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The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons go to Birmingham is a book all about the weird world of 10-year-old Kenny Watson. It is 1963, a time of segregation and racial injustice. Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, is a "juvenile  delinquent", and is always doing bad stuff. He also an nice 8-year-old sister named Joey. One day, Byron's behavior gets too bad so their parents decide that Byron will spend the summer in Birmingham with Grandma Sands, with hopes to whip him into shape. And the best part is, the whole family gets to come along for the ride. But while in Birmingham, things take a dark turn. One day, while Joey is at Sunday School, the church she is at gets bombed by two white men. After that, their lives were never the same.

I really liked this book. It was a very good historical fiction book with a bit of humor involved too. The one downfall in my opinion was that a lot of people I talked to said that this book would be very funny, but I did not really find it to be super funny. But overall, it was a very good book.

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Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Patterson
This is about two friends named Jess and Leslie who create a pretend fantasy in the woods and they enter  it by  swinging on a rope. Jess is the king and Leslie is the queen.One day Leslie goes in by herself the rope breaks and she dies. Jess the builds a bridge and his sister is the new queen.
This book was horrible and I hated it because it was sad and I think that Jess was annoying.

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just a personal opinion, I loved this book.
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I think the sadness was just an add on, and it was to give a little difference
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it is actually in the book -Jasper
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I know the sadness is in the book, but I don't think the sadness was something for you to focus on. Look for the brighter side

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just a personal opinion, I loved this book.
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I think the sadness was just an add on, and it was to give a little difference
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it is actually in the book -Jasper
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I know the sadness is in the book, but I don't think the sadness was something for you to focus on. Look for the brighter side

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A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'engle

A Wrinkle In Time is about a girl  named Meg who goes with her brother Charles and her friend Calvin to go find her father with some other ladies named Mrs. Who and Mrs. Watson and a few other people. When Meg finds her father, another problem occurs where Charles  gets taken into "IT" which is a monster in the story that tries to take Charles and have his family lose him forever. But luckily Meg his older sister comes and helps him and she saved him by using the only power that "IT' didn't have, which was love.

I really liked this book because I can actually relate to Meg in some ways, and this book was really interesting to me because I have never read a book about time travel. Also, I liked this book because it was the book was based on the past which is pretty cool because back then they didn't have phones or anything so they couldn't just call for help, and they actually figured it out themselves on how to save Charles and Meg and Charles father. Lastly, I liked this book because it had to do with magic, and magic makes books really fun for me and it makes me more interested in reading that book.

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The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster.

In the beginning of The Phantom tollbooth we are introduced to a boy named Milo. Milo thought his life was just a big bore, until one day a package arrived at his front door. He opened up the package and in it was a bunch of parts. Milo was really curious on what the parts were for so he started to assemble all of the parts. When he was done assembling all of the parts it came together to be a tollbooth and a small car that Milo could drive. Milo was wondering what would happen if he drove through the tollbooth so he thought about it and then he hopped into the car and started to drive through the tollbooth.  After he had been driving for a while, he went to the island of Conclusions. While on the island he met a watchdog named Tock, and Tock became Milo’s best friend. Then in the middle of the story, Milo kept driving until he reached Dictionopolis.  While in Dictionopolis he met the Spelling Bee, the Humbug, King Azaz, Faintly Macabre, and Officer Shrift. While Milo was there he found out that the people from Dictionopolis eat words and letters, instead of food. Towards the end of the story Milo, Tock, and the Humbug where sent on a mission by King Azaz to rescue the princesses (aka) rhyme and reason. Finally after being chased by demons and monsters they saved the two princesses. When he came home everyone there had a big party for Milo, Tock, The humbug, and the two princesses. After that huge party  Milo went home realizing that you can so much more by just imagining things and having faith in yourself.

I think that this author did a great job keeping the reader hooked and writing a great story. Overall I would rate this book 7/10 stars.

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Cardboard by Doug TenNapel
is a book about a kid who´s dad got him a card board box for his birthday and then that box started a war. i think this is a really good book.

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Cardboard By  Doug Tennapel
A boy gets cardboard that is magic. He made a boxer and his name is bill. the nabor hude buly shouts bills legs and cam and his dad don't have enough cardboard so they make a cardboard maker. then markis thaks the cardboard maker and maks monsters and cam his dad and bill haff to fix it.  Also divorce romance and depression. The book was ok minus all the depression and divorce and the romantic subplot no joke.

