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Jan
26
2017

The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

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My Destiny Dream Has Came

Spoiler ALERT – my review reveals a BIG important part of this story,  so if you want it to be a surprise do not read any further!

In my book there is this dream that this one family tree has. It kind of predicts your future. This girl’s dream is a lot of colorful flowers and a key. She does not know what it means and has to figure it out. I think this is important because the dream is a big part of her future and the book is about her story and future. It’s very mysterious and weird. It is a very good book and you should go read it.

Jun
14
2016

Railhead by Phillip Reeve

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My book is called Railhead. It is by Phillip Reeve. The main characters are Zen Starling, Nova, and Raven. The setting of the book is in space.

One event that was really important was when Zen stole the instructions to building the K-gates. The K-gates are the things that make trains go to different planets by giving them a speed boost.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It messes with your brain. It has so many interesting things in it like alien bugs and trains with personalities. I would recommend this book to any science fiction fan. This book is sort of similar to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey except it’s less trippy. I rate this book 5 stars. It was really good. 

I drew the prologue to the book as a short comic.

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Jun
14
2016

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

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imgresThe Harry Potter series is by J.K. Rowling is a really magical book series. The book takes place in Hogwarts, and the main characters are Harry, Hermione, and Ron. This book is different than the ones before, because there is a twist at the end and it will surprise you. You should still read the series in order, because, if you don’t, you’ll get confused by a lot of things in the books. On a scale of one to five, I’d give this book a four because the book is really magical, but I was a little disappointed: I wanted something to happen that didn’t happen. The book is magical because there are so many cool creatures, spells, wizards, witches, and mysteries. Enjoy the book review comic!

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Jun
14
2016

The Little Prince, By Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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The book I am reviewing is The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint Exupéry. The main characters are the Little Prince and the man. The Little Prince is telling the man about his planet in the sky. It takes place in a desert in around 1943 I think but I’m not sure. The book was written in 1943. I would give this book 5 stars ☆☆☆☆☆ because it was a super good book and I would recommend it to 3rd/4th graders through any adult. This is my script:

Narrator–  Hi. This is a part of the little prince. I really liked this book and I would give it 5 out of 5 stars. It is about a child who draws a snake and shows it to his parents and they said don’t draw, just learn math and spelling. So when he got older he became a pilot. One day his plane crashed and he met an extraordinary boy. That boy was the little prince. I hope you enjoy the performance!

Man– Tell me the story of the fourth planet you visited,

The Little Prince–  The fourth planet I visited, belonged to a businessman. This man was so busy in all his work with numbers, he didn’t even raise his head when I arrived. ‘Hello’ I said ‘Your cigar has gone out.’

Businessman–  ‘3 and 2 make 5. 5 and 7 make 12. 12 and 3 make 15. Hello.15 and 7 make 22. 22 and 6 make 28. No time to light it again. 26 and 5 make 31. Whew! That amounts to 501,622,731,’

The Little Prince–   ‘Five million what?’

Businessman–  ‘Hmm? You’re still there? 501,0000… I don’t remember… I have so much work to do! I’m a serious man. I can’t be bothered with children! 2 and 5 make 7…’’

The Little Prince–  ‘Five million what?’

Businessman–  ‘For the 60 years I’ve lived on this planet, I’ve been interrupted only 4 times. The first was 37 years ago, when a roach fell on my desk from god knows where. It had made a terrible noise, and I made 4 mistakes in my calculations. The second time was 19 years ago, when I was interrupted by a fit of rage. I haven’t time to get angry. I’m a serious person. The third time was 10 years ago when, I started thinking about how many stars there are that I can’t see and, I lost my place and had to start over. The fourth time…well… is right now! Where was I? 501,000,000…’

The Little Prince–   ‘Five million what?’

Businessman–  ‘Oh, the little things you see in night.’

The Little Prince–  ‘bugs?’

Businessman-  ‘No ,those shiny things.’’

The Little Prince–  ‘Fireflies?’

Businessman–   ‘No, those little golden things that make lazy people daydream. Now, I’m a serious person. I have no time for daydreaming.’

The Little Prince–  ‘Ohh. You mean stars.’

Businessman-‘Yes, stars.’

Narrator: To me, the point of this book was to tell the reader, ‘You don’t always have the perspective of a child, but, try to see things the way they do because children are the next generation, so, if you crush their dreams, they will never happen.’This was one of my favorite scenes because it makes you think about the stars and stars are beautiful. I hope you enjoyed watching! Bye!

Jun
14
2016

Lunar Strike by H.I. Larry

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Once upon a time on a hot summer day, there was a boy named Zac Power. He was a part of the GIB, which stood for Government imgresInvestigation Bureau. He wasn’t the only one in his family that was in the GIB. His mom, dad and his older brother Leon were all in the GIB. Zac had to keep his identity to himself. He couldn’t even tell his closest friends.Then one day his brother Leon told him that he had to go on a space shuttle to stop one of his enemies from wiping out all the electronics In the world.

Zac started his training. He had to become an astronaut in 3 hours which was going to be really hard because real astronauts take 3 years to learn it.

