Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan

In the book “Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Demigod Files” is mostly about 3 different missions Percy went on. The first mission he went on was where this girl named Clarisse the daughter of Ares had a chariot but her brothers stole it from her. So Percy and Clarisse go to New York Harbor and they find Phobos and Deimos “ Ares sons” with the chariot. Percy shot water at him with a wave of his hand because after all he is the the son of Poseidon. He made Phobos and Deimos fly backwards into the ocean water. So Clarisse and Percy got the chariot back. So after that Clarisse took the chariot back to Ares and she told him all about what happened with Phobos and Deimos. The next one was where the camp was playing capture the flag then Beckendorf , the son of Hephaestus ,  saw a huge ant the size of a German Sheppard was dragging a huge bronze dragon head and then beckendorf went after it and the ant shot acid at him he fell to the ground and Percy went to get Selena and Annabeth. So the ants left to get more and to attack the intruder so Percy Annabeth and Selena started to drag the dragons head away from the ant hill. They found a huge crater with the dragons body in it. Annabeth started to try to reattach the wires of the head to the wires on the body so they can get it up and running so they can save Beckondorf. Annabeth got the head attached and the dragon got up and started toward the ant hill and started to blow fire at the hill. A hull bunch of ant were on fire running into the woods. Then it stopped and Percy uncapped riptide witch is his pen that turns into a 3 foot long bronze sword. They started to walk into the ant hill. They found Beckondorf and they got back to camp. Then they were walking in Hollywood and the ground under them disappeared and Nico, Thalia, and Percy fell into the underworld. Standing next to them was Persephone the goddess of spring. She said that she needed their help to find the sword of Hades has gotten stolen. So Percy and his  friends started to look for the sword. They found a man cursing and yelling while moving giant boulders up a mountain so Percy and his friends went to go talk to him. He refused to talk  them and they had to threaten him for him to talk to them. They asked him if he saw a guy with the key shaped sword. He said that he saw a guy with an eye patch carrying the sword of Hades. So Thalia Percy and Nico started to go the way the guy had pointed them to. They found this foggy path with a mountain cave at the end. The man saw him and started to attack. So Percy uncapped riptide and Thalia started to shoot arrows at him while Nico pulled out his sword. Thalia shot two arrows at his shoulders while Percy cut his legs two times each. So he fell to the ground. Nico stabbed him in his heart. They got the sword back. So they took the  Sword back to Hades and Percy made Hades promise not to use the sword against the gods.

Review:

    I really liked this book because of all the action and cool mythology stuff in it. I think that Angelo will like this because he seems like he is very into mythology books. I bet that anyone who reads this book will probably really like this book.

By Josh, 6th Grade Reader

                     

Zombiekins by Kevin Bolger

Stanley and his friend Miranda were walking down the road and the saw a yard sale. Stanley saw a box that said Zombiekins in it and there was a teddy bear in it. He bought it and then the widow appeared and gave them a bag of taffy and she also told him to read the instructions. When he got to a garbage can he took Zombiekins out of his box and threw the box away without reading the instructions. When he got home , he walked into the playroom and saw his little sister Daisy playing tea party with her stuffies. Stanley threw Zombiekins in the toy chest and went to bed. During the night, moonlight shined on the toy chest Zombiekins arose from the depths of the toy chest and climbed out. When it got on its feet, he ripped 3 voice activated stuffies apart. When Stanley got out of bed he found the mess and blamed it on the dog. He took Zombiekins to school and got it taken away and Mr.Baldengrumpy put it on his desk and then he put on a video about space so when the video had a picture of a moon Zombiekins came to life. When Felicity picked it up, Zombiekins bit her and then she turned into a zombie and Zombiekins walked out of the classroom into the hallway. Felicity waited till class was over and at recess bit a lot of sixth graders and they also turned into zombies. Soon the whole school turned into zombies except for Stanley and Miranda. When they were running away from the zombies, they came across the teachers lounge they had no choice but to enter the lounge. The reason why they had no choice but to enter is because the teachers don’t want any kids in the room and the door had a lot of stickers that said get away. They blocked the door with the couch and the chairs and the unstacked home work. When the zombies stopped banging on the door Stanley and Miranda opened the door to see if the zombies were still out there. The zombies were still out there so Stanley and Miranda slammed the door shut and slid the couch in front of the door to stop the zombies from getting in. Unfortunately, the zombies still got in and then Stanley and Miranda started throwing taffy at the zombies. When the zombies bent down and ate the taffy, Stanley and Miranda got a chance to run out the door to run away. When Stanley and Miranda got to the only door that leads to the outside of school they found Zombiekins. Good thing that they had more pieces of taffy to throw at Zombiekins so they threw a piece of taffy at Zombiekins. Then Zombiekins fell asleep and luckily all of the kids that turned into zombies turned back into humans. Stanley captured Zombiekins in his knapsack and took Zombiekins home to put Zombiekins in a metal chest and put it in his closet. Zombiekins never came out again. I think this story was great. One thing that was good is that it had a lot of funny pictures in the book. I like how Stanley and Miranda get trapped by zombies and always find a solution to get away from the zombies. It teaches a lesson to never give up and to face your fears. It gave a lot of detail for each event that happened in the book. I think if he read the instructions the kids wouldn't have turned into zombies and there wouldn't have been a long story. I’m happy that Stanley didn't read the instructions so there would be a story. I recommend this book to Daniel because he loves talking about zombies and acts like a zombie at recess so I think he would love this book. He also plays zombie video games.

