I just finished reading the book When the Butterflies Came. it is about a girl name Tara Doucet. Her grandmother recently passed away. She thinks her grandmother left her something secretive because butterflies starts to follow her around. She finds a note and it was for her from her grandma Claire. Grandma Claire wrote all these letters before her death. When Tara finds out about her grandmothers secret she tells her sister Riley. At the front of the door stood a man. He was the old butler to grandma Claire. In the note Claire told Tara that she trust him because he has been with her for the past years. Tara and Riley has to uncover the rest of the mystery at another island her grandmother told them. They have to travel far where her grandmother lives. When Tara, Riley and the butler arrives they meet a little boy named Eloni. He introduces himself and tells them he worked for Dr.Claire. Then Tara finds out that Eloni knows a lot about Dr.Claire. While they were at the island they saw there cooker Madam Erial See. Tara was watching her because she knew something was fishy. When the letter lead her to a cave with her sister. Butler Reignald finds them and he had a gang. The butler drowned both children for the treasure. Then all of a sudden the cops started to come. They took the man and his gang away. Tara and Riley was relieved that everything was over. Tara opened the treasure chest and it was all about a new butterfly called Nipwipsip. When Tara was on the beach she saw Madam See and Tara ran to her and pulled her hair. It was Grandma Claire! Grandma Claire was spying on Tara and told her she needed to find the mysteries man that tried stealing her science experiment. When everything was over they had a party with Eloni's family.
Pages: 340
Rate: 8/10

Ashlynn Tevyaw

The Mystery at Wolf River 

This book is about a girl named Kate and two boys one is named James and the other is named Bugs. The book starts off with Kate having to watch her younger brother James she didn't want to but she had to. Once her parents left her best friend Bugs came by. Obviously Kate couldn't go anywhere, but Bugs kept on encouraging her to go to the corn fields which were next to wolf river. After a while she agreed and said she will go, but she had to take James. When they get there James goes away from the two older children and goes by Wolf River. While he is by Wolf River he sees a dog drowning, and a man running away from the river. He tells the older children, but by the time they saved the dog they didn't get to see the man. Once Kate and James were home she confessed to her mom that see went to wolf river with James. This got her angry because they weren't supposed to leave the house at all. A couple days later Kate hears that her neighbor Andy Wallace who just inherited the Roberts mansion has gone missing.Kate and Bugs try and figure out what is going on they found out the following clues Andy Wallace has medical problems and dog they found is a hearing dog. One day James starts acting weird. At first Kate doesn't care, but then she gets into a fight with Bugs and realizes she actually does care. Kate now tries to follow James to the mysterious places without being caught, but that fails and she looks away from James for one minute and loses him. One night James wakes Kate up because there was a huge fire coming from the Roberts mansion. This woke up everyone in the neighborhood including Kate's family. Everyone ran outside, but when Kate's family gets outside James is gone. Kate goes right out to look for him she ends up finding him in the woods with Andy Wallace. What actually happened to Andy was when he was at the inn the levee on Wolf River broke, but someone came up behind him and tried killing him. He ended up escaping and came back here, but James was the one who was helping him because the hearing dog was gone. So when he saw the fire he had to check on Andy to make sure he wasn't hurt. That is the end of this mysterious book.

  - Ashlynn Tevyaw     

The Winners Walk Janelle

The Winner's Walk is about a kid named Case who never won anything. Everyone else in his family won things and got in the paper. Case really wanted to win something. He thought he had a good chance at winning the talent show but something happened. He was juggling to a song on the piano and he lost track of one of the balls and it flew onto the piano players head. The show went on but he knew that he wouldn't win. He ended up getting second place. The next thing he tried to win was a horse race. He sat on the horse while he told it to jump and do his commands. A dog went on the course and the horse got scared and Case flew off. He broke his arm and couldn't compete for a while.  On his way back to his house he found a dog. He wanted to keep it but he knew his mom would say no. His mom said he could keep it as long as he tries to find the owner and he keeps it outside. He named the dog Noah. Case made flyers to try and find the owner. He hoped that someone wouldn't call to claim the dog. Case tried something new where he would walk beside Noah and tell him what to do to get through the horse. It's just like the horse racing but he is not on the dog. Case entered a competition and won! He got in the paper and everything! He was so happy. It turned out that the owner of Noah saw it in the newspaper and called. The man described the dog perfectly. Noah was a service dog that was stolen and ran away. The person that needed the dog got a new dog but Case still felt guilty. He wanted someone else to have a dog because hundreds of people who needed a service dog have been waiting for a long time. Case ended up sending Noah away so someone who needed him could have him.

