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The fantastic flying books of Mr.Morris Lessmore

William Joyce

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Mr. Morris Lessmore was a man who loved to read. Morris found a pretty lady that was pulled  by book and finds a magical library he helps fix the books.

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1. Morris caring. I know because he fixed the old book.
2. Morris  loves to read.
I know because at the beginning he is reading a book and behind him is a huge stack of books.
3. Morris is a writer.
I know because he writes his own book.

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I know the setting takes place in a library, because he has a lot of selfs and books around him. The library is magical because the books are alive. Another reason the settings is in the library because it is filled with books.

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The theme is everybody’s story matters.
He writes his own book.
He hands out books to people.
Cares about people’s story.

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The Map Trap

Andrew Clements

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R.J. Palacio

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The main character is Alton Zeigler. Alton has a fascination with maps. He loves any type of map and makes his own maps about his surroundings. Another quality is his friendliness with Quint. They become friends and he helped Alton become more interactive with his fellow students. The last quality is Alton’s nervousness when he loses his maps. Alton is obsessed with finding them and will do anything to get them back. These qualities describe Alton.

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The Map Trap is set in Harper’s Grove, IL.  The story takes place mainly at Alton’s School, Harper School. Some of the story takes place at Quint’s house and at Alton’s house.

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The main theme of The Map Trap is taking care of things that you love. When Alton loses his maps he wants to do anything to get them back. Alton wants to protect his maps because he made them and they include things about people in the school. He also keeps his maps in a particular folder behind his shelf in his house without anyone knowing. This proves that he loves his maps and wants to take care of them.

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Wonder is about Auggie Pullman, a ten year old boy that was born with a facial malformation. He is starting his first year of school at Beecher Prep and he is in the 5th grade. Auggie meets two new friends named Jack and Summer.  He meets a bully named Julian. Julian always makes fun of Auggie, but Jack and Summer stand up for him. Halloween is Auggie’s favorite holiday because he can dress up and noone knows his identity. Jack talks badly  about Auggie and Auggie over hears his mean words. Auggie gets mad and won’t speak to him. Summer eventually gets Auggie and Jack back together as friends. The three of them  become best friends as the story goes on. They go to an overnight camp with the school and Auggie gets teased by older kids. There are three boys, Miles, Amos, and Henry, who stick up for Auggie and he becomes more popular and accepted. At the end of the school’s  graduation, Auggie wins the award for kindness called the Henry Ward Beecher Medal.

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The main theme of Wonder is kindness. Auggie and his family are really close. His family is very  supportive of him. Auggie wins the award for kindness. He is always friendly with his peers and with teachers. Auggie is extremely shy but always polite with others.

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Into the Rapids  by: Bradford H. Robie

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Robie, Bradfor. Into the Rapids. Highlight for Children. 2016

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At the  beginning of the story we jump right into the action. Our main character, Wyatt falls into the white water rafting. Then, we have a flashback to when the guide Brody, is teaching them safety on the raft. Wyatt and his brother are joking about falling in the water. His brother whispers, “ Wouldn’t it be awsome to fall in?” (Robie 2). Then they go
rafting. While rafting, they see and save another raft that is stuck. After that, Wyatt falls in the water. Wyatt remembers the the instructor‘s safety tips and is able to swim to the raft safety.

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The main setting in the book is the white water river or the Arkansas River. The river is white water. The waters are very harsh. The river is a 10 mile. The river is very pretty. That was the main setting.

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Project 1065
Alan Gratz
320 pages

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I give this book a 2/10. This book wasn’t very interesting in my opinion. I didn’t catch my eye when I saw the title. When I read it, I really wanted to read more of it. Those reason are why I gave it a 2/10

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Michael helps allies during the war along with his family. His friend, Fritz joins the Hitler Youth and  so does Micheal. Michael, who is Irish,   joins to get intel for the allies. Micheal turns in his parents and Simon, his best friend,  to act loyal. Doing this gets him on the team to get the plans for Projekt 1065. Projekt 1065 was the lans for a Nazi jet plane that could change the course of the war. Michael continues to stay close and he would do anything to act loyal to Hitler and blend in with the loyals. The main theme of this book is doing what is right but it comes with a cost.

