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Rating 10*	Review by Ryan M. Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter Do you think that your cat would ever survive in the wild? Warriors: Into the Wild is about a cat named Rusty. He goes into the woods, and another cat is spying on him. Then that other cat attacks Rusty. Rusty defends himself, and the cat stops trying to kill him, and says he is pretty tough for a kitty pet. He explains that there are a lot of cats living in the wild, and there are four clans. He is a Thunder Clan cat. Then three more wild cats come out to talk to Rusty, the leader of the clan, the deputy, and a warrior. They say Rusty should join the clan, so he does. I recommend this book to 5th and 6th graders. This book is the first in the "Warriors" series of six books. I'm already on the third. This is the best book I ever read. I love this book, because it is suspenseful. When I stop reading, I want to keep reading. You should read it.		Review by: Jordyn Neil Armstrong is my Uncle & Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino This book is about a girl named Tamera. Across the street from her lives a woman who takes in foster children. Kebsie was a foster child who lived there, and Tamera and she became best friends. But when Kebsie moved away to live with her family, a new boy Doug moved in. Doug lied to everyone and Tamera was the only one who realized it. But when she got to know Doug she found out that he lied because something traumatic happened to him. What do you think happened to Doug and what would you do if your best friend moved away?
Rating 10 *	Review by Jordyn The Window by Jeanette Ingold This suspenseful book is about a 15 year old girl who is blind, but can still see. Mandy and her mother were driving to find her grandmother when they got in a crash. Mandy lost her sight and her mom lost her life. Mandy goes to live with her great aunt and uncles. This book is about how Mandy makes friends and lives, even though she is blind. She has a special gift. When she looks out the window she can see things from before she was even born. I recommend this book to 5th and 6th graders. I like this book, because it is a very odd book, and the girl has a special gift. I give this book 10/10 stars.		Review by Nicole Franny Parker by Hannah Roberts McKinnon This was my favorite book out of all the DCF books I've read. This book is about a girl who lives next to a house that has been empty for years. Then one day a woman named Lindy Dunn and her son Lucas move in. Franny and Lucas become best friends that summer, but then a man in a black car comes up into the Dunn's drive way one day. When Franny rides her bike up, he drives away. The next day she tells Lucas, and then he runs into his house saying something like, "why didn't you tell me sooner?" A few days later, she sees the man again at the fair and asks him, "What were you doing in the Dunn's driveway the other day?" Then he replied with "Oh so I was at the right house." Then he disappeared, but Franny doesn't see Lindy or Lucas for many days after that, until one day when Lucas came out and sat with her on her porch. When he gets up suddenly she sees bruises going all up his arm. Later Lucas ends up going out on his bike and not coming back...but Franny knows Lucas is still out there. Read this book to find out what is going on with Lucas and his mom.
Rating 9*	Review by Andrea Small Steps by Peg Kehret I like the book Small Steps byPeg Kehret, because it is a book that gets you caught in the moment with the obstacles that Peg has gone through. Small Steps is an autobiography about the author when she was a 7th grade girl who mysteriously falls down, soon to be diagnosed with polio. She went to a hospital and was put into an iron lung and had physical therapy. She thought there could be nothing worse than this, but then she makes some true friends who also have polio and realizes everything is going to be ok. But, there still are some difficult changes, like leaving her friends. It took some time, but she soon learned to accept her new life style, like re-learning how to walk, getting used to only having visits with her family, and getting used to therapy. I rate this book 9 stars. Would you be able to handle something as awful as polio?		Review by Marley Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is about a young girl called Minli who tries to look on the bright side of her poor fortune, but it's just not working. I'm not going to give the story away, but she meets a man one day who is carrying vibrant colored goldfish. With a swift leap to her house she snatches HALF of her family's money which she got when she was a little baby to buy a fish. Her parents were very unhappy with her. The goldfish is magic. The goldfish tells her how to get to the man on the moon who has a large book of the past, present, and future, just as her father told her about in his fairy tales. But this one just happens to be true. Minli's wish has worked! What would you do if a magic goldfish talked to you and gave you one wish? What would you wish for? In the book, Minli ventured out to find the man on the moon all by herself. Would you do what Minli did?
