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Wondering what to read?

These are books recommended by elementary school students who participated in our programs.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck

10/10. 211 pages. Reviewed by Kash.

"The characters were funny and weird."

(Spoilers):
Summary: "so in hard luck greg finds out that Rowley got a girlfriend named abigail. And in the book  greg has really bad luck. Then abigail dumps rowley and goes with bryce anderson."

Favorite part: "when rowley got a girlfriend"

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot

10/10. 210 pages. Reviewed by Kash

"the were funny"

(Spoilers):

Summary: "in the book big shot Greg makes the middle school basket ball team. And greg is shocked that he made it. They lost every single game then they get invited to a second chance tournement. And greg gets traded to the funky dunkers and make a game winning shot and they go out for ice cream."

Favorite part: "where greg makes the game winning shot"

Odder

10/10. 274 pages. Reviewed by Izzy.

(Spoilers):

"Something I liked about  the book was that even though Odder a Kairi can not leave the aquium. They can still teach little baby odders how to swim and live in the ocean."

Summary: "Odder is a very curious otter like many otters she loves to play around and have fun but, Odder got a little to curious and ended up in a big shark attack with her friend kairi. After the shark attack odder wash up on the rocks she could bearly move. On the other hand kairi ends up on the beach. They were both found and took to the aquium. Odder and kairi are both still unwell from the shark attack but, the sad part is the are to hurt and will never be aloud back into the ocean even though they cant leave the aquium they can still teach other baby otters how to swim."

Favorite part: "my favorite part of the book is when Odder teaches her first baby otter how to swim."

The One and Only Ivan

10/10. 345 pages. Reviewed by Jayden.

​"it was very wholesome and sweet"

(Spoilers):
Summary: "a poor gorilla Ivan wants to escape to a zoo where they have more freedom. he has other animal friends like an elephant called stella and a small dog ,bob. they eventully get shiped to a zoo  and have more freedom."

Favorite part: "when they got shipped to the zoo."

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

8/10. 217 pages.

​"the joke's were funny"

(Spoilers):
Summary: "My dad is always saying you can pick your nose but you can't pick your family.and even though I get his meaning,it does not want me to share a bowl of popcorn with him.He's right about family, though." (Why is this 4th grader being so poetic????? What??)

Favorite part: "when Greg's grandma used a restaurant's meat balls"

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The Missing

9/10. 307 pages. Reviewed by Tenley

​"i liked that there was a mystery and it was kind of fun to read"

(Spoilers):
Summary: "The book was about Zach and and his brother. His brother went missing and Zack went to find him and he and his friends found out he was in final kingdom and hunters from final kingdom came to the real world and are hunting him and his friends to trap them mr. yao was the mastermind and Zach got trapped and he is now trapped to (there are 3 books in the series.)"

Favorite part: "when Zach got trapped "

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window

10/10. 214 pages. Reviewed by Lily.

​"The characters were very brave"

(Spoilers):
Summary: "First ,they went to go live with Ant Josephine.Next, they saw Count Olaf and got really scared.Then, they thought Ant Josephine had jumped out the library window.Finally, Count Olaf got away and Ant Josephine was eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches."

Favorite part: "When the three Baudelaire’s found Ant Josephine."

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

9/10. 435 pages. Reviewed by Jenna.​

(Spoilers):
Summary: "In the beginning of the book when Harry Potter was on the Hogwarts Express the bus stopped and a dementor came on. A dementor is a floating black hooded creature that steals souls. About in the middle of the book at the Quidditch Field Harry was knocked off of his broom from a very high height because a dementor came to the game. Towards the end of the book Harry discovered that his Godfather was still living and he was Sirius Black, but he was thought to be a murderer. They traveled back in time to change the outcome of Sirius Black and Buckbeak, the Hippogriff, and their sentence to death. They saved their lives, but were not able to prove Sirius' innocence."

"I liked that Buckbeak survived in the end. I was sad when he was going to have to die."

Favorite part: "My favorite part of the book was when they traveled back in time."​

Space Case

8/10. 325 pages. Reviewed by Maggie​

(Spoilers):
Summary: "Space case is about a kid named Dashiell Gibson who lives on the moon the space director goes missing he and his friends try to find her. They go on the moon surface many times and almost die many other times they find Nina unconscious in a in a sub pod underneath the girls bathroom"

"I like that the author build suspense when Time comes to find Nina"

Favorite part: "My favorite part of the book is when Dashiell beats a bully on the moon with a space toilet suction cup"

The Fort

10/10. 257 pages. Reviewed by Scott

​"I liked one of the boys Death Defiers"

(Spoilers):
Summary: "This book is about 5 friends who found a fort in the woods. They just had a storm pass through and some of their homes are getting fixed and repaired.The fort is not only a place to hang out, but a place for one of the boys to escape his crazy dad who has a fein for hurting his son. But not all the boys know about his dad. He covers up his injuries by saying it was one of his death defiers. That means where he does something stupid to act like that was what hurt him. I love this book and I would recommend it to others."

Favorite part: "When they found the fort."

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