Smile Raina Telgemeier

Smile is the first book in the Smile graphic novel series. The book is written by Raina Telgemeier, who is also the main character in the series. The story starts off with Raina going to the dentist and being told she needs braces. After, Rainas mom drives her to her girl scouts meeting and the story flashes to an hour later. The troop leader takes Raina and some of her other friends from scouts to Rainas house to drop her off. But, when racing to the porch Raina attempts to grab Kelli's jacket hood but falls face first to the ground.
 Her one of her front teeth get knocked out. The other gets pushed up into her gums. Raina's mom is unaware of this though and rushes her daughter home along with the tooth. Her mother calls the dentists office, get an appointment for that night, put the tooth in milk, and drive to the dentists. They give her laugh gas and pull the tooth down and the other back into place. Raina wakes up in her home with a cast on her teeth to keep them the teeth in place.
 Raina stays home from school on the first day and heads back on the next. When back at school everyone wonders how she got her two front teeth all messed up. After awhile Raina gets the cast off and it turns out her two front teeth are up even HIGHER than her others. She goes to girl scouts and shows her friends her teeth. She says how she was worried that it made her look six when another girl pointed out that her ponytails make her look six. For the rest of the story Raina is not seen wearing ponytails.
 The phrase "Smile!" is seen multiple times in the story which is how it got its name. Raina Telgemier goes over her story very well in graphic novel form and goes over all the challenges she faced such as boy confusion, earth quakes, and even dental drama.
                                                                     Julia Bock

Ashlynn Tevyaw

      Rump the True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
I have just finished reading Rump. Rump  is a book about a boy who's mother and father who  died before he was born. He knows nothing about his family and he lives with his grandmother in a village with no name . Everyday he has to go up to the mountain with many other people and mine for gold. The miller was the one who had to give out food to people depending on how much gold they find. He  had two sons who where rude to Rump because of his name and a daughter who does not come into the story   until later. There are also pixies who LOVE gold. Rump wants to know his real name . He has just discovered he can spin straw into gold, the king finds  rump holding gold in front of the millers house so the miller said his daughter opal spun the gold . Rump than goes to  on a journey to find any of his relatives. On his journey he encounters trolls, his three aunts, and a magical tree. Which  then his only friend  Red  gets captured by the miller. He then bribes rump with his friend's safety. In order to save her he has spin the gold for Opal . In that process he figures out his real name Rumpelstiltskin. After he spins all the gold he goes  outside and gathers all the pixies nests and wakes them up while in the castle because of that everyone got there attention off them and they were able to escape. I give this book a five star rating .                                  -Ashlynn Tevyaw

Regular Show

Regular Show is the book that I just finished reading and my thoughts on it are that the book is great but not for little kids because the way the characters act and what they say sometimes .
First were going to start of with the two main characters witch are Mordecai  and Rigby . So when they do chores they always do the boring things so when their boss Bencyon tells them to go do something or get something they mess it up or don`t get it done.Skips is a smart guy and when there is a problem he finds a way out of it also he is very strong. Muscle Man and High Five Ghost are always getting people mad and tell jokes all the time also when something is boring they try to get it more entertaining . Pops is a strange guy and very old school .
Those are my thoughts on the book hope you enjoy reading it.


By: Azael Alvarez

I just finished the book Superfudge written by Judy Blume.  The main characters  are Peter and Fudge. The story starts of when Peter was sitting with his parents having breakfast.His Parents said we have exciting news to tell you. So they both said ''we are having a baby''. After that they said in four more moths.  Then fudge heard their having a baby fudge asked how are baby's are made.Two days after that peter said that his mom got him a book on how baby's are  made. After fudge read the book he went around everywhere telling everybody how baby`s are made.  Then once the baby was born peter was annoyed  because every night the baby would not stop crying so  he could not sleep. After a couple weeks it was time for school. So on the first day of school fudge was in kindergarten and peter was in six grade. Not even one hour into school the principle called down peter and he thought he was in trouble but they brought him to fudges classroom. Peter walked into fudges classroom and fudge was on the cab nit. Peter said ''what are you doing" and fudge said "my teacher won't call me fudge." So the principle said why don't we switch your classroom to the other kindergarten classroom. So they switch fudge and he licked that classroom better. So after the school day Peter and fudge went home. When they got home their mom was burping their baby brother. After a while Peter started to get  jellious   of the baby because he was getting all the attention.I recommend this book i give it a 7 star rated. it had 178 pages.                                                                                By: Austin kilduff

