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**Evernight Academy Reveiw Jobie M.**

The book __Evernight Academy__ by Claudia Grey makes me want to keep reading and reading because it is so action packed. It is about a girl who moves to Evernight Academy because both of her parents get a job there, they are teachers. The girls name is Bianca. She didn't really want to move there because she never wanted to leave her home town and her hometown friends. One day she was walking out in the forest attempting to run away, and she got creep-ed out and thought someone was following her/being by her. She looked back and she saw someone following her. She then started to run as fast as she could. She feels him getting closer and closer to her, He then finally gets to her and tumbles her down. They start talking and get to know each other. The name of the boy who was running after her was Lucas. I think they may start to like each other. As you keep reading the secrets of Evernight Academy... will keep unfolding and unfolding.

I connect to this book in many ways... but here are a few. First, I thought it was kind of like Twilight, this is because of how Edward likes Bella, Lucas Might have a crush on Bianca, or Bianca might ha a crush on Lucas. It also reminded me of Twilight because of the mysterious vibe Evernight Academy has just like how the town Forts has a mysterious the whole mysterious vibe to. It made me think of the new series on TV, called Vampire Diaries. This show also reminds me of Evernight Academy because I think that Lucas might be a Vampire or some people in Evernight Academy might be a Vampire. This Book also connected to my life and possibly some other peoples life to because, we all go places that we do not want to go to sometimes.

Hmmmm... on a scale from 1-10, I give this book a 10...the whole shebang. I say this because this book is so action packed, Mysterious, and Romantic in a way, by the way Lucas and Bianca look at each other. I say anyone should read this book. You will never be bored, it will keep you at the edge of your seat, you also wont want to stop reading because of all of the Suspense. Like I said before once you get deeper into the book... More of Evernights secrets will keep pouring out.

**__ Point Blank Review __** by: Ryan A. In the story __point Blank__, Alex rider is a super cool spy kid that does some really awesome stuff. Alex gets to go to school after his first mission but after only one day, he is sent back to Head Quarters for his next mission. On his mission, he has to change his appearance. He makes himself wear fake earnings, shave his head, wear ripped jeans, and ripped sweat shirt. Alex's disguise was a beautiful disaster. He is sent to this Rich man for a few days and then move on to his mission. As he is at the man's house, he meets this girl. She turns out to be the man's daughter and she absolutely hates Alex. Later Alex gets a ton of information that he has to read.

I can connect to Alex having to read a ton for his missions because I have to read a lot for mine too. I recommend this book to people who love adventure because there is a lot of it in here. This truly is a good book that you should read!

Brynn R.** __Summary:__ Mel is a regular, high school girl, until she goes to a party with her friend. At the party, something terrible happens to her that makes her stop talking. After the terrible thing, she calls the police, because she was so scared. Some people got arrested because of her action. Her best friend hates her because of that call. Since she doesn't talk, it is very hard for her to make new friends. The “little” incident that happened over summer break has changed her life for the worse. Her grades in school are dropping like dead flies on an electric fly-swatter. The only class she is actually acing is art. In the end of the book, she finally gets up the courage to tell her ex-best friend what happened. She doesn't believe her, and calls Mel a filthy liar. Will she ever have friends? Will she ever talk again? __**Connections:**__ There are a lot of connections to be made in this book. The first connection I made was with the book, __The Lovely Bones__ because the girl in the book is in a similar situation. Also, if someone doesn’t believe you and you know you're telling the truth. That happens to Mel when she tries to tell her ex-best friend, and her ex-friend doesn’t believe her. Mel is a very quite girl. If you're very quiet, then you can connect with her, like me. Are you failing in school?? If you are, you can connect with Mel because after summer, her grades started dropping because of she was so insecure of herself. __**Why you should read this book:**__ I really enjoyed this book. I like it because you want to know what happened to her, but they don't tell you what until the end of the book. They're a lot of things to relate to, so you actually want to read the book.
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**The Boy Who Couldn't Die Ryne D.**

