Walk Two Moons

This book is one of the best books i have ever read. This book got a New Berry Award for best book.In this book it talks about this girl named Sal, She meets this girl named Pheobe, Pheobe is a girl that is funny but at the same thime very cautious about her surondings. There are 4 main charecters in this book, there are Sal, Pheobe, Grams ( who is really the grandma), Gramps ( who is really the grampa). When i read this book, what goes through my mind is: "O that is really sad" or " thats funny" or i can just picture what is happening in my mind, ex: when the grampa took of his shirt, and his pants but did not take of his boxers and when the grandma got bitten by a snake on the ankle and a boy they met had to suck and spit either the blood or the poison so she could live ( that part kind of scarrred me because i thought she was going to die).

I would give this book a 10 because this book is so well written and all the other books by Sharon Chreech are so well written.

Salamandastron

Salamandastron is a book in the series called Redwall, and like many books I read it's perfect for me.And I'm downright happy with that!  Something unique about Redwall(the series)all the characters are animals, such as Hares, Mice, shrews, Toads, Rats, Weasels, stoats, and Ferrets!  Salamandasron is a huge mountain that has a big castle carved into it, it holds a large fighting Badger(Badgers, for the most part are fierce warriers) and about forty fighting Hares armed with javelins, bows, and speares.  I would rate this book a 10!

The Blindside

The Blindside is a book about football and a kid named Micheal Oher. He is a 6'6, 345 lb. 16 year old. He grew up in West Memphis, the black part of Memphis. His mom is addicted to crack and his dad is dead. His mom wanted him to go to a christian school instead of a public school. So he goes to a school in East Memphis, the white part of Memphis. When I read this book the voice inside my head is saying, "wow, he is big!" or "my mom so copied that line from this book" (My mom read this book.) I would rate this book a 9 just because I'm not very far in it.

Forever... part 2

I know I have already posted about this book before but I read it again in Mexico and decide I just don't like it! I think I have grown out of the romance genre believe it or not. The whole thing just annoys me and the voices in my head were saying, "Wow, this is incredibly stupid." I think what changed my mind is that I've realized romance IS overrated. Okay, so you love somebody, move on with your life! Jeez, this has gotten me really worked up. Anyway, if your interested read the book but it has sex in it so beware.

The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles is about a family that his dad left his family. The kids names were Mallory Simon and Jared were moved to there aunt Lucinda. The Field guide is book one and it is really good i all ready read the sires and it was really good if you like fairies. There is going to be a movie in theaters on February 14, 2008. Some movies of books they ruin but others are awesome like Eragon and Harry Potter. This might be one of the ggod or the bad. My voice says that there will be a lot f action in the fifth book i wonder if the second sires is going to be good.

Flipped

The book Flipped, is about a little girl called Juliana who likes a boy who's name I dont remember. The girl follows the boy everywhere and does not leave him alone, but the boy wants too be left alone. I think he should just go out and be friends. If he just keeps on ignoring her something bad will most likely happen. In the book he makes many bad choises and you learn a lot from his many mistakes. In this book you ethier think "that was nice!" or "WHY DID YOU DO THAT!!!".

Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Girls in Pants is a great book so far because I read the first two books and liked them a lot. But I have not finished the third book. I also like the book because you have to read the other two before like in order. The second voice in my head when I am reading says wait " I am confused, no never mind, oh it was in the book before."  I would give it a 10 so far. It is really good.

Summer Ball

Summer Ball is about a boy named Danny Walker. Danny is an amazing basketball player(like his dad). But, Danny is very short. Although he has learned how to use his shortness to his advantage, and he's very good at basketball, he still has a lot of things to learn about the game. His dad signs him up for a hard core basketball summer camp that only exeptionaly good players go to. Danny, and his two friends, Ty and Will, decide to go to the camp(although none of them are very exited about it). At camp Danny runs into mean people, though times and new friends. But he ends up getting through it and in my oppinion, when he leaves camp, he's a whole different person. Some parts of this book made me feel like I was in the story, or at least I wanted to be in the story. Other parts made me feel completely furios with some characters. And there were even some really touching parts. I would rate this book a 9. This is one of my top 15 favorite books!


