I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys battle, magic, and creativity.  This book is been called a mix between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.  So if you enjoyed these books, you would love this.

Ronald Smith

Adventure Fiction

Title : The Voyage of The Dawn Treader

Author : C.S Lewis

Genre : adventure 

The Voyage of The Dawn Treader is about Lucy Edmund and their cousin get pulled into Narnia and into an ocean where they get picked up by the kind of Narnia Caspian. They find out that Caspian is going to explore the lands beyond the barrier islands. They go on to find many islands with different adventures on them. I would rate this book 5 out of 5 stars and I would recommend the book to anyone 12 and up.  

The Cellar is a teen thriller about a girl, Summer, that gets kidnapped. Summer and her friends go to a party, but one of her friends gets upset and runs away. Summer goes out to look for her, but she ends up hearing someone say “Lily”. A man, Clover, then kidnaps Summer, and shoves her in a van. He brings her to a hidden cellar, and Summer discovers that there are 3 other girls there. Clover names them all after flowers, Lily, Rose, Poppy, and Violet. Clover likes everything to be perfect, so he calls them his perfect family. Meanwhile, Summer’s family is horrified to find that she is missing, and they are determined to find her before it’s too late.

I thought that The Cellar was an excellent book, but there were a few spelling mistakes that made me have to reread a paragraph to understand it. The idea of the book was great, and I would rate it 4.5 out of 5 stars. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes a suspenseful story, and I would definitely read another book by this author.

By: S.A Bodeen

Genre: fiction

The compound is a good book that is about a kid named Eli. He had a twin brother who was the popular kid in almost everything. He was better at everything except being worse. The family was staying at a cabin and all of the sudden they were driving really fast. They realized that they had left grandma and the brother behind.

 They have to fight through and stay alive while they are in the compound. The dad is a billionaire so they have a lot of things to do and they have a lot of resources. Ten years have past and they don’t know when they can go out into the real world. Will they survive the compound? 
This book is recommended for 12 and up.

-Name: Kaden J

-Title of book: Holes

-Author: Louis Sachar

  
-Genre: historical fiction

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     Holes is a mystery comedy novel for boys and girls ages 12 plus, I would rate this book 4/5 because it left me on a cliffhanger and I liked the story line. This book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats that was sent to camp green lake, because a famous athletes pair of shoes were dropped on his head . Camp green lake is where boys dig holes all day as punishment for what they did, they sat that digging holes is supposed to make them a “better person”. The name camp green lake was ironic because there is no lake It dried up years ago. Stanley wasn't the best a digging holes, he was always the last person to go back to camp. Then he met hector Zeroni that was the fastest at digging holes, but he didn't know how to read or write. So hector and Stanley made a deal , hector will dig Stanley's hole and Stanley will teach hector to read and write.One day hector decided to run away one night , and Stanley was worried. When they were getting water Stanley stole the water truck and planned on finding hector, he drove the truck into a ditch then ran away on foot. Stanley found hector and what they both find is what you must find out.

The plot is about a dragon named Blue who’s sisters is going through a metamorphosis. Which  will give her silk that shoots from her wrist and wings which will unfurl from her back. But something goes wrong and she get abducted by the hive an angry mob of dragons that are being controlled by their queen who is now hunting blue. Will blue get his sister back and escape a whole kingdom of dragon find out for yourself

In my opinion I would give the book a rating of 4 ½ stars. I choose to give the book that rating because I like the storyline of the book, and the detail of the book. I’ve love this series forever and just can’t stop reading the books. Some of them can teach you the value of friendship. They also teach you some other life lessons.

Title: Island book 3: Escape

Author: Gordon Korman

Genre: Historical fiction

Paragraph: Six kids are lost on an island with no food or water and smugglers are on the island to. One of the kids is sick my drinking salt water and while he is sleeping the other five kids made a fort and look for food. Two kids go to the jungle on the island and find an atomic bomb from WW2 that wasn’t dropped. One kid goes on the smugglers plane to get off and get help but gets kidnapped. They find food and hope for the best for them and the kid who is on the plane. I rate this book a 5 out of 5 start because, it kept me out of my seat. My favorite part was when they found the bomb next to a WW2 hut. I would change that the smugglers would go looking for the kids. I recommend it to people who like action.

The book “I am a Seal Team Six warrior”  I would recommend this book to  anyone that likes true military stories. This book is about an elite team of seals that go into battle. Howard had a rough life in the beginning because he was abused by his stepdad. He had trained for a year and finally got selected to be a Seal Team Six Warrior. When he was deployed in mogadishu he got injured and had to come back home, But he did not give up and went to school to be a chiropractor. 

I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because of the action and exciting words he used in the book. It is interesting to read a book about of someone that's life was hard and made something out of it.