I just finished reading Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo -Boxers by Dave Pilkey. The two main characters are George and Harold. The story starts of with George and Harold were turned into evil zombie nerds. Then Tippy Tinkle Trousers  made a time machine so he could go back in time. As tippy tried to get George and Harold  they ran into the library and ran up the stairs as their mean principle chased them. George and Harold luckily  got in the time machine and went 65 million years ago. So Tippy transported himself to 65 million years ago. When tippy finally got there he saw them up in a tree,so he started to kick the tree down. Then when captain Underpants tried to Destroy tippy, tippy dropped a bomb that had a 45 seconds  on it till it exploded. Then the bomb blew up but everyone was gone so no one was near it. But when captain underpants tried to stop tippy he tied him to rock. Then tippy saw George and Harold in a near by a cave peoples village. So tippy stomped right threw and destroyed everything in his way.The cave people survived tippys destruction  so George and Harold made a comic for them to show how mean tippy is. After that the cave people came with plans to take down tippy. They started the plans tippy got tripped and covered in mud. After he fell in mud,they pushed bolder`s of a cliff and on his head. After torturing  tippy they thought he was done but he came back and took his big beam and froze everything. Then captain underpants  got free and  saved everyone and destroyed tippy.By: Austin Kilduff

Dork Diaries 7 Tales from a Not So Glam TV Star

The book I just read is called "Dork Diaries 7 Tales  from a Not So Glam TV Star"  The protagonist is Nikki Maxwell and the antagonist is Mackenzie Hollister. Nikki and her band are working on getting a record deal with Trevor Chase, the biggest guy in the music business. So Nikki and her best friends Chloe and Zoey go to the concert for Trevor's hottest band Bad Boyz, to discuss a record deal. Now Mackenzie stole Nikki's backstage passes, pretended she was Nikki and made a deal with Trevor. Luckily, Nikki got there and got Trevor to make a deal with her instead of Mackenzie. Then after the deal was made, Nikki got her own reality T.V. show for just eight episodes. Nikki had a hard time balancing all of it and on top of that Mackenzie was her choreographer. She promised to help her friend Brandon, but she could never fit him in. Luckily she made time and he was able to stay at her school. I rate this book at five stars because it is so funny and a great book to read.

           By: Lindsay Flanders

Once Upon a Marigold

I just finished the book "Once Upon a Marigold." The main characters are Christian, Marigold, and Edric. In the beginning of the story Christian starts of as a little boy. He runs away from his royal family and found Edric in the forest because that is where he lives in a cave in the forest. Christian told Edric the story about his family never listen to him and always makes him wear a tux everyday and how they ignore him. Edric told him he is going to take him back to his family, but then Christian threaten him if he did it he would tell them that Edric took him as hostage and he was trying to get the reward from the royal family. Edric did as he was told. After a couple of years later Christian become a teenager and watched Edric get old and took care of him. every day of Christian's life he would look look around and explored with his telescope and see bakers baking food, the three triplet princess have a wedding on the same day and watch them get married, the youngest sister named Marigold reading inside her castle near her father. As he watches everyday of his life he realizes that no one goes near Marigold or touches her besides her father. One day Christian couldn't take it anymore and he had to write to the princess. So he sent her a letter asking what book was she reading. she answer back a economics book and he sent back I've read that book before. Now everyday Christian and the princess Marigold would wright letters to each other and ask question's like Christian where do u live, can you see me how many books have you read, what is your real name? When the day's go by Edric told Christian he needed to explore the world and he felt bad about locking him away from the world, so he sent Christian to get a job and explore the world. After he said that to Christian he said if Id ont hear from you in the month I'm coming to get you. So, Christian went to the castle to get a job. when he went to the castle they gave him a job as a servant. He saw Marigold, but she didn't recognize him she knew she have seen him somewhere. One day Christian dropped food in front of Marigold by accident and Marigold tried helping him and she accidentally touched him and she read his thoughts. When Christian was finished picking up the food he walked away and Marigold followed him and she said your the boy, your the boy who has been sending those notes. He said yes and I came here to see you. She knew she liked him, but she had to marry a prince and she never knew Christian was a prince nor himself. One day her evil mother Olympia forced her to marry almost every prince she could fine, but Marigold turned them all down. Her mother got mad and tried to make her marry her father's nephew. Olympia planned the wedding invited her three triplet daughter's to their youngest sister's wedding and they came with their king [which they married their prince and now their queens] for the wedding. When Olympia found out that Marigold liked Christian she put him in the dungeon and Marigold told him she will come back and save him and he said I'll be waiting. Marigold told him the only way I can leave his horrible place is that I wish I can fly. When she told Christian this he tried making an invention that flew. Christian escaped the dungeon and flew to Marigold and said take my hand and we can leave together. Olympia yelled out kill him! Then one person stoke a bow an arrow threw his heart and said to Marigold I wish I was the one you married and then said I love you. Marigold called for a doctor and said no no your going to be okay and we will get married when you heal. Marigold took the arrow out of his heart and said your going to heal, and he did he once she took it out his chest was glowing and healing. Once he healed he said would you marry me and she said I'm going to marry you even if your aren't a prince. But he was. Once Edric told them that Christian was a prince she hugged hugged him and kissed him and said i do.
I'd give this book a rating ten out of ten because it super cute and amazing. The book had two-hundred seventy one pages.
                                                         By: Seasia Kong