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Dear America Series

These books don't exactly qualify for a series but thats alright. These books are dairies. I know that this doesn't sound very cool but all of them are great. You have to have some back ground knowledge or the stories get super confusing. I like these books because it being a dairy you have the same thoughts that the person writing has. Like if someone is stealing and only the one person knows about it then you can feel the frustration they must feel. They are also really good for creating these little pictures in your mind because it's in a form that ( because the person is telling the dairy) lets you ask a ton of questions about what other people think and feel, what the writer felt and what life was like then. It also is really fun to ( because these books are historical fiction) read other books about that time period and make connections. That is what I've been doing with my History of Us book. I keep seeing things or they talk about things that I have found somewhere in the book. They don't really come in an order but you can read them according to the year they are based on. I think that these books are an eight not ten because they aren't really the best ever book but they are pretty good.

Sheep and Goat

If you saw a book called Sheep and Goat would you want to read it? I thought that sounds like a stupid book. Then when I picked it up and read the first page I said wow this book is actually good. Now I learned two things when I read this book. The first thing I learned was this sheep was really rude to the goat and they went through problems like people do. They show how they would solve it and I was thinking "you know this really makes you think of your life and your own problems". The second thing it taught me was that you never judge a book by its cover or its title. I rate this book a 7 because it kind of gives you help on your life.

No Talking

Do you talk a lot? Could you spend two whole days without talking? I would not spend two whole days without talking if I could chose, but if I had to spend two whole day without talking I could probably just make it. I think it would be hard not to talk for two days because talking is the main way we communicate. If I have a question I say it out loud. If I want to tell my friend something I say it to them. We don't write notes to tell our friends something, we talk. No Talking is a book about 5th graders that can't stop talking. Yada yada yada, all day long. Then a contest starts. The contest is to see who can say the least number of words, the boys or the girls? Who do YOU think will win?

The Ghost of Fossil Glen

This book may sound cheesy, but in my opinion, it is one of the best books ever. This book is about a girl, Allie, who has strange things beginning to happen to her. For example, When she needed a journal, one appeared in the mail, there was no return address. And it was all blank. But then when she leaves the book closed in her room, she comes back to find the book opened, with cursive letters that read, I am L. I think that I am L, is only part of a sentence, and it wasn't finished. Later in the story, it said that Allie found a grave stone in the same place where she had first had these strange happenings occur (Fossil Glen), that said R.I.P Lucy. It think that The words that she found in her notebook, I am L, will be finished and end up saying I am Lucy. She also has been hearing voices, but I don't want to give away to much of the story.

When i read this book, there are many thoughts in my head that are related to the story. I have never gotten lost in this book, that is how good it is! I haven't gotten very far, but I am itching to read more! This book has great detail.

I think that The Ghost of Fossil Glen is a good book to read because it ties into real life, like, Allie has some friend troubles. For example, some of Allies friends were talking about her behind her back, and Allie finds out. And you will have to find out what happens. This book is not all friend troubles, and stuff like that, it is mostly mystery. This book is so great!

The Last Dragon

I am reading a book thats is called "The last Dragon". The boy in this book is sad because he has to go visit his "great aunt" in Chinatown. But the boy doesn't even know her. But he gets a really good seprise. His "great aunt" lives write above a noodle factory. It would be hard for me to go visit my "great aunt" that I don't even know and to leave my parents. Know he has a place to remember his whole life. He hung it on his "great aunts" coat hanger and it drags to the floor. I wonder if he'll want to go when it is time to leave. I would give this book an 8 1/2 because I like the story because it is fun learning about his life. I wouldn't give it a 10 because it is not my favorite book.

I would love to go to his "great aunts" house because she lives write above a noodle factory. I would love to go there because I love noodles a lot.

The Get Rich Quick Club

The Get Rich Quick Club is about a girl who wants to be a millionaire. Though, her family doesn't have a lot money. So she starts a club with a group of kids, and they hatch a scheme, to become millionaires.

I thought the book was really funny because it had a girl in it who came from Australia and the author came up with a whole bunch of funny words for her to use. Here are some examples: stroppy= bad mood, dead horse=tomato sauce, flog=sell crumpet=worthless, frog in a sock=mad.

The author chose an unusual topic, I don't know of many authors that would choose that sort of topic. It was really, really, funny and I would rate it a 8.

The Sisters Club

This book I just finished yesterday. I loved it to. This book is about 3 sisters Joey age 8,Stevie age 10,and Alex age 12 and 3/4. They have a club called the sisters club. Let me explain what some of the things about the sisters club. Mascot Alex's sock monkey. Place Alex's room. No saying nutjob (that bugs Alex). Also no stealing stuff from Alex's room (expesaly stuff with glitter). This book is by Megan McDonald the athor of the Judy Moody books. So any fans of Judy Moody I would defiently recomend it. 

