way to Mrs. Brewster’s. The next day Laura is off to her first day at school teaching. When she gets there she finds out that she as 5 students some good, some bad. She gets through a whole month of teaching, and decides to use her money to get Mary, who is off at college home for the summer. When Laura and Mary come home, the Wilder family brings back a lot of their family traditions- like Pa playing the fiddle while he sings along, and all the girls and young women cleaning the house together. Once Laura was home she was playing with Almonzo a lot more often. I do not want to say anything else because that would give away part of the book, but this is for sure a book that I would recommend for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders!

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      Haunted Animals is a great, but kind of a scary book. There are a lot of chapters about different animals. This book is 128 pages. One of my favorite chapters was Rescue from the Beyond. What happened was there is a girl named Megan and her dog named Hamlet. Hamlet loved Megan so much that he would put his life on the line for her. They live in a neighborhood that is not very nice. One time someone broke into Megan’s house and the dog fought off the bad guys.  I would love to have that dog. There is one more thing that happened at the end of the book. If you want to find out, then you should read the book Haunted Animals by Allan Zullo.

By Jack S.

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