Snicket, Lemony. The Reptile Room. New York: Harper Collins, 2000. 190 pages. (Adventure Series)
Meet Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. These three children have miserable lives full of unfortunate events. Their house burned down, their parents got killed in the fire, and Count Olaf was trying to get his greedy little hands on the Baudelaire fortune. Now, since their house has burned down, they were going to live with their Uncle Montgomery a very famous and respected herpetologist. He studies snakes and lizards from all across the world. His previous assistant quit, and he has a new assistant, Stephano. When Stephano arrives, Klaus automatically knows it is Count Olaf. What happens next? Read The Reptile Room to find out. I felt that the book was very exciting and once you started reading it you do not want to put it down.
Reviewed by: LT28
Friday, May 30, 2008
Twister Summer
Robert, Willo. Twister Summer. NY: Simon Pulse,1998. 190 pages. (Mystery)
The book I selected was Twisted Summer. It’s about a girl named Cici, who can’t wait for summer to start. She is so excited because she is going to one of her childhood hideouts: Crystal Lake. Little did she know that this summer was going to change her life. She finds out that one girl and two boys died at the camp. These were kids that she had grown up with at this lake. Everyone thought that this one guy killed them, but Cici doesn’t believe that he was the actual guy. So, she started to investigate. Cici has a hard time believing what she has uncovered. The killer could be someone close to her, a friend, maybe even someone in her family! She must be on the right track because she now becomes the murder target!
This book is very interesting. I really enjoyed it. I don’t really have an interest in these types of books but wanted to try it anyways. I usually read books that aren’t really serious. But, I still liked it. I give it a 7 ½ because it’s not really the type of book that I would normally get.
Reviewed by: PradaPanda
The book I selected was Twisted Summer. It’s about a girl named Cici, who can’t wait for summer to start. She is so excited because she is going to one of her childhood hideouts: Crystal Lake. Little did she know that this summer was going to change her life. She finds out that one girl and two boys died at the camp. These were kids that she had grown up with at this lake. Everyone thought that this one guy killed them, but Cici doesn’t believe that he was the actual guy. So, she started to investigate. Cici has a hard time believing what she has uncovered. The killer could be someone close to her, a friend, maybe even someone in her family! She must be on the right track because she now becomes the murder target!
This book is very interesting. I really enjoyed it. I don’t really have an interest in these types of books but wanted to try it anyways. I usually read books that aren’t really serious. But, I still liked it. I give it a 7 ½ because it’s not really the type of book that I would normally get.
Reviewed by: PradaPanda
Mermaid Park
Mayall, Beth. Mermaid Park. New Jersey: Razorbill, 2005. 248 pages. (Fiction / Romance)
Amy is a normal teenaged girl just like everyone else her age. But what makes her special? Is it that no girl ever saw a mermaid before? Well Amy has, and she will do whatever it takes to get a job at the Mermaid Park. But Amy finds out that there is a trick: they’re not real mermaids at all. After each show, they change into their “normal” selves in the dressing room, and Amy is not that surprised at all because she knows that there aren’t real mermaids. There is still one more surprise in store: how can they breathe under water if they are not real mermaids? One night Amy was curious and decided to see what it was like to be in the pool where the mermaids had preformed. She was wondering if she could do it with all the water pressure on her. She was born with a pre-mature heart. Can she do it? We will find out soon.
A summer romance, Mermaid Park, a little sister who thinks she owns the universe, a mom who is hard to get along with, and a step dad who has no qualities of a real dad… a recipe for disaster? Or can everything work out? Read Mermaid Park and find out. I thought the book was very good. It kept me entertained and at the end of each chapter it kept me wanting more which, in a book, is what I am looking for. It’s a great book, so read it.
Reviewed By: DolphinGirl76
Amy is a normal teenaged girl just like everyone else her age. But what makes her special? Is it that no girl ever saw a mermaid before? Well Amy has, and she will do whatever it takes to get a job at the Mermaid Park. But Amy finds out that there is a trick: they’re not real mermaids at all. After each show, they change into their “normal” selves in the dressing room, and Amy is not that surprised at all because she knows that there aren’t real mermaids. There is still one more surprise in store: how can they breathe under water if they are not real mermaids? One night Amy was curious and decided to see what it was like to be in the pool where the mermaids had preformed. She was wondering if she could do it with all the water pressure on her. She was born with a pre-mature heart. Can she do it? We will find out soon.
