Pop by Gordon Korman

Pop

By Gordon Korman

It is the Middle of summer and Marcus Jordon moves to a new town.  During the football off season, Marcus goes to a local park to practice.  One day when Marcus was practicing he encountered a middle aged man named Charlie Popovich. Charlie is a former NFL linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals with a deep dark secrete a secret he doesn’t really know. So now on top of the challenge of trying out for football Marcus needs to figure out Charlie’s big secret.

Football Tryouts

Marcus is trying out for his high school football team The number one team the Raiders. The Raiders are coming off a 10-0 championship season.  Marcus is trying out for the quarterback position but he has to show he was what it takes to beat out the pride of the town Troy Popovich.

Will Marcus get to play?

Will He find out what Charlies secret is?

To find out you have to do one thing?  

READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!

This book has a lot of drama, action, suspense and much more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!      

You can find Pop online in stores or at your local library.  Know stop and go get the book.  I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars and recommend this book to Football players people 9 and up because I’m a lineman.    

By Dawson Waldner

Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier

Peter Nimble

and his Fantastic Eyes

Author: Jonathan Auxier 

I used to live in another country when I was younger. Where I come from, poor older people used to walk around the streets. Some were blind and some didn’t have a leg. Some also couldn’t walk without their walking stick. Younger children used to walk around the road with tears in their eyes, crying for food. 

But when those poor kids grow (like about 9 or 10 years old), they try to steel money, food and jewelry. Some people doesn’t even notice that the kids are steeling. Well this is a story of the greatest thief who ever lived. His name, as you’ve guessed, is peter nimble.  

A ten-year-old blind orphan, Peter has been forced to live in a life of crime. One ordinary afternoon Peter steels a mysterious box from an unusual traveling haberdasher. that night peter opens the box and feels the three magical pairs of eyes. When he tries the first pair on, he is suddenly teleported to a mysterious hidden island where he meets the maker of those three pairs of eyes “professor cake”. 

The professor gives Peter a choice: travel to the vanished kingdom and try to rescue a people in need ......or return to his criminal life. Peter chooses wisely, and together with the group of oddball companions. He embarks on an unforgettable 0--- and fantastic--- adventure. 

 

Review written by: Tashtia        

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

Not a Drop to Drink

By: Mindy McGinnis

When there is no water left on the earth, what would you do? 

This is a story about a girl named Lynn who lives with her mom on the countryside. They’re one of the only average people living who has little access to drinking water.

One night when Lynn and her mom were watching the horizon on the roof of they’re house suddenly a couple coyotes walk by and starting eating they’re last meal, a deer. Lynn’s mom quickly rushes down from the roof and tries chasing away the coyotes. Then all of a sudden the coyotes fight back and injures Lynn’s mom. Lynn rushes towards her and Bam! Lynn shot a coyote. BAM! Another coyote had been shot but only injured. The coyotes run off.

When Lynn’s mom dies from her injuries Lynn has to learn how to survive on her own. Lynn worries now less about the coyotes and more about the strangers the are in search of resources.

Sitting upon the roof of her house rifle in hand Lynn watches smoke in distance rising up in the air. That one means one thing, STRANGERS!

Lynn has what they want food and water and they won’t back down until they get it. 

What will Lynn do next on her intense survival adventure?

Buy the book and find out if you love intense adventure books.

I give this book a 4/5-star rating and recommend this book to grade 6 and up.

Review by: Brandon Kowalchuk

Matched Written by: Ally Condie

Matched

Written by: Ally Condie

Recommended for ages 13 and up

In a dystopian future where society controls everything, where you live, what you eat, when you get married, who you get married to.  Even your when you Die. No matter what the society tells you to do it’s always right.  Well this trilogy is about Cassia Reyes and her family, her brother Bram Reyes, 

her mother Molly Reyes, and her dad Abran Reyes who live in the Oria Province.  On Cassia’s 17^Th birthday she goes to her matched banquet with her best friend Xander Carrow.

Everyone thought that that Xander and Cassia would be matched ever since they were little since they both seemed so perfect for each other, and people still do.  At matched banquet they ate cake (which you can only have for special occasions like being matched “wink, wink” or your before you die), and had fun.  When the time came for Cassia to be matched she found out who it was and was surprised, and what do you know it’s Xander like everyone predicted. 

