You have completed 3 novels for your summer reading projects. Write a short review for one of the 3 books. The review should include a VERY brief summary, an explanation of why you did or did not like it and a rating ("two thumbs up!" "5 stars!").
Remember: Proofread before posting Use academic language. You're not chatting or texting, so words must be spelled out fully and correctly. Do not use your last name. Only first names and/or numbers.
The book 'The Black Stallion' is a very good book.It is about a boy who is stuck on an island with a wild horse. Soon they become friends and are rescued from the island. When tey return home, they are in between a big race!! I give this book 5 stars!!
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Zach
9/7/2010 04:36:31 am
The book that i took intrest in was Holes.I really liked Holes becuase it showed you what happend if you did something wrong.I also liked it becuase it tells you what it is like in Texas.The last reason why i liked it becuase it was diffirent from the movie.
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Sissy
9/7/2010 04:37:25 am
The Castle Corona: The Castle Corona was a neutral book because there was not a great storyline or suspensful conflict. It took place in the time with castles and villages where to peasant children, Pia and Enzio dreamed of living in the Castle Corona. This is not my favorite book, but i would give this book a 3 star rating.
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Richard
9/7/2010 04:37:25 am
Maniac macgee It was a sad story though his adventures made it exciting. his aunt and uncle made his lif a lifeles shell. I think maniac fownd his life and his family at the end of this adventure.
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Jorge
9/7/2010 04:38:19 am
Roll of Thunder, Here Me Cry I think this book was the best book I have ever read. I would recomend this book to everyone in the class. The book teaches me of true friendship and honesty.
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Sebastian
9/7/2010 04:38:19 am
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry was a very uninteresting book because it has a lot of racism and vurgal languge. I wouldn't recomend it to anyone because of it's racism conduct.
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haylee#32
9/7/2010 04:38:19 am
The book Holes is a very exciting book to read it has adventure and love and all sorts of things.Its a great book for people who love adventure, love, myths and culter.I Give the 5 stars.
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Noah
9/7/2010 04:39:13 am
The Westing Game was a very good book. This book made me sit up and stay up late reading from the light from my lamp. This book is filled with a mystery of a murder. For me it was an all time favorite. I give this book a 5 star rating. I recommend this book to everyone.
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Jordan
9/7/2010 04:40:07 am
The book that I am reviewing is called Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. I liked this book because is is very discriptive and it tells a good story about a family. This family lives in hards times where money is scarce. Through out the book the family faces many events that lead up to a family friend dying. That is why I recommend this book.
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Grant
9/7/2010 04:40:07 am
The Westing Game was the best book I have ever read. It was full of suspense and I never wanted to put it down. There are so many things you have to pay attention to, but they all end up to work out to a surprising finish.
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Dustin #28
9/7/2010 04:41:01 am
The Cay I like the Cay because it was a intresting book and it was about a boy and a man who got stuck on a island and the boy became blind. The man died of exaustion during a hurricane and was protecting the kid with its body and fell down into the water and died. One day later a plane spoted the boy and sent a bout to pick him up and he meet back with his family.
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Dominique #29
9/7/2010 04:41:55 am
The Cay The Cay was about a family leaving their home on a boat crashed and left Billy with a fatal head injury that blinds him. Billy and Timothy survive on very little water until they hit land and on this very small island Timothy and Billy make a shelter and wait until someone rescues them. I enjoyed reading this book because it showed me how a relationship can grow if you form your own opinions. At first, Billy's mom told him that african americans are uneducated and rude and that is what Billy was thinking as he was first was in the boat with Timothy. Their relationship grew from there.
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Katelyn
9/7/2010 04:42:49 am
Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry: Roll of Thunder,Hear my cry was a very good book explaining black pride, independence and love. Roll of thunder, Hear my cry definately explained the strength of the Logan Family to defend their land and their friends and family. I would reccomend this book to many children to teach them about history I give this book a four star rating.
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Patrick
9/7/2010 04:43:43 am
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry I would give this book 3 stars because sometimes the book confused me with the names of the characters like, at first I thought Staacey was a girl because Stacey is a girl's name. Cassie Logan and her brothers and sisters make a bus drive into a hole because the bus driver kept on splashing mud into them. Then the next big thing is when T.J. and his friends who are white mistakenly kill a owner of a store while robbing him. So the whole town gets mad at T.J. for killing so they send to jail instead of killing him because the sheriff said they couldn't. Cassie's dad told them T.J. could die in jail so Cassie cried for her land so it would never be taken away and for T.J.
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Samuel
9/7/2010 04:45:49 am
I didn't like Roll of Thunder, Hear my cry because it was a really boring book from my perspective. I thought it was really boring because I like story's with alot of action or mystery. I don't really have much to say about this book.
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Lorenzo36
9/7/2010 04:46:44 am
I like the book The Westing Game because it is very suspenceful and has a lot of mystery. Also it has deception and the characters don't now who the killer is and when will he or she strike next.
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Yvan
9/7/2010 04:47:39 am
The Westing Game I read the book The Westing Game and I recomend it to alot of people. This book tells about a rich man who died and at his funeral he a letter was shown to his 16 nephews and nieces and the letter said that he died because of one his nephews and nieces. Then they made a competition that if one of the people found out who did it they would win the cash prize. This book tells about disaster and tradegy and tells about the background of the charecters.
