The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm

Tendai, Rita and Kuda are the kids of General Matsika, Zimbabwe's chief of security. Tendai is said to be soft by his father because he hates fighting and others' pain. Kuda is different, he loves fighting. Rita is really good with Math. Another character is the Mellower, whose real name is Anthony. His job is to settle down the General and give praises to the family. Tendai, Rita, and Kuda want to explore the city and get their badges, so the Mellower tricks their parent's by letting them go with a signed form. Their first stop is Mbare Musika, a food market. While they are there, they get kidnapped by two people called, Fist and Knife. They are the helpers of the She Elephant. They are kept as slaves for a long time, but they soon find a way to escape. They escape to a place with the trash man called, Resthaven. Meanwhile, their parents find out, and get detectives, The Ear, The Eye and The Arm, to look for them. The detectives go to the She Elephant's place, but they are not there. They continue trying to look for them. While the kids are at Resthaven, they are accepted and cannot leave. They soon, however, get accused of witchcraft, and are banned from Resthaven. Then, they go to the Mellowers mother's house where she waits to get a reward for them. The She Elephant soon goes there and steals the children to give to the Masks, a bad gang. Will the detectives find them in time?

I like this book because it is about detectives, adventures, and crimes. People who enjoy exciting adventure and detective books will like The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm.

by P-Hawk

Hoot

Roy has just moved from Montana to Florida. He is on the bus. While he was looking out the window, he saw a boy. It looked like just an ordinary boy. A boy that was running to catch the bus. There were just a few things that weren't right though. When he was running, he had no backpack. He also had no shoes. And the oddest thing of all: When the boy Reached the bus, he just went right past it. Roy was very curious. He tries to Chase after him the next day. He couldn't because he was also facing a bully named Dana Matherson. Dana clamped his damp, meaty hands over Roy's throat. Roy was struggling to get air; he blindly swung his fist. Then, Roy felt his hand hit something.... Dana Matherson's nose! Apparently, Roy broke Dana's nose. At the same time, there is a crime done at the new Mother Paula's Pancake House. Roy wonders if the running boy, Dana, and the crime would all tie together somehow.

I liked this book because it was very exciting. From the cover, it seems very boring. It's actually very interesting! I liked it because there are two mysteries that are tied together. I would highly recommend this book

-Sebreena Zalam

Meg's story is about a girl who is 13 years old she has 3 other sisters named Jo,Beth,and Amy.Meg's parents aren't the richest people around in fact they pretty much are really poor.Jo is selfish but Meg has to learn how to live with her.Beth is really caring she loves the outdoors and doesn't like it when people are sad.Amy is the shyest of them all she always wants another doll to play with; she is also the youngest of the group!Meg is my favorite not just because she has the same name as me but because i love how she holds all of her sisters together because without Meg Jo,Beth,and Amy would be fighting all the time!

Meg sometimes feels unappreciated because she feels like its always up to her to do the right thing when she thinks her sisters should amke the right decision for themselves.Jo says Meg is just over reacting but in my opinion i agree with Meg!Beth always trys to do stuff on her own but sometimes it hard because she is still very young and its hard for her to go to her mom for advice because her mom is always busy with something and her dad is always at work!Amy is the youngest and she will always need someone to look up to;and Meg does not want that person to be Jo because she just doesn't think her sister has the responsible side.So Meg has to be in charge but the part that i love about this book is they stick together like glue!!!

So go ahead and read this book i loved and so will you!

By:Megan

Revenge of the Wannabes

This book is part of The Clique series. The author is Lisa Harrison. This is a very good book.I probably recommend this for anyone 8 and older.

This book is about 4 girls who are BFFLs ( Massie, Kirstin , Dylan, and Alicia). When Alicia and Olivia cheat in the costume contest Massie trys to give Alicia every revenge she can think of. It went from bad to WORSE! While Massie is trying to give Alicia revenge, Alicia trys to act like she doesn't care, and she tryed to start her own Clique. When really they both care. On the other hand Claire has a new boyfriend and this problem with Alicia. Sooner or later they will become friends, but it happens in the weirds way. You'll have to read it to find out.


