Kids Books - Family

i love this book because they find each other as a family.

I rate this book as fair since I enjoy reading the details the author writes to describe everything. I can feel as if I am in the book, experiencing everything with all the characters. She makes me have reactions and predictions to the book, especially in the end of chapter 34. Chapter 34 is when Rew runs away from their house, into the “Zebra”, the forest their house is surrounded in. Annie, her grandmother, and Snow chase after Rew during the night, and during a thunderstorm. Annie returns first, and when she sees Rew, Snow, and her grandmother return, page 182 makes me strongly react in a certain way. Page 182 says, “...Andrew Snow...I saw him, dirty and grim. He was carrying Gran.” When I read this, I have to read it over since it makes me scared. Before I read on, I thought that a tragic event happened to Gran. I also appreciate that the protagonist, Annie, has a younger brother named Rew, who has a unique personality, but I don’t appreciate the way Annie emotionally reacts to events. When Andrew Snow, Annie’s dad who lived in jail escaped from jail, held Annie, Rew, and their guardian, their grandmother, hostage in their own house, Rew reacts as most children would do. He reacts violently and angrily since nobody is telling the police about Snow’s escape from jail. Annie doesn’t do anything, even when Rew makes a letter and asks her to put it in the mailbox when Snow allows her to leave the house. Annie hides the letter and lies to Rew instead since she doesn’t want Snow to go. Annie thinks that Snow was a trustworthy person to be around, but Rew is smarter and knows that he can be dangerous, since the reason that he was sent to jail was that he killed a person. Annie’s grandmother doesn’t do anything either, but for an acceptable reason. She doesn’t want to hear Snow talk to her since she’s disappointed in her son, and Snow keeps trying to ask her questions that she doesn’t want to answer. I partially admire Gran’s personality, while partially disliking it. My favorite thing that I admire about her is that even though she’s experienced at taking care of Annie and Rew, she also can care for herself. When Snow holds her family hostage, she doesn’t talk to anybody, leaving Annie and Rew to take care of themselves. I think that it’s smart to sometimes help yourself first since Gran works hard to take care of Annie and Rew, and can use a break. Gran hides in her room for a long time so Snow doesn’t bother her, which teaches Annie and Rew how to be responsible during these types of situations. My least favorite thing about Gran is that she lies frequently, has a large amount of practice, and uses it to protect information that can should be shared. For example, before Snow came, Gran tells Annie and Rew that their father was killed by an angry man who was sent to jail. It was actually the opposite. Their father killed an angry man and was sent to jail. I believe that Annie and Rew can handle knowing about this since they deserve to know about their own father. Also, when Snow first came to hide in their house, Rew thought that Gran was lying and became extremely violent and angry, since he didn’t believe that Snow was his father at first.

Soledad “Sol” Madrid has gotten through twelve whole years of her life using imagination. Sometimes she imagines herself in a rocket ship, or living in a gigantic mansion, or inside a fairy tale. But none of that is actually true for her. In reality, her mother and one of her sisters are dead, and she lives with her stepmother because her father went to the Philippines a few years ago. He hasn’t come back, and Sol often dreams of running away from their home in Louisiana with her younger sister Ming. But when Ming starts to believe a story Sol told her, about their make-believe aunt who lives in the jungle, everything gets messed up. How will Sol convince her sister to believe the truth? Read this book to find out! Once again, author Erin Entrada Kelly creates a heartfelt, witty, and creative novel that readers will love. The Land of Forgotten Girls is an unforgettable book, and I rate it 4/5 stars.

you should read this book it has memorable characters it has a good story. It will keep you engaged as you feel like you are flying through the book. Most people rate it four or five stars.

Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond) is the main character, Kiranmala. Let's take a recap real quick. Kiranmala is an Indian princess and was taken care of her parents. She had a normal life, but on the day of her birthday, her house was wrecked and her parents were gone! She then meets two princes and a pegasus on her front lawn, and a monster suddenly appears. This monster was a demon, supposedly to capture Kiran. But then, the princes start attacking the monster like it was no biggie. Kiran was frozen in fear because she didn't know what to do. Now, in the present time, Kiran is now on a journey, and issues are now causing everywhere. Kiranmala now has to find out who her real friends are, how to help her friends from danger, and how it'll be like a demon. I would give 5 stars because this book has a lot of intensity and also shows what the true meaning of friends are.

