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__The Godfather part III__ By Mario Puzo

This part of the book is very weird. Don Corleone killed Fanucci. A wannabe mob gangster. He returned to his home after he did this. When he found out that Santino was involved in an armed robbery. For the first time the Don lost his temper. He summoned Santino to his office. That when Sonny became part of the family. He told his father he saw him kill Funucci. I thought the book was amazing. It is kind of mystery and action. You can’t really predict what will happen next. The words the characters say can express what they feel. It feels like your actually there. You know who’s thinking what.

By:Ernique,443

Uglies Scott Westerfeld This book is about what a group of teenagers that are called the Uglies. They are called the Uglies because they are not cool. The Uglies are different from the pretties. When I say that the Uglies are different from the pretties I mean that the pretties are the bad kids and the Uglies are the good kids. I know it is really confusing. Here, I’ll explain what I mean I mean that the Uglies are the good kids because they don’t go to wild parties and drink, they do what normal teenagers do, they shop. This book is as good as the second book. By: Whitney

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by: Ann Brashares I have just started to read this book, and I really enjoy it. This book is the sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” In the first story, four girls discover pants that happen to fit all of them. They are separated for the summer, and they share the pants throughout the summer. In this story, Bridget is going to Alabama. Carmen is a bit worried about her mother who begins to date. Tibby is making a movie that isn’t as boring as the first. And Lena doesn’t care about much. She trying to find love, but she just can’t do it. This book is very interesting, and I encourage anyone to read it! By: Rosa

__Until We Meet Agian__ The book //Until We Meet Again// is one of the best books in the world. This book is exciting, shocking, romantic, and sad. This book is in the series the BluFord. There are many books in the series. Like the Gun, Someone To Love Me, Shattered and many more. I hope by the end of the year i get to read all the books in the series. This is the first book that i have really enjoyed and picked out on my own. You might also have things to relate to in this book if you have Boy problems, or Family problems. I had alot to relate to in this book. i really enjoyed this book i had to give iit 5 stars! By: Vanessa

__Some One to Love Me By: Anne Schraff__ This book is one of the best books I’ve read. This story is about a girl named Cindy. She has a low self-esteem since her mom’s boyfriend, Raffie, calls her Ugly Mugly. She also feels like her mom doesn’t love her especially when her mom goes the Vegas with her boyfriend. When Mrs. Davis told her that she has the prettiest hazel eyes. When Mrs. Davis told her that she was very happy and started noticing that she was pretty. She was skipping school a lot and when her friend, Jamee, convinced her to go to school she saw this boy named Bobby Wallace staring, she remember all the things he did when Jamee went out with him. He tried to hit her. Cindy couldn’t stand the thought of him. After school when Cindy was walking home Bobby Wallace had asked her if she wanted a ride. He finally convinced her. Cindy thought that he had changed. After that day she started getting closer and closer to him. I love this book a lot because it has a lot of drama and some girls might be able to relate to this book. Read the book and you’ll find out what happens next. By:Patsy

__Chicken Soup For Teenage Soul__ I think //Chicken Soup for the Teenage Sou//l is a very good book. It relates to real life problems. It really gets you thinking about your life and yourself. Chicken Soup has lots of stories in one book so if you don’t like a story you can flip to the next and I’m sure you’ll find a story that interests you. I am reading a story called A Sobering Place. It is about a mother and a daughter’s relationship. The mom drinks and goes out to clubs a lot. The daughter doesn’t like it when her mom drinks because she gets really angry and the daughter doesn’t get to see her mother that much when she’s drunk because she goes out. Later her daughter helps her get into rehab. I liked this story because it’s very realistic. If you like realistic stories this is a really good book for you. By:Cynthia

__Teen Idol__ By: Megan Cabot Teen Idol is a great book. It is about a girl named Jenny who is good at helping people. Jenny has a big job at keeping her school from knowing this star is really the star they all like. Also, she is has to find out who she wants to be and what she needs to be. This is a funny and exciting book. I really enjoyed it. I hope when you read Teen Idol you will like it too. By:aliyah

__Someone to Love Me__ By: Anne Schraff I love this book because it relates to real life. It’s about a girl named Cindy Gibson. Her mother is dating a bad guy and is leaving Cindy alone. She starts to think that her mother doesn’t love her. Her best friend, Jamee Wills, is mad at her because she keeps skipping school. This book is from the BLUFORD SERIES. One day Jamee talks Cindy in going to school. That day Bobby Wallace, Jamee’s abusive ex, sweet talks Cindy into going out with him by telling her he is a change person. This book is sad, exciting, and realistic. I loved this book so much that it deserves five stars. By: Charnae

