The Crossover by Kwame Alexander is a book with lots of basketball so if you like basketball you might enjoy this book. This book is not just about basketball though. It is also about Josh Bell and his brother, Jordan and challenges they face along the way. There is also Josh's mom Crystal and her worrying about Josh's dad Chuck Bell's health.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes basketball, suspenseful books, and books in verse.








I give The Crossover 4.6 out of 5 stars

Ban This Book

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz is a book about a girl named Amy Anne Ollinger, and she loves to read. But when a parent decides to remove her favorite book, From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, from the library, she's upset. So she and her friends start a locker library where anyone can get any of the banned books. But she has to be careful because anyone could tell on her.

The author is also the author of Prisoner 3-B087 and Refugee, Alan Gratz.

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Crossover

Crossover by Kwame Alexander is a book about how a young boy loves basketball, and then how he losses all of it. It is an amazing book about things that happen in real life today.



Recommended for...

People who love basketball

Anyone who loves any type of sport

Anyone who loves a really good book


I rate this book a 3.5/5 stars

Read it its funny

      
Hey, you are you into Award Winner, Humor, Historical Fiction, Ethnic Diversity books then you should read this book because I'm telling you, You will love this book and laugh so hard that you might even pee your pants because I think I almost did.   This book is about this kid named bud and not buddy just bud and he is 10 years old and he probably has the funniest life in the whole world.

Ahmed: Will he tell? What will happen if I get caught? Max: Knock Knock!! Is it Inspector Fontaine, why does he need to be here? Does he know?

This book is called Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh.
It is about a boy named Ahmed who is a refuge from Syria. And he doesn't know  where his family might be. Even though Jasmin and Nouri and his mother are dead from a bomb. And he knows that his father drowned... But he ends up to go to this house. With a family of four. The boy Max finds out that he is living in his house. And he tries to help. When people start getting suspicious they have a mission to try and keep Ahmed safe and two others that you will have to find out.
I recommend this book to people...

• Who enjoy suspenseful books.
• Who enjoy a really good page turner.

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.

The name of this book is The Crossover.
This book is about twin brothers Josh bell, and JB bell they are both very talented Basketball players but when JB gets a girlfriend it spreads the too brothers apart when JB spends all his free time with his girlfriend and never his brother Josh.

I recommend this book to people who...

• Like Basketball
• Like to read verse

I was captured, hiding in a red car.

I just read Hidden by Helen Frost and it was super good. It's about this girl named Wren Abbot and she gets captured in her own car.  On accident of course, but she manages to get taken out of the state to a crazy man's garage.  SHe gets out of the car and climbs into an old boat.  When Darra, the crazy man's daughter, leaves her a sandwich and a bottle of water, Wren trusts her.  Her mom Stacey too.  But when the crazy man starts to repaint the red car, Wren feels like it's taking away her mother.  Before she got kidnapped, she heard a gunshot when her mom went into the store. She does not know if her mom is alive, or dead.  when she finally escapes through the cat door, she finally gets away.  But, when Wren was eight, she was kidnapped.  Now she is thirteen and going to a summer camp.  Where she meets Darra.  I would recomend this book to anyone who likes novels in verse, crazy kidnappings, and adventures.  I give this book five stars.

Living down south with people hating you and all your friends and family.

Stella by Starlight was a great book and I would highly recommend it because there are three major events that are shocking and page turning. The book is about a girl named Stella who is black and lives in the south in early 1900 when the KKK active.  Stella and her brother see the Klan burning a cross across the pond. Then the neighborhood goes crazy. Read the book to find out what happens next.

You are stuck in a coffin...and you have to fight your way out.

Alive- Scott Sigler New York Times Bestseller Author

Ahh... Sweet dreams. It's your twelfth birthday, and you don't want to go to school. "NO one should have to go to school on their birthday," You wake up. You are trapped. There's something above your head. Is it... are you in a coffin? You scream for help but you hear nothing. You know no one is coming to save you. You have to fight your way out. Pain, anger, loneliness, sadness, scared, help you fight out. You sit up through the broken coffin lid. Blinding light greets you. When your eyes adjust to the light, you realize you are in a room. A room with no one else....perhaps. You have no idea what is coming. 

This book is a thriller, a page-turner. You will never be able to put it down.

Recommended for...

• People who love strong female role models
• Anyone who loves reading about survival 
• Anyone who likes to read series
•  Anyone who loves mysteries 

I Would give this book 4/5 stars 

The Prince and the Dressmaker

The Prince and the Dressmaker- Jen Wang
It's Ball Room night! The Prince finally gets to pick his bride. All the Princesses there- fancy dresses, the normal ones. But then- one princess, different from the rest- skin tight dress, no what you would expect. Meanwhile, the dressmaker that made that dress is about to get fired for her work, but an opportunity walks through the door. A princess, one that was at the Ball wants her as her personal seamstress! But that princess...turns out to be the Prince!