By Angelo, 6th Grade Reader

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

The book I read is called Missing May by Cynthia Rylant.The beginning of this book is about a young girl named Summer.Summer's parents died when she was very young, so she got passed around from her family in Ohio. Nobody in Ohio wanted Summer,so when her Aunt May and Uncle Ob came they had lunch with Summer. She didn't want to ask for anything because she was really shy. After that her aunt and uncle knew that she needed someone,so they took her home. Not too long before Summer went home with her new family, her Aunt May died. In the middle of the book her Uncle Ob said that May was there but in some type of spirit form. Cletus,Ob's friend,suggested that they go to a girl who can talk to spirits. Summer thought it was a good idea because the girl they were going to liked bats and so did May. The end of the book is that they found out that the girl died last year around the time May did. Summer cried when an owl flew over because it reminded her of May. Finally,Summer, Cletus,and her uncle Ob sat at the dinner table and drank their coffee. When they were done with their coffee, they took Ob's paintings outside and put them in May's old garden. That was the summary of the book I read called Missing May. I liked this book a lot.I liked this book because it was weird how Ob felt May, but in some type of spirit form. When they wanted May to come back to them, she did not come to them.I also liked that Cletus thought that every time he showed Summer a picture she would want to do a report about the picture. That is why I really liked this book.The person I would recommend this book to is Hailey.I would recommend this book to her because I think she likes books that are realistic fiction. That is why I would recommend this amazing book to Hailey.

 By Alexis, 6th Grade Reader

The City of Ember by:Jeanne DuPrau

The book City of Ember, is about a girl who is 12 and is chosen for Pipesworks. In Ember electricians are constantly fixing the electricity. Ember is well known for its blackouts. The girl's name is Lina Mayfleet and her friends name is Doon Harrow. Lina doesn't like the fact of working in the pipes. Doon however wants Pipesworks because the genarator is located there. They end up swithching jobs and getting in trouble. After a few days Lina finds a box with a docuement that is chewed up. She tries to decypher the docuement. Doon discovered a room in the pipes, but it was locked. The next day Doon tried the door again, it opened inside there was the town mayor sleeping. Around him was a room filled clothes and canned food. Lina also then cracked the code.The code was a way out of the city. A few weeks later they started packing a pillowcase full of essential supplies, and started to head off, but first Doon made a note to the people to know where they went. They take Lina's little sister with them. They reach the pipes and headed by the river. They looked down and they found a door.Inside were candles, matches, paddles, and one boat.They got on the boat and headed off. After 2 hours of riding the boat they come to a stop They spot land they jump off the boat and head towards land. They climb uphill because that is the only direction they can go. After another two hours they reach the top. They decide to walk to a nearby canyon and toss their letter that they wrapped around a rock down the canyon hoping that someone in Ember would find it. I think The City of Ember is a good book. It is a fantastic book for readers that like adventure. I especially loved this book because it is part mystery and part adventure. I did not however like how depressing the city was, another reason it was depressing was because her grandma dies and how the city has no light. That was my summary and review on The City of Ember. By Zoltan, 6th Grade Reader