By: Kaleigh

The Great Sockathon

The Great Sockathon is about four girls Sabrina, Megan, Connie, and Daisy. They all are looking foreword to carefree summer before sixth grade. To relax and do what ever they want. Then Sabrina thinks she hears a ghost girl talking to her. this girl died a long time ago. This ghost girl is desperate for help. The town is going to cut down a famous tree. It's dying, but very special to her...... actually she haunts it! The girls think of how to save the tree and they make up a sockathon. This fundraiser is when people donate socks to link around the town. They also donate money. Do you think this fundraiser will be a success?
The Great Sockathon is a really good book. This book is told in four different pionts of view, Sabrina's, Megan's, Connie's, and Daisy's. This book is different then most books. It's a book about sticking together, trust, and sticking to what you have begun. I really loved this book.

By: Hannah

THE END

The End is the last book of the Series of Unfotunate Events. It is the thirteenth book in the series. This book is about three orphans named Sunny,Klaus, and Violet. After they burn down the last safe place of V.F.D. they take a boat from the pool up on the roof and make a chut from the hotel roof and the ocean. Count Olaf their ex guardin (after their mother and father die in a terrible fire caused by Count Olaf) Count Olaf also wants the orpahns fortune that their parents left behind when they died. While out at sea with the orphans and meany Count Olaf, a bad storm comes. It wrecks their boat. When the storm was over all four of them ended up on a island, but it wasnt like any other island it was a coastal shelf. A coastal shelf is where some point in time everything will end up on this island. Then a little girl came named Friday. She asked the orphans to come with her, but not Count Olaf because Count Olaf was saying, "Welcome to Olaf land! Bow down to your rightful king ME or else i will shoot you with this harpoon gun!' Friday did nothing, but walk away with the three orphans.Friday told Ishamel ( the head leader) about Count Olaf. Later on, the islanders went storm scavenging, wich means to look for useful items. When they came back to Ishamel what they found he kept saying, " you can keep it , but it might make people scared or you might rock the boat, but if it were me i would through it in the abtroueum. Later ib, another storm comes, so they go storm scavenging. Klaus, Sunny, and Violet all see a big cube of books and a foot in pain. It was Kit Snicket. Kit Snicket is pregnat right now. Count Olaf came out looking like Kit Snicket by putting on a sun dress, using seaweed, and a diving helment that has a very deadly fungus in it to look pregnat. No one was fooled because they all knew it was Count Olaf with another one of his unsuccessful shichisms. The islanders lock him up in a bird cage, but Count Olaf to Ishamel that sunny had a wisk, and Violet had a ribbon in her pocket, and Klaus had his common place notebook. Ishamel said if you want to stay with us you have to give up those belongings, but they refused. Ishamel also refused to let Kit Snicket join the islanders. Later on in the night two islanders made a promise that they would bring them cordial and food every night and morning if they helped them make a weapon for a upcoming munity. When they go to the abtroueum....... I can't tell what happens next becuase this is when it starts to get really exciting you'll just have to find out for yourself! Their is more than just going to the abtroueum, rember the fungus, Count Olad, Kit Snicket, Ishamel, and the islanders. Their is even a little true love in it!

I recomend this book 100 %. I love the series and so will you, but you will have to read the first book to get the last book and all the books before this one. Their is also a movie on it about the first three books that can give you an idea on what you might be reading. The author is so mysterious and a good writer to! I hope you read this book and the whole series too!

By: Brooke

Lost and Found

This book is about twin brothers, Jay and Ray. They moved from Colorado to Ohio and they start going to a new school called Taft Elementary School. The first day Ray is sick so he doesn't go to school. When Jay is in class he notices that they don't say Ray's name off the attendance list. Jay figures that it's just a mix up. Then he looks at the list and there is no Ray Grayson the list. So he goes home to Ray with a plan. The plan is that they switch off being Jay. That means one guy goes to school and the other stays home. Will this plan work or blow up in their face?