Dork Diaries Tales From a NOT-SO Glam TV Star by: Seasia Kong

I just finished reading the book "Dork Diaries Tales From a NOT-SO Glam TV Star" The main character is Nikki Maxwell. the antagonist is Makenzie Hollister. In the beginning of the story Nikki made up a band named "I'm not sure yet" and her band has her two best friends Chloe and Zoey, also their boyfriends are Marcus and Theo, and of course Nikki's crush Brandon is in the band. When Makenzie found out that Nikki's band got a record deal and got to play in their own show she got mad and tried to sabotage the band. Makenzie tried sabotaging it by saying spoiler alert Brandon wants to break up with Nikki in the next episode and in real life. As soon as Nikki heard that she was crying her eyes out, but Brandon didn't know what was happening. So, the very next episode Brandon said I'm breaking up with you Nikki. After all that crying Nikki cried even more when she was recording for her new song for the band. Brandon came by the studio to say hi how was everything and Nikki stopped crying and said everything is fine go away, Brandon got confused and asked what happened and Nikki said I know you want to break up with me so just say it now while I'm crying already. Brandon was so confused he didn't know what to say and said who told you that. Nikki said the whole school was talking about it. when Brandon said that he never wanted to break up they knew Makenzie had her name written all over it. Then after all the crying they both made up. Makenzie found out they were still together and almost made her band break apart. She asked the record deal person if she can dance in their next video and teach them some dance moves and he said yes. Nikki was so excited to meet her dancer for the next video, once she talked to the dance teacher she turned around and saw Makenzie talking on the phone just like her and said hi sweetie I'll be your dance teacher tootles! Nikki told the band about this and told the record deal person about not liking the dance teacher so he fired her. Since, Brandon is part of the newspaper club he needed something juicy for his story so he waited. It was Winter break and Nikki went to a skiing place with her family and Makenzie went to the same skiing place just like Nikki, also Brandon came too. there was this skiing tournament for extreme skiing people so Nikki entered the tournament and so did Makenzie. Makenzie aced the tournament but Nikki beat her. When Brandon heard that Nikki one he did an interview about her win in the skiing tournament and she made front page for the article and Makenzie got upset. Finally at the ending of the book winter break ended and the band did a charity for kids. Than Nikki's crush Brandon went into her line and donated five dollars and gave Nikki a kiss! I'd rate this book ten out of ten it was fantastic! the number of pages were three-hundred and twenty.
                                                                  By: Seasia Kong

This book is called Jedi Academy it is about  a boy named Roan Novachez. He realy wants to become a star pilot like is Dad and brother.But he soon gets a letter from the pilot school saying he was not accepted.So he thinks he will go to plant school like his mom but soon gets a letter saying he has been accepted to Jedi Academy.But he feels though he wont be like all the other kids there.Soon he was worried because he didn't even apply there! A week later and a ship landed in a landing plat form for schools of all kind.In the morning he goes to the ship boards it and leaves his planet Tatooine to go to Coarscaunt.When he arrives he is very nervous and doesn't know his way around that is when he meets Pasha.Pasha helps him around and talks to Roan and that is how Pasha becomes Roans first friend.Until other kids come and meets him and Pasha.There names are Bill and Egon but Roan sees a girl that he likes very much.He is always nervous around her.Later in the year he has trouble doing the force and he tries many times.The end of the year comes and he passes all of his exams but he is nervous about his force exams.They had to do something very unique but when it is Roans turn,he had to lift a boulder so he closes his eyes and tries one last time and he heard everybody say "wow" so Roan opened his eyes and sees all 4 boulders high in the air and it turns out Roan got a B- and everybody in the school left on the last day and Roan left the school with a smile. He looked in his bag full of papers and reads the school notices and to his luck they will be doing fling simulaters for next year and Roan got even more happy.I loved this book and there are three of them i don't recomend them but you could still read them even though there are problaby a 5th or 4th grade reading level.

