Imagine living somewhere all your life but still not knowing all its history...

5th grade Deja has lived in New York her whole life. Now that Deja has officially become homeless, life is tough. Deja is now starting a new school, and shes not the most popular, although she does meet a couple of friends. She has now just noticed though, the skyline looks different from before, the two towers are missing. She is confused by this, but it seems as every time she tries to bring it up, everyone gets mad or sad.



Recommended for people who like books about friendship.




    5 stars

The Odyssey

The Odyssey, one of the world's classics, is about the travels and troubles of Odysseus. Familiar with Greek mythology? You know who I'm talking about.
However, this book is called an epic poem for a reason. The poem itself is 485 pages long, and the plot is complicated. So I do not recommend this book to you unless you think you can handle it, because it is kind of a difficult read.
This book does have some language.


I rate this book 3.5 stars, just because it is a difficult read.

The Edge by Roland smith

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The Edge by Roland Smith (if you read my post about the first book Peak, you will know about the main character Peak Marcello) is about Peak when he meets some of his old friends from the Everest climb. They tell him about a PEACE climb sponsored by Sebastian Plank, a billionaire trying to make peace worldwide. Climbing groups from most countries will climb in different places and somehow represent peace. Peak and his crew are chosen for Afghanistan. They will represent peace by putting their tents in a triangle, each tent with a different letter on it, spelling out P E A C E and spend a night like that. They do. and when Peak wakes up the next day, All his friends are gone. and he has one job: to find them.

I rate this book 5 stars. A MAJOR page turner.

A big case on a big crime Monster is a book that is about a kid named Steve Harmon and he is charged for felony murder and he goes to court and he tell the truth to stay out of trouble. Will he be free? Or will he be stuck in jail?                   
                                                                    I recommend this book to people who like crime.


I give this book 3 1/2 stars.       

She's Mexican american and she officially can't exist

I read My sister's copy of Someone like me and it all about this Mexican American girl named Julissa Arce. She was born in a bathroom and got tangled up in her umbilical cord and now her mother cannot have any other babies. When she was six, her parents started selling jewelry in America.  When she was seven, most of her parent's jewelry got stolen when they were eating lunch. Then when she was ten, her mother had another baby. Julissa now had 2 older sisters and one younger brother. After that, she moved to America with her mom and dad.  Her dad started to abuse her by hitting her with something until it broke. They became super poor because her dad drunk 10 cans of beer every night. They have to move to a different state and Julissa wants to have a quinceanera but her family does not have the money. Her dad gets arrested because he abused Julissa and her mom and now she and her mom can't go back to Mexico, because Julissa was only using a two-year guest permit to live in America but now that it has expired, she will get killed if the police find out about her. she needs to keep a low profile, get into college, and become an actual American citizen.

I recomend this book to people who like young adult books and people who like diverse non-americans.

Deets world is turned inside out when his father is arrested for drug use, It's hard for Deet to believe that his kind father is a prisoner. One day your dad is the king of the world, the next he's captured, enchained in a cell like an animal. Deets saw too many movies about jail, horrible people, horrible food, a horrible reputation. But, Deet finds out that maybe the movies aren't a reality when he visits his dad for the first time in prison, he finds that some prisoners have there own stories and family, when his dad is making friends in jail, so is Deet. there are shocking surprises for Deet as he tries to help his family keep themselves together, How will they make money, how will they clean the house or cook. But Deet still visits his dad every day after school and he realizes what jail really is, not what the movies say it is, maybe prison isn't the end of the world after all.




I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about other peoples lifestyles.


I would rate this book three stars because of a huge gap in the book where nothing interesting hapens, in my opinion of course.

Ghost Boys

Ghost Boys

Ghost Boys is a book about a black boy named Jerome and he is shot and killed by a white policeman. once he died he became a ghost and the policeman who shot him, only his daughter can see his ghost

If you need a book that is impossible to put down you NEED to read ghost boys.

 Rebound by Kwame Alexander is about a boy named Charlie Bell who's dad died and one summer day Charlie, Charlies friend Skinny and Skinny's cousin Ivan were walking and then Ivan told Skinny and Charlie what his plan was which was to steal bottles from Charlies neighbor and exchange it for money.

I give this book a 4.5 stars  

Alien's can ruin your life.

Felix  had an accident when he was 3 years old. During the accident, he got a fourth dimensional alien infused into him. When the alien was inside of him, it was struggle. He struggled to talk and, the alien can control him. When Felix finds out that if he tries to get the alien out of him, he probably wont survive. So, he runs away.





This book was a bit confusing, because there are bits where the alien is talking and it's sort of confusing.

I recommend this book for people who like: Page turners, and a little humor.



4 stars, it was too confusing to be a 5.

