Student book review - "The Book of Bad Things"

The Book Of Bad Things. This book is a good book I read it and I liked it. The author of this book is Dan Poblocki, who also wrote the books The Stone Child, The Nightmares, The Mysterious Four series, The Ghost Of Graylock and The Haunting Of Gabriel Ashe.  

This book is about a girl named Cassidy Bean who is on the bus to go somewhere……. Her view was good but then it started to get worse and worse until she arrived to a place and she had to go to a parking lot to meet Mrs.Tremont and Joey so that they can show her the path to go to her house. She spent two summers in there. They believe that there are demons in the house. The people went in and then came out something was following them, it was a beast. WILL THE PEOPLE TRY TO SOLVE THE CURSE AND LET THE BEAST GO BACK TO WHERE IT CAME FROM AND SURVIVE READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT.

This connects to my life because I have been lost in a lot of places and Cassidy also can’t find her house so she needs someone to help her. My favorite part of this book is when the group of people go into the house and find a map and Cassidy is going to follow the map then a beast was following them around the place. I think there is no movie version of this book. This book is different from the other books in the series because this book is a mystery and not that scary because there was a zombie in the house which is interesting and when a beast followed them they were suspicious of why it is following them.

I would rate this book because this book was not too scary so I would rate this a three and a half out of five stars. I rate this book that because this book is also not that mysterious and I love scary and mystery books and this book has both scary and mysteries. If you bought the book I hope you enjoyed it.

Student Book Review - "Percy Jackson"

Percy Jackson

By: Rick Riordan

I liked this book because this book is mainly about Ancient Greek, and Ancient Civilizations, which is my favourite topic. This book is about a kid named Percy Jackson who has dyslexia and ADHD. Percy gets attack on a school trip by monsters. His teacher and, friend later deny that there is such a thing as monsters, because his friend hesitated when he asked. Later in that day, Percy went to his room to study for his test, and then he went to ask for help from his teacher, but he heard his friend and teacher talk about the monster incident. Then he asked his friend why he lied and, he said “The less you knew, the fewer monsters you attract”. Percy then leaves his friend and goes to his room to pack up because he got expelled from the academy. When he reaches his house, his friend followed him and told him monsters were coming and, then his mom sends him to a special camp for people like him. He later found out that he was a son of Poseidon. My favourite part is when everyone found out that he was a son of because everyone knelt down to him. The book and movie are pretty much the same except the movie changed some stuff. The other books are still about fighting monsters. I gave this book a rating of 5/5 because Ancient Civilizations was my favourite topic.

student book review - DORK DIARIES

Student Book Review Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renee Russell

    Have you ever had an enemy that is always behind you? Well that’s exactly what happened to Nikki Maxwell in this novel.

“Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl” was a very interesting book that caught my eye and I loved it. This story started when Nikki Maxwell was hoping her crush Brandon Robert, will ask her to the Halloween dance. But she was heartbroken when she overheard her biggest enemy, Mackenzie Hollister, bragging that she and Brandon are going to the dance together. But Nikki was shocked when Brandon asked her to the dance and realized that Mackenzie was lying. Nikki agreed to go with him and ended up having the best time of her life.

This story was very interesting. My favourite part of the story was when Brandon asked Nikki out and she found out Mackenzie was lying. If I was Nikki I would never think that Mackenzie was telling the truth. This is my favourite book from the series because this one was the one I thought flowed more smoothly than the others.

I would rate this book 5 star out of 5. What made this book so great was how the story was well written, and the story was very enjoyable to read and very interesting.

Student Book Review - "The Sister's Club"

Stinks being the middle child? Right? Well that’s exactly how Stevie Reel feels like in this fabulous novel. Stevie Reel senses as if she is the glue holding the family together. Especially since “Boss Queen Alex” has gotten way too wrapped up in her school play and her leading man, it’s like there’s no more time for, well basically anything.

      In the extraordinary story “The Sisters Club” we meet the protagonist Stevie Reel who feels similar to the glue holding the family together.  The family is excessively tied up in other things like acting and cooking, that there is no more time for the sisters club or even family dinners. There’s been much more drama and way too much arguing between the sisters and it all started ever since the “Boss Queen Alex” had gotten too caught up in her acting life and love live. Will the three sisters make up? Or will there be no more sisters club?

