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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #15 on Jan 12, 2004, 10:25pm »
There's a girl in my Hammerlock by: Jerry spinelli
I think that this is a great book about a young 13 year old girl who just wanted to fit in and get the boy of her dreams. She is not the perttyest girl and she know that. She thinks that the boy is in wrestling so that if she's in he'll fall in love. Her life go's to the rats when her only ture friend is a rat. She loses all her friends and she still loves it. she can't just quit she can't. Her loveable little sister makes the book so funny, from her outragas out brists to the way she is always there to say something. Will she ever get the boy? Will her little siser drive her crazy? Will the others ever like her again? Will the people who read about her in the news respect her? And the big queation Can girls wrestle? This funny book is the best read it! Girls rule because anything they can do we can do better
Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #16 on Jan 13, 2004, 1:43pm »
Nahtaniel Hohauser Book recamendation The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
With a book that starts out narrated by the writer of the story talking about her mothers death and her duties to take her mothers place, to a young girl in China in the 1920s. This is a book decribes the lifes of four young Chinese girls growing up in whatever way possible. It jumps from character to character wile still juggling the stories in an understandable fashion. This book is appealing to fans of literature and those interested in Chinese culture and how it blends in with all the other cultures as it get along.
Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #18 on Jan 13, 2004, 1:48pm »
When Lightning Strikes by Kristin Hannah
I recommend this book "When Lightning strikes" to anyone who love romance mix with mystery. "When Lightning strikes" by Kristin Hannah was a story about a modern time author who got trap in the past of her own book. She first wanted to go home but soon found the love of the west life she had created. Then when she found out that she must go home to Kelly, her daughter, she was sad to leave her West Life lover behind. She keep thinking that since this is her book, she can changed anything but she was wrong. This is just not a book she had created, it have it's own event even though it's the setting it is of the West Life she created. A twisting tale Kristin Hannah created.
*This book is really good for you if you like the series of "Fear Street" by R.L Stine or any other book Kristin Hannah wrote like "once in every life" and "waiting for the moon".
if anyone has anything against the dragon... they'll have to answer to me... i think u know why...
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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #20 on Jan 13, 2004, 1:53pm »
The book I recommended to the class is "Wanted" by Caroline B. Cooney. If you're a reader that loves adventure and mystery books, this book is perfect for you. This book is the complee opposite of boring. This is one of the very few books tyhat even have an interesting beginning. From the start, the book gets right to the point. you don't have to read for hours to bump into the climax of the book. The main character is an average sixteen year old teen girl named Alice. Her parents were divorced but she slived a normal life. Well, at least it was normal until an unknown murderer killed her father. The murderer then frames Alice for killing her own father. The whole whorld is then turned againstAlice and there was no one by her side. she feels as if there is no one to help her. Not even her own mother. She runs away from home to escape from the public trying to chase her. She spends her whole time escaping, thinking of who would be the murderer and who would try to frame her. She finds the 'mystery murderer" and tries to tell the public that the mystery murderer is the real murderer. Will she be successful in making the public believe it was really that person? Will she fail and be arrested in jail speniding her whole childhood there? For all you adventure craving-mystery-types, this is the book for you!
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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #21 on Jan 13, 2004, 1:54pm »
The Long Patrol By Brian Jacques
For avid readers of fantasy, the books of Brian Jacques are known to be one of the best in the genre. The Long Patrol is a particularly good book because each scene is written beautifully detailed, allowing the reader to walk smack dab into the forests, flatlands, and dunes that had been so prevalent in most of the books that Jacques writes. The protagonist Tamello De Fformelo Tussock, or for short, "Tammo", desires to join the Long Patrol, a fighting regiment of hares. Running away with the help of his mother, Tammo slowly learns about how war and killing is not a game. Meanwhile in Redwall Abbey, the south wall of the fortress is slowly sinking -and in the southeast coast, the Rapscallion Army is getting ready to conquer the peaceful Abbey. Is Tammo fit to join the prestigious Long Patrol? Will Redwall Abbey be conquered by the fifty-score Rapscallion Army? Will their ways meet? The big social issues in The Long Patrol is about the severity of war and peace. If animals with distinct accents duking it out with vermin as well as elaborate descriptions of feasts are your cup of tea, then I highly suggest you read this book.
My comments on my review: Ugh, it sounds utterly horrible, especially the last line!! This is what I'm going to say: the book is REALLY good, so just read it and ignore everything my review says. Got that??