Mossflower

This is another exiting book in the Redwall series. It's filled with action and strategy. It sometimes makes me wish that it would just finish the scene before going to a different one. It can be so exiting and full of suspense,but then it moves to a different group of people and leaves it for later in the book. Every time it changes scenes I scream arrrgh! in my head because it ends on a cliff hanger. They also do things really stupid or dangerous, like stealing food from the most dangerous queen in Mossflower woods, but they aren't all that scared. They even seem like they don't really care and just think they can escape in a heartbeat. It's a very complicated and thick book so I don't have too many comments to make.

Abel's Island

Abel's Island is about a very elegant and I'm guessing rich mouse named Abel. Abel gets tossed and tumbled in a storm and is washed up on to a beautiful but uninhabited island.

I haven't finished this book yet but it is very interesting and cute. Abel has to learn to adapt to the island until help comes. I think that he is going to end up bringing his wife on the island to live with him. He is blocked off by a river but the river is very strong so Abel can not cross it. He can't swim, go by boat or even make a bridge!

I would definitely give this book a 10 because of it's excellent meaning and it's wonderful detail.

Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time

This book in the same time period a Millicent Min Girl Genius. Stanford flunks 6th grade English and instead of going to basketball camp he has to go to summer camp, so he can go to 7th grade. In Millicent Min Girl Genius it show what Millicent's point of view is and in this book it shows Standford's point of view. It's interesting to see how their thinking is alike and not alike.I liked that the author use the same time peroid but she used different ponts of view in the 3 books she wrote.

Franny K. Stein the Fran with Four Brains

This book is the latest book in the Franny K. Stein series. To me I think it is the best.Because it is the only one where she is really really really close to geting killed. O.k. i'll start from the begining. Boy I hope that I can make it. It's so hard to not give it away! O.k. here it goes. In this story she makes robots so that she csn be less busy and stressed out. But then they turn evil,and plan to take overthe world so that no one can get in their way of excellence. 

Nicholas

This book is about a French school-boy named Nicholas, and he has a "gang" of friends at school. They are always getting into trouble and it's really funny. The voices in my head when I was reading this were really connecting and it was almost like I was having a conversation with the characters in the book like I was Nicholas. This is a series and the next book is Nicholas Again, followed by Nicholas on Vacation, and Nicholas and the Gang. I also like this book because every other page or so it has funny little drawings.I would give this book a 10 because it was one of the best I've read all year.

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials are the most confusing, scariest, saddest, weirdest, coolest, most magical books I have ever read. It's very weird to think about everyone having their soul outside of their body. Then, you think it's weird to meet someone that's normal. How strange is that? What I also think is really cool is that every magic thing I had heard about that was magic was in there. right now I am about 100 pages to finishing the Amber Spyglass, (the third book in the series) and I'm thinking about putting the book down. I'm really not enjoying it as much as I could if I understood it. I also wouldn't want to have someone with my same problem. So all those His Dark Materials readers: hold off on the Amber Spyglass unless you want it to be at it's best.                                           

this is for week of december 2nd

Paint The Wind

This book is about a horse named Artimisa and a girl named Maya and when I read it I thought it was just a reguler horse story but it wasn't. I was really srprized. It was more like a zig zag way and cunected later. What I really liked was that it had a glocery in the back if you didn't know what something ment or if you wanted to find out who the people were. It was more like a advenchr story insted of a mystery.

Never Mind

Never Mind is a book about twins named Meg and Edward, they say that they have nothing incomin and they are nothing alike. This book is very good and if you are a twin then you mite laugh in your head or out loud. When I read this book, what was going through my mind/head was that it was funny that they would go through each other and talk about funny stuff that the other twin does that is ethier funny or embarasing. I would reccomened this book who likes funny books/but also switching of topics and people. I would give this book and 9, in the middle of them.

Short & Shivery-Tales from the Dark

You will find in these thirty chilling tales: you will feel darkness in the air you will hear a screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech and then a BOO!!! I'm warning you don't read this book in a dark room all alone. This is one of my favorite books because I'm a kind of guy that likes all of the above and I hope you'll love it too! Moa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would rate this book a 9

Millicent Min Girl Genius

Millicent Min is about a girl name Millicent. She's in 10th grade but she's only 11 because she's a genius. She doesn't have any friends in the beginning but she meets a girl named Emily. Millicent doesn't tell Emily that she's a genius though because Millicent have had people that don't want to be friends with her or use her because she's a genius and she didn't want Emily to think or do that her.

