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The Gary Paulsen Collection: Dancing Carl; Dogsong; Hatchet; Woodsong (4 Book Series)

The Gary Paulsen Collection: Dancing Carl; Dogsong; Hatchet; Woodsong (4 Book Series)

By Gary Paulsen

Hatchet By Gary Paulsen Recommendation 7 and up I would rate the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen a 5/5 because it's just such an interesting book with all the action and drama and surprises around every corner. I personally think that Hatchet is a great adventure novel and I'm going to tell you a bit of what happens in this book.This book is based on a very likable kid named Brian who is going to see his father in Canada. But something unexpected happens. The pilot has a heart attack. Brian does all he can to keep the plane in the air. It crashes in the water by a far away woods. The pilot drowns and Brian almost does too. Now it's Brian's goal to get food, make a shelter, and try to survive. Read this book as soon as you can!!!

Hattie Big Sky

Hattie Big Sky

By Kirby Larson

Hattie Inez Brooks, a 16 years old who lived through World War One. She used to live in Iowa with her Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt. Hattie is well known as Hattie-There-And-Here to her relatives. Her good friend, Charlie Hawley, who is a soldier who basically on the way to England then to France. Charlie has taught Hattie how to play baseball properly and gave her a cat named Mr. Whiskers. Hattie moved to Vida, Montana to move in her homestead from her another uncle, Chester. She met one possible enemy, Traft Martin who has offered to buy her homestead at least twice. She also met a loving family which are very good friend to Hattie; Karl, Perilee, Chase, Mattie (decreased by young age), Mattie`s doll, Mulie, and younger sister, Fern Mueller, Leafie Purvis, Mr. Edgard, and newborn baby in Mueller family, Charlotta "Lottie". In nearly every chapter, we could read the letters between Charlie and Hattie, they kinda really like each other but never admitted...just yet! While some other chapters, we also could read newspaper-like at the starting of the chapters. In nearly ending of the book, nearly everyone were affected by Spanish influenza. Then in the ending of the book, Hattie has discovered that she made a "home" on her late uncle, Chester which is finally sold to Mr. Martin. I would def recommend this book because this is super good! I also rate this 5 stars! - Happy Reading!

Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill

Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill

By James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts

omigosh im sorry this is long i couldnt explain it otherwise It’s summer for Rafe Khatchadorian and his sister Georgia, but they’re going to spend eight weeks of it shipped off to Camp Wannamorra. Rafe could tell from the first day that he was in the worst cabin in Camp Wannamorra. Rafe soon meets his cabinmates and his cabin leader: Rusty, the cabin leader, is muscular but isn’t very observant. Norman (Booger Eater) has the worst nickname possible and is teased for it 24/7. Jake (Dweebs) is tall. Cavanaugh (Cav) is short, and so is everything else about him. Noah (Two Tunz or Tunz) has big bones and a big heart. Jose (Smurf) has blue hair. Justin (Bombardier) has a talent for laying bombs in the latrine that makes everyone leave. Legend scares everyone, and no one knows much about him. Rafe quickly finds out that Doolin and the Bobcats hate the Muskrats, which, unfortunately, is Rafe’s cabin. Doolin and the Bobcats are the camp bullies that are out to get the Muskrats. Rafe tells Leo that he will lay off of the plans so that he won’t get into trouble. At Camp Wannamorra, schooling starts from eight to twelve, and on the first day of schooling, Rafe meets Katie Kim, the beautiful math teacher, his new crush. He also learns during math that Norman was pretending to play dumb. Rafe always sees his nose in a book, but Norman acts like he’s not smart at all. Rafe gets on the bad side of Major Sherwood, AKA the Dictator, and begins to hate Doolin. Doolin bullies the Muskrats and kisses up to Katie Kim, which makes Rafe hate him even more. Doolin and the Bobcats from Bobcat Alley TP the Muskrat cabin and decorate it with signs saying mean stuff about Norman and shaving cream. Rafe, the troublemaking genius, tells his friends that they have to do something about the bullies down Bobcat Alley. After curfew, they sneak over and catch them smoking! Rafe and the Muskrats decide that they are hungry, and creep over to the counselors’ dorm for some “bodacious snacks”. They all raid the dorm until the Dictator catches them. They’re all let off with a warning and a suspension for a day. Norman gets Rafe to read a book and Rafe, in return, tries to make the rest of the Muskrats call Norman by his real name instead of Booger Eater. Rafe learns that Christine, his sister Georgia’s new best friend, is Doolin’s younger sister! Rafe stays away from Christine and Georgia, afraid that Doolin will hear that Rafe insults him. Rafe asks his cabinmates about Legend, the most feared camper at Camp Wannamorra. They tell him about the Legend of Legend. Every year Legend pulls off one giant bad thing, but is never caught. That all change the year Rafe comes to Camp Wannamorra. At the camp dance, Rafe is embarrassed as he dances with Georgia, but the embarrassment doesn’t last long. Soon the Dictator is on a hunt to find out who hung women underwear up on the flagpole during the dance. It gets Rafe out of dancing with Georgia, but dancing with Georgia was not the worst thing that happened. Everyone in camp except for Legend and Norman started barfing like crazy from food poisoning in the refreshments. Legend gets in trouble and is sent home because women underwear and food poisoning was found in his suitcase. But only Rafe knows that the Bobcats framed him so that they could tease the Muskrats all they wanted. Rafe learns more about Norman the night of the camp play, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Doolin humiliates Norman by dressing up like Norman and wearing a shirt that says “I Heart Boogers”. Rafe says that it’s the last straw and devises a plan that will blackmail the Bobcats into leaving them alone. After curfew, the Muskrats snuck out and took pictures of the Bobcats smoking. They leave the Muskrats alone for a while, not knowing that the pictures were too fogged up to tell who and what was in the picture. The Muskrats agree to bluff, but their bluff is soon found out as the Bobcats eavesdrop and hear them saying that they don’t actually have the pictures. When Norman’s trunk of books was found in the lake, everyone finds out that Norman had run away. The search is on for only a few hours, for everyone is ordered to go back to their bunks. Determined Rafe decides to run away from camp and find Norman. He soon sees him on top of Snake Hill with a jar of honey, a jar of peanut butter, and loaf of bread. They stay there for the night and then return to camp. Everyone cheers and congratulates Rafe for something Rafe doesn’t even know about. It turns out that before Norman left, he trashed the Dictator’s cabin with peanut butter and honey. Rafe takes the blame for it so that Norman is able to stay at camp, away from his lazy father. Rafe is ordered to be sent home, but is given 15 minutes to say good-bye to his cabinmates. In those 15 minutes, Rafe, Georgia, and Christine contrive a plan to blackmail Doolin into leaving the Muskrats alone for the rest of the summer. Using Doolin’s embarrassing secret nickname, Pampers, Rafe saves his cabinmates from torment. Although Rafe gets grounded, he knows that it was worth it. i HIGHLY recommend this book! even if ur a girl or boy, it's fantastic either way. it's superfunny and full of twists and turns.

