Sunday, September 16, 2012

Schooled: Gordon Korman


Schooled
This book is about a guy named Capricorn (Cap) Anderson who is a hippie, growing up on an isolated farm, homeschooled by his hippie grandmother Rain.
But when Rain falls out of a tree, picking plums, she breaks her hip and Cap has to live with a guidance counselor and her cranky daughter, and go to the crazy snake pitt of middle school.
As a hippie, in a middle school, he's a freak.
And in Claverage (C Average)  Middle School, it's a "tradition" that the biggest dork in the school is nominated to run for Student President. So when Cap comes along, he's perfect.
As the story goes along, he goes from socially challenged, to socially awesome.
I like this book, so read this! It's great!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Fly Girl



FlyGirl
This fun book takes place in the time of World War II and it's about a girl named Ida Mae Jones.
All Ida has ever wanted to do was fly. When her father was alive, he went to flying school and came back to the strawberry farm with a Curtis JN-4 plane, or "Jenny". That day he took everyone up into the sky. Ida was the last. When she went up into the blue vault of the sky, she never wanted to come back down.
Now in World War II, Jackie Cochran has agreed to help the U.S. Army train women to become pilots and help with the war overseas.
Ida sees this as a big chance to use her light skin to pass as a white girl, and so she joins the Woman Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP.
But later she learns the dangers, ridicule and trials to fullfilling her dream, not to mention she must deny being part of her family.
This book is a great book, heartwarming and fun. You should read this book, and it'll become a favorite book on your list.
Now, READ IT!! ;)

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Drama: Raina Telgemier


Drama: Raina Telgemier
This is a book about a teenager named Callie who loves theater. This year she is in charge of set design and she's going to try to make a Broadway worthy show with the high school budget. But then there's the drama to deal with NOT onstage. Snotty girlfriends, a confetti cannon to fix, and when to cute twin brothers enter the picture things get even crazier!
Drama is a great book, and I like it, but if you don't like kissing and all that, then I suggest you don't read it. But it's a great book, and BTW it's a graphic novel, NOT comic book.
I love this book, and I recomend Miss Telgmier's first novel Smile. It's a story about the author, and I think it's also good.
So read this book because it's really great! Bye!

Monday, August 27, 2012

The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel




The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt is the story about a girl named Moxie who starts going to a fancy boarding school.
Moxie sees this as an opportunity to reinvent herself, to become someone worthy of the name Moxie.
There's a number of options on what to be, but what? Moxie decides to try them all out, recording everything she does with her different personalities in a notebook called her Personality Log.
But when an enemy gets its hands on her Personality Log, things go awry.
This book is cute and funny, and even thought it doesn't have any awards it's still a great book.
So if you at least take a moment to sit down and read this, you won't regret it. Byyyyyeee!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Eragon: Christopher Paolini




Eragon
This book is about a young boy named Eragon.
He lives in the hidden village Carvahall, hidden by a long range of mountains known as the Spine, hidden from the eye of the land's evil ruler Galbatorix.
Eragon is out hunting in the Spine, when he comes across a mysterious blue stone. But later that night, the egg hatches to become a beautiful blue dragon named Saphira.
As the story goes along, two creatures named the Ra'zac come to Carvahall, in search of the egg. Then, while Eragon was gone in the woods where he was hiding Saphira, the Ra'zac come to the farm where he lives, and burns it down, killing his uncle Garrow.
As the story goes along, Eragon comes to be a feared person known as a Dragon Rider.
I won't spoil it anymore.
I LOVE this series and I'm currently reading book three Brisingr.
READ IT!!

Moon Over Manifest: Clare Vanderpool

Moon Over Manifest

Moon Over Manifest is about a girl named Abilene Tucker and how her father gets a job working on the railroad, sending her to the town where he grew up, Manifest, Kansas.
After hearing her father's stories of Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find Manifest a dusty, beaten-up town.
But soon her excitement sparks up when she finds a hidden cigar box full of memos, trinkets and letters.
Some of the letters talk about a mysterious spy called the Rattler. (Cue evil music.) These letters send Abilene and her friends on a spy hunt.
But when Abilene ignores the warning and goes down the Path to Perdition, she breaks one of a diviner's pots and has to repay a debt to the Hungarian Diviner, Miss Sadie.
Miss Sadie tells stories each time Abilene visits, and soon Abilene feels closer to the town her father grew up in, and finds out who he was.
Moon Over Manifest is a great book, and a Newbery Honor Book, and it's really good. I say that about every book I review!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Turtle in Paradise: Jennifer L. Holm


Turtle in Paradise is about a young girl named Turtle, who has an unknown father, and a mother who is always out of a job thanks to kids.
Her mother, Sadiebelle is a housekeeper, and her clients' kids are always getting Turtle into trouble, which leads to her mother being fired.
Then Turtle's mom gets a job working for a lady who hates kids. So Turtle leaves to Key West, Florida to live with an aunt she never met, along with rotten boy cousins.
Everyone there seems to know Turtle, saying she is the spitting image of her mother (she really isn't). There's Mercury hot weather, a Weeping Ghost, and even Black Caesar's mysterious buried treasure!
Turtle in Paradise is a Newbery Honor, and it is a favorite of mine.
I'm a very big fan of Newbery Honor books.
Turtle in Paradise is a great book, I love it, and YOU should too.
So read it!! ;)