The __Boy Who Couldn’t Die__, by William Sleator is a crazy book with all kinds of twists and turns that keep you reading. It is about a boy named Ken, whose friend dies in a plane crash. He is scared and sad he does not want to die ever. He go to a woman who claims that she can make him live forever and not feel pain. He finds out that the treatment works, he goes to Mexico with his family and swims up to a shark and when it tries to bite him it cant his leg is like medal.This book gets 5 out of 5 stars. This book is like a roller coaster with all of its turns and ups and downs. Read the book to find out what happens next. **My book review of Catching Fire** After going up against all odds, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have survived The Hunger Games. Katniss' family has moved into the Victor's Village, an exclusive neighborhood restricted to only the champions of The Hunger Games. But they aren’t as happy as expected. Since Katniss won by defying the rules, President Snow has come to her home threatening to kill everyone she loves if she doesn’t counter the oncoming rebellion the tyrannical president is sure is on its way. She must complete this task by convincing all of the other districts that she was so caught up in emotion with Peeta, she couldn’t watch him die. Before she knows it, a war has started and she is back in the arena, fighting for her life. This gruesome book, Catching Fire, reminded me of many other accomplished works of art. To begin, it reminded me of Mad Max in Thunderdome. It reminded me of that movie because the main characters are forced to go to an arena fight to the death. The fighting doesn’t end there. Like in the hit TV show, 24, there is a secret rebellion that is being slipped under the government’s nose. However, there is a reason for war. Much alike the tyrannical government’s we have today, President Snow’s form of government marches innocent people to their death almost daily.
 * by Collin O'D.**

I thought that this book was really good as it has plenty of cliffhangers, not wanting you to put down the book. Causing most of the suspense, every page was filled with a lifetime’s worth of action. I believe this book deserves a 4.5 out of 5, much to its detail and descriptiveness. //** Everything on a Waffle Book Review By: Devynn M. The book __Everything on a Waffle__ by Polly Horvath describes how Primerose life changes once parents get lost at sea. Primerose is a very interesting person.

There is a girl named Primerose Squarp, she has caramel apricot colored hair. Primerose is 11 years old and her parents are lost at sea. While her friends and family believes that her parents are dead, she is faithful and believes that they are still alive and worried about her. Since, her parents are lost at sea, she and her little sister, (doesn’t tell her name) have to go somewhere to stay. Mrs. Perfidy becomes their mom for a little bit until she finds someone to stay with. So she finds Primerose’s Uncle Jack. He lives in Coal Harbor as well. He is in the navy and is having to keep up the rent and pay to say there. Primerose doesn’t really want to move, she says she is floating. Primerose becomes acquainted with Kate Bowzer. Miss Bowzer, as Primerose called her, owned the restaurant The Girl in the Red Swing. Primerose thought that this was one unordinary place. Everything you ordered came on a waffle!!! If you ordered a steak it came on a waffle. She loved the asparagus at that restaurant so she even wrote the recipe. Pretty much, Primerose and The Girl on the Red Swing are both pretty exotic.

The connections I have to the book are rather unusual. First of all, Prime Rose reminds me on prime rib because I am hungry a lot. As well as, I really like prime rib because is pretty good. Next, The title of this book reminds me of getting waffles at a restaurant. But, not with everything on it I don’t like whipped cream. My favorite restaurant to get waffles at is IHOP, but hers is at The Girl in the Red Swing.

In the end, I would recommend this book because first of all the book has recipes, after each chapter. It has recipes for thing that they described, such as tuna noodle casserole (which is the best tuna noodle casserole ever) for Primerose talking about tuna fish in the sea. Or Primrose’s hair colored carrots in an apricot glaze; the recipe is for carrots in an apricot glaze. The second reason for reading this book is because it is on Primerose’s adventure at the restaurant The Girl in the Red Swing. My final thought is that I believe that this is a good book that will result in me eating waffles. **//

__Ttly Book Review__ __By: Missy__ 1-25-10 In the book __ttyl__ three tenth grade girls text each other and talk about many things. The three girls names are zoegirl, madmaddy, and snow angle. To begin, they talk about their day since they just started school they talk about their classes and who is in them and stuff like that. Also, they talk about their drama that day too, and there is a lot of it. For example they don't like this one girl because they heard her saying something mean about another one of their friends in the bathroom one day. So that was their drama that day. Last, they talk about what they are going to do that night. They sometimes baby sit, go and hang out with their boyfriends, and sometimes go to parties.

