Rose is frustrated because everybody thinks she's so perfect. Her teachers think that she can do everything right. Her classmates call her beauty and copy everything she does. Her three friends like her the way she is.
3 - Love it!
Emily, age 10

This story rocked! It was about three sisters, close in age, living in England with their dad (mom died). Then the dad sends for his sister, their aunt. The three girls do many things to try to get the aunt to leave.
3 - Love it!
Mary, age 12

This was a great book about truths and lies, friendship, hope and loneliness. It's a book you can read over and over again. Just a wonderful book.
3 - Love it!
Emma, age 11

Jess Aaron's life is pretty dull until he meets Leslie Burke. They befriend each other and use their imaginations to create Terabithia. When Jess loses Leslie he can't be king without his queen. He also realizes how much she's taught him about life.
2 - Like it!
Eliana, age 11

The Door in the Wall is a symbolic story with a meaning. The main character is Robin, whose parents left to do their jobs and while they were gone he became crippled.
2- Like it!
Danielle, age 12

I liked the part when Kit notices that her 3 friends have ESP. These famous people are haunting their thoughts. They are using them to finish work that the spirits never finished.
2 - Like it!
Brittany, age 12

An old man that lived under a bridge met 3 kids and a dog in a corner. The kid's mother worked at a laundromat. The man and the kids traveled many places getting money.
3 - Love it!
Becky, age 9

Felicity goes down to her grandfather's farm for the summer. He's looking for horses to buy when Felicity finds a horse named Penny which she had taken care of but then let her free. Will Grandpa let her keep the horse?
2 - Like it!
Tanya, age 9

In this book Bobby is a pretty good baseball player but his parents are divorced so his dad can rarely help him practice. Then his dad announces that he will have to move away. Then, at the end he steals home.
3 - Love it!
Ari, age 10

Claudia and James Kincaid ran away as a form of injustice to their parents. They went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where they found an angel that could have possibly been sculpted by Michelangelo, an Italian Renaissance master. Later, the two runaways went to Mrs. Frankweiler, the previous owner of the statue. She gives them a ride home the next day.
3 - Love it!
Peter, age 10

In this book people want to build a Mother Paula's Pancake House, but they don't know owls are living there. A kid named Mullet Fingers tries to stop them from building it, that way the owls will live peacefully.
2 - Like it!
Daniel, age 9

I loved the book In Business with Mallory because Mallory has a decision to make. She either buys something for herself or something for her brother's birthday. Her friend talks her into getting what she wants because Mallory worked hard for the money. Then Mallory decides that is wrong so she does her brother's chores.
3 - Love it!
Jenna, age 9

This book tells how a small horse becomes everyone's favorite. This book really touched my heart. This is a must read for all the people who like ponies.
3 - Love it!
Isabelle, age 9

It is about a kid named Sylvester. He loved baseball, but he wasn't good. So one day this guy named George taught him how to play baseball. Ever since, he hit homeruns!
3 - Love it!
Kyle, age 10

Lupita and her brother Salvador live in Mexico and their father dies on a boat. So, they have to get to the United States to live with their "rich" aunt and face hardships on the way.
3 - Love it!
Christine, age 12

Jeffrey might have been a regular kid if his parents hadn't died in a trolley accident. Now he has run away from his aunt and uncle and must learn to survive on his own, making new friends on the way.
2 - Like it!
Elisa, age 10

Seven tornadoes hit in three hours and Dan and his best friend and his friend's baby brother hurry to the basement for shelter. Can they survive?
2 - Like it!
Emily, age 10

This is a documentary novel about a ninth-grader in Harrison, New Hampshire who is suspended for singing the National Anthem. His story becomes national news.
2 - Like it!
Eliana, age 11

In the book a girl named Elizabeth goes to Jamestown, Virginia in 1609 for a better life. On their journey a hurricane hits. Several ships were lost, but the family made a fort. Her mother soon had a baby and soon their son Caleb would come.
3 - Love it!
Meaghan, age 9

Eric's grandpa likes dill pickles, so for Father's Day he makes his grandpa a pizza with dill pickles. This book is very good. I recommend this book for third and fourth graders.
3 - Love it!
Rachel, age 9

Molly Brant escaped the Skeleton Man once and thought he was gone forever, but he had returned. Molly and her parents can almost feel his presence with the sixth sense, but it doesn't seem to work. Molly gets kidnapped by him, but escapes, climbs up a mountain and then the Skeleton Man gets hit by a bulldozer and is buried under piles of rocks.
2 - Like it!
Alex, age 11

This book is about a talent show that a girl named Samantha made. There's a piano player, dancer, juggler and much more. Read the book to find out what is Samantha's talent.
2 - Like it!
Elizabeth, age 9

She forgot her lunch box on the bus and had to have hot lunch with a ticket. She didn't like sloppy joes so her friend got her the secret lunch.
3 - Love it!
Greta, age 9

This is a book about a kid named James (Stink). He is the shortest kid in his class. He wants to get bigger. Then his sister helps him get bigger.
2 - Like it!
Elliot, age 9

I love Ann Rinaldi's books, and this must be one of her best yet! The faithful slave Oney is definitely one of my favorite heroines. Her books are a great way to learn about history.
3 - Love it!
Sabrina, age 12

Whether Fudge is throwing a temper in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or scribbling all over Peter's homework, he is a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything.
3 - Love it!
Abrielle, age 10

When Rob Horton finds a tiger in a cage in the forest and meets a strange girl at school named Sistine Bailey, after the Sistine Chapel, he learns that you have to let your emotions rise up.
2 - Like it!
Eliana, age 11

This book is about two people who fall overboard off a ship. They swim in the ocean until they find a submarine. They are kept prisoners. Captain Nemo said anyone who enters the ship may never leave, but everyone still takes adventures with the Captain in the water. One time the ship gets stuck in an iceburg. Everyone almost dies of air shortage. At the end the two prisoners escape on a canoe and rest on an island.
3 - Love it!
Daniel, age 9

Three kids, Polly Kemp, Rowena Jervis and Adam Fiske, all got a mysterious card with a red dot. They never noticed that Thaddeus Blinn was so mysterious. Well, not until the wishing began.
3 - Love it!
Trudi, age 10

It is about a boy who lives with his grandma and they talk about witches. One day they go to a hotel and come face to face with real witches!
3 - Love it!
Kelly, age 9

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