The Akhenaten Adventure

The Akhenaten Adventure is the first book in the series Children of the Lamp. It is about twins who lead a pretty normal life until at age eleven when they get their wisdom teeth and everything changes. John and Philippa Gaunt are both eleven when they get their wisdom teeth. During the surgery to remove the teeth they have a dream about their Uncle Nimrod. The dream tells them to ask their parents to visit Nimrod in London over the summer. This book is an amazing mix of adventure and fantasy that makes it hard to stop reading at the end of a chapter. It is so suspenseful. I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys reading fantasy and humorous adventure.

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Seekers: Spirits in The Stars By Erin Hunter

Seekers is a very loving book. Four bears, Kallik, Ujurak, Toklo, and Lusa are on a mission to save the wild, when they come across a mysterious island full of Polar bears. This book is very active and full of adventure and suspense. I would recommend this book to any animal lovers who enjoy a good laugh, friendship, and excitement.


By: Butterfly Wolves

Framed by Gordon Korman

Griffin Bing was framed; he didn’t do it. Griffin Bing was framed for stealing a Super Bowl ring. He swears he never touched it but all the evidence leads to him. The more he and his friends try to find the real criminal they end up getting into more trouble. How is Griffin going to get out of this one? Griffin is the man with the plan and he and his friends won’t stop until they get to the bottom of this mystery. If you like this book it is in the Griffin Bing series with the books Swindle, Framed, Zoobreak and the last book, which is coming out soon, Showoff. You can read about it at http://gordonkorman.com/. This is an interesting book and you always want to keep reading. It is also a pretty easy book to read so I will recommend this book to everyone especially the youngest readers.




-Pie 1234

Holes by Louis Sachar is a great read. I would know I read it eight times!

The book follows Stanley Yelnats and Stanley may be the hero in this book, but there’s nothing heroic about him. He’s overweight, ugly and picked on. When he gets caught in a crime he did not commit not only does he blame his no- good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great- great –grandfather, he’s also blaming his luck. When he has to choose between jail or Camp Green Lake, Stanley picks Camp Green Lake. He’ll be finding about his luck after all. There’s no lake at Camp Green Lake just holes. You heard me, holes! If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole that’s 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep in the blazing sun that bad boy becomes a good boy. After a while those boys realize character isn’t the only thing they’re digging. The Warden is looking for something, and Stanley will find it before anyone else does. I recommend this book for kids 10 and up. It’s a great read if you want something different. It’s genius writing and I love it! 5 out of 5!

Chuck Taylor

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

Theodore Boone is having fun at school and with his friends. He also enjoys sneaking into court to watch trials as much as he can. But this 13 year old gets more than he ever expected. For the first time in Strattenburg history, there is a huge murder trial. There is a man, Mr. Duffy, who is accused of killing his own wife! Everyone thinks that Mr. Duffy is guilty, but in court, you have to hear the prosecution's side of the story and the defense's side of the story. Unfortunately, the defense is putting up a phenomenal case. It seems that Mr. Duffy will not be guilty. What is going to happen in court, and what will Theo do about the case?

This book was amazing. It had lots of adventure in it. Theo was so involved in the trial. He was almost the biggest help in it. John Grisham did a good job with changing things up in the book. The plot was pulling me in and it made me want to become a lawyer. I liked that this book was informative and fun to read. I recommend this book to all that love adventure and suspense. At the end of some chapters, I’d ask myself, “What will happen next?” This book will make you ask yourself the same question.

-Mankind

The Cay

      The Cay is a survival story that can be hard to read in some areas with Timothy’s heavy, bold sailor’s accent. This story partly takes place in Curacao during World War II. Phillip’s father decides Phillip and his Mother, Grace, will move to Panama, because it wasn’t safe in Curacao for him to wonder around and play with Henrik. Timothy and Phillip get stranded after their ship was sunk by a German U-Boat that shot a torpedo and Timothy and Phillip take a raft to a small deserted island and are trying to get rescued, so Timothy has to keep his eyes and ears open for engines and horns from aircrafts and ships, while Phillip can't do much till he gets his eye sight back

     I would recommend this book to anyone who loves survival or who has read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, though everyone will enjoy it because it teaches you a little bit of really important information on how to survive and everyone needs to know how to survive. You’ll definitely need to slow down with Timothy’s accent or you will go crazy. If you finished The Cay and you liked it there is a sequel called Timothy of the Cay.

