The Adventures of Ruby Lu (Author: Gabriella)

Ruby Lu Empress of Everything
By :Lenore Look Reviewed by :Gabriella Laskey Ruby Lu is a story about a girl who’s cousin is a Chinese immigrant named Flying Duck. When she brings her cousin to school she is the queen of the playground. People simply can not stop asking what life’s about and how they do stuff in China.
Emma, one of Ruby Lu’s on and off friends, thinks that her cousin is an alien. This starts a whole commotion about Flying Duck. Ruby Lu is forced to take dramatic actions to protect her Chinese cousin.
Ruby Lu is a fun story that makes you happy. This is an easy read for most 3rd and 4th grade students. It is also a fun read when you are older and just looking for something light to pass the time. The author did a great job of using word choice to help you feel the action of the book and Ruby Lu’s adventures.
So if you are curious if Ruby Lu be the down cast of the school or rise to the top and prove her cousin innocent, go to the library and check this book out to find out what happens.

Dear Dumb Diary (Author: Kate)

Book Review
Dear Dumb Diary: Can Adults become Human?
By: Jim Benton
Reviewed by: Kate
Do you think your life is weird? Well you’re wrong because Jamie’s life is turned upside down in the book Dear Dumb Diary: Can Adults become Human? by Jim Benton. The book is weird, funny and exciting! The book is about a girl named Jamie and the bad and funny things that happen to her. For example her dog “Stinkers” makes a big fart in her room and she then can’t fall asleep and has to sleep down stairs on the couch. At school Jamie gets into trouble when she glues a picture to her friend Isabella’s hair and when she gets home her mom tells her that her aunt is coming to stay with them. Not only is her aunt coming to stay at her house but her aunt is going to be working at Jamie’s school! Later in the book something weird is going on with her aunt working at her school. You’re going to have to read what’s going to happen next.
I would give this book four out of five stars, because the pictures are a little hard to understand sometimes. Third – fifth graders can read this book because it has easy words to read. I thought it was an awesome book!

Dear Dumb Diary (Author: Shaelynn)

Shaelynn #22
10/27/10
Reading
I believe that some how, while she was pregnant the tiny, evil, infant Angelina spawn had totally sucked all the quality out of her moms hair.

This story is about a girl who just wants to be popular but a girl named Angelina is getting in her way. Then one day she gets a love letter. Signed by M.P. she thinks it’s a teacher called Mr. Prince that is writing them. But it turns out to be someone else!
I think it a really funny book. For example, one day I was cot practicing kissing my own arm. I think that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard!!!
I think the author really puts his feeling in his writing for example he wants to other people to see that about his writing.
I think the mood or feeling is good for me because can relate to it sometimes. For example she says people don’t know who I really am she states. I feel like sometimes people think that I’m a real big girly girl but I’m not!
I recommend this book for 3rd – 5th graders because it’s to hard for 2nd graders. I give this story 5 stars!

Ark Angel (Author: Ethan)

Ark Angel Review

Ark Angel is an adventure book. This book is an action-packed, adventurous, and it has a good cliffhanger ending. Ark Angel is the fifth book in the Alex Rider series. While Alex was recuperating from a gunshot wound, he gets out put in the room right next to Paul Dreven. His dad is one of the few multi-billionaires in the world. One night a terrorist group called Force Three breaks in and tries to kidnap Paul Dreven because his dad is building a hotel in space. The hotel is very bad for the environment. The kidnappers mistake Alex for Paul, and eventually Alex saves Paul from the kidnappers. Nikoli Dreven, Paul’s father, thanks Alex for saving Paul and lets Alex come to his private island for a few weeks. Force Three has not stopped trying to destroy Ark Angel, the hotel in space.

Anthony Horwitz describes everything amazingly well. For example, he describes how Alex was struck by the colors of the earth while in space. He was seeing olive, white, green, and red. He could even see the different continents.

The vocabulary is very high level. For example, he uses words such as presumably, gantries, and irregularities.

