Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Review By: Lauren B.

Peculiar children. A memory that will last forever. This is what happens when Jacob Portman goes to an island off of Wales to find out more about his grandfather, Abe. Jacob has found a letter and pictures that seem quite strange to him, and it’s time to finally find out what they are all about. Abe is dead now, so it is up to Jacob to figure out the mystery of the past...and maybe even the future.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is set in modern day, but it gives a delightful spin on the 1940’s. It reminds me somewhat of the Harry Potter books, because it is based on fictional things, that could never possibly happen. This book makes me think of Adolf Hitler and his island of prisoners. It makes me think of this situation because some of the Peculiars were and could’ve been unbelievebly dangerous. That is why they were off on an island that most modern day people wouldn’t even look at.

Honorable Mention

• Unbelievable, by Sara Shepard
• Heartless, by Sara Shepard
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire, by Sazanne Collins
• What Though the Odds, by Haley Scott DeMaria

Football Genius

Hello folks do you like football? If you do a book called Football Genius by Tim Green.  The protagonist is a kid named Troy, his mom and his two best friends named Tate (Girl) and Nathan.  The setting of the book is in Atlanta. The problem is that the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons won’t let Troy help the Atlanta team win games.

         I would recommend this book for people that like football and that are in there young adult hood.

                                                               Reviewed by Ahmed

The Sea of Monsters By: Rick Rioran pages:270

               

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” For Percy Jackson here comes another school, another friend and another quest. In this book the protagonists Percy Jackson, Annabeth, and Tyson are on a new quest to find their best friend, Gover. Tyson is one of his classmates in his new school that Percy sticks up for because people bully him. But Does Tyson has a big secret? Does his friends know that secret too but they’re not telling him? Camp Half blood is under attack by creatures from the underworld. Thalia’s Pine tree (protects the camp) has been poisoned and Percy and his friends have to go find something to heal the tree. On the way they meet scary monsters and many more hardships, they also run into they’re old foe Luke for help.

This book is filled with so much action, mystery, and even love. In the beginning of the book you didn't really know some of the characters, like Tyson, but at the end it describes them and there stories of their past. I always wanted to see what happened next because the Author would end most of the chapters with a cliffhanger. If you like adventure, suspense and  the Greek gods this is a book for you! - Maria Athanasopoulos

The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan

Reviewed by Ryan O.

Why do they want to overthrow the gods? For power, of course. Gaea, and the Giants are planning to overthrow Olympus and the Greek gods and have started by capturing Hera, wife of Zeus, King of The Gods. Jason, Leo, and Piper are all demigods, (half-gods or people with one godly parent) Jason, of Jupiter, Leo, of Hephaestus, and Piper, of Aphrodite. They receive a quest in which they are sent to rescue Hera from the Giants before Gaea awakens from her deep slumber. They meet many obstacles along the way that prove very difficult. Will they save Hera before Gaea awakens? Will they save Olympus from sure peril? Find out by reading The Lost Hero.

    This is a great book for ages 10 and up. It has an exciting plot, a fast pace, and is a page-turner. It was probably my favorite book that I have ever read! It has tons of action, and some comedy here and there while being under the fantasy genre. I recommend this book for anyone and everyone able to read it!

The Underdogs, by Mike Lupica

           

 Reviewed By: Vasken K.

  The 30…the 20…the 10…touchdown! Will scores another touchdown for the Bulldogs. In the book The Underdogs, Will Tyler is a young running back for the Bulldogs, and the son of Joe Tyler, one of the greatest running backs Will’s town has ever had. The setting of the book takes place in Forbes, Pittsburgh. The conflict in the book is that Will’s team has to try to win a football championship with only 12 players on the whole team. This book reminds me of when I am on the football field, and my team and I are trying to win a game. It also reminds me of my team name, which is also called the Bulldogs. I think that the main theme the book teaches me is that you should never give up, no matter what or who is the challenge, either by yourself, or with a certain amount of people in any situation. I recommend this book for any age group because it is a great read, and a great football story about Underdogs.

Found by Margret Peterson Haddix

BY: Sanan Rafiq
The  plane came into the airport not recognized. Only two people saw the plane. When I entered the plane all I saw was darkness. Then I blinked, for I second I thought I was dreaming but I rubbed my eyes and it was still there. A man taking his bags out and a bunch of babies in every single seat of the airplane. I ran out of the airplane. Then looked back and there was nothing. Not knowing where the plane was I looked around. Then realizing that the plane had vanished.

    The story Found is set in the twenty first century. The main protagonist in the book is Jonah a thirteen year old  boy who is adopted and finds out that his friend Chip is also adopted. Jonah and Chip  are out to investigate where there from and find out many weird things on there investigation. They find many weird thing like ghosts, people from the future, and people and items disappearing. The book is mysterious and funny at the same time. I recommend reading this book if you like mysteries.   

Hoot by Carl Hiasaan

                                                   Reviewed by Gregory K.


The problem in the store is that a company is trying to put a pancake restaurant where a bunch of owls live. Roy, the protagonist who loves animals and his friend Beatrice and her brother Mullet Fingers (nickname) are trying to stop the building of the resturant.


I liked the book because it involves these kids who try stop stop a company from building a pancake restaurant too save a bunch of animals.


This book reminds me of the forest and wildlife.

Maia of Thebes by Ann Turner reviewed be Christina D'Agostino

            The book Maia of Thebes is about a girl named Maia and her brother Seti who lives with their aunt and uncle in a town named Thebes. Their parents died of a very serious disease when they were young and at the time, there was no cure. Everyday it’s the same old routine when one day Maia hears and noise in the basement and goes down to check it. When she goes down she sees something that will change hers and Seti’s life forever. Now she’s faced with the excitements of going to jail to boating down the Nile river all alone in the middle of the night with gigantic Nile crocodiles chasing after her. Maia is one tough cookie. This all takes place in Egypt 1463 B.C. Maia is the protagonist. Uncle is the antagonist. The conflict is what Maia sees in the basement and everything that takes place afterwards.

            I liked this book because it was about history and I like history. It’s kind of cool knowing that this actually happened way before anyone in my family was born. The first few chapters were somewhat boring but that’s because it’s a history kind of thing so they have to say the setting and what’s going on. Then it got a little bit more exciting to read but not really. Then near the middle or end it got super-de-duper exciting because that’s where all the action is all bunched up. This book made me think of the importance of freedom and what the cost of it is.

Honorable Mentions

Forever by Maggie Stiefvator

Dewey by Vicki Myron