I liked this book a lot. It's by one of my favorite authors Andrew Clements. It's a great story it was so much fun to read. I think everyone should read it. It was AWESOME!
By: Tori

Travel Team

There is a twelve year old kid named Danny Walker. He is talking to his mom because he did not make the Middletown travel team. Then his dad, Rich Walker comes to town. He played for the Golden State Warriors. He was an amazing basketball player till he got into a car crash that almost killed him. Rich decides to make a travel team of his own. The Middletown Warriors. Then they won their first game and they went to celebrate, but his dad gets into another car crash. He survived. Then the big day came. They face the Middletown Vikings, in the Tri-Valley championship. Can they beat the Vikings with Danny as their coach?

Travel Team is an amazing book. I would recommend this book to people who like books with amazing endings and gets you cheering all the way till the end. The author of this book is Mike Lupica.

By: Ryan

Best Friends for Never

Massie, Alica, Dylan, Kristen and Claire are becoming good friends, but one thing they have to get is uniforms.Massie was very mad about that because she loves fashion and jewelry, and picking out her own clothes.But the principal is willing to let the girls at OCD have a contest. The contest is two girls run together and make the uniform and then everyone picks the uniform they like. So Massie and Claire run together and Alica and her friend Olivia run together.But Alica and Olivia won but they cheated.If you want to know how they cheated then read Best Friends for Never.

I loved this book so much it was funny, exciting, interesting ,a little sad, but very good I would even love to read it again.

By, Caroline

Point Blank

Point Blank is the second book in the Stormbreaker series. It is all about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider. Alex just finished his first mission Stormbreaker. He is behind on homework, and it is bugging him that he can't tell his friends why he was actually not at school. He admits that he misses doing spy work. One afternoon though, Mr.Crawley comes and takes him to M16, they have another mission for him. Recently, Michael J. Roscoe and Viktor Ivanov have died from freak accidents. They both have sons attending Point Blanc. [ By the way, Point Blank is actually spelled Point Blanc]. Point Blanc is a place for very rich kids who act very bad and their parents don't want them anymore. Anyways, Alan Blunt has a suspicion that both their deaths have some link to Point Blanc. M16 is sending Alex in to see if this is true. If it's not true, they'll bring Alex right back. From the start, Alex knew there was something wrong, but he could never figure it out. The kids start to act strange. His new best friend James Sprintz starts to change. Will Alex find out what is wrong? Most importantly, will Alex find the link to the two deaths?
Point Blank was amazing! It was so good that when I looked at the book, I immediately had to read it. This book has an ending that you would never expect. I recommend this book for people who like exciting and fun to read books. If you like Stormbreaker, you will love Point Blank! Jonathan

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm is about General Matsika's three children get kidnapped. The General is the general of security of Zimbabwe in the year of 2194. He can't find the children, so he hires detectives called the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. The children are captured and they have to work as slaves in a plastic mine. They escape and go to Resthaven with a guy named trashman. Resthaven is a country that is a lot different than Zimbabwe, because it doesn't have the technology that Zimbabwe does. They also escape from there because they find out that the people living there are very mean. They take the subway to Barrowdale because the mellower's mom lives there (the mellower is the generals person that calms him down). They find out that she is working with the mellower to get a reward for whoever finds the three children. So she keeps them ans waits for the general to offer a reward.

This book is interesting and has parts where you can't put it down. it is very action packed and has some parts that are hard to understand. But I would still recommend it to anyone that wants to read a good book.

By: Will

Alice In Wonderland

Alice in wonderland is about a girl named Alice who is with her sister when she sees a rabbit hopping by. Alice follows the rabbit into a strange rabbit whole like no other. She fallows the rabbit into the whole and she finds herself falling a great distance. After a while, she finally lands with a thud! Alice starts exploring when she finds a bottle that says "DRINK ME."She decided to drink it, when she shrunk down to nine inches. She decides to explore again, now that she was the same height as the others. She finds a little house with a little man sitting outside. They start to talk, when a plate gets thrown out the window. Alice walks inside to see what was wrong, when she fins to guys and a little dormouse. The first guy, Hatter, said to Alice that she should really meet the Queen. So Alice decides to go meet the Queen, when she meets a cat like no other. This cat could disappear and reappear in a different place.The cat led Alice to the Queen, where she was playing croquet. The Queen was like no other Queen, because if you do or say one thing wrong, she would chop your head off! The Queen told Alice that she should go see the mock turtle, to hear his tale. The mock turtle started to tell Alice his tale, when he thought he should teach Alice a new dance. To find out what the tale was, to find out if Alice ever got home, you have to read Alice In Wonderland!

