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The book I have chosen to review is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
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Rating out of 5 stars with reasons
Review written by Ms. Alexander
The book is called KAI and the Monkey King, and it was written by Joe Tood Stanton. The illustration was by Joe Tood Stanton.
DeleteThere was an inconspicuous book on an antique doctorate. The book is about Kai and her mother who was questing for a brownstone and Kai always learned from her mother, but Kai got older, she felt bored with what she had learned, she wanted a challenge with more danger and excitement. One day they received a letter from a hamlet asking if they could help. After the villagers explained, they only knew a horrible beast who destroys everything in its path. Kai and her mother agreed to help them, so they walked to the library and when they found some information Kai felt bored and she fooled around. Her mother thought she was annoying, so Kai left the study area.
Setting: forest, library, and hamlet.
Main characters: Kai is a brave girl, and she also likes adventure. Kai's mother is careful and smart.
I would give this book 3-4 stars because I think the illustrations inside are beautiful, cute, and stylish, and the content inside is exciting.
Book Title: Sweet and Sour
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Debbi Michiko Florence
Main Characters: Mai, Zach
Setting: Kayoma’s House in Farfield Connecticut, The whale
Summary: I am doing a book review on this book named sweet and sour by Debbi Michiko Florence. This book is about Mai and Zach. They had been best friends since birth, and they would visit each other every summer in Mystic, Connecticut. A few summers ago, things were not the same. Zach humiliated Mai, which broke their friendship. Afterwards, Zach’s family moved to Japan for a while. This year his family came back, so they are spending their summer together once again. Only to find out that...
Rating: I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because this was the first chapter booked that I liked and would want to read more. This book is interesting because most of the problems they have are due to their lack of communication. In addition to that there are some happy, exciting, romantic, and relatable scenes which made the book way more interesting.
Katie
I'm intrigued
DeleteBook tittle: the wright 3
ReplyDeleteAuthor: chasing Vermeer
Illustrator: Brett Helquist
Main characters: Petra, Tommy, and Calder
Settings: The Robie house, Tommy's room, the tree house, and the art class
Summary: on the Moring of June 3, mason climbed on the roof and his hands and feet started to feel weak and stumbled off the roof. After the fall, he felt like Hes was invisible and no one could see him. He felt that Hes was completely see through, but he was not. But when he fell, he heard someone say something during his fall was it stay away or was it stay and play? He never knew and no one really heard from him after that fall. Tommy came back to Chicago after one year of not coming to school and when he came back everything changed his teacher, his classroom, his best friend, and his home and when he came back in June he oddly felt like a ghost. But his friend and himself have been feeling suspicious about the art teacher Ms. Hussey. Ms. Hussey has been really attached to the word “life and art” and she started being increasingly attached to phrases of art, but the phrases were dark ad scary like “art can be dark and scary like murder it was just a mistake” which started to freak them out. Also, she read the article of the house of murder also known as the Robie house that happened over the weekend and that which she said “it’s a piece of art” which while saying it she had a bit of a grin. After school tommy and his friends Petra and Calder stared looking around until they came around something a book on the ground called “the invisible man.” They did not really care about it until they went to forest for a walk and a train passed and Petra noticed a man on the train a man that had no face with a black hat and a black cape. Petra decided to take the book and read it at home. When she reads it is shocking what was written inside of the book. Inside of the book are scary messages also things that had happened in real life like when Petra saw the man with no face on the train it was written inside of the book “a man with no face and a black cape was on the train” Petra was shocked. The next few days they have been being more aware of the Robie house and one day tommy went next-door to the Robie house and decided to dig until he found a jade fish in the dirt it looked like it was there for quite a while, so he took it home with him and lied about where he found it. A few days later more suspicious activity was happing around them, so tommy, Petra and Calder decided to make a group name for themselves and called themselves the wright 3. about a week later they decided to go to the Robie house to explore from the inside until they hear footsteps, talking from the outside, they are people outside next thing they know they are all tied up together and caught on the spot. Will they be able to escape? Will they disappear? Will they make it out alive?
I give this book a 4 out of 5-star rating because it has a lot of interesting parts like for example when Ms. Hussey is saying these dark things about art it was making me feel that she was very suspicious and that she had something going on that she did not want anyone to know about. Also, for when they were going into the Robie house it gave me goosebumps because I knew it was going to be REMARKABLY interesting. Not be not least it grabbed my attention a lot within the plot twists I could not keep my eyes off the page.
Ivonne
The title of this book is called Talespinners. Scott Reington is the author of this 3-book series.
ReplyDeleteIn this story, a girl named Indira Story lived in a place called Origin. In Origin characters wait to be chosen by something called an Author Borealis. The Author Borealis comes when an author in the real world thinks of a character for a story. Indira has always wanted to be picked by an author. One day she is picked and is sent to the place for protagonists, Fable. In Fable she meets many new friends, and... some enemies. Meanwhile characters are starting to disappear, will Indira and her friend be able to save and overthrow the villain before it is too late?
The main character is Indira Story. Her hammer is named Mjölnir. She has a brother named David. She was happy that she got to go to Fable but feels left out at times. One of her closest friends is Phoenix. Phoenix is a fire mage and quite kind. He is a reliable friend to Indira. The last main character would be Maxi. She is a nice person but at times she can be overshadowed by her pride.
Fable is a setting in Saving Fable and is home to protagonists. Sometimes Fable may change its look, such as, today Fable could be a tree farm and tomorrow it could be a military fortress. One of the other settings in Saving Fable is Origin. Origin is the place where characters that have not been chosen by an author live. There are beacons in front of each house, it lights up if an author chooses them to be in a story.
Overall if I were to give Talespinner’s Saving Fable a rating out of 5 stars, I would give it 5 stars. Reasons being you can make connections with the story, and it is relatable to me (as an author) to go through different characters. Also, I love how it has a small bit of romance and a lot of adventure and mystery. Lastly, I love this book because the characters don’t think nicely of themselves but then soon find that they should believe in themselves. Perfect book for fantasy and adventure lovers.
Caleb
Book Title：Smile
DeleteAuthor: Raina Telgemeier
Mina: Raina
Setting: School,Dental Clinic
Summary:
I am doing the book review on this book named Smile, by Raina Telgemeier. This book is about Raina her two front teeth. One night after Girl Scout she are trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, what follows was long time, she are been going to the dentist repeatedly, wearing braces….extracted the front teeth.. Until she middle school to the high school,what’re she discovers her artistic voice, find out what true friendship really means…..
Rating: I would give this book 5 out of 5, because this book is tell we,we need smile😁
Chloe
The second book of Harry Potter the Chamber of Secret is written by J.K.Rowling.
DeleteSummary: during the summer, there was a house elf named Dobby warned Harry not to go back to Hogwarts. He told Harry there was going to be a great danger. Harry did not listen to him, so he messes up with Dursleys on purpose to get him in trouble. Which turns out the Dursleys locked Harry in his room and did not let him go back to Hogwarts. A few days before school started Ron saved Harry by using a flying car. When they got back to school it turns out there was a new defense of the dark art teacher. Then Harry heard a cold scary voice and students from Hogwarts had been attacked. Hogwarts is going to close if the attack does not stop
Setting: Dursleys house, where Dobby tries to mess up with the Dursleys and where Harry been locked in his room. Hogwarts the school of wizardry and witchcraft which witches and wizards go to learn magic. The girl's washroom where a ghost called Moaning Myrtle lives inside. The main sitting Chamber of Secret.
Main character: Harry Potter and Ron Weasley
Rating: I give this book 4 stars out of 5 because it is remarkably interesting (especially at the end), the book is incredibly detailed, and it was exciting. I cannot stop reading it.
Sophia
This book is called The Secret Explorers And The Jurassic Rescue by SJ King.
ReplyDeleteThe story was set in one hundred and fifty million years ago during Cretaceous Period which came after the Jurassic in Central Europe. Although it was dangerous , they felt more exciting to see that actual living dinosaurs.
The main chararters are Cheng and Tamiko. They are both secret explorers. They are brave although they are facing difficulties. They will still be calm and think of how to solve them.
Tamiko and seven secret exploreres had recieved a new mission. Therefore, they all gathered in the Exploration Station. Tamiko and Cheng were chosen in this mission and they were match because Cheng was a geology explorer and Tamiko was a dinosaur explorer. This mission was to find the dinosaur's egg and protect it before others hurt the egg.
They had face lot of difficulties like the Allosauruse smelled them when they hid near it but they won't be able to run faster than the Allosauruse so they both jumped into the Allosauruser 's poop so that the Allosauruse won't smell them. They were really scared but they were brave and enjoyed it.
I will give this 5 out of five. It was a exciting book because they will die if they're not careful enough. It let me want to read more about the adventure. The words are also not difficult and easy to understand.
Coco
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DeleteThe book I recommend is: SOCCER RECOORD BREAKERS.
ReplyDeleteThe book Author is: Clive Gifford.
The main characters is all off the soccer player.
I like this book, because it is so fun. This book is about football. It tells us a lot off about footballers of different eras and countries. There is player, soccer team, some football Club, and some great football competition. For example; Real Madrid has won La Liga 32 times-ten times more than its fierce rival Barcelona. And Cristiano Ronaldo has set La Liga on fire since he joined real Madrid from Manchester United in 2099.
There are many more introductions like this. I like this book, it is so Fun. Because it tell us a lot about football, you can learn a lot in this book, it could also get him into football. On a scale of 100, I’d give it a 98.
Will
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
ReplyDeleteBy: Jenny Han
Summary:
Lara Jean Covey writes letters for every boy she has loved before. She writes them with all her heart, pouring out her thoughts, and not sparing a single detail because these letters are goodbye letters. She writes them when she does not want to love anymore. She seals them, and addresses them to the person, but puts it in her most prized possession, a teal hatbox, instead of mailing it. Before grade 11 started, her letters were accidentally mailed out to the 5 boys she wrote them to. Some of her crushes come up to her and confront her about the letters. To save face, she fake-dates Peter Kavinsky, one of her crushes.
Settings:
Virginia, USA
Alder High School (Lara Jean is in her junior year or grade 11)
Main Characters:
Lara Jean Covey
Margot Covey
Peter Kavinsky
Josh Sanderson
Katherine “Kitty” Covey
Genevieve Mitchell
I give this book 5 stars out of 5.
1. Lara Jean is relatable to many people and has thoughts that make the story interesting.
2. It is different from the many books I have read where the protagonist just gets with her first crush, and they live happily ever after. The book has many twists and turns that make it intriguing.
3. Even though it is a book about romance, it also included Lara Jean’s family. It shows how much she loves her family and what they do together.
Katherine
The Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteSuzanne Collins
Summary:
The Hunger games is about Panem where they were separated into 12 districts and every year forced a boy and girl who are in the 12-18 age range to battle until one survives due to a failed rebellion. Katniss, the protagonist, volunteers to be in the hunger after her little sister Primrose was picked along with Peeta the boy tribute so now Katniss and Peeta pow must figure out how to survive the hunger games.
Setting:
The setting is a place in Panem separated into 12 districts. The most important one is district 12 since it is where the main character lives. District 12 is the pretty poor considering people starving to death is common and is ruled by rich people. Another major area is the arena, the place where the tribute fights and the arena are like a forest nature place while providing weapons for the tribute.
Main characters:
Katniss the protagonists
Peeta the protagonist tribute partner
Primrose Katniss’ little sister
Gale Katniss' friend
Rue an ally with Katniss
Rating:
5/5 stars
The reason I gave it five stars is reason one it had a cool concept about how 24 kids are battling in a weird nature area using the resources around them for entertainment.
Next reason is about emotional parts like people’s death, Katniss bravery to volunteer, and the sad life in the district.
The last reason is there is not really anything to complain since the plot was good, the excitement, the concept, and the characters were likeable. Although it can be a little gory, I could handle it, so it did not bother me a lot.
In conclusion The Hunger Games was an enjoyable book with an interesting concept but there is gore/death which is not really suited for people that are sensitive to gore but if you can handle it then you should read it.
Rachel
The Kill Order
ReplyDeleteWritten by James Dashner and illustrated by Philip Strub
Summary:
Two teenagers, Mark, and Trina, form an alliance with Alec and Lana, who rescued them from a group of aggressive people in an underground tunnel. Four of them survived the initial strikes when the sun flares ravaged the society humanity depended on.
The story starts near Asheville, a small North Carolina town in which Mark, Trina, Alec, and Lana now live. Alec and Mark manage to subdue and take over a Berg, massive helicopter-like aircraft, after it ambushes nearby settlements, but its pilot crashes the vehicle to avoid answering their questions. After scavenging the remains of the Berg, they discovered a case full of the darts the Berg attacked with and found out the darts were filled with a virus they quickly explained it to the rest of their group.
Trina and Lana take Mark and Alec to a locked room in which one of their other friends, Darnell, is confined. He suddenly starts banging his head against a wall to silence "them" and ends up killing himself. The group concludes that the virus must be mutating uncontrollably since there are a variety of different symptoms. Another girl, Misty, who was Darnell's friend goes into the room and comes out reporting a headache alarming Mark and Alec. Immediately after they confined her, she starts acting just like her dead friend by talking about "them," and she starts to sing an eerie song about death.
Mark and Alec take Lana and Trina to find the mysterious attackers in the Bergs, base. On their way, they pass by a village in which they find an abandoned five-year-old called Deedee. She shows the group puncture marks on her arm that alarms Alec, who tells the group that Deedee must be infected. They still decided to take her with them anyway since if she had no symptoms months after she had been infected by the virus, she was obviously immune to it.
While they continue traveling to find the attackers' base, Mark and Alec leave the group for a while to investigate a loud noise. Mark and Alec discover a cult of the infected who believe they are demons. They manage to escape from them but find that a forest fire has been started and that Trina, Lana, and Deedee are gone from their campsite. Believing the three girls must have escaped and gone ahead of them to the attackers' base, Mark and Alec continued to the site.
They arrive at the base and sneak into the Post-Flares Coalition (PFC) site. Mark realizes that the disease, also known as The Flare, has already started to affect his mind. After they found out that Lana, Trina, and Deedee have been kidnaped and where they were held Mark and Alec steals a Berg. They also find some weapons that evaporate molecules which they keep to battle the infected.
Before he loses his sanity, Mark decides that Deedee should be taken to a base where they’re studying the virus and might be able to use her natural immunity to the virus to find an antidote to save the world.
Jonah
The Kill Order (2)
ReplyDeleteSetting:
This story takes place in New York, Ashville, a small city in North Carolina, in the year 219, thirteen years before the initial events of The Maze Runner.
Main characters:
Mark: a 17-year-old teenager and the main protagonist who survived the original onslaught alongside his neighbor Trina before being rescued by Alec and Lana.
Trina: a 17-year-old girl who is kind and encouraging. She is also Mark’s neighbor and has been with him since the Flare first hit Earth.
Alec: a retired soldier and war veteran who is the leader of the group. Using his knowledge of military combat and field experience he protects and guides the group through dangerous situations and fighting. Occasionally referred to as “the old bear,” by Mark.
Lana: a war nurse who has been friends with Alec for a long time. The two of them accompany Mark and Trina throughout the story ever since they rescued them from the tunnels. She and Alec are the only parental figures to Mark and Trina.
Rating:
I would rate The Kill Order a 4.5 out of 5 stars because of the information it gives answers a lot of questions about the first three books of the series and the character development is extremely good. Also, the book is written in one of my favorite genres which is dystopian science fiction, but I would only recommend this for someone who already has read the Maze Runner Trilogy already.
Jonah
The book I have chosen to review is "Billionaire Boy" by David Walliams
ReplyDeleteThis book is about a 12 year old boy named Joe Spud who lives in the UK, and his father is a Billionaire due to the success of his "Lavatory Wipe" Bumfresh. His father, Mr. Spud actually started out poor, earning minimum wage at a loo roll factory, Joe's birthday presents were usually toys made of loo roll cores and scrap paper since they were pretty poor, but during his spare time, he kept testing a new brand of loo rolls, and they became a success! Now they live in a huge estate, but ever since he became rich, Joe's mother left and divorced, and now with all this cash, Joe could cash as many formula 1 cars in his private racetrack as he wanted. But after a few years of living this luxury, he became really bored; he realised he didn't really have anyone to play with even though he was probobly the richest kid in the world, the school he went to was for noble children from wealthy, royal families, he would be picked on for coming from a guy who was really into loo rolls, and the school taught pretty ridiculous things for a boy like him. He really wanted just to be a normal boy, and maybe make some friends...
Joe decided that the best way to do this was to go to a normal school, he could hide the fact that he was a billionaire and finally fit in, and when the first day came he saw a boy about the same age and chubbiness as him; his name was Bob, and they were in the cross country run, since they were definetly the largest of the bunch, they fell behind immensely, they talked and even shared some candy; as the day came to a close and everyone waited for them to finish their "cross country walk".
As the school year goes on, Joe gets to know the teachers of the school; Ms. Spite (who most call the witch), the history teacher was probobly the worst, she might call on you for dropping a pea on the floor, and there were these twins named the grubbs; they were technically siblings but nobody could ever distinguish them apart, they would often steal whatever they had in there hands, but this continued to become out of hand, Joe kept trying to fend them off with copious amounts of money, but Bob grew tired of this and their relationship may start too see some cracks.
But it may get worse, but now, a new girl arrived and everyone wanted her attention; Joe actually peaked her interest and she started hanging out with her, he even considered kissing her! Days later rumours spread that their principal had a really expensive motorbike and Ms. spite had gone missing as well. Bob even told Joe that the new girl may not be what she really is, even after their rough relationship. What's going on? And after all that, the lunch lady was serving things like roadkill pie and armpit sushi; will Joe find out whats really going on? And will anyone dare try the delicious sock cheese potatoes? Maybe he can prove his friendship once and for all.
Overall, i would give this book a 4.5 out 5. the ending was very heart-warming and this book taught you something very important too, and we can see the deveopment that these characters have.
(maybe I'll read "Restart" by Kordan Korman)
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DeleteBook Title: Dog Man A Tale of Two Kitties
ReplyDeleteAuthor: George and Harold
Main Characters: Dog Man, Petey, Li’L Petey, Flippy
Setting: Cat Jail, Petey’s Secret Lab, Cops, Dog Man’s house
Summary:
I’m doing book review named Dog Man A Tale of Two Kitties by George and Harold.
Dog Man is a cop and Petey and Flippy is bad guys, Li’L Petey is Petey’s clone.
After Petey escaped from cat jail, he bought a machine to clone himself, but he cloned a cat baby. The cat baby named himself call “Li’L Prety”.
Flippy died because of Dog Man but was revived by scientists. So Flippy wanted to revenge Dog Man and the word…
Rating:
I want to give this book full marks because it tells us what it is family; what it is friendship.
Henry
Book title: Bad kitty – Goes to the vet
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Nick Bruel
Setting: Kitty’s house, Uncle Murray’s house and vet
Main Character(s): Bad Kitty, Uncle Murray and Puppy
Summary: This is a story about when Bad Kitty was healthy, everything was good. She had a good appetite, she eats everything. She had lots of energy, she could jump high also, she could clean herself very cleanly. But that is not Kitty look like now, she looks unhappy and tired today. She didn’t eat her food, she didn’t jump up and down, she just slept in her bed! Kitties look like something is wrong but, we don’t know what is wrong so, we need to take Kitty to the VET! Later, after the Kitty struggle in the few times, we successfully pulled the kitty to the vet, during the veterinarian was shotting Kitty the needle, Kitty got frightened and she meet angle and been to the heaven.
I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because I think every page's drawing was cute, their expression was so great, and it also teaches you how to take care of cats and some details of cats. If you want to have a pet cat, you can read “Bad Kitty”.
Eastin
ReplyDeleteThe book I have chosen for my book review is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
Settings: A wild, rocky island. This island has no particular name, and is only inhabited by wild animals. The island holds many mountains, caves, forests, and lakes. The island has enough plants to sustain an ecosystem and the creatures living there have access to food and water.
The date and year is unknown, but it seems to be in the future, around the year 2040-2060
Main Characters:
Roz: A robot made out of metal and wires. ROZZUM 7134, or Roz for short, is “property” of TechLab Industries. She had many adventures throughout the story, and is far more intelligent than anyone on the island.
Brightbill: The son of Roz. Brightbill is a goose with yellow feathers when he was born. Roz found Brightbill as an egg. However, a accident recently killed his mother, so Roz adopted Brightbill when he was an orphan
Loudwing: Roz needed to know how to keep Brightbill safe, and Loudwing played a key role in telling her information on how. Loudwing also gave her advice and taught Brightbill swimming lessons. Loudwing is the leader of his own flock.
Mr.Beaver and Mrs.Beaver: Mr.Beaver and Mrs.Beaver are the parents of Paddler, and help build huts for Roz and Brightbill. Mr.Beaver can be rude sometimes, but is very helpful.
Longneck: Longneck was the strongest and bravest goose in Loudwing’s flock. He can be very inspiring and help lead many flocks. Loudneck has a strong leadership, but I will not spoil his ending.
The Fuzzy Bandits: The Fuzzy Bandits is a group of raccoons, Bumpkin, Pumpkin, and Rumpkin. This group is great for handwork and stealing, and helps make a new foot for Roz.
(there are many more secondary characters)
Robert (part 1)
ReplyDeleteTitle: The Girl Who Could Fly
Author: Victoria Forester
Summary: Piper McCloud is a nine-year-old girl who can fly. Piper lives on a farm with her parents, Betty McCloud (her mother) and Joe McCloud (her father). She is homeschooled and her parents do not let anyone meet Piper because they are afraid about what people would think when they knew that she could fly. At the beginning she sees how birds learn to fly (in case you don’t know how this works, the mother bird pushes her children out of the tree and the baby birds manage to flap their wings and take flight) and decide to try it herself because she currently could only float. She wakes up extra early, so she doesn’t get caught. Then, she jumps off the roof and takes flight (somehow) but gets caught by her parents. Her parents tell her not to fly and it makes her feel sad and with low energy. So, to make her feel better, Piper’s parents decide to take her to the upcoming fourth of July picnic. At the picnic the other children make her feel bad due to gossip. Then, the children organized a baseball game. So, to prove herself, Piper flew to catch a baseball that was hit very high. That same night, the news of Piper flying got out to basically the entire world. Next morning, a crowd formed around the McCloud's farm. The McCloud family is soon contacted by Dr. Letitia Hellion, the head of an organization known as I.N.S.A.N.E (Institute of Normality, Stability, And Non- Exceptionality). Dr. Hellion gives Piper a choice to go and learn how to fly at her institute or stay at her home. Piper chooses to go with Dr. Hellion and is given a wooden bird (which was supposed to be for her birthday) by her father before she leaves. Once Piper arrives, she is basically not greeted by other members. The other members are: Ahmed and Nalen Mustafa (who can control the weather), Boris Yeltsinov (who can turn objects to stone), Conrad Harrington III (who has super-human intelligence), Daisy (who has super-strength), Jasper (who does not know his ability), Smitty (who has x-ray vision), Kimber (who can manipulate electricity), Lily Yakimoto (who has telekinesis), Bella Lovely (who can change the color of objects), Myrtle Grabtrash (who has super-human speed), and Violet (who shrinks or grows based on her emotional state). From the first day, Conrad was extremely mean to Piper. He did very many different things to annoy and anger Piper.
Robert (part 2)
ReplyDeleteOne mealtime, the other students see Bella making rainbows. At first, everyone cheers, but then they realize Bella is crying. She has a nervous break, forgets her powers, and it is announced by the professors that she will be graduating and sent home. At the graduation, Conrad finally pushes Piper to her breaking point. He steals her hand-carved bird and throws down the chute to the incinerator. Piper attacks Conrad and they are both sent to Dr. Hellion's office. On their way there, Piper escapes to the incinerator and sees a growling rose nearby with a machine spraying a gray, acidic substance on it. She then sees a turtle with a heavy block crushing its back. Piper decides to leave her bird and save the animals. She frees the turtle, who can leap high into the air, and it escapes out of a window. While trying to catch it, Piper finds a black cricket being bound with sticky glue. Using some Q tips found nearby, she gets rid of the glue and takes the cricket, which she names Sebastian. She hears two adults coming towards her and hides in a dark room, where she finds a silver chained giraffe. She stroked it lovingly and it gave off a blinding glow. She quickly realized that the academy was not as she had thought. When Piper flew back to the office from a window, Conrad hands Piper her wooden bird and explains he made a replica and threw it in the trash. He tells her to keep the cricket and play along. When Dr. Hellion comes back, Conrad immediately blurts to her that Piper was hiding something and tells her that Bella took a black cricket and she let Piper touch it. Dr. Hellion questions him about the fight about him throwing Piper's wooden bird in the trash, which he denies, and Piper holds her bird up. After the lights are out, Conrad explains that the academy tries to make everything that comes into the building normal. Through the food, they give the children a unique formula (also known as drugs) made to slowly deactivate their abilities. They do the same thing with all the other organisms, and if it fails, I.N.S.A.N.E. destroys them. Conrad was only picking on Piper so she could wake up and fly. Piper refuses to escape with him unless the rest of the students are going with them and begins to encourage them to dream about using their talents in a good way. The only person she can't get an answer out of is Jasper, who is scheduled to graduate soon (students graduate once they have fully abandoned their power). Conrad and Piper tell the others about I.N.S.A.N.E. and plan an escape. The escape plan fails, and Dr. Hellion puts Piper in a M.O.L.D. (Molecular Orientating Limitation Device), then leaves for Piper to give in. A man with the power of invisibility only known as J. reveals himself and tries rescue Piper, but she refuses and J. leaves. Sebastian comes out of her pocket and sings to her, revealing his talent, but is effectively killed by Dr. Hellion and then, Piper goes into blackout. What will happen next? Will Piper be able to escape with her friends? Or will her abilities be taken away?
Robert (part 3)
ReplyDeleteSetting: The first setting of the book is the farm that Piper lived on. The farm, which is not very stable, is in Lowland County, and the McClouds have been living in this house since it was built. The second setting that we encounter is the July Fourth (Independence Day in America) picnic area. Everything was nicely decorated and there was a lot of food. The last and most important setting of all is the I.N.S.A.N.E (Institute of Normality, Stability, And Non- Exceptionality) headquarters. It is on a distant mountain high up in a tiny (seemingly) useless and broken wooden shack, but the inside is clean, sturdy and nicely built. There are thirteen levels that focus on different lifeforms that get more complex the lower the level is. For example, the first floor is single celled organisms, and the thirteenth one being humans.
Main characters: Piper is the most important character. She has brown hair and bright blue eyes. She is very talkative, kind and usually enthusiastic. Her ability is flying. Conrad is very smart, as he has intelligence beyond human understanding. Dr. Hellion is the antagonist in this book. She convinces people mostly using appearance.
Rating (out of 5 stars): I rate this book a five out of five (I can’t give it a 4.85 because decimals are not allowed, but that would be my rating if there was decimals) because it has multiple twists, for example, how Conrad was not actually mean because that’s how he is, but rather because he needed attention to get Piper to listen to him. The twists make the story way more exciting and attract the reader to the point that you don’t really want to put the book down. Also, the author’s word choice was definitely a good addition. For example, the teacher, Professor Mumbleby had a very thick German accent, and the words change to sound more German. Finally, the touch of personality on every character is just perfect. There is so much variety but also a lot of similarities. This is a great book if you enjoy mystery and adventure.
Book review by Robert
ReplyDeleteThe book I have chosen for my book review is The Wild Robot by Peter Brown.
Settings: A wild, rocky island. This island has no particular name, and is only inhabited by wild animals. The island holds many mountains, caves, forests, and lakes. The island has enough plants to sustain an ecosystem and the creatures living there have access to food and water.
The date and year is unknown, but it seems to be in the future, around the year 2040-2060
Main Characters:
Roz: A robot made out of metal and wires. ROZZUM 7134, or Roz for short, is “property” of TechLab Industries. She had many adventures throughout the story, and is far more intelligent than anyone on the island.
Brightbill: The son of Roz. Brightbill is a goose with yellow feathers when he was born. Roz found Brightbill as an egg. However, a accident recently killed his mother, so Roz adopted Brightbill when he was an orphan
Loudwing: Roz needed to know how to keep Brightbill safe, and Loudwing played a key role in telling her information on how. Loudwing also gave her advice and taught Brightbill swimming lessons. Loudwing is the leader of his own flock.
Mr.Beaver and Mrs.Beaver: Mr.Beaver and Mrs.Beaver are the parents of Paddler, and help build huts for Roz and Brightbill. Mr.Beaver can be rude sometimes, but is very helpful.
Longneck: Longneck was the strongest and bravest goose in Loudwing’s flock. He can be very inspiring and help lead many flocks. Loudneck has a strong leadership, but I will not spoil his ending.
The Fuzzy Bandits: The Fuzzy Bandits is a group of raccoons, Bumpkin, Pumpkin, and Rumpkin. This group is great for handwork and stealing, and helps make a new foot for Roz.
(there are many more secondary characters)
- Samuel, part 1 of my book review
My book is (dog man), this book’s main is one day a dog with it master go to catch bad guy, a boom is burst, the boom let dog no body , but dog’s head is not burst of boom, and dog’s master is no head, just he has body. For save them, dog’s head is with police body. I will give this book 4 star
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ReplyDeleteSummary: A cargo ship, carrying 500 crates, was wrecked by a hurricane. 5 of them floated away to a rocky island. 4 of the crates slammed against the rocky surface and broke into many pieces. The robots, which were not well protected by the crates, were immediately smashed into hundreds of pieces. One crate however, slammed against the shore but the robot stayed intact. When a group of curious sea otters began to play with the robot parts, one of them pressed a button on the robot’s head. The robot began to introduce herself. “Hello, I am ROZZUM 7134”.
The sea otters ran away as Roz took her first steps. She was stranded on a wild island, with little to no information about anything. She was programmed to learn from processed information. She moved around the rocks, and entered the forest. None of the animals made contact with her. One day, Roz found a stick bug. It was camouflaged under the trees, and Roz used this information to her own good. She gathered sticks and grass and slapped it on her metal plating. She heard the noises and sounds of animals communicating, and slowly pieced out a language.
You might think that different species communicate a different language, but they just do it in a different way. Every species simply communicates to animals using their tails, voice, chemicals, and more. They simply have a universal language. Roz figured out this language faster than any other robot because she just needed freedom. Every new robot learns a little before working for the rest of their lives. Amazing things can happen when you start from scratch and learn piece by piece with mistakes to keep motivation.
After learning the language of animals, she started communicating to animals, but they were too scared. Every dawn, there was an event called Dawn Truce, where all the animals arrived on the top of a meadow called The Great Meadow. Animals cannot engage in violence throughout the island no matter what during this dawn. Couple meetings were held talking about rumors of the silver monster. Roz decided to climb the Meadow to speak with the animals. She explained that she was not a monster but a robot, and she doesn’t need food or water to survive. The animals spoke a few sentences before running off. Rumours started spreading about a monster eating innocent animals. To stop them, Roz had to act like the opposite. When Fink the Fox was poked with a porcupine, she helped him get the spikes out. Everyone now knew what this monster did, and wasn’t so scary after all.