I think that Millicent should tell Emily because I think Emily will still be friends with Millicent but I don't know. I would sitle be her friend if I was Emily. When will Millicent tell Emily? I would give this book a 9 so far.

From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

I think this is deffenatly a fith grade book because it has a more advanced vocabulary then ushewal. It is not a huge book but good for homework reading.  I thought that it was stupid to run away from home and hide in a museum. I was suprised that they where able to stay in the museum and then run back home without being discovered. I would rate this book in 8 because it did not have much plot or exitement and the auther wrote down some important things in the story to quickly sometimes. My sister recomended it.

Life of Pi

Life of Pi is a great book. When I was reading there is a part where Piscine (Pi for short) is stranded on the boat and a turtle swims by and he grabs it and cuts his neck to kill it. I was wondering when I read this part, well first I was grossed out, if he would just eat the fins and the head? This might not want you to read this book but there are sad, happy and weird things too. When I was reading this book I had questions like why did the ship sink and why was Pi the only human survivor? These questions make you more and more interested, well for me it did. I would rate this book a 10 because it is exciting and very fascinating.

Gregor and the Code of Claw

This book is one of the best in its seriese. Even if you read the first book, and didn't like it. I recomend giving the second book( Gregor and the Proficy of Bane) a go. If you don't like that one, you might not want to read this seriese.

It might be a little intense soumetimes, so if you're a person who can handle stuff like underground wars betwean giant rats, giant cochroches, giant bats, giant spiders, giant mice, and other stuff like that, you'll be able to handle it.

Because I loved the other books in the seriese, I never got bored while reading this book. I sometimes cought myself saying stuff like, "don't do that!", "It's a trap!", or"you finaly figured it out!"I feel that if you get into the seriese, you'll love this book.

The Titan's Curse

The Titans Curse is the sequel to the sea of monsters and the lightning theif. The titans curse is for me the best of all three books. The voice in my head is all ways thinking the odds. I think that this seares is better than the Harry Potter seires The thing in this book is about a kid named Percy Jakson he is twelve years old and he figures out he is a half blood. A half blood is someone who has a god parent and a human parent. This is a book about the greek gods and the romans changed there names. I would give this book a 10 because it has adventure,humer and a little of romance. It preety much has every thing.

Heartbeat

I was reading Heartbeat with Baliey in a book club. This book is really diffent then I thought it would be like. I thought it would be about a peorsons picture of an appel. But it is a littel different. So for me and Baliey's progect we are panting appels and doing stuff on appels. I would give this book a 9  because it is a really good book but not a 10 tip of book. I like the book I mite read this book again.

Abner and Me

Abner & Me is a great book to read when you just need a book. It's about a kid who can travel threw time with baseball cards according to the year they were published. In this book he goes back in time to 1863 to meet Abner Doubleday. But when he goes back he lands in the middle of the Civil War, and he almost gets shot. He finally meets Abner Doubleday and finds out what he wants to find out. I cant tell you because that would give away the book. I would give this book a 10.

Eclipse

I really liked this book. Even though it was really long, it was still really good. This book is the 3rd in a series. I didn't even realize it was a series though until someone told me. But it doesn't matter because it still all makes sense. Anyway, I give this book a 9 because it was really good but not life changing.

Bartlaby of the Mighty Mississippi

For a short summary, Bartleby is a book about a turtle who dreams of swimming in flowing waters, but he is only a mere pet. One day he is forgotten in a pond and he soon makes a whole bunch of friends. One day he meets a crocodile. The crocodile came from the Mississippi and it wants to eat bartleby because it reminds the crocodile of the turtles in the one good home it had been in before he was taken away. The little turtle did the only thing he could think of and he tells the crocodile that he might know the way back to the Mississippi. Then they go on a big adventure to find it. When bartleby left the pond, it was a little sad because he had made so many great friends and had so much fun with them. Bartleby can barely swim in the fast areas of the steam, so I don't see why he would bother to join the crocodile. The book is a fun book to read. It's low beat but it keeps me quite interested. I'd give it a 9.

Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind Machine

The 4th Molly Moon was the same as the others ~ totally fast paced and action packed!

It's about a girl who is an orphan and her life is basically really bad. Then she gets these hypnotic powers and is able to hypnotize and stop time and time travel. In the fourth she is looking for her lost twin and gets herself into a bunch of trouble.


This book was great. Sometimes I'd ask myself why the characters didn't do this or that and I liked that it kept me wondering what they would do next. The topic was very unreal, but the way the person wrote the book made it seem like it was real.

