Kids Books - Life

Boys Without Names by: Kashmira Sheth For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over:.We stay, we starve, his Baba has warned. They flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer. After he took the job he figured out why that was a bad decision. There is no factory, just a small, stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. I liked this book because it was very in depth but it was also sad how he tried to earn money for his family and now he is a slave. The type of reader that would like this book is someone who likes a sad story but a good story. The genre realistic fiction.

This wasn't my favorite book. The ending was too simple, and I felt like the author didn't express enough about the world that the book takes place in. It was really short, and if I'm honest with myself, it was NOT a fourth and fifth grade level book. It was more like a third and fourth grade level book. I think the interest level is more Grades 2-4 rather than grades 3-7. I'd heard a lot of great things about the book, but I don't think I saw it how other people did. It was an interesting setting, where almost everyone had a talent, but that wasn't much of a fantasy for me. I think that everyone is extremely good at SOMETHING, they just don't know it yet. But in the book, it was kind of saying that you can only be what you're good at. I might be extremely good at something, but that does NOT mean I have to enjoy doing it. I was especially disappointed with the book because the author, Lisa Graff wrote one of my favorite books of all time, Absolutely Almost. That book really touched my heart and is special to me. But I didn't feel that in A Tangle of Knots. I wish that it had more depth to it. It was really flat for me. Anyways, it did have a touching moment with Cady and her father, but that was the only special thing about A Tangle of Knots. After reading Absolutely Almost, I had assumed A Tangle of Knots would be equally good if not better. Boy was I wrong.

This book is the sequel to Lisa Graff’s A Tangle Of Knots. This book is set just after the first book ends, but there are some time passages and you should probably read the prologue, just FYI, I think it helps deepen your understanding. You don’t have to. Anyway, this book takes place in a camp on the edge of a lake, a camp for people only with singular talents. Liliana Vera also has a singular talent, she is a Pinnacle, someone who can move objects with there mind. There are lots of other singular talents the campers poses, such as being able to hold your breath for a long time, hearing things up with your hands, changing your hair at will, lie detecting, tasting memory’s, and even a recollector, someone who can take and then give memories at will, amount others. At this camp, the lake holds a secret, but almost no one knows the secrets the lake holds. There may be some dangerous people on the lose, and it is up to the campers to stop them.

i would really like to read this book. it looks interesting.

I love all the Nancy Drew books you have to start from book one so you get the whole Nancy Drew thing I love the book and if you like the Nancy Drew books or other Mystery stores you will love it too!

I think this book was a little bit sad at the start but at least she got a good mannered friend. I love Jacqueline Wilson because she talk's about feeling's also why they might be upset or happy.

Seventh grade is starting on the wrong path for Beatrix Lee. Her former best friend isn’t her BFF anymore, her parents are too busy with their artwork to spend much time with her, and she does things that single her out for the wrong reasons. The only thing that comforts Bea is writing haikus in invisible ink and hiding her poems in a place she calls The Portal. But one day, she takes one of the haikus...and sees that someone has written a response to it. When this mysterious person keeps leaving notes for each haiku, Bea wonders who is doing this—and whether she can find out. Who could it be? Briggs, who loves the poems she writes for the school newspaper? Her former friend Sammie, who barely knows her now? The eighth grader named Jaime who listens to music all the time, or maybe Will, who enjoys labyrinths and always wears a striped shirt? In this heartfelt novel, Kat Yeh expresses the feelings of a young girl who wants to be herself. You will love this book!

I love a good old fashioned "fortune teller gone bad" story. And this novel lives up to that potential...and then some. Since this is aimed at the youngsters (ages 8-12), I will say that the author does take this responsibility with great care. She produces a solid story line with just enough creepiness to not give your eight-year-old nightmares and just enough to keep your twelve-year-old engaged (unless her mind has already been tainted with horror/slasher films). Mia and Zoe are best friends who do it all together. They decide to attend a carnival with a group of friends, and before the night is over, one of their lives will be dramatically changed for the worst...that would be Zoe. You see, Zoe makes a mistake. While her friend Mia is having her fortune read, Zoe sort of/kind of makes fun of the fortune teller. Well, any good skeptic will know this is just not the best of plans, and soon Zoe finds that out, beginning the morning after the reading.

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So good dolphin is such a cool name