2011 Reviews by: Kimberly - Little Chute
Found
Jonah, an adopted kid, and his best friend Chip started to receive threatening notes in the mail. One of the letters said "You are one of the missing." Jonah thought that the letter was just a 7th grade prank. Jonah and Chip started to receive more threatening letters. These letters meant something. Jonah and Chip started to investigate what these letters meant. They were really one of the missing. Haddix does an awesome job writing this book! This book is a series so I also recommend Sent and Sabotaged. These books are also job. This book is rated 5 out of 5!
Fences of the heart
During the World War II, a nine year old boy named Bruno came home after school and found out that the family is moving to "Out With." Bruno's father got a promotion from the Fury. When Bruno and the family arrives to Out With, without the parents permission, Bruno finds a fence. Not just any fence, a long fence with Jews inside of the fence. When Bruno gets closer to the fence, he finds a smaller boy . Bruno asked what the boy's name was, his name was Shumel. Bruno and Shmuel find a lot in common! They spend long conversations on afternoons at the fence. They could never really see eachother because the fence between Bruno and Shmuel. Nobody could relate to World War II because it was really sad and depressing, John Boyne did a very good job relating to World War II. This book is filled with joy, happiness, and sadness. I recomend you read this book! This book is hard to put down!
Family, Friends, Boys... Dental Drama?!
After Girl Scouts, Raina, trips and falls and lands with her head faced down. Raina lost her two front teeth! Her parents rush her to the dentist. She ends up with a long journey of braces , surgery, and even embarrasing headgear! That is not all Raina has to deal with, she has to deal with her family, friends, boys, and middle school! This is a true story written by Raina Telgemeier. I like this comic book SO much because it shows me what it was really like for Raina. You gotta read this book!
How do you treat people?
Kyle, a teenage boy, was a selfish person. He made fun of the “ugly” people and he was also popular. He was really spoiled. A witch turns Kyle into a beast as a consequence for his selfishness and how he makes fun of others by their looks. Kyle has to reveal himself back to a human. A human has to kiss Kyle. “I was a beast. I stared into the mirror. I was an animal-not quite wolf or bear or gorilla or dog, but some horrible species that walked upright, that was almost human.” Since Kyle is the “ugly” one now, he isn’t popular like he was before. Now everyone is also scared of talking to someone not “cool looking”. Everyone is scared of being seen in front of Kyle. Everyone thinks Kyle is even going to eat them! Just because he looks ugly on the outside doesn’t mean he is in the inside!
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Kyle, a teenage boy, was a selfish person. He made fun of the "ugly" people and he was also popular. he was really spoiled. A witch turns Kyle into a beast as a consequence for his selfishness and how he makes fun of others by their looks. Kyle has to reveal himself back to a human. A human has to kiss Kyle. "I was a beast. I stared into the mirror. I was an animal-not quite wolf or bear or gorilla or dog, but some horrible species that walked upright, that was almost human." Since Kyle is the "ugly" one now, he isn't popular like he was before. Now everyone is scared of talking to someone not cool looking. Everyone is scared of being seen in front of Kyle. Everyone thinks Kyle is even going to eat them! Just because he looks ugly on the outside doesn't mean he is in the inside! that is the message of the book. Alex Flinn has showed how you can twist a fairy tale into a real life problem. All of the events are similar to Beauty and the Beast. Flinn managed to rearrange characters into tennagers. That is how the book was really strong and good. Some other books I recommend you to read by Flinn are Breaking Point and Nothing to Lose. These are also very good books. This book is really hard for me to put down!
Clever and Funny
The book Double Fudge was very entertaining. Peter, Fudge's older brother, tells the story of how his family discovered their dad's Cousin Howie and his family from Hawaii. Cousin Howie has a wife named Eudora, a son named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, and twin daughters, Flora and Fauna, also known as the Natural Beauties. Once Peter and Fudge meet Flora and Fauna, the twins pick the perfect name for their Farley: Mini Fudge. Cousin Howie's family stays at Peter's house for a while, and that's when Mini's adventures begin. Mini is just like Fudge, making trouble and ignoring everyone, but he rarley talks. Fudge says he's going to kill Mini after Mini broke Fudge's bird's wing, and he has to learn to live with Mini when they temporarily move into an apartment in the same building and Fudge and Mini get stuck in the elevator on Halloween. I'm not going to be the one to spoilit by telling you the end, so read it for yourself.
Lunch Money
In the book Lunch Money there is a boy named Greg Kenton. He is just an average 6th grade boy. But he has many talents, he was good at baseball, and even better at soccer, and he even had a clear singing voice. He also played the piano and was a whiz at drawing. But his best talent was money, he earned money from working, and he had very good ideas on how to make more money. But there is a girl named Maura, and she copies him and everything she does. They are like mortal enemies up until Greg sees how good of an artist Maura is. Then they work together and make a good buisness, and in the end, they ar e a HUGE!!!! Buisness. That is my review on the book lunch Money.
Sleepaway Girls
I loved the book Sleepaway Girls so much for many reasons. I liked how the author wrote the book in the new girl's point of veiw. She (Sam) had never been to camp before, and it was hard for her to pull everything together to make it the best experience possible for her peeps, or the campers that are 8 or younger. She has to do it all while facing a camp bully named Ashley, being in love with a boy named Cole, and accidentially kissing the boy she did like, but has learned that boy, Hunter, never gets far in relationships. Sam was enjoying every bit of the camp except for Ashley, the bad camp food, and having to scrub toilets. She had her new group of friends: Emily Kate, aka Em, Courtney, aka Court, and Grace, and they all helped her realize that she wasn't made to be a people pleaser, and she should be firm with her friend Mallory, aka Mal, back home. If she didn't want to do something, she should tell Mal. When Mal sends a really short video after Sam sends two videos that were at least a half hour, Sam decides that she isn't going to send Mal any more. Instead, her new friends convince her to make tapes of them with her, and they'd reveal secrets and talk about their problems in secret since they're not supossed to have electronics at camp.I've said enough, and if you want to find out more, visit Kimberly James J. Siebers Memoral Library, but not too soon. I loved the book so much that I'm reading it again!