I recommend this book for fifth thru eighth graders because this book has high-level vocabulary. Anyone younger might not understand or find it boring because it is too hard to read.

Dork Diaries (Author: Riley)

Dork Diaries (by Riley)

Dork Diaries is a very good book. It’s about a girl named Nikki who just moved to a new neighborhood., she is shy and not very confident in herself. Her only friends in her new school are Chloe and Zoe. The girl who is not her friend is McKenzie, she is a mean popular girl who hates Nikki. Nikki enters the art competition. Everyone says Nikki is a great artist but McKenzie enters too. Nikki has a little sister named Brianna. Brianna is afraid of the Tooth Fairy.
This book is good for fifth grade and up. I liked this book because it’s funny and it’s a great girl book. I recommend this book to fifth grade and up because it has humor that older kids will get but smaller kids will not understand. I give this book four out of five stars.

Eon: Dragoneye (Author: Paanya)

Eon Dragoneye Reborn (reviewed by Paanya)

Wow, the story Eon Dragoneye Reborn is awesome even though there are some hard vocabulary and hard words. It is fiction because it cannot happen in real life. This book is not recommended for fifth graders because of its length and plot. This book is recommended to eight graders because they would be able to understand advanced vocabulary and text.

This book is about a girl named Eona. She is a dragoneye. Dragoneyes are really powerful people. Eona is a mirror dragoneye and mirror dragoneyes are really rare because there wasn't a mirror dragoneye for ten years. There is a rabbit dragoneye, dog dragoneye, horse dragoneye, turkey dragoneye, rat dragonye, ox dragoneye, tiger dragoneye, pig dragoneye, rooster dragoneye, snake dragoneye, monkey dragoneye, goat dragoneye, and dragon dragoneye. The dragons give their power to the dragoneyes that is chosen. When a dragoneye dies the rat dragon picks a new dragoneye for that dragon. The rat dragon is in charge of the dragons and the mirror dragon is in charge of the dragoneyes. Females are forbidden to use dragon magic or become dragoneyes. Can Eona keep her secret or does she have to face death?

Some strengths in this book are first person point of view because it helped understand the character better. Another strength in this book is it is fantasy and it helped add dragons to make the story interesting and fun to read. A weakness in this book is the front cover only appeals to people that like horror and mystery because it has nails and a scary-looking eye. It limits the people that could read the book by its cover.

I do not recommend this book to fifth graders because of the hard vocabulary, complex plot, and text that are hard to understand. I recommend this book to eight graders because they could understand advanced vocabulary, plot and text. I give this book 2 out of 5 star because fifth graders cannot understand books that are that long because they might get confused, lost, and not understand the story.

Lightning Thief (Author: Caitlin)

The Lightning Thief reviewed by Caitlin Smyth.

Are you a half blooded? Percy Jackson is. Being a half blooded is dangerous. Monsters want to kill you so much. If you are a half blood you’d know what Percy is talking about. Being a half blood is special and dangerous. Not many people are half blooded.

The Lightning Thief is fantasy and adventure for example Percy Jackson vaporizes his pre algebra teacher. Vaporizing a pre algebra teacher probably won’t happen.

The main charters are Percy Jackson and his best friend Grover. This book is about Percy and Grover trying to stay safe from the monsters. So they have to go to a camp. A camp called half bloods. He has to stay there. But Percy doesn’t like the camp because these bullies’s tried to make Percy put his head in a toilet. So Percy needs to survive from the bully and the monsters.

There are no bad things about this book. But there are a lot of good things about this book, for example the author’s details were very good and there’s never a dull moment.

I recommend this book to 5^th -7^th grade because there are a lot of hard words. Also 4^th grade probably wouldn’t understand it or if they are pretty smart they would.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Author: Matt)

Matthew

5-V

What should we do with him?

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a boy trying to finish what his Father had started . So he thought .

There are three main characters. For example Hugo is the major main character. Another character is Isabelle who is Hugo's best friend. Then there is Papa Geores or movie sensation George Melies. At least he's considered a movie sensation in the book anyway.

