Friday, July 8, 2011

The Six Rules of Maybe (***)


This was an okay book about a girl named Scarlett who tries to help everybody and make everybody happy. Then Juliet, her older sister, comes home with a husband, a dog, and a baby. Scarlett and her mother were so shocked neither of them knew what to do with Juliet, her mother was concerned with Juliet, who hadn't told them when she got married, she had been foe six months. Read the book to see how this odd family turns out in the end.

This book was nine hours and fifty-two minutes. I'll give this book three out of five stars (***).

The Six Rules of Maybe
by, Deb Caletti

Matched by, Ally Condie (****)


Matched is about a girl named Cassia whom lives in a society where the citizans make no choices, at any point after a girl or boy turns seventeen they will be called to go the matching banquet where they will recieve a match. The only people do not get matches are the Abberations (law breakers) and single (men or women who are chosen to be a single for life). Everyone in the society have three pills, a blue one, to cure sickness, a green one, to relieve stress, and a red one , but nobody knows what the red will do, will it kill you? Will it knock you out? Will it make you forget? But nobody knows.
A few days after Cassia turns seventeen she gets called to prepar for the matching banquet she gets to rent her choice of a dress and picks a green silk one to match with her eyes. On the night of the matching banquet she sits next to her childhood friend, Xander. Read the book to find out who she is matched with and who she falls in love with...
This book is 366 page s long. I will give this book a four out o ffive stars (****)!!!

Matched
by, Ally Condie

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hero (***)


This book is about a boy named Billy whose father dies on a secret mission for the US president. He decides to go visit the field where his father died. He finds that it is miles back to any town. He meets a mysterious old man who tells him that he trained Billy's father, but his father never completely trusted him. Then he tells Billy that now Billy has the magic then quite suddenly the man disappeared. So Billy runs after him. He felt a lot of wind and then suddenly he was in the middle of New York. Read/listen to the book to find out more.

This book is 5 hours long. I'll give this book three out of five stars (***).

HERO by, Mike Lupica

Sunday, April 10, 2011

No Passengers Beyond This Point


This book is about three kids who lose their house to the bank because their mom couldn't pay the taxes. They have to go their uncle Red's house,who they can't even remember and he lives in the middle of Colorado. They end up landing in a strange place called Falling Bird where a pink feathered taxi picks them up. They find out the driver is fourteen years old, and that the age you can get your drivers licence at is twelve. When they arrive everybody knows everything about them. On large screens it shows the life of India, age fifteen, Finn, age thirteen, and mouse, age six. They are taken to their dream house with their dream parents and everything they ever wanted to have, from cats to mice to dogs to whole rooms just for trying on clothes! They think that they have everything could ever need until the next morning when they tumble down a large tunnel and find themselves on a quiet street. All but Finn, first Finn is taken to a high building where a guy named Sparky offers him a job in Falling Bird. India is separated and becomes a welcomer, a person who welcomes new people. Find out if they make it out of Falling Bird.

This book is hours and 6 minutes. I'll give this book a three out of five (***)

No Passengers Beyond This Point by, Gennifer Choldenko

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Chains (*****)


Isabel's master has just died of a illness, where will she and Ruth go? When her mistress's only living relation, a man called Mr. Robert came to see her burial, he took her and her youger sister Ruth with him, planning to sell them at a slave auction. When stoping at a tavern to eat, a kind African American cook gave them a meal and drink for free and told them she had knew their mother, who had died of illness, and wondered who the were with. When Mr. Robert called the two girls over they saw and man and his wife standing with him. They were going to be bought, the cook rushed over to offer to buy the girls, but the deal was done. Read the book to find out about their new life.

This book is 313 pages long. This book definatly earns a five out of five stars! (*****)

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Thursday, February 3, 2011

My Life in Pink and Green (***)


When Lucy recieves the letter saying that the mortages have not been payed for several months, Lucy knows that something is wrong. She wants to find a way to help so she starts to do make up. Read the book to find if Lucy really does save the store.

This book is 267 pages long.It is three out of five stars(***).

Gathering Blue (****)


Kira wants to find blue. So she can finish the singing robe, so she can make them think she was worth saving. She wonders what happened to her father. They all say he was eaten by the beasts, but when the old women told her there was no beasts and nor would there ever be Kira coulden't help but wonder. When she watched mother die from a sudden sickness Kira is left with little food and possesiens to call her own. When Vandara acuses her and says that she is weak and can do nothing she says that she can weave, she shows them the tiny scrap of cloth. Read more to find out what happens to Kira.

This book is 215 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

Gathering Blue
by, Lois Lowry