Jack Sparrow The Coming Storm is about a boy named Jack. Jack was a pirate himself and a teenager. In the book they have lots of adventures and I’m going to tell you some of them. In the begining of the book the only thing Jack really wants to do is find the sword of Cortes. So he tries. The sword has the most power ever and you can do practically anything with it. On his way he runs into a girl named Arabella and Jack tells her that he is going to try to find the sword of cortes. Arabella was shocked. She could not believe he was going to do that. Since Arabella knew that that was really dangerous she asked him if she could go with her since she was a pirate herself. Jack didn’t want to be caught dead with a girl, but he tought he might need help. Later on in the book while they got their ship ready, there was a boy coming their way he saw them getting ready and he wanted to go with them Jack let him. His name was Fitzwilliam or Fitz for short. He was dressed up all nice with new clothing and very expensive materials. Their ship was the “Buccaneer.” When they were of and ready to sail they started their long journey. In the middle of sailing there there was a terrible storm and they almost got blown away! When they were tired enough they almost gave up but then they saw and island. They were very exited to see that when they got to the island they found two people, they were bays and they were nice. Their names were Tuman and Jean. Jack thought he would never find the Sword of Cortes. He asked Jean and Tumen and Jack expected the answer of a island very far away from were they were. Then they said this is the island. Jack could not believe what he had said. In a couple of days they went to go look for the Sword of Cortes. They found a lot of skulls and weird clues leading to the sword. They found a key along the way and brought it with them thinking it was important. When they came to a hallow place under the King’s bed the king had ruled a long time ago. Jack lifted up the bed and the key was useful afterall. There was a lock blocking the hallow room. Jack opened the room inside and all of the crew looked inside they were all amazed. If you want to find out if it was the Sword of Cortes or if it was something else exiting. To find out YOU have to read the book Jack Sparrow The Coming Storm. I think I would rate this book a 10 out of 10!

Thora isn’t your normal girl-she has purple scales on her feet and a blowhole on her head. Yes, she’s half mermaid and half human.

Her gorgeous mermaid mother, Halla, married a man named Thor. But Thor disappeared before Thora could be born. So, Thora stays in a boat called the Loki, and there is a hole at the bottom for Halla to periodically check on Thora, since Halla has to be in water of course. The legend says “a half mermaid child must live 10 yrs. on land and 10 yrs. in water to be free”.A man named Mr. Walters discovers the baby Thora in the Loki and helped Halla raise Thora- he was practically her father. But when it was time for Mr. Walters to take Thora to live her 10 years on land things start to fall apart. Frooty de Mare, a snobby, rich man that wants to own the Loki is trying to get back at Thora to get the Loki. He owns many hotels and shops, and he wants the Loki just to be able to say he owns everything in Grimli. Meanwhile, Mr. Walters has to go across the world to the funeral for his brother. Since Thora is old enough, she will be left at Grimli for that short time.But when Frooty de Mare makes a new cinema with a “big surprise” on the opening night, Thora and her friends know something’s up. Holly de Mare, Thora’s bff, tries to get back Thora’s beautiful mermaid mother from Frooty de Mare. He captured her and put her in a tank as the “big surprise”.

Will Thora and Holly be able to get back Halla? Can Thora live the legend to be free? Read the book to find out!

This book, obviously, would be better for girls!

-Sophia R.

The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley is about to girls named Sabrina and Daphne Grimm(as you already know) . This time it takes place in New York City! This time Puck got hurt. So, they go to New York City.In New York City there’s a secret land of Farie . There they find a remedy to cure Puck. Then all of a sudden the king , Orbeon, gets killed and its up to Sabrina to find out who killed him and why? On the way Sabrina and her sister find out a secrets about there mother. Will they find out who killed the king ? Will Sabrina quit her detective work? Will Puck ever get out of his stinky cocoon? Find out in The Sisters Grimm book 4.

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Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson is about a girl named Mia who has to move from England to Brazil. Mia has to live with Mr.Carter, her Uncle, who collects glass eyes, Mrs.Carter, her aunt, who is obsessed with cleanliness, and her two twin cousins Beatrice & Gwendolyn who are arrogant. On her trip to Brazil Mia met Miss Minton, the Carters’ new governess. She also met a young actor named Clovis and promised to see his show in Manaus, the town nearest to where the Carters live. Mia became good friends with Miss Minton and Miss Minton becomes good friends with her. The Carters have Indians as servants and Mia becomes good friends with them. One day Mia meets an Indian/English boy named Finn and becomes great friends with him. Two men from England come looking for Finn to take him to England to inherit Westwood because his father and uncle had died and only boys can inherit Westwood. Finn doesn’t want to inherit Westwood and tries to escape to the Xanti Indians. I think that this story girls would like better. If I rated it 1-10 I’d give it a 9.