One of the strengths of the book Hugo Cabret is the illustrations.The illustrations are strong and help describe the book better to me. Also, the book was written so I would want to keep reading. For example, I was never bored and it held my interest. Another strength of the book is that it was suspenseful. One part of the book that is a good example of a suspenseful moment is when there is a fire in the museum. One weaknesses of the book Hugo Cabret is that some of the sentences were confusing to me. Sometimes I would have to re-read a sentence to try to understand what the author was trying to say.

I recommend this book to anyone between the grades of 4-7. I would recommend those ages because sometimes it is hard to infer the pictures and understand all of the sentences. I would rate this book a nine out of ten. I would rate it a nine out of ten because I really enjoyed the book and I think that you would too.

Miranda (Author: Sania)

"I never knew who sent me these note, but I will find out soon."-Miranda

This book's genre is realistic fiction because all the events that happen in the book can happen in real life. A girl named Miranda receives notes from a person. Yet she didn't know who it is. The person gives clues to find out who it is. Miranda has lots of hobbies. For example, she gets a non-paying job at "Jimmy's." And her mom is entering a contest to win 25,000 dollars! And her friend Sal is not her friend anymore because he got punched in the stomach and Miranda didn't do anything about it.

One thing that was good about it was that it explained the opinion or statement. For example, instead of saying "woke up sleepily", the author said "woke up groggily".

Some things I didn't like about this book was that it had to short chapters. For example, each chapter was about 2-3 pages long. Also it skipped around to much. Because one chapter was about her mom training for the contest. And another started off at Jimmy's, the dentists office, or at Belles(which is a store in the book).

I'd recommend this book to be appropriate for grades 4th-6th because it isn't that easy to understand what the author sometimes says. I'd give this book 3 3/4 stars out of 5 stars.

Dead Man's Map (Author: Ben)

Ben’s book review

Dead Man’s Map

By M. Peschke

“Josh copied the design on the palm of his hand.”

This book dead mans map is about a boy who wants to save his family’s ranch farm. So he goes with his grandpa because he needs to get money to save his family’s ranch. He finds a map in a hat. The map is to a gold mine. He goes to find the gold, but he does not find it.

This book is really easy to read. For example, it only has 105 words on a page.

What I do not like about this book is that it does not make sense. For example, “That’s called hog-tied cousin”, said Cody.

Another thing I like about this book is that it is a mystery. I like mysteries.

I recommend this book to third to fifth graders because it may not make sense to students younger than third grade.

I’ll give this book 5 out of 6 stars.

Sea of Monsters (Author: Daniel)

Sea of Monsters Book Review

Daniel O. #16

Reading

10/31/10

“You shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone, you shall find what you seek and make it your own, but despair your life entombed within stone, and fail without friends, then fly home alone.”

What does the Oracle mean? Find out in the continuing saga of Percy Jackson and the Olympians! This book is all about finding the item that can save Camp Half-Blood and Percy’s brother, Tyson. But if Percy wants to save Tyson and the camp he must bring Tyson along on his quest. Find out what happens in this second book of the trilogy.

I think this book is tremendous! It has everything you can imagine like monsters that are amazingly described! The author’s descriptions help the readers to have pictures in their minds. For example, when Percy and his friends are looking for a shelter and they find an old one, it describes exactly how it looks and how big it is. Plus, this book stands out from every other book because it can by enjoyed by anyone.

This author’s style of writing is perfect! He has funny and interesting chapter titles, like “Demon Pigeons Attack” and “Clarisse Blows up Everything”. That makes you want to keep on reading because you wonder what will happen next!

I would like to read this book until I memorized it word for word. I think 2^nd to 8^th graders could enjoy this book because it has words a little kid could understand but has words an 8^th grader would understand. I rate this book 5out of 5 stars because of its great vocabulary and descriptions.

Never Mind (Author: Jon)

Never mind book review

By Jonathan Gleason

“ it all came from trying to hard. That’s how I created this mess. And what a mess I made”. You just created a big mess. You told a popular girl that her brothers TALLER AND BETTER THEN YOU AND TOLD HER THAT HER BROTHER HAD A BAND AND PERFORM AT HER PARTY BUT ALL THOSE THINGS ARE LIES.

