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Title: Surviving Hitler
Author: Warren, Andrea
Jack Mandelbaum was a Jewish boy that was taken from his home in Poland, and sent to a Nazi Concentration Camp called Dornhau. He made many new friends, but they were either killed, or he never really knew what hapened to them. He learned to deal with his conditions, and e made a vow to himself that he would survive to see his family again. He staed in the series of Concentration Camps for three years until he was 18. He came back to his home find hisfamily all gone and it was ruined. He moved to Kansas to start a new life. He got married and had children. It all turned out happy in the end, and he helps with the eduation of the Holocaust.
FAVORITE BOOK
This is my favorite book because I enjoy learning about the Holocaust, because it is very fascinating and it is my favorite thing to learn about. I am fond of stories like this that start off terribly and have a happy ending. It was full of detail, and i became attached to the main character, Jack. All around a PERFECT book.
-TARYN-
What a great review!
Title: The House of the Scorpions
Author: Nancy Farmer
Matteo Alacran lives in a country called Opium. It is a land between America and Mexico were there are a bunch of poppy fields. Matteo is not a regular person. He is a clone of El Patron who is the lord of Opium. Every one doesn’t treat Matteo like a regular person, they treat him like a monster. They don’t care about him. El Patron is the only person that cares for him. And as Matteo lives his life, he figures out many things that he doesn’t want to. All of them leading to one option, escape.
Why its my favorite book.
The book is written extremely well. All the time it kept me wanting to read it. It was full of some action and suspense. I was always wondering what will happen next and what the answer was to the many problems in the story. It was just every you need to have in a great book.
Matt Faryan
Title: Dizzy
Author: Cathy Cassidy
Short Summary: It's the main charcter Dizzy's birthday and she comes home to find a stranger talking with her dad in the living room. Soon after, Dizzy realizes that the stranger in her living room is her mother, who she hasn't seen since she was just two years old! The mother wants to take Dizzy for a while to live with her, but her father refuses. That doesn't stop Dizzy's mother from kidnapping her anyway. You then follow a journey of Dizzy's new life with her mom. Let's just say her mother's way of living life is much different than Dizzy pictured...
Why this is my favorite book: Dizzy is my favorite book because this book is very suspenseful, and makes you want to keep reading. Parts of this story turn out to be somthing totally different then you may have predicted, and I love that about this book. Also, this book plot's is very different from other books I've read and it was interesting to read a book that stood out compared to other books I've read.
-Brianne Vana
Title: Tangerine
Author: Edward Bloor
Summery:
Paul Fisher is one if two kides, and to everyone his older brother is perfect. To Paul he is not a role model. Paul loves to play soccer even though he is legally blind and has to wear thick eye glasses.When the fishers move to Florida paul tries to make sense of things, but its not easy. In Tangerine, Florida lighting strikes the same place all the time and there are even underground fires which burn for years. Strange things happen everyday, but nothing is stranger than the secrets he finds out about his brother, new friends, new home, abd his bad eyes. Join Paul as secrets about his life unravel.
Why this is my favorite book:
It is a sad and suspenseful story that keeps you on your toes. You learn things that you never expected about the caracters and plot too. This story is great because it covers all the good and bad things about life like murder, friendship, prejudice, lies, and achieving you goals. This is why it is my favorite book.
steisi
Title: City of Ember
Author: Jeanne Duprau
This book takes place in the future underground. The main character is Lina and the other main character is Doon. They just get new jobs to work in the city. This city is starting to get old and all the supplies placed there by the builders is starting to vanish. Lina and Doon must try to save the city by trying to get above ground.
Why this is my favorite book.
This book is my favorite book because there is always some sort of suspense and the plot has many twists and turns. Overall I rate this book a 20 out of 10..its that good.
-Aakash-
Title: Girl, 15, Charming but Insane
Author: Sue Limb
Jess Jordan is 15 years old, a sophomore from Britan. Her mom is a crazy male-hating war activist and her Granny is obsessed with death, so her home is anything but normal. This book is basically about her life, whether it be from her perfect, beautiful best friend Flora, to her major crush Ben Jones.
This book is my all time favorite because Jess's overactive imagination and nonstop sarcasm makes this book a joy to read. It had me laughing every page! Plus, its fun to hear all the British phrases they use!
-Melissa
Title: Ashes of Roses
Author: Mary Jane Auch
Summary:
Rose Nolan and her family go to New York on a boat from Ireland. Her little baby brother is sick, and he can't enter the US. So,her brother and father go back to Ireland. Rose and her little sister Maureen stay in America, wishing for a better life. Rose is determined to get a job, so she settles for a job working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a sweatshop. Soon enough, a fire breaks out, many workers jumping from the building, because they have no way out, and factory safety laws have not yet been established. Rose can't find her little sister, who also had a job there. Rose eventually finds her, but not all of her friends.
Why do I like this book?
Ashes of Roses is THE best book I've ever read. It is based on true events, and it's very scary to think about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and how it actually happened. This book was very well written, and I couldn't put it down. I've read it about 5 or 6 times now, and it still doesn't get boring. Something is always happening, and it is just a great book!
-Lisa Bartha-
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Written by J.K Rowling
So many amazing books, I have read. But my recent favorite book would have to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, written by J.K Rowling. The story is about what should be Harry’s last year at Hogwarts. But instead Harry, and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, decide to go find information or objects, including horcruxes, to help them destroy the evil Lord Voldemort. Many of Harry’s friends die on the way. Some enemies Harry finds to be friends; some friends have turned against him. Which ones? Also love is in the air, for whom? You’ll have to read the book to find out. This book includes suspense, drama, romance, mystery, and always expect the unexpected. But I encourage you not to read this book until you have read the other six. Good luck!
