Historical Fiction
Rating 5
Posted on 4/10/2013
Reviewed by Cole, grade 9
It is a good book told from the perspective of a boy that lives in the Florida Keys. He lives with his sister Star and his parents. They live in a house inland on stilts. Jake helps an older man named Sharkey with work and his dog and donkey. They live happily untill a storm comes close. I liked this book because of its action and adventure in it. The end was bad though because bad things happened and wasn't a happy ending.
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Rating 5
Posted on 4/10/2013
Reviewed by Mahima, grade 6
I really enjoyed this book because you really get captured in the moment. The author makes the characters likeable and makes it easy to understand their feelings. The plot is one you may have read before but with many twists so you won't know what will happen next.
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Rating 5
Posted on 3/19/2013
Reviewed by David, grade 6
In the book Noah is sent to live with his uncle becose his perents are dead. his uncle is in the millitary. he is then trained and sent to fight. he and his uncle argue sometimes.
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Rating 4
Posted on 2/26/2013
Reviewed by Laura, grade 6
I like this book because it is an interesting story. Kaya is a good friend to the lone dog that she saw near the tribe starving. Kaya feeds the dog every day. The lone dog does not like Kaya's tribe. Then Kaya keeps one puppy name Talto.
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Rating 5
Posted on 1/15/2013
Reviewed by Emily, grade 7
Spirit's Princess is about a girl named Himiko who is the daughter of the chieftan of the Matsu. When an accident causes Himiko's leg to break, it heals crooked. Himiko thinks she is useless. Until she is taken on as a shaman's apprentice - in secret. She also finds another village - the Shika, whom she finds friends in. Filled with secrecy and surprises, Spirit's Princess, is a well written book that anyone will enjoy.
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Rating 4
Posted on 1/2/2013
Reviewed by Michael, grade 8
Johnny Tremain is a historical fiction that takes place during the American Revolution. I'm not much of a historical fiction kind of guy but I thought this was a pretty good book. The author makes it fun and easy to read.
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Rating 5
Posted on 12/19/2012
Reviewed by Rose, grade 11
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, Aibileen Clark works as a maid (commonly referred to as "the help") for a white woman. Skeeter Phelan, a while college kid coming home, wants to write a book on the opinions of black women raising white women's children. Will any maid talk to Skeeter and risk being caught if the book is published? The Help is realistic novel about crossing racial lines and optimism for the future.
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Rating 4
Posted on 11/6/2012
Reviewed by Denae, grade 6
I like this book because it is an exciting mystery about World War II. About a girl who would do anything to help her German friend. The girls go through exciting, yet dangerous things. Until they discover a secret. That even on the home front, wartime changes friends and family forever.
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Rating 4
Posted on 10/30/2012
Reviewed by Victoria, grade 8
When Scottish Captain Leslie secretly married a French Countess, it created an uproar. At the urgings of the young lady's father and suiter, Captain Leslie was thrown in prinson, never heard from again, and the countess was placed in a convent untill she would obey her fatherss commands. But what of the child that was rumored be born? Was he found by his parents enemies and gotten rid of? or was he still alive and out there? The child, Ronald, was indeed alive and out there. His father's faithful companion, Malcom, had taken the child to Scot
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Rating 5
Posted on 10/19/2012
Reviewed by Bryan, grade 6
The reason why I liked this book was that this book made me feel like I was in the book. I also felt I was the kid inthe story. And I even could hear the hurricane, and the groning winds.
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