Ileana's December Book Review

Title:FRINDLE
Author:ANDREW CLEMENTS
Genre:SCHOOL
Review:5 OUT OF 5
Reviewed by: ILEANA A. ILLE


FRINDLE. Such an awkward word. Such an awkward meaning. You see Nick Allen was a very creative 5Th grader with a not so creative teacher. Nick Allen loved to learn, read, create etc. and he always had the most outrageous idea's and was known for them too. But one day the MOST outrageous of all came to Nick Allen's crazy little mind... you see Mrs. Granger was his 5Th grade Language Arts teacher ( a tough one at that) and she never had one tardy student, and she was OBSESSED with the dictionary " You are the one who says that d-o-g means the thing that goes woof woof Nicholas" Mrs. Granger had said in response to one of Nicks "Time Wasting questions" And that was what triggered the idea of FRINDLE the word made by Nickolas Allen that means pen......

The book was good and I learned a lot about self confidence in it because nick had to go through some hard times in it with the "war" between Mrs. Granger and himself and other difficulties.

Haley's Book Reveiw

Book: Raise the Roof
Author: Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins
Rate: 4.5 out of5

If you like basketball and the Tennessee Lady Vols' you MUST read this book. Even though Pat Summitt said in Reach for the Summitt she wouldn't write another book but she did. Raise the Roof tells you how the Lady Vols' practiced and played. Raise the Roof also tells you how they delt with major problems such as torn ACLs, family playing family (in games) and stalkers.

I really liked this book a lot because it really detailed. One thing I did not like was that there was a few big words that I could not pronounce and could not understnd what they ment. There were two really good parts of Raise the Roof. One; Pat Summitt told the reader how she felt about problems and what she liked or did not like about what the team was doing. Two; the question and answer part with each of the players before you read the next chapter.

Holly's December book review

Book: The Secret Language of Girls

Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell

Genre: Holly Rothweiler

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Reviewer: Holly

Love. Is that what the world is really all about? This is what two 11 year old girls- Kate and Marylin think about through all their troubles. The girls have always been best friends but boys and cheerleading are just some of the things that are working to break their friendship apart.

Kate does not even know if Marylin is even her friend anymore. Marylin has not talked to her for a while and Marylin is hanging out with the '' popular group'' lately. Marylin thinks Kate is acting a bit like a toddler. Kate thinks Marylin is acting like a popular snob. Secretly deep down inside they both are hoping, wishing, waiting, and wanting things to be how they used to be.

I really liked this book! One of the reasons I liked it so much was because I could relate to some of the friendship problems that the girls had. I also liked the book because everything really made sense to me because lots of things that happened at their school and the feelings they had about things happen at my school a lot. Also the book was sometimes funny. I would recommend that if you are a girl from ages 9-999 this would be a great book for you to read. I really enjoyed reading this book so that is why I gave it a 5 out of 5 stars.

Micheles Review

Title: A Girl Named Diaster
Author: Nancey Farmer
Genre: Adventrue
Review: 5 out of 5
Reviewed by: Michele Mathis

In a small village in Mozambique, Africa there is a girl named Nhamo who lives a normal life, doing chores and helping feed the younger ones, etc..., but when cholera (a terrible disease) enters the village and kills some of the bravest men, they are forced to travel to visit a doctor called the Nananga.
While waiting for the doctor to let them see him, Nhamo finds out the shocking truth about her father and mother by her grandmother. When they go to visit the doctor she finds out even more . Her name means Diaster while her beautiful sister Mastivista means Thank You. The doctor says Nhamo must pay for her fathers way by marring the spirit he hurt.
When she gets back to the village the grandmother tells her to flee to Zimbabwe, where her father is.
After she packs up Nhamo begins the perilous journey.
I love this book because it has soo much adventrue and exicitment that keeps you going. I really love Nhamos charcter because she full of spirit and curiosity.