-Lou Tero

Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens


Great Expectations is a tale of a boy named Phillp, but mostly called Pip, whose parents died when he was only seven years old. Now young Pip works as a blacksmith, and lives with his sister and his brother-in-law Joe. Then, Pip comes across an escaped convict, who threatens him unless he gives him food and a file. Pip is invited to Miss Havisham's estate, and falls in love with a young lady by the name of Estella. I think this is wonderful work of literature due to its plot twists and the way it shows how a brave fool fares after becoming careless with his riches.

This book is an original concept which I admire.  This book is orignal, instead of a repetitive sequel or a common topic, such as vampires or a big adventure across the land with some mythological creatures on a grand quest or adventure. The only problem with this book is that it goes too fast. I like the well-developed personalities of the characters aswell. I highly recommend this book to whoever enjoys classics, dislikes repetitiveness, and likes love and betrayal.

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Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

      One of the finest books I have ever read, I would suggest Outliers to anyone and everyone. In Outliers Malcom Gladwell finds patterns in everything from birth months of hockey players to birth years of great lawyers and their parents’ jobs. Backed by evidence in hundreds of studies, he breaks the myth that talent alone always brings you to the top, and shows you that your age, birth date and year, parents, and ancestry really do matter.
     Outliers teaches you the reason of Bill Gates’ success, how Asians are better at math, and even how an airline turned its safety record around. Outliers is very descriptive in explaining the concepts in such depth, with so many examples, that even if you disagreed with Malcom Gladwell’s ideas you would still have to like the book.
     So I would suggest you look up Outliers in your local library, buy it now on Amazon , or take a trip to the bookstore.

-The Silver Crusade

Fever

Fever by Laurie Anderson is great. Once you start you won’t be able to stop. It’s about yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793. You really get to know the characters and see how they change and grow from the beginning to the end. The writing sucks you in and you’ll find yourself genuinely worried about the characters. I wouldn’t     recommend it to younger kids because it’s a tiny bit hard to understand and a little frightening. It’s really cool to see how people had to survive and how big an impact yellow fever had on people. Even for the people who didn’t get sick you still felt their pain. If you didn’t die some of your friends and loved ones probably did. It’s definitely sad, but it’s such a great book that you have to read it.

 -Bubbles

Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder is the kind of book you would say “WOW! I want to read that again!” When I first finished reading this book, I wanted to look in the back for more words to read. Laurel Snyder tells the story from the main character, Rebecca’s, point of view. The book is really exciting and there are a lot of laughing and gasping moments that make you so surprised you want to read the book again. Everyone wants magic, but Rebecca never imagined she would actually find any. Then again, she also never imagined her entire life could change overnight.


I first looked at this book’s cover and it somehow pulled me into the book. I immediately thought, “What in the world would a breadbox have to do with magic?” When I read the book, it felt like I was Rebecca’s best friend and she was telling me a story. Bigger than a Bread Box is the kind of book I like to call the thief for your attention.

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The Greek Who Stole Christmas

Anthony Horowitz is the author of The Diamond Brothers Mystery series, of which The Greek Who Stole Christmas is one. The book is relatively short, but Horowitz packs plenty of action into every chapter. While I won’t give any of the plot away, I will say that the main reason this book is worth reading is the amount of clichés, plays on words, and other little one-liners. The book is loaded with them in every chapter, every page. While all of these are funny, some people may get a bit tired of them by the middle of the book. Although the writing is well crafted, there are very few suspects, and the ending is quite disappointing, because the culprit is somewhat obvious to the reader. This is a stand-alone book, so you do not need to read the rest of the series to start this book. A great quick read for you mystery-lovers!