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At the beginning of the book the setting is in Berlin,Germany . It is destroyed by bombs the Allies dropped.  The setting towards the end of the book it is in Switzerland. Micheal, Fritz, and other youth  go into a base in a mountain. No damage as been done to Switzerland because it is  neutral.  The end of the book takes place in Ireland, which is also neutral. Ireland is the place where  the plans are for Projekt 1065. Those places  describe the setting.

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Michael O’Shanessey is the main character. He lives in Berlin with his Irish family. Micheal does what needs to be done for the allies, which means to hide a Royal Air pilot so he doesn’t get
caught. “ I’ll hide you in the barn because we looked in there earlier and pick you up before supper.” said Michael.  Michael is a very sneaky kid, this is because he hides a Jew. Ma said,” Simon get into the bunker so you do not  get caught.” Michael becomes a member of the Hitler Youth as a spy. He becomes so called friends with Fritz. Fritz tells him of the plans for Projekt 1065 and Michael knows he has to do things to help get those plans to his dad. His dad is the Irish Ambassador to Germany. Michael is not afraid because he dose what ever it takes to get the plans to the allies,” I’ll fight you Fritz to get those plans.”

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Projeckt 1065. Gratz, Alan. Scholastic Press. 2016.

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Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz
260 pages

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Prisoner B-3087. Alan Gratz. Scholastic Press. 2013

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The beginning of the book takes place in Krakow, Poland where Yanek Gruner lived. The place was nice but then the Germans took over Krakow and walled it in. The place turned into mayhem when the Germans came to take jews to the concentration camps. The story takes place in many concentration camps. They were old and devastated because of the Jews being there working. The hut Yanek stayed in was small with a lot of people such as a Thomas, and Lucas. The worst concentration camp was the Trzebina Concentration Camp. The prisoners suffered mentally and physically there.

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Yanek Gruner was the main character. Yanek was the last person in his family. He never gave up during his movements throughout the concentration camps. He was a changed person because of all the horrific things the Nazis did to him and everyone round him. Yanek did many things to survive with obstacles all around him. Yanek was finally rescued by the American soldiers out of Dachau.

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I give this book a 3.5/5. One reason I gave this book a good rating is because the author made it flow very well. The book had details of the surroundings and what was happening. The book was inspiring, to not give up and making it through tough situations. I would  recommend this book.

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The Indian In The Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks
227 pages

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Loyalty is a theme in the book. Omri and Patrick are best friends but are not talking to each other because they had a huge fight. When Omri is accused of stealing two plastic figures, Patrick tells the storeowner that he did not steal them.The boys clean and bandage Boone’s chest and takes care of him. At school, Patrick was given the Indian and cowboy. He pushes his way in line to get food for them both. These three examples show loyalty as a theme in the book.

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Refugee
Gratz, Alan
338 pages

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At Omri’s birthday, his best friend, Patrick, gives him Indian figure. Omri gets a cupboard from his parents. Omri figures out  that the cupboard is magic by using a key from his mother and the Indian comes alive. Omri and Patrick get into a huge fight because Omri has been taking care of the Indian and ignoring Patrick. One day, Omri invites Patrick to his house to tell him that the Indian is alive. Patrick gives Omri a plastic cowboy named Boone. Little Bear (the Indian) despises Boone. Aidel, Omri’s brother, hides the cupboard because he thinks that Omri took his gym shorts. When Omri and Patrick find the cupboard under the floorboards , the key is missing. Little Bear and Boone are plastic again without the key. The boys find the key and Omri asks his mom to keep the key. “ I’ll get a chain and wear it,” she said, “like I always meant to.” Both a Omri and Patrick know that’s what is best for them.

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The story takes place in Great Britain. Many of the boys’ adventures take place at Omri’s house.  They also take Little Bear and Boone to school.

