The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben Winters is about a girl named Bethesda. Her class is assigned a special project: Solve a mystery in your life. Bethesda is already positive she is going to do it on their drab […]
Continue reading »Tag: 7th grade
The Anybodies Series
The Anybodies, The Nobodies, and The Somebodies by N. E. Bode are about a girl named Fern, who was switched at birth without her or her parents knowing until she was 11. When her real father finds her, she discovers […]
Continue reading »Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders
Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders by Kevin Sylvester is about a boy named Neil, a 14-year-old wonder-chef. He is one of the best chefs in the world, all because of one talent he was born with: an […]
Continue reading »Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham is about a boy named Theo. His parents are lawyers, and he plans to be one too. He knows every judge and police man in his small town, and people from his school come ask […]
Continue reading »The Hunger Games
Ok, there has been a lot of controversy on these books, especially now that the movie just came out last week, so I decided I should tell what I think about them. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is […]
Continue reading »The Candymakers
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass is about four kids who go into a competition to make the best new candy. Logan is the Candymaker’s son. He has lived in the candy factory since he was a baby and can detect the kind of chocolate by […]
Continue reading »School of Fear
School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari is about four kids with fears that are overpowering their lives. Madeline is deathly afraid of bugs and spiders. Lulu is afraid of small spaces. Garrison is afraid of water if there is anymore than a […]
Continue reading »H.I.V.E.
H.I.V.E., The Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden is about a boy named Otto. He has always been a little different from other kids, but never really noticed because he was too busy making his orphanage a better place. One day, he […]
Continue reading »Betsy-Tacy
The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace is about a girl named Betsy who lives in the early 1900s. In the first book, Betsy is five years old. One day, a new family moves in across the street. The family […]
Continue reading »Percy Jackson
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is about a boy named Percy whose father had been supposedly lost at sea. This book is the first out of five in the series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the first […]
Continue reading »