There is many ways I connected with this book. To begin, it reminds me of the movie Twilight. It reminds me of Twilight because they both have boyfriends and lots of drama. In my opion Twilight is way better. Next, I also connected with this book by one girl got her lines and same with my sister. The last thing it made me connect with was that they are all in tenth grade and same with one of my sisters.

There is a couple reasons why I wouldn't recommended this book. To start, this book is confusing. It is confusing because they use confusing words and when they use words and sometimes I have to reread the sentence so it will make sence to me. Next, you don't really know the people because they use different names. For example their is zoegirl, mad maddy and names like that.

__**The River **__ By: Riley M. The book __**The River**__ by Gary Paulsen is about a kid named Brian that is 15 years old who has just came back from surviving the Canadian woods for 2 years and coming back to civilization. After he got back Brian had huge amounts of reporters and TV news cast talking to him so much he had to wear a disguise. One day there is this group of people. They own a survival course and have done nothing like what Brian has done. They have done the course but not in real life. One of the people (Derek who owns part of the survival) wants him to go back into the woods and do it again with him so they can bring it back and do it at their course. They go back out in to the woods in a bush plane (same one as the first time) but didn’t have a crash landing. The first day they are out there Brian and Derek make a little tut to fit both of them because Brian can somehow smell the rain coming. They make their fort near a cave that was fairly big. Later when they get setup the massive swarm of mosquitoes come out and eats them alive. Then about an hour later they all left but 2 or 3 confused ones. Then it starts to poor buckets minutes after the mosquitoes left. It rained really hard all night long. When Brian wakes up in the morning he sees Derek lying on the floor with his eyelids half open starring at him. At first Brian thinks it is a joke but after words he thinks he might be dead. He stutters to wake up and goes over to too feel his cheek. From research he has done in the past he can tell if someone is dead if they have a cold cheek. He later finds that he is knocked unconscious or in a coma and can’t do anything. Brian looks at a map he brought and sees that there is a town down the river a ways. Brian decides to build a raft and go down to the town that’s 100 miles away by floating down a river. Will he make it in time to save his friend???????????? As you can tell this book is very exciting and has a lot of action packed scenes.

__Would I recommend this book.__ Yes I would recommend this to a friend because this is one of the best books I have read in a while. This book by Gary Paulsen is a wonderful book in his group of books. __Connections__ I can connect to Brian being out in the woods by himself because I have been in the woods in oregon by my self before. I can also connect to Brian when he went white water rafting because in Oregon I did that except we were floating and fishing at the same time. I can also connect to this because I have seen a movie similair to this were they were flying around and there plane got shot and they had to survive in the canadian wilderness for a year just like how Brian had to stay in the canadian woods for 2 years. The Hardy Boys: the Missing Chums By: Franklin W. Dixon Book Review by : Andrew C.

The book The Hardy Boys: The Missing Chums by Franklin W. Dixon is about two teenage brothers named Frank and Joe Hardy with the help of their father the famous detective Fenton Hardy try to find out what happened to their best friends Chet Morton and Biff Hooper strangely disappear after the costume party. As the clues fall into place they find out that after a bank robbery their prized speed boat the famous slueth was and what the strange abandoned hermet island.

In my opinion this book relates to the Sherlock Holmes book, Law & Order, and NCIS. These all hold mystery and crime and so does this book. If you like these shows and books like this then please read this book you won't regret it.

I believe that you should read this book if you enjoy action filled, mystery, with multiple cliff hangers, and danger around every corner. I warn you now so heed it well, this book may leave you breath less, shocked to the bone on how amazingly discripive it is. If you can take all of that then read this book.

The Mistmantle Chronicles By: M.I. McAlister Review by : Peter Muelling

//__The Mistmantle Chronicles__// , written by M.I. McAlister, are a great series of books about animals that live on an island that is constantly surrounded by mist. These animals have a monarchy, Their king's name is Crispin, I light caramel colored squirrel with an aspiration to keep the inhabitants of the island pleased. The island has been cursed since the death of the first heir to Mistmantle, Prince Tumble. The curse is on the heir making no true blood related heir possible to reign.

If you were fond of the following books you would enjoy this one too; Redwall, Warriors, and the Tale of Despereaux. These are all about animals and have great action packed stories. Especially the warriors series.

