Boxcar Children: Election Day Dilemma Boxcar Children #145 by Gertrude Chandler Warner Adventure Mystery Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) I loved this book, well, I love all of the Boxcar Children books. Anyway, this book had mystery and adventure. This book was about the election of the new mayor. I thought it was funny of me to be reading this during the election for a new president. In the end of this … Read more
It’s Raining Cupcakes by Lisa Schroeder Realistic Fiction Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) Isabel is a young girl whose mother is opening a cupcake shop that used to be a laundromat. Later she finds out she ahs to move away from her best friend, Sophie. Isabel feels that her mother is only thinking about her shop. When Isabel goes to Sophie’s house, Sophie tells her there is a baking contest and Isabel … Read more
Will Wilder: The Relic of Perilous Falls Will Wilder #1 by Raymond Arroyo Adventure Fantasy Mystery Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) This book is about a boy named Will who sees dark spirits. He later meets a pirate who says he needs a relic so it can cure his eye. So the boy goes to get it. He does, but later finds out that the pirate was one of the evil … Read more
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier Graphic Novel Realistic Fiction Supernatural * * * * Stars (Great!) Cat and her family move to the coastal town of Bahia de la Luna to help with her little sister Maya’s health issues (she has cystic fibrosis). The whole town seems to be obsessed with spirits and Dia de los Muertos is coming up fast! Maya, too, becomes interested in ghosts – she has questions about death and the afterlife … Read more
The World According to Humphrey Humphrey #1 by Betty G. Birney Fantasy Review #1 * * * * * Stars (Amazing!) I love it because of its storyline. It tells about a golden hamster first coming to school as a class pet. He learns about everything and writes in his journal. He made new friends in the class and goes home with one of his friends every weekend. I like it because it tells the … Read more
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester Science Fiction Supernatural Review #1 * * * * Stars (Great!) The Girl Who Could Fly is about a girl named Piper who can fly and is sent to a government place where all kids with powers go. She and her friends find that the place is evil and is trying to stop their powers and they make a plan to escape. I love this book because … Read more
The Hypnotists Hypnotists #1 by Gordon Korman Adventure Science Fiction Supernatural Review #1 Jax Opus’s family is one of the most powerful families of Hypnotists in the world, and Jax doesn’t even know it until he meets Dr. Elias Mako, who wants to teach Jax to use his power. But what will Dr. Mako use Jax’s powers for – good or evil? And when he finds out, will Jax join him or not?
The Island Stallion by Walter Farley Adventure Fantasy Mystery Thriller Review #1 * * * Stars (Pretty good) It all started when people came by boat to the Azul Island. They were hunting for horses and a stallion. They would use a bull whip to break the horses and the stallion in. But the man on the boat got separated. By nightfall it was too dark, so they camped out, when they suddenly came across … Read more
El Deafo by Cece Bell Graphic Novel Realistic Fiction Recommended for readers 4th grade and up * * * * Stars (Great!) Have you walked around with your eyes closed to see how it would feel to be blind? Think about what it might be like to be deaf. What would you miss hearing? Music? Television shows? Voices of family, friends, teachers? Take a look at El Deafo by Cece Bell. In this graphic novel, the author/artist tells … Read more
Christmas After All: The Diary of Minnie Swift Dear America series by Kathryn Lasky Historical Fiction Review # 1 * * * * Stars (Great!) I love how this book is combined with history. The Great Depression was a very hard time, and this book describes some of the hardship very well. I am overjoyed to have books like this one. Without them, we wouldn’t be interested in our history. And before we know it, … Read more