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Shazam!: The Junior Novel

Shazam!: The Junior Novel

By Calliope Glass

This is the best DC Comics movie yet! It's about an orphan boy named Billy Batson who lives in Pennsylvania who keeps running away from foster homes because he believes his mother is still alive until he is at a point where he is with a foster family. His foster parents introduce themselves and his new family. But after a day in school, he runs away again (after standing up to the bullies who bullied Freddy and his foster family). He gets on a subway train with people and the next thing he knows, they all vanished, the train goes fast and everything on the outside freezes until...he's in an ancient temple with an old wizard. The wizard said Billy Batson was 'Pure of Heart' (meaning he was loyal, trustworthy and protective). The wizard tells Billy to say his name, "SHAZAM". He says it and the next thing he knows, he's back in the subway again but with people staring at his outfit. He comes back home to Freddy to get some help (because Freddy was a hero fan nerd) and soon Freddy believes that the man was actually Billy Batson. Freddy and Billy go to a store and a few minutes later, there were robbers. Billy goes to talk to them, and one of the men shoot him...but he (and the robbers) noticed that he was bullet proof (both skin and outfit). But while the boys were messing around, there was a villain who wanted the 'Champion's' (Billy Batson's) powers (since he was chosen for pure of heart). When they come home, Billy tries to be quite (but he couldn't) so his little foster sister knew the hero (SHAZAM) and Billy explained everything until he said "SHAZAM", he turns back to a kid. A couple of days later, Freddy and Billy are playing around with Billy's powers, destroying homework/books and drinking tons of soda. Then after a few more days (in school), Freddy wants Billy to come to lunch as the superhero so he doesn't get beaten up. Billy turns into the hero but only to get money from other people with music just by shooting lightning from his hands and while he does that (after talking to Freddy about how he couldn't be there with him at lunch), he (accidentally) struck one of the buses wheels and that bus was now hanging from a bridge. Billy saves the bus (and the people in it) but Freddy and Billy have an argument. By the time Billy returns home, his foster parents were furious at him for ditching school and going someplace else. Soon, his foster siblings noticed that he was the hero (SHAZAM). His foster siblings also told him that his mother was alive and was living in an apartment. His foster parents drove off and went after Billy. By the time Billy got there, he was talking to his mother and Billy gave his mother the same compass he got as a little kid by winning a game. Billy and the bad guy, Doctor Sivana, were fighting in the air and then in a mall (and SHAZAM was almost losing) until he said the word "SHAZAM!", Doctor Sivana was confused where the hero went until he looked at the news seeing the same boy (Freddy) who talked to the hero. After Billy finished his talk with his mother, he got a phone call (and he thought it was his foster family) but he heard screams from his family sibling about how they were captured by Doctor Sivana. When SHAZAM got there, Doctor Sivana told him to give up his powers with the staff (the wizard gave him his powers) but SHAZAM declined. Sivana took his foster siblings to the park where he unleashed the Seven Deadly Sins (because in the beginning of the movie, as a child, he had the same experience with the wizard but instead of getting the powers like the wizard, he saw the Seven Deadly Sins and they told him to be THEIR champion but if he fell for them TOO EASILY, then he was not pure of heart). So SHAZAM and his foster siblings got the staff and all of them (except for Billy) said "SHAZAM!" and there were now five more SHAZAM's. Later, SHAZAM fought against Doctor Sivana and in the end, Sivana lost and everything went back normal.

Just Princesses

Just Princesses

By Crystal Velasquez

When the queen casts a spell that goes horribly wrong and makes all the adults in the kingdom vanish, princess Katrina is left on her own. what's a fairy tale princess to do? save the kingdom, of course! join Katrina and her friends Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and prince Maximillian on a tale of adventure and friendship as they travel to distant lands and face dangerous foes to save their kingdoms. That is, of course, if they can foil the plans of Katrina's stepsister, Evaline, who thinks being the new queen wouldn't be so bad. Katrina and her friends-along with their animal companions-will stop at nothing to save their families and show everyone that princesses can save the world.

Island of Legends (The Unwanteds)

Island of Legends (The Unwanteds)

By Lisa McMann

This book is really good and how Florence meets Talon and how the people of Artime discover the eels and what they could be and where they are coming from.

Island of Shipwrecks (The Unwanteds)

Island of Shipwrecks (The Unwanteds)

By Lisa McMann

This is my favorite from the series! If you like adventures, Islands, or twins, You'll like this, because this is a story about all of those things, this is the story... Alex and his friends, have traveled to some Islands. They ended up on the Island of shipwrecks, and meet Ishibashi, Ito, and Sato. They help Alex and his friends get back to their home land: Artime. Before all this, they have been in battles, with Quill, The other part of the Island. This Unwanted Series is a great series, and I love it, I defiantly recommend.

Pashmina

Pashmina

By Nidhi Chanani

Priyanka Das has lived her life in America. Her mother came from India when she was still young, and Pri has always wondered what it was like. India only lives in her imagination until one day she finds a pashmina (a special scarf) that shows her India with more bright colors than she has ever seen. When she gets an opportunity to go to India with her aunt, she discovers that the India she saw only exists inside of the pashmina. That is all I can say that is spoiler-free! I loved this book because of the bright colors, great storyline, and amazing pictures. It would be a great read for ages 8 and up. This book is a 5 star in my mind. I hope you like it!

Chocolate Wishes #1 (Magic Bunny)

Chocolate Wishes #1 (Magic Bunny)

By Sue Bentley

I love the magic animals series! It's just so awesome and refreshing to read about friendship, cuteness, life lessons, and magic in a chapter book. I would reccomend Magic Bunny #1: Chocolate Wishes to second graders and up, because it is easy to read and is understandable to young readers. It is perfect to read aloud!

I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 (I Survived #14)

I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 (I Survived #14)

By Lauren Tarshis

Jessie finds herself in the middle of the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. Trapped on the mountain, she must escape clouds of poisonous gas, and bowling rivers to get back home safely. i didn't really make a connection to this book because I never experienced a volcanic eruption the reason why I only gave this book a 2 star is that it wasn't that exciting to me and it didn't have that good of a plot

Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! (My Weird School)

Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! (My Weird School)

By Dan Gutman

Mr. Klutz RJs principal is going crazy in this book. He tells the hole school that if they all do 1 million math problems then they will all have a chocolate party. And so, they combined all, of the math problems and they had 1 million problems in total, so they were able to have a chocolate party. Then after that, he told the hole school that if they all write essays then he will climb up the flag, pole while they pledge allegiance while he was holding on for dear life. He hurt himself that day from getting caught in the rope . Andrea, RJ, Ryan, Michael, and Emily have, to put a stop to this. Will they be able to stop Mr. Klutz from bribing the hole school or will he be bribing the hole school just to do school, work for the rest of his life!!!!!

My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!

My Weird School Daze #12: Ms. Leakey Is Freaky!

By Dan Gutman

I think that this book is realy good because it is so funny and the teachers in the book are crazy. They do a lot of crazy things like having a rock star party in music class to having the ccccrrrraaaazzzziiiieeeessssttt sub!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!1

Princess Charm School (Barbie) (Step into Reading)

Princess Charm School (Barbie) (Step into Reading)

By Ruth Homberg

Wow 😃 this book is so amazing wonderful . I love this book I watched the movie and it is so great and funny but also sad because she leaves her family and goes to charm school which is good because she thades a real princess and gets her family a new house I have the movie u all should go it and watch it if u do not have at it first I was thinking it was boring but when I watch the whole thing I love it there dresses are pretty. I love the dog to it looks like the dog of the book marth speaks try these book right now the end .

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