Monday, May 12, 2008

Chasing Yesterday: #1 The Awakening by Robin Wasserman

In Chasing Yesterday a girl wakes up at an abandoned crash site with amnesia. She doesn’t remember anything and is sent to an orphanage center. There she meets a boy named Daniel who calls her J.D (Jane Doe) and they try to piece everything together. But soon her supposed mom comes to take her home. Now she has a completely different life. Her name is Alexa Collins, there are pictures of friends she can’t seem to remember, and she’s visiting this doctor but when her appointment is done, she can’t remember a single thing. Based on the information Daniel and she found out in at the center, J.D starts to understand what’s going on. Daniel and J.D plan to run away and never come back. But somehow their idea doesn’t go as planned.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

BEST FRIENDS FOR NEVER By Lisi Harrison

In this book Massy, Clair, Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen were best friends. But then they have a fashion show and spread apart. There is a new girl Olivia who is friends with Alicia and they team up for the fashion show and switch boxes for the results with Massy ,Clair, Dylan and Kristen who were another team. Read the book to find out the rest.

Lauren

Friday, May 2, 2008

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom By:Louis Sachar

This book is about a kid named Bradley Chalkers. He tells many lies and picks fights with girls. His only friend is the new kid, Jeff Fishkins.They start out good, until things gets ugly. Bradley teachers are having a problem with him, they insist that he should see the new counsler, Carla. Carla likes Bradley and helps him do better in school. She knows Bradley can change but he is afraid to try. When Bradley feels that nobody in the school likes him, it’s hard for him to believe in himself.

My favorite part was when Bradley got beat up by this girl named Melinda and runs home crying. Then he lies and tells is mother his best friend, Jeff fishkins beat him up. Read this find out what happens next!

Jamal

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

SAMMY KEYES AND THE SKELETON MAN By: Wendelin van Draanen

Do you like mysteries? If you do Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man is the book for you. My favorite character is Sammy. Sammy is a girl about our age in middle school who lives with her grandmother .She lives with her grandmother because her mom went off to Hollywood to become a movie star, Sammy never met her. Sammy has to sneak in to the senior high-rise were her grandmother lives except children cannot live there so Sammy has to come up the secret way to get in. In this story Sammy and her friends, Dot and Mackenzie go trick or treating. Sammy and her friends were dared to go to the scariest house on the block. The Bushman’ house, this house was covered with the bushes that he had by the sidewalk. Sammy knocked on the door but nobody answered so she pushed it open. Good thing she did because the Bushman was tied up and there was a fire. He said something but Sammy could not understand Bushman said that some person in a skeleton suit tied him up. Sammy loves to investigate and try to figure things out so she said could we help you with anything and is anything missing. It was officer Borsch and Muscles Sammy’s least favorite cops that told her to stay out of it but she did not. To find out whom the Skeleton Man is, if Sammy is caught by Mrs.Graybill and has to go to an orphanage and to see what the Bushman’ real name is. So read this book today.

Nikki

Friday, April 25, 2008

THE JOURNEY (GUARDIANS OF GA' HOOLE) BY: KATHRYN LASKY

Soren, a barn owl, has finally escaped from St. Aggies, a dark prison where malevolent owls kidnap owlets and “moon blink” them, a form of hypnosis that makes the prisoners go crazy! He is on a journey with his best friends, Glyfie, Twilight, and Digger, to the Ga’ Hoole Tree. The tree is inhabited by an army of owls who rise up each night and do noble deeds. However, the journey to the Ga’ Hoole Tree will be their easiest test yet. Soren and his friends will soon realize that before they can become Guardians of Ga’ Hoole, they must first be put into “chaws”, a group in which owls learn various abilities and face great challenges. Here they are trained by their “rybs” (teachers). In their training they will do perilous tasks, learn many new skills, and maybe even discover what is the “you only wish”, which is an organization that could be far worse than St. Aggies. The most gripping part, however, is when Soren, Glyfie, Twilight, and Digger have a grueling battle against a “mobbing” of crows. It is obvious that after this battle, Soren discovers that flying in the day is far too dangerous because of these crows. Can Soren continue at this fast pace and accomplish all his tasks? Can he and his friends help fight the evil that lurks in the owl kingdom? Roller coasting your way through this book will be your ultimate read ,nail biting to the end I recommend you read the entire series of the Guardians of Ga’ Hoole.

By: Alexander

Friday, March 28, 2008

SCHOOLED by Gordon Korman

Schooled by Gordon Korman is about Capricorn Anderson who lived in a community with his grandma, Rain where war, TV, money etc. didn’t exist. When Rain falls off a tree and is rushed to the hospital, Cap has to stay with a guidance counselor and her teenage daughter. Cap is forced into the real world but has no idea what is going on. Cap doesn’t even know what a locker is! Meanwhile, Zach Powers a.k.a most popular kid in school and his friend Naomi are trying to make Cap’s days in school miserable but it doesn’t seem to be working because Cap has no clue of reality. After a while Naomi starts liking Cap and Cap becomes the most popular kid in school! Will Zach be pushed down to “loser” world with Hugh, the nerd (Cap’s old best friend, who liked Cap when he was a dork) or will they both try to fight back? Find out in this funny and entertaining book.
Natalia

A WALK TO REMEMBER by Christorpher Sparks

Have you ever experienced having the best thing that has happen to you and you love it very much and then it gets taken away? A Walk to Remember by: Nicholas Sparks was a sad love story that can make your feelings about high school children change. A Walk to Remember is about these young high school students Jamie and Landon who never believed that they would produce a very sweet friendship between them. But Although Landon and Jamie have a lot of differences they still try to be together. Jamie is a daughter of a reverend which means that she is usually talikng about holy and spiritual things. Landon dislikes talking about spiritual things when he isn't in the church. During the summer of 1959 they get a very horrible suprise. Find out what is the horrible surprise, you'll get goosebumps!

Lisa P