Summer According to Humphrey is a great book by Betty G. Birney. Humphrey is a curious and excited loved hamster that lives in a classroom full of children. He finds out that it is summer vacation. Where does Humphrey go? Well he finds out and goes to camp Happy Hollow. Humphrey has a lot of fun there. There are horses and pools and many things to do. But Humphrey can’t do all of that stuff though. This is a book for 4th or 3rd graders. I rate this book 5 stars! Want to know what happens, find out when you read the full adventure camp out story of Humphrey!
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When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me is a book about a girl named Miranda who breaks up with her old friend named Sal. Miranda meets a store owner named Jimmy who has a stash of two dollar bills. Miranda finds a man who kicks his foot out on the street and sleeps under a mailbox and says a chant that says “book, bag, pocket, shoe” over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over v and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and many more times again. Miranda also meets the kid who punched her old friend Sal, and thinks time travel is possible. I rate this book 5 stars. I think this book is good for ages 8-14. If you have read the book A Wrinkle In Time, you will like this book.
HOOT/Carl Hiaasen BOOK REViEW
I read the book Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. In the book the main characters are Roy, Beatris and Beatris’s step brother. The story takes place in Coconut Cove, Florida. Even though the story takes place in Coconut cove Roy was originally from Montana. One morning Roy sees a running boy with out shoes. That is how Roy’s adventure starts. My favorite part of the book is when a construction site gets vandalized and they don’t know who did it. I recommend this book for third grade through adults, I rate this book three in a half stars.
My Book Review Of Gone-Away-Lake! ! ! ! !
Benjamin’s Book Review Of Gone Away LakeBy
Benjamin Winokur-Applebaum
The book that I just read is called Gone Away Lake! I finished it a little while ago but now I can finally write about it!! It is By Elizabeth Enright
The reason I liked this book is because it has one picture per chapter. So I know what the scenes from the book look like when I need a picture in my head ! I also like this book because they describe it from the perspective of a child named Portia who is exposed to be looked at as the narrator/main character ! I also like the book because it is in the perspective of two time periods now(35 years ago)and 5,555 years ago! Also another reason I like this book is because about five people are the feelings in the book and that one person is telling all of the people about it! I also like that it has a bit of make believe in it!!
The plot is that there are two kid’s Portia and Julian (main characters). The two kids find a lake in the forest and they then start to explore and have adventures in the swamp. But they also might meet some people or things that you would not normally see in real life or in a swamp !!
There are tons of interesting flashbacks and stories of that some people tell that they meet in the story !!There are lots of people you will meet in this adventure and lots of names of animals. So if you like animals this is your book and if you are a story or surprises lover this is also your book !!
I recommend this book to you because it has laughs and screams and tells you stories that are fake but seem real. It gives you tips about nature!! That is why I recommend it to you to read !!!!
This is why I liked this book. It is called Gone Away Lake for you who do not remember !! So if you like anything that I said in this book review you should check this book out because it is in the public library’s. There are two books in the series Gone Away Lake and Return To Gone Away!! My name is ben and this is my book review for you !!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENJOY
Published By New York Times!!!!
Pish Posh, by Ellen Potter
In Pish Posh by Ellen Potter, the main character Clara is 11 years old, rich, and a bit of a snob. After going to her parent’s restaurant Pish Posh, she goes to her apartment which has so many rooms in it, for example: the roller-coaster room, the beach room, the Brooklyn village room, the tree climbing room, and many more. She went in the tree climbing room. In that room there is a big tree in the room imported from Australia. The tree is so big that there is a special ceiling for the tree. While Clara is climbing the tree, she hears police outside her building and a voice asks Clara if she could come into Clara’s apartement. Clara lets the mysterious girl in and her name is Annabelle. It turns out she is a thief. I really enjoyed this book because it is full of mystery.
My favorite part of the book was when Clara went to Annabelle’s house and Annabelle says, “You still think SpyFocals are fancy walkie-talkies?” I like that part because it’s funny.
