“One moment we were cruising down a curving highway and the next thing I knew we were somewhere else……entirely.” Riley was a young girl whose biggest dream was to turn thirteen, but all of that changed when she somehow landed in heaven with no knowledge ... more
Once upon a time there was a turtle named Franklin. He was worried about the first day of school. He worried on the bus and he was scared to go to class, but the teacher helped him read and practice money. She helped him learn a lot in school. Franklin ... more
This story is about how segregation in the schools turned into integration in California. This story is about a girl named Sylvia Mendez and her brothers who have to go to the Mexican school because they have brown skin even though they are American citizens. ... more
A Fine, Fine School is about a girl named Tiley and her principal named Mr. Keene. Mr. Keene loved his school so much that he wanted the students and teachers to go to school more often. First, he opened the school on Saturdays and Sundays. The students ... more
Chester is a mouse. He has his own way of doing things. He has a friend Wilson. Wilson and Chester are best friends. Chester and Wilson always wear the same thing on Halloween. Chester always gets out of his bed on the same side. But when Lily moves into ... more
Staying Nine is about a girl named Heather. She wants to be nine years old forever and doesn't want to change. She didn't want to have a birthday party because she thought she could stay nine if she didn't have a party. One day Heather looked at ... more
Gifts of the Heart is a good book to read. It has a little story on the first page that gives you some details about what the book will be about. Grandpa was driving a Model A car. Grandma had died in the fall, so grandpa is selling the farm in the spring. ... more
Did you ever get mad because you didn't want to move somewhere new? Was it because you were afraid of change? In this book, the character, Mei Mei felt this way. She was moving to New York from Hong Kong. (Hong Kong is in China). Mei Mei did not want to move ... more
A Walk to Remember is a story, that wraps you up in the story of young, sad, but true love. An interesting sequence of events cause Landon Carter- the popular guy, to ask out the unpopular Jamie Sullivan, which brings them into romance. The guy full of love, ... more
Abby LOVES to write! She is constantly writing in her own journal. Abby is so excited to be writing in the “advice column” for the fifth grade newspaper. However, she did not realize that it would get her into trouble. For example, she upset her teacher ... more
Best friends separated by a move; can the distance of their friendship survive? Tara-Star and Elizabeth are best friends. But Tara-Star and her parents, Barb and Luck, had to move. Elizabeth and Tara-Star are trying to stay in touch by writing letters, ... more
Can you imagine having a mother who can't function normally, who can't tell you how much she loves you or tell you who your father is? Heidi can. She lives like this every day. With her limited vocabulary, Heidi's mentally disabled mom repeats a strange ... more
Matilda is a great book! I loved it very much. This story is about a little girl that has powers and she is very intelligent, but she never gets the attention that she deserves. Then, Matilda met a young lady named Jennifer Honey. She would talk to Matilda ... more
Do you remember burping really loudly? Well you might be loud, but I bet you aren't as loud as George! He burps really loud and then randomly gets out of control! Read George Brown Trouble Magnet by Nancy Krulik to find out more about him. To begin with, ... more
This book is about airplanes and airports. It shows you inside the airport and inside the planes. Planes are big. They go to different places. This book tells all about airplanes. The book takes you everywhere inside the airplane and to the control tower. ... more
This book is about a girl who goes to a new school after being home schooled for nine years. Stargirl is not like most girls. She dresses odd and does strange things: she plays a ukulele, dances out in the rain, and keeps a pet rat with her at all times. There ... more
This book is about a bird who didn't sleep at night. He just would say, "Beebee bobbi, beebee bobbi" all the time. The other animals couldn't sleep. In the morning the zoo keeper thought the animals were sick because they all looked bad. When the baby ... more
Have You Got My Purr is a book about a little kitten that lives on a farm. She is looking for her 'purr'. She looks all around the farm. She asks the dog, the cow, the pigs, the ducks, the owl and her mother. Will kitten ever find her purr? Read it to find ... more
This is an interesting book about a girl named Sunny who goes to a new school, Plumstead Middle. She does not like the new school. She really wants to go to the same school as her best friend. To get expelled, she tries to get into the worst possible trouble. ... more
