By: Trevor Noah Rate: very good Trevor Noah is a popular comedian in the USA. In his autobiography, he writes about his childhood and his early adulthood. Growing up in South Africa, Noah went through many difficulties. He was a mixed child during apartheid, which means he had a white father and a black mother…
By: James Bradley Rate: very good During World War II, there were 9 American Flyboys, or young pilots that fought in the war, flew over the Japanese island of Chichi Jima and were shot down and held prisoner, disappearing from the rest of the world. One of them was miraculously rescued. After the war, the…
By: Natalie Babbitt Rate: good Tuck Everlasting is a nice book. It takes place some time ago, with the Tuck family. They accidentally drank water from an everlasting spring, and now they live forever and cannot kill themselves. Winnie is a girl who meets the Tucks and discovers their secret, and is astonished. Jess Tuck,…
By: Debbie Levy Rate: very good In the graphic novel Becoming RBG, Levy describes Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life from when she was a child to when she finally became one of the nine justices on the Supreme Court of the United States. RBG was a very strong woman who knew what she was doing. She…
By: Randall Munroe Rate: very good How To is a book that is funny (it has comics) and has advice for real life problems. For example, Munroe describes how to play the piano in a crazy way, how to play tag, how to ski, how to win (or lose) an election, and how to dispose…
By: Alan Gratz Rate: very good Michael O’Shaunessy is a boy during World War II whose father is the Irish ambassador to Berlin. He is in the Hitler Youth like all the other boys in Nazi Germany. But Michael has a secret: his whole family are spies. Michael hates the Nazis, but he pretends to…