__Star Girl__ By: Jerry Spinelli Star Girl is an amazing book that I’m reading. It’s a great book by Jerry Spinelli. It’s the first book that I a am really liking this year so far. It gives good descriptions about what happened and I really can see the picture in my head. You would like this book. So how about you give this amazing book a try, since I am almost done. It’s getting better when I read more. By:Angelique

__A Wolf at the Door__ Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling I read A Wolf at the Door. Halfway through the story it put me in awe. It changed my perception of reality just by reading what it said. This book retells stories such as a wolf at the door, Ali Baba and the forty aliens, and the twelve princes. This book shows all of the different point of views in all of the stories and combines them with great detail and more fiction then before. This book shows the way stories were before they were children made. It shows stories like, the giant’s point of view in jack and the giant beanstalk, how the dwarves felt after snow white ditched them for the prince, and Hansel and Gretel. I really believe this story deserves 4 and 1/2 stars. M favorite story was Hansel and Gretel. By Alfredo

__Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry__ by Mildred D. Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a book of the fictional adventures of Cassie, her older brother Stacey and her younger brothers, Christopher-John and Little Man. Cassie and her family have to endure criticisms and cruelty from the Caucasian population of their town, which is separated into two parts, Logan land and Granger land. Logan land is four acres that belong to Cassie’s family and Granger land is the land where the African-American and the Caucasian sharecrop. Mr. Logan, Cassie’s father, has to go away to work at the railroad so the family can buy the things they need. This book interests me, like so many other books that describe African-American’s times of troubles, because it shows what the Logan family and other blacks did so they could have fairness and resist against the Klu Klux Klan. I like the spirit in Cassie in how she just doesn’t recognize the cruelty and unfairness, but Cassie tries to do something about it, even if it is just a small thing. In conclusion, I recommend this book because it shows that even small things like protesting of an African American girl could change the way people live and what they do with the things they have. By Laurence

__Being a Teen__ This book is a good book. It also gives great advice. I would recommend it

to anyone who doesn’t want to messup in teenhood. This book has really relateable experiances. And if I had not read this book I probably would be making a whole lot of mistakes right now. The book is made up of experiances and sayings that celebrities and or just ordainary people like you and me have said. By:Amanda

__Bronx Masquerade__ By: Nikki Grimes This book is so good because it talks about real problems kids have. In the story the art teacher gives his kids an assignment. They all write poetry. They talk about problems they have or things they like or hate. This is a book you could relate to your own life. After each poem you learn new something about them. I recommend this book to anyone from 11-16 years of age. When you get a chance pick up __Bronx Masquerade__. By: Seth

__Not Much Just Chillin’ the Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers__ by: Linda Perlstien Not Much Just Chillin’ ''is really good so far. This story is about the sixth grade or as we call it middle school and how they go though changes. The story is based on different people going though different changes and in totally different lives. When or if you were to read this book you get a perceptive or understanding of these people. The changes they go though are the same as are’s but they go though it differently and in different ways. If you were to read this book you would think are lives are as normal as can be. Anyway, if you get a chase get this book and try to read it is really good and intersecting. This book will change your perspective on everything. By: Arielle

__Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire__ is a very well written book. I am enjoying reading about what Harry is doing in his fourth year at Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and wizardry. I think the plot of having Harry experience the Triwizard Tourmament is brilliant. Even though he has not learned as much as the other ‘champions’, he still has to compete. I think that this is going to be Harry’s most exciting year yet. While Harry has the pressures of the tournament, he has to deal with his best friend’s jealousy. He hates not talking to Ron but mad at him at the same time. I like reading about how he deals with Ron but I mostly like the action. If anyone wants a good read find this book and get cracking ‘cause it is one of the best books I’ve ever read. -Laurence __Brothers in Arms: by Paul Langan & Ben A. /Bluford Series__ This book is about a boy named Martin who has many problems in his life. His little brother who was trying to protect him is gone and he has to move to a new school and leave all his friends behind. This is all because there was a shooting and instead of his friend Frankie being shot Martins little brother was shot. So know he goes to a school called bluford high and he encounters a boy named Steve who he doesn’t get along with. I like this book because it is very detailed and you want to keep reading it. - Vanessa __The Fallen by: Paul Langan__ This book is about a boy named Martin and he is going through a lot of problems right know. His little brother died and it was all because of one of his best friends Frankie. Frankie tells him the person who shot his brother and they where going back for revenge. So know Martin bails on Frankie and Frankie get really mad and beat’s him up. Then he is going to come back and Martin doesn’t know if he is going to survive the fight or not. This book is one of the Bluford series books and if you are planning to read this book read brothers in arms first they go in order. I really liked this book because I felt the sorrow the family felt when Huero Martins little brother died. Vanessa Once A King Always A King By: Reymundo Sanchez

“That would be the last time I smoke marijuana in my life. ”That’s the promise that Reymundo Sanchez will never smoke marijuana again after completing his gang life and ruthless ways of living. The book takes place in Chicago, Illinois, in Humboldt Park, in Dallas, Texas, in Miami, Florida, and in three prisons. The book is depressing, cheerful, and has a great deal of action. In order, to read Once A King Always A King, you must read My Bloody Life: The Making Of A Latin King.

