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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.