Two and a half hours later –

After most of Zac’s training was finished he had to feel what anti-gravity felt like.While he was floating in the air, his brother Leon gave him a box of cereal in case he got hungry, but when Leon gave him the box of cereal, the little mouse in Leon’s pocket climbed out and went inside the cereal box without anybody noticing.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blast off! The rocket took off, leaving a big pile of smoke that looked like a huge storm was coming. When the space shuttle was leaving Earth’s orbit, Zac was amazed at what he saw in space. He saw all kinds of things like different planets and a meteor shower coming towards him. “Wait, what?! A meteor shower? How am I supposed to get past that?” Zac exclaimed. At that moment, something caught the corner of his eye.

It was a space shuttle that he had to find to knock out the ray, so the electronics wouldn’t get fried. He came in slowly, so the guns would think that he was a space rock. When he got in the spacecraft, the computer that could stop the ray was right in front of him. He only had 10 minutes to stop it. When he was trying to hack the ray, a huge robot came out of nowhere and tried to stop Zac from hacking the ray. Then all of a sudden the robot let out a cry and Zac saw the mouse eating the robot’s wires. When the robot was dead, Zac finished the hack and the world was SAVED!!!   

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The book I read was called Lunar Strike by H.I. Larry. I would definitely recommend this book to other people. There’s also a lot of other books in this series, so if you don’t want to read this one, you can read the other ones. I would give this book four out of five, because some of the scenes in the book had a lot of action. I would give it a four instead of a five because the ending could have been more exciting.

Jun
14
2016

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

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Narrator: Hello, Before I start narrating this scit I would like to say a few words about this book and movie. The harry potter series is great. I especially like The last one (Deathly Hallows) because the author J.K. rowling put a lot of detail and work into this particular book. In this book harry potter was definitely brave and honest and honorable.  And I recommend the whole harry potter series to kids and teens with a taste of adventure.The plot is that Harry has to quit hogwarts and finish the task dumbledore gave him, which is to find voldemort’s horcruxes and destroy them. While Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic is being taken over by Voldemort’s henchmen.I would rate this book 5 stars. Enjoy.

 

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Scene starts and harry and ron and hermione crowd around the radio

 

Narrator: It was a chilly day as harry, ron and hermione crowded around the radio listening to the order of the phoenix new broadcast

 

Harry: Did you hear what Fred said?

 

Harry: He’s abroad! He’s still looking for the Elder wand, I knew it!

 

Hermione: Harry-

 

Harry: Come on, Hermione, why are you so determined not to admit it? Vol-

 

Ron: HARRY, NO!

 

Ron swats a hand over Harry’s mouth but Harry swats it away.

 

Harry: -demorts after the Elder Wand!

 

Ron: The names Taboo!

 

(CRACK!!!!)

 

(Whisper) Ron: I told you, Harry, I told you (Shaking his head and smacking his hand to his forehead)  we can’t stay anymore! Its how they find people! Protect-

 

Narrator: there alarm starts buzzing as intruders come in

 

Sneakoscope starts spinning and lighting up (disguised phone) and voices coming from outside the tent (Ron, Hermione, Harry are all quite still and not talking. Ron clicks his Deluminator and lights go out.

 

Voice: Come out of there with your hands up!

 

Voice: We know you in there! (Person takes a step forward) You’ve got half a dozen wands pointing at you and we don’t care who we curse!

 

(Hermione pointed her wand at Harry’s face and whispers a curse, Harry falls down and covers his face)

 

Voice: Get up vermin

 

Ron: Get-off-her!

 

(Struggling)

 

PUNCH!

 

Hermione: No! Leave him alone!

 

Harry looks up to see fenrir greyback and

 

Voice: Search the tent!

 

Greyback: Now lets see who we got

 

Greyback: I’ll be needing butterbeer to wash this one down, what happened to you ugly

 

Laphing

 

Harry: Been stung

 

Greyback:  what’s your name?

 

Harry: Dudley

 

Greyback: First name?

 

Harry: Vernon

 

Greyback: Check the list Scabior

Greyback: And What about you, ginger?

 

Ron: Stan Shunpike

 

Scalibor: Like you are!

 

Punch!

 

Ron (covering his mouth): I’m brady

 

Ron: Brady Weasley

 

Greyback: A weasley!?!

 

Greyback: So you are related to blood traitors even if you’re not a mudblood. And lastly you pretty little friend…

 

Voice: Easy Greyback

 

Greyback: Oh, i’m not going to bite just yet. We’ll see if she is a bit quicker than brady here. Who are you girly?

 

Hermione: Penelope Clearwater

 

Greyback: Blood status

 

Hermione: half blood

 

Scibor: Easy enough to check

 

Scalibor: but a lot of them look like they could be hogwarts age-

 

Ron: we left

Greyback: have you ginger?

 

Greyback: and you decided to go camping ? And you thought, just for a laugh you would use the dark lord’s name?

 

Ron: not a laugh, just a accident

 

Greyback: accident

 

Greyback: Accident?

Greyback: You know who used to like using the dark lord’s name Weasly? The order of the pheonix, mean anything to you?

