The Arrival

I just thought of this AMAZING book. It has no words, but it's not a comic book, it's art. It is called "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan. You can find it at the Bookloft. This is really a book you won't want to miss.
MSV

P. S. from Mrs. Kane - this is a very well-known graphic novel.  I will try to purchase it for our library.

Witness

I read a book called Witness by Karen Hesse. Witness is about the KKK. In this small town there are two people that are in the most danger. Leonora Sutter is a 12 year old African American. Esther is a 6 year old Jew. The KKK is coming soon and they must find somewhere for them to be safe. Meanwhile a couple is trying to decide if they should turn their store into a Klan store. This story is a very sweet, touching and realistic story, and I would recommend it to anyone.  MS

Secret of the Sirens

Well I just wanted to say that I think Secret of the Sirens is a wonderful book and I believe that poeple that like Percy Jackson will like this because it is very alike in many ways-  like the sirens are mythological creatures. M

Learning to Breathe

At the moment, I am reading a memoir by a woman named Alison Wright. The book is called Learning to Breathe. It is about a photographer who travels to Asia. Once, when she was there, her bus was hit by a truck. She was at the point of impact and didn't get medical care for 14 hours. But, with a miracle, she lived. This book is an amazing story about a woman who lived through death.
Thanks!
MSV

Daniel X Watch the Skies

Recently I have read the book Daniel X Watch the Skies by James Patterson. The book is very exciting, suspenseful, and interesting. The book is about a alien boy named Daniel X who is on a mission to destroy all the aliens on list consisting on 100 aliens. In Watch the Skies Daniel is on a mission to destroy number 5 with the help of his mom, dad, sister, and, friends. Daniel faces many challenges on his effort to destroy number 5 and I don't want to give away the ending so you'll have to read it yourself to find out how challenging this mission was.  IM

Elsewhere

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin is about a girl who dies and goes to a whole new world and lives a life in reverse. Liz (the girl) misses her life on earth and knows she is missing a lot of things that she will never be aable to do on Elsewhere.  Discover a whole new world and the adventures a 15 year old girl can find.
RS

The Homework Machine

A faviorte book of mine is called the Homework Machine by Dan Gutman. It is about kids who are in their school and who hate homework. After awhile they discover a kid who has perfect grades and who created a machine call The Homework Machine. What the machine does is do the homework that a person puts in. As you read the book, the adults begin to catch on which causes big trouble for the characters. I would recommend this book to anyone.  NCB

Stand by Me

I was reading a amazing book called Stand by Me.   The book is by Steven King, who we all know is a great scary writer.   Some of my thoughts on the book were that this was not one of Steven King's very scary books.  I am not finished with iit  yet, really I just started it, but so far I love it.  It is very exiting.  One of my questions is:  will the boys all be friends through out the book.  L

Mysterious Benedict Society

We would like to disscus The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart.  This book is about four kids who are recruited via mysterious tests by a man called Mr. Benedict.   They then learn of a strange danger and must save the world -  remembering that if they fall,  all is lost. JG JR

Stolen Children

STOLEN CHILDREN by  is a good book because it has excitement and a heart.  This book tells people that all jobs are not easy. A girl named Amy took a baby sitting class and they did not teach her what to do if a thug comes in and kidnaps a little girl..  While Amy is baby sitting, Kendra gets kidnapped and she is out of her mind. The thugs come back and they take her too.  And to make matters worse when OR if she gets home she has no dad to run to and she thinks its her fault.   AW & EM

Westing Game

The book The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is an action-packed thriller with a twist of mystery. It's about a race with sixteen people to get the big inheritence left behind by a man who has just died.  KK & KD

Old Willis Place

The Old Willis Place was a absolutely superb read. It is about a haunted mansion called old Willis place. It is haunted by the the soul of the owner. I'll bet you are wondering why she is haunting it.  There are also ghosts who haunt outside the old Willis place. Read what happens when the new girl who has just moved to the neighborhood  enters the old Willis place.  CS & NV

