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- Read 5 books or complete 25 hours of reading.
- Click on the links at the top of this blog to register (just once) and to post your book review entries.
- When you're finished, come on up to the 3rd floor desk to claim your prizes:
- $5 gift certificate to Borders or Barnes & Noble
- GameWorks 1/2 hour play card
- A chance to win a $20 gift certificate for the best book review entries
Title: Tuesdays With Morrie
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Mitch Albom
Rating: 4
I had given the book, Tuesdays With Morrie, a rating of four out of five because I liked how it was about a second chance to discover life through a dead friend.I also loved how this was about an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson because it teaches you something great in life that you should also stick to. The book to me,was a chance to see what is going on with a certain person, their difficulties, and their achievements in the world and how they responded to the miracles that they have overcome.That is why I gave the book, that certain rating and what I thought of the book.
*SPOILER ALERT*
ReplyDeleteTitle: Leaving Paradise
Author: Simone Elkeles
Rating: 5
I gave the above rating because I truley loved the book. It looked like a clever plot and twist, how two people can love each after one nearly killed the other in a hit-and-run. In the book, the guy's named Caleb and the girl's named Maggie. Because of the accident Celeb had to go a year to juvenile corrections facility, which caused him to be seen as a serious felen by a lot of the parents, schoolmates, and others living in Paradise when he came back. Maggie went from a popular tennis player (the only sophmore on the varsity team), to a girl with no friends and can't even walk without a limp. She had to undergo a year of painful surgeries and be taught to walk all over again by physical therapists. Maggie was very upset when she heard Caleb was let out of the juvenile corrections facility. She wanted to be as far apart of him and paradise as she could but the only way she could was to work a job at the same place as him, something she certainly didn’t want to do... at the time.
Title: Identical
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Ellen Hopkins
Rating: 5
I enjoyed reading this book because it was formatted differently and made reading it more fun. The ending was completely unexpected, which made reading it worth reading it. The plot was interesting and lots of activities were always taking place, which helped add lots of nice details and information.
Title: Tricks
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Ellen Hopkins
Rating: 5
I loved the style/format it was written in. There were multiple characters that weren't related at all, but in the end, they were all together and none of them realized that their life would end up the way it did. It was a real eye-opener about what happens in the real world.
Title: The Last Song
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Nicholas Sparks
Rating: 5
I believe that the book, The Last Song, deserves a rating of 5 because it was emotional,touching, and it was written in such a manor that once you started reading it,you couldn't stop. It made me think about certain decisions i had made in my life,and time and time again i found i was comparing myself to the characters in the book. The Last Song had drama,romance,and action,and i loved how the author wrote the book from different character's perspectives Each chapter was written through a different character's eyes so you underrstood what all the character's were thinking. I give this book a rating of 5,because it is well written and i think it deserves it.
*SPOILER ALERT*
ReplyDeleteTitle: The Last Song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Rating: 5
Seventeen-year-old Veronica(Ronnie) Miller has been away from her father for three years and her parents decide to have her visit her father with her little brother, Jonah,which leads her to be rebellious. Purple streaks in her hair and recently gotten caught shoplifting, yet her father acts as if nothing is a problem. While exploring the small town her father lives in, very unlike her usual big city life, she meets a girl named Blaze and some street performers who play with fire. While still on the boardwalk she was on before, she meets a young man named Will. She soon falls in love with him and the town itself. While there, she realizes how her actions could either hurt or help her future and the fact that music, something she gave up so long ago, could help her connect with people around her. Later on, she understands the real reason her mom forced her and her little brother to visit her father. I loved this book because of the writing style, emotions you feel when you read the book, and the fact that you can view things from each characters point-of-view. This book is a heart-warming tale that you keep in your mind for a very long time.
Title: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Rick Riordan
Rating: 5
Rick Riordan's #1 best selling book called the Lightning Thief
takes you on an amazing and suspensful journey through the ways
of greek mythology. If you are one of those people who are crazy about
mythology you better pick this book and start reading becuase you are
really in for a treat. The best definition for this book would be "an
americanized version of greek mythology" which is one of the reasons why I rated the book as a 5. This book is unique in a way because many other greek mythology books that I have read talk about facts about different greek gods
eventually kind of gets boring , but the lightning theif hooks the reader that the
reader cannot stop reading.I have heard many great things about this book
and my friend told me that if I don't read the lightning theif , I'll
never know what suspense truly feels like and honestly I am a very picky reader and am not too crazy about books but still I just picked up the book
and just by reading the first page I sure was hooked and could not stop reading (which was quite surprising for my mom). This book is about a 12 year-old boy
whose name is Percy who soon discovers a huge secret about his father.
Now he is assigned a quest that includes him meeting his father who had just
left him with his loving mother and a horrible step-father and Percy is accused of stealing one of the god's most powerful posession. Is Percy really a thief ? Read this mind
catching book and find out.
Title: The Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Suzanne Collins
Rating: 4
In the beggining of the book, it was alittle confusing and boring and that is why I had given it a rating of four out of five. At the end it was so suprising and interesting. I liked the book because it created ba picture in my mind and it was full of suspence.
Title: The Hunger Games
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Suzanne Collins
Rating: 5
1. It is fun suspenseful and keeps you reading.
2. The best book you would want to read.
Title: Catching Fire
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Suzanne Collins
Rating: 4
Catching Fire was enjoyable. It was a bit better than the first, The Hunger Games, because it had a little more events in the story. It didn't take me long to finish the book, because of the many exciting events planted into book.