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Every August, Mary Alice and her brother Joey go to Chicago to visit their unforgettable Grandma Dowdel. She isn’t your normal grandma, when you’re with her you will have a great adventure: whether it’s cheating in a pie contest, illegally catching catfish, or having a dead man in your house. This book tells you about the adventures Mary Alice and Joey have for a few years. It starts out with grandma lying to a reporter that a man that died recently, Shotgun Cheatham, was a famous man. He wasn’t. Then the word got out and Grandma eventually had a gathering at her house for Shotgun. However, Grandma’s cat was in the coffin for Shotgun, and only grandma knew this. The cat moved the coffin and everybody thought that Shotgun was coming back from the dead! Grandma got out her gun and starting shooting like crazy, jumping around in “horror” for effect. Then she illegaly catches fish in one of the Sherrif’s boats. You would think Grandma was in enough trouble, but then she brings some of her old clothing to a yardsale her church was having. She had Abe Lincoln’s name stitched into it, and, with persuasion, got customers to believe it was Abe’s!

Grandma now is in serious trouble with the Sheriff.

Read more about Grandma Dowdel’s fun tricks in the book a Long Way from Chicago.

Blogged by: Sophia R.

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In a magical dominion, three teenage girls are selected to fulfill an ancient prophecy. When Jade, Opal, and Amber turn fourteen, they set out on a journey to defeat evil in a majestic land called Fairytale. In Fairytale, magic is the authority but, wherever there are living creatures, evil exists. Jade, Opal, and Amber are each armed with a magical stone. Jade has a jade, Opal has an opal, and Amber has an amber. They meet magical creatures and untrusting stangers while they cross dark towns and caressing fields. They must defeat the Army of Darkness and bring goodness beyond Fairytale into the Outside world.

At the same time in a parallel universe, a young girl named Joa is dying of a deadly disease. But, when Joa dreams, she is in Fairytale living the life with Jade, Opal, and Amber. The dream is what is keeping Joa alive, making her fight for life.

Jade, Opal, and Amber battle with the Army of Light against the Army of Darkness. There are only hundreds of Light battlers while thousands of Darkness troops fight. But, in order to win the battle and Joa’s life, they must believe in the impossible and dream of one thing: Hope.

Blogged by: Heather C.

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Drama Queen, by Lara Bergen is about a 6th grade girl named Charlie Moore, and her BFF(best friend forever) Nicole doing a school play- “Robin Hood.”  Charlie thinks she is going to have SO much fun, until an 8th grade girl who teases her and Nicole, Amber Wiley gits the lead role, Maid Marian when Charlie gets a woodland creature.  You are probably thinking, “So what if she gets the lead, it is no big deal!” But NO!  The cuteset boy in the whole entire school is the lead role as well, Robin Hood!  Charlie thought the play is going to be a drag, not only does she have to deal with Amber and her clique but the fact that she has to baby-sit her little sister, Olivia during reherasals!  Will Charlie end up quitting the play, or will she end up being a total hit as a squirrel???  To find cout what happens to Charlie and Nicole, read the book, Drama Queen.  I highly recommend it for girls from 3rd grade and up, but I don’t think this book would appeal to boys.

Jodie C.

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The story, ” Facing the Lion” by Joseph Lemasaolair Lekuton, is about an african boy growing up in Northern Kenya, named Joseph Lekuton. Joseph was a small African boy growing up in Kenya, living in huts and sleeping on the hard rock ground. He lived with his mother, father, three brothers, and his tribe. One day, his brothers and other kids from his tribe, had to spend the night protecting their cattle in lion territory. All of a sudden, they hurd all the cows peeing, that means there is a lion nearby. So all the boys started making noise, to scare the lions away, but then they heard a lion catch one of the cows! So read this book ” Facing the Lion”, to see what happens to Joseph and his tribe. This story is realistic fiction, and is four points.

                                                                      – JT L.

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