Oh god, I cannot belive I am here right now! -_- I should be eating instead
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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #22 on Jan 13, 2004, 1:58pm »
Darwin Eng Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix By J.K Rowling
This is a great book because it contains all the genres from romance to fantasy to adventure to horror. The main character, Harry Potter is returning to Hogwarts-an magical school which trains young wizards and witches with the magic they would need in their lives.He is haunted by the all and mighty He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named who vowed to destroy him and a new defence of dark arts teacher. And Answers still remain unanwered. Does Cho Chand really like him? How is He related to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Will he pass the OWLS-Ordinary Wizarding Level exams? The big social issue in this book is about facing one's own fear and managing to defeat them. If you enjoy reading romance, adventure, mystery, and horror books, read this multi-genre book
Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #23 on Jan 13, 2004, 2:06pm »
Holes
By: Louis Sachar
There is only 1 book in the world worthy enough to be "recommended." That one book is Holes written by Louis Sachar, and it's a very good selling book. This book has so much suspense, you may never sleep until you finish the whole thing. It leaves you hanging ever chapter in thebookand awaits you at the top of the mountain. It develops the character chapter by chapter instead of just giving you the characteristics of a character in 1 chapter. The main character is Stanley. He is a normal overweighed boy about 12 years old that is accused of a serious crime. He has to choose over prison or boot camp and Stanley reluctantly chose boot camp but he has no idea what he is in for. Stanley faces many hours in the hot sun, blistering fingers, thirst, hatred, the wicked warden, the deadly yellow spotted lizard that can kill you within 10 seconds, and many more threatening events. If you want a breath-taking suspenseful adventure story, this is the perfect book for you to read. Just 1 page and you will be on an endless adventure.
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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #24 on Jan 13, 2004, 2:13pm »
I recommend this book to anyone who likes scary stories and detective stuff, this is it! The title is "TAHOE DEATH FALL” I there was this question: "What's your favorite scary book?" This book would be it!
It's about these two girls, they're sister and twins. Moreover, the scary part is one of the twins, her name is Melissa, she got fell off or pushed of a cliff. She got pushed of when She and her sister Jennifer were going to their grandmother's house. When Melissa got pushed off, she climbed on to sore and there was a pack of wolves, and she was eaten by them! Moreover, a few years later, Jennifer went to a detective when she was the age 14. The Detective, Owen he didn't take the job cause she just a kid. Then the person that killed Melissa came back and broke into Melissa house! Owen (the Detective) went there and checked it out. The Last place the mystery person disappears was Jennifer's grandmother's room.
Is the mysteries person after Jennifer's grandmother? If he or she is what did she do? Why did he or she kill Melissa? In addition, He's going after Jennifer next! She's the next victim! However, why? You'll Never Know Until You Read It!
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Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #25 on Jan 13, 2004, 2:27pm »
this is toast book recomendation
Book: Child called it by David J. Pelzer I would recommend this book to people because this book made me want to read the rest if the set of three. I read this book when I was in 6th grade I enjoyed it even if it was really harsh for some know to treat there own child like that. This book is about this mother treating just one of her sons likes a slave and she calls him IT. This child has to go through so much harsh things that his mother things about like bleach. This is a true story that David J. Pelzer the author wrote after he survived this horrible life experience. If you want to know, more about what happened to him that you should read this book. I would put this book under real world because there are real kids that are being abused and how they fight against the abuse. If you like this book you should read Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave, they to are by the same author. I read the whole set expect A Man Named Dave and I thought that these were the best books I ever read and you would think the same when you read it.
Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #26 on Jan 13, 2004, 2:53pm »
Darkness Before Dawn Sharon M. Draper
I recommend the book Darkness Before Dawn, by Sharon M. Draper to women who are or suffered from abuse. Darkness Before Dawn portrays the physical and emotional strength of a senior in High School, who is going through a troublesome life after the tragic death of her ex- boyfriend. The main character, Keisha represents the acts and feelings of women today.
Keisha proves that women today can fight back and not let men take advantage of them by pushing them around or trying to force thm into doing things that they don't feel comfortable doing.She does this by not allowing her boyfriend to take advantage of her both mentally and physically. I like how Sharon M Draper describes the character as well as the events in the book. Though it may sound werid, Draper shows the characters' feelings by describing their eyes. YOu can feel the hate as well as the fear in Keisha's eyes when she was fighting back against Jonathan. I also like how all of the characters stuck together throughout hte book even when they disagreed on certain things. Darkness Before Dawn is jusut one of the books of the Hazelwood High Trilogy. THe other two books are Tears Of The Tiger and Forged By Fire. I reccomend these books as well to anyone who has exprienced abuse, not only in a relationship , but child abuse, etc. ALl three books discuss the hardships that even kidds face in different situations.
Re: Post your January Book Recommendations here! « Reply #27 on Jan 15, 2004, 9:37am »
The book I would recommend for readers interested in mystery is the book “The Carnivorous Carnival” by Lemony Snicket. It is the 9th book in “A Series of Unfortunate Events. It has all the ingredients of a page-turner. It is full of action and suspense. It has a small bit of humor. It contains mystery. Best of all, it contains a surprise ending. It’ll keep you guessing… After reading this, you be waiting very impatiently to read book 10. It starts of with the 3 Baudelaire’s at a Carnival of Freaks. It contains disguises and other freaks. The Baudelaire’s convince everyone at the Carnival that they themselves of freaks. They have to keep up a charade to keep them from being caught or hurt by Count Olaf. They have to keep it up to learn secrets of V.F.D. and what Count Olaf is planning to do to V.F.D. They also want to find the Quagmire triplets (there are only two because one of them perished in a fire that killed the Quagmire parents as well). The Baudelaire’s run into a bit of trouble. They are still hated by Count Olaf because they are disguised as freaks. Well? Go out and read it!
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