Taggerung

Taggerung


By: Brian Jacques
Reviewed by: Matt, 13
Rating: It was amazing!


This is one of the, if not the best, books in the Redwall series. As opposed to being three books covering a great siege or a mass rebellion against tryannical slavery, we come to differing plot line... Deyna (an otter), is taken captive by a tribe of Juska (wandering vermin) while he was taken with his father for a ceremony of particular importance to otters, he is captured because he is the next Taggerung (a great Juska warrior). He spent fifteen seasons in captivity he runs away after his adoptive father, a powerful chieftain, drove him to do something he wouldn't fream of, so he fled. On his journey he befriends a few wanderers and small tribes, and learns about his true heritage. All in all it is a good read.


Recommended to: anyone ages 10-whenever

Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley

By: Jeff Brown
Reviewed by: Jennifer M., 13
Rating: It was amazing!


I liked the part where Stanley gets flat because of the board.


Recommended to: anyone I know

Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed


By: Catherine Hapka
Reviewed by: Pamela B., 15
Rating: Really liked it


Best friends share everything right? Clothes, food, memories, etc. Its like in the best friend rule book to let your best friend borrow something since you know they'll give it back(eventually). What if your best friend asks to borrow your boyfriend? This is exactly what happens in this novel. Ava, in need of a date to her sister's wedding since her boyfriend dumped her, asks her best friend if she can "borrow" Jason for the evening. The events aren't surprising yet they are incredibly amusing. They are possible yet bizarre. Funny yet complicated, like it always is when a writer pushes together two characters that really dislike each other.In this story of loyalty and teenage drama, Ava finds herself wondering how she'll be able to give Jason back to her best friend when its clear he's everything she'd been searching for. A great story to share with your best friend with an interesting twist at the end.


Recommended to: Teenage girls/guys who want a good laugh.

Hawksong

Hawksong


By: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Reviewed by: Pamela B., 15
Rating: Really liked it


Perhaps because she is such a young writer, the author has a great imagination and is able to portray the characters in such a clear and descriptive way. She came up with this great story that can be thought of in different contexts. For example, difference in races(in this book its not ethnicities, but shapeshifter races),a war that no one remembers how it got started or why its still going on,an arranged marriage, berayal, and falling in love with the person you least thought possible. Danica, the main character, is part of the avian shapeshifters. Shane is part of the serpentine people. They are from two different cultures, two different worlds, that refuse to come together due to a strong prejudice. Together they must(reluctantly) get to trust each other in order to bring peace to their people and maybe find love along the way.


Recommended to: preteens and teens

The Alibi

The Alibi


By: Sandra Brown
Reviewed by: Eric L., 17
Rating: Really liked it


The Alibi is a thriller by Texas author, Sandra Brown. The novel is narrated in first person by protaganist, Hammond Cross, who is a District Prosecutor in South Carolina. When a well-knwon and wealthy landowner is killed and the police scramble to find a culprit, it is through the wits and smarts of Hammond, fellow prosecutor Steffi Mundel, and heavily feared Detective Rory Smilow as they uncover the motive and truth which hides itself behind South Carolina's traditional society.


Recommended to: people who love thrillers

Just as Long as We're Together

Just as Long as We're Together


By: Judy Blume
Reviewed by: Cynthia, 14
Rating: It was amazing!


Rachel is Stephanie's best friend. Since the second grade they have shared all their secrets, good and bad. So when Alison moves in, Stephanie hopes that the three of them can be best friends because Stephanie really likes Alison. After all, they have even more to share now, including seventh grade and Jeremy Dragon, the cutest boy in junior high. Even though the three of them live in a quiet Connecticut neighborhood, there's a lot going on in their lives. Stephanie wishes her father didn't have to work so far from home and she worries that Rachel's talents will get in the way of their friendship. Rachel and Alison have to deal with the changes in their own lives, yet Stephanie is sure everything will work out fine- "just as long as we're together..."

If you are interesting about what happened, then you should really read this book.


Recommended to: people who are 10+ years old

Reincarnation

Reincarnation


By: Suzanne Weyn
Reviewed by: Pamela B., 15
Rating: Really liked it


You don't have to believe in "reincarnation" in order undertand the plot. You don't need to think of it in a religious context in order to enjoy the romance and history that goes on throughout the story. I love how the story changes settings adn time periods throughout the whole book.This is a great romance novel. It tells the story of four teenagers, two girls and two boys, starting from prehistoric times. Then since its obvious that the four people need a second chance to get their lives right, they reincarnate. This happens throught the story and you can see how the characters slowly remember each other and what types of things they do in order to fix their mistakes. It was very inspiring and the message basically is, "If at first you don't succeed ,try again."


Recommended to: teens who love romance!!!

