Keeper by Mal Peet

     I sincerely suggest Keeper, to anyone who likes to read.  It is an amazing book about the world famous goalie, El Gato (the cat).  The book is based upon an interview with Paul Faustino interviewing and El Gato being interviewed.  El Gato talks about  his long untold past, his ghostly but very real mentor, The Keeper, and the tiny logging town in the middle of the South American jungle of his childhood.  Hour after hour his unbelievable tale unfolds.  Paul Faustino is almost sure he his lying but El Gato appears, and is truthful.  Set during the late 1900s after the defeat of the German team in the World Cup, El Gato brings the reader back in time to meet The Lost Ones and the young superstar.
  Keeper is a stupendous book, and a must read!

-Math Knight 8

Summer of the Monkeys

Somewhere within the first 80 pages of Summer of the Monkeys I fell in love. I adore the youthful language that Wilson Rawls used to create this tale. Summer of the Moneys is about a boy trying to catch 30 monkeys and reap a handsome reward. Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows, plunges you head first into the action. Just when you realize that Jay Berry would be just the kind of boy who does find a group of primates, he does! Though this book can be a little slow to read the rustic language and intriguing plot keep you going. Overall, Summer of the Monkeys is an audacious story, for slightly more experienced readers, as the language can be fiddly. Could you catch a clan of witty apes? Follow Jay Berry and his faithful hound, Old Rowdy, and you will soon find out.

~Dr. Seuss