Hide and Seek by Katy Grant: Student Review by Lulu

This action packed book is about 14 year old Chase and is secret. His mom and stepdad Rick own a little shop and cabins up in the high mountians in Arizona, but Chase loves the outdoors, the sweet smell of crisp fresh air and watching the deer and elk graze. So after a summer of being cramed in that little store helping his family, Chase decides to go on his first geochace alone. When Dexter (his huge lovable dog) and him get there, the site look muggled. But when he opens the log book, there’s a note with 8 words….to find out what happens to Chase read the book, it really good I promise!

The Potato Chip Puzzles:The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin: Student Review by Alexander

 

Hello, I’m here to bring you up on the Potato Chip Puzzle. Winston winds up in another exciting adventure when his school is entered in a puzzle competiton held by Dimitri Simon: A potoato chip tycoon. For 50 grand! Many middle schools have entered an the odds are high. But when a myserious cheater is on the lose, teams are getting black tire wedgies, locked in bathrooms getting trapped on ferris wheels and are getting double crossed. Will they catch the cheater? Will they win the money? Will Winston solve a new mystery every chapter? Read it and find out, but be fast! Many people are taking the books now! Also read: The Puzzling world of Winson Breen, and Puzzling Mansion!

The Old Motel Mystery by Gertrude Warner: Student Review by Beatrice

oldThe Old Motel Mystery is very interesting. You go on an adventure with the Boxcar Children, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny. The old motel is not kept up very good, so the Boxcar Children help making it nicer. However, there is a prowler that sometimes sneaks around at night. But it turns out to be one of the guests that come to the old motel. The reason the prowler did it is because they wanted the motel to shut down. The real owner is Kay.
The prowler gives the children AWESOME things to eat. Then she asks questions and hurrys out in a rush. The prowler once droped her bag and some letters fell out. She tried to pick them up quickly, however Violet wanted to help and was faster.
Then she saw it. The address was: Ms. Kay something.
Then near the end, the prowler dresses like a painter. When she is caught, she has a meeting with Ms. Kay and they work it out quickly. Ms. Kay said that she would NOT call the Police instead, she said to leave IMMIDATELY.
Then the Boxcar Children’s aunt came to pick them up.

Powerless by Matthew Cody: Student Review by George

powerlessI have just finished the best book that I have ever read….. Powerless. I know that I might have said that about some other books but this one is really the BOMB!!! When Daniel Corrrigan moves into a new village called Noble Green, he finds out that the new friends that he’s made are actually superheros!!! When two of Daniel’s friends forget who he is Daniel is bewildered and asks his friends for an explanation. Thats when he finds out that you lose your powers on your thirteeneth b-day. His friends think that your powers just don’t leave you somethging takes them away. So it’s up to Daniel and his friends to stop thiis thing and uncover a secret that will leave you having super thoughts!

Theodore Boone:Kid Lawyer by John Grisham

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As the only child of two attorneys, 13-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most adults.  Theodore dreams of going into the law himself, working as a trial lawyer and eventually becoming a judge. He already knows all the attorneys and judges in his small city of Strattenburg, and has even named his dog Judge. Theodore is so passionate about the law that he works as an amateur attorney, giving basic legal advice to friends. But Theodore’s hobby turns potentially deadly when he becomes involved with a key witness in a major murder trial. In “Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer” best-selling author John Grisham details how Theodore sorts out a legal tangle that involves an illegal immigrant, a cold-blooded killer and a creepy private investigator who seems to be stalking Theodore. Author John Grisham is best known for his over 21 adult books.  “Theodore Boone” is John Grisham’s first children’s novel.  To see how kids liked his book, Grisham worked with the fifth-graders in his daughter Shea Grisham’s class at the A.B. Combs Leadership Elementary School in Raleigh. Early in the process of writing “Theodore Boone,” Grisham read the first two chapters to the class and asked for feedback.
Click on this link and have fun with this website! www.theodoreboone.com
Mrs. Kalbfleisch

Sea of Suspicion by Carolyn Keene: Student Review by Kaitlin

seaSea of Suspicion is about Nacy Drew and here two friends Bess and George. They are on a vacation in Flordia and Nacy promised she wouldn’t sleuth. For the first part of their vacation they go on a boat when they were in the middle of the ocean their was a fire in the engine room after a few minutes they got the fire out and he captain was telling them that there has been weird things happening ever since they got this ingot like their engine line got cut off the arcioligist on the ship Talia her brother died from a diving incident and the fire. Will Nacy start sleuthing and figure out who has been doing these bad things? Or will she just not bother having anything to do with the case and enjoy her vacation? Read this book and find out what will happen! I hope you enjoy this book like I did.

Encyclopedia Brown by Donald Sobol: Student Review by Sarah Y

encyclopediaMy book review is ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN.This book is about this boy named Leroy but every body called him Encyclopedia.Anyway Leroy aka Encyclopedia will solve any case that a kid needed help with he would solve it less then a day.But don’t look at the end of the book solves ok because it just spoiles the book ok.

The Runaway Race Horse by Ron Roy: Student Review by Parker

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I just read an awesome book called the “Runaway Race Horse” and it was about three kids named Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. My favorite part is when they give the horse a bath because they find a mark on it and that is where the mystery begins. I like it and I think you will like it too. You will like it because it is an adventure story.

Leepike Ridge by N.D. Wilson

Reviewed as an original mix of Robinson Crusoe, King Solomon’s Mines, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and the Odyssey, Leepike Ridge is a survival adventure story that will take you do the depths of the earth! Eleven-year-old Thomas Hammond is in for the ride of his life when he is swept downstream and underground aboard a raft of styrofoam. Murderous treasure hunters and a sarcophagus will take you on a journey through the dark of the grave and back out into the light!!! Book Review by Mrs. Kalbfleisch

The Boxcar Children:The Mystery Cruise by Gertrude Warner: Student Book Review by Grace

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The book I read was the Boxcar Children the Mystery Cruise. The main characters were Jessy, Violet, Henry, Benny, grandfather, and Max. The story was about a man named Max who tride to save his aunts home from being knocked down. In the end the children found out who the bad man was. Max saved his aunts home. I liked the book because of the great signs in it.