A summer romance, Mermaid Park, a little sister who thinks she owns the universe, a mom who is hard to get along with, and a step dad who has no qualities of a real dad… a recipe for disaster? Or can everything work out? Read Mermaid Park and find out. I thought the book was very good. It kept me entertained and at the end of each chapter it kept me wanting more which, in a book, is what I am looking for. It’s a great book, so read it.
Reviewed By: DolphinGirl76
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. NY: Puffin, 1976. 276 pages. (Historical Fiction)
This book is about an African-American girl, Cassie, and her family who live in Virginia. In one year, the family has to deal with nightriders (mean white men who try to set African-American’s homes on fire and kill them), burnings, and being humiliated in public simply because they are black. Cassie’s family is also at risk of losing their land because they owe taxes. The land is very important to their family because it ties them together. In the end, they must destroy what is most important to them, the land, to save someone’s life.
I selected this book because at first the front cover looked interesting. Then, I read the back, and it sounded very interesting. On the back there was a quote that said this book was full of thrilling adventures. This book was very exciting, and I couldn’t put it down. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends.
Reviewed by: Kae5495
This book is about an African-American girl, Cassie, and her family who live in Virginia. In one year, the family has to deal with nightriders (mean white men who try to set African-American’s homes on fire and kill them), burnings, and being humiliated in public simply because they are black. Cassie’s family is also at risk of losing their land because they owe taxes. The land is very important to their family because it ties them together. In the end, they must destroy what is most important to them, the land, to save someone’s life.
I selected this book because at first the front cover looked interesting. Then, I read the back, and it sounded very interesting. On the back there was a quote that said this book was full of thrilling adventures. This book was very exciting, and I couldn’t put it down. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends.
Reviewed by: Kae5495
Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders
Marshall, Joseph. Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders. Korea: Sounds True Inc., 2005. 114 pages. (Non-Fiction / Native Americans)
This book is about a man named Joseph who is talking about what his grandparents had told and taught him as a child. Throughout the entire book, Joseph is talking about his life as a child. His grandfather’s name was Albert, and he was a Sicangu Lakota in his sixties. Now he is an Elder. His grandmother is Annie, Good Voice Eagle Two Hawk, and is most likely in her sixties too. Joe lived with his grandmother when he was little. He talks about everything his grandparents taught him: how to find and make arrows in a dried piece of ash stave, and several life lessons, stories, and Indian languages. This story takes place in South Dakota, where the Lakota had settled. There were some hard times for Joe and his grandparents. First they moved out of a beautiful log home on a plateau in a prairie with horses. One of the horses was found in a snow filled gully, smothered. There was nothing left other than her carcass that was mangled by the coyotes. Shortly after they moved, the house was sold and then ripped down. Each chapter is like a different story that took place sometime in his grandfather’s life.
I really loved this book because it was moving and touching. It taught me things like how to make arrows out of wood and some words in Lakota. I think this book was very well written. I recommend this book to anyone, especially anyone who has a good relationship with their grandparents. This author would most likely make a great teacher (but I’m afraid he’s too old) because he wrote this book, and it’s so good and has so many good stories and life lessons that I couldn’t stop reading it!
Reviewed by: ChickenNoodleSoup
This book is about a man named Joseph who is talking about what his grandparents had told and taught him as a child. Throughout the entire book, Joseph is talking about his life as a child. His grandfather’s name was Albert, and he was a Sicangu Lakota in his sixties. Now he is an Elder. His grandmother is Annie, Good Voice Eagle Two Hawk, and is most likely in her sixties too. Joe lived with his grandmother when he was little. He talks about everything his grandparents taught him: how to find and make arrows in a dried piece of ash stave, and several life lessons, stories, and Indian languages. This story takes place in South Dakota, where the Lakota had settled. There were some hard times for Joe and his grandparents. First they moved out of a beautiful log home on a plateau in a prairie with horses. One of the horses was found in a snow filled gully, smothered. There was nothing left other than her carcass that was mangled by the coyotes. Shortly after they moved, the house was sold and then ripped down. Each chapter is like a different story that took place sometime in his grandfather’s life.
I really loved this book because it was moving and touching. It taught me things like how to make arrows out of wood and some words in Lakota. I think this book was very well written. I recommend this book to anyone, especially anyone who has a good relationship with their grandparents. This author would most likely make a great teacher (but I’m afraid he’s too old) because he wrote this book, and it’s so good and has so many good stories and life lessons that I couldn’t stop reading it!
Reviewed by: ChickenNoodleSoup
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