Jake and Lily are twins that were born on a train called the California Zephyr. When they were little, they were inseparable. They had a special power that they called "goombla". With their goombla they knew what each of them were thinking. Jake and Lily couldn't even play hide and seek becau...
Kids live in their own world...WOW! After I read about 5 pages into this I was thinking to myself that this was going to be one of those horrible fantasy books about a place with edible houses and fairies fluttering everywhere; boy, I was WRONG. This book was amazing!!! An absolute joy to r...
The perfect book to inspire confidence, motivation, self-worth. A boy ponders what he wants to do when he grows up and decides that he can be mixing-bowl licker, a tin-can kicker, snowball smoother, etc. The boy can do anything he wants to and decides to do them all!This book would be fun to do...
I could feel my heart practically breaking inside me as I was reading this book. It is one of those YA books that are relevant and replete with life lessons for all to learn, whether you can relate to the characters or not. Stargirl is told in the first-person point of view of Leo Borloc...
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is such a beautifully written novel. This second book in the series is so much different from the first one. For in the sequel, I was able to understand more about its main character named Stargirl Caraway. At first, I really had a hard time trying to appreciate h...
Spinelli, J. (1990). Maniac Magee. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 0316809063 As an orphan, Jeffrey Magee is sent to live with his aunt and uncle who live separately within their house and refuse to share anything. At the age of eleven, Jeffrey, unable to deal with his aunt and uncle’s refus...
Every year in August there is a festival where pigeons get shot and ten year old boys wring their necks to make sure they are dead, one problem Palmer has no interest to do so, and he even fears it. Not a big deal right? Well his dad is awarded with the best shooter award and all of his friends c...
Megin is twelve and her older brother Greg is fourteen, and they loathe and despise each other.Megin is a tomboy whose greatest passion is ice hockey. Greg's main goal in life is to win the heart of Jennifer Wade, who barely acknowledges his existence. But despite their busy lives, these two mana...
I found that the first pages that I have read are kind of boring for several reasons. The first reason why I found it a bit boring is because the main character’s life Donald is so boring. Donald’s life is so boring because it is the first days of school, he does not have friends, he has the sa...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014Jason Herkimer encounters problems, throughout the first three chapters: Food, The End, and School. Jason gets accused by his crazy step father who claims theft of an eaten chicken. In other words, Jason's step father brought out a bag of chicken bones and specificall...
Ever since her family moved to Aunt Sally's farm, Tooter's known that farm life is definitely not for her. There's no pizzeria for miles, her nearest neighbor is a dumb boy, and even her own pet chicken hates her! So Tooter decides to show everyone what she's made of by winning the blue ribbon a...
I have to say I found it a bit odd that this is labeled a "Young Adult" book. Hmm. I just am not sure who (I mean, among young adults) might be interested in this book. I think this would probably suit younger children, say, 4th through 6th grade. It's a very charming book, and it reminds me a lo...
A terrible squawking. “The chickens!” said Aunt Sally. They ran outside. Three chickens fussed on the roof of the coop. The others were in the branches of a nearby tree. Tooter saw something move at the top of the hill. A flash of hind legs and tail disappeared into the woods. “Harvey!” she calle...
I didn’t have this problem. There was always exploring, and exploring was best done alone. The Red Hills, the spear field, the tracks, the path, the dumps—all were sectors to be investigated time and again. But usually my route of exploration followed Norristown’s signature waterway: Stony Creek....
His name was Jim. He was a science nut. He won the county science fair two years in a row and went on to MIT. I think he works for NASA now. Jim was always tinkering in his basement. I was welcome, encouraged even, to join him whenever I liked. I would sit on a high stool for hours and just watch...
He put down his brush. “Primrose, are you sure?”She looked down from the roof. “If you ask me that one more time.”“But it feels so weird.”“You’re going to look weird with a white face in about two seconds.”“But who ever heard of a bedroom without windows? You have to have at least one.”“Why? So t...
I couldn’t wait to put the pads on. But first we had business with Webb. Yesterday Mike said to me, “Do you believe we been in school this long and didn’t do anything to him yet?” I nodded. “It’s unbelievable.” “It’s a disgrace.” “We gotta do something.” “Before he starts thinking he’s safe.” “To...