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Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the Cupboad. Random House, 1980.

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Josef starts off in Berlin, Germany in 1938. As the story progresses, he ends up living in France. Isabel lives in Havana, Cuba in 1994. Her family arrives in the United States at the end of the book. Mahmoud lives in Aleppo, Syria in 2015. His family travels through the Europe and ends up in Germany.

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A main theme of the book is struggle. Josef Landau struggles with the Nazis forcing his family out of Germany. “But the Nazis has told them to get had told them to get out of Germany twice now” (Gratz 6).  Isabel Fernandez and her family struggles by trying to flee Cuba because her father participated in the riots. “... Isabel said, if you don’t take us with you they’ll throw him in prison” (Gratz 45). Mahmoud Bishara struggles by trying to stay hidden from the Syrian army and the rebels fighting and his family wanting to leave the country. “
Why don’t you just take us all the way to the border.” (Gratz 267)

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I would give, “Refugee” a 4/5. The book follows three different children and their struggles. Each story contains events from the 1930s, 1990s, and 2000s. The events referenced in the book were during World War II, Maleconazo, and the Syrian Civil War. It was interesting to read about historical events that I wasn’t familiar with. “Refugee” caught my attention and the stories were engaging. I would recommend reading this book to anyone!

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Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Scholastic Press, 2017.

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Spy School
Gibbs, Stuart
320 pages

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Ben Ripley was a normal twelve year old boy until Alexander Hale with the Central Intelligence Agency came to his house. Ben was invited to join the Academy of Espionage of the C.I. A. Being a spy was a dream of Ben’s and he was super excited. Ben was being used to locate members from an evil organization and help the C.I.A. He meets and becomes good friends with  Erica, Alexander’s daughter. The Spy School had only asked Ben to join because he was a math genius and he lived close. Ben has to prove he belongs and help find the mole within the agency. Someone is trying to kill Ben , so he outsmarts them. In the end, Ben figures out that Murray, a classmate, is the mole and double agent. He and Erica corner him and he is captured by the C.I.A.

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Spy School begins in Vienna, Virginia at Ben Ripley’s house. When he starts attending Spy School, the story moves to Washington, D.C. The story continues in Washington, D.C. and different areas around the city.

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Code of Honor
Alan Gratz
278 pages

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Ben Ripley is the main character. Ben always wanted to be a spy. “I set the letter down, at once stunned, thrilled, and confused. My whole life , I’d dreamt of being a spy.” (Gibbs 4).Also, Ben is extremely smart. He is a straight-A student, knows three languages, and has math skills at a level 16( Gibbs 5). He learns how to become a spy and is accepted by others. “I’d proven myself, I’d made friends, I’d earned the respect of the most beautiful girl I’d ever met...and I’d thwarted the plot of a criminal mastermind to behead the intelligence community of the U.S.”(Gibbs 289).

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Gibbs, Stuart. Spy School. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012.

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Code of Honor starts in Phoenix, Arizona. Kamran  Smith, a main character, lives there with his family. Through out the book the story is set in Washington D.C.

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I give Code of Honor a 4 out of 5 stars. The story is suspenseful  and keeps your attention. Code of Honor makes you think about your family and their support. The book makes you realize how people judge someone, even though  they do not know the person. The story shows how much love and faith brothers have for one another.

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The theme of Code of Honor is don’t judge a person by their family heritage. Kamran Smith’s mom is Iranian. “It was the first time I’d realized how hard it was going to be, growing up Persian American (Gratz 9). Kamran’s brother, Darius, is accused of being a terrorist. The brothers had always had code with each other and Kamran proved that Darius was not a terrorist. “How did you know Darius wasn’t a traitor?”(Gratz 265). In the book, an agent, Mickey, tells Kamran that some people will think less of you because of your skin color or because of your mother’s birth country. “The best thing for you to do is to keep living by that Code of Honor of yours and proving the haters wrong(Gratz 272).

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Gratz, Alan Code of Honor. Scholastic Press, 2015.