Slacker

Slacker

By Gordon Korman

This book is another AWESOME book by Gordon Korman. If you have read Ungifted, the Swindle series, the Hypnotists, the Masterminds series, or any other books that Gordon Korman has wrote, you have to read this book! Cameron Boxer was playing a video game. One hour later, his parents are screaming at him because they need to buy a new front door. Cameron and his friends create a fake school club that nobody was supposed to join so his parent's expectations would stay up. But too many people needed the club to improve their lives. So in two weeks, Cameron ends up getting this club an opportunity to help his community. A day after the event, he is a town hero and practically the entire middle school joins his club. But the high version of the club is getting pretty steamed about how the middle school club is getting more publicity. Soon, the high school goes out at night, trashes wherever the middle school went, and pins it on them. In the fight to keep their town and a beaver alive, the two clubs try to save the beaver. They catch him, but they forget about the highway that was about to be destroyed. Thankfully, their parents arrive on the scene, and the state postpones the project by 3 years. In the end, everything ends well. If you're every wondering what happened to the door, read the book and find out!

Pinkalicious

Pinkalicious

By Victoria Kann, Elizabeth Kann

Pinkalicious loves pink so much. However, she keeps eating pink cupcakes which leads her to turning pink. She is delighted by this change, and eats even more pink cupcakes. However, this results in her turning a red shade instead. She did not want to turn this shade, so she eats a lot of green food which turns her back to her regular color. Overall, this book was really colorful and I use to read these books a lot. I recommend this book to people who like comedy books, or short stories. I rate this book 5/5.

Pinkalicious: Puptastic! (I Can Read Level 1)

Pinkalicious: Puptastic! (I Can Read Level 1)

By Victoria Kann

Pinkalicious is expecting to have a pinkatastic weekend puppy sitting pinky . She’s sure she’ll have all kinds of fun times with Pinky, the poodle she was pup sitting , until she realizes that Pinky is shy and doesn’t want to play. But she can convince the puppy to have fun, so she take a bubbly bath with pinkt the poodle who had a ink nose . and then she turns her pink and she made pinky learn to have fun .

Silverlicious (Pinkalicious)

Silverlicious (Pinkalicious)

By Victoria Kann

In this special glossy edition of Pinkalicious' adventures, Pinkalicious has lost her sweet tooth after stealing her brother Peter's cookie and trying to eat it! Now nothing tastes sweet anymore...yuck! Desperate for the return of her sweet tooth, Pinkalicious heeds Toothatina - her tooth fairy - for help, but she's constantly busy, sending Cupid, the Easter Bunny, and other magical creatures as substitutes. No matter what, though, Pinkalicious' sweet tooth doesn't make an appearance. What if it never comes back? A wonderful story about sweetness going deeper than skin.

All Four Stars

All Four Stars

By Tara Dairman

Gladys Gatsby is an AMAZING cook. Problem is, nobody in her family cares. Also, she nearly burned her house down making creme brulee when her parents weren't home. So, when she learns a space has opened up for food reviewer at her local newspaper, she gets an idea. She sends a application, not mentioning she is only 12 years old. The hijinks that ensue after she gets the job are purely hilarious! I read the Stars of Summer and am currently reading Stars So Sweet. I LOVE this series and HIGHLY recommend it if you enjoy humor and food, like me.

All the Impossible Things

All the Impossible Things

By Lindsay Lackey

This book is so inspiring. This is an absolute must-read, and I suggest you read it if you know what it's like to not have a good family, or have seen the effects of drugs.

Caraval

Caraval

By Stephanie Garber

I LOVE Caraval! It’s my absolute favorite book series! It’s about this game called Caraval that blurs between reality and fantasy. The other two books in the series are just as good! I would highly recommend this trilogy to readers that love fantasy, adventure, mystery, and a hint of romance! Go check it out! You’re gonna love it!

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