Rebound

Rebound

   In this book rebound there is a boy named charlie and he steals from his neighbor to buy more comics and food.So now he has to spend the summer at his grandparents and he has to work almost every day. I would recommend this book to people who like basketball.

Prisoner B-3087

Prisoner B-3087 is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. He lives in Krakow, Poland during world war II. The Nazis  where going through Poland and all of Europe, sending all the Jewish people to concentration camps. When the Nazis came to Krakow, They built a wall around Yanek's neighborhood. when He finally was taken to a concentration camp, the leader of the camp, Amon Goeth. he would kill Jewish people for no reason. as he was sent to more camps, he saw more innocent people die for no reason. As the war raged around Yanek, the Nazis where pushed back into Berlin. That meant death marches, walking for over a week without food, and all they had for water was the snow on the ground.
Finally, the American solders had made it to them. after the war Yanek traveled to America and joined the army.                         
                                           I recommend this book for people who like   

• war stories
• action pact books
• sad stories

  

  I rate this book 5 stars

How 'How it Went Down' Went Down

At 5:30 p.m. Tariq Johnson was shot twice, 7 minutes later the cops arrived, he was officially pronounced dead at 6:02 by EMTs. This all took place on the one peaceful street in the town of Richmond; on Peach Street in front of Edwin Rocky Fry's grocery store. Tariq was just getting his little sister Tina a snickers bar and milk for the family. There are also two gangs; the stingers and the kings, one of the stingers killed Tariq. Everyone's question is "was Tariq a member of the kings? or was he just a kid caught in the crossfire of a gang war.

This book has many swears, almost one (or more) on every page, like page 5.

A homeless girls perspective...

Towers falling

Towers Falling is about a girl that is homeless that lives in Avalon. The girl's name is Deja. She is new to Brooklyn, New York, she just moved there and she is in a new school. She finds these 2 people name Ben and Sabeen both of them weren't born in New York. Ben is from Arizona. In the book I don't think it says where Sabeen is from. In her new school she starts learn about 9/11 but Deja knows nothing about it. One day she goes to Ben's house and Deja watches 9/11 and she goes home and asks her parents about it and her dad gets mad because she is "too young".

I recommend this book for people who aren't into much action or drama because this is a slow going book and that there is no action.

I rate this book     

Ever imagine having two dads?

the book The misadventures of the family Fletcher is this crazy family with two fathers and they have 4 kids   There names are Sam , Jax ,Eli and Frog and there all adopted . Sam is 12 and he is the oldest Jax and Eli are both 10 and frog his real name is Tomas and he is 6 and all of them didnt start of in good start of the school year.

                                                               




This book is recommended for people who like: Family books












            3.5 stars

She always wonders, "Who is my dad?"

Bean (Pearl) has always had thoughts on who her dad was. Her mom never spoke of him and Pearl wonders why. Pearls friend also doesn't know who his dad is. Pearl thought that her mom's friend Claire has just been a friend, but now Claire is moving in, so Pearl wonders, could they be more than that? It seems as if Pearl's grandfather is the only one who cares, until she learns his secret.




Recommended for people who like: Mystery (A little bit of mystery in it)



   

4 stars

*This book does have a little bit of cursing*

I am reading the book out of my mind, and it is about this girl that can not talk and walk, and in the story she is telling you things like words are more powerful than you think and how nobody understands that words are a gift to have and it gets you thinking about how much people do not pay a lot of attention to words and how much we need them. Something I would watch out for there are a lot of ups and down and if you do not like that then don't read it. I recommend it for anyone who likes things going wrong if you do read the book in out of my mind you might get sucked into it.

Lightning Lu

The book Lu by Jason Reynolds is the fourth book in the Ghost series. This book is about the last member of the Newbies on the track team this year. He gets the name Lighting Lu from his mom because he is fast as lightning and rare as lightning striking the same place twice because he is, albino. This story perfectly finishes up the series and ties all the loose ends from the cliff hangers in past books. I would 5/5 recommend reading the WHOLE series along with this book for people who like some humor, friendship but not the cheesy kind, and series. 

Survive, Uncle Moshe said, was the only way to get through the camps. 

The book that I just read was Prisoner B-3087. It is about a boy named Yanek Gruener who is a Jew. And where he lived they put Jews in things called concentration camps or work camps. Where they either starve them, work them, or shoot them to death. In the beginning they have a good life in Krakow where they live. But then one day thy asked for seven thousand Jews to put in concentration camps. Soon his parents were gone, then his aunts and uncles disappear, next his cousins, then him. He was taken away from Krakow and also got tattooed with the words Prisoner B-3087. Who knows who will survive and who won't...

I recommend this book to people..,

• Who like Historical Fiction Novels
• Who enjoy very intense and suspenseful books

I give this book five stars. This book is young adult because it is in some parts very violent.