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism


By: Georgia Byng
Reviewed by: Jose A., 16
Rating: It was amazing!


in this book there is a girl named molly moon she lives in an orphanage named the hardwick house she lives there with other kids and her best friend in the world named rocky scarlet and all the other kids are mean to her except the littlest kids named gemma gerry and jinx they are nice to her and the lady watching them is very mean she doesnt like children her name is ms.adderstone she has a mean pug dog named petula who eats only chocolate cookies molly had came to the hardwick house as a baby she was found in a cardboard boxand a lady had to watch them because ms.adderstone hated children ecspecially babies she hated thier smell and there voices so ms.trickleberry watches them and when they cry she sings them lullabies and they stop mooly grew up she is now twelve the kids bully her everey day the kids names sre hazel hackersy and roger fibbin and gordon boils and ms.adderstone punished molly frequintley she had a felling that something good was going to happen so she went to sleep with a good felling the next day she was awoke by a bell the bell came from ms.addersons pet pug dog petula holding a bell molly remembered about a fifty word spelling testwhich she had not studied for because she was always being punished so she went to school and she failed the test for misspelling the word notorious and her teacher named miss.toadley had a snezzing fit when she got angry because she got angry with molly she was telling her off molly got told off by evereyone she hated it and then she had to run in the rain but she had lost her sneakers so rocky had to help her and the whole class got away and they found the sneaker and started running and stopped because she didnt want to do it any more and rocky started to tell her off and they got into an argument and rocky left her and molly went to the library and went next to the radiaters and read a book like she always does and she saw a fat man come in and yell at the librarian for losing his book which he paid for and he had to come all the way from chicago to get the book of hypnotisim he was a proffeser who had been researching the doctor who made the book the doctoris a famous hypnotist who lived in that city the city was named briersville the proffesser was named simon nockman he had been rresearching abuout dr.logan and hypnotism and he paid a lot of money for the book and the librarian lost it then he gave her a number of the hotel he was staying in so if she found it she cold call him then molly found the bookin the y section of the books because the h was ripped off so it read ypnotism she started reading it it was interesting she thought so she took it and went home and put it under her bed so no one could find itand ms.trickleberry who now cleaned since molly and rocky were older she gave molly a cupcake and told her not to let ms.addrstone see itor she would take it molly went to bed sad the next morning nothing go od had happened so she was dissa pointed she didnt want ms.adderstone to find it so she pretended to be sick for a couple of days she found out how to hypnoyize animals so she hypnotized petuyla to stop eating chocolate cookies so then petula was nice and not sick anymorethen she found out how to hypnotize with her eyes so she practices on herself then the next day she found out that rocky had moved away with an american family and took him away molly did not belive it because they made a pact to stay together but found that it was true rocky had left her there then the talent competition came up and shefound out how to hypnotize crowds so she entered hypnotized the crowd to make them thinkthat she was really good so she won the competition she won three thousand pounds and she also hypnotized ms.adderstone to be nice and edna which was the cook for the orphanage to cook italian food then she wnet to go to an airport where she was going to find rocky she went on a plane to new york to find rocky so she got off the plane in new york and got a cab to manhattan then she went to a hotel named waldorf then she and petula got a room then they ate and watched the television when they saw a talk show and on it was a girl who looked like hazel back at te orphanage edna and ms.adderstone left the kids on their own and then hazel put herself in charge molly thought this was horrible sshe hypnotized davias manager to give her a part in a broadway show and then the show came molly used hypno tizm on the audience and they thought shewas great they thought they saw a star being born then molly had got three thousand dollars then when she was signing autographs proffesernockman was hiding in the dark and kiddnaped petula and molly was sad so she had an interview on thew television and told people to look for petula and that there would be a big reward so people looked for petula proffeser nockman took petula so he could get molly to use hypnotism to rob a jewel bank molly got to her hotel sad and lonley she had gotten mess ages from barry rixey and rocky she was so happy that rocky found her she called him they went to the room and she told him about all that happened so he did too then she told him about proffeser nockman and then nockman called then he told molly and rocky the plans and to do ittommorrow so they got up ate and went to go rob the bank to save petula they robbed the bank hypnotized nockman and then they returned the jewels and then they went back to the hardwick house to help gemma ruby and jinx and take care of them then they got to the hardwick houseit was a mess everey body was sick and nockman was still hypnotized and cleaned the place up and made the kids breakfst then they called ms.trickleberry and told her what happened and she agreed to watch them and they named it the hhappy house and then never hypnotized any one again.


Recommended to: everyone

Over and Underneath

Over and Underneath

By: Tenth Avenue North
Reviewed by: Esther, 12
Rating: It was amazing!


Winner of New artist dove awards, Tenth Avenue North brings hope to everyone. Their songs remind us that no matter what you are going through, God will be here for us and will help us through the storm.Songs I would recomend is Love is Here, By your Side, and Hold my Heart.


Recommended to: Christians

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games


By: Suzanne Collins
Reviewed by: Esther, 12
Rating: It was amazing!


If you're looking for a true love story then this is one. 16 year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take part in the Hunger Games instead of her sister. The Hunger Games is a game that the Capitol uses to keep 12 districts in order.2 tributes from each district, one boy and girl, are thrown into an arena, and is left with two choices:kill or be killed. When Katniss Everdeen's sister is chosen she volunteers to take her place.The other tribute chosen from her district was a boy who saved her life once, Peeta Mellark.


Recommended to: 12- 18 year olds