Rating 10 *	Review by Dakota Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne How long could you last at sea with gods and goddesses angry at you? This is what happens to Odysseus in the book Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne. Odysseus is a Greek man who fights in the Trojan War. Then he tries to get back home with his men on a ship, but he did not thank the godess Athena. She is angry, and he runs into trouble. He runs into monsters and gods and goddesses. The monsters eat all of his men on his ship. Odysseus becomes a broken man. On his way home, he finds out how his family is doing. This story is a Greek myth. I recommend this book for 5th and 6th graders. I like this book, because I love Greek myths and action. Kids that like action would like this book.		Review by Stephanie Faith, Hope , and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The book Faith, Hope, and Ivy June is about two girls who live in Kentucky. One of them is very poor and doesn't even live with her mom and dad, and one of the girls lives in a richer family. The poor one, Ivy June, is going to the other girl Catherine's house to learn about her life style, and doesn't know how she is going to like it, because there isn't even a blow dryer and other things like that at her house. So, she is kind of nervous! After, they will switch and Catherine will stay at Ivy June's house.
Rating 10*	Review by Austin The BFG by Roald Dahl The BFG by Roald Dahl is a fantasy book, because there is magic in it. The characters are the BFG who is "the Big Friendly Giant", and Sophie. The story takes place in England. It is about a little girl named Sophie, and she gets taken by the BFG because she saw him. The BFG took her, because she would tell people about him, and there are other giants that eat people. He didn't want to get captured. (If you were taken by a giant, would you be scared, or would you tell someone?) I think that 3rd grade and up would like this book, especially kids who like fantasy books. I give this book a rating of 10 out of 10 stars. I loved the book, because there is a lot of excitement. My favorite character is the BFG, because he is the only giant that is smaller than the other giants, is magical, and he does not eat people.		Review by Nicole We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings In this book, a gopher snake gets captured by a rude and mean boy named Gunnar. The gopher snake is holding on for dear life on Gunnar's arm before she gets put in a terrarium. She is squeezing Gunnar hard, so Gunnar names her Crusher. Gunnar and his friends argue about whether or not Crusher is a girl or not. Only one boy who doesn't like the fact that Gunnar is keeping animals hostage realizes she is a girl snake. Gunnar also has a tarantula, lizard, tortoise and now Crusher. Crusher doesn't want to be captured, but Gunnar won't let her out of the terrarium until he thinks that Crusher is tame. Crusher acts tame, but she actually isn't. She is just trying to act tame so she can escape. At one point Gunnar tries to give Crusher a live mouse so he can watch Crusher eat it. Gunnar says something like "Here's Breakfast." Crusher does not eat breakfast, instead she makes friends with breakfast. Breakfast and Crusher become good friends. At one point Crusher and Breakfast even do tricks! I loved this book! It was a fun and enthusiastic book to read and I think anyone that reads this book would like it. Does Crusher escape or doesn't she, and what would you do if you were a gopher snake?! :D
Rating 9 1/2*	Review by Dustin Roar by Emma Clayton Can you make your clothes float in mid-air? Can you make a boulder explode by looking at it? If you were a character in Roar by Emma Clayton you could. The setting of this book is the future in London behind a high concrete wall away from the "animal plague." The genre is futuristic fiction. The main characters are Mika, Ellie, their mom and dad, and Mika's friend Aubrey. Roar is about Mika's family living in future London behind a giant 50 foot wall. Students have something called "Fit Mix" drink and they start going to a place called "Fit Camp" where they have to play a simulator pod fighter. Mika plays it and is very good with his friend Aubrey as the gunner. There is a competition for the game, and Mika and Aubrey go and win the first round. In the second round they have to take down another pod and not get hit by one. The one they had to hunt down was their friend, but they won. Then they realize that if they concentrate they can move things with their minds and do some other cool things too. I recommend this book to 4-6 graders. I rate this book 9 1/2 stars. I loved this book because it was very well put together. I like the part when Ellie's pet bites a person's ear off!	?	Your review could be here... What book do you love that you want to tell others about? Let me know. -Mrs. Goraj
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