The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy

      A couple of months ago I was skimming through my book shelves at home, looking for a book I had not read before. My eyes met The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy.
     When Joan's family moves from Connecticut to San Francisco she finds herself at a new school and exploring the woods near her neighborhood with her best friend, Fox. Throughout the seventh grade life at home slowly goes downhill. Joan's mother and father are fighting all the time and her brother keeps on disappearing with his gangster friends. Can Joan lift her family's spirit?
     I would definitely recommend The Wild Girls to readers who enjoy sitting with a fantastic book and reading a long but quick read about two young girls who love to write.

~ Leaf

Ghost Town

Ghost Town is a really good book written by Annie Bryant. Ghost Town is in the series the Beacon Steet Girls. The plot is cool. It's about five friends who are going to a resort in Montana. At the airport they see two singers who are famous and two of the friends get to go in a limo with them. The other three girls go in a run-down car and end up in a ghost town. The story goes on from there. I would recommend this book and other books in the series. The writing is great and puts a picture in your head. The characters are well developed so you know just what they're like. There also really easy to connect to. You don't wont to put it down.             

                               -Fishy

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea


Jules Verne has written some of the best classical masterpieces the world has ever seen, including Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. Another one of his famous classics is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which is a classic, but not one of the better ones. The plot of the story is quite intriguing, and the characters are developed very quickly, but the book’s writing is the main deterrent from reading it. It is not written in modern language, and there are phrases and words that no one has said for a long while. The lifestyle was different then and some people were treated differently, which makes it hard to understand. Back in the day it probably would have been enjoyed and revered, but now it can’t be enjoyed as much as it should be.

by King Kong

Time Stops For No Mouse

Time  Stops For No Mouse
by Michael Hoye

        Hermux Tantamoq is a watch maker who runs a watch shop and has a pet ladybug. He's a pretty normal mouse until one day a mouse called Ms. Perflinger arrives. She is an adventuress and flies all around the world. Ms. Perflinger's watch is in very bad shape and when, after a week, she hasn't came to pick it up Hermux starts to get suspicious. Then a rat comes into his store one day requesting Ms. Perflliger's watch but he says that he can't give him the watch without the pickup slip. After the rat leaves his shop Hermux follows him to Ms. Perflinger's house finding himself in a mystery so complicated he may never figure it out.  This is a good book that I would recommend to a younger audience. This book is good because it has a good mystery and the author does a good job of keeping the plot moving.

by: Mountain Bike      

Number the Stars

             Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is an interesting and factual book set during World War II.  Annemarie Johansen, her little sister Kirsti, and their parents hide Annemarie's friend, Ellen Rosen, from the Nazi soldiers.
             They take Ellen to their uncle Henrik's house, where the adventure really begins. The soldiers come to their house, there's a "funeral" and Annemarie runs into soldiers and guard dogs.
             I recommend Number the Stars to all readers because this is a well-written, amazing book that I would read again and again.
                     - Looneytunes
                                               

The Know-It-All

In the case of the massive, regally embossed, thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, reading them is out of the question. The books explore every person, plant, and ping-pong ball that ever existed on Bible-thin pages and close-set, tiny rows of pearl-like print. However, A.J. Jacobs offers a smaller, less complete version with a lighter touch in The Know-It-All. He skillfully intertwines funny stories and memories from his own life with interesting facts from the Britannica. The whole book is an endless bundle of connections that create bridges between information and his own quest of reading the Encyclopedias.

Everyone in his family is skeptical about him reading the books, and their snide comments are sprinkled throughout The Know-It-All in a hilarious way. I would certainly recommend this book because not only is it laugh-out-loud funny, but is packed with knowledge. A fast and silly read, it is a crowd pleaser.