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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Bucking the Sarge

Title: Bucking the Sarge

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

Reviewer: Michael L.

This book is fun and interesting. It is about a boy named Luther T. Farrell. His mom is named the Sarge because she is rich and powerful. His best friends name is Sparky they have been friends since kindergarten. Luther has to work hard and long for his mom. She runs a realty business and Luther has to take care of the Sarges business people. One day he gets fed up with the Sarge so he figures out a plan to take the Sarge down!

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Cryptid Hunters

Title:Cryptid Hunters

Author:Roland Smith

Reviewer:Mike

The book "Cryptid Hunters" is about twins, Grace and Marty O'Hara. Their parents are world class photographers that go missing in the Amazon when their helicopter crashed. With their parents missing they are sent to live with their uncle they never knew they had. Their uncle Wolfe studies Cryptozoology. He searches for animals that have not been proven real. He plans to leave for the the Congolese jungle to look for a dinosaur that killed his wife. Wolfe isn't the only one who is looking for the dinosaur. Dr. Blackwood is looking to make money off of it. On the plane trip to take the kids back to their school for a month until summer vacation,the twins fall out of the plane with the provisions that Wolfe was going to use in the Congo. They have to dodge Dr. Blackwood's men and wait for Wolfe. Not everything goes as planned. You will have to read the book to see what happens.

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