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- Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood.
—Review by D. Scanlan
- That Judy moody is not in a good mood because she has to start a new grade and her day starts off really bad so she goes to the new classroom not liking it and her new teacher's name is Mr. Todd so then throughout her week she tries to get in a better mood and she has a club named The Smelly Toad.
- Lightning Thief
—Review by Charlie
- The Lightning Thief is about Percy, the son of Poseiden. Zeus thought he stole a lightning bolt, but it was someone else. His mom got kidnapped by a Minotaur. He went to New York City to go to the gods. And he was told not to go into the air. He rescued his mom, gave back the cylinder (the bolt) and survived the battle. I think it was a good book and others should read it.
- Battle of the Labyrinth, Sea of Monster, Titans Curse
—Review by T. Rushton
- In the Sea of Monsters, Grover, a goat man is lost and a monster so they rescue him. In the Titans Curse, Annabeth is lost over a hedge and when Percy has dreams of this he comes to her rescue but little does he know that the titans army at rise. In the Battle of the Labyrinth, Pery and Grover and Annabeth go to find a way to the labyrinth and Grover finds the god pan.
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to FOO
—Review by C. Christensen
- The book was about Leven Thumps he needed to get to Foo and destroy the gateway and to convince him a sycophant named Clover Earnest, and a girl named Winter Frore, and Geth a toothpick the heir to the throne of Foo. Leven has to stop a war in Foo, that might destroy hope and imagination for reality.
- The White Mountains
—Review by A. Koehler
- This book is all about action-adventure as well as science fiction. It is about a boy named Will. The Tripods have been ruling the world for over one hundred years. All humans have been Capped ever since. They don't worry about the Tripods, and they don't wonder if they really are really, really, really tall machines or if there are beings inside it from another world. A human gets Capped every time they turn 14 years old. It is a symbol of adulthood. Will's cousin Jack is going to be Capped that upcoming week. The Capping ceremony came. A Tripod came and took Jack up inside to be Capped. When Jack has returned, he is acting strange. He is acting like an adult, but with almost a whole other personality. A little while later, a Vagrant (a person with a Cap that hasn't worked properly) shows up and tells Will that the Tripods are controlling men through the Caps so that the idea of a rebellion doesn't ever come up. Will's only hope is to get to take a very long and dangerous journey to the White Mountains where men walk free without Caps. If you love action adventure as well as science fiction, this is the perfect book for you!
- Nobody's Princess
—Review by K. Starks
- This book is about a young princess named Helen. She hates sewing and she has no plans for marriage. She wants to fight with her brothers.
- Amelia Earhart
—Review by T. Baggett
- She started out as a little girl. Her name was Amelia Earhart. Back in the day little girls weren't allowed to do what the boys use to do. Girls had to act proper and always wear dresses. But Amelia's parents didn't believe in that, they believed that girls should do what boys did, so Amelia and her sister got to do what boys did and they didnt even have to wear dresses.
Amelia would go out in her backyard and play baseball, football, basketball, and by the end of the day she would be all muddy.
One day Amelia and her sister got tired of playing with only them two. So they went around the corner and found two little girls who loved to play with them.
They used to play every game that was invented.
One day Amelia wanted to build a play house and she did build one and it was a success.
But another day came and she went to the state fair and she saw a airplane in the sky and at that very moment she new that she wanted to ride an airplaine, and there was no doubt about it.
She got to make an airplane and she became a big success.
- Mississippi Trail 1955
—Review by T. Baggett
- Mississippi Trail talks about two males and one of the males got in some trouble.
An African American boy named Emmit Louis Till was bruatly murdered because she whistled at a white woman.
Later on that night Emmit Till was found in a river.His face was beaten in, they hung him, one of his eyes were out, and bullet through his head.