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverly Cleary

Summary- Basically, what happens in this book is, Ramona is starting the third grade, and she doesn't much like her teacher. She overhears her in the office calling her a neusance, because she cracked what she thought was a hard- boiled egg on her head. She had to go to the nurses office to get it all out. Her family has a bit of problems themselves. Everyday after school, Ramona has to go to Howies's grandmother's house because her mother and father are in work when Ramona gets out of school. Ramona doesn't like having to be at Howie's Grandmother's house because her grand daughter, Willa Jean, always wants to play "Baby" games with Ramona. Beezus is having a problem herself. Beezus is upset because her parents won’t let her go to her friend, Mary Jane's house for a sleepover. Her parents say she comes home way too grouchy. Finally, on this dreadful rainy Saturday afternoon, their dad, Mr. Quimby gets a wonderful idea. He decides to take the whole family out to special dinner. The family likes this idea, and Ramona suggests the family goes to Whopperburger, one of her favorite resteraunt. Once they get to Whopperburger, Ramona starts to get a little annoyed because a man, sitting across the isle, keeps looking over and smiling at her. She just ignored this, but in her head, she was just thinking, how rude! The family ate their dinner happily, and when they were all finally finished, the father says "Check please." and the waitress just sits there in amazement, trying to speak to the family, but with no words coming out. She finally manages to say.. "Well this has never happened before, but your dinner has already been payed for. The family was shocked. Especially Ramona. Then the mother speaks up and says " Wow. It must have been that sweet man sitting across the isle." "Maybe." Says Mr. Quimby. The family walks out of the resturaunt in silence, and they were in a good mood the rest of the day. Review- I really enjoyed this story because it is a really funny book, and it has a ton of wonderful, and incredibly funny characters. I really would advise you to read it, because you would REALLY enjoy it! I also suggest that you read the rest of the Beverly Cleary books. Very good books! -Kiani

Romana Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Summary- Basically, what happens in this book is, Ramona is starting the third grade, and she doesn't much like her teacher. She overhears her in the office calling her a nuisance, because she cracked what she thought was a hard- boiled egg on her head. She had to go to the nurses office to get it all out. Her family has a bit of problems themselves. Everyday after school, Ramona has to go to Howies's grandmother's house because her mother and father are in work when Ramona gets out of school. Ramona doesn't like having to be at Howie's Grandmother's house because her grand daughter, Willa Jean, always wants to play "Baby" games with Ramona. Beezus is having a problem herself. Beezus is upset because her parents won’t let her go to her friend, Mary Jane's house for a sleepover. Her parents say she comes home way too grouchy. Finally, on this dreadful rainy Saturday afternoon, their dad, Mr. Quimby gets a wonderful idea. He decides to take the whole family out to special dinner. The family likes this idea, and Ramona suggests the family goes to Whopperburger, one of her favorite restaurant. Once they get to Whopperburger, Ramona starts to get a little annoyed because a man, sitting across the isle, keeps looking over and smiling at her. She just ignored this, but in her head, she was just thinking, how rude! The family ate their dinner happily, and when they were all finally finished, the father says "Check please." and the waitress just sits there in amazement, trying to speak to the family, but with no words coming out. She finally manages to say.. "Well this has never happened before, but your dinner has already been payed for. The family was shocked. Especially Ramona. Then the mother speaks up and says " Wow. It must have been that sweet man sitting across the isle." "Maybe." Says Mr. Quimby. The family walks out of the restaurant in silence, and they were in a good mood the rest of the day. Review- I really enjoyed this story because it is a really funny book, and it has a ton of wonderful, and incredibly funny characters. I really would advise you to read it, because you would REALLY enjoy it! I also suggest that you read the rest of the Beverly Cleary books. Very good books! By Kiani, The 6th Grader

Advice about family by Diana G. Gallagher

Advice About Family by Diana G. Gallagher is a very good book because it tells you about how can your family can be like,how you can be like when you are with your family.I think it was a good idea when Monica didn't like her stepsister, but she told her mom that she was going to be a good sister,and when Claudia didn't like her cousin, but she took her to the mall. It has a quiz about what would you do with your family or friend. I thought it was a good book if you want to know how your family was in the olden times. It tells you what you will be when you grow up. It also has a test in the book like what would you do with your family. That's all. I hope you like the book. by Karen , 6th grade reader

