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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I lost my leg...now I need to run.

What do you think happens when you get on a bus to go to a track meet.  You just get there and then suddenly, you're in the hospital waking up from a 10-day coma. Lucy is dead, and so is your leg. You need to run again. But you can't. This book is about a girl who has to have her leg amputated because she twisted her leg so much in the accident that it twisted all the bones apart. When she and her track team raise enough money to buy a running prosthetic for her, she tries out for her dream again. Then she meets rose, a girl with cerebral palsy and she decides to enter a 10k run pushing rose in a wheelchair.
I recommend this book for people who like to read about physical disabilities.
I give this book 5 stars.

Monster (Graphic Novel) by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a kid named Steve Harmon who is 16 and is being accused of murder. He has to go to court and try to defend himself. Will he be in jail or will he be able to spend time somewhere else than a prison?

I recommend this book to anyone who...

•  likes Graphic Novels
• likes suspenseful books
• likes stories with crime involved

I would have given Monster a higher rating if it was more action packed.

Warning: Monster is a Young Adult book.⚠

I give Monster 3.5 stars.

The clan is dying... I'm wanted... what if they find me?

Beautiful Book

The book that I read was called Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty. It is about a jaetter named Willa. Willa is a member of the Dead Hollow Clan. With many of the Faeran of the old long gone she and her mamaw are the only wodwitches left. She once betrays the clan by no coming back to the Dead Hollow lair on time because of getting shot and is having trouble with other jaetters of her kind. Once she finds out that they are after her it is a mission to find a place to live while others still loathe her. She finds a man Nathenial and it is their journey to stick together and become friends. When Willa Finds something out that she doesn't need to know it is a journey to uncover the secret to figure it all out.
I recommend this book to people...

• Who enjoy books with a very suspensful scary part
• Who enjoy a good page turner.

5 star rating

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

Would you want to see what happens after you die?

You're just playing with a toy gun in the park, then your gone, shot by a police officer that claims you were big, scary, and he felt attacked, you barely noticed he was there. The book Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes is about a 12-year-old boy named Jerome that is shot and watches watch happens after he dies. No one can see him, not his family, not the police officer, not the judge, no one but the police officers daughter. I would recommend this to anyone that has had someone close to them pass away, wants to see the true difference between where we live and other people live. I would 100% percent rate this 5 out of 5 stars.

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.

Code of honor by Allan Gratz

Code of honor is about a boy named Kamran. Hid big brother is an army ranger in Iran when he is captured and brought to Afganistan. Terrorists attacked the U.S. embassy and blamed it on him. Kamran was believed a  terrorist himself. The government, thinking Kamran was a terrorist too, arrested him. A group of others help Kamran escape fight the terrorist group. Everything goes wrong. Some can't be trusted. The terrorist group plans to blow up the super bowl. Kamran has to stop them.

I rate this book 5 stars. One of the most suspenseful books I have ever read.

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.

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.

An address like no other

I read the book No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen because it was a sliding glass door for me. Felix Knutsson has a love for a tv show called Who, What, Where, When. His mom Astrid is a good mom, sometimes, but she just can't seem to keep a job. When they move into a Westfalia van his mom tells him that under no circumstance can he tell anyone about their living situation. When he gets into the French only class he meets Winnie Wu. During this book, Felix not only learns a lot about himself but also about the world around him. Read the book to find out what happens to Felix, Astrid, Winnie, and their current situation. I would recommend this book to anyone who is reading the 2019-2020 DCF book list and to anyone who likes subtle suspense, and a good book.         

I would rate this book a 4.5 because it was a good book but it wasn't my favorite.
                                                       

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 

Peak by Roland Smith That is when I realized were I was. I was illegally climbing a skyscraper. Take the rope!! someone shouted, I did. when I reached the top there was a helicopter and a bunch of guys wearing swat uniforms

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Peak by Roland Smith is about a boy named peak. The story starts with him (illegally) climbing a skyscraper in New York City. He gets caught (you will know this if you read the intro). He goes to court and loses his case. He gets fined a lot and gets a notice that if he commits a crime in Nyc in the next few years, he will go to jail. He then leaves the U.S. to live with his stepdad in Nepal. On the way, he makes an unexpected stop. To break a record. To climb Everest.

I rate Peak 5 stars. I HIGHLY recommend this book.

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

Have you ever wanted to tell someone a secret... but you're scared it will change everything?

IF I WAS YOUR GIRL by Meredith Russo
I don't care what I've said in the past. THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. Period.

Amanda Hardy just moved in with her Dad. They haven't seen each other in years, but yet here he is. Amanda lived with her Mom, but it wasn't safe for Amanda there. She needed a fresh start. She promises herself not to get to close to anyone because that would be dangerous. "Keep your head down, keep a low profile," she tells herself. But then Amanda meets Grant. Grant is different than most boys. Caring, thoughtful, funny, someone Amanda wants to get to know. As Amanda and Grant get closer, Amanda wants to know everything about Grant. And she wants to share everything about herself to him too. Including her past. But she's afraid that once Grant knows the truth, he's going to see her differently. See her as she used to be. See her as a boy.


Recommended for...

• Anyone who loves strong female characters
• Anyone who loves the power of friendship
• Anyone who LOVES plot twists 
• Anyone who loves reading a really, really, really good book

WARNING!

Anyone who cannot handle or you feel uncomfortable with strong language (such as swears, adult talk, etc.) I do not recommend this book for you because it has a lot of strong language.



I rate this book 10/5 stars because it is SO good

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...

Grenade by Alan Gratz Pak! "Get Down! Get Down! Sergeant Meredith cried "Sniper!"

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Hideki is young Okinawan boy that was giving 2 Grenades. 1 to kill American solders and the other to kill himself. The Japanese were fighting American on his island. 

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Ray is a teenager boy and he was fighting The Japanese. 
Ray left America to go fight for the marines.
I would recommend this book 100%
It is a page turner.
10/5 stars.