Kids Books - Friendship

Fisher Bas is a 6th grader who gets tormented by a group of three kids that he calls the Vikings. They are always waiting for him, to bash him on the head with the biggest book they can find, give him a swirly or something else along those lines. One day, Fisher just gets tired of it. So he comes up with a solution-cloning himself with the AGH (Advanced Growth Hormones) that his mom invented, which is something that world-known Dr. X(ander, no, I am not kidding! his name is Xander!) wants to get his hands on. After a sleepless weekend, lots of work and many different attempts, Fisher creates his clone. When his clone comes to life, he thinks a woman from a Spot-Rite ad is his mother so Fisher creates a fantasy for his clone to believe-that they are trying to get their mother back and they have to go to a place to train (AKA Middle School) for their enemies. Then, after a few days, Two (Fisher’s clone’s name) becomes more popular than him! He has friends, is known around school and stands up to the Vikings. Can Fisher change Two’s ways before something bad happens and they realize Two is not Fisher? In a wacky middle-grade story of adventure and clones, Fisher strives to be as good as his clone, and fights the evil Dr. X after a very shocking twist in the plot in a wonderful debut. What I thought about it: Popular Clone was a great book. I think this was a strong debut for M.E. Castle, and fans of middle-grade sci-fi will enjoy it. I have been reading a lot of sci-fi lately; Mila 2.0, Cinder, Scarlet–they all have something to do with sciency stuff like clones, androids and cyborgs. I thinking the idea of cloning yourself is interesting-and very complicated. It would be hard to keep a secret that there are two “You’s” out there. I also loved the other science aspects in this book: the inventions that Fisher has created and the Bas’ garden. The tomatos are the size of beach balls, and the bananas are the size of baseball bats. It’s like taking your garden and multiplying the size! Now that is awesome. I loved the drawings throughout the book of Fisher’s inventions-they help you understand what they are talking about/using in the story. Also, the battle at the end was pretty epic, with lots of action and chases. The book ends with a BIG cliffhanger, though. Thankfully I had the second book available BWAHAHA! So overall, a great book for fans of middle-grade stories and adventures. XanderStars: Action: 8 out of 10 XanderStars Suspense: 8 out of 10 XanderStars Well-Written: 9 out of 10 XanderStars Page-Turning: 8 out of 10 XanderStars Overall: 8 out of 10 XanderStars

william (or billy the kid, as he's called) is a troublemaker. he tries as hard as he can to stop getting in trouble, but he just can't. his mind just wanders and he imagines things happening. next thing he knows, his parents are yelling at him. one day his parents are fed up with it and they decide to send him to a psychologist, or a shrink. his best friend, Keenan, convinces him that shrinks make people take brain drugs, and soon billy is worried. read "Billy the Kid is Not Crazy" to find out what happens to billy! personally, i didn't really like this book because i'm kind of older than the age range for it, but it was overally good. there are definitely some things in this book that i can relate to. i recommend this book if you like humor!

Ivy Takes Care by Rosemary Wells is a very cute story. Ivy is a young girl in 1949 who lives on a ranch. Ivy's family doesn't have much money, so when Ivy wants to buy a ring for her best friend, she had to buy it herself. To make money, Ivy becomes a pet sitter and takes care of a horse, trains a show dog, and nurses a fox back to health. Overall, this book is a cute, relatively quick read. Also, I noticed that Rosemary Wells, the author, wrote that TV show Max and Ruby.

I would recommend this book for sixth graders and up because it contains characters that middle school students can really relate to. The book tells the story of 11 year old Ruby Pepperdine who feels like her whole world is turning upside down. The book follows her as she struggles with her feelings that nothing is the way it is supposed to be. She is deeply sad because her grandmother has died and she feels like she let her down because she didn't understand her last words to her which were "listen, its all coming together". She also finds herself caught between between two friends. Her best friend Lucy isn't even talking to her because of her new friendship with a boy named Nero. But that friendship isn't going very well either. Somehow Ruby decides that if she can just read her winning essay at the town parade the wish she makes when she turns 12 will make everything right again. The story is written from the perspective of a third person narrator which made it a little difficult for me to really connect to Ruby as much as I might I have if it was written from her point of view. But I liked the way the author followed Ruby's personal journey as she tries to make some sense of her world by figuring out what her grandmother was trying to tell her .

In Lenny Cyrus School Virus Lenny Cyrus shrinks himself down to a microscopic level trying to prove that he can do something that nobody else has done before and that completely breaks all laws of physics, to his parents who are both Nobel Prize winners. Lenny goes inside Zooey Andrews’s body and gets stuck in there for six hours with a virus named Astro. He meets a steroid called Lug and turns him into a caffeine molecule eventually every steroid wants to be turned into a caffeine molecule too. After a while of watching how Lenny did it, they all learn how to do it themselves and every one turns itself into a caffeine molecule; completely disrupting things. When Lenny makes it up to Zooeys brain he makes it across the blood brain barrier but leaves a hole letting a virus get into her brain. The virus, starts slowly eating away at all her white blood cells and slowly killing her in the process. In the meanwhile Zooeys putting on a play that she’s been working on for two years and cant afford to get sick now. I think that this book is an okay book. Although its cover doesn’t look as good as it could have been, and the title isn’t the best either, the book isn't as bad as it seems when you first look at it.

Pete Watson is a video game nerd or geek or whatever u want to call it. So one day while his dad and mom are at his dad's company softball tournament Pete decides to sneak out and get the new Brawl-A-Thon 3000 but when he gets to the money he realizes that his mom borrowed $20 for him. Mad that he can't buy his game Pete decides to have a garage sale. While selling, a bug exterminator want's to buy his dad's old Commandroid 85 Arcade system. Little does Pete know that selling this the console will change the events of the world.!! A Kajllion times worse!!!! (totally legit number) If you like Diary of a Wimpy Kid you would love this book and the other books from diary of wimpy kid really funny as much as big nate piz read and have fun i mean like this book is really fun and i have not read it Line 2 Pete Watson is a video-game master who has the most normal family. Or so he thinks. When Pete finds out that not only is his dad a spy, but he was also trapped in a video game for evil purposes, it is up to Pete and his friends to solve the mystery. But can they crack the case before it's too late? This book was pretty good and I think that it will be very good for people to do.

Ladybug girl was my fav when I was a kid!!

I loved it I thought it was really awesome I <3 rocky she is the best my cousin lisa she loves cece so me and her are kind of like Cece and rocky so yeah I LOVE THIS BOOK AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE IT

February 19, 2013 This book was very good! it is about a dog born in a kind of prison camp for greyhounds. They are kept in small cages and are forced to race. the little puppy Furgul is not a greyhound. He is a lurcher. When the owner of the camp finds out, he gets Furgul and his sisters and puts them in a box to be killed! 2 of Furgul's sisters die but one of them escapes like Furgul. He goes through a life with sadness and happiness. He meets new dogs, finds his dad that escaped long ago, and goes on a adventure of a lifetime!

i love this book