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS BY LEMONY SNICKET

In this book the Baudelaires are in front of the Last Chance general store. They send a telegram to Mr. Poe, a banker in charge of the Baudelaire fortune. They end up in Hennlich Hospital. There the hospital is only half finished. The children get a job in the library of records. The Baudelaires got to the unfinished half of the hospital to live for a while. There Violet gets captured by Count Olaf's evil girl friend Esme Squalor and is going to try and cut her head off but Klaus and Sunny get Violet and run out of the hospital room. Violet makes an invention and they leave the hospital. But when they are leaving the hospital gets set on fire. Count Olaf gets there with his car to escape and doesn't see the Baudelaires. The three children get in the trunk of his car and Klaus saw 2 bullet holes and tells his siblings that there are bullet holes and if they get in the trunk they will survive because of the holes they will be able to breathe. So they get in the car and it starts moving and they start are leaving. Review I think this was an awesome book. I really liked it because it's a good mystery book. I think that anyone would like this book. 

 By Luis, 6th Grade Reader

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

The book that I read was Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick. The main characters are Kevin also known as Freak, and Maxwell also known as Mighty. They call themselves that because Kevin is very smart but he also has a bad disease where his heart is too big for his body, sadly Kevin is very small. Why they call Maxwell, Mighty is because Maxwell is very tall and not only that he’s tall he also has a learning disability. Both of the boys are in the 9th grade. How the boys meet is when Maxwell was walking down the street and Kevin is trying to get this little toy down from a tree. Maxwell walked up and got the toy down for him. Later on in the book Kevin and Maxwell become best friends forever until Maxwell’s dad known as Killer Kane takes Maxwell into a vacant place and down into the basement. They call the dad Killer Kane because he killed his wife which is Maxwell’s mom. When the dad and Maxwell were in the basement, the dad ties Maxwell and one of the dads friend name Loretta Lee tried to help Maxwell. The dad caught Loretta and almost tried to kill her. When the dad was almost done choking Loretta, Kevin got a water gun and fill it with some chemicals the chemicals were baby powder, water, and vinegar. Then Kevin shot the dad in the face which made him let go of Loretta and made him cover his eyes long enough so that Kevin can fully untie Maxwell. After that Kevin and Maxwell made it out safe and sound. Later on in the week Kevin had his birthday, but when he got his present he got so happy and he had a heart attack. The family took them to the hospital, and Maxwell had to leave. The next day Maxwell went back to the hospital and found out that Kevin had died that same day. Maxwell was heart broken, but before Kevin died he had left Maxwell a book for him to write all of his adventures. One year after Maxwell got the book, he had already filled half of the book.

 I thought this book was very good and sad at the same time. I think this book will be recommended for children in the 4th-6th grade. I thought in the end it was very sad because when Kevin died. Also in the middle of the book I thought it was very sad too, because when Maxwell dad killed his mom and tried to kill his friend Loretta. I really liked this book a lot once I first read it I just couldn't stop reading it. This is my first book that i read by Rodman Philbrick and i think that he is a pretty good book writer.

 By: Llexis, 6th Grade Reader

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS THE SLIPPERY SLOPE by LEMONY SNICKET

This book is about Violet,Klaus,and Sunny the three Baudelaire orphans. In this book Violet and Klaus are in a cavern hurdling down the Mortmont Mountains,but luckily Violet invents something and stops the cavern. Violet and Klaus are looking for a secret headquarters V.F.D,but on there way they get attacked by snowgants and go into a cave for shelter. There they met the snowscouts one of the snow scouts knows about V.F.D. When they reach the headquarters, it's all burnt, it's all ashes. Now Sunny is at the top of the mountain with Count Olaf, an evil man who is trying to steal the Baudelaire fortune. Violet climbs up the mountain with another invention she made to get here sister and leaves, and that is a little bit about this book and the Badelaires,but not a lot. Review I really liked this book. I think that any reader it,but if you like a book with mystery and shocking news you should read this book. A Series of Unfortunate events the Slippery Slope It's a really good book, and its a series so there are a lot of these books. I think that anyone should read this book It's a really good book. BY Luis, 6th Grade Reader

