Hall School Student Book Reviews

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The Zombie Chasers

March26

 

The Zombie Chasers by John Kloepfer. Except for an overly quiet neighborhood, all seems normal to Zack Clarke. He spent the afternoon polishing the middle school’s floor in detention. He’s returning home to one of his evil older sister Zoe’s slumber parties. When he gets there, she and her evil-er friends kidnap him and give him a hostage makeover while videotaping it for YouTube. Also this book is about Zack, who walks home from school and realizes he’s in the world full of zombies. With his friend Rice, his Zombie sister Zoe, and his sister’s friend Madison they try to save the world from zombies. When they realize that they are some of the only people in the United States that are not zombies, they realize they need to find a cure. Will they turn into zombies?

 

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You’re Bacon Me Crazy

March26

In the book You’re Bacon Me Crazy by Suzanne Nelson you will get to know more about Tessa and The Tasty Truck. Tessa’s stomach goes a flutter when she sees the new addition to The Tasty Truck. Tessa’s friend Mei starts spending all her time with her new boyfriend, Tessa feels like a third wheel. Tessa finds out The tasty Truck isn’t doing well and might go down. There is only one way to save the Tasty Truck and that is Flavorfest but that is about to go down too.

It’s almost Valentine’s day and Mei was chosen to organize the Sweetheart Ball; which is at the same time of The Great Pillow Fight which is Tessa’s tradition to go to every year with Mei but Mei doesn’t want to go, how will Tessa react?

Will Tessa and Mei’s friendship survive? Tessa’s life becomes a roller coaster with 100 foot drops and 100 foot hills. Will Tessa be able to save Flavorfest, The Tasty Truck, and her friendship?

 

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Foxcraft (The Taken)

March26

Isla loses her family and has to find them. Her family is Ma, Fa, Pirie, and Greatma. Isla went into the forest a little to deep and when she got home her family was not there. She ventures of into the wildlands and into the great snarl also known as, the city. In the city she meets a dog and gets attacked. Someone saves her and she doesn’t know who did it. She follows the person who saved her and finds out that the person is using something called Foxcraft. His name is Siffrin and he has come to find an elder that has gone missing. He helps Isla find her family and finds out he was in Karkas Skulk. Is Siffrin a spy for them or not?

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The Battle For The Dragons Temple

March26

 The Battle For The Dragons Temple

Book By Cara J. Stevens artwork by David Norgren

Phoenix must go to war, but who with? Before he can do anything he must escape the village.  “How”,  you say, very simple just read the book.

This story makes me think about me loving to play Minecraft all the time.

If you love Minecraft, I highly recommend this book for you. Also, if you like adventure books you should read it. Even this book and many other ones from this series have humorous jokes.

 

By  A.J.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Old School

March26

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Old School

By: Jeff Kinney

Greg and his friend Rowley are on summer vacation and Greg’s mom decides to go old school and no one is now driving their cars anywhere so Greg and Rowley set up a lemonade stand.  There is also a clean up in the park and the Girl Scouts come. Greg decided to sneak out and some others followed him.  They’re are on the run and then Greg’s mom and the Girl Scouts find them. Later on, Greg lost the toothpaste cap down the drain and he tried to get it out but there is a little problem.  Greg and his grandpa tried to go to the store but they run out of gas on the way. Grandpa said to stay in the car and wait for him to get back with some gas but Greg tried to hide form something. (that I will let You find out about on your own). Finally, when Greg tries to get out of his hiding spot he shifts the car in neutral and the car starts to roll down the hill and it crashes . He has to think should he go to a campsite for a field trip with bad rumors of silas scratch or put up with his dads punishment.

I recommend this book to people that love humor.

This book reminds me of my mom when she said that I shouldn’t play on my technology.

