Ghost Boys

Am I still alive?

                                                                                  Ghost Boys

                                                                    Ghost Boys is about Jerome, who gets shot, after a police 

                                                                     officer mistakes his toy gun as a real threat. Jerome 

          becomes a ghost, but it still feels like he is alive even 

          though people can not see him, except for the police mans
           daughter, Sarah. The policeman that killed him. Jerome                 not only realizes he is not the only African American that               died from racism, there is a whole group of them called                  the ghost boys.  Follow Jerome along, through history,                   as he learns the past and how forgiveness is a very                          powerful thing. Warning: (this book contains violence                    and mature subjects, such as death and use of weapons.)             
             Recommended to people who like history, more mature 

             books ,ethnic diversity, intense action, and page turners.

               I rate this book a four and a half stars

Labels: ethnic diversity, page turner, historical fiction, young adult, realistic fiction

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 taught a cat to swimmmmm!

This book is about a family of 6 who goes to a place called Rock Island and they have been going there for years. when they get there things have changed alot from getting a new family there and a bad person trying to take something they all love and have been a part of there lives since babys.
I think you would like this book if you like family and friends, adventure, and doing things not many people can do.

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.

Grenade

                                                                                                                                                                              Alan Gratz's Grenade is about a Okinawan boy named Hideki and an american soldier named Ray, who is attacking Okinawa during world war 2. Hideki was part of the IJA, (imperial Japanese army) deffending Okinawa. Hideki is given two grenades and told to kill the american solders with them.  while Ray and his team are invading Okinawa, hidiki and Ray run into each other and the fate of one of them depends on what they do next.

I recommend this book for people who like:

• action pact books       
• war stories
• books with lots of cliffhangers                            

I rate this book five stars
                                                                                  
     

I can't talk. I can't move. I can't do anything.

I just read out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper.  poor melody can't speak, move or even go to the bathroom on her own!  When she gets a Miditaker,  she becomes someone else.  She tries out for the national whiz kids team.  She is super smart and can't share any of her thoughts.  Just when things start to get good, something really sad happens.  She makes one friend, Rose, but is she really her true friend?  Is she actually smart enough to make the whiz kids team?  Will she ever be able to express her feelings like others?  I would recomend this book to people who like sad stories and people who read about disabilities and how they work through them. 

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.

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 

Would you Bike Thousands of Miles?

The book Adventures of a Girl Named Bicycle by Christina Uss is a book filled with adventure. This book is about a girl around 3 years old that shows up at a Mostly Silent Monastery wearing a shirt that says bicycle and that becomes her name. She grows up at the monastery and is homeschooled. Her name is Bicycle so she must have a bicycle, that bicycle becomes her best friend named Clunk. By the time she's around our age her guardian at the monastery decides she should go to a friendship camp over spring break but she has other ideas for her and her bike. I would recommend this to people you like books about adventure, friendships, and are someone that doesn't give up. I would rate this book 3 out of 5 stars because it wasn't as complex as other books I read but I really liked the storyline. DON'T read if you like complex books.