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Dicey's Song Tuck Everlasting A Child Called It The Lost Boy
Uncanny Stranded On the Banks of Plum Creek Good Dog
Memories of Summer Stop Pretending Classroom at the end of the
Hall

 

Once Upon a Marigold

Author: Ben Michaelsen

Title:   Stranded

 Koby is a twelve year old girl who loves to swim with whales but has a missing foot. Everybody always look at her and her parents fight about her all the time. This book is a great book for people who like to scuba dive. The first time the whales are trapped in the fisher’s net, and she frees them. But the next time the whales are stranded on the sandbar. If Koby leaves them to get her boat to save them, the whales might die while she tries to get help. But if she stays there with the whales, it might be hours before someone comes to help them.

 Rated 4 out of 5

                                      -Reviewed by Clarimet


 

Author: Jean Ferris

Title: Once Upon a Marigold

 

This story is made of a combination of love, comedy and action. It is about an abused princess and a boy whose father is a troll. He watches her through a telescope and falls in love. Can they stop the evil Queen Olympia? You’ll find out. 

                  Reviewed by Kitty


 

Author: Cynthia Voight

Title:     Dicey's Song

     I recommend this book for anybody because it is a relaxing book. This book is about a girl whose mother is sick and her grandmother wants to adopt her. Then, something horrible happens!

                                                       Reviewed by Brittney


Author: Babbitt, Natalie

Title:     Tuck Everlasting

     Tuck Everlasting is a very different book. This book is about a family named the Tucks who have a very important secret that no one can find out. But what happens when one 10-year old girl does?

                                                      Reviewed by Liz


Author: Pelzer, Dave

Title:     A Child Called It

     I would most definitely recommend this book because it is a true story about a boy who gets abused. I think it was a good book because it teaches you about what really happens to some children.   Some foul language.

                                                      Reviewed by Elizabeth


Author: Pelzer, Dave

Title:     The Lost Boy  (Sequel to A Child Called It)

     This story is about a boy who was abused when he was young. He finally lets out the secret about his Mom abusing him. Now, he's with different foster families every few months. Find out the adventures Dave has after leaving his Mom.

                                                      Reviewed by Elizabeth


Author: Paul Jennings

Title:     Uncanny!

     This is a book that has many stories in it. They're all great and they can be about anything. Yeah, anything. Some are funny, some gross, and some just plain weird. This book is recommended for ages 10 and up.

                                                      Reviewed by Sara


Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Title: On the Banks of Plum Creek

            A huge glittering cloud is suddenly hovering over Laura’s wheat crops. It rains grasshoppers! Can Laura’s family grow new crops before the grasshoppers eat it all? If they can’t they can’t, they can’t sell it to buy wood for a house!

                                 Angel

Author: Avi

Title: The Good Dog

            This is a book about a dog named McKinly, and a wolf named Lupin comes to his town. Also a greyhound, Duchess, has run away from her owner and made friends with Lupin. Can he save Lupin from the hunting party that wants to kill her?

                                               Angel


 

Title: Memories of Summer

Author: Ruth White

 

        Memories of Summer is a sad book about two girls and their dad moving to Michigan, starting a new life. The older girl becomes schizophrenic and needs help. I would recommend this book to sixth grade and up. Younger kids might not understand the subject of a mental illness.

 

                                                          Reviewed by

                                                                   Bookworm

Title:  Stop Pretending

Author: Sonya Sones

 

          The story of a nineteen year old girl with manic depression is written in poems. The view of the story comes from her thirteen year old sister who is suffering from embarrassment. I would recommend this book to anyone who can understand a book through poems. You will not understand the specific condition of the nineteen year old unless you read the epilogue. Grade six and up.

 

                                                          Reviewed by,

                                                                   Nicole

 

 

 

 Author: Douglas Evans

                       Title:The Classroom at the end of the Hall

 

 

This book is great! It has nine stories in one. All of them have to do with the magical classroom at the end of the hall. Some of them are weird like Roger hitting the chalk eraser and a genie comes out. Others are really funny. This is a great book to read. Rated 1 out of 5. 1 being good and 5 b

                         -Clarimet

 


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