By Colin G

 

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The Losers Club

March26

The Losers Club

Andrew Clements

Alec is a 5th grade boy who loves to read, and can’t stop reading. He reads during all of his classes, until his principal says he will get a consequence. While all that is happening, he has to stay after school every day at the after school program because his  parents don’t get out of work early enough to get him and his little brother. While he’s at the after school program, he has the option to go to the homework room, join a club or make an club, or go and play sports with this rude kid Kent. All the after school teachers tell him that “you can’t just sit around for 3 hours and read.  You need to be involved with other students.” so Alec decides to make a club called the Losers Club. Even though Alec didn’t want anyone else to join the club. He had to have at least one person to join if he wanted to have a club in the first place. He went around asking everyone and only one person said yes, a sweet girl named Nina. Nina will only join if Alex does and plans the presentation in front of the whole school about his club. After many ideas that pop into his head, Alec comes up with and idea. It’s not an ordinary idea it’s one that will need a lot of thinking and time.  Alec repeatedly says he doesn’t want anyone else to join his club but then how does he end up with over 20 people in his club? After a lot of weeks Alec realizes that the words bookworm or loser are just labels and that’s when Kent backs down. Even though Kent’s nicknames aren’t nice, they actually help Alex fight for himself and show Kent that he is not the kid who he wants to be.

This book reminds me of Lions of Little Rock because when Marlee ( the main character from lions of little rock) gets scared she counts prime numbers. As well as Alec thinks of all of his books that he has read when ever he gets scared. It is also similar to Lions of Little Rock because the main characters both have rude friends – as in Kent ( from thee losers club) and Sally ( from lions of little rock.) And just like Lions of Little Rock , the main characters Marlee focuses on one thing which is to hang out with her friends not able to see Liz. But in this case what Alec focuses on is getting good grades so he can stay at his club.

 I recommend this book because it has many ups and downs and an lot of hooks. This book makes you want to hug the characters sometimes after what they do to others. You also just want the characters to get what they deserve.

Sydney P

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A dog’s Life

March26

A Dog’s Life

Ann M. Martin

Dog, his brother, and their mom lived in a shed on someone’s property and in the shed  there were cats and a wheelbarrow. Sometimes their mom would go hunting and sometimes she would just get food out of the trash outside.  Sometimes they would also get a visitor and one day when the visitor came to visit, there was a loud BOOM  then there was silence. after that he and his brother went off on their own. Then one day his brother got taken away by someone and Dog was all alone and never saw his brother again. 

Just to tell you there’s another book it’s called Everything For A Dog but make sure you  read A Dogs Life first or it might be a little confusing to you.

  

I recommended for people that are interested in dogs and like to read stories with dogs involved in them or for people just curious and want to read something different for a little while.

                                                                                                                                                          Alivia.W  

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Babymouse Our Hero

March26

Babymouse Our Hero is a graphic novel about a mouse in  high school. Her friend’s name is Wilson, and t]\heir gym teacher is introducing dodgeball. Let’s just say she is not so good at the game after all. So she and Wilson practice for a couple days and let’s just say in the end it all works out. My opinion on this book is that it’s a really fun mouse that you can relate to in many ways.  For example, like babymouse struggles getting out of bed in the morning just like me and others some . I suggest this book if you love funny, happy and cool books . i support my claim because once you read one you’re hooked on all of them. Personally, I give this series of Babymouse a five star result . So if you like cute and comical booksthen get the babymouse series.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

March26

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

An 11 year old boy. His parents long gone in a car crash. Well that is what he was told. Anyway young Harry Potter is forced to stay with his terrible Aunt and Uncle. He also is living with his cousin Dudley. He is treated like he is a servant and not important. Anyway he was nudged into the wizarding word by Hagrid ( Gamekeeper at the school). When he goes into the wizarding bank ( Gringotts), he discovers that he is rich and famous. He was just a normal boy and then BOOM he was rich, famous, and he was important. And just when things couldn’t get any better he meets to other people attending the same school as him named Ron and Hermione. When they get to Hogwarts ( the school). They have all new cool classes. But, before long, they notice something strange going on.  First a troll, then the three headed dog. Before they know it they are playing a giant game of chess and catching a flying key. What will happen next?

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Diary of a wimpy kid “The Getaway” By : Jeff Kiney

March26

Image result for The Getaway diary of a wimpy kid book cover         You should read this book diary of a wimpy kid the Getaway. It has lots of funny parts when they get to their vacation they lost their luggage and have to buy clothes but they are too expensive to buy for all of them. They have a rough trip at the airport. When they got to their resort Rodrick would always go in the hot tub with all of the girls.There whole family are hungry but the food was at a fancy restaurant that you had to wear fancy clothes but they don’t have any because they lost their suitcase. Their trip turns into a total disaster. Will Greg’s family want to go on another Christmas vacation?

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