Last update: 8/24/99, 9:58 pm
Title: BATTLE FOR THE CASTLE ---- Author: Elizabeth Winthrop
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Adventure
Two twelve year-old boys shrink with a magic token. They go back in time. They burn ships and fight rats. They all learn a lot of new things.
Reviewer: Brendan ---- Grade: 4
Title: WAIT TILL HELEN COMES ---- Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Mystery
Wait Till Helen Comes is a suspenseful novel. I promise you won't want to put it down. It's about a family that moved in a church and there is a mysterious graveyard that haunts Molly's little sister. Molly tries to warn her sister, but she doesn't listen. Will Heather be led to her doom?
Reviewer: Summer ---- Grade: 5
Title: BUBBA THE COWBOY PRINCE ---- Author: Helen Ketteman
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous Books
This story is about a cowboy and his two wicked stepbrothers and stepfather. He meets Miz Godcow, a fairy cow, who changes his clothes into handsome cowboy clothes and sends him to the ball where he meets Miz Lurleen. He loses his boot and Miz Lurleen finds it and marries him!! This book is very funny.
Reviewer: Emily ---- Grade: 1
Title: AKIAK: A TALE FROM THE IDITAROD ---- Author: Robert J. Blake
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Non-Fiction
Akiak is a true story about a sled dog in Alaska. Akiak is an experienced sled dog on his last race. I liked this story because he is brave and adventurous and a wonderful dog.
Reviewer: Jordan ----- Grade: 2
Title: The Apprentices of Lucas Whitaker ---- Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
When all of Lucas's family dies, he runs away. He comes to a town where he becomes an apprenctice for Dr. Barnabas. Lucas also helps cure almost all of the people in the town.
Reviewer: Caitlin ---- Grade: 5
Title: BEST ENEMIES, FOREVER ---- Author: Kathleen Leverich
Rating: 8 ---- Category: Humorous, Realistic Fiction
It is the third book of the "Best Enemies Series" about Priscilla, Robin, and Felicity Doll. Felicity and Priscilla have been enemies since second grade, and Felicity's clever tricks always ruin Priscilla's glory, from OLP club to a tree ceremony. But Priscilla also has her good times. Find out what they are in a 4-chapter, 136 page, funny book. It took me one night to read. Try the other books in this series too!!
Reviwer: Heidi ---- Grade: 4
Title: BFG ---- Author: Roald Dahl
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Fantasy
The Big Friendly Giant is about a little girl who was sleeping and this Giant came up and took her away. She asked if she could go home, but the BFG said no.
Reviewer: Cassie ---- Grade: 5
Title: BABYSITTERS CLUB - KAREN'S ROLLER SKATES ---- Author: Ann M. Martin
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Realistic Fiction
This book is about a little girl who got some new roller skates. Karen, the little girl, can do tricks with them. In the story, Karen falls down and breaks her wrist. She has to go to the hospital and get a cast. Karen wants some famous singer to sign her cast, but it won't be easy. Karen is determined and won't give up till the job is done.
Reviewer: Emilee ---- Grade: 5
Title: MATILDA ---- Author: Roald Dahl
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Fantasy
The book, Matilda, is about a little girl who is always left at home by herself. On day, she got her courage up, and went to the library and got some books. She always wanted to go to school, but her dad would not let her, but he finally died.
Reviewer: Emilee ---- Grade: 5
Title: Matilda ---- Author: Roald Dahl
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Fantasy
The book Matilda is about a little girl who is at home by herself. She makes her own breakfast, then one day she went to the library and she read all the books.
Reviwer: Cassie ---- Grade: 5
Title: FRANKIE MURPHY'S KISS LIST ---- Author: Donna Guthrie
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous Book
In this book, Frankie says that he's kissed five hundred girls at his other school, but Travis wants proof. So Travis wants Frankie to kiss all of the sixth grade girls before the school year is over.
Reviewer: Lyndsey ---- Grade: 4
Title: FOURTH GRADE RATS ---- Author: Jerry Spinelli
Rating: 9 ---- Category: Humorous Book
This book is about a boy named Suds. His friend, Joey, is a fourth grade rat. He wants Suds to be too. But Suds doesn't want to. Joey says if he does, Judy Billings will like him. Suds likes Judy, but he's not sure he wants to be a rat.
Reviewer: Katie ---- Grade: 4
Title: S.O.R. LOSERS ---- Author: Avi
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous Book
In this book, Avi reveals his name. In the book, the kids are in seventh grade, and their team is called S.O.R. Losers. Mr. Lester, the history teacher, is the coach, and has a great sense of battle and glory.