If you want to read a different book for a change, this would be the book! My favorite character was the strange cat, because it would really cool to disappear and reappear! You could sneak up on your friends, and scare them! The cat could slowly disappear,so your head could be where people can see it, but your body would be gone! If you read this book I am sure you will like the book and the cat as much as I did!This book is by Lewis Carroll.
Samantha

No Talking

This book is about a boy named Dave and a girl named Lynsey. Dave thinks girls talk way more than boys but Lynsey thinks boys talk way more than girls. They decide to have a contest to see who talks the most, boys or girls in the 5th grade. The contest would last for two days. Soon the whole 5th grade knew about the contest. The rules were you can't talk to teachers unless they ask you a question but you must respond in three words or less, you are not allowed to talk at home, and every extra word you use would count against you. Dave would keep track of the boys mistakes and Lynsey would keep track of the girls. When the contest started it was going fine except the teachers were getting suspicious because the 5th grade was know for talking and if they just stop talking every one notices. the three word answers were getting annoying to the teachers they thought it disrupted their classes. The principal did not like this game at all she thought it was better for them to talk. She called a meeting right before lunch with the 5th grade. She told them it must be put to an end. At lunch they were still not talking so she was mad. Soon Dave got called to the office. When he got there the principal was not mad at all she was happy. Dave did not understand what was going on. The principal had turned out to like the no talking thing so she only called Dave to her office to say thank you. In the end it ended as a tie.

I really like this book. I have always like Andrew Clements books for soon reason they just entertain me. it was like you were in the story and a part of no talking. The only thing is you kind of know whats going to happen next sometimes. I hope you read this book.

by Kate

The Magician's Nephew

The Magician's Nephew is the first book of the Chronicles of Narnia series. It is about a girl named Polly, a boy named Digory, and their Uncle Andrew. Polly and Digory go into Uncle Andrew's, and he tricked Polly into taking a yellow ring and she vanished. Digory went to go save her and brought a yellow ring and two green rings to take them home. When Digory got to where Polly was, they decided to go to another world. That world was Charn.
In Charn, Digory woke up Jadis the evil witch and she followed them all the way home. Digory and Polly had to stop Jadis from doing evil things in their world. Uncle Andrew became her servant. Digoy and Polly stopped Jadis and brought her Uncle Andrew, Cabby , and his horse. They accidently take her to a new world, which they call Narnia. They met all the animals and their leader Aslan, the lion. Jadis got away in that world and they never found her. Cabby and his wife became the King and Queen of Narnia, and Digory's mother became better and they moved somewhere new. Polly still lives where she was and goes to visit Digory in the summer.
I like this book because I liked reading about all the animals they saw. I would recommened this book to people who believe in magic and think any thing is possible!
by: Madison L

Eragon

This story is mainly about a boy who is hunting food then all of a sudden a big light comes out of now where and a little blue rock comes out of the light and lands on a leaf Eragon goes to pick up the rock to see what it was. He just picks it up and shakes it to see what it was even though it was a rock he thought it would sell for a big price of money. Eragon is very poor his family is poor and never once have they had enough money to buy food so he tried to sell the rock but no one would buy it. So he went to a merchant to see how much the rock was worth and the merchants weight carrier broke right in front of him the merchant quickly grabbed the rock to see how much it weighed it weighed less than 1 pound. Then strange things start happening like empire soldiers coming into Carnvahall and these strange beasts come in called ra`zac and in the other book you will find out what these animal beast things are. Then at night the rock starts moving then a crack appears on the rock then the rock hatches into a dragon. The rock was actually an egg a rare dragon egg the only people who owned dragons were the riders they failed a long time ago like 300 years ago. But then Eragon had to make a name for the blue female dragon. Her name is now Saphira.

Doesn`t this book sound so cool I bet you, you want to read this book just like I did and I recommend this for 4th grade and up. One other sequel to this book is Eldest is when Eragon

is planing to destroy the empire and take the other two dragon eggs so the dragons will be freed not a pet. Here is a picture of the book (up left corner the first one).

BY:JUSTIN