Category: dramas & shows

By: Trenton Lee Stewart Rate: very good In this sequel to The Mysterious Benedict Society, the four kids (Reynie, Sticky, Kate and Constance) find, with horror, that their friends and even dad (for Constance, Mr. Benedict had adopted him) had been captured by the evil Mr. Curtain: the non-sleeping Number Two, and the kind Mr.…

By: Trenton Lee Stewart Rate: very good This is a very intense and interesting book. Four special kids take tests to go on an adventure organized by the genius Mr. Benedict: Reynard (Reynie) Muldoon, George (Sticky) Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire. All four kids have unique abilities and weaknesses, too. After naming themselves The…

By: Alyson Gerber Rate: between very good and supreme Clea is a girl who cannot focus on anything except chess. She knows she should concentrate, but she keeps getting distracted. Soon, it is becoming a problem, not only for work, but also for playing chess, her favorite thing to do, and just hanging out with…

By: Booki Vivat Rate: between very good and supreme Meet Abbie Wu, an about-to start-middle-school kid who is the sister of the awesome Peter Wu. Abbie dreads the Middles because nothing ever happens good in the middles. She doesn’t have a “Thing” (basically an elective), her homeroom teacher is mean, the lunch is disgusting, and…

By: Gary D. Schidmit Rate: very good Holling Hoodhood, The Son Who is Going to Inherit Hoodhood and Associates, has a teacher, Mrs. Baker, who hates his guts, just because he is Presbyterian. She tries many plots to get Holling in trouble, like trying to get him to retake sixth grade mathematics (he is in…

By: Pam Munoz Ryan Rate: very good, but a bit confusing at the beginning  Echo is a confusing but interesting story, telling of many characters. But, as I mentioned, it makes me a bit confused at the beginning. The author always writes about one main character until the climax, then suddenly moves to the next…