Kids Books - Friendship

Nora Raleigh Baskin, the author of Anything But Typical, takes her readers on an adventure through the life of an autistic 12 year old in modern day. In this book, Jason blake and his family are described as very nice, kind, and caring people. Jason has many challenges and still is able to live an almost normal life. His parents and siblings, very supportive and helpful to him. With them by his side, he can do anything. Jason overcomes many challenges in everyday places. School, public places such as stores, and home. But most recently he will be to a convention. When Jason looks on a website for stories to read, he always goes to Phoenix Birds story. A girl named Rebecca. He finds out that this website is having a convention and she will be there. He decides to go with his father but is scared that she will judge him based on his looks than by his personality. Baskin’s story takes the reader through a long journey of how Jason Blake thinks. The way he sees and understands the world. She describes the thoughts and feelings that Jason cannot express. It is told in his perspective on the world. Jason sees and feels things differently. For example, in the book, he feels differently about belts than other people do. “ I couldn’t stand the waistband and the stiffness of the material. My mother bought me leggings from this special catalog. They came in all different colors, and they were made of one hundred percent cotton. And she never made me wear pants.” This book is written like you were in his brain. And that is neat. Anything But Typical is a book that will have your emotions going up and down like a mountain. It made me happy, nervous, and sad. Anything but typical won the Schneider Family book award. It has many positive comments and reviews from critics. I highly recommend this book.

This book is about Jennifer who is nick-named Cam because of her photographic memory and her friend Eric. One day they were hanging outside and they saw people rushing into a jewelry store. Not long after, two people one holding a baby and one holding a rattle came out of the store. Eric thought something was up with them because he had a sister and they packed a whole diaper bag but the people coming out of the store only had a rattle. They eventually get caught and turns out the diamonds are in the rattle. I give this book a five star rating because it was an amazing book and it didn't skip around. I could relate to this book because it is about young kids that like to figure out mysteries.

Megan Merrills, a 9 years old girl which is deaf. When she was sitting on her front porch, waiting for new family to move in the Bregenzer house, the Bregenzer family has moved away so Megan was told that the new girl would be the same age as Megan. When the movers has finally done moving all of the stuff in the house where the new family would live. A new girl, Cindy Calicchio is shy 9 years old girl who loves to read, has met Megan, at first Cindy is anxious about Megan because since that Megan is deaf, she couldn`t understand her, but then when Cindy and Megan became best friends, Megan taught Cindy the sign language so that they could communicate more easier. But when Megan and Cindy goes to Camp Ozanam for four whole weeks, problems arises. Megan has met another deaf girl named Lizzie. Megan and Lizzie has left Cindy alone. Megan and Cindy has a fight when they left the camp, never speaking to each other all the way back home. This is summary of this book. But let me make things more clear; Megan is deaf, and Cindy is hearing. But, wow this book is so good that I ended up reading whole book in just one day! I would def recommend this book! Happy Reading!

This book is so good! The cliffhanger was amazing, and I loved getting a sneak peek at the REAL Lost Cities!

This amazing book is about 4 children who each have different things they are afraid of. Lets start with Madeleine Masterson who is terrified of BUGS, and loves Garrison Next there's Theodore Bartholomew who is petrified of dying. Then there is Garrison Feldman who is scared of deep water, well actually he doesn't like any water. They are sent of to live with Mrs.Wellington the way she teaches may be more frighten then you thought. It could just as well be the worst summer ever.

Liz hears her worst thought confirmed. She's dead. This is her story of Elsewhere, where you never get older, only younger. When you're finally 7 days old, you get shipped off as a baby. Liz died when she was 15, and meets new people she would never had met had she not been in Elsewhere. If you want mystery, this book's got mystery. I think that everyone should read this amazing book.

Haven't read this yet but it looks totally adorable, like a treat for anyone who loves indulging on sweet, adorable, and scrumptiously fluffy facts. ~Xeta <3

Lucille "Lucy" Callahan is a 12-year-old wiz kid. She can recite many of the digits in pi, she can do hard math problems without even thinking about it, and she thinks about numbers all day. She's obsessed with math. This is because when she was 8, she was struck by lighting which rewired her brain. Now she is a genius. She loves to go online and tutor people for math, and she's been homeschooled since the lightning strike. One day, her Nana decided that Lucy should start going to real middle school. Lucy hates the idea. She wants to go to college, and she believes that middle school is too easy. Next thing Lucy knows, she's enrolled into a middle school filled with germs, and mean kids. Lucy doesn't want to look like the school's freaky genius girl so she keeps to herself. She wants to leave the school as soon as she can. But soon, Lucy finds some loyal friends, and some good teachers. Lucy doesn't even realize how much she is started to grow close to her new friends, new school, and the dogs at the dog shelter she visits for a project that she used to hate. Lucy finds out many things about herself. That she's more than a germophobic. More than a math wiz. More than a "freak". More than a lightning girl. She is a dog lover. She is a fun person to hang out with. She is the smartest girl in school. She is the best friend of a little dog named Pi. Lucy learns which friends are friendly and which are foes. Lucy has a choice to make. Should she listen to her heart and stay true to her new friends and come out of her shell, or should she revert back to her old shy self. The self that lets people bully her into silence. The self that avoids making friends. The self that avoids trying new things if it had nothing to do with math. When Lucy's Nana finds a school for smart kids that would be perfect for Lucy, Lucy has to make a choice. Should she go to the school of her almost-dreams with the education that matches her smarts, or should she listen to her heart and stay true to herself? Can she just leave her new behind? This book teaches readers to be true to themselves and not worry about what others think. Be yourself and embrace yourself. It also teaches people that friendship is a strong force that may be tested from here and there, but the right friendships can never be broken. 5 stars.

Very funny book. I like how in the book A.J says instead of the noble prize he says the no bell prize is when people give bells to people with no bells. I've read this book a thousand times! I think Dan Gutman is super funny!

There are many ways to write a book. Some write it from the perspective of an old person, and some write it from the eye of a child. Whether from the view of the old, young, girls, boys, babies, or the dead, most books are written from the perspective of people, or sometimes animals, since we are humans ourselves and understand humans and animals best. Catherine Applegate's depiction of the mind of a tree has rarely been seen before. As normal beings stroll across lawns, past tens and hundreds of trees, we all take it for granted. They are just there, born to become chairs or assistants of mother Earth, but hardly appreciated at all. There are many conservation programs that tries to save the trees that are being cut down, but they are all looked upon as objects. In Wishtree, Applegate brings life to trees, gifting the readers with an memoir of a tree as an actual independent being full of hope and life. It allows readers to gaze upon trees and see them in a whole new light, marveling at their abilities and sometimes whispering softly to them. Red, the tree, brings a new perspective into life, appreciating things that are wholesome, and making unfulfilled things whole. Applegate's simple language brings out the beauty of words, with complexity beneath seemingly easy sentences. Her words bring a stirring to the heart livening every word. It brings together the most complex of human nature, and shows the perception of it all in a simple way. The leaves rustling in the wind, the birds chirping in the bushes, we are all alive, but sometimes it is forgotten that the trees breath with us and the birds sing along our tunes. The world has been reborn in this book, and now after reading the book, everything has come alive again.