Janelle Mixner

Dork Diaries 5 LF

I just finished a book called Dork Diaries 5. This book was about how Nikki's school newspaper needed new ideas for columns. Her and Mackenzie both volunteered for the advice column. Nikki got the spot and Mackenzie was okay because she got the fashion column. Nikki got to be apart of the newspaper with her friends and Brandon. Her friends decided they would put boxes out, so people could put their problems in there. Nikki tried to answer all their problems. Nikki also got invited to Brandon's birthday party. Mackenzie was not invited and she was very mad. She tried to crash it, but luckily she got embarrassed and left. Nikki and Brandon had fun once Mackenzie left. And after the party Brandon asked Nikki if she wanted to go to Crazy Burger. Of course, she said yes and once news spread to Mackenzie, she was ready to rip Nikki's head off. This book has 321 pages in it.

~Lindsay Flanders 

The Hunger Games

This is the book I read. The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in one of the thirteen districts run by the Capitol, with each district representing something. There was a TV event created called the Hunger Games, where two people (one boy and one girl) from each of the twelve districts would fight to the death to remind the districts that they shouldn't try to rebel against the Capitol. Before the games, to pick the male and female contestants, names get put into a glass ball and one is picked . On the day of the Reaping, which is what they call the day the contestants are picked for the Hunger Games, Katniss's sister, Primrose, is picked, and she volunteers to take her sister's place in the hunger Games. The male contestant was Peeta Mellark. During the interviews that happened before the games, Peeta admits that he has a crush on Katniss, and that sets a tone for their stylist, Cinna. He presents them with all black clothing with flames that are fake streaming off the back of the clothes. Katniss and Peeta get the nickname the "Star Crossed Lovers". Over the course of the games, many of the contestants die at the hands the pack of contestants called the "Careers" and in the middle of the games, a rule is added that the male and female contestants from each district can form a  team, so there could be two winners. In the end, Katniss and Peeta manage to take out the last contestant left and they are the only two left. The rule about there being two winners is taken away, and Katniss notices that Peeta is too injured to fight, so she comes up with a plan where they would both swallow berries that would kill them both so there wouldn't be any winners, but just before they swallow the berries, the rule about the two winners is put back into play, and District 12 wins their third Hunger Games. When they get back from  the battlefield, Haymitch (the only other District 12 winner that is still alive) tells Katniss that the Capitol didn't find that whole "stunt" very amusing, and that they think it might spark a rebellion, so now Katniss has to be careful. This book has 374 pages in it.

By:

John Mixner

Azael Alvarez

I just finished reading this entertaining and cool book.  This book was about a stunt kid named Johnny that works for someone named Ricky Corvette.  But Johnny does not like him.  Johnny was inspired to be a stunt kid when his dad was one they used to be stunt competitions but one day his dad was doing a stunt for a movie and he died while doing the stunt.  His mom wants him to stop being a stunt kid.  He also has to follow a lot of strict rules so he can not get hurt out side of the stunt.  But he gets paid about $1,200 for one stunt or something like that.  He has jumped off the  Empire State Building and many more things.  Johnny is not allowed to say that he is working for Ricky because he wants them to think that he does the stunts on his own.  He says that it is hard to keep it quiet that he is a stunt man in school.  He can not hang out after school because he has to film.


                                           Pages: 148          

Dork Diaries 3 LF

I just finished this book called Dork Diaries 3. This book is about how Nikki's school has a band battle. Of course, Mackenzie entered and Nikki made a band up of a few of her friends. They practiced and practiced. Mackenzie didn't like that Nikki was in the competition. The winners of the battle were t receive a performance on 15 Minutes of Fame. Trevor Chase the biggest name in music was the judge. In the end Mackenzie won, only because the competition was for amateurs only. Trevor thought they were so good he gave them an offer for a record deal. Mackenzie was even more irritated than before and now Nikki and Mackenzie were even bigger enemies. Nikki's band was just so happy they couldn't breath.  This book has 310 pages.

~Lindsay Flanders