Kids Books - Family

If you read the first book (a living nightmare) you will be intriged to read more and will not need a second opinion. Just read my first review and hopefully you'll get hooked.

When Tristan’s family moves to a small town in the middle of nowhere, Petersville, Tristan is pretty bummed. Their home in the city was great! Why did they have to move? Unlike his sister, he isn’t gifted and he isn’t super cute and always making adults laugh like his younger sister. He’s a baking genius who’s always inventing new recipes. But that doesn’t matter in Petersville. In Petersville, he’s just Tristan. There’s no pizza or baking here. But then Tristan finds an old general store who sells doughnuts. Tristan is beyond excitement. Finally, some deserts! Unfortunately, the store doesn’t sell doughnuts anymore even though they were world famous. But Tristan won’t take no for an answer. Some racoons, a new friend, and a whole lot of doughnuts help Tristan finally realize what he needs. Maybe living here won’t be so bad. Laugh, cry, and eat doughnuts while reading this book. Happy reading!

I read this book because a friend recomended it for me. It is really good, and I reccomend it. it is good for a bedtime book. I have to say, Alot of cliff hangers, good for 3rd/4th graders. Great joy reader, even better library book.

I really liked the way that this book was made because Patricia and Richard had a disagreement, but one night Patricia's bubbie sat beside her and they both saw a shooting star, so her bubbie showed Patricia how to make a wish when you see a wishing star, then Patricia knew how to get her brother back.Patricia stayed up and looked through the window until she saw a wishing star she did the same thing that her bubbie did.She wished that she could do anything better than her rotten redheaded older brother and she did, she went on a carousel like 30 times and fell down because she was so dizzy and she woke up with her grandpa, grandma, and her mother all sitting beside her and her mother said that she had a fright and that her brother carried her all the way home and her brother said "that's what big brothers are for". I liked this book because Patricia and Richard were no longer fighting at the end of the book.

This book was okay, and I liked the plot a lot. It reminded me of the book, Hello Universe, but there was only one perspective. This is about a girl named Kammy who wants to join the “popular” group of girls when she moved to a new town. But after a fake inauguration she’s stuck in a well and can’t get out. The “popular” girls (or The Girls) have left her and they will find help, right? As she stays stuck in the well she starts to imagine other animals with her in the well. And when she finally gets out, she feels different, in a good way. This book is fine, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

A lovely tale with a 10 year old slave girl,Sugar, whose mama died and father got sold.She lives with an old couple. She loved the old mans stories about bre'er rabbit.She lives on a sugar plantation in Mississippi and hates sugar even though her mom named her that and she harvest it everyday.Slavery is over and the master wants more help so he gets china-men. Sugar tries to prove that they have some good in while facing hard times.This book tells how it was like being a slave. This book is amazing.That is why I give it 5 stars

I really like this book because I speak Spanish too. This book is mostly in English, it just has a few Spanish words in it. It is also good for kids who also want to learn a few Spanish words.

This book is just like its name -sweet, juicy, tart, and rich with love. Alice Anderson loves her aunt Polly, a pie making prodigy with thirteen blueberry awards for her pies. However, Polly is humble and modest lady in her humble pie shop-PIE. Then, one day, Polly dies. (Suppose it was the fact that she had thirteen awards?) Alice doesn't know what to do. Mr. Ogden presents Polly's will, which means that Alice takes care of Polly's ornery cat, Lardo, and Lardo has the pie crust recipe that everyone wants to know. Yet, Alice's mother doesn't quite feel that the matter is settled. She never like her older sister, and disliked her even more. Alice discovers, one morning, that Lardo is missing. With him missing, the town pie-crazy, and her mother annoyed, Alice needs some comfort. She and her friend Charlie figure out who stole Lardo, but even so that hunch of Alice's was wrong. Luckily, an officer comes home with Lardo, but the thief is still on the loose. Tying in some clues, Alice finds who it is. This book by Sarah Weeks is just as good to read as good it is to eat a pie. For mystery lovers, and pie-bakers, this book is the place to solve the clues and between chapters there are pie recipes! Come and enjoy this book just like the folks of Ipswitch enjoy pie. You'll read it over and over again .

The book Amber House, was first thought of by author Kelly Moore in the 1980’s but it stayed just a draft for many years. Later on her children Larkin and Tucker Reed decided to get with their mom to finish and publish this extraordinary piece . This novel is the first in the trilogy, and is a young adult mystery with just the right amount of romance. From beginning to end this book kept me engaged and on my toes. The story was so very well thought out and written that it made it very painless to follow the storyline. The book was packed with just enough of everything from mysteries and treasures to unexpected plot twists and a sort of love triangle. Amber House was also not hard to get into like most mystery and young adult novels I have read in the past, the book kept my interest the whole time and didn’t feel like a chore to try to finish. Sarah and her younger brother Sammy, have to go to the Amber House after their grandmother passed away. Soon after they arrive, they realize the house is a lot more than it seems. From rumors to lost diamonds, to secret staircases there is so much that they try to explore before their mother sells the house and everything inside. Sarah begins to unpack the rich history of the house and its concealed memories of the past, and from this develops a deep connection with the house. This story is a great reminder that demasking the past can help you see why people or things turned out the way they did, how the past can affect future generations. For example Sarah’s mother has always been cold hearted and angry, since she could remember but never knowing why. Not until Sarah began to search and discover secrets of the house, and the tragedies that caused her mother to be the way was. She then felt compassion for her mom, by knowing what she went through and it changed how she saw her mother, but it didn’t take away the things her mom had said and done. If Sarah never dug up the past, she would probably spend her whole life never truly understanding her mother. I think that a lot of people myself included, can relate to not being able to understand how someone is until after you learn what they have been through. It can change your whole outlook on the person, and like Sarah, have sympathy.

The Warbler island wants their people back. When Artime is faced with flying parachutes that hold... what seems to be kids, Artime starts whipping out their spells and start defending their island. Meanwhile, Aaron is trying to follow in the footsteps of the late High Priest Justine. Bringing back some familiar roles and people, Aaron may have someone turning against him. And our friends at Artime discover a new island. which is safe and magnificent but fears the fate of an evil eel. Happy reading!