I think Once A King Always A King is the best book I read in a really long time. I would recommend this book to anybody, who likes biography. The first one was a little better, than the Once A King Always A King. This is the best author right now. His description made you like you were there.

Antonio, 290 non-fiction

=__When I Was Puerto Rican__= By: Esmeralda Santiago pg. 304 Esmeralda’s story begins in Puerto Rico with her annoying parents and seven siblings, but her family still full of love. While growing up Esmeralda learned the proper way to eat a guava, the way to act, and the way to dress. Just as Esmeralda seems to have learned everything she needed to know, she and her family moved to New York City, where the rules and the language were different. Esmeralda overcame adversity and got accepted to New York City’s High School of Performing Arts and then went on to Harvard University. I really loved this book because it was a story about Esmeralda Santiago’s child hood (The Author). It tells you if you can still achieve your dreams no matter where you come from, what nationality you are, and what race you are. I’ve never been through anything like that. I would like to give this book five stars, it really was that good. Genre:Autobiography Amanda M.

Dragon Rider By: Cornelia Funke 521pg The story starts with silver Dragon and his dragon family. His name is Firedrake and he has a fury friend named Sorrel. The dragon family has a meeting that they are in danger. They said they needed a new place to live and they wanted to go to the rim of heaven. Then the adventure begins. On the way there they find a boy and his name is Ben. They also meet this evil dragon that hunts and kills silver dragons. He has spies that are dwarfs and he wears gold armor.

I think this book is a great book. It has lots of conflicts through different places. They also fly around the world so it's adventurous and action. They go to Africa and meet explorers from Europe. They also fly by the border of Asia. Then they get to Europe. This reminds me of a plane it goes around the world and could fly. That is why I like this book Dragon Rider. I would like to give this book four stars. Genre:Fiction Amanda M.

Harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone By: j.k. Rowling This book is about a boy who goes to his first year of wizard of witch’s school, hogwarts. When he finds out the truth about how his parents died, he then realizes why he is so famous. This is his first year of hogwarts and there are seven years total. This year, he learns what the sorcerer’s stone is and who made it. I am not going to say much about this book because you have to read how good it is yourself. I am already starting to read Harry’s second year at hogwarts, if I wasn’t so interested in book 1 then I probably would not have starting reading book two. -Alex, 312 pages

__The Outsiders__ by S.E. Hinton, 192 pages “You shut up! I’m sick and tired of you sticking up for him! You hear me?” The Outsiders is a great book. It is about a gang that is very close. Ponyboy, the protagonist of the story, finds himself in a situation that he knows he’ll die in. His friend Johny has a switchblade and is scared. He has no choice but to kill the person killing Ponyboy. Now the two boys are running away where no one, especially the cops, will find them. One day, there’s a fire where the kids are hiding and there are children inside. Ponyboy and Johny save the kids but something happens to Johny that’ll make you wish Johny never saved them. This book is truly tremendous. It is a book that you’d never forget. It has a movie. Reading the story is better because there are much more details. In the story, S.E. Hinton puts many details. She explains how they look. She explains the eyes in the story very well. I recommend The Outsiders to everyone who hasn’t read it. By Erik, Realistic Fiction

__Forged by Fire__ by Sharon M. Draper, 156 pages "Here Jordan," said Angel, holding the can out at arm's length. "It's the last one." She was immediately sorry that she had said that, for Jordan grabbed her arm and squeezed, snatching the can from her trembling hand."Forged by Fire is an excellent book. It is about young boy named Gerald who is getting abused. He is taken away by his loving Aunt Queen. One day a tragedy happens. She passes away. Now Gerald finds himself taking hits for his little sister and getting threatened by both his mother and stepfather. One day Gerald comes upon Mr. Washington. He tells him the whole story and he tells the cops the whole story too. Now his stepfather is in jail. Gerald is living happy at sixteen until one day his mother brings home something he hates. Forged by Fire is a great book. It reminds me of the story called A child called “it”. They are both tremendous books and the cover says so too. The book was awarded a Coretta Scott King award. By Erik, Realistic Fiction