Category: dramas & shows

By: Lauren Wolk Rate: good Annabelle McBride is a twelve-year-old girl during World War II who lives on a farm with her parents, grandparents, Aunt Lily, and her younger brothers James and Henry. She at first is nervous around Toby, a World War I veteran, because he carries three guns around his back and uses…

By: Christian McKay Heidicker Rate: very good This book for young children is wonderful, and it describes friendship. Seven little foxes sit around an old storyteller and listen to her terrifying stories. And here they are:  Mia is a young fox whose siblings are infected by the “yellow”, which is a disease that kills the…

By: Jasmine Warga Rate: in between good and very good During the Syrian Revolution, a girl named Jude is forced to move with her pregnant mother from her home in Syria to Cincinnati, America. She misses her revolutionary brother and unrevolutionary father, and her cousin in America, Sarah, does not seem to like her. Jude…

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,…