Canoeing with the Cree

Title:Canoeing with the Cree
Author:Eric Sevareid
Reviewer:Brock
Summary:In 1930 two friends decided to go on a canoeing trip from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. They were Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port. They started their journey in an 18 foot canoe with no radio,motor,good maps or directions. They started on the Mississippi River and went south to the Minnesota River and headed north to the Red River of the North. From there they went into Canada and through Lake Winnipeg and headed through more rivers and finally came to York Factory on Hudson Bay. It took them four months to travel the 2,250 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. On their way they ran into wild animals many storms strong rapids and hard portages. When they were in Northern Canada they saw few white men and a lot of Cree Indians who helped them on their journey.

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The Lovely Bones

TITLE-The Lovely Bones
AUTHOR- Alice Sebold

REVIEWER-Logan

SUMMARY- Its about a girl about 12 years old and she gets murdered by a man named Harvey. She got murdered when she was walking home in a cornfield from her school and her neighbor apeard.The neighbor Harvey said he had made a playground underground for kids and wanted her to check it out. The playground was in his yard at the time. So when she went to go check it out he locked her in and did terrible things. To find out what happens take the journey through a terrible yet exciting events.

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The Clique

Title: The Clique
Author: Lisi Harrison
Reviewer: Catherine
Summary: When a small-town girl moves from Florida to Westchester, New York she has to live in somebodies else's guesthouse. That girl she has to live with is the fashion queen and ruler of her new school OCD (Octavian Country Day.) Massie makes sure that everyone at OCD hate her especially her friends. They are mean to her and love making fun of her. CLaire befriends a misfit named Layne even though she rather be in the 'cool' crowd. So when Claire get the chance she gets revenge by IMing Massie's friends as her. When they all turn there back on her Massie doesn't know what to do next. Will Massie ever find out? What will happen if she gets caught? You'll just have to read to find this out.

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Lost and Found

TITLE- Lost and Found

AUTHOR- Andrew Clements

REVIEWER- Allison

SUMMARY-Ray and Jay are two identical twin boys that moved and had to go to a new school. On the first day of school one of the boys was sick so only one went to school. Then he noticed that his brother wasnt registered in the school. They decided that they were going to switch off playing one person and and spit up all the homework. They were getting away with it and having fun until the secretary found the missing file. The school called Ray and Jays parents and told them what was going on. Ray and Jay got in trouble and they were grounded for a long time. They then both had to go to school and tell all their friends that they were twins.

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The Sea of Monsters

Title: The Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Toni
Camp Half-Blood is in trouble. Someone has poisened Thalia's tree, making the camp unsafe and allowing monsters to enter. The Golden Fleece is their only hope. On top of that, Percy's friend Grover is being held captive by Polyphemus, the cyclops who stole the Fleece and uses its magical powers to lure young satyrs to their death. Percy, Annebeth, and Tyson set out on a quest to save the camp from its destruction. Luke also wants the Fleece, but he plans to uses its magic for evil. Percy finally reaches The Sea of Monsters. They sail its length barely surviving. With the help of his friends, Percy rescues Grover and the fleece from the giant cyclops. The fleece is brought to camp and it heals Thalia's tree. The camp is safe, at least for now.

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The Last Apprentice Revenge of the Witch

Title: The Last Apprentice Revenge of the Witch

Author: Joseph Delaney

Reviewer: John
Tomas Ward is an average kid but he sees and hears things others can't. He is the seventh son of the seventh son. It is his destiny to become the Spook. The Spook is a person that goes from county to county protecting the people from witches, boggarts, and drives ghosts away. Tom will learn how to bind boggarts and to deal with witches. Tom is the last hope. Twenty-nine have tried some fled and some failed to stay alive. He disobeys one of the Spooks number one rule and finds himself in big trouble while the spook is gone. He makes friends with a witch named Alice. Alice tricks Tom into freeing Mother Malkin for Bony Lizze. Mother Malkin is one of the most dangerous witch in the county. Tom has killed Mother Malkin once but can he do it again. Will tom end up like the last apprentice or will he succeed and complete his training? Will the Spook be able to save him every time?

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No Talking

Title: No Talking
Author: Andrew Clements
Reviewer: Gabby
Summary: Dave Packer read a book about Mahatma Gandhi for a report on India in school. One day each week Gandhi wouldn’t talk because he thought it brought order to his mind. So one day Dave decided to do the same and it ended up as a competition against boys and girls in his grade.

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Sea of Monsters

Title: Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Jason S.
Summary:
Percy Jackson has just found out he is the son of Poseidon and is in deep trouble. Camp Half Blood's protective tree has been poisoned and the camp is under attack by monsters daily. Percy Jackson's enemy, Clarisse, has just been granted a quest to save the camp, but can she do it alone? Percy and his friends decide to sneak off and try to save the camp themselves. Will the mysterious taxi driver's location lead them to the treasure or to their death's?Will the camp ever be safe......