What should you do. Never mind. You will find out in the book never mind. MEG wants to be friends with Kimberly she is the popular girl but she probably wont be friends after the party. But if Edward went there things mite change.

I recommend this book 4 out of 5 ***** [ stars ]. I liked the book but the story is a little confusing. I think this book is for 5^th to 7^th graders.

The Titan's Curse (Author: Evan)

Evan

# 9

1030/10

Writing

The angels looked at each other and shrugged, “I could use a stretch”.

The Titans Curse is about four kids Thila, Percy, Zoë and Grover. They are trying to free a goddess named Artemis and their friend Anabeth

This book has many strengths and weaknesses that are found all throughout this book.

This book has great detail. For example, it said that two colored eyes gleaming wickedly standing behind us was “Dr. Thorn.” This book is filled with action. For example, it could have said it was hard to hang onto the god Nereus when he turned into a seal. Instead it said some people joked that it was hard to hang onto a greased pig. Really though, it was hard to hold onto a seal.

I recommend this book for readers from 4^th to 6^th grade because this book is too big and hard for 3^rdgraders. I give it 5 stars out of 5 stars.

Anne of Green Gables (Author: Sophie)

Anne of Green Gables

By: L.M. Montgomery

Interviewed by: Sophie Magill

“Matthew Cuthbert who’s that”? She ejaculated “where is the boy”?

This story is about an orphan girl who just wants to have a home for her whole life. Her name is Anne Shirley. The book title is “Anne of Green Gables”. Anne has been passed on by many people and now finds herself at Green Gables Matthew and Marilla are the owners of Green Gables. But Matthew and Marilia Cuthbert are expecting a boy not a girl.

This book is very well put and the author L.M. Montgomery. “Anne of Green Gables” has a lot of strengths and no weaknesses. One strength is that it has good vocabulary. For example it uses words like anxiety, sorrowful and buxom. Those are very big words that most kids wouldn’t understand. This story is one of the best stories I have ever read.

I recommend this book to 4^th – 8^th graders because it uses big words like buxom. Little kids wouldn’t understand these big words. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Frindle (Author: Praneeth)

Sunday, october 31 , 2010

FRINDLE ( Reviewed by Praneeth)

Discover the new things is the goal!!!!!

The genre of Frindle is realistic fiction book. It is about a boy named Nick. Nick had to do the word project and Nick chose the word “Frindle” for the word project. A teacher whose name is Mrs. Granger is trying to stop the word Frindle. Will Nick get the scholarship award? Read to find out.

The author’s words are very good. For example,” Nick turned Ms. Deaver’s room into a tropical island and Nick made a squeaking noise in a classroom which is in the blackbird discovery in fourth grade.

This story is very good and cool. Nick is the character who is the best but not Mrs. Granger because she is stopping the word “Frindle”. This story is the one that is my best favorite because it has a lot of curiosity ,humor and action.

I recommend this story for kids who like fiction the best and for grades 2-5 so they can mostly understand the story. Other grades understand this book but they are too old to read this book.

Dragonbreath (Author: Sai)

Dragonbreathe

By: Sairakshit Pula

10/30/10

“When I bent, my eyes got stuck on the book!”

This book’s genre is Fantasy and Fiction! Because a dragon’s cousin is a fish. This book is about two boys named Danny and Avast. This book is about Danny getting an F on his test. Because he didn’t know a lot about the sea.

This book only has strengths no weaknesses. I will list two strengths. For example, the author uses strong words to describe stuff. Like enthusiasm, and obnoxious.

I would recommend this book to grades 3^rd and 4^th. Because they would understand this book. I give this book 5/5 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy (Author: Abby)

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy (Reviewed by Abby)

By: Lemony Snicket

Will Count Olaf get away?

