Kids Books - Children

Julia Alvarez makes characters and their experiences come alive. Told in 1st person point of view, I laughed and cried as 10 year old Miguel related life in a new town after his parent's divorce. Chapter 3 is a real gem angling internal & external conflict.

It is amazing especially the movie I think that this book would be perfect of teens and pre teens everything about this book is wonderful I read this with my cousin who is a young adult its amazing how a book can change the way you see things I never new that I had such a love for books like these it is based on a girl from decades ago but I like it because of Anne, Anne is strong, determined, self passionate , and adventurous what a wonderful book.

I am in year 7, and to give a summary of Boy Overboard I would say that it is a kids/tween novel. Boy Overboard is based on a young Afghani kid Jamal, who loves playing football (soccer). But that isn’t always easy when your goalkeeper has only one leg, and when land mines are lying around your football game. Jamal has a little sister Bibi who is even better at football than him. But the Taliban made it illegal for girls to play football. The Taliban also found out that Jamal and Bibi’s mum had an illegal school in their house, the family then had to evacuate their house and move to Australia. The journey to Australia was dangerous and scary for the family, and Jamal and Bibi got separated from their parents. The smugglers were very cruel and everyone got hungry, and things got violent. The kids soon found out Australia wasn’t as welcoming as they expected, but once Jamal and Bibi got their parents back; they realized that if they were together that’s all that mattered. When I first began reading Boy Overboard I didn’t find much of a hook. And I struggled to enjoy the book for a while. It wasn’t until Jamal’s mum was almost killed, also known as the stadium scene is when I started to find a hook, and start to enjoy the book. I found the scene stadium scene the first hook because that was when the story first started to become different to other books I’d read before, and it inclined me to want to read the book more. My two favorite scenes in Boy Overboard were the stadium scene and the scene where Jamal and Bibi found out the news of their parent’s boat sinking. The stadium scene was when the Taliban found out about the illegal schools, including Jamal’s mum’s school. The Taliban rounded up all the illegal teachers and were going to execute them. Jamal’s mum luckily got away. And the scene where Jamal and Bibi found out the news of their parent’s boat sinking is one of the final scenes, and I chose it because it seemed to have a hard impact on Bibi and Jamal. You could tell that they were hit hard by this news, just by the way that it was written. While reading the novel, it was obvious that there were a few enemies to the main characters such as the Taliban, the smugglers, the pirates, and the sailors. The Taliban were always despised by Jamal and his family, the main event between Jamal’s family and the Taliban was after Jamal’s Mum got caught for having an illegal school. The Taliban blew up Jamal’s house and then almost murdered his mother before she got away. The main event between Jamal’s family and the smugglers was probably after the smugglers dropped off a group of people at a boat dock, and left everyone there in the dark with no food or water. Jamal and Bibi and the Pirates only had one encounter, which was when the pirates abandoned Jamal and Bibi in the middle of the ocean with the rest of the people onboard. Jamal’s family had a few encounters with the sailor, but I think the moment with the highest conflict was when the sailor threw Bibi into the water, even when she didn’t know how to swim. At the beginning of the book, Jamal seems like an average Afghani kid for his conditions worried about safety, afraid of land mines, on edge and carefu. And of course, he loves football. As the book carried through Jamal started to show more signs of bravery and compassion. He was clearly affected by his rough journey to Australia, but I think that it helped him be more thankful for things like being with his family, and even being alive. When Jamal and Bibi lost their parents, you could tell that Jamal saw it as a time to step up and take care of Bibi. Whereas at the start of the book Bibi was very open-minded and feisty, and as the book carried through she started to be more respecting and patient. Bibi seemed to be rather rattled after the rough journey to Australia, but that helped her to be more thankful for little things.

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Hetty feather is a brilliant book about an orphan in a foundling hospital. Her foundling brother Jem told Hetty that they would get married some day. As Hetty left her founding family to go back to the hospital, Jem gave her a 3 pence coin and promised to marry her some day because their not brother and sister at blood. Find out the rest by buying Hetty feather! Hope u enjoy it

So good I recommend this book to bsc and bookwormros

My current favourite book ever! This book is a great sequel to five children and it because this is set in modern days. Another great book from the author. Jacqueline Wilson.

This book is the third book of "The Clique" series. The characters in this book are Massie, Alicia, Kristen, Dylan, and Claire. This book is mainly about the conflict between Massie and Alicia. Although Massie and Alicia were best friends, Alicia one day decides to throw a sleepover party without inviting Massie, Kristen, and Dylan. After hearing about that, Massie starts to exclude her from "The Pretty Committee" and lets the unpopular girl, Claire, into the committee. Alicia makes her own "clique" too, but then she realizes that it was actually harder than it seems to create a "cool clique." The problem of this story is that that even though Massie wants Alicia back in her clique, she don't want to do that at the same time, because Massie feels that Alicia betrayed her. I would recommend this book to people who like reading about school life and friendship, because in this book, you can learn a lot about complicated friendship and school life.

Another great read by Stacey Lee!! Her words are amazing, and true, and somewhat (how to I put this?) not for immature readers. Personally, I was not bothered, but for the more sensitive reader, you may want to rethink. On another note, I found this book empowering and with just enough romance to satisfy (Oh who am I kidding? There is NEVER enough romance!! I think I found a new fictional Matt!! Sorry peeps inside joke!) Anyhow, READ THIS BOOK!! Oh and please follow me!! -sirireads

I studied japanese, so I'm so buying that