By: Miriam Spitzer Franklin Rate: very good Pansy is a girl who is in fifth grade. But her best friend, Anna, caught a disease in Girl Scouts Camp and got brain damage. When Pansy finds out that there is a brain surgery to cure Anna, she decides to be the best friend Anna ever had.…
By: Alan Gratz Rate: very good Alan Gratz once again brings a story of World War II; he puts his setting during D-Day. Dee is a sixteen year old boy who joins the army. He fights many people and sees so much die when he comes to Omaha Beach, where battle is raging between Germans…
By: William H. Armstrong Rate: good A boy stood with his father and his great coon dog, Sounder, one day during the 20th century. Sounder was a powerful dog, with an even more powerful voice. It was very beautiful. But one day the boy’s father was captured. Sounder attacked the men who had captured his…
By: Louisa May Alcott Rate: very good Little Women is a wonderful story of four March girls. Beautiful Meg, who wishes to be rich but soon learns that love is better than money, boyish Jo, who is kind and funny, with a terrible temper that she learns to control, timid Beth, who tries to overcome…
By: Chris Grabenstein Rate: very good Kyle Keeley is a big fan of master game-maker Luigi L. Lemoncello. When he hears that Mr. Lemoncello designed a library and is having a library lock-in, Kyle is determined to get in and see the famous man. But Kyle soon finds out that the lock-in is actually a…
By: Catherine Doyle Rate: good In this sequel to The Storm Keeper’s Island (which I have not read), Fionn, Arranmore’s Storm Keeper, saves Arranmore. Fionn cannot control his magic, or basically, his magic won’t appear. One day groups of Soulstalkers, the followers to the dreaded sorceress Morrigan, come to Arranmore. Fionn needs the Tide Summoner…