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Henry and the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary March 30, 2008

Filed under: March, Realistic Fiction — chichi11 @ 2:17 pm

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Date Finished: March 6, 2008

Pages: 192

Rating: 5/10
Primary Conflict: Henry has to deliver a lot of news papers everyday. There is a new lady that lives on his street and he has to sell her a subscription but her dog scares Henry. Henry’s dad says that Henry can’t work on his clubhouse until he sells a subscription.

Best Part: When Henry is Trick or Treating his neighbors that live across the street from him give him a very large stuffed owl that has been passed around many many times.

 

Small Steps by Louis Sachar March 30, 2008

Filed under: March, Romance, Sad — chichi11 @ 2:10 pm

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Date Finished: March 26, 2008

Pages: 257

Rating: 10/10

Primary Conflict: Armpit (Theadore) has arrived home from camp green lake. He is taking summer school since he has missed so much school. He has a neighbor named Ginny and she has cerebul pulsy. He helps her a lot. One day Armpit and his buddy X-ray from camp green lake buy tickets for the Kaira DeLeon concert and are trying to sell them. X-ray used Armpits money and garunteed him twice the amount of money he had back. It doesn’t seem like it is going that way.

Best Part: When Armpit has 2 tickets left over he takes Ginny to the Kaira DeLeon concert. Apparaently X-ray has given them counterfiet tickets so when the people with the real tickets to those seats come Armpit is busted. After Armpit tells them everything that has happened. Kaira DeLeon says that they can sit on stage behind the speakers so they can still have a seat.

 

A Taste of Danger Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene March 30, 2008

Filed under: Adventure, Drama, March, Mystery — chichi11 @ 2:05 pm

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Date Finished: March 14, 2008

Pages: 169

Rating: 6/10

Primary Conflict: Nancy and a few of her friends are going to spend a weekend at the Gourmet Getaway which is a new resort that has opened. During that time there is a famous chef their named Chef Cadot. Odd things keep happening and Nancy has to try and solve the mystery. This mystery is going to be hard to solve because there are so many suspects and all of them have such good motives which makes Nancy think any of them could have done it.

Best Part: After Nancy is sure she has solved the mystery she wants to make one last check. All of her friends and her look for a pair of boots that belonged to Ryan who Nancy thinks has done all of this. When Bess checks for the boots in the root cellar she is locked in. Nancy finds her and tries to save her although she does not realize that she is going to be pushed in. Someone sets a fire close to the root cellar and they can’t get out. After a long smoky search they find another way out. They are able to solve the mystery with no one seriously hurt.

 

Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli February 28, 2008

Filed under: February — chichi11 @ 10:28 am

Date Finished: February 28, 2008

Pages: 186

Rating: 9/10

Primary Conflict: There is a new girl in school named Star Girl. Her real name is Susan. She is nice to everyone and hardly thinks about her self. Ever since the cheer leading incident where she was caught cheering for another team, people are not liking her as well.

Best Part: When Star Girl wins the oratorical contest. She is so happy until they come back to Mica High. Only her friend Dori Dilson and 2 teachers are there. She was sad.

 

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo January 20, 2008

Filed under: December — chichi11 @ 6:43 am

 

Leap by Jane Breskin Zelben January 20, 2008

Filed under: November — chichi11 @ 6:39 am


Date Finished: November 29, 2007

Pages: 259

Rating: 9/10

Primary Conflict: A boy named Daniel gets paralyzed so he can’t do the things he could do before, like swimming. His friends try and help him  but they all seem to have changed.

Best Part: When Krista finally realizes who she likes. She doesn’t like Bobby she likes Daniel. After realizing that, she gets Daniel back into swimming.

 

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberley Willis Holt January 20, 2008

Filed under: November — chichi11 @ 6:32 am

Date Finished: November 22, 2007

Pages:227

Rating:8/10

Primary Conflict: There is a kid named Zachary that claims to be the fattest kid in the world. Toby and Cal make friends with him but have some problems along the way.

Best Part: When Zachary gets baptized. Cal and Toby take him down to Gossiner lake and ask Ferris if he wants to be the preacher. Kate picks them up in her pickup and takes them to the the lake. Ferris baptizes Zachary and the next day Zachary leaves with his guardian who had been gone for a while.

 

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling January 20, 2008

Filed under: October — chichi11 @ 5:02 am

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Date Finished: October 30, 2007

Pages: 636
Rating: 9/10

Primary Conflict: Harry has been entered in a tournament called the Triwizard Tournament, but he didn’t do it. There is a headmaster of another school there that Sirius thinks wants to kill Harry.

Best Part: Harry gets to the third task and finds out that it is a giant maze. The champions have to find the Triwizard vup in the heart of the maze. Harry and Cedric find it at the same time and grab it together. Then they find out it is a Portkey that brought them to where Voldemort is. Wormtail kills cedric and then Harry and Voldemort duel.

 

Rewind by William Sleator January 17, 2008

Filed under: October — chichi11 @ 10:46 am

 

Date Finished: October 5, 2007

Pages: 120

Rating: 8/10

Primary Conflict: Peter gets hit by a car and dies. He goes to heaven and gets a chance to relive one moment of his life that he thinks will change his death.

Best Part:  During his last chance to survive was very tense at the end. During the last hour, he did a puppet show for his parents. At the end his parents end up liking him. When you were reading it felt such a relief to you that everything worked out for him!

 

harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling January 17, 2008

Filed under: September — chichi11 @ 10:42 am

Date Finished: September 24, 2007

Pages: 435

Rating: 10/10

Primary Conflict: There is a criminal that escaped from Azkaban that wants to kill Harry Potter. Dementors are placed all over the campus to guard.

Best Part: When Ron’s pet rat, Scabbers gets sick and then Ron tries to give him medicine. There is a new teacher in Hogwarts named Professor Lupin. Ron’s rat ends up being a man named Pettrigrew who was a close friend to Voldemort.