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Max #8
9/7/2010 08:22:43 am
I thought that Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry was a good book. It taught me That even if you are continually degrated stay strong. It tellls of a black family gets teased and laughed at but they still took pride in their land.
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Jorge
9/7/2010 08:29:46 am
Roll of Thunder, Here Me Cry I think this book was the best book I have ever read. I would recomend this book to everyone in the class. The book teaches me of true friendship and honesty. I give it five stars!
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Meryl
9/7/2010 08:46:54 am
Holes Review I liked this book because I loved the idea of digging holes to learn discipline. My favorite part of the book was the adventure. This book was very exciting and descriptive. Holes is about an innocent boy named Stanley who goes to a cruel camp. After days of digging, he makes new friends and learns that digging isn't as easy as it looks. If you read this book, you wouldn't want to dig a hole EVER! Anyways, as Stanley makes a great friend named Hector (Zero), Stanley finds out that that life isn't so great for him. Sadly, Stanley is unlucky to. When Zero runs away from camp, Stanley runs after him and they start an extraordinary journey to God's thumb. Then everything takes a sudden turn, Stanley finds his ancestor's "treasure chest" and Zero finds his parents. This book was amazing and I would give it two thumbs up and two toes up, too! :)
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Jackie
9/7/2010 08:55:45 am
My favorite summer reading book this year was the Westing Game. It is about Samuel Westing, owner of esting Paper Products. His nieces and nephews must find out who murdered him by playing "the Westing Game". I enjoyed this book because it was full of suspense, crime, and mystery, and I like books with those things. I also liked this book because the charachters reminded me of people I know in real life. This book defenitely deserves five stars!!!
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Katie
9/7/2010 09:06:00 am
The Westing Game The Westing Game is a great book for anyone who wants a good mystery. This story is about a man named Sam Westing, who creates a game and invites his sixteen nieces and nephews to play. I would recommend this book for its unique characters, interesting plot, and the suspense you feel while reading the book. I would definetely rate it a ten out of ten!
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Michael #15
9/7/2010 09:11:22 am
The book Holes is one of my favorite books. I loved the plot of the story because it is very intresting. The story is about a boy named Stanley who was accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes and is sent to Camp Green Lake. I reccomend this book to all ages because it is a great book to understand. I love this book and I think everyone who will read it will like it too.
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Joseph
9/7/2010 09:40:08 am
The Westing Game was awesome to the extreme. I like the book a lot. In the book, an ecentric millionare dies and leaves his will in the form of a game to 16 heirs who no nothing about each other. The story is mysterious while funny. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Jill
9/7/2010 10:10:05 am
The Westing Game was a super good book. It was about a rich man who died and left his fortune to 16 heirs. In his will he paired the heirs and told them that the pair that found the one among them theat had tacken his life would be the winner of the Westing fortune. The book was amazing and I would give 5 stars!
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Tommy
9/7/2010 12:36:23 pm
Holes is my favorite book. I love how the story is about a boy accused of stealing and goes to a camp where you have to dig holes. He learns that the counselors are looking for something so the boy Stanley, goes on an adveture to find the treasure. I recommend it to everyone. It is totally 5 stars!
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Noelle #6
9/7/2010 01:27:35 pm
The Black Stallion My favorite summer reading book is The Black Stallion. I like The Black Stallion because the freindship that Alex and the Stallion have is so strong, and mysterious. And the communication that they use isn't through vioce but by attitude, how they look, by the look in thier eyes, and by instinct. I also like how they always stick together and no matter what. I personally give this amazing book a two thumbs up and five stars.
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Trevor
9/7/2010 02:15:39 pm
I liked the Westing Game because I like to read mystery books. Becuase you can try and figure out what is going to happen and if your wrong, so what. I enjoyed the suspense of wondering what happened to Mr. Westing. I like tyring to figure out who the bomber was, and who was leaving all of those notes. These books are so interesting I can harldy put it down until it's over. I give it 4 stars.
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Alexandra
9/7/2010 02:28:33 pm
The Cay was a very good book for a person who is looking for drama realated situations. It is about a boy, Philip, who is on a boat which soon gets blown up! He gets hit on the head and soon wakes up to a black man with him on a raft. They happen to come across a small island and stay there for several months.I would recommend this book and give it 5 stars.
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Emily
9/7/2010 06:26:29 pm
Witch of Blackbird Pond The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a story about a girl named Kit who came from a tropical island who moved to America in the 1600's. She learned that life there was not the same as it was on her island. Kit learned to cope with new ideas and ways of life. However, she did things her way and often got in trouble for it. Some people even called her a witch and she had to flee. I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading this book. However, it was not the best book I've ever read. So, if you have nothing better to do then I would say, read Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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Emily
9/7/2010 06:31:16 pm
Witch of Blackbird Pond One thumb up!
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brittany#1
9/8/2010 04:25:22 am
I recomend The Black Stallion. Its about a boy who is stranded in a island with a wild stallion.This book is great for horse lovers and people who want to read a book about adventure. I'll give it 4 stars!!!! ****
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