Book+Reviews

Students, as you read this year, offer a review of your book on this "Book Review" wiki space. As you make decisions about what you will read, check out the reviews of your peers for ideas.

(Mrs. Lowder's class)
 * __James and the Giant Peach__** Our class gives this book at least five out of five thumbs up! It is a powerful book. The genre is fantasy. It is a good fantasy book for kids who like imaginary books. It has figurative language, especially similes. We like it very much because it is funny, it makes us laugh, and we can visualize it easily. Roald Dahl has written this strong book that will pull you in and you won't want to stop reading.

__**The Tale of Despereaux**__- It is a five star book and we think it is a very good book and kids who like fantasy will like it. It is a powerful book and Kate DiCamillo did a good job on this book and has very good discription (CA, RO, TC, CM, HB, NG, MS, BE, and LT)

__**The Janitors boy-**__ We all think it is a realistic fiction book and a powerful story. Janitor Boy has a lot of power in it and it is funny. The author makes it very powerful and neat and uses strong endings. He uses so many strategies to make his story better and better. He uses figurative language and he makes it powerful enough that you can visualize it. He makes it possible to visualize it right there and see it like you are right in there. He makes it feel like you are in the boy's shoes. It makes you feel the emotions that he is feeling. (MM, HL, SH, TB, SB, SL, and MK)


 * __Wringer__**-This book is about a kid who doesn't want to be a wringer. He try to not wring the pigeon but he has to. We like the book because it is a good book you can relate to the book because you might be forced to do something. We recommend this book to people who like realistic- fiction books . (MS, AP, LR)


 * __Runaway Ralph-__**We think the book is good,but it could be more funny if Ralph got eaten by a huge kitty cat,pounded or pounced on by a huge kitty cat. The author, Beverly Cleary, uses really powerful words. We think it was really powerful, in general. It was very creative. It was very cool when he left his motorcycle and finally talked to Garf. (BM and DW)

__**Bunnicula**__- Bunnicula is about a bunny that's a vampire that sucks veggie juice. One cause and efect is that they went to a vampire movie and the efect is they found bunnicula. A dog named Harold and a cat named Chester try to stop Bunnicula from sucking the veggie juice(Maybe just Chester).(MK and LR)


 * Bunnicula (**continued)- It all started out when they were at home and soon they went to the movies. When they got into the movie room they went to look for a seat and they got seated and when Toby sat down and sat on a rabbit and then he jumped up to see what was on the seat and it was a bunny and then he said a bunny!! And then they left to go home with the cage in his hands. When they got home his mother told him to take off his shoes because they had mud on them and she just didn't want his wet boots in the house. And then Harold and Chester came to them. Then Toby went to living room to put the bunny cage down on to the ground.(LT)


 * __Everything On a Waffle__**- It is sad because her parents died. Now she has to stay with uncle Jack and her friends are teasing her about her parents being dead. She gets a waffle with everything on it. It has recipes in it so people that like cooking might like this book. (TC)

__**Hatchet**__- This book is about a boy named Brien, he gets stuck on a island that nobody knows about. He gets trapped with all sorts of animals like moose and foolbirds. (DW)

__**The Get Rich Quick Club**__- This book is about how 5 kids try to get $1,00,000,000 by trying to make a U.F.O picture. MORE TO COME

__**How To Steal a Dog**__- written by Barbara O'Connor How to steal a dog is about this family that needs money to by a house so Toby and the sister have a idea to steal a dog so they can get money. They want to still a dog because there plan is to take the dog to a old rotten old house while they pretend to try to look for the dog. Then caramella says that they should put up some banners for the missing dog with a $500 reward amount on it. Then one day the girl gets kind of sad for carmella so she lets the dog go back to caremella and she does not get any money. Later she and Toby go back to the car(were they live) and mama says there moving into a house and they lived happily ever after.

__**The Landry News**__-written by Andrew Clements I think that Mr Larson is really nice now and a really nice teacher. Before Cara came along he was a bad teacher and he did not teach anything He also didn't care about the kids but now he cares about them. I think that he feels happy now and I think that he will teach his class now. I think that now Cara shows some mercy in her paper but in her other schools she didn't show mercy. Mr. Larson has taught Cara to show mercy. Cara has been really bad in her other school because she told the school about other things other people has done and she said it in a mean way and she didn't ask first. In this book a lot of things have changed. I think they have changed because the class has changed. The class feels better about Mr. Larson and they probably like him now. I think everyone has changed that includes the news paper because it has mercy. It also has changed by telling the truth. My reaction of the book is that you need to show kindness to when you are speacking or even writing a news paper. This book has also taught me to be nice to others all the time even if they are mean to you. I love this book because it tells you things about how to express your feelings by writeing and talking to others. I know that you need to be kind to others and they will be nice to you.

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