I would say this book is fiction because you could have an evil madman chasing you or you could be sent away to boarding school. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy is a very lively book. There are three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who encounter a terrible man when their parents die in a fire. The man’s name is Count Olaf and he disguises himself as many things. When the Baudelaire Orphans go to boarding school they discover that their new gym teacher is Count Olaf.

I think this story is just like the others. For example Count Olaf finds the children, they try and tell somebody, and the people don’t believe them.

The author’s writing style is very good. For example when there is a part in the book that is exciting and something is about to happen he stops and explains everything. I like it when he does that because it makes you think even more.

Lemony Snicket is very descriptive. Especially when it comes to new characters. For example “If you were to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on earth, you would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you don’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch it from your hands anyway. Carmelita Spats was rude, she was violent, and she was filthy, and it is a shame that I must describe her to you, because there are enough ghastly and distressing things in this story without even mentioning such an unpleasant person.”

I would recommend this book for 4^th and 5^th graders because I think they would understand it better. I would give this book 3 ½ out of 5 stars because all of the books are mostly the same.

Dragonbreath (Author: Josh)

DRAGONBREATH

Book review

Can Danny DRANGONBREATH’s adventures get any crazier? First, there was an insane sea adventure. What next, monkeys eating potato salad?

Dawng! That’s all I can say. DRAGONBREATH is about a boy named Danny. Somehow Danny pulls his friend Wendell into a massive adventure in the sea. They are fighting off sharks, whales and giant squids. For example, there was one part of the book where Danny and Wendell got chased into a cave and almost got eaten.

Let me give you my ups and downs on the book. One up is that they show you a good mix of pictures and text. A downer to the book is at some select parts it’s boring. Another up is the book is hilarious. Almost every part of the book is a make you squirt milk out of your nose funny. There really were only one thumb down and two thumbs up.

A major reason why Danny and Wendell went on this adventure is Danny wanted to see his cousin Edward. But mainly, Danny wanted to improve his grade on the paper for school about the sea that he got an F on. So what better way than to go under the sea to try to get an A.

I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. I really liked it a lot. Not because of the pictures, but because it was an exciting book.

Warriors into the Wild (Author: Nate)

Book Report Nate

10/18/10

Do you believe in the Warrior Code? Warriors into the Wild, the first of 21 books in the epic Warriors series, is an amazing tale of cat characters that follow the Warrior Code when they fight for territory. The clans of cats fight, hunt, have adventures, and well, struggle to survive! For example, Yellowfang, elder she-cat of the ThunderClan, must fight against her own son so that one of their warring clans will eat.

If there were a Warriors movie, I’d definitely be in line for it! Erin Hunter is a great, one out of a million, writer. She often creates a light, cheery mood. For example, the cats are always cheerful when they’re talking to others in their clans.

Erin Hunter has some fantastic vocabulary. She uses words like mewed, apprentice, scrawny and two-legs. Scrawny is a good descriptive word meaning skinny. Two-legs is her funny word that the cats use for humans.

I would recommend this book series to fans of action and adventure because it has lots of fights and they wonder the lands a lot. In fact, I love this first book so much I’m looking forward to reading the next one! I hope the rest of the series is as good, if not better, than this exciting book.

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Reviewed by Anusha Bansal)

With open eyes now you may find
A place you must exit to enter.
Where one -

This book is fiction but a little realistic because this may happen in the future. The book is about a few kids who take tests for special oppertunities and get introduced to Mr. Benedict (good guy), then get sent to the ‘Instutute’ to be undercover agents. This book is great! read it!

There are alot of strengths in here but a couple weaknesses, such as that there are alot of downheartning moments. For example, when Milligan was captured. But there were alot of strengths in this book too, such as when everybody got a family. Another strength is that they found alot of vital info. For example, they discovered a secret room where there were news papers for the future. Another strngth is that there were alot of happy moments to make up for the sad ones. For examole, when they were having a snowball fight!

Hmmmm. I would reccomend this book to those who like adventure, mystery, action, and page turner books. This is a great book, so go read it...
NOW!!!!!


RATING: ***** = 5 star book!