Picture yourself as a 10 year old girl, and just now at 10 years old, Nora Rose Rowley figures out that she is a genius. Try putting your feet in her shoes. You just told your Mom and Dad and someone was overhearing you talk to your parents. Your secret's ... more
Ten Timid Ghosts is about a witch with ghosts in the house. The witch wanted to move into the house and wanted the ghosts out of the house. This book will make kids laugh. My favorite part of the story was when the bat came into the house and was going ... more
What would you do if you needed to help someone but couldn't understand what they were saying? Nine-year-old Dennis meets ghosts from all different places and times. One day, he meets his Uncle Arvie's ghost. He wants three things, but because he had a stroke, ... more
Do you like pranks? Do you like stories about kids that pull pranks on their parents? The book The Littles and the Scary Halloween is a great story about two kids that like pranks. Tom and Lucy always try to outdo themselves every year as they try to scare ... more
Mr. Morton, the teacher, didn't believe in ghosts, so Cassidy couldn't tell Mr. Morton that there were classroom ghosts. The ghosts were dancing over Mr. Morton's head. A skeleton got close to Nina. Nina was scared. If you like mysteries, you will want ... more
“Louis Armstrong, he is the king of jazz!” said Annie. This is about Jack and Annie going into the past in the year 1915 in New Orleans and finding Louis Armstrong. When they meet him he is a kid packing bananas at the dock, and the kids decided to join ... more
Ramona wished her mother could stay home more often. She felt then her mother would see how she was growing up. Ramona was happy she was now in kindergarten. Being in school meant she did not have to stay at Howie's house while her mother and father worked. ... more
Do you have a younger brother? Well, if you don't then you don't even have a clue of how annoying they are, especially Fudge in this book called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Peter goes to school and wins a turtle named Gerbil. He brings it home and ... more
This story takes place in the country in the winter. It is a story about a little girl named Lisa who was getting ready for winter. She hung her clothes on the clothes line and they blew off, one by one. First the stocking blew off and Hedgie the hedgehog ... more
Riding Freedom is about a girl named Charlotte who lived in the 1800s. She was different because she did things that people didn't think girls should do. When Charlotte was young her parents died, and she had to go live in an orphanage. There she lived an ... more
Have you ever wondered how it feels like to be deaf? Well this is a tale of a girl who is deaf. Deaf means that you can't hear sounds. This girl only has four senses: sight, smell, touch, and taste. She is missing hearing because she is deaf. This girl is ... more
The book Military Planes is about when the first war planes were made. In World War 1, the observer who sat in the back of the plane had to watch for enemy planes. Some planes had only one seat and others had two. There were many different kinds of war ... more
Dear Deer is a book of homophones. Deer’s aunt is moving to the zoo. “Have you heard about the hare with no hair? She’s an expert on skin care.” Aunt ant thinks it is very crazy at the zoo. If you want to find out what wacky things happen, you ... more
Gerald the Giraffe didn't know how to dance. All the other animals make fun of him, and he gets really hurt. He meets a cricket that makes him feel better, because the cricket teaches Gerald how to listen to the music. He practiced and then he got better. ... more
Middle School, stinky beagles, crushes, cafeteria monitors, school secretaries, and a lot more, all crammed into Jamie Kelly's dumb diary. This hilarious series of adventures, by Jim Benton, is sure to make you laugh. To sum up what you would learn in Dear ... more
In the story everyone was having a good day, everyone but Kansas. He was not happy at all. His best friend Nebraska asks him, "What's wrong"? Kansas said, "We never go anywhere and never meet new states. We never do anything." Then they had an idea to ... more
In the story everyone was having a good day, everyone but Kansas. He was not happy at all. His best friend Nebraska asks him, "What's wrong"? Kansas said, "We never go anywhere and never meet new states. We never do anything." Then they had an idea to ... more
In this story, cats grew corn, potatoes, peas, pumpkins and apples. They got milk from cows to make cheese and butter. They also made bread. The cats cooked some food and ate it. Then they took a nap and rested because they were so full and tired. When ... more
Amelia Bedilia works for Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers. She is a funny character in this book because she is very silly. Mrs. Rodgers gives Amelia Bedilia a list of things to do. For example, one thing on the list says to fix a sponge cake. So Amelia Bedilia ... more