Al Capone Does My Shirts: A reveiw by Amy Fan

Al Capone Does My Shirts
By Gennifer Choldenko

Moose Flanagan’s family moves to Alcatraz Island, a prison for the United States’ most troublesome murderers, robbers, and other criminals. During their stay, one of Moose’s new classmates, who just happen to be his dad’s boss’s daughter, persuades him to get other students to give their clothes to them so they could be washed by the most famous criminals. Since he agreed, everything went wrong.
As his mother struggles to make his mentally disabled sister normal, Moose has to make everything right. To do that, he asks a prisoner for help getting his sister to go to a special school. He also needs to find a way out of all the trouble, and most of all, he needs to get his parents to understand him.

I would rate this book 5 out of 5 (5 being the best). It has a way of saying that sometimes, you have to trust some of the most lawless people to help get you out of trouble and you have to stand up for yourself and others who can’t.

Review done by Amy Fan

Nicolette's Book Review

Title: Teen Angst? Naaah…
Author: Ned Vizzini
Genre: Autobiography/ Young Adult
Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5
Reviewed by: Nicolette

This book has more than twenty stories of the teen years of Ned Vizzini. The stories are based on what happens between Ned’s Junior High years to his last year of high school. Video games, girls, drugs, and alcohol are some of the situations he faces in these stories. Also it tells of situations in which he had to make many different decisions. If you read this book you will read about him studying for the Stuy Test( a test the eight-graders took), going to a summer camp, seeing concerts, a demolition derby, siblings, and much much more. It is a book for those who want to read about a normal teenage boy.

I loved this book so much because it has stories of a real teenagers life, and the characters and their personalities make good stories. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a great laugh. I didn’t like the stories of his Senior Year, they just didn’t catch my attention, because Vizzini told a lot about prom and the senior trip which I could have cared less about. But over all it was a fantastic book to read!

Dive book review

Book: Dive book one : the discovery
Rating 8 out of 10
by: Keegan

This is a thrilling book a bout 4 teen divers that get chosen to help an oceanography team. the 4 young divers names are Bobby Kaczinski, Dante Lewis, Star Ling, andAdriana. these 4 young divers will discover many things in the ocean and about the crew. This book is mysterious, dangerous, and funny. THis book will make you not want to put it down .

In My opinion this book was great. It was thrilling at some points and dangerous at some points. I th ought it was great because it hadkids that couldn't be to much older than me. They were doing things that I only thought of adults doing.

Hannah's Book Review

Title: Time Stops for No Mouse
Written By: Michael Hoeye
Genre: Mystery
Ranking: **** (4 out of 5 stars)
Edited By: Hannah

This book is about a mouse named Hermux Tantamoq. Hermux works at his watch shop in Pinchester and sees himself as an average mouse. When a daredevil aviatrix comes to his shop with her watch Hermux becomes involved in a great adventure and will face much before it's through. Hermux becomes friends with a mole named Pup Schoonagliffen and together they try to solve a mystery about moon plants, eternal youth, and the mysterious Millennium Project. Can these two friends face spies, thieves, and killers? Or will friends turn enemies and Hermux's time run out?

I greatly enjoyed this book and found it quite entertaining. It does have 75 chapters, but some of them are very short. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys talking animals and strange story themes. I liked this book because it had a bit of everything in it, romance, mystery, adventure, and even murder. This, I think, leaves everyone with something they like. I also liked how the author thought up a moving plot. I don't know how else to describe it really; it moved and changed with the story. I really enjoyed the story, and I hope that you read and enjoy this book too!

Chasing the Falconers

Title: Chasing the Falconers
Written by: Gordon Kormon
Rating: 5 out of 5
Genre: Reilistic Fiction
Reviewed by: Erin Kielmeyer

Chasing the Falconers is about two ecscaped fugitives fleeing across the country. Aiden and his younger sister Meg are trapped in a juvenile detention center named Sunnydale because they had no where to go since there parents are in jail. There parents have been framed and the kids are determened to prove them inocent. When a accident happens they have a chance to ecscape. On their way to Vermont the run into Miguel who had also ecscaped from Sunnydale. He helps Aiden and meg flee from the cops many times. But when Miguel gets shot and gets turned in they're on there own again.