Reviwer: Lyndsey ---- Grade: 4
Title: KAREN'S KITTYCAT CLUB ---- Author: Ann M. Martin
Rating: 6 ---- Category: humorous book
Karen wants to start a club. So she makes a club were she can sit for cats. When it doesn't work out, she makes a new club. Read this book to see what kind of club it is.
Reviewer: Rachel ---- Grade: 4
Title: KAREN'S KITTYCAT CLUB ---- Author: Ann M. Martin
Karen and her brother Andrew have two of everything, and their parents are divorced. She has four stepbrothers and a stepsister.
Rating: ? ---- Category: humorous book
Reviwer: Emilee ---- Grade: 5
Title: ROMEO AND JULIET TOGETHER (AND ALIVE) AT LAST ---- Author: Avi
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous book
This book is about a boy and a girl who like each other. They are shy, so Ed puts on a play and they are Romeo and Juliet. There is a Kissing scene!
Reviewer: Jennifer ---- Grade: 4
Title: GOOD WORK AMELIA BEDELIA ---- Author: Peggy Parish
Rating: 7 ---- Category: Humorous Book
Amelia Bedelia is a maid. The setting is in Mr. and Mrs. Rogers house. Mrs. Roger game Amelia a list of stuff to do. One of the things on the list was to pot the flowers, and Amelia puts the flowers in the cooking pots.
Reviewer: Lauren ---- Grade: 4
Title: SOMETHING UP STAIRS ---- Author: Avi
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Mystery/Scary
Something Up Stairs is about a boy named Kenny. Kenny just moved to Providence, Rhode Island. He found a stain of human blood. Every night a boy named Caled Willinghast rose from the stain.
Reviewer: Brendan ---- Grade: 4
Title: S.O.R. LOOSERS ---- Author: Avi
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous Book/Contemporary Fiction
S.O.R. Loosers is about a soccer team that can't score. The boys had never played soccer before. The boys on the team only scored one point the whole season. The boys names are Dorman, Radosh, Macht, Saltz, Barish, Lifsom, and Hays.
Reviewer: Brendan ---- Grade: 4
Title: TIME WARP TRIO: KNIGHTS OF THE KITCHEN TABLE ---- Author: Jon Scieszka
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Humorous Book/Adventure
I think it is a good book because it is about three boys my age who travel into the past. It is so funny.
Reviewer: Ben ---- Grade: 4
Title: WAIT TILL HELEN COMES ---- Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Mystery
Molly, Michael and their bratty stepsister Heather have just moved to the country. All of them find this graveyard on their property. Heather finds this one grave and a ghost appears. Heather becomes friends with it and Molly finds out that this ghost named Helen that Heather talks to lures kids into the Harper pond to drown.
Reviewer: Katelin ---- Grade: 6
Title: MEET KIRSTEN ---- Author: Janet Shaw
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Historical Fiction
Kirsten left Sweden and is going to America. Kirsten's best friend is also going! One of my favorite parts is when Kirsten and Marta, her friend, are inside a coil of rope.
Reviewer: Laura ---- Grade: 4
Title: THE WITCHES ---- Author: Roald Dahl
Rating: 9 1/2 ---- Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
The Witches is a kind of gross book, but it's great. It's really pretty weird, but fun because the witches turn into mice at the end.
Reviewer: Julia ---- Grade 4
Title: WINTER CAMP ---- Author: Kirkpatrick Hill
Rating: 10 ---- Category: Adventure
The book is about 2 kids whose parents die so they go to live with an older woman named Natasaha. One day they go to the traplines. Natasaha teaches them almost everything they need to know about the trap lines and living there. Then one of Natasaha's friends gets hurt and she must go to town to get help. Now they must live by themselves for two weeks. Will they survive the -50 degree temperatures? Or will they die?
Reviewer: Ryan ---- Grade: 5
Title: SOS TITANIC ---- Author: Eve Bunting
Rating: 8 ---- Category: Historical Fiction
Fifteen year-old Barry O'Neill leaves his grandparents behind in Ireland and sets sail on the ill-fated Titanic to be reunited with his parents in New York. The author has woven into the story many details about the Titanic as well as showing the different treatment of first class and steerage passengers. This book should please all readers interested in knowing more about what it might have been like to be on the Titanic.
Reviewer: Mrs. Imber ---- Grade: Library
Title: EARTHQUAKE TERROR ---- Author: Peg Kehret
Rating: 9 ---- Category: Adventure
This page turner recounts Jonathan's experiences when he, his dog, and his disabled sister, Abby, find themselves alone on Magpie Island during and after an earthquake. Jonathan's quick thinking and resourcefulness are needed many times. This book is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. It's also being considered for the 1999 William Allen White Award.
Reviewer: Mrs. Imber ---- Grade: Library