Raven's Gate

Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy called Matt who gets in trouble for a crime he didn't commit. He can go to jail or join a weird project. So he takes the LEAF project. Every night the people who take care of him leave their house for some unknown reason, so he goes to explore in the woods but gets lost because all the trees are identical.  This is the first book in The Gatekeeper's series.  LL & TBC

Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis,  is a book about an orphan boy whose mom died because of a disease.   Bud does not know who his father is.  He has an idea of who his father is, but is not sure. Read the book to find out who his father turns out to be, and other questions about him.  CW

Swindle

I am here to tell you about probably the greatest book ever made!!!!! SWINDLE!!!  by Gordon Korman.  It is perfect.  In the book some guy named Palamo S. Wendle  - a.k.a.  Swindle  -   anyway he tricks some kid into giving him a million dollor baseball card!!!  So the kid pulls together a team of some other kids and pull off an amazing hiest past a high tech security system and a menacing guard dog named Luthor. CP

Belle Teal

My book is called Belle Teal by Ann M. Martin.  It is about a young girl named Belle Teal whose life is perfectly normal until a riot starts at her school because an African American family moves in to town.  But to Belle Teal,  it is completly different because she has never seen someone who is African American.  But while all the other kids are spitting and calling him names she befriends him and they become best friends.  If you want to find out more about this riveting book you'll have to read the book.


-IM

Maximum Ride Series

My book is called Max  - part of the Maximum Rides series.   This book is about a girl named Maximum Ride and her friends.  Angel Gazzy Iggy, Blind and Fang.  But these are not regular kids they are half bird and they get chased by erasers.  They are all mutated in to diffrent animals and between the hustle and bustle Fang and Max start to like each other.  There is anthor friend Nudge and she does not like to be mutated,  she wants to be normal.  The "mother" is stolen and held hostage for Max by the erasers.  These erasers are really people muteted into wolfs.  With these action packed fights,  there is also romance between the lines.  AY

Lightning Thief

Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.  This book is about a boy naned Percy Jackson who goes to Yancy Acadamy.  His best friend is a centaurr but he is in disquise as a normal guy. Percy is the son of a god and he goes on many cool adventures in the next 4 books.  BT

Ender's Game

I am starting a discussion on the book called Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. It takesplace in the future,in about 300 years.  A terrifying race of alien life has swept down over China, killing millions.  Now humans are fighting back.  In northern carolina, a boy named Andrew Wiggin lives. He goes to battleschool, an orbiting space station where children, as young as six years old, are trained to fight for humanity. The heart of battleschool is the battleroom. "Armies" of 40 children fight against each other with harmless lasers, when you are hit, your suit goes rigid.you win when all of the enemies are "frozen".Andrew Wiggin must overcome challenges, both mental and physical, which threaten his health and wellbeing. But the teachers are the real enemy, they manipulate Ender, give him an army several years early, and give him a battle every day. Can his brilliant mind cope with the challenges?  TCB

Freak the Mighty

Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. I think that Freak the Mighty was a great book, about two young men, getting through the eight grade together. Freak also know as Kevin was a boy suffering from a crippling desease. Max was his freind, but he was freakishly tall.  Kz Cdm

The Neddiad

I would like to do a discussion on The Neddiad. It is about a boy who moves to Hollywood, meets a shaman, recieves a sacred stone turtle from the shaman, and goes to a military academy. He then saves the world with the son of a movie star's son and a girl who lives in the same hotel as him.-DBC 

Peter and the Starcatchers

I would like to talk about the Peter Pan series. This series talks about Peter Pan's life before the movie. In this series,  there are three books:   1.Peter and the Starcatchers  2.Peter and the shadow Theives and  3.Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Peter has many problems like captain hook trying to kill him and meeting people he doesn't know   KG

A Dog's Life

A Dogs Life by Ann M. Martin is about a stray dog, who is abandoned by her mother after living in a shed with her brother for years. She struggles to stay alive, eating scraps from a garbage can and hunting small animals. A great book about the life of a stray.   CS

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I think that the first harry potter book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" was probbably my favorite of them all. The story of it was like i was seeing it for the first time it was even more enjoyable then the movie   EJJ