I highly recommend this book because it has action and adventure, also it has sword duels too. It also has some funny parts and some tragic parts too. If you like talking animal books like the latter you would like this one. And finally any animal lover for sure would love these books, because the animals act naturally and unnaturally at the same time, which I think is really cool. squirrel with an aspiration to keep the inhabitants of the island pleased. The island has been cursed since the death of the first heir to Mistmantle, Prince Tumble. The curse is on the heir making no true blood related heir possible to reign. If you were fond of the following books you would enjoy this one too; Redwall, Warriors, and the Tale of Despereaux. These are all about animals and have great action packed stories. Especially the warriors series.

I highly recommend this book because it has action and adventure, also it has sword duels too. It also has some funny parts and some tragic parts too. If you like talking animal books like the latter you would like this one. And finally any animal lover for sure would love these books, because the animals act naturally and unnaturally at the same time, which I think is really cool.

__Twilight Book Review __ By: Tori

The book of __Twilight__ explains how an ordinary girl has a really hard life! Bella has to leave her mom’s house and go to her dad’s house which means she has to go to a new high school. Her dad gives her a truck that is from the 50s and it is a Chevy. It is red and faded. It is very bulky and loud. Then she had to start school. Bella saw a very pale guy in the lunch room and he was just sitting there not eating anything. Later that day she had to sit by him in science class. During science he did not move or even say “Hi”. She figured out that his name was Edward. In PE she met Mike, he was very nice to her. After school she had to go to the office to turn in the sheet that she had to get signed to tell she went to all of her classes. She saw Edward talking to the office lady. He was trying to change science classes. Then the next few days Edward didn’t come to school at all. She felt like she did something to him and was scared he would never come back.

In this book I could relate to a lot of things!! To start, I related to having to go to a new place which can be scary. You are worried no one will like you. Also I related when she came into Science class and every one stared at her. I felt my stomach sink like when you walk in a room and everyone looks at you. I could also feel the feeling of getting really red and hot from embarrassment.

I would recommend this book because you can’t figure out what is going to happen next. There are a lot of things you can relate to and feel how they would feel. I really liked this book and can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

Twilight Book Review By: Samantha F.   The second part of Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, starts off exactly like a big conversation, but put into text. Bella is unlocking all the mysteries that lye within Edward. All including his families’ powers, and especially, his interesting past. Also, Edward finds out some very deep secrets that Bella unknowingly spilled while sleeping. Some words like “I love you, Edward”. Only Edward would know this because he stays in Bella's room with her, even when she didn't know it. After that was over, for then, Bella was invited over to the Cullen's house to meet the family. She met the parents first, Carslile and Esme, then came Alice and Jasper, and eventually, she met Rosalie and Emmett. After, they went to a soggy field in the mountains to play a family game of baseball with Bella, and that’s where it started. It started off like a fun game, but vampire style. Then, some unwanted visitors stopped by. It was another group of vampires who drink human blood, unlike the Cullens. The group consisted of two guys and one girl, one of the guys being calm and easy going, along with the girl, but the other guy was watching and catching the irresistible scent of Bella. He was the one of the group who could not control himself, James. After he started a hunt, he wouldn’t stop until his prey was killed. Then the chase began. Jasper, Edward, and Alice immediately took Bella as far away from James as possible. They dropped Bella of at her house only to come back in fifteen minutes, enough time for Bella to pack her clothes and make an excuse to her dad, Charlie, of why she had to go. She had to make it sound so real, real enough for her dad to believe her, be in absolute shock, and have no say on if she gets to leave. Bella thought up a story she knew her dad would let her go for telling, but at the same time, knew it would break his heart. Edward and the other two were waiting Bella’s truck outside and quickly drove away, eventually arriving in Phoenix. There, Edward went back to Forks to help kill and get rid of James, while Jasper and Alice took care of Bella. While staying in a hotel room for a few nights, one night an unexpected call from James came for Bella. It said to meet him at her old dance studio in the middle of town or her mom would “go”! She hung up and without telling Jasper or Alice what the call was about or who it was from, quickly thought up a plan to escape and save her mother, not knowing what was ahead of her or what would be the consequences. I would defiantly recommend Twilight to anyone! No matter what kind of books you like, there is something in this book for everyone. The end of the book is the best part, if you were to read sections, it is filled with tons of action and it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time, not able to expect what is coming next! Its suspenseful and defiantly a great read. A great sequel is New Moon if you want more of Stephanie Meyer’s books!