Kids Books - Cultures

Jake the Fake Keeps it Real

Jake the Fake Keeps it Real

By Craig Robinson, Adam Mansbach

(WARNING, POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!) So, what do you do if you cant find a gong for your father? Play mah jong with your father... in hong kong with your father so you wrote that song? YOU FAKE YOUR WAY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT'S WHAT! As Jake tries to survive middle school, ignores his unicorn sister, tries to understand Mr. Allen. AND get ready for the talent show. Will the class see the fake he really is? Read it and find out!

Cicada Summer

Cicada Summer

By Kate Constable

This book is girlish so if you don't like girly books don't read it It's about ghosts

Ascendance Trilogy (3 Book Series)

Ascendance Trilogy (3 Book Series)

By Jennifer A. Nielsen

dondonlong

Just like many other books, I don't want to read them at first but they turn out to be SOOOO cool! I love them.

Thursdays with the Crown (Tuesdays at the Castle)

Thursdays with the Crown (Tuesdays at the Castle)

By Jessica Day George

Thursday's with the crown is another great book to the series by Jessica Day George.The castle has been acting up for some time now,and this time it has really done it.A part of the castle and Celie and her sibling to a place unknown.unknown. Celie is the youngest of her siblings and they don't allow her to go out and find food with them.So Celie has to stay and look after there friend Pogue who hurt his head when the castle brought them there. After a bit of arguing they still made her stay,but Celie still goes out and explores a little bit.Celie and her siblings believe Rufus (A griffin Celie raised) is the last of his kind,but during exploring Celie finds something really close to Rufus.I won't spoil it,but after that they meet up with the Arkower.He takes them on a short journey to feed them and take them to his house.I'll let you ind out what happens next.

The Chupacabras of the Río Grande (The Unicorn Rescue Society)

The Chupacabras of the Río Grande (The Unicorn Rescue Society)

By Adam Gidwitz, David Bowles

Yoonycorngirl

I haven’t read this book yet, but it seems super duper cool and as you can tell by my name I L♥️VE UNICORNS! 🦄

Seaglass Summer

Seaglass Summer

By Anjali Banerjee

This is one of my favorite books ever! It's all about a girl that goes to visit her uncle for a month and she learns all about how to take care of animals when they are hurt, (because her uncle is a veterinarian)

Love & Gelato

Love & Gelato

By Jenna Evans Welch

Everyone experiences tragedy. In the book Love and Gelato By Jenna Evans Welch tragedy strikes the main character Lina when her mom is suffering from cancer and dies. Lina was living with her friend then her grandmother was talking to a guy named howard who lived in Italy and her grandmother and her mom before she died said she should go with him to Italy so she did but she wasn’t happy about it. Lina got her plane tickets and was headed to Italy, when she got to Italy she got picked up at the airport by howard and she took a long car ride to his house. When they got to a cemetery Lina was hoping he didn’t live in the cemetery and he did. Lina went to her room when they got to the house after Howard showed her around. Lina didn’t unpack she was still getting used to be living in a cemetery but she felt uncomfortable for her. Later that day Howard let her use his phone to contact friends and she called one of her friends and explained everything. Lina went to bed after she called her friend as she woke up in the morning, Howard asked her are you going for your run because they had a talk about what she likes to do and her grandmother told him. Howard told Lina there is a fence in the back of the cemetery so she went to the back of the cemetery and went through the back for her run. Lina was going up a hill and she saw a boy her age or older playing soccer and she tried to sneak away so he didn’t see her. He ended up seeing her and he introduced himself his name is lorenzo. Lorenzo asked Lina if she wanted to meet his mom and she said she would so she didn’t sound mean. Lorenzo brought Lina to his house and Lina was surprised because it was gingerbread looking house and in the inside she described looked like the inside of one. The next couple of days Lorenzo introduces Lina to most of his friends. Their was a party at one of his friends house and he brought her and she meet so many new people and even a boy named thomas. She hung out with thomas almost the whole time and then they had to go. Lorenzo was scared Howard would be mad at him if he brought her home too late but he ended up being fine with it. The next day a coworker of Howard at the cemetery gave Lina a journal her mom made while she was in Italy. It talked about what happened in Italy with her. So later on her and Lorenzo start reading a lot of it and they start to figure everything out. They went to a public computer place and they looked up the guy they think is her real dad after reading the journal and they think he is in rome and they hed there. Lorenzo drives them there on his scooter and they catch a train and they head to rome. When they get to rome they found out where he is located and they get there and they find him. He was a complete jerk to her then she runs out of where he was. She was crying and she knows everything now. Then she has a talk with Howard when she got back and let him read the journal and he tells her everything. If you like romance, tragedy, and action all in one book this is a good book for you because it has all that just spread out around the story!!.

Inside the Walls of Troy

Inside the Walls of Troy

By Clemence McLaren, Joel P. Johnson

In this historical story, retold by Clemence McLaren, we are introduced to two characters; Helen - the most beautiful and famous female alive, who is the cause of the Trojan War; Cassandra - has the gift, or curse, to predict the future. When Cassandra foresees the ruin of her family and city that Helen's arrival in Troy will cause, she is outraged. While this happened, Helen gets wife-snatched by Cassandra's own half brother, Paris. Helen and Paris fall deeply in love but when they sail to Troy, they do not know the chaos that will happen. Soon, the Greek people call for war for stealing the king's wife. I'll leave it off here because it's pretty good and I think you should experience it yourself!

The Red Pencil

The Red Pencil

By Andrea Davis Pinkney

The red pencil is an amazing book with great details and good illustrations. I am reading it in my book club and so far it is great. I suggest it to 5th and 6th graders

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (CitizenKid)

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea: How a Science Project Helps One Family and the Planet (CitizenKid)

By Elizabeth Suneby

With amazing illustrations by Rebecca Green, Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea by Elizabeth Suneby is a great picture book about a little boy who enters a science fair in his school. This is a wonderful book and I really enjoyed reading it!

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