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The Horse Whisperer

Title: The Horse Whisperer
Author: Nicholas Evans
Reviewer: Hannah Q.
Summary: When two girls and their horses get into a tragic crash their world's turn upside down. One girl and her beloved horse die and the other horse, Pilgrim, and rider, Grace, are seriously injured. Then Grace's mother, Annie, hopes to find a "horse whisperer" to help cure Pilgrim's horrible thoughts and memories from this terrifing day. Grace and Annie move from there busy home in New York City to a rustic cabin in Montana where Tom Brooker, the horse whisperer, try to cure Grace and Pilgrim's wounded soul's. Will Tom and Annie be able to cure there soul's or will they be troubled forever?

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Clash of the Demons

Title: Clash of the Demons
Author: Joseph Delaney
Reviewer: Jack P.
Summary: When Tom Ward receives a letter from his mom that she is coming home from Greece and needs to meet her at the house where he grew up he heads right to his former home with his master John Gregory where he finds his mom, a clan of witches, and Bill Arkwright (a spook from the north) asking him to come to Greece with them to fight the one of the most powerful monsters in the world, the Ord, who lives in a massive castle called the Ordeen. Along the way they will face the most powerful forces in the world. This book is full of intense battles, impossible situations, amazing destinations, and surprises that will make you never want to stop reading.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians—The Lightning Thief

Title: Percy Jackson and the Olympians—The Lightning Thief
Author: Rick Riordan
Reviewer: Jared
Summary: One late summer day Zeus the king of the gods decides to meet with his brother Poseidon. He accuses his son Percy of stealing his lightning bolt and he is now known as the lightning thief. It is forbidden for gods to steal each other’s powers but not their children. Percy soon finds out that he is a demigod-the child of a god and goes to a camp for demi gods after his mother gets killed by a demon sent by Hades. This camp is called Camp Half Blood where he trains to become a better warrior, he then meets this beautiful girl named Anabeth. One day during a campfire Hades appears and wants Percy to give him the lightning bolt so him, his friend, and Anabeth journey to the underworld to get his mother back and give the lighting back to Hades. It turns out that he is not the lightning thief it is actually Luke the son of Hermes and they fight and Percy kills him. They then go to Olympus and return the lightning bolt to Zeus.

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Call of the Wild

Author- Jack London
Title. Call of the Wild
Summary- Call Of The Wild

Bucks father was the beloved St. Bernard that belonged to Judge Miller in the pastoral hills of the Santa Clara Valley in California, and his mother was a great German Shepard. Judge Miller owns a huge mansion complex with other dogs, horses, stables, vineyards. Buck loves this calm existence, carrying the Judge's grandchildren on his back and serving as the Judge's faithful companion, as his father had been before him. However, one summer day in 1897, the Judge's gardner unjustly sells him for a meager price, and from there the brave dog begins a long journey ending in Dyea, Alaska. Buck is sold away to a Canadian pair named Perrault and Francois in need of sled dogs. Arriving on the mainland, Buck encounters many obstacles in this cold, icy place quite unlike where he grew up. Among these obstacles is the cruelty of many humans, other vicious dogs, and the cold weather itself. With these two Canadians, Buck forges a relationship of respect, pulling them from the Yukon Territory where the Klondike Gold Rush is raging, to Alaska, since Perrault is a special messenger for the Canadian government.

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Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Katie

Summary:
Tally Youngblood will be turning 16 soon, which means she will become a pretty! But before her birthday she finds a new friend, Shay, there birthdays are on the same day so they can turning into pretties together. But Shay doesn’t want to be a pretty, so she runs away to a place called the “Smoke”, a place where uglies live, out in the wild. Its there birthday but Tally can’t be turned into a pretty yet because she has to go find Shay or she will never be a pretty. She follows Shay’s clues to the smoke and gets there safe. Dr. Cable gives Tally a locket which has a tracking device in it, that needs to be set off so the “specials” can find them. Tally meets David, a guy who has never lived/ been in a city before, Tally starts liking him so she wants to stay at the smoke, and she throws the locket in the fire which sets it off. The “Specials” come and capture everyone but David and Tally. Shay, Az and Maddy, and all the others get locked up. David and Tally try to rescue them without getting caught. They find them and figure out that David’s dad Az was killed. Maddy found a way to cure the “bubbleheads”, pretties. So tally had a plan, she would go and turn into a pretty and then give her the cure to see if it works before they give it to everybody else. So Tally and Shay go to the pretty town to try and get Tally caught. A hover car came flying over them and noticed that Tally was an ugly and then Tally said “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.”
The End!!

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Soccer Chick Rules

Title: Soccer Chick Rules
Author: Dawn Fitzgerald
Reviewer: Megan D.
Summary:
All sports at school will be banned unless Tess Munro, a 13-year old 7th grader, gets people from her community to vote for taxes to increase. She tries to keep her grades up in every class, and play soccer as much as she can. She teams up with a cheerleader and goes around her neighborhood to get people to rally votes. Tess has soccer practice almost every night at the same time each weekly levy meeting is held. She loves her teammates and her coach a lot. Tess will do anything to keep sports at her school. If she doesn't get enough votes, will it still have been worth it?