Joseph Bruchac

Fiction Speculative Fiction

The Dark Pond is about a college student that follows his native american ancestors, the college is in the middle of a mountain range. Though there is an area where it is flat enough for trees and a pond to be there. The pond has a pull on the student but the animals such as deer, squirrels and foxes walk around it and don’t even drink out of it. At the college there is a janitor like him who follows his native american ancestors, the student also went to his college library and found a few books on creatures that the native americans described. The student also has a weird connection with the animals they come to him/fly to him that was why he would take raisin boxes and a few other things in his pocket for the animals.

I would rate The Dark Pond  4.5 out of 5 because the book kept you wanting to towards the end. I liked how much I related to the student also the main character, we both commonly like the odd ball. I hated how when he finally found out what was in the pond, it didn’t really seem to be treating. It didn’t even fight back. My favorite part was when the student stayed for spring break, because it was when he got a chance to find out was at the bottom of the pond. In my opinion it was a great and fast read and I would recommend it to people who like mysteries,fiction ,and animals(because at the end the animals are a big part of the story).

Author:Marsha Skrypuch

Genres:Fiction and Historical Fiction

In Making Bombs For Hitler kids are being taken from their families. The main story that you follow is Lida’s she is a young girl that is taken along with her younger sister Larissa. They are both taken to a concentration camp but get seperated quickly when they go to get checked by doctors. Larissa was sent with a small group of young kids while Lida returns to the camp with everyone else. The whole way along Lida’s journey she is trying to find her sister. She makes friends, loses friends, gets jobs, visits the city, and more. Lida gets a job in the city to make bombs. Once Lida and the girls she worked with gained the supervisor's trust and they sabotage the bombs.

 There isn’t anything that I would change about this book because I loved everything about it. I would give this book a rating of 5 out of 5 stars because I loved to learn about World War II while also getting a mysterious, surprising, and a touching story at the same time. I really like the part of the story when Lida, her sister, and a bunch of other kids are going to the concentration camp. I liked this part because Marsha di an amazing job of describing everything and painting a picture in my head. To me this book is for someone that likes dramatic storylines or likes a little bit of facts mixed in with the story.

By Peg Kehret

Genre:Mystery

When a little boy gets kidnapped by his father, the boys sister endures the stress of the news and a missing brother. then they find out their dog was kidnapped to lure the boy into the abductors car. she goes with a detective and tries to find him when the school figures out that they got tricked by the kidnapper, he lied to the school to grab the boy. When the sister goes to a baseball game she thinks she sees her brother but when she gets to the seat there gone. After going to the exit the girl is shocked to see who stole her brother.

I rate this book 5 out of 5.

I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries and a bit of action.

Britton L

Author: Garry D. Schmidt

Historical Fiction

Wednesday Wars is a novel about a kid named Holling Hoodhood going through Jr. High School. Holling Struggles with a teacher named Mrs.Baker. Holling has a different religion than other students. So every Wednesday he has to go to Mrs.Baker class while all the other kid go to there church. Holling think Mrs.Baker is the to be mean to him, but later on they soon to become best friends.

Wednesday Wars I would recommend the book to anyone If you can read it. I give it a 3.5 because I couldn’t relate to the most thing that happened to Holling in 7th grade then to when I was in 7th grade. I didn't like when Holling had to keep on getting cream puffs for his classmates and some of the time it wasn't even his fault.

J.K Rowling

Fantasy

Harry Potter is back at school and he’s up to no good. As usual, of course. An elf just about ruins his chances at going to school, he and Ron crash Mr.Weasley's flying car, a ghost in the bathroom and so much more. This is Harry’s second year at hogwarts, and maybe the last year Hogwarts will even be around!  When a strange monster is going around Hogwarts using petrification to take young victims, Harry and his friends must find out who is behind it all or else Hogwarts will become labeled unsafe, and shut down.

5 out of 5

♪ RATING PARAGRAPH♪

♪I liked how all of the characters were presented. Myrtle had a fantastic introduction and that was one of my favorite parts of the book. Draco was seen as even more mysterious when he announces to fake Crabbe and Goyle, that he would help the ‘Descendant of Slytherin’ (Excuse me, I forgot the specific term, just another note, I love Draco’s character so much, {which is why Half Blood Prince is actually my favorite favorite Harry Potter book}) Ron’s family also gets a bow, for all of the beautiful visuals of their house, however in the movie, I felt like it was quite different looking in my mind. 

♪I HATED the character selection for GINNY TO HAVE TOM RIDDLE’S JOURNAL. Ginny didn’t fit the description, sure, the book was snuck into her stuff, but I would have loved it so much more if Hermione had the book instead. Accidently finding it in a Library ect. I know the Malfoys’ hate the Weasley’s but come on man they hate half-bloods so much more. I dunno, that’s just me talking, well typing. All in all, I finished the Chamber of Secrets in two days last year, and I remember it like it was yesterday, because it was one of my favorites. (Second to be exact)

♪I recommend this book to people (Who have already read book SS) who love fantasy and action.