I think the book the outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a good book because it was one of the books that just caught my attention. I don't usually get into books that often and this one I just didn't want to put down. See in the beginning Ponyboy  was walking home from the theater and he gets jumped from the Socs. His brothers Soda and Darry came with the rest of the Greasers and scared them away but Ponyboy still was cut on his neck and had bruises on his cheek from where they had punched him. Then he had went to the movies with Darry and Johnny and Ponyboy and Johnny met two girls named Cherry and Marcia. Then there boyfriends came and Johnny got scared and so did Ponyboy. So then Johnny went to the vacant lot with Johnny and they fell asleep and when they went home Darry hit Ponyboy and Ponyboy ran away and took Johnny with him then when they got to the park some Socs pulled up in there mustang and went to jump Johnny and Ponyboy but   when they started to drown Ponyboy, Johnny pulled out his switchblade and stabbed one of the Socs and the rest fled. Johnny and Ponyboy went to Dally who was there kid brother who is older then them and they got a gun and money and escaped to Windrixville. They hid in an abandoned church until Dally came and took them to Dairy Queen and when they went back to the church the church was on fire and Ponyboy, Johnny and Dally went and saved some kids that were inside and they saved them but they were burnt. So they were taken to the hospital and Dally and Ponyboy were OK but Johnny's burn were severe and he died. Then Soda took Ponyboy home and they had a rumble with the Socs and they won.
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                 I think Luis would like this book because it is a very catching book.


                                                 Joshuia.D
 

Ranger's Apprentice - The Siege of Macindaw

Castle Macindaw is in danger. Keren has successfully taken the castle and is planning to attack Auldren with the Scotti. Luckily, Will has a group of Skandians, his previous enemies, to help him stop the Scotti general from contacting the others. Once Will recieved the information he needed from the general, he let him go and started to make plans to overtake Macindaw. After planning, Will launched an attack and tried to find his friend, Alyss. Many people died, but in the end the they won. Will, Alyss, and some of the Skandians survived. After their goodbyes they went their separate ways.

I recommend this book to people who like action and adventure. The book is about 296 pages long. It is one of my favorite books.

By Cody, 6th Grade Reader

The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

In James Patterson’s The Angel Experiment, there is a lot of excitement. There are six main characters named: Max, age 14, Iggy, age 14, Nudge, age 11, Fang, age 14, Angel, age 6, The Gasman, or Gazzy for short, age 8,. They call themselves, the Flock. They are all very different in many ways, but they all have one thing in common - each and every one of them has wings. They were born and shortly taken to a lab to be tested and experimented on. All of the scientists treat them very harshly, and they never escape until, Jeb, one of the evil scientists, helped them escape and leaves them on their own, in a house on a hill, near a forest, as a test of their abilities. All of them develop different superpowers throughout the series.

In the beginning of The Angel Experiment, Angel gets taken by an evil breed of animals called, Erasers. They are human, but have the blood of a wolf in them, and can morph into a wolf at any time. The Erasers, led by Ari, Jeb’s son, take Angel back to the lab, where she is put through more tests, such as, seeing how fast she can go through a maze. Meanwhile, the Flock is organizing a plan to get Angel back. They end up deciding to leave Iggy behind, because he is blind, and Gazzy, because he isn't exactly the fastest. On their way to the School, Max sees a girl getting bullied by some boys with guns, so she decides to go help her. Every member of the Flock has superhuman strength and is very tall, so Max ends up defeating the bullies. While she is running away, Max gets clipped by a bullet on her wing, so she can’t fly away. A few hours later, she finds a small house where Ella, the girl that was getting bullied, lives. They end up taking her in for a few days, and are very surprised when they find out that Max has wings. Dr. Martinez, Ella’s mom, takes Max to the veterinary office that she works in, after she finds out that Max has a bullet wound, to get her x-rayed. She then notices a small chip in Max’s arm. Meanwhile, Iggy and Fang are staying in a cave with hawks, worried out of their minds. Since that was their official meeting place, when Max is healed, she finds them. While all of that  has been happening, Iggy and Gazzy are trying to evade the erasers and destroy some of them with bombs. They end up surviving, but some of the erasers do also. Iggy and Gazzy go to the cave and find Max, Nudge, and Fang. They leave to the school and some of the hawks followed. When they get to the school, they save Angel the hawks attack some scientists. They meet back up at the cave and start flying east, when Max has a piercing headache that makes her wings stop working. Fang saves her and they land in the forest below. They start cooking various things on sticks over a fire that they make, when Angel tells Max that she overheard some scientist’s thoughts (Angel can read minds) about this place called the Institute of something. She couldn’t remember what the full name was. Anyways, they were thinking about the Institute and how it held their parent’s names and addresses. They were also thinking about how that certain institute was in New York. They head to New York, where they start looking for it. They find no traces of it, and are sleeping in the subway when Max has another headache, which interferes with a computer, and all the images in Max’s head go on to every computer nearby. The owner of a nearby computer gets mad at Max for interfering with his computer and Max explains what is happening, but he stays mad. Max has a voice in her head that gives her advice, and that voice hints where the Institute of Higher Living is. It is underground in the sewers. It turns out that it has other mutants held in cages, and all of the files for every mutant ever, except for Max. They unlock all of the cages, and the other mutants are free. On their way out, they run into some Erasers. Ari is leading them, and Max kills Ari, causing pandemonium throughout the ranks of Erasers, and escapes above to the streets of New York City.

