Review: I did like the book, but Leo keeps making a daydream into a play of some sort and you sometimes can’t tell if he is daydreaming or not.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Good
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 7-8
Review: I thought the main character was very realistic and I could relate to him in some ways. I could also relate to the story very well.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? No
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 7-8
Review: Crash Coogan (main character) is a 7th grade football star. The summer before first grade, 7 years ago, a new kid, Penn Webb, moves next door. Ever since, Crash has picked on him.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? No
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 7
Review: This was very good. It caught my attention and I couldn’t put it down. This book is a definite must-read.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? No
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 7
Review: The main reason why I liked the book was it gave hardy details around what really happened in Sudan. The story was sad (bad part), but it gave vivid images to the reader of what kind of suffering he experienced. The main character was a strong man and even today, and there were lots of surprises.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 9-10
Review: I loved the story. It was very detailed. You really never know what will happen next!
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Good
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Girls in grades 7-8
Review: I loved how Klages added some history of the war going on during these years to this realistic book. I loved this book. You should read it!!!
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 7-8
Review: The graphic novel had scenes that were pretty gruesome and I would not recommend it to little kids at all. It does have a great point, but like it was a little complicated. I liked the plot, how life may come to pauses.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Good
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? No
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 11-12
Review: What I like most was how it was historical fiction. I think Nails was the main character because the book is mostly about him. I was to read more books like it.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? No
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 8
Review: Many people would enjoy this book. The ending is great!
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Girls in grades 7-9
Review: The book was mainly about friendship between two girls who destined to be like sisters, as time passes, betrayal rose. I was disappointed when one of the main characters had a misunderstanding and left the other. It was sad. I am reading Saving Fish from Drowning. It is not similar but has a strong plot.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Good
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? No
Who would enjoy this book? Girls in grades 8-11
Review: This book was great. It’s about a girl named Margaret, whose parents die. Margaret lives on the streets with her brother. Later on, she is chosen to go on the Titanic.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Good
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Girls in grades 7-12
Review: In this book, a girl gets magical powers. She also moves and becomes popular. It wasn’t very good.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Poor
Characters: Poor
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? No
Who would enjoy this book? Both girls and boys in grades 7
Review: This book is about a city underground. The electricity is running out and most of all the natural resources. So two people try to save the town.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Good
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both girls and boys in grades 7-9
Review: The situation, I thought personally was a little disturbing. Why a little boy would do such a thing, but after reading the book, I understand what was really happening in Afghanistan due to the Taliban invasion. The characters were believable, every detail of them. In some parts of the book, it was ironic.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 8-10
Review: I liked everything about this book. It was very exciting and built up suspense. I can’t wait to read the 7th book!
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? No
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Both girls and boys in grades 7-11
Review: The book itself was scary. I couldn’t believe that the life of a little boy could be so disturbing. I thought that the book was fiction and thought who would make a story like this, but it was true and I couldn’t believe it. Kids under 13 should not read it because it’s disturbing.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Good
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? No
Who would enjoy this book? Both boys & girls in grades 10-11
Review: The story was so realistic. A Korean girl coming to America for the first time from Korea to start a new life. I thought that the main character was so real, it could happen to a lot of people. The book was ironic in some ways. The ending surprised me, never thought that the main character would witness domestic violence right in front of her eyes.
How it rates:
Pacing of the story: Excellent
Characters: Excellent
Is this book a quick read? Yes
Would you recommend this book? Yes
Who would enjoy this book? Girls in grades 7-11
Overall Rating: It’s a Must-Read!
Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez Finding Miracles is a good book written by the well known Dominican novelist, Julia Alvarez. Milly is a normal American high school student, but when a new boy named Pablo arrives at her school, she has to confront her identity as an adopted child from his native country. After this confrontation, she travels to the newly democratic country, or el paiscito, meaning little country, to discover the secrets of her past and future.
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince? by Melissa Kantor Lucy Norris is a girl whose life gets turned upside down when her dad remarries. Lucy gets two stepsisters that are suck-ups to their mom, and she has to live in the basement and use a blow-up bed. Lucy goes to a new school and becomes friends with the populars and ends up dating the hottest and most popular kids in school. Is that the boy she really loves? Or will her passion for art draw her to a different type of guy?
