Kids Books - Life
Hollywood, Dead Ahead (43 Old Cemetery Road)
By Kate Klise
Hollywood, Dead Ahead is the fifth book in the 43 Old Cemetery Road series. It features a man named Ignatius B. Grumply, a ghost named Olive C. Spence, and a boy named Seymour Hope, all of whom are living together in Spence Mansion as each others' adopted family. The book starts with film producer Moe Block Busters, who wants to make a movie based on their book. But when the trio arrives in Hollywood, they find some serious problems with the script, the casting, and most of all the contract Ignatius signed. Soon Olive digs up some dirty secrets, involving the frightening plans of Moe and his team of directors. Those plans, however, will soon go astray, because Olive is exactly the right person (or ghost) to come up with some creative schemes of her own. I definitely thought this book was darker than the other four in the series, particularly because of the despicable plans of the movie producers. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing, especially for older readers, such as me. It's possible their frightening intentions have the capability of scaring younger readers, but for me it made the story the most fascinating and captivating of all. