Mockingbird

This book was one of my favorites. The bokk starts out with Christi a kid with aspergers( when you cant have emotions and sometimes you just have a melt down out of no were). Then her 16 year old brother Devon is shot and killed by one of her friends brothers. Though the book you see her get over her aspergers and over come her fear of having friends. This was also a national book award book.

Rose.r'12

My Name is America: a journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty

the book was a little too boring but after people started dying in the book from the NVA and the VC from ammo hitting them and grenades and mortars hitting them, it got real gripping. i loved the bond of all the charectors like MM, Bebop, Hollywood, Motormouth. awesome boook reccomended to everyone who loves a good story of friendship but reccomended to older ages for some content.
Pat. G. '12

the door in the wall

This was a book you might call predictable. The story starts with a young boy who lived though the plague. The staory goes though his getting stronger and though it all its whts on the inside that counts. The plot wa good suspencful in some points but very predictable. So if you like predictable books READ IT!!!!!       



                 

Rose.R'12

Number the Stars

Bravery - what so many main characters in books seem to have, and what so many "real people" think they lack.  Young Annemarie in Lois Lowry's Number the Stars doesn't quite feel that way, though.  She actually is glad that she doesn't have to be brave, because she is just "ordinary people."  Unfortunately for her, she lives in Denmark in 1940 - and her best friend is Jewish.  Annemarie learns that true bravery comes doing what needs to be done, no matter what the cost, no matter what type of person you are.

Although Lowry's protagonist is young, she faces up to challenges that would make many adults balk in fear.  Lowry does not sugar-coat the horrors of war and the Holocaust, but presents them through the eyes of a child...as told to her by a friend who did live through what Annemarie did.  The story is understandable by younger children, but will best be appreciated by older children, who have a greater background knowledge of World War II.

Lynn G, '84