Cassia got her chip containing information about Xander, and went home with Xander and their families both of them feel very lucky since it’s rare for friends like them to be matched.  The next couple of days Cassia and Xander spend their days together until one day, Cassia decides to look at Xander’s information card the she got from the matched banquet.  On the card the face is not Xander’s, but someone else.  What she didn’t know is that this one face will change her life, and how she think’s about her society. 

If your interested in what will happen to Cassia and who the person is that will change her life forever, then you should read this book and the other two books in this trilogy Crossed, and Reached. 

I rate this book 5 stars.  

It’s a really good book I hope you decide to read it.

Review:  By Nadia Hossain 

Keep me in your Heart: Saving Jessica By Lurlene McDaniel

Keep me in your Heart

Saving Jessica

Three novels in one book

By Lurlene McDaniel

This book is about a relationship between Jessica and Jeremy and their struggles in their life.  They are going though their struggles together.  Jessica has a kidney that has failed and she has to go through dialysis.  She is hoping to get a transplant but…….

Jeremy her boyfriend is hoping that she will get well.  In the meantime, he is trying to donate his kidney to Jessica.  But he is only seventeen so he has to ask his parents first.  When his parents said no he decided to take is parents to court to be legal to make is own decisions and give his kidney to Jessica.

Will he win the battle and give his kidney to Jessica or will it all go down hill?

I recommend this book to people who like love stories because it shows what love is and what people do to show that they truly love them. I give this book four out of five stars.

Lurlene McDaniel wrote two other novels in this book telling Christina Goodbye and Letting go of Lisa if you had read the novels you would like this book.  Lurlene McDaniel really shows the character’s emotions like when they are happy or said. In my opinion that makes her a good writer.

By Kaylee Charriere

KEEP ME IN YOUER HEART By Lurline McDaniel

KEEP ME IN YOUER HEART

By Lurline McDaniel

There are many people in the world that fight with their lives that sometimes becomes so complicated. The book Keep Me in your Heart by Lurlene McDaniel is a three novel book. Saving Jessica is the first one that I read. 

Jessica McMillan and Jeremy Trevino are the perfect couple. When they met in high school, Jessica's upbeat spirit helped Jeremy to see that there must be a reason he was spared in the car accident that killed his brother. Jessica is an 18-year-old senior in high school, but now she has been diagnosed with kidney failure. Her only hope is a kidney transplant but no one in her family is a match. Jeremy cannot watch another person he loves die. He wants to give his kidney to Jessica, but his parents are terrified of losing their only son.

Will Jeremy go against his parents and save Jessica?

Lurline McDaniel is one of my favorite authors that always touch my heart with her sad, strong and powerful stories. I only read one saving Jessica, but I am sure the other ones ae going to be sweet and touchy too. I would recommend this book to everybody to read. 

These are some more books that the author wrote: The year of Chasing Dreams, One Last Wish, Telling Christina Goodbye.

Book review by KAMALDEEP

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Illustrator by Jen Wang

In Real Life

By: Cory Doctorow, Illustrator by Jen Wang

Have you ever played an online game before?  

A girl named Anda who loves playing a massively popular online RPG (role-playing game) game called “Coarsegold’s”.  Any spare time she had, she would spend it on this game. 

In the game, there was a place where Anda was able to make friends from all over the world, but things become a little more serious… 

When Anda befriends with a gold farmer (an unfortunate Chinese teenager) who illegally collects treasured items, such as money, this behaviour is powerfully against guidelines in the game rules. You could say the gold farmers were kind of ‘hacking’, as anything you do that is against the game rules is considered exploiting.  As Anda realizes that, the right and wrong cannot both be right, and finds out that all video games, even the best ones, are less straightforward than being a human being in real life. 

Will Anda help her friend or will she betray? 

I personally think that this book shows a powerful meaning.  It shows how you cannot trust everyone, and that you have to be clever with who you make friends with, and who you do not.  This book is not just about video games, but also about people around the world struggling with their lives.  Some kids in the world start at a young age, working to support their family.  Children like these do not have the right access to their basic needs, which makes them do things like ‘hack’ a game.

I recommend this book for teenagers, ages 13-15, who like graphic novels with a game-based story.  I rate the book 4 out of 5 stars because I enjoy graphic novels a lot and I can relate to how much fun video games can be!

Here are some other books by: Cory Doctorow

·         For The Win

·         Little Brother (Little Bother #1)

·         Homeland (Little Bother #2)

·         Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom

Book review by: Tracey Pham