~Jordan~
Warning!
Have tissues near, all who can’t handle sorrow.
Title: The Secret life of sparrow Delaney.
Author: Suzanne Harper.
Summary:
Sparrow is a freshman at Lilydale high school. Totally normal, right? Yes...Except for One thing, Sparrow talks to ghosts. From Bakers to Old Lit teachers and Brohers seeking revenge Sparrow talks to them all. In the story, Sparrow has to help her crushes brother tell his family he is dead.
Who do I like this book?
The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney is a great book becasue it's a mix of Suspense, Mystery and even a little romance. I have read it 3 or 4 times and something new seems to pop out at me each time. The story truly does keep you on the edge of your seat. I Highly reccomend it.
--Ali McEwen--
My favorite book is "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder. The book describes the life of Paul Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health, a health organization that serves some of the poorest areas on Earth. At first, Paul attends Harvard College. However, early in his third year, he stole some medicine and lab equipment and left on a plane to Haiti to live with the Haitian peasants and provide a "Preferential Option for the Poor". When he first arrives, he has very little money and doesn't know Creole (the Haitian language). Despite all this, he manages to steal enough stuff and gain enough support to build Zanmi Lasanti, his first hospital. There, him and his team of seven native Hatian doctors he trained cured over 200,000 people of Tuberculosis, and created an AIDS prevention program as well as a program for woman's literacy. He revolutionized current methods for stopping AIDS, and from 1990 to 2000 cut the number of mother-infant AIDS transmissions (in the Central Plateu, where Zanmi Lasante is located) to 4%, half of the current rate in the USA. Even with AIDS and many other treatable infectious diseases ravaging Haiti, the biggest killer was still Tuberculosis. None of the local hospitals seemed to be doing anything about this, but Farmer set out and found some very wealthy supporters of his cause. Using their money, and the money he made himself as a Harvard proffessor, he began to treat every peasent in the Central Plateu, as over 90% of them had TB. Not only did he supply them with the proper medicine (at quite a price), but he provided them with food and shelter, because his studies had found that people had a much faster and more complete recovery when they had things such as running water and electricity (there were no power lines, and thus no electridity in the Central Plateu. Also, until Zanmi Lasanti gained enough money to build a sanitational public water system, there had been no running water.) In the year 1998, Partners In Health was formed, and Farmer went global. By now, he had won national recoginition and was the recipitent of the Macarthur Genius Grant. In the coming years, Partners in Health would expand to have hospitals in Moscow, Rwanda, Lesotho, Mexico, Guatemala, and even U.S. cities like New York and Miami. This story gives a whole new meaning to "making a difference".
It is my favorite book because everyone wants to make a difference, but are often too self-absorbed to try. THis book will redefine your values by showing you just how big a difference you really could make in a world where millionaires buy houses expensive enough to save hundreds of lives while children are struggling for their lives in the streets. It says in the book that no one was better at giving guilt-trips than Paul Farmer. This book made me feel guilty, and also made me think about how others around me are spending their lives.
Mark
Title: Stormbreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider has a normal life until 3:00 in the morning when he gets the news that his uncle has died. All of a sudden his life changes. He is turned into a spy for MI6 and is forced to carry out a dangerous mission his uncle died doing. Alex confronts danger and finds a dirty secret.
Why it?s my favorite book:
It is extremely suspenseful. I couldn?t get myself to put the book down. The plot was unpredictable. It has an good hook and an exciting ending.
Jaehong
Title: The Silent Room
Author: Walter Sorrells
The Silent Room is about a boy named Oz, who's mom is getting married to his evil gym teacher. He pushes Oz around and he treats Oz with physical and emotional abuse. When he moves in with Oz and his mom, he takes Oz to the basement and starts fighting with him and pushes him around and even tells him that he is a weak, little baby who will never be strong enough to fight him or anyone. After a while, Oz gets really strong and is able to take his stepfather down. This is when things start to get bad because Oz starts getting in trouble for things he never did, like taking drugs and starting big fights at school because he is so strong now. One night while Oz was sleeping, he got woken up by a cop in his bedroom, shaking him awake. Next thing he knew he was siting in the back seat of a police car and on his way to a military school for bad boys called Briarwood School. A soon as he got there he tried running away because he knew he didn't do anything wrong, but no one would believe him. Next minute he's being hunted down by dogs, so he gives up, and is returned to a room where he had to memorize each and every 50 rules with no food and no bed, just a chair and a table with the rules on it. After he gets out of this room, he is sure that something is wrong about this camp, because everyone keeps talking about this "silent room" where you are zipped away until you agree to sing some papers about money. Of course none of the kids know anything about signing legal documents about money, so they sign anyway. Everyone signs except Oz and this goth guy. They end up being where they definitely don't want to be. Oz, goth guy, and their friends try to get away from this torture camp, but all they get is in more trouble.
Why this is my favorite book?
The Silent Room is my favorite book because there was a lot of suspense and mystery. I was always on the edge of my seat and I couldn't put this book down. This book made me realize how being a good kid and staying out of trouble really pays off. It also told me that i can't trust everyone and that I should make sure i definitely know the person before I tell them secrets. This is why The Silent Room is my favorite book.
~Rachel~
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