I think this book was very interesting and exciting. It is amazing that they all end the book alive. There is so much suspense and thrill in The Angel Experiment that I hardly ever put it down. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially previous James Patterson fans and fans of The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. If you like this book, there are seven more books in the series, and you can enjoy the rest too.

By Timothy, 6th Grade Reader

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz is a book about a girl named Dorothy, who was in cyclone, or tornado. Dorothy and her dog, Toto, landed in a strange country, and her house landed on an evil witch. She grabbed the witch’s shoes, not knowing their power. Then, she went with her dog, and set out to meet Oz, the Great and Powerful. While they were heading there, she met a scarecrow who wanted to be smart, a tinman who wanted a heart, and a cowardly lion who wanted courage. When they got there, Oz said that they had to kill the other witch first. Oz, the Great and Powerful, turned out to be a humbug, or trickster. Then, the good witch helped them. Dorothy got back to her family, the scarecrow was the new ruler of Emerald City, the lion was the king of the forest in another city, and the tinman fell in love again, with the same girl he was first in love with when he was made out of flesh.

I thought the Wizard of Oz was a good book. It is different from the movie, though. I liked the scarecrow, because he was brave. It seems like Emerald City sounds like a really cool place, and I would like to go to it someday if it were real. I would recommend this book to people who like classics. That’s why I thought this was a good book.

Summary and review by Lia

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

A boy named Hugo tried to steal a blue windup toy mouse from a toy booth but the old man caught him and took Hugo’s notebook and let Hugo go. As the old man was heading home Hugo was following the old man to his house. As the old man closed the door Hugo picked up a stone and tried to hit the old mans window but accidentally hit the wrong window. The curtains opened and there was a girl looking out the window. But Hugo recognized the girl from the toy booth. When he got back to his house in the walls of a train subway in New York , and sat down and uncovered a mechanical man His father used to work on the robot until he died in a fire. Hugo had always thought that if he fixed the robot , the robot  would write a message from his father. The next morning , Hugo went back to the toy booth. The old man told Hugo if he wanted his notebook back Hugo would have to do daily jobs at the3 booth. While Hugo worked , Hugo stole nuts , screws and bolts so he could be able to fix the robot. One day while Hugo was working at the toy booth , Hugo saw the girl from the window the previous night. She told Hugo to meet her at the library after his work. When Hugo got to the library he saw the girl. While  they were talking the door had opened and the girl seemed to know the person and then the girl introduced Etienne. Etienne said hi Isabelle then Hugo knew what the girls name was. It was Isabelle. When Hugo fixed the robot , he noticed on the back of the mechanical mans back there was a heart shaped key hole. Hugo waited until he saw Isabelle again so he can get the necklace from her so he can see what the mechanical is going to write. Once Hugo got the necklace without Isabelle knowing. While Hugo was slowly putting the necklace key into the keyhole. Suddenly Isabelle came running into his room and Hugo accidentally dropped the key and Isabelle jumped on Hugo and Hugo struggled to get out of her grip. Hugo told Isabelle all about the robot and how long he has been working on it and he can't wait to see the message. Isabelle let him out of his grip and tried turning the key but Hugo told her that there is no ink. So Hugo put some ink into the bottle and then she turned the key and the all of the gears were turning and the hand of the man dipped the pen into the ink and then started putting lines on the paper. Hugo thought that something had gone wrong and then he heard her gasp and ran over to see what she saw. It wasn’t a message. It was a drawing of a moon with a telescope as an eye. They thought that it was done but it dipped the pen back into the ink and the wrote Georges Melies. Then Isabelle said that is her godfather. Isabelle led Hugo to her apartment and let Hugo come in. While they were sitting down , the top of the armoire was open so the girl stood up on a chair and there was a chest and she grabbed the chest and when she had the chest the two front legs of the chair broke and the chest flew out of the arms of the girl and the chest shattered into little pieces and laying on the floor was little drawings. They were all drawn from Georges Melies. Both of them were surprised to see all of the drawings. Papa Georges came in and started whispering no no no no no. He took the projector and went into his room and locked it. Hugo , Isabelle , Etienne , and Monsieur Tabard were hearing a lot of ruckus in the room. Then Hugo told Isabelle to pick the lock and open the door and she did. When Isabelle opened the door they expected a huge mess but all there was was a bed pushed to the side and a desk George was sitting at but looking like a larger version of the mechanical man. Then Hugo went back to his home and unwrapped the mechanical man and carried it back to Isabelles apartment. He took the mechanical man back to the house and then dropped it off and left to the Film Academy library. When he got to the film academy the girl behind the desk said no no you are not coming in. You are too dirty and too small. And you have to be accompanied by an adult. Suddenly Etienne appeared and led Hugo to the film and book room. Hugo saw a picture of a type of god holding a fire ball and shooting light out of his finger. Hugo found the book he was looking for and then told Etienne thank you and left. Once he got to his house , he accidently bumped into the station inspector and got caught. When he woke up , Hugo saw the universe. Then Hugo noticed it was the jacket of Papa Georges. But when he sat up he was in the station inspectors room. Papa Georges told the station inspector that Hugo will live with him and Hugo didn’t have to go to the orphanage. Then the station inspector let them go.