I get bored with a book if it doesn't pull me in fast enough, but this book pulled me in fast so it was easy to get into. I could not put this book down. I hope Georgia Byng writes another one! I'd give it 10.

Strange Happenings

Strange Happenings is a five-part story by one of the best authors, Avi, who is well known for books like The true Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, City of light, City of Dark, and Pinky and Rye. (series). At times I found the book stupid, at certain points I found it depressing, and at times I found it good. I would rate Bored Tom a 3, Babette the Beautiful a 6+, Curious a 3+, the Shoemaker and the Old Scratch a 7-, and Simon an 8. Overall, this book was a 6-.

Tracker

By Gary Paulsen

Tracker is about a boy and a grandpa who always go hunting together every year in the winter oor more food. But when his grandpa gets sick he has the go hunting alone. By that time his grandpa is dying so he needs to get food fast. Will he get food fast enough for the family?

Some poeple a bad ending of a book will ruin the book, NO WAY with this book. Its ending is ok but the book in genral is great. Very eye widening and scary but great. 4 stars for this one.

Down the Rabit Hole

The thing that I loved the most about this book was it's almost Alice in Wonderland. It's mainly just about a girl who gets caught in the middle of a murder mystery. I know, I know. How is anything like a murder come even close to the harmless story Alice in Wonderland? Just believe me, it is. For through out the book everything that happens, feels (to me at least) like something that would fit perfectly in the building blocks of Alice in Wonderland. There is also the fact that she is Alice in the community play. I think that it tying back to that every other second greatly affects how you think. Even though this book is based on the ever confusing Alice in Wonderland. Most of it was not that complex it seems straight forward. It also feels like the main character is almost robbed of things that aren't really going to matter but feel really important. For example ( I'll try not to give it all away) when the director can't direct any more the person who takes over seems really unfair. Only though to the main character . I think that I would rate this book eight and a half. Not ten because of the fact that if you only could choose one book you would pick by the best hook right? Well this book had one of those hooks were it was equally exciting to a sleeping fish. Or at least that's what I thought. Though Ms. Ritter recommended it to me so I was going to let it become a total disaster before I quit good thing too. It's your choice to read this, chose wisely.

The Teacher's Funeral

The Teacher's Funeral. A comedy in three parts. That is what it says on the cover of The Teacher's Funeral. Some say, yes! It is a comedy in three parts. I say,ye- no.. maybe,no, yes? n- ye -um, kinda. Some parts are funny, some parts are not the slightest bit funny, and a lot of the parts aren't super duper funny like a comedy. At least, that's what I think. Although, I think that the best part was when the teacher died. Just kidding, Maggie!!! Just kidding! In fact, I think it was one of the saddest parts of the story. Well, there can't be THAT many sad parts or it wouldn't be a comedy. I think this book was a comedy, just not a Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! throughout the whole story type of comedy. I think that many people in our class would like the book and would probably rate it a 10. I, on the other hand, would rate this book a 9 1/2. I took 1/2 away because I think it wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.

Redwall

In my opinion Redwall is a huge book series devoted to furry little woodland creatures with swords.  I for one love it all!  Redwall is actually a fortified Abbey, ( a sort of church with a farm and the accasional weapon storage).  My favorite character is a rabbit named Basil, he uses his long back leggs to kick enemy rats away.

WE ARE SO CRASHING YOUR BAR MITZVAH!!!

I loved this book! It is not only funny, but it has many good points. For example, never give up, don't forget about your old friends, be true to what you feel, and just be yourself. I would give this book a 9 or a 10, (I cant decide.) This book was so funny! It is about 2 girls in middle school. A lot happens in this book, like, losing one of her best friends to the "Chicas." Also, crashing a Bar Mitzvah, and plus, there was a little bit or drama. In this book, it seems like everyone tries so hard to be cool, and liked. Even though that is not very important. I hope you consider reading this book! It is so great!

Protecting Marie

Protecting Marie is about a girl who really wanted a dog. At least that's what it sounded like on the back of the book. I personally think that it was about a girl and her dad and their relation ship. I felt like as I progressed through the book the girl and her dad changed. I think the book also showed trust between the girl and her dad. I would give this book a nine.

Ellie McDoodle Have Pen,WillTravel

This book is about a girl named Ellie. Her parents have to go to a funerl out of the state. So,She and her brother Ben-Ben go with thier cousins. Deanna age 11,Eric her twin,Tiffie age 7,Aunt Mug,and Uncle Ewing. They go camping in a cabin. Ellie was not looking forward to this but she learns how to work with her anoying relitives. I would give this book a 9.