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cardboard by Doug Tennapel

Cardboard is a book about a kid named cam who gets a cardboard box from his jobless father for his birthday. little does cam know that the cardboard is magic and when they create a boxer out of it the boxer comes to life (his name is bill). then they make a cardboard maker out of the leftovers. but later cams mean neighbor Marcus steals the maker and builds an army of cardboard monsters. but soon after the army builds a new Marcus out of cardboard and builds  a whole network of cardboard underground caverns and Marcus is kicked out. then he and cam are thrown back in by a gorilla thing and they find cardboard Marcus. they convince him to stop being bad and stuff but not  before a Giant cardboard Marcus swallows the real one and bill throws a cardboard nuke that makes it rain destroying all the cardboard and bill.

I thought this book was pretty good considering the graphic novels I have read. also it was more serious than most graphic novels that I have read. but it was not better than the amulet books which are legends among graphic novels.
this book made me feel like betrayal is more common than you would think.

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Bridge to Terabitia by: Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia is about two kids who were outsiders at their school and had no friends, but then meet each other. The became best friends and did everything together, their names were Jesse, and Leslie. They wanted to have a getaway place were they could just be themselves. Leslie and Jess called it Terabithia and they were the queen and king of it with tons of other magical creatures. Each day the had to go on a swing, and swing over to the other side in the woods. Everything was amazing until one day Jesse had to go to the art museum with his teacher he had a crush on. He never told Leslie so she had no idea where he was. So Leslie walked over to there world by her self and as she was on the swing the rope snapped and she sadly died. In honor of Leslie, Jesse made a bridge to walk over to Teribithia in a safe way. I really liked this book but I do not like the ending, I would prefer a happy ending but in conclusion this was a amazing book.

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Bridge To Terabithia by: Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia is about two friends and what they go through over a year's time. The two main characters name's are Jess and Leslie. They created a land called Terabithia that only they know about( it is kind of like their hide out.) They both don't have many friends but they are fine with that because they have each other, until something happens. Leslie was going to Terabithia alone and she fell off the rope and passed away. At first Jess didn't believe she actually died, but once he accepted the fact that she was no longer with him he was still very mad.

I liked the book even though the ending wasn't that great. I really like the character May Belle and Leslie but I actually thought Jess was kind of annoying. All in all I thought the book was better than what I expected.

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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. It is about a boy who thinks his life is boring and wants something new to happen. Then he finds a box with a tollbooth inside so he pretends to drive on the highway in his powerwheels car and teleports to a magical world full of letters and numbers. Weird. Anyways he then travels across the land to save rhyme and reason to restore the kingdom back to its former glory. in the end he succeeds and then goes back to his home and is happy again. Unfortunately he can't go back because the tollbooth was taken back to wherever it came from to give someone else a chance to use it

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The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday wars is about a 7th grade boy named Holling Hoodhood. It takes place during the Vietnam War in Long Island, New York. Holling is your average 7th grade boy that doesn't want to make a seen and stay hidden for the rest of the year. That is difficult for him because he is a Presbyterian while all the other students are either Catholic or Jewish. Since he is a Presbyterian he has to stay after school on Wednesday afternoons  and read Shakespeare while his classmates are of learning about there religions. During the story events happen that stop Holling to have the 7th grade year he had imagined. Some of the these events are Holling is threatened o got cream puffs for his class by his classmates. In order for him to get these cream puffs he has to take part in a Shakespeare play.

I think this is a very good book. To be honest it is nothing like I had expected it to be like. I thought that it was only going to be about a boy who reads Shakespeare on wednasday afternoons. There is so much more to it then that. The way the author started it and then finished it was amazing. Everything you wondered throughout the book eventually made scene by the end. Although this is not my favorite book over all it is amazing.

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The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
The Wednesday Wars is a book that I read this summer I would say the main idea of the book was surviving seventh grade. The main character is Holling Hoodhood. This books takes place in long Island New York and the timeline is the whole seventh grade year during the Vietnam war, and so many things interfere. Some things that happen are Holling gets given a cream puff so then he has to get his whole class cream puffs, then someone is making him do a play, then some rats ate the cream puffs, then he needs to get a baseball singed but he forgot, then he found one and the baseball player made fun of him, then he got an embarrassing picture put up in school, Then his friend stole his  dads idea for a building their dads were competing for, then he saves his sisters life and is a hero, then he finds out his teacher does not know if her husbands alive, Then at the end of the book they go on a camping trip and so many things happen, and over the course of all of this his father is really rude to him.  Even though so many things happen it all works out in the end things even work out for his teacher. I would say this was a god book over all.

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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Phantom Tollbooth is a fantasy book about a bored kid named Milo who has plenty of time, randomly finding a small tollbooth in his room one day. He follows the instructions given and the next minute, he's in an unfamiliar world, in which, is where he realizes, life isn't a bore after all.