This book is about a family which includes a mother, father, grandmothers, aunts, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins. It takes place in a family's house on the eight nights of Hanukkah. In the beginning it is the first night of Hanukkah. The family lights ... more
The story is about Alexander and his horrible day. His day was horrible because his brother pushed him into the mud, he didn't find a prize in his cereal box, and then the cat didn't want to sleep with him. I thought the book was kind of sad because ... more
Imagine that your first words were Boing Boing! Wouldn't that be funny? This story is about just that. On his second birthday, Gerald Mc Cloy's first words were BOING! BOING! His mother and father turned green because they were surprised that at the age of ... more
In the story Amelia Bedelia has to take care of a baby. Amelia doesn't know how to take care of a baby. She doesn't know what a baby bottle is. She thinks the bottle will break. She thinks that baby food is little food. The story is full of funny stuff ... more
How would you feel if your parents died in a fire? The Grim Grotto is about 3 orphans named Violet, Klaus and Sunny. In this story, they are alone on a raft because they are always trying to get away from Count Olaf, their very evil uncle. The children ... more
Make Four Million Dollars By Next Thursday is a great book for people who like surprises. Jason is the main character of this story. Jason wants to be a multimillionaire when he grows up. One of the surprises in this story is where Jason has to dig for exactly ... more
Shiloh is a very lovable book. It tells the story of Marty, an eleven year old boy, and Shiloh, a beagle. They meet one day while Marty is out on a walk. Shiloh belongs to Judd Travers and his timid nature leads Marty to believe that Judd abuses Shiloh. Marty ... more
Dave is a 5th grade boy who's got a thing against girls. He claims girls talk more than boys. He got the idea from his report on India. He heard about a man who spent a whole day without talking, once a week for a year. So he challenges all the fifth grade ... more
This book is about a black sheep. All the animals in the story are asking the black sheep for things they like. But the sheep did not have anything the animals wanted. She did not have milk or bones. The animals wanted things sheep do not usually have. ... more
Won't Know Till I Get There is about a boy named Steven and his parents who decide to adopt a boy. The boy's name was Earl. He was a gangster with a criminal record which includes vandalism, and stealing. Steven decides to show Earl how tough he is by spray-painting ... more
This book is about a starling bird named Calvin who likes to read books. He reads about planets circling the sun and what makes the wind blow. He couldn’t fly because he was too busy reading the whole summer in the library while his brothers, sisters and ... more
In The Talented Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker, Clementine is at school when she finds out that the third and fourth graders are going to be putting on a talent show, but she says that she doesn’t have a talent. She claims that she can’t even hop, after ... more
Marvin Redpost is an ordinary kid until he is asked to dog sit the teacher's pet. He gets $25.00 if everything goes well. But everything doesn't go as he thought. Marvin leaves the door to the house open, but just a crack. The next day after school he goes ... more
Whoever You Are is about the differences and the similarities of people in the world. Their skin colors might be different, their schools might be different, but their hearts are just the same. Their love is the same and their feelings are the same. Their ... more
We chose this book because it helps us learn the alphabet. Also we picked this book because we thought it was real funny. Lastly we picked this book because we have it at home and we read it all the time. This story is mostly about the alphabet. It sings ... more
This story is about a chameleon that always changes colors. One day he saw a zoo. "He never saw so many beautiful animals before." First, the chameleon meets a polar bear. He wishes he could be a polar bear because he wants to be strong just ... more
"We have to win guys! We just have to! The fate of Dilliontown depends on it." Tom Gallagher is a 12 year-old boy who lives in a place called Dilliontown. It's all because Tom had to open his big mouth. Doc, Tom's neighbor, has about two hundred ... more
Do you like realistic fiction books that take you on adventures of sadness and happiness? Well, Crenshaw is the book for you! This interesting book by Katherine Applegate is very amusing. It is about a boy that has an imaginary friend who is a cat named Crenshaw. ... more
A young Holden Caulfield, fresh from being kicked out of prep school, thinks that he is an adult. After wondering around New York City for days, however, he begins to think otherwise. He feel lonely without his friends from school. When he sneaks into his ... more
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