      One of my favorite parts in this book was when Stevie the protagonist “borrows” her sister’s lucky sweater and once she pulls a thread on the sweater, the sweater comes apart. This was my favorite part because it had created some suspense at the moment and it strengthened the conflict some more. This was shown in the story when Stevie had ripped her older sister’s sweater, this had showed suspense because the reader did not know what she was going to do next. At this moment the book was also a great page turner.

      Overall I would rate this enjoyable book 4 out of 5 because although it was a great suspenseful book, I would ask for a little bit more detail because I believe that it did not have as much of detail in the whole book itself and the conflict. Despite the fact that this book was lacking in detail, it was a great page turner and I would really recommend this book for anyone looking for some bumps along the way of the story.   

Student Book Review - "One Piece"

One Piece
by: Eiichiro Oda

 Has your friend ever done something behind your back and thought it would make you happy? Well that's what happens in this book. In this amazing book, a 17 year old boy named Luffy D. Monkey sets sail to become a pirate with a crew of 6 of his friends. Robin, one of his friends secretly sacrifices herself to the Navy. When Luffy and his other friends find out Robin sacrificed her life to ensure the safety of her friends they don't accept it. While Robin is chained up and waiting for the escort ship to come and take her to prison, she remembers all the good times she had with her friends and she realizes she wants to go back. When her friend find out they have to fight against the navy's cp.9 group of assassins to get her back. Now the final question is will they be able to get her back before she is taken to prison and will they make it out alive?

  My favorite part of this book is when Luffy gets into a fight with one of the assassins named Bleuno. I can relate to Luffy because many times people do stuff for me behind my back that I don't like. To me this book is not the most   interesting in the series because some others have more interesting and important events. I would rate this book four out of five since this book is interesting because it has a lot of suspense. This book is also humorous and adventurous and it has everything I am looking for. I took off one star because some of the other books in this series are more interesting.

Student Book Review - Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The book is called The Hunger Games. The author of the book is Suzanne Collins. I personally love this novel. Five, no three pages into the book and I was hooked. I read it about 6 times. I also love this book because it is filled with violence and drama. So let me tell you more about the book.

The nation of Panem, a shining capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

My favorite part of the book was when Katniss and Peeta needed to kill each other even though they are on the same team, because there could be only one winner so they almost committed suicide, so the Gamemakers let them live.

The movie version is a bit different than the novel because it doesn't have many things the novel has, for example, in the book Katniss had to go to a feast but in the movie they didn't show it. This is the first book to The Hunger Games trilogy and all of the books were amazing but this book is the one that really gets my attention.

Katniss Everdeen reminds me of myself because like Katniss I have many talents but I am shy to show anyone, unless it is mandatory.

I rated this novel a solid 5 out of 5. It may sound like I am exaggerating, but I am not. The story is a violent, jarring, speed rap of a novel, that has constant suspense. I rated this novel a solid 5 because it was brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced.

  

Student Book Review: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Have you ever had a week that went terribly wrong? Well, this book for sure will relate to you my friend. I love this book so much because it is very humorous as well as heart-warming. This book is written by Sara Pennypacker.  

This is about a girl named Clementine, who is a not-so-common third grader, and who is constantly being told that she needs to pay attention in class. On the contrary, she pays attentions to shrewd things, like looking for ceiling snakes. In this book, Clementine gets in trouble for cutting off her best friend’s hair. From this problem onwards, she has to face other problems along the week, like Clementine loosing her best friend, or she thinking that her parents are giving her away. These are some of the problems that she faces; although there are many more problems that can be counted. Also, she is not understood by her teachers in school.

Clementine reminds me of myself because Clementine yells at the principal and I yell at my brother many times. Also I like scaring off birds and Clementine helps her dad scare off the pigeons. There is no movie based on this book and, I have not read the other Clementine books in the series. My favorite part in the book is when Clementine makes a hat for her best friend Margaret which shows how powerful friendship is.

My rating for this book is 5 stars out of 5 (*****out of *****). I gave this rating because it has a wonderful story, with twists and turns. Also this book is has suspense and it has heart-warming moments.