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

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

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.

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.

If you like basketball and you wanna read about something you don't usually read about and in a poetry format then read this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crossover Written y Kwame Alexander

The book is about the main character, Josh Bell aka Filthy McNasty. He and his twin brother Jordan JB are talented basketball players, but jealousy threatens to split them apart when JB gets a girlfriend. 

I recommend this book to anybody who likes basketball and reading something that they don't usually read.

I give this book a 10 out of 10 and over a 10 out of 10.

Monster Review, A window into a courtroom

A teenager is sent to court for a crime he didn't commit... or did he? He writes his life down as a movie. A movie called Monster. 

This book was alright but I  would not recommend this book to anyone who does not like novels in verse.  
I didn't really like it until I got two thirds of the way through.
overall I think this book was decent.

She knows that face from anywhere.

                                                                     
Wren was eight years old when she was getting stuff at a gas station with her mom. Her mom leaves the car but keeps the music on, leaving the keys in the car with Wren in it. Suddenly the car starts moving again but, not with her mother driving it. Later, Wren was hiding, when she escaped back to her family. And now, Wren is older and meets with a face she knows. That person knows Wren's secret, and Wren knows hers.





This book is recommended for people who like:
Intense books, books in verse.






I would give this book 4.5 stars, it would have to be a little longer to get a 5.
 

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.

Vietnam War and Saigon Falling. But Alabama?

The title of this book is Inside out and Back Again. It is about a girl named Ha who is from Saigon. And she has three brothers, Brother Quang, Brother Vu, and Brother Khoi. And a mother. But the Vietnam War has come tho their home and they are forced to flee out of the country. Once they make it off of the horrible ship that they traveled on, they have to get sponsored. Or taken into a home until they can find their own. But getting someone to sponsor a family of five is hard. Finally, they get sponsored to Alabama. Ha finds it hard to fit in and finds the food there to taste not so good. But she finds a way to make it seem OK. 

I recommend this book to people...

• Who enjoy book in verse.
• Who enjoy book with very intense parts.

       I give it four stars because in some  parts of the book it was hard to understand. Or sometimes it just didn't make any sense.

My poor arm...that stupid shark...

What would you do if a shark comes up behind you and bites your arm?  It does not come clean off, but they have to amputate it.  I just finished reading the book Shark Girl and it was probably about 3.5 stars.  It was about this girl who gets her arm amputated on account of a shark attack and then the doctors have to amputate it.  When Jane gets out of her coma, she realizes that she can't do things like she could before.  She gets depression because of her disability.  The book is all about how she works through this depression and kind of fails at everything.  I would recommend this book for anyone who likes reading about tragic disasters and people who read about people working through their disabilities.




***Do not read if you don't like blood***

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