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The Cupcake Queen

Title: The Cupcake Queen
Author: Heather Hepler
Reviewer: Lauren M.

Summary: Penny Lane is a girl from New York City who is forced to move to the small town of Hog's Hollow with her mother. Penny's mother owns a bakery where Penny often has to help out. Being a new girl is hard enough as it is because of all the new things, good and bad. Nobody would ever guess that new friends, new discoveries, and new enemies could start with the simple slip of a cupcake.

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Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone

Title: Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Reviewer: MaryPat

Summary: This book is about a eleven year old wizard named Harry Potter. When Harry was a baby his parents were killed by a dark wizard, Voldemort. Now that Harry is older he is now learning more about his new wizard life.

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The City of Ember

Title: The City of Ember
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Reviewer: Courtney

Summary: When Lina Mayfleet discovers a mysterious paper just as her city is falling apart, lights are going out, their running out of food, and secrets are being kept, Lina will have to rely on the help of her old best friend Doon to maybe just maybe find a way to keep her city from falling apart.

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The Golden Hour

Title- The Golden Hour
Author- Maiya Williams
Reviewer- Chase
Nina and Rowan Popplewell just lost their mother in a car crash. Their father sends them to stay with their two aunts in Owatannauk, Maine. There, they meet Xanthe and Xavier. Nina is so depressed about her mother, she decides to go back in time at the old, abondoned, Owatannauk Hotel, which their aunts warned them not to go in. Rowan doesn't know where Nina is so he goes with Xanthe and Xavier back in time to the French Revoulition. Thinking that's where Nina went because she is a huge fan of Motzart. They can only time travel during the Golden Hour (sunset) and only have one week to find her and get back home or they will be stuck in that time period forever. In France, they meet many famous people like Motzart, King Louis, and Queen Marie Antoinette.Rowan becomes a friend of the Queen and hears her side of the story and later watches her exucution. While there, Rowan has made enemies, goes to prison and is about to be executed along with Xanthe and Xavier. Just before they are going to be killed, they escape,go back to the future, just in time, and Rowan finally figures out where Nina went. He goes back to 1990, Brooklyn, NY, where their mother met their father. He finds Nina, convinces her to go back and they end up with everything working out.

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Chasing Vemeer

Title- Chasing Vemeer
Author- Blue Balliett
Reviewer- Rachael
Summary-
Chasing Vermeer is about two 6th graders, Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay, whos' teacher, Isabel Hussey, get's them interested in art and soon they become good friends. However stange things start to happen: Petra finds a bizzare letter floating around. Mrs. Hussey is acting strangly. Calder's old friend Tommy Segovia's neighbor goes missing. Then, out of the blue, a famous painting A Lady Writing ( done by Johannes Vermeer ) is stolen. Petra and Calder are soon caught up in the search for A Lady Writing. I'd reccomend this book for anyone who lacks confidence or loves adventure. This book is about true friendship and finding yourself in what you love.

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Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan

Title: Ranger's Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan
Author: John Flanagan

Reviewer: Jack M

Summary: Will is a fifteen year old boy who has big dreams to become a knight but when the choosing ceremony comes he is rejected by all the craft masters except for one, the mysterious ranger Halt. Will trains as Halt's apprentice and they journey to the ranger gathering. When they get there though they find everyone is leaving. They learn a shocking truth Morgarath is rising.

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The Last Apprentice; Revenge of The Witch

Title: The Last Apprentice; Revenge of The Witch
Author: Joseph Delaney
Illustrator: Patrick Arrasmith
Reviewer: Amy

Summary:
Thomas Ward is a seventh son of a seventh son. He takes on the job of being the spooks apprentice, which twenty-nine others have failed at or died trying to do. Along the way he meets a witch named Alice, who gets him into a lot of trouble. She tricks him into freeing the most dangerous witch, Mother Malkin. He learns how to capture boggarts, deal with witches, and gain courage as he defends the good people from the evils that lurk in the night. In the end he goes through many perils but manages to destroy Mother Malkin, once and for all.

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Twilight

Book: Twilight
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Reviewer: Jaki

Imagine falling in love with someone you shouldn't. Someone who would be dangerous to be around. Bella Swan was just another average teenage girl until she met Edward. Square jaw, tall, golden eyes perfect hair and smile that any girl would kill to even watch, Edward was just gorgeous. But something was strange about him and his family the Cullens, all so beautiful with pale hard sparkling skin staying secluded from the other students. Edward was a vampire. But Bella didn't care, all she knew was that she was so deeply in love with him that he was almost part of her soul. Edward loved Bella so much he was willing to die for her but was that enough to tame the intense burning in his throat when Bella was around or the tantalizing smell of her skin, even the rush of the blood in her throat? Is it possible for their passion to survive? On top of this the evil vampire Victoria is searcing to kill Bella since Edward killed her husband, Victoria wants revenge. Nothing will stop her from biting humans and making an army of young strong vampires who live for one purpose. To snuff out the life of Bella Swan.

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