       

My Life as a Stunt boy blog  By: Teighan Jeremy

 The name of the book I read is called " My life as a Stunt boy." The authors name is Janet Tashjian, The book has 256 pages. The story is about a boy named Derek whose a stunt devil and likes to do tricks with his friend named Matt. One day there was a guy named Tony who was an actor for a movie and sees what Derek is doing and says "you have some real talent kid, you want to come shoot a scene for Tanya Billings." Derek says yes and after that Derek had some trouble with his friend Matt whose jealous of Derek. At the end Derek and Matt make up and becomes best friends again. Derek stopped doing scenes for Tanya Billings and goes back to being a normal kid once again.


     I rate this book a five out of five rating I recommend this book because it has friendship, and a lot of forgiving in the book. Who ever reads this passage read the book to! 

Amulet (book 1) by Kizu Kibushi blog by Justin Ayala

Amulet is a book series and right now there are 6 books on Amulet.The fun,goofy series is full of adventure and for people who are interested in Graphic Novels and i'm one of those people.The book is about a girl named Emily Hayes and her family.(SPOILER ALERT skip this sentence if you don't want to know about the beginning)When the book starts Emily's family are picking up Navin, Emily's brother and they crash and Emily's father died and her mom survived with Emily.Then a year later (i think) they move into Emily's great grandfather Silias's house that Emily finds a stone (shown on the cover)and is cursed to be the stonekeeper and if you want to learn more you can read it at your public librarys.

              Unlikely Loves

              summarized by: Andzelika Cetera

Unlikely Loves is about animals that have a great friendship and that are inseparable. This story is very heart warming because most of the stories have a sad beginning but then when the animals meet they care for each other.  There are, The fox and the hound, the boy and the marmot, the girl and the moose (one of my personal favorites), the donkey and the zebra, the hen and the pugs, the tiger and the golden retriever and much much more!  

I rate this book 5/5 because the way the author wrote it and because of all the stories. 

Romans blog Old Yeller

        The book that I read was Old Yeller by Fred Gipson .Old Yeller was about a boy who lived on a farm with his family.Then one day a wild dog saved his little brother from a bear.So then his little brother asked his mom to keep it but Travis didn't want the dog.The next day Travis wants to get rid or the dog but his mom told him to bring the dog to go for a walk on there walk they saw wild boars.So when they saw the wild boars they charged Travis and the dog and they bit Travis and the dog was try to protect him from the wild boars.The dog got bit and still kept fighting.Then the boars ran away and then Travis and the dog ran back home.When they got back home the mom treated there wounds. When they were all treated Travis named the dog Old Yeller and now he liked  him.But his mom thought the dog Old Yeller had a disease.So they put him in a pen thing.Later in the book Old Yeller actually had a disease that made him mad.Then Travis had to put him down.Then that was the end of the book.

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Dork Diaries 8 Tales From a Not So Happily Ever After Janelle Mixner

     I just finished reading Dork Diaries Tales From a Not So Happily Ever After", by Rachel Renee Russell.  This book is about Nikki Maxwell dreaming that she was in a magical fairy tale.  Nikki saw all of her friends there but they were princesses.  Her little sister Brianna was her fairy godmother. Brianna would grant some of her wishes.  Nikki was relieved that when she got back to her world, she found out that she fainted when she was hit in the face by her enemy Makenzie Hollister. Her gym class was surrounding her when she finally woke up.
     I would rate this book five stars because it was funny and I was really interested in continuing to read it.

    By: Janelle Mixner 

304 pages

Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja is the best series I have ever read. I haven't read the 8th, 9th, or 10th yet, but I will on my Kendall fire HDX. This one ( Buchanan Bandits) is about Chase Cooper (main character) and his friends (Zoe, Braden , Gavin, Faith, Niome, and Miko(the clown(literally) ) ) have a crazy weak. Someone in the school is stealing gum from everyone. Chase and Niome find out that it was the leader of the wolf pack ( they call them that because they act like a wolf pack) Jake. They also got help from a kid named Whyat, to help them. Chase gets scared because before he knew Jake was behind the stolen gum they tried to blame it on him. After, Chase finds out that the president of Buchanan Subastion  was the one who told Jake and his wolf pack to steal every kids gum. Chase busts Subastion on Friday and then goes hang out with his friends before school ended.