I think this book was excelent. I would recomed this book to anyone who likes reading about adventures. I really like how the author uses a lot of detail about the setting, the characters feelings, and whats happening. Using all the detail made me feel like I was in the sory and most of the time I couldn't put it down. I didn't like how it didn't say much about how the parents were framed or what they were framed for. I highly recomened this book.

Mariah Houser's December Book Review

Title:The Book Without Words
Author:Avi
Genre:Fable
5/5


This book is about a man who never wants to die, so he made a potion that came out of "The Book Without Words", but the only person who can read the book is a green-eyed person, because green means "life". His slave, Sybil, and his other slave, Odo who is a raven, do not know the danger they have ahead of them, and it just might cost them their lives.

Some other people appear in this book, including a ghost lady. The potion this man is making makes four glowing, eye catching green stones that make him live. Even though these stones make him live, he dies more than once. This man can also make gold, but the gold never lasts since it's fake.

My opinion of this story is that, to me, it is soooo good, you need to read it. I love this book because it has a talking raven, magic, some chapters that just leave you hanging there, and a man that dies more than once.

Book Review by Ryan Chambers

Holes By: Louis Sacher

For my December book review I chose the book Holes. This book is a bout a young boy named Stanley Yelnats and he gets sent to a Juvenile Correctional Facility called Camp "Green Lake" and he gets sent there because he was mysteriously in the wrong place at the wrong time. But while at Camp Green Lake he meets 5 boys Zero, Magnet, X-ray,Squid and Armpit and they become his best friends especially Zero.

I like this book because it is a story inside of a story so to speak. it is also one of a few books that you can read over and over again and it doesn't get boring. But most of all I like how the author makes the charators so real it's like you can go to there house. That is why I picked Holes.

I give this book a 5/5

December Book Review

Book:Eragon

Genre:Fantasy

Author:Christopher Paolini

Reviewed by:Peter

Rating:5/5

The book Eragon is about a poor farm boy named Eragon who finds a polished blue stone in the forest and takes it home with him. Overnight, the stone opens to reveal a dragon hatchling. When dark strangers come looking for the stone, Eragon and the dragon are forced to flee their home and find safety from an evil king and his armies with the help from an old story teller and an ancient sword. Will Eragon become one of the legendary Dragon Riders, or is he doomed to fall into the evil king's clutches?

A very detailed book, Eragon has well concluded chapters that let you think about what just happened and what may lie ahead. With the main characters being flawed and each having their own secrets, I think it's an exciting story. Filled with magic and adventure, Eragon is my favorite book, and I believe it's a book any fantasy reader would love.

The author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini, lives in Paradise Valley, Montana, and Eragon was the first book he wrote.

Rowan Hood- Outlaw group of Sherwood Forest

Rowan Hood
4 out of 5
Genre folktale
Author Nancy Springer
Review by Belinda

After Calendine( Rosemary's mother) dies, Rosemary is left orphaned with only a gimmal ring, and thirteen years of memories. With nothing left she turns to her last chance of hope and survival, her father, Robin Hood. In search of her father, she leaves what's left of her home to his camp. On the way, she meets a loyal and faithful companion, whom saves her life more than once, as well as a poor minstrel. With all the good, she also makes an evil archenemy, and discovers her roots. After meeting Robin, Ro doesn't know whether or not he really is her father. At the end of the tale, Ro recruits 2 new members for the gang, and finds Robin in Grave danger.

My opinion of Rowanhood, is that it is an amazing book of a girl trying to discover her roots and where she belongs. I think it's great because not only does it portray the feelings of a girl who is meeting someone who claims is her father, but she has never met him. I like how it reviewed her family story and showed different types of view. I thought the friendships fit perfectly, and were sort of original, but I liked how each character backed each other up, and worked together in times of needs. I would prescribe this book to anyone who likes fast-paced, action, and family books. Also I think this book is very emotional and descriptive.

Nancy Springer has written 40 books of fantasy and fiction for young adults. Some titles include a series of Rowan Hood books and the Sea King series and Book of Isle series. She is currently a professor of creative writing at York college. She loves horses and includes them in a lot of her stories. She often visits elementary, Middle, and High School classes.