 

Ron: No

 

Greyback: Well, they don’t show the Dark Lord proper respect, so the name been tabooed, A few order members have been tracked that way, we’ll see, bind them up along with the other to prisoners!PUNCH!

 

Drag harry, ron and hermione next to the other figures

 

Scabior: anyone still got a wand?

 

Everyone: No

 

Harry: This is all my fault, I said the name, i’m really sorry

 

Dean: Harry?

 

Harry turns over to face dean

 

Harry: Dean?

 

Dean: It’s you! If they find out who they have got… There snatchers , they’re only looking for truants to sell gold-

 

Greyback: Not a bad little haul for one night ( Points to everyone, one by one) , a mudblood, a runaway goblin, and these truants, did you check their names on the list yet scalibor?

 

Scalibor: Yeah, There’s no vernon dudley on here, greyback

 

Greyback: That’s interesting, very interesting

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Thank you for watching this scit. I would like to thank our three main characters, Jack Barker who played Harry Potter, Amos Dotson who played Ron Weasly, and Clara Cornick who played Hermione Granger.
And a bow and thanks from our cast!

Jun
14
2016

The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

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IMG_7888The book I’m reviewing is The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner. The main character is Costis, one of the king’s guards. The setting is in the Palace of Attolia. This diorama shows the most important part of the book. When assassins from Sounis, ( a rival country with Attolia,) get into the garden where the king is walking. Why the King only has one arm is because the queen of Attolia. She chopped it off in an earlier book to punish him for stealing something from her. 

What happens is that the king takes a sword away from one of the three assassins and kills all of them. The assassins released the hunting dogs from their cage and that got the guards to go to the dogs, not the king. Why these people are trying to kill the king is because people don’t like that the king is from Eddis ( another rival country,) and is now the king of Attolia.

Some words to describe Costis are aggressive and loyal. Why he is aggressive is because when he gets angry he gets very aggressive. Another reason why Costis is aggressive is because he punched the king. Why Costis is loyal is because he always is on schedule to be with the king even though he doesn’t like him. I would rate this book four and three quarters out of five stars.

Jun
14
2016

Once Upon A Frog by Sarah Mlynowski

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static1.squarespaceThe book I read is Once Upon a Frog by Sarah Mlynowski. This is the 8th book in the Whatever After series. The main characters are Abby and Jonah. There are many problems but the main problem in all the books is getting home on time. The book takes place in The Kingdom of Birdopolis. This book takes place in modern times.

One big event that happened was Abby, Jonah, and their dog prince got sucked into the Frog Price. Abby and Jonah get sucked into fairy tales by their magic mirror in there basement. I would say why they get sucked into fairy tales but that would spoil the book nor less the series itself. I find it interesting that Abby and Jonah fell for prince/frog Fredric’s stories and lies. I would say more but that would spoil the book. Something I found important was Jonah’s head itches. Jonah’s head itches because he has fairy memories.

Abby is careful, thoughtful, and smart. She fits these adjectives because she takes good care of herself and her brother and, usually knows what’s happening. Jonah is adventurous, rebellious, and loose. He fits these adjectives because he always takes the “risky road” in life and is always telling his sister to loosen up.

I liked this book. I liked it because it is funny and has major plot twists. I recommend this book to everyone who enjoys fantasy and fairy tales. If you are interested, the first book in this series is called The Fairest of Them All. I give this book four stars.

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Jun
13
2016

The Last Kids On Earth by Max Brallier

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51BtFHNN45L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_The book that I chose to read is called The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier. The book is part of a series by the same author. The main characters are Jack, Quint, Dirk and June. The main problem is that the planet has been invaded by zombies and monsters and the main character Jack is trying to stop the zombie apocalypse. He is trying to turn the zombies into humans again. The setting of the book is at the school, the treehouse in Jack’s backyard and in the neighborhood where they all live.    

One big event that changed the story was when Jack met his friend because he was going to be all by himself and then he just found a partner. This event was important because, it was easier for him to fight because then he’d have another person and an extra person is really helpful. One thing that I found most interesting was when Jack first shows up at Quint’s house and Jack starts killing all of the zombies. I liked that part because it involves a back yard and a person silently killing a bunch of zombies. Another thing that I found interesting was when everyone at once attacked Blarg who is the big monster in the story. I liked that because I like big battles.

The first adjective I would use to describe Jack is brave. He was brave because he would attack all of the monsters. Another adjective to describe him is determined because everyone else wanted to give up at one point but he said “Now, if we just try a little harder, we can do it.” And he didn’t let them give up. He has a big heart so he is caring. All he wanted to do throughout the whole book was to save this girl named June from the zombies. One quote that Jack said was “I’m an orphan.” It is an important quote because it shows that he only needs to take care of himself since he doesn’t have a family.

I enjoyed this book because it involved a lot of war and it involved monsters and zombies. I like those things because they both involve weapons. I recommend this book because it has a great story, great author, and great illustrations. I think this book is related to the TV show called The Walking Dead because that’s like a town that gets invaded by zombies and the book is like a town that gets invaded too. I would rate this book 4 stars!!!!!!!!!!!