ReplyDeleteSummary: A cargo ship, carrying 500 crates, was wrecked by a hurricane. 5 of them floated away to a rocky island. 4 of the crates slammed against the rocky surface and broke into many pieces. The robots, which were not well protected by the crates, were immediately smashed into hundreds of pieces. One crate however, slammed against the shore but the robot stayed intact. When a group of curious sea otters began to play with the robot parts, one of them pressed a button on the robot’s head. The robot began to introduce herself. “Hello, I am ROZZUM 7134”.
The sea otters ran away as Roz took her first steps. She was stranded on a wild island, with little to no information about anything. She was programmed to learn from processed information. She moved around the rocks, and entered the forest. None of the animals made contact with her. One day, Roz found a stick bug. It was camouflaged under the trees, and Roz used this information to her own good. She gathered sticks and grass and slapped it on her metal plating. She heard the noises and sounds of animals communicating, and slowly pieced out a language.
You might think that different species communicate a different language, but they just do it in a different way. Every species simply communicates to animals using their tails, voice, chemicals, and more. They simply have a universal language. Roz figured out this language faster than any other robot because she just needed freedom. Every new robot learns a little before working for the rest of their lives. Amazing things can happen when you start from scratch and learn piece by piece with mistakes to keep motivation.
After learning the language of animals, she started communicating to animals, but they were too scared. Every dawn, there was an event called Dawn Truce, where all the animals arrived on the top of a meadow called The Great Meadow. Animals cannot engage in violence throughout the island no matter what during this dawn. Couple meetings were held talking about rumors of the silver monster. Roz decided to climb the Meadow to speak with the animals. She explained that she was not a monster but a robot, and she doesn’t need food or water to survive. The animals spoke a few sentences before running off. Rumours started spreading about a monster eating innocent animals. To stop them, Roz had to act like the opposite. When Fink the Fox was poked with a porcupine, she helped him get the spikes out. Everyone now knew what this monster did, and wasn’t so scary after all - Samuel book review part 2
ReplyDeleteOne springtime, when Roz was trying to explore a mountain, rain started to appear. This made the rocks slippery, and caused her to slip and fall. She wasn’t the only one that slipped, a few rocks fell, before a domino effect of tens of rocks started falling. Unfortunately, a nest close to the accident smashed down and killed the parents of the nest. Eggs were smashed around the incident, but only one small egg remained. Roz knew that the accident was caused by her, and she was guilty. She became a mother by adopting her.
Roz now is a mother of an orphan, and to get parenting advice she needed to tell an actual goose. She stumbled upon many animals asking where the wisest and old goose was. That is when Roz met Loudwing. Loudwing was scared, until it was just Roz. She asked Loudwing to keep the egg safe, but Loudwing refused. Instead, he gave her advice and information on how to keep the egg safe. Roz was not a goose, she was a robot. She didn’t know what a goose needed. Loudwing had all the information, so Roz was motivated.
Roz talked to the Beavers, which helped them build a hut. She started to become more popular that even the fishes knew her. The beavers also built Roz a garden that Roz agreed to share to everyone on the island. When the egg hatched, Roz named her Brightbill.
She was starting to get a happy life on the island. Roz took care of Brightbill, but she wasn’t the mother of Brightbill, she helped raise the island. Without Roz, much information about objects will be lost. Without Roz, not many will survive the winter. Without Roz, fire will be non-existent.
Roz helped the island, and the animals helped her back.
I give this book 5 stars, it was amazing. The start of the book was really interesting and felt like how you can start from nothing to building many relationships, celebrations, structures, and more.
The book controlled my emotions. At the very dramatic ending, to the happy start of the beginning, everything the author wrote controlled the way I thought
The storytelling was awesome. The way the book combined the past and the future really hooked me up. The start of the book was re
ally interesting and felt like how you can start from nothing to building many relationships, celebrations, structures, and more.
The morale of the story was perfected. Something the author is trying to tell us is that happiness will always fall, but falling creates a set of problems to solve. Without problems, life will be miserable. There are no challenges, it’s like playing Minecraft in creative mode, you have no problems, so there is no goal. How we can achieve so high by simply being creative and intelligent.
This book is truly a work of art. -Samuel book review part 3
Book Title: The Tron Trial
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Holly Black and Cassandra Clare
Main Character:
Callum Hunt, a 12 year old boy who not, like other people who have been nominated for the iron trial, doesn't want to go to the magic school.
Tamara Rajavi is brave and inelegant. She doesn't like to break the rules, but she values the morally correct thing above everything else. She has a lot of expectations of herself and tries her best to please her parents.
Aaron Stewart is one of highest scoring students in the iron trial along with Tamara he has no family and he heard of the magic school Magisterium when a girl in his foster home saw him doing magic tricks on dust and told him about the school.
Setting:
Magisterium caverns. A hidden cave located somewhere in northern california.
Summary:
The book follows a twelve-year-old boy who, after his father’s warnings, doesn't want to get involved in the world of magic. He tries to fail at the iron trail but gets chosen to the Magisterium despite his best efforts to fail.
At the start he feels disconnected and alone because nobody talked to him in the Magisterium but after a while he meets Tamara and Aaron and together they learn about magic.