By Josh DelFarno

The Titan's Curse Rick Riordan

The Titan's Curse is the third book in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians book series. The story starts off when a satyr, Grover, tells Annabeth, Percy, and Thalia, that he successfully located two half bloods, Bianca Di Angelo and Nico Di Angelo. They quickly rush to the location and are ambushed by a manticore, a scorpion and lion hybrid, Who goes by the name of Dr. Thorn. Annabeth is plunged into a deep ravine during the battle. The  manticore is warded off by the goddess Artemis and her huntresses.  Artemis offers Bianca immortality if she were to shun all male and join the Hunt. Bianca accepts and leaves them. Percy, Grover, Nico, and Thalia decide the journey back to camp would be too long and it would be wiser to rest with the huntresses. In the morning Artemis awakes to a horrible dream of a monster. She calls her brother, Apollo to bring her huntresses, Percy, Nico, Grover, and Thalia back to Camp Half Blood until she returns. Apollo accepts and takes them back to camp on his sun chariot. When they arrive at camp Chiron, a centaur and a worker at camp announced that they would play Capture the Flag. (Which was a tradition whenever the huntresses came to camp.) The huntresses win Capture the Flag and everyone heads to their cabins for curfew. When Percy wakes up Grover informs him that he overheard Zoë Nightshade, Artemis's second in command complain to Argius that she must see Chiron to alert him about the dream she had had and that she must leave Camp in order to save Artemis. Zoë consults the Oracle and is offered a quest. But, she is only allowed to bring Thalia, Bianca Di Angelo, another one of her huntresses, and Grover. Unfortunately, the huntress chosen to go along gets injured and is unable to go. They set off on the adventure to save Artemis from the monster she was hunting. But little did they know that Percy Jackson sneaked out of camp to follow them and help save Artemis.
                                                              Julia Bock

                 The Giver 

                          Summarized by: Andzelika Cetera

The Giver is about a 12 year old boy named Jonas, chosen to be the new receiver of memories when he turned a 12.  Starting his new job in training, with the giver, he learns how to see color, love, real pain that he can't explain, and the lie about the release ceremony's.  At his training, The Giver,  puts his hands on his bare back, and transports a memory to Jonas.  It feels real, like you're there, first few days of his training he had enjoyable memories, then later on he had painful ones. Such as a terrible sunburn, or sledding down an icy and rocky, hill.  During a day of his training, requested to watch the release ceremony, His father-a nurturer, was first to release the twins he had just received.  One twin, weighing 6 pounds, they cleaned and kept for care, and sadly the other twin, little less than 6 pounds, got put down. Now since Jonas knew this, he got scared because the next day, Gabe, his fathers nurturing child he has been taking care of, is assigned to be released.  Jonas couldn't let that happen so he decided to take the left over food (extremely strict rule broken) took his fathers bike and left with Gabe to find a better place.  After about 4 weeks of searching, Jonas discovered wildlife, his legs were sore from riding the bike,  they rarely found any food, and they finally found a village, a better place to live.  
(I would rate this 4 out of 5 stars because i think the author should make the characters more realistic because the 9 year old sister was using some words I didn't even know)

  

Dog Days

I have just finished reading the book DOG DAYS by Jon Katz.This book is about A male farmer that gets a farm .This farm has its good times and bad.But because of the love for his animals,He keeps working even with the lost of some of his favorite animals.                                                                                                                                The first animal he lost was his beloved donkey carol dies.He has many dogs some are labs and some are border collie's his favorite  dog was rose a wise old dog that he had since a puppy always staying by his side. nothing could scare her and she was awesome at problems.        The setting is at bedlam farm. I rate this book 3 stars.

I just finished reading "The School Story", by Andrew Clements. In this story, the main character Natalie has written a manuscript that she wants to submit to a publishing company where her mother works.  Hannah is looking for the next big book with a school setting, and she needs to find one quickly because her boss, Letha, is putting pressure on her.  Natalie knows, however, that she can not just hand her mother her manuscript "The Cheater" because she would not be taken seriously.  So she and her best friend decide to create their own fake agency and submit her story under a fake name.  Through a series of events, the manuscript ends up on Hannah's desk, and she is told by Letha to read it over the weekend. Natalie goes through the whole weekend worried about what her mother would say, and that she was deceitful because the story did not get to the publishing company honestly.  At the end, we find out that her mother loved the story and that she is going to recommend that it be published!  I would highly recommend the book.  It was well written, and I could relate to the characters and the emotions they were feeling.

                                                           by Mrs. H.