This book is probably one of the best books I've ever read. The way Norton Juster wrote it is amazing. I like how we get to explore and learn about the more unusual parts of the world with the main characters who are also unfamiliar with them.

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The Phantom Tollbooth by: Norton Juster

The phantom tollbooth is about a  10 year old boy named Milo who is bored and wants something exciting in his life.  Milo gets a ticket and goes through a tollbooth to find himself in a fantasy land.  Then he finds a car for him to drive in some friends to take along his journey to find a way out.  Along the way he finds out that he needs to save to princesses named Rhyme and Reason. Milo needs to saves them so the kingdom will return to its glory.  After he succeeds and saves the to princesses he is aloud to go back home. The next day he wanted to go back in but the tollbooth moved to a different location so another person can enjoy the same experience and Milo wasn't to happy about that.

Over all this was a good book but near the end it started to get a little boring.

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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Walk Two Moons is about a girl named Salmaca who's mother went on a trip and then lost her live when her bus fell of a cliff.  Sal's dad and her them move to a suburb because Sal's dad said there was to much of her mom in their house.  they move near to the doctor that was with her mom when she died.  Sal and her new friend Pheobe find the doctor weird then Pheobe's mom goes missing.  Sal tells this whole story during a trip to see her mother's grave.  during the trip her grandma dies and she has to deal with the loss of her mother and grandma at the same time a being realy home sick.

My thaughts on the book were that it had a great plot.  And it was alot of fun to read.

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A wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle

the book is about a girl named meg who gose to find her father with a couple friends and accompanied by Mrs. Who, Mrs. Watson, and Mr. Wich and end up on a "bad" planet were they end up going to an good planet and get father,

I realy like the book because it is a very adventurous and somewhat funny book and very creative

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The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

The Wednesday Wars was o book that that took place in the Vietnam War era. A 7 th grade boy named Holling Hoodhood and his teacher Mrs.Baker would spend the last period on Wednesdays reading Shakespeare. The rest of his class would go to Religious studies. Holling did not go because he was a Presbyterian and the rest of his class was either Catholic or Jewish so he did not have a church to go to. Holling did not like his teacher until one day when his dad told him he was going to bring him to a Yankees game but never showed up. Mrs Baker decided she would take him.

I really liked this book. I liked it because Holling knew what he did and didn't like and did not hide his emotions. He was also nice to his friends most of the time,and went out of his way to try and get them cream puffs. The only thing I did not like about it was that  when I first picked the book out I thought it was going to be more about the Vietnam War.

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Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia is a fantasy book that is about a boy named Jess, and a girl named Leslie. In the beginning of the book Leslie just moved to the house next door from Jess's house. At first everyone in Jess's school thought she was weird, even Jess. Soon they found that they were a lot alike and became friends. They both love to imagine crazy things, so they created an imaginary world called Terabithia. Terabithia was behind their houses in the forest. To get to Terabithia they had to swing over a creek on an old rope. At the end of the book something horrible happens to someone at Terabithia. In the end Jess does something very special.

I loved this book because it was an emotional roller coaster. At some points I was happy and at others I was sad, or mad. It was probly one of the saddest books I have ever read, but I would read it again.

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Cardboard by Doug TenNapel.
Cardboard is a graphic novel about this one boy named Cam. It was his birthday, and his dad wanted to surprise him with a gift, but all he could afford was a piece of cardboard. He got told that the cardboard was magical, so his dad brought it home. Even though it was just cardboard, Cam was still super excited. They built characters out of it, it little did they  know the cardboard characters were going to come alive! They were super surprised. One main character came alive, and they named him bill. He was super overprotective, and would protect dad and Cam at any cost. They ran into some trouble through the way,  that destroyed the neighborhood, but bill, saved them all.
My honest opinion about Cardboard is that I really loved it. I loved the illustrations, the details, and the story! I think for people who think reading is boring, Cardboard will definitely change their minds.

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March by John Lewis

March is a graphic memoir about John Lewis's activism during the Civil Rights Movement in America during the 1960s.  He was on the front lines of this movement, teaching and spreading nonviolence, in attempt to get equal voting rights for Black Americans.  He was regularly humiliated, jailed, beaten, and even had his skull fractured, and all he was asking was to be seen and treated as an equal human being.

March was one of the most powerful books that I have read in a very long time. It made me very upset, to see how hard John Lewis, and so many others, had to fight just to get the same rights as White people. It also made me think of all the protests and racial injustice that we have been seeing this year. John Lewis wrote this book so that people will never forget his "good trouble", but I also think that he wrote this to point out to everyone that the "March" isn't over yet.