Recommended for...

• People who love to read Graphic Novels
• People who don't read a lot of Graphic Novels

I rate this book 3/5 stars

I wish I had listened to Kim. It would've changed everything.

The title of this book is Ghost Boys. 

It is about a boy named  Jerome. He gets killed from a white cop in Chicago. This book tells us about what Jerome's life was like before and after he was killed. I find this really interesting because it leaves you off on a cliffhanger and you have to wait until the next dead of alive chapter to come.

I recommend this book to people...

• Who can handle books with a little violence
• Who like books that keep you on the edge of your seat

  

  I give this book 5 stars.

Great Book About Unnecessary Servitude...

Amal Unbound

Amal Unbound is based on a girl in Pakistan. She wants to be a teacher when she is old enough, but her dreams are shattered when she is rude to one of the ruling families of her village. She is forced to become an indentured servant to him until her family has paid off the debts necessary for her release. While she is there, she makes a friend, who tells her a secret that could change her village's future forever...

Ghost Boys a good book

I read ghost boys and it does get sad because this does happen to some people just because they have a different skin color and people should not be treated like this because of the way they look it should not matter what your skin color is you should be treated the same but we live in a safe country where this does not happen a lot. The boy is telling the story as him as a ghost. It is also sad to think about because this does actually happen in the world.  And people don't deserve to be treated this way.


But if you don't like sad books this is not your book.

I would rate it 4 1/2

You're trapped in a coffin...and you have to fight your way out

Alive- Scott Sigler

It's your twelfth birthday. You don't want to go to school. No one should have to go to school on their birthday right? A sharp pain wakes you up. Ow... What is that? You try to sit up, but there's something above your head. Is it...a lid? Am I... in a coffin? You have to fight your way out, and after trying, and trying, you finally break out and stumble onto the ground. Blinding light meets your eyes. When you finally adjust to the light, you realize you're in a room with many more un-opened coffins. You have no idea what is coming next.



This book is recommended for...

• Anyone who loves reading about strong female role models
• Anyone who enjoys reading about survival
• Anyone who LOVES a really good book

 
  WARNING! Anyone who can not handle strong language I do not recommend this book for you. (Well actually I kind of forgot if this book has swears in it, but I think it does, so...yeah.)




I give this book 5 stars because it is AMAZING.

This an awesome that you should read

                                                                                          The crossover was written by Kwame Alexander was a great book especially if you like basketball. I think this was a widow for me because these two kids in the book are only in 7th grade and in their life they have to experience a horrific  thing that happens to them at  the end of the book. I personally haven't experience what has happened to these two twin brothers.


 I would  recommend this book to people that like basketball but you don't even have to like basketball to like this book because it is about so much more. if you like cliffhangers then you might like this book.








I would give this book 4.5 stars.

Amal Unbound a window into the life of a servant

This book is about a girl named Amal who lives in Pakistan and gets made into a servant by this really mean guy named Jawad Sahib. She want's to get free and see her family. I rate this book a 3 out of five. I recommend this book if you wan't to read a good story.

The Breadwinner: A GOOD Book

  I liked this book because it took place in Iraq. This man and his daughter sell goods for money.  Her dad gets arrested for no reason and the family needs money. The daughter has to pretend to be a boy so that she can walk around the streets because women aren't allowed to be on the streets without a man. 
I would rate this 41/2 stars because it's a really good book.
Recommended for people who like graphic novels and "window" books. 

A hurricane is coming...and that is only the beginning!

Lanesha loves math and wants to be an engineer when she grows up. See can also see ghosts, her mother's is still hanging around the house. Mama Ya-Ya,  Lanesha's caregiver, can see the future. They live in Ninth Ward, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans. Mama-YaYa knows something worse than a hurricane is coming but her visions don't make any sense to her. Will they survive when they don't have the resources to escape? Read Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes to find out.  

Recommended for...

• People who love stories about the strength of love and family. 
• People who enjoy reading books with strong female characters. 
• Anyone who has survived a flood, a hurricane or any other disaster really. (Be warned, it could bring back some tough emotions and memories for you though.)

An added note...
I connected to this book because I lived in Florida at the time Hurricane Katrina hit.  I remember watching what happened in New Orleans on the news and being so, so sad. The devastation was immense and so many people were unable to escape or were separated from their families.  So many people lost their homes, their loved ones, and even their lives. This book made me sad all over again but it also helped me understand just how resilient or strong some humans are in the face of disaster. 

I would give this book 4 stars.
 

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