Entries Tagged as 'Student Recommendations'

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

This book is a very good book.  If you like adventures and sword fights, you will really like this book.  This book is a prequel to Peter Pan.  You might be wondering how he became Peter Pan, well listen: Peter is an ordinary boy who is the leader of a gang of orphans.  Peter comes [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me by Katy Kelly

I would recommend this book because it is funny.
I’m Lucy Rose, and here’s the thing about the fourth grade: it is busy like you can’t believe!  Especially if you are a person who is already plenty busy on account of having responsibilities and I am that kind exactly.  I am already collecting vocabulary, plus I [...]

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Spiderwick the Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

The three kids enter a different world that nobody has explored before.  Jared, Simon and Mallory move into their extremely old aunt’s house which looks like it’s going to fall apart. The first time Jared walks into the old house he hears a strange noise in the wall which sounds like something running around.
Then strange [...]

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Igraine, the Brave by Cornelia Funke

This book is about a spunky knight-in-training Igraine. She lives in a castle with her talking cat Sisyphus. Unfortunately her next-door neighbour goes off somewhere and leaves her nephew, Osmund, in charge of Darkrock Castle, which is a big Uh Oh. Then Osmund just has to take over Igraine’s home (which is a [...]

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Bone by Jeff Smith

Here is a tribute, in cartoon form, to Jeff Smith’s Bone by Jacob, Grade 7!
Click on the image to enlarge it.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Ingo by Helen Dunmore

Saphire’s family has been a normal one for as long as she can remember. But when her father disappears, that family seems to fall apart. Her mom works from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am just to make enough money to support them.
Saphire’s life takes a turn to the crazy when her darling, [...]

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Animorphs: The First Journey by K.A. Applegate

Get ready to dive into an adventure you will never forget. In this book you have been chosen to be the sixth animorph because, one day while you were riding your bike through a construction site, one that your mom says is a place too dangerous for you to ride your bike through, you [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

Lily’s Crossing takes place during the Second World War, in a place called Rockaway. Lily has short sandy hair and hazel brown eyes, and she’s different from what she seems. In the beginning she seems like a completely honest and truthful person, but, no, she has a long list of things to [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith

Be ready to experience a book about a boy, named Henry who, when he ate breakfast, would often eat things that contained chocolate.  Henry was never fat from eating chocolate, but one morning he felt strange at school and he saw that his arms had brown spots. He went to the doctor, but he was scared [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Ingrid and the Wolf by André Alexis

Enter the world of fantasy where a girl, named Ingrid, has a weird dream. She is sleeping in her room and suddenly she hears a voice outside her room saying, “Gabor has eaten her highness’ shoes”. She gets this dream every Sunday night. She wants to go to Hungary to visit her grandmother, but [...]