Plot: This book is by Jennifer L. Holm, three time Newbery Honor-Winning author. Twelve year old Ellie Cruz is enjoying her life, or not, when a strange and cranky teenager appears on her doorstep. He seems familiar yet different. It turns out that this old school teenager is actually her grandfather (a scientists who worksContinue reading “THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH”
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WRINGER
Plot: Palmer LaRue lives in his hometown of Waymer and is about to turn 10, but for him it’s not cool at all. At ten years old, kids become wringers. People at the Pigeon Shooting Day wring the injured pigeons’ necks. Palmer doesn’t want to become one. When he finds a pigeon on his windowContinue reading “WRINGER”
Charlotte’s Web
Plot: This book by E.B.White is about a young pig, named Wilbur, who is saved from an untimely death by Fern, the daughter of the farmer. Soon, he is sold to another farmer, Mr. Zuckerman. He feels lonely and has no friends. Then one night, he hears a thin and pleasant voice of a grayContinue reading “Charlotte’s Web”
Starry River of the Sky
Plot: In the almost ghost-town like village of Clear Sky, the moon has been missing and is not showing up at night! A chore-boy, named Rendi, seems to be the only person who has noticed this. Why is the moon missing? Why does Rendi’s master, Master Chao, seem to be always bickering with Widow Yan?Continue reading “Starry River of the Sky”
One Crazy Summer
Plot: This book by Rita Williams-Garcia is about three sisters who are trying to find their mother who abandoned them. The story is about three African-American girls, Delphine, Vonetta and Fern during 1968 who visit Oakland, California and meet their real mother without knowing her. The book talks about how these three girls were treatedContinue reading “One Crazy Summer”
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Plot: This book by E.L. Konigsburg is about two kids who run away from their home and their stingy parents and live at the museum. Turns out they have a mystery to solve. Claudia and her brother, Jamie run away from home and live at he Metropolitan Museum of Art in the city of NewContinue reading “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Plot: This novel written by Grace Lin is a Chinese folktale. It is about a girl, Minli, whose entire village is extremely poor and they have to work in fields because they had no rain and they were supposed to flood the rivers to do their work. The Jade Dragon stopped making rain. Her fourContinue reading “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon”
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