One day while learning to navigate the caverns of the Magisterium they found a fire elemental inside a cave full of copper colored stalactites and a steaming pool where the elemental were and he told them a prophecy about their future; when they asked their master he told them the prophecy a lie.
That night everyone was woken up by the masters after a kid ran away in the night and everybody went searching for him.
They later found him stuck inside a cave after they got out they were surrounded by chaos-ridden wolves which are very powerful.
In that moment Aaron was discovered to have a chaos affinity which is a rare ability that lets him use chaos magic, an amazing asset for the Magisterium.
This ends the first book in the series.
Rating
I rate this book four out of five because the book is interesting and has parts that are page turners, but the plot advances too slowly in my opinion and has too little action.
The characters also have a lot of interaction, some of which are friendly and some are not.
Overall I think this book is great for most casual fantasy readers.
Perry
The book "The Ranger’” is an incredibly fun book to read. I strongly recommend it to you due to it’s neat plot. The author is John Anthony Flanagan who is an Australian fantasy author best known for his medieval fantasy series "Ranger". He is now 79 years old .
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It's about a boy who live in a world where people will be chosen to do a job by a group called the Craft master. It happened in the middle ages when the Vikings thrive. The Vikings conquered multiple kingdoms except one kingdom that was surrounded by mountains and terrains. Will had always dreamed of getting into battle school because he dreamed of his father being a knight who died in the battlefield and his mother died just after will was born, which left Will with no parents. When Will was finally old enough to be selected a job by the Craft master, he was chosen to do a job he had never heard of before. Ranger was a job that the kingdom used to gather intelligent/information from the kingdom's enemies. It's an extremely difficult job, they usually live in harsh working condition. Will was assigned as an assistant to track down an assassin with an older ranger. He and the Ranger had formed an extraordinarily strong relationship.
During their mission, the older ranger sent Will back to a military base to report what they have discovered. However on the way back, Will found the traces of the assassin fighting against the older Ranger.
Fortunately, the older ranger also told Will to tell junior officer that he was going hunting and will need some elite knights.
Setting:
In Central Europe. The kingdom had no particular name. The kingdom was surrounded by mountains and uneven terrain.
The book takes place in the middle age.
Main characters:
Will: the main character
Halt: the older ranger.
Horace: An apprentice knight
Arad Baron: The leader of a province in the kingdom
Gilani: A ranger who had just graduate.
Rating:
I would give “The Ranger” 5 out of 5 because of the neat plot that it has.
The development of the book is extremely good giving the reader a will to want to read more.
The book holds lots of adventure and shows multiple stories in one book. Since it’s a series, I don’t recommend people to read from the second book because it would not make sense.
I would recommend this book to people who love to read adventure and mystery stories.
Daniel T
Title: The Trials of Apollo. The Hidden Oracle, gods
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Rick Riordan
Summary: A mortal teenager name Lester Papadopoulos was once a god of the sun, poetry, music and more. One day Zeus punished him by casting him down to Earth. Lester must restore five Oracle that have gone dark to regain his place on Mount Olympus. But he cannot accomplish this task without his godly powers. So, he recruits some help. A demigod named Percy Jackson bring him where he needs it go: a training camp called Camp Half-Blood
Characters: Lester Papadopoulos use to be a god of the sun and now he is an awkward mortal teenager. Percy Jackson is a demigod, the son of Neptune. Margaret is also a demigod.
Settings: Earth, Meg’s alley. And Camp Half-Blood. Mount Olympus.
4/5 stars
its really exiting, the character is well written, and it detailed
Kayden
Title: Wing of Fire The Hidden Kingdom
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Tui T. Sutherland
Summary: Glory and her friends (Starflight, Clay, Tsunami, and Sunny) are searching for their parents after escaping the Talon of Peace. They have already found two of her friend's parents, Clay and Tsunami. When they got to the kingdom, Glory discovered one of her siblings, Jambu. Jambu showed them what the Rainwings do in the forest. They found out that Rainwings are lazy and some of the Rainwings are gone. When they found out there is a tunnel to the Kingdom of Sand and Ice Kingdom. They met a Nightwing, Deathbringer in the Ice Kingdom and figured that he wants to kill them. The next day, they met the Kingdom of Sans queen, Blaze. They bringed Blaze to the place where they slept which was beside the tunnel. Immediately, Deathbringer came out of nowhere and started attacking the queen. The friends pulled him away and tied him to a tree. Glory told Clay and Tsunami to watch Deathbringer and not let him escape. Then, Glory went to the tunnel, and suddenly Glory got caught in a net. She ended up in prison where the NightWing’s kingdom was. Glory found where the missing RainWings are. Glory became friends with one of the Rainwings. Deathbringer somehow escaped and Glory went back to the Rainforest kingdom. Glory challenged the Queen of the Rainforest, Queen Magnificent for the queen spot. But they don’t fight in the Rainforest so they would have to do minigames like treasure hunt. Will Glory be queen?
Characters: Clay:(MudWing, kind of powerful, friendly)
Tsunami: (SeaWing, powerful, bossy)
Glory:(RainWing, kind powerful)
Starflight:(NightWing, smart reads lots of scrolls,weak)
Sunny:(SandWing, weak)
Setting: Rainforest
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars because
-I like fantasy books
-detailed
-well explained
Nathan
i'm interested
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