Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J. K. Rowling
Reviewer: Brady
Summary: A young 13-year-old wizard named Harry Potter is going off to his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he arrived at Hogwarts, he heard that the infamous murderer named Sirius Black as escaped from the wizard jail of Azkaban and was seeking revenge on Harry from the unfinished business of killing Harry’s parents. Sirius gave information of the Potters’ whereabouts to the most powerful dark wizard named Voldemort. As Harry very much wanted to go to the village of Hogsmeade for a school fieldtrip, but he didn’t have the permission form signed, so we found a secret tunnel that leads into the center of the village’s candy store using the Marauder’s map. Has he and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione, were sitting in the pub, teachers walked in and he overheard that Black was Harry’s godfather. While they were walking back from what they thought was Buckbeak’s, a hippogriff, execution, they were attacked by Sirius Black and dragged Ron holding his pet rat named Scabbers through a tunnel under the magical tree called the Whopping Willow into The Shrieking Shack. But the others realized as Professor Lupin came in and explained that Black was framed by Ron’s rat. It turns out that Ron’s rat was actually Peter Pettigrew! As they captured him and was taking Peter back to the castle, it turns out that Lupin was actually a warewolf. In all the commotion, Peter was able to escape. With Black’s name not cleared he had to into hiding. With escaping on Buckbeak and going into hiding, he was able to be undetected.

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The Devil and his Boy

The devil and his boy is a story that takes place in the past. The main character is a boy named Tom from Farmilingham who was sent to London by the queen (who he later finds out is his grandma). and when he gets to London he meets a thief who helps him find a job. Tom thought about what he wanted to do and decided he wanted to be an actor. Tom turns down Shakespeare because he would play a silent girl (because there were only men in plays). He finds a job with a mysterious group called the garden players. he finds out they are plotting to take out the queen. So in the act of saving her he tackles her and is to be put to death. Then Mol Cutpurse the thief and Gremial Ratsey a villain who tries to kill Tom twice saves him. The queen finds out that they are related and tells him how this is. The end.

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Title: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Author: Ally Carter
Reviewer: Maddie
Summary:
Cammie Morgan goes to the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, which is really a school for spies. She and her friends figure out that there is another spy school… but this one is for boys. First, she and her friends learn that their school is going to host some mysterious guests. Then, she is blamed for a security breach that has the school’s top secret status at a risk. The Gallagher girls and the Blackthorne boys have to team up to test their spy skills, and the stakes for Cammie’s school are higher than ever.

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Absolute Pressure

Title: Absolute Pressure
Author: Sigmund Brouwer
Reviewer: Jenny
Summary: Ian loves to scuba dive and works at his uncle’s dive shop in Key West, Florida. He strongly admires Sherri, the girl who also works at his uncle’s shop. He wonders what she would feel like if he told her that every time he sees her he tastes blackberries, because he has a condition called synesthesia. Someone has tried to kill Ian, twice and lead him to believe his uncle is in great danger. What he doesn’t know, is that it’s even more complicating and terrifying than he would have ever thought it to be. In the end, something shocking happens. Ian’s uncle isn’t who he thought he was. It will leave you asking, does Ian’s uncle care about him, or not?

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Eclipse

Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Reviewer: Jayden
Summary: Bella Swan is prone to getting into dangerous situations with her true love Edward Cullen and her best friend Jacob Black. A year before Edward had killed a vampire named James because he was trying to eat Bella. Victoria (a vampire) is out for revenge on Edward for killing her soul mate, James. Victoria rounds up a vampire army to try and kill Edward and Bella. Edward gets his family and Jacob’s werewolf pack to help fight in the battle. In the end Edward’s team wins and everything is back in balance.

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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 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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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 Giver

Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Reviewer: Alannah
The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who could not see color and didn't have pain or happiness. His whole community was the same no feelings no color. It was called sameness. When Jonas is older and recieves his job he is named Receiver and he learns that there is more than sameness and that there was a past of feeling color and happiness. Jonas learns this from a man he calls the Giver. When Jonas learns all of this and is beginning to see color he goes off searching for more communities with feeling and color to find out if was the past or if it is still here in present. This book is the first book in the trililogy by Lois Lowry. I think this book is really good and so is the rest of the triliogy and it's a fun adventure fantasy book I would definitely recommend it to others.
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Santa Paws on Christmas Island

Title: Santa Paws on Christmas Island
By: Kris Edwards
Reviewer: Krista

The book Santa Paws is a very good book. It is about a dog named Santa Paws and his owner Gregory Callahan. I liked this book because it is more about real life than some other books. It starts out with Gregory wanting a snow day (don’t we all). During the snow day they go snow boarding and Santa Paws saves the day. Santa Paws saves the day a lot. Santa Paws got his name by helping people. He mostly helped people during Christmas time and that is why he got the name Santa Paws. Some of the main characters are Santa Paws-the Callahan’s dog, Gregory- the owner of Santa Paws, and Patricia- Gregory’s sister. I liked this book because it shows how helpful dogs can be. This book is a great Christmas time book and I enjoyed reading it.
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Skeleton Key

Title: Skeleton Key
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Reviewer: Michael J.

Skeleton Key is about Alex Rider, a 14 year-old British spy, who is sent to Cuba on an island to team up with CIA agents Glen Carver and Belinda Troy to stop a former general for the Soviet Union named Alexi Sarov from using a nuclear bomb to blow up Russia. He believes if he blows up Russia, it will regain power. They go to stop a salesman who sold Sarov the nuclear materials and he dies. When Alex, Glen, and Belinda try to break into Sarov's mansion located on an island called Skeleton Key, Belinda and Glen are killed and Alex is kept inside Sarov's property. Since Sarov lost his son, he treats Alex like his son, but will not let Alex leave the island to spoil his plans.Can Alex escape and stop the bomb? Read to find out!

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