Category: dramas & shows
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Becoming RBG
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…
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How To
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…
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Projekt 1065
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…
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Extraordinary
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.…
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Allies
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…
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Sounder
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…