I think this book was amazing. Definitely the best book I have ever read in my entire life. It had a lot of detail.  I love the way it had pictures and words to give me a general idea and  better picture what is going on in the story. The pictures helped me remember the book more than the words. The book was so good that when you try to put the book  you will fall down with it but still be reading it.

  Angelo                 6th grade                  11 years old                       Ms. Bruscas class   

Babe Ruth and Me by Dan Gutman

The book I read was titled Babe Ruth and Me by Dan Guttman.  This book starts off at a kid's baseball game . Then a few days after the game his dad comes over and needs money so he asks if he can have his Babe Ruth card back .  They go on a journey back in time. The dad takes all his savings and they go back. The son wants to see Babe Ruth's famous called shot.  When they go back in time they buy 75 baseballs. Babe Ruth signs them and they go to NY to put a bet on the baseball World Series and they think he's a bookie They go to game four in Chicago with Babe Ruth. They had to go see a sick child that was dying. When they got there Babe Ruth told the kid he would hit a home run for him.  They go back to Chicago. Babe Ruth called his shot. He hit a home run into center field. That is the story that I read.  I suggest this book to Isahia  beacuse he likes baseball.

By Gabe, 6th Grade Reader

Love From Your Friend Hannah

The book I read is called Love From Your Friend, Hannah. Hannah is an 11 year old girl and her best friend is Aggie, but her dog Skippy is really close to second place. She also lives on Route 9W in Grand View, New York. One day Aggie had to move because her father got a job in New Hampshire, but Hannah told Aggie that she would be her pen pal. Hannah was getting mad at Aggie because  she would not write back. So one day at school one of her teacher's desk was a pen pal box and she picked one out and it was a boy named Edward Winchley. Hannah wrote to him a long letter and all he wrote to her was two short sentences. Hannah was mad and she told her dad and he said write to President Roosevelt. She wrote to him about Aggie and Edward. President Roosevelt and he said he was sorry that Aggie did not answer her and also said Edward can’t be that bad. So Hannah wrote to him again and it said she got in trouble because she went to a bar and her mom said young ladies do not go to bars. Then Hannah told her mom and dad because she can’t tell a lie. Hannah wrote to Edward and it said I am in  very big trouble. Edward wrote to Hannah and it said I am in the classroom writing double negative because I used them in my writing. So then Hannah wrote to President Roosevelt and it said I guess you were right about Edward. Edward wrote to Hannah and he told her his cow Mattila was having a baby and the baby name was Hannah jr. Then President Roosevelt wrote to Hannah and he meet a girl that came to the White House to make a clock and she wants to have a pen pal so what do you say Hannah. Than Hannah wrote to him and she told him she has a friend and his name is Edward

I really like this book because of how events go. I would recommend this book to Alexis. Why I would recommend this book to her is because she likes to write letters and read them.

By Hailey, 6th Grade Reader