Thank You DOGO team for sending me this book! This book is about Snow and Rose. They live in the woods. One day their father goes into the wood. AND NEVER RETURNS! Just imagine no father. It gets worse. They get kicked out of their house! I felt sooooo bad for them. Snow and Rose move to a cottage not too deep into the woods. Snow and Rose have to learn to live without people serving them in a small cottage. They realize on their journey that their cat is a GIRL and has babies. Now more things in a small cottage. Every year Snow and Rose's mother goes to get things form the village. Snow and Rose have to live by themselves. Snow and Rose also find a "library" and meet a new friend. Now I have told you a lot about this book... GO READ THIS BOOK AND HAVE FUN!!!!! :)

I really enjoyed this realistic, humorous look at tween life. This is honestly what a lot of tween/teen girls feel like and I think the author did a great job at showing this. I am wondering how the author got this idea. Was she like this when she was younger or is it based on maybe her daughter (if she has one) or a close friends daughter.

This wasn't my favorite book. The ending was too simple, and I felt like the author didn't express enough about the world that the book takes place in. It was really short, and if I'm honest with myself, it was NOT a fourth and fifth grade level book. It was more like a third and fourth grade level book. I think the interest level is more Grades 2-4 rather than grades 3-7. I'd heard a lot of great things about the book, but I don't think I saw it how other people did. It was an interesting setting, where almost everyone had a talent, but that wasn't much of a fantasy for me. I think that everyone is extremely good at SOMETHING, they just don't know it yet. But in the book, it was kind of saying that you can only be what you're good at. I might be extremely good at something, but that does NOT mean I have to enjoy doing it. I was especially disappointed with the book because the author, Lisa Graff wrote one of my favorite books of all time, Absolutely Almost. That book really touched my heart and is special to me. But I didn't feel that in A Tangle of Knots. I wish that it had more depth to it. It was really flat for me. Anyways, it did have a touching moment with Cady and her father, but that was the only special thing about A Tangle of Knots. After reading Absolutely Almost, I had assumed A Tangle of Knots would be equally good if not better. Boy was I wrong.

This book is the sequel to Lisa Graff’s A Tangle Of Knots. This book is set just after the first book ends, but there are some time passages and you should probably read the prologue, just FYI, I think it helps deepen your understanding. You don’t have to. Anyway, this book takes place in a camp on the edge of a lake, a camp for people only with singular talents. Liliana Vera also has a singular talent, she is a Pinnacle, someone who can move objects with there mind. There are lots of other singular talents the campers poses, such as being able to hold your breath for a long time, hearing things up with your hands, changing your hair at will, lie detecting, tasting memory’s, and even a recollector, someone who can take and then give memories at will, amount others. At this camp, the lake holds a secret, but almost no one knows the secrets the lake holds. There may be some dangerous people on the lose, and it is up to the campers to stop them.

Seventh grade is starting on the wrong path for Beatrix Lee. Her former best friend isn’t her BFF anymore, her parents are too busy with their artwork to spend much time with her, and she does things that single her out for the wrong reasons. The only thing that comforts Bea is writing haikus in invisible ink and hiding her poems in a place she calls The Portal. But one day, she takes one of the haikus...and sees that someone has written a response to it. When this mysterious person keeps leaving notes for each haiku, Bea wonders who is doing this—and whether she can find out. Who could it be? Briggs, who loves the poems she writes for the school newspaper? Her former friend Sammie, who barely knows her now? The eighth grader named Jaime who listens to music all the time, or maybe Will, who enjoys labyrinths and always wears a striped shirt? In this heartfelt novel, Kat Yeh expresses the feelings of a young girl who wants to be herself. You will love this book!