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

In the book "Angels and Demons", the main character, Robert Langdon, is called by CERN, a leading developer of electronics, to help with a case of a dead person. The guy got killed because he was working on top secret technology called anti-matter. If it comes in contact with any element, it explodes. An anti-matter bomb was made and planted inside of Vatican City. The pope got killed by the camerlengo, the pope's son, and soon after he sent an assassin to kill four candidates for becoming pope. The first one gets killed by the assassin from getting shoved into the earth an suffocated from dirt getting shoved into his mouth, which is using earth. The second one gets killed by getting punctured in the lungs, which is getting killed by earth. The third one gets killed by the assassin hanging him by wires and burning him with a big fire. The fourth and final one gets killed by him drowning him in a water fountain. One thing the deaths all had in common was that they were all in front of churches. When Langdon gets back from tracking down all of the deaths, he and the camerlengo find the anti-matter bomb. Then they both go into a helicopter with the anti-matter and fly it up as high as it can go to let it explode. They both jump out of the helicopter, but the pope has a parachute where as Robert doesn't. He lands in water while the pope landed on top of a building. The camerlengo soon commits suicide and a new pope is elected. I think this book was very confusing because at first the camerlengo tries to destroy the city, but then he tries to save the city. The assassin is really crazy because he kills four potential popes for no reason. I really like this book because it is realistic fiction, which is one of my favorite genres. by, Timothy, 6th Grade Reader

Advice about friends By Diana G. Gallsgher

Advice about friends is a very good book.I say it is a good book because it tells you how to be a wonderful friend,and how to make friends.Also how act when your friend moved or is trying to be a popular girl.I thought it was good idea that, when Monica's grandma died, Becca and Claudia did a mini memorial in Claudia's tree house. Also, when Becca had a bad grade in math on fractions, they used pizza and that made her grade go up .Also how it helps you how real friend keep secrets. I think this story is good because it shows you how to be a good friend, and how to save secrets and not tell anybody. Also not just how to be a good friend ,also by telling you how to act when you lose your friend or even when somebody does not like you.Also how to be kind to your friend and to other people. This boos is a good book. It gives you good tips and lots of other good stuff. I really suggest this book! By Mildred, 6th Grade Reader

Ranger's Appretice - The Ruins of Gorlan

The book Rangers Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan is about a boy named Will and how he was not picked for battleschool , but Halt ,the ranger, chose him as his apprentice because of his good qualities. In his training Will wasn't doing so well. He was getting hurt a lot. Eventually he got a lot better. Halt,Will, and the other rangers went on a mission to defend the Morgarath and the Kalkara. Then, when the rangers were at camp, a Kalkara beast approached. Just then Halt pulled out his long bow and shot the Kalkara in the eye , and down the beast went. Then, when they defeated the Morgarath, they went back to the castleb But just then another Kalkara beast started running through town and into the castle. Then Will came out of his house, and then Will shot it in the chest and down it went. The town rejoiced because Will saved the towns life. Reveiw: I liked this book because I thought it was an adventrous book and it was in the midevil times. It was a cool book. I think Timothy would probably like this book because he seems like somebody who would like adventurous and midevil books. Also people who might read this book would probably really like this book because I thought it was a great book. Cody, Chris, and I read these books and we really like these books. By Joshuia, 6th Grade Reader

Savvy by Ingrid Law

Summary

    The book Savvy is a very good book. Savvy is a fiction book written by Ingrid Law. The book is about a girl who has a family with all of these powers. These powers are called a savvy. Her brother can cause hurricanes, their grandpa moves mountains, and another brother creates electricity. Throughout the book she is trying to find her savvy. Her dad ends up in a car accident and is in a hospital. The girl is determined to help her dad and find out what her power is.With the help of two church friends, her two brothers, a bus driver, and a women with a car that broke down she may get there in time.

Review

   I thought this book was really good. It was interesting reading about this girl who has this power to do things. I think the book was one of the best books I've read. I would recommend this book to people who like reading fiction and fantasy books. This is my review about the book Savvy.

The Witchy Worries of Abbie Adams By Rhonda Hayter

This book has to do with magic, adventure, humor, and danger. Abbie Adams is a witch with a brother named Munch who keeps on getting himself in trouble. Her father, who is working on a cure for Witch Flu, which steals a witch's powers, finds a small black kitten that he gives to Abbie, who names the kitten Benjamin. Soon, it turns out that the kitten is actually Thomas Edison, transformed into a kitten by a witch named Dr. March Hall, who wants to take credit for Thomas's inventions. However, Abbie and her family catch Dr. March Hall and send Thomas home.

I really liked this book. It made me laugh a lot, and I enjoyed reading this book. It also has some parts that make you gasp. This book is really hard to stop reading. I highly recommend this book.

By Vashti, 6th Grade Reader