-Morgan R.

This book takes place in a farm and the main characters, T.P. and Mocha are both dogs and T.P. does not like Mocha because he is to annoying. When T.P. wakes up he is very suspicious because he finds many different sounds in the morning. T.P. sees that his kid owner Jeff is going to the door and answers it. T.P. finds that there is a big box in the middle of the porch and the box was making very different noises. Jeff comes in with the box and opens it. Out comes a dark brown little puppy bouncing all over the place. T.P. was amazed and so was Jeff’s parent. Jeff and his parents only agreed to have the little pup until their owners were back from vacation. The owner was Jeff’s friend. They named the little puppy Mocha. Mocha drives T.P. CRAZY because Mocha keeps on asking questions. T.P. set a rule that Mocha can only ask 3 questions at a time. Everything was going fine until Jeff, Jeff’s friend (Mocha’s owner), Mocha, and T.P. went for a walk. T.P. went by the lake for a walk until he found a goose. All of a sudden the goose starts attacking T.P. because he was by the gooses eggs. T.P. manages to escape and he goes by Jeff, Jeff’s friend, and Mocha. They all go by where T.P. was attacked and Jeff’s friend throws a ball in the lake. T.P. was shocked and Mocha goes running after it. The same goose that attacked T.P., attacked Mocha! The goose was starting to drown Mocha. Will Mocha survive? Will T.P. save Mocha? If you want to know, read this book, Goosed. I think this book will appeal to boys and girls. The book is only 125 pages long and did not take me long to read. This books vocabulary is not hard either. This book is fantasy because the animals talk. Bill Wallace is one of my favorite authors because he often writes animal books and I love animals. I recommend this book to whoever likes animals.

David G.

The SistersGrimm by Michael Buckley is an awesome book. It’s the 3 book in the series.   Its about a girl named Sabrina and Daphne.  In this story they fight a girl named LITTLE  RED RIDING HOOD except thet she turned evil! And pet ” kitty ” is  a BIG SCALY MONSTER!!! Other than that her Uncle decided to show up and get them into trouble like almost getting eaten by a giant hermit crab or freaky chicken witches but it’s  a normal day for Sabrina Grimm. All she can think about is getting her  parents back!! and … and… well I’ll  leave that up to U to find out!! Its an awesome book and I hope you read it!!

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Fantasy

– Jamie A.

This book is all about convincing Ivy’s dad not to move to Europe. The girls also found out who their parents are their dad is Karl Lazar and their mom is well she died when they were born. The girls do many things and face many obstacles to do this. The first thing they do is make a presentation of what is bad about Europe and good about Franklin Grove. Well that didn’t work a bit. Next they tried finding the perfect girl for Mr. Vega and that just made him want to move to Europe even more because she was saying stuff that was great in Europe. Then they just kept on trying to figure out stuff to convince him to stay. Well who is this Karl Lazar and what happened to him? Read this book to find out.

Saliha H.

The BFG, by Roald Dahl, is about a girl named Sophie who gets stolen out of her bed at night and whisked off to giant country, which is also known as The Land of Nod. Once she is in The Land of Nod, she learns that the giant who stole her has the name of the BFG. After tasting repulsive snozzcumbers, and whizzpopping with frobscrottle, she learns that there are nine other giants who go off every night to eat people alive. Do Sophie and the BFG find a way to stop the other giants? Who do they meet along the way? To find out, read the book, The BFG.

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Carina D.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, by Roald Dahl, is the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In this book, Charlie goes on his greatest adventure yet! Charlie, Mr. Wonka, and the rest of Charlie’s family return for a ride up into space on a glass elevator. There he discovers a hotel in space called the U.S. Space Hotel and 3 astronauts by the names of Shuckworth, Shanks, and Showler. That believes that the great glass elevator is a bomb that will destroy the U.S. Space Hotel. But there’s more! Charlie and the gang battle the evil Vermicious Knids, and save the world, but from what? What else is there to be aware of? Read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator to find out!

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Cynthia P.