Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (mystery - grades 6 -8)
Petra and Calder, sixth graders, find unusual coincidences and events that lead them to the center of an art scandal. A priceless painting by Jan Vermeer is missing and the thief is demanding that the art world take a closer look at paintings that may be forgeries. Petra and Calder follow clues and their powers of intuition to try and solve the crime. The book includes codes, pantominoes, and puzzles in the illustrations for those students that enjoy puzzle solving. It is an interesting book that keeps you entertained from beginning to end.
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This book sounds very interesting. Mystery books are so exciting and are so great because you feel so anxious to read the whole book!
This book seems like a very fun book to read. Mystery books are my favorite books to read because i like to see how they figure out the mystery.
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier is an adventurous book for middle schoolers. Tim always has looked up to his older brother Sam. Sam has enlisted in the Continental Army. Tim's father is tory which means he believes in the King of England. Tim goes through different adventures in the book. If you want to know hat happens, read the book. I think that My Brother Sam is Dead is a great book. It is very interesting and never loses the reader's attention.
My favorite book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is a fiction book by J.K. Rowling. I think that this is a book for anybody but it shouold rally b for fifth grad and up. This book is the seventh book and last book of Harry Potter. Harry, Ron, and Hermion go searching for the Deathly Hallows and they try to desetroy all of Voldemort's horcruxs. Only one will live. What are the rest of the horcruxs? Who will die? You will have to read the book to find out. I loved this book so much because it was very suspensful and interesting.
Heart of A Champion
Carl Deuker
grades 6-9
This book about two boys named Seth and Jimmy who love the game of baseball. Jimmy is a great shortstop, while Seth plays second base. Seth and Jimmy practice hard with Jimmy's father by having him hit grounders to them almost everyday after school. Jimmy's father would do this until one day when something happens. The day comes when Seth and Jimmy go to tryouts to see which little league team they're going to be put on. While Seth is very nervous when they are taking grounders, Jimmy is as calm as he can be.
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I think that the book Tangerine was a horrible book because it was a not my type of book. It was about a boy that was a soccer player. Even though it was a soccer book it was a bad book.
The book I'm the cheese is a great interesting mystery book it is a great book for when you are looking for a convoluted mystery and it keeps you reading till the very end
Read any Robert Cormier book. Theyre great.
The Alchemist (8th+)
The Alchemist is a book about self-discovery. After having a dream about treasure buried underneath the pyramids, Spanish Shepard boy Santiago is convinced by a man who calls himself a king to go find his "personal legend." Along the way to treasure he finds friends, his true love, and himself. NOTE: Contains sexual references but no explicit content. Also contains Christian themes and promotion of Christianity.
Farwell to manazar is a great book about the japaneese internment camps in the1940s it is from a seven year olds perspective. it is a autobiography by the author.
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im a big reader, but one of my all time favorite books are What is the What by Dave Eggers. What is the What is a biography about Valentino Achak Deng. He is one of the lost boys of sudan and this book is his story about how the people he met, the stories he heard and the places he saw while trying to survive the baggarra, SPLA and rebels in his country. If you do not like heavy books with multiple saddening events then dont read it but it really puts perspective on your own life.
I think "I am the cheese" is a pretty good book, but a little confusing. Once you figure out the style of Robert Cormier in "I am the Cheese", you'll understand it more.
I have not read Chasing Vermeer yet. When I tried it I did not like it, but I will try it again.
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This book sounds really cool. I love mysteries. They always leave you with a feel of suspense and excitment. I also love books about 6th grade. You can really relate to them I'll see if i can buy the book today.
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I'm am an avid reader and have read many books in my lifetime. When I read "It's a Long Story" it answered many qestions about life that I had in mind. It is a story about a teenage boy who studies very hard to get into a school. When he finally does get in, he relizes that he is not as smart as he thinks. Starting to fail school, Craig feels depressed. One night, Craig feels so depressed that he decides to check himself into a hospital. This hospital helps him figure ot how to solve his problems. I think that this book is acceptable for grades 6 and up.
Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles is a very well-written book. I think that a book about baseball and a boy who has been keeping a secret about a death is very creative. I highly recommend this book to kids 10+
The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life
By Lauren Myracle
Fiction
Ages 8-12
This book is about a girl named alli who has a fashion disaster. She walks into school with a pair of her mothers underwear hanging from her leg. After that incident her whole life changed. She became a friend of one of the girls who were very popular. She turns into one of them and doesn't know if her old friends are still her friends. You'll have to read the book to see, does she turn into one of the girls who are popular or stay with her old friends and not become popular?
Out of all of the books that I have read in my life, "Surviving the Applewhites" is one of the most humerus books. It is about a boy named Jake Semple that has been kicked out of every school in his home state. There is only one school that will take him. It is the Applewhite's school of art. In this school you must do art every day. Desperate to get rid of Jake, his grandfather sends him. Jake believes that it will be a breeze to get out of this one. That is until he meets E.D. E.D is the only one in the Applewhite family without any artistic talent. This book shows how a devil boy clashes with a fiesty girl and how he reacts. During his time in this school, he notices how bad he actually is and how he wants to be better behaved. If you read this book you will find out the end. I reccomend this book for ages 10 and up.
Salem Witch try outs
Kelly McClymer
6-9
Salem Witch Try outs is a book about a girl named Prudence Stewart who has the perfect life in Beverly Hills. She is a StairtA student,the captain of the cheer leading team,she lives in a huge house and she is a witch! No, really, she is a spell casting witch! Prudence thought she had the perfect life and that it would never change untill she found out that she was moving to Salem and would be going To Agatha'S schoolfor witch craft and Wizzardry. She was not very happy that she was never allowed to use her magic and then all of a sudden her mother was forcing her to to do it!If you would like to find out what happens to Prudence then go to the school library and find out!
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So in Mrs. Shneibaum class we are reading a wonderful book called "The Giver" by Louis Lowry. In this book, a boy named Jonas lives in an extremely protected community. In this community everything is the same. There are no hills, because everything is flat. There is no temperature. At age twelve every child in the community is assigned a job that he or she will do until they grow old. When it is Jonas's turn to be assigned a job, the Chief tells him that he was chosen not assigned. It turns out that Jonas was chosen to the "Reciver of Memory". He meets up with "The Giver" and is told many of the most sacred secrets of the community. You have to read the book to find out more!! Reccomended for ages 10 and up.
Petra and Calder, sixth graders, find unusual coincidences and events that lead them to the center of an art scandal. A priceless painting by Jan Vermeer is missing and the thief is demanding that the art world take a closer look at paintings that may be forgeries. Petra and Calder follow clues and their powers of intuition to try and solve the crime. The book includes codes, pantominoes, and puzzles in the illustrations for those students that enjoy puzzle solving. It is an interesting book that keeps you entertained from beginning to end.
The book "Rules" is an interesting book that can teach you many things. A girl named Catherine is in a bad situation, because her brother has autism. Catherine has to deal with her brother shouting and being very niosy. She tries to teach her brother, David, how to act normally so she makes a set of rules for him to follow. One day, a new girl moves in next door to Catherine. They both hang out a lot, but something does not seem right. On one of David's trips to the doctor, Catherine meets a boy who cannot walk or talk. they become friendly and Catherine is forced to realize what it is like to have a disability. She starts to hang out with the kids that have disabilities than normal kids. It is easier for her to talk to them becuause they understand David's problem. I reccomend this book to children 10 and up who enjopy interesting and funny stories.
Peak by Roland Smith
tis book is about the exciting adventure of a fourteen year old boy who tries to climb mount everest with his father who is a world famous mountain climber
wow! you have a great selection of books. I like a lot of books, i suggest to get Charlie Bone And The Magical Time Twister by Jimmy Nimmo. it is about a boy with powers going to a endowed school were he gets into trouble and tries to solve some mysteries.
Hit by a Farm by Catherine Friend is a memoir about a girl who falls in love with a person who had a dream to always have a farm. This girl is a city girl writer who has published a few children books and who would have never suspected to be living on a farm. The book is about their experiences on the farm and all that they go through. Their personal lives, relationships, finance, writing and experiences on the farm.
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