Kehret, Peg. The Stranger Next Door. New York City: Penguin Group, 2003. 163 pages. (Mystery)
The book that I choose for my book review this month is The Stranger Next Door. The main characters are Pete a cat, Alex, Rocky, Mr. and Mrs. Kendrill, Benjie, and Mr. Woolsey. In almost each chapter in the book it mentions all of this names. The story takes place in Valley View Estates a development that was just built. The problem in this story is that Rocky has to move away from all of his friends and change his name. Rocky moves to a place called Valley View Estates. He has to change his name because a drug dealer is going to kill him and his family. He is going to kill him and his family because drug dealing is illegal and Rocky’s mom is going to court about it. Rocky solves this problem by going to court against the drug dealer but he finds out that the drug dealer is his dad. Another interesting event in this novel is that Rocky’s house catches on fire during the night and Pete the cat wakes up Alex so Alex can wake up his family to call the fire department to come and put out the fire. The character that I despised was Mr. Woolsey because he is the guy that set Rocky’s house on fire. I also didn’t like him because he was always grumpy
Reviewed by: The Outsider
Friday, March 14, 2008
Holes
Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Scholastic Inc, 1989. 233 pages. (Fiction / Humor)
In the book Holes there is a boy named Stanly Yelnats who was sent to Camp Green Lake, which used to be the largest lake in Texas and now is just a dry flat waste land. There used to be a town there also, and that shriveled up too. Stanley and his family thought they were cursed because of their no good dirty rotten great grandfather. That’s why they thought he was sent to Camp Green Lake and had to dig holes to try and find interesting things. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake because he was accused of stealing a pair of shoes from the homeless shelter. At camp Stanley helped his friend Zero learns how to read and write because he didn’t know how to do these things yet. So Zero helped Stanley dig his holes, to pay him back for teaching him how to read and write.
I would recommend the book Holes to a friend because it was a fabulous book. I thought it was so good because it related to something that happened to me. The thing that happened to me was I did a favor for a friend, such as giving him a pencil, and he let me use his text book to do my homework.
Reviewed by: Dimwitt
In the book Holes there is a boy named Stanly Yelnats who was sent to Camp Green Lake, which used to be the largest lake in Texas and now is just a dry flat waste land. There used to be a town there also, and that shriveled up too. Stanley and his family thought they were cursed because of their no good dirty rotten great grandfather. That’s why they thought he was sent to Camp Green Lake and had to dig holes to try and find interesting things. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake because he was accused of stealing a pair of shoes from the homeless shelter. At camp Stanley helped his friend Zero learns how to read and write because he didn’t know how to do these things yet. So Zero helped Stanley dig his holes, to pay him back for teaching him how to read and write.
I would recommend the book Holes to a friend because it was a fabulous book. I thought it was so good because it related to something that happened to me. The thing that happened to me was I did a favor for a friend, such as giving him a pencil, and he let me use his text book to do my homework.
Reviewed by: Dimwitt
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