I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries because there are a lot of surprises. I would also recommend this book to people who like friendship stories because Clara and Annabelle stick together. Lastly, I would recommend this book to people who like action because a lot of exciting things happen.
I would give this book 5 stars!
This Book is not Good for you by Pseudonymous Bosch
This Book Is Not Good For You by Pseudonymous Bosch is the third in the series of 5.I think is the worst out of the first 3 books in the secret series since it’s mostly about chocolate and not as exciting.The main characters are Cass (short for Cassandra), Max-Ernest and Yoji. Their job is to stop the Midnight Sun, an evil alchemist organization, who try to figure out the secret, which no one in the book knows.
They have ended up getting kidnapped for a day, losing Cass’s mother and they have got tricked. My favorite part of the series was in the first book, which I won’t tell you so I don’t spoil it. I would recommend this book, but not before reading the first 2, to people who like adventure books. I would give this book a 3 star rating out of 5, 5 being the best since the first 2 were much better. My favorite part of the third book has something to do with Cass’s Mother missing. You want to know the ending? Too bad, I won’t tell you. You have to read the book!
Fantastic Mr.Fox By Roald Dahl
There lives a fox in a hole underground. His name is Fantastic Mr. Fox. Fantastic Mr.Fox has a wife, she is called Mrs. Fox and she also has three children that are also foxes.
Every night Fantastic Mr.Fox takes a chicken, duck or turkey from one of the farmers. Then one day the three farmers named Bunce, Boggis and Bean get really angry that the Foxes are stealing their food. So one day they decide to dig the foxes out. In the middle of the night Mr.Fox heard the tractors so he woke everyone up and they all started to dig a hole into the ground very, very deep…
If you read this book you can find out more. I would recommend this book because it is a very adventurous and exciting book. I would give this a five star rating out of five stars.
The Million Dollar Shot
The book that I read was called the Million dollar shot by Dan Gutman .On a scale of 1 to 5 I would give it a 3 because it took him a long time to get to the main point.But when he did it was great.I recommend this book to people who like sports a lot .The main characters name is Eddie Ball and he is great at shooting a basketballs.All of his life changes when he sends a poem and to finkle foods and he gets the chance to shoot and if he gets the ball in the net he gets a million dollars .The book takes place in the present.Can he do it? The book was pretty good.
The Name of This Book is Secret By Pseudonymous Bosch
Very Surprising Book
I recently read a book called “The Name Of This Book Is Secret.” by Pseudonymous Bosch. My rating is five stars! Normally, every chapter I read, I am gasping because something really surprising just happened in the book. In the book, the two main characters find a magician’s house and everything goes wrong. If you like books that are very surprising, than this book is the book for you. This book is for people who like reading about VERY surprising things, like someone being evil instead of good, or something happening that you know but the good characters do not. The book also has lots of secret codes. The codes are the type of codes where there are scrambled letters or something like that. The characters are very wacky, one named Cass who is training to be a survivalist and who keeps weird things in her backpack and the other character named Max-Ernest who talks so much, you can barely hear what he is saying.This book has an ending that is not the way you think it would end. I can not tell you anything else, the only way to find out more information is to read the book yourself.
By Margaret MacGillivray
Take Two By Julia DeVillers & Jennifer Roy
Take Two is the second book after Trading Faces.
In Trading Faces Emma and Payton got in big trouble at home and at school, which means detention. Emma (the brainy one) feels like she shouldn’t be in detention, but lucky her and Payton (the stylish one) get out of it. But they just get a different type of detention.
Emma has to tutor math-hating eight year old boy Mason. Payton has to keep an eye on Mason’s twin brother Jason and help the drama club with the school play. Instead of being in the play like she wanted to she has to work under the stage.
This book is very easy and fourth grade level. It’s a realistic fiction book. If you like books that you can kind of relate to this is a good book for you. I would give this book 4 **** because it very fun to read>It’s a fun book with lots of surprises along the way!