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Student Review: "Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid," by Jeff Kinney
Rowley Jefferson a kid who writes in a diary inspired by his close friend Greg Heffley. Where Rowley explains the wacky things him and...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 24, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Taming the Star Runner," by S.E. Hinton
Taming the Star Runner is a great book about a teenage boy named Travis. Travis is a good, smart kid from the city and loves to write and...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 24, 20211 min read


Student Review: "That was Then, This is Now," by S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now is a companion novel to The Outsiders. The main characters are 16-year-olds Bryon Douglass, who is also the...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 23, 20211 min read


Student Review: "The Outsiders," by S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders is a great book written in first person by the main character, Ponyboy Curtis. He is a pretty good kid and lives with his...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 23, 20211 min read


Student Review: "The Prince and the Pauper," by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper is about two boys who look the same, but one of them is a prince and the other is very poor. They end up...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 22, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Grimm's Fairy Tales," by The Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales is a collection of stories that were written a long time ago. These stories include Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose),...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 20, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Anne of Green Gables," by L.M. Montgomery
Anne Shirley's parents died when she was young, and has never had a real home with the two families that took her in before she had to go...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are poor, but living a happy life. There dad is in the army, and they befriend there rich neighbor's...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "A Little Princess," by Frances H. Burnett
Sarah Crew has just gotten off a boat from India and is now in London. She and her father go to a boarding school called, Miss Minchin:...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Heidi," by Johanna Spyri
When Heidi is five her father's sister, Detie, brings her to live with her grandfather up on the mountain because her parents have both...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Winterhouse," by Ben Gutterson
Orphan Elizabeth Somers is shipped off to a hotel by her aunt and uncle. She discovers that Winterhouse has many secrets. She finds a...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Pay Attention, Carter Jones," by Gary Schmidt
The book starts out with the Butler coming to Carter's house on the first day of school. Carters mom is trying to get everyone ready by...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "The Red Pony," by John Steinbeck
Jody Tiflin is given a red pony as a present from his father, Carl Tiflin. He names it Gabilan, and trains it. Just before Jody is able...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Treasure Island," by Robert Louis Stevenson
Young Jim Hawkins and his parents live in the inn they run and one day a stranger comes and stays at the inn for months. Jim's father...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Orange for the Sunsets," by Tina Athaide
This book is about 12 year old Indian Asha and her best African friend, Yesofu. When the president of their country decides that all...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "This Promise of Change," by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
This book takes place in a time when colored students were trying to integrate into whites only schools. This is the story about 1 of the...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "I Sing the Body Electric," by Ray Bradbury
This book is about a husband, 3 kids, and an electric grandma. The mother died and the dad did not know what to do for his family. Then...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Who is J.K. Rowling?," by Pam Pollack and Meg Belvino
J. K. Rowling was the author of all the Harry Potter books. She married twice and has had three kids. When she wrote the Harry Potter...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Our Castle by the Sea," by Lucy Strange
Petra lives in a lighthouse next to the sea during the first year of the second world war. She has a very courageous older sister named...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read


Student Review: "Aesop's Fables," by Aesop
Aesop's fables is many different short stories with animals and a milk maid. Each of the stories has a very important moral and teaches a...
Jennifer Denney
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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