- The Princess and the Bear
—Review by H. Luzitano
- The Princess and the Bear is about magic. People turn into animals. The bear and the hound fall in love at first. The hound then finds Prince George. Prince George tells a story about Tors where he gets attacked by a wolf. The wolf joins him so they change bodies. The man changes into a wolf and the wolf changes into a man. Then Frant was telling a story about his father being proud of his magic.
- Frederica
—Review by A. Goalen
- This book is well written. It has a well brought up plot. It is about this woman who asks this man named Alverstoke to take her in and act as a cousin. So he tells everyone that he is Frederica's family's guardian for their father died and he owed him a debt and this is a good way to pay that debt. The story was written in Columbi, 1965. It is kind of hard to understand at times but when you just keep reading, it gets easier to understand. I would recommend this book to anybody who likes romance novels.
- Holes
—Review by C. L.
- It is a cool book. I think it is. I saw the movie, too. Stanley stole shoes that were supposed to be sold to help homeless people. He didn't really steal them, but he got caught with them and had to go to court. He had the choice of jail or camp. It has some good characters in it like X-Ray, ZIgzag, Armpit, Magnet and Squid. His best friend ended up being Zero. They end up helping each other out. Zero helped Stanley dig and Stanley helped him learn to read. You have to read the rest of the book to find out what happens.
- Georgette Heyer Frederica
—Review by A. Goalen
- This book is a great romance book. It has some old writing language that is hard to understand at times but it really is a great romance. It is about the eminently eligible Marquis of Alverstoke had withstood the wiles of matchmaking mothers, conniving sisters and ambitious debutantes for too long to be ensnared by a managing miss. Yet once entagled with Miss Frederica Merrival,squite extraordinary family, the usually cool and restrained marquis began to feel most unusually out of control! And then he began to wonder if his prized bachelor status might not survive the next encounter. The rest will have to be found out.
- Ghost School
—Review by D. Palmer-Randolph
- Spooker is a teenage ghost that attends ghost school at night. Spooker is not well you can say he is not very popular kids really dislike him. And well its the end of the year and its time for the big test of the year, every student in the school is assigned a new house with a family inside and Spooker the unknown kid at ghost school is alone by his self. The first assignment is one the first day change the temperture of the room, second make ghostly sounds to spook the family in the house then last scare the family out of the house. But there is a problem Spooker has made a friend in the house and doesn't want to scare the family out of the house.
- Bread and Roses, Too
—Review by J. Parry
- I enjoyed reading Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson. It is about the a labor strike in 1912. The two main characters are children that experience the strike in two different ways. One is a mill worker who is American born and is struggling to make ends meet. The other is an Italian-American girl who wants to go to school and hates what the strike is doing to her family. I would recommend this book to young adults. It is also a good book to read to help understand labor unions and strikes.
- The Host
—Review by R. Rushton
- This book The Host was written by Stephine Meyers. It is about aliens taking over the earth and controlling humans brain, but one certain human continues to fight while, while the soul that is put inside her tries to control. The soul, Wanderer, because very emotionally involved in her host and she goes to find Jared and Jamie, her hosts family. She falls in love with Jared, but the soul itself falls in love with Ian one of the new friends she makes. Wanda, the humans call her, struggles to get all the humans to like her and to trust her. She struggles over what to do to protect Jamie and Jared and all her new friends, as the seekers search for them. In the end Wanda choices to give Melanie back her body and she takes a new host so she can be with the man she loved, and still be with her friends.
- Lightning Thief
—Review by B. McCoy
- Percy is going to a school and his Latin teacher teaches him about Greek Gods. His Latin teacher is half man half horse, he sits in his wheelchair to hide his legs. He goes to Camp Halfblood. He gets his mission. He goes--he has to go get Zeus' trident and then Hades bolt and the bolt gets lost. It turns out that Aries has them--he had stolen them. Percy meets his dad Poseidon and returns the Trident to Zeus and goes back and shows off. I thought it was cool because I liked the thought that Percy's dad was Posiedon. The most exciting part was when he met his Dad. After that I read the second book Sea Monsters.