Perfect Girl by Mary Hogan is about ninth-grader Ruthie Bayer who lives in Odessa, Delaware and falls in love with her best friend Perry. They have been friends since they were born because they live next door to each other. Ruthie doesn’t have a father (that she knows of), has two best friends, and a gorgeous aunt she’s only seen twice. While Ruthie is in love with Perry, a perfect girl moves to her school and Perry starts to fall in love with her. With Ruthie’s competition her heart has sank and she doesn’t have any confidence. During her no-confidence time, she calls her aunt from New York to help her. Though she knows she is never to speak to her aunt because her mom hates her, she calls anyway. You see, her aunt is the Goddess of Love in the New York magazine, Fabrique. Ruthie ends up inviting her aunt over and her mom gets furious. Worst of all, Mr. Arther, a man who lives on the third floor of Ruthie’s house died and everyone is extremely upset. So many conflicts are going on, Perry, her mom’s anger, and Mr. Arthur. Ruthie tries to deal with everything but, it is falling apart. She turns to her aunt for help but, something terrible happens.
This was an amazing book. It was 6 points and an excellent realistic fiction story. Enjoy! :]

*Heather C.*

This book is about two friends Tara*star and Elizabeth. Tara* star is “kidnapped” by her “charents”, or child like parents, and is forced to move away from her best friend in the world, Elizabeth. This book consits of letters for Tara*star to Elizabeth and from Elizabeth to Tara*star. Through the letters they talk to each other about what is going on in their lives. Elizabeth is super rich and is becoming poor because her dad lost his job, they have no savings, and their credit cards are maxed out. Yet, still Elizabeth’s dad is buying things because he does not want anyone to know that they are becoming poor. Tara*star was poor and is now becoming better off. Her young parents that she is used to taking care of get jobs. Then shocking news, Tara*star’s parents are having a baby and Elizabeth’s dad leaves her family and won’t call or write to them. How will each girl deal with their problems?

In this book the authors act as each of the girls and neither of the authours knew what was going to happen next in the story. I just found out that they made a sequal called Snail Mai No More. I can’t wait to read it!!!

Maranda W.

This book is about a boy named Greg who is in middle school. Greg has a wacky life because of his brother Rodrick. For example his brother Rodrick locked him into the girls bathroom in his grandfather’ s condo. Another wacky thing that happened was when Greg’s parents went out of town Rodrick through a party for all of his friends. Also there was a time when Greg joined the swim team and Greg hated it. The pool was always cold. However Greg found a way to get around it: every time the swim class started, Greg would ask his coach if he could go to the restroom and the coach would say yes. Then Greg would go to the restroom and stay there until the class was over. If you want to know if there are any more crazy situations you are going to have to read the book Diary of a Whimpy Kid#2 Rodrick Rules. I think this book would appeal to boys and girls because it is a humorous book.

By: Lauren W

This story is about a lovable boy named Joey, and his adorable Chihauhua, Pablo. Every day, Joey has to take a patch and put it on his arm. He needs the drugs so he doesn’t “get crazy”. He only wants to be a normal boy. His parents divorced and Joey now lives with his mother who works at a salon. Joey’s dad had problems with taking drugs and drinking too much beer. However, Joey told his mom he wants to visit dad, even though he has problems. Mom was not comfortable with this idea.

But, mother drove Joey to Dad’s. Dad lived with his mom, who also has serious drug issuess. She is always wheezing, and has to have an oxygen tank. Joey loved being with his dad, they went to story book land, played baseball, and much more. Every once in a while joey would call mom. Of course, like every child with divorced parents, Joey wanted his parents together. He eventually finds out it won’t work out. Dad purposely got rid of all of Joey’s medicine packets. And Dad made Joey promise not to tell his mom about anything they are doing. Joey is scared, and he wants to go home.

Blogged by: Sophia R

The book i read is Tangerine by Edward Bloor. I really enjoyed this book! In this book there is a kid named Paul that loves playing soccer. He is moving from Houston, Texas to Tangerine Florida. He really wants to try out for the soccer team. The only problem is he has something wrong with his eyes. Some people think he is blind but he is not. He has a brother named Erik. Erik gets in a lot of trouble. Some times Erik and his friend Arthuer do really mean stuff to Paul.  Erik likes playing football and his dad really likes watching Erik play. Erik playing football and his dad really likes watching Erik play. One time when Paul was at school a sink hole formed inside the school. So Paul and his best friend Joey helped a lot of people get out of the sick whole. No one died or got hurt that bad. The sink hole destroyed the school so a lot of people had to transfer schools. The new school they went to was even worst. There was a lot of bullies there. Also there was one good thing, Paul made the soccer team and his soccer team ended up winning the champion ship! After that Paul started getting in a lot of trouble and ended up getting expelled from the school. If you want to figure out why Paul got expelled, and what Paul did in order to get his eyes messed up, and also what Erik has done bad and if he gets caught. Read Tangerine by Edward Bloor.

By: Jack S.

              I read the book The Boy Next Door. The main characters are Taryn and Jeff. They are both best friends and both neighboors. Taryn and Jeff are both starting sixth grade in middle school so starting a new school was going to be hard for them. The first day of school was not smooth but not rough, they had to sign and read a lot of papers. During the first week of school Taryn volunteers to help with the school carnival and Jeff tries out for the soccer team with a bunch of seventh and eighth graders. Taryn has two other best friends, there names are Leslie and Cristina all three of there nicknames are TLC or Tender Loving Care.  One day of school Taryn and L and C starting talking about boys they said who they liked and then they said Taryn should start dating Jeff. Taryn said NO WAY but she was still thinking about it. Later on in the story Taryn and Jeff get into a big fight about Jeff calling Taryn names about her glasses, about Jeff not coming to a book signing with Taryn, and becouse taryn wouldn’t show up at Jeff’s first scrimage. But if you want to find out if they become friends again and stay friends you have to read the book The Boy Next Door by Laura Dower. In a rating from 1-10, 10 being the biggest I would give this book a 9. ENJOY THE BOOK!

      Blogged by : Sarah L. 🙂

This Marley book was absolutely thrilling! It’s about a dog obviously named Marley.  Marley had brothers and sisters and lived with a lady named Lori. Lori had a full grown lab who had babies. She was a proud mama .John and Jenny Grogan wanted one of those dogs, but they didn’t know which one. Marley was a discount dog because well… OK I’ll come strait out and say it HE was dumb! His feet were way to big for him and there was something funny about they way he walked. Well, they took him out of all of them. they brought him home and made a bed for him out of a cardboard box. When Marley was old enough they signed him up for an obedience class were Marley loved to sniff other dogs and their owners. The instructor then kicked them out of class.Marley went on so many adventures like when he got asked to be in a movie ( which by the way turned out pretty weird) and like the time he pulled the table across some ways to get to a poodle! I would tell you more but it would blow the ending for you ! I highly recommend it for boys and girls! It is so funny!

Ione G.

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The book starts with Hazel, her brother Ned, and Frankie. Hazel wakes up to find that she, once again, had the horrible that she is held captive in at tower. After she has this dream, something bad always happens to her. This time Colin, her dad who is a famous painter, sudenly disappears. Frankie lives across the hall and is babysitting them for the time. She doesn’t know where their dad is either. Later, two scary men threaten Frankie, saying she owes them one of the paintings. Then Ned’s and Hazels apartment gets robbed by the two same men who obviously have the keys to their house. Frankie has to fly somewhere for the day but is stuck at the airport on her way back. Hazel knows this is bad, so they move in with their cousins and Uncle they didn’t even know existed until a mysterious email on their dad’s file. They then only realize there is no way to escape this journey-the two men know a way into their cousin’s house.

After help from the cousins and Ned’s latest gadgets, they think they know what has happened.

Read to find out more!!!

-Sophia R.

This is a book about a boy named Greg Heffley, in 7th grade. Greg has a best friend name Rowley and two brothers, Manny and Rodrick. Rodrick is a teenager and Manny is just a kid about 3 or 4 years old. Greg has a CRAZY life involving a pretty girl named Holly Hills that Greg is always trying to impress, a mean soccer coach, a dad that wants to send Greg to military school, and brothers that always want to get Greg in trouble. When Greg’s dad realizes that shipping a kid to military school really shapes a kid up, Greg starts to worry because Greg’s dad WANTS TO PUT GREG IN A MILITARY SCHOOL!! In order to not go to military school, Greg has to get in shape, but first he wants to impress Holly Hills, a pretty girl in Greg’s class. One day Greg gets invited to a sleepover with his friend Rowley at another kid’s house. Greg was excited but he gets more excited when he finds out that Holly lives on the same street with the kids that invited Rowley and Greg over. Greg was planning to spy on Holly and her friends at the sleepover, but the night that he goes into the house where he is going to sleepover, he finds out that there were a bunch of little kids there. HE GOT INVITED TO A KIDS SLEEPOVER!!  Greg was not happy and then he finds out that he will be unable to go to spy on Holly and her friends. Anyway, Greg still has to get in shape in order to not attend military school. Oh yeah, did I mention that the military school takes place during SUMMER VACTION?!?!?! Greg’s dad decides to sign Greg up for soccer. Greg goes to soccer practice and gets put in with a REALLY mean coach. Greg’s team won the 1st game of the season and they went to go out to celebrate, but Greg’s dad couldn’t drive him home because he did not have the time so he asked the coach to drive him home. It ended up to be a total DISASTER! The coach had to stop at 5 stores, then he drove Greg home and Greg had to wait like an hour. During the 2nd game of the season he did not even get to play and it was FREEZING outside. He was wearing a t-shirt and shorts. Greg’s life is falling apart so he is probably is going to be sent to military school and he is not doing a good job of impressing Holly either. If you want to find out if Greg goes to military school or if he is ever going to make a good impression on Holly Hills, you have to read this book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney. I think this book is good for boys and girls and it is the best book I have ever read. I could not put the book down for a second. I finished this book in 1 day. I hope you read this book also.

David G.

    In this book there are four 12-year old Callahan cousins, Neeve, Phoebe, Kate, and Hillary. In the beginning of the story Hillary’s parents are almost divorced. Hillary is sad but realizes since she is 12 now she gets to go to Grandma Gee’s place with her 3 other cousins for the summer. When Hillary arrives she is depressed and doesn’t feel like a Callahan cousin. But when she sees her cousins she begins to feel like a real Callahan. Later in the book Hillary remembers to tell the 3 cousins that she wanted to carry on the flag planting that her dad and his brothers did with the Bickets, a family who lives in town, when they spent the summer with Grandma Gee. The flag planting was a challenge to see who could win Gull Island. Kate and Phoebe were not too thrilled about it but Neeve was. Finally all of the cousins were happy about the plan. To find out who wins Gull Island, which is where the flag is going to stand, read the book The Callahan Cousins: Summer Begins by Elizabeth Doyle Carey. My favorite part of the book was the conclusion because it was surprising.  I would rate this book 9 out of 10 because of the adventure at the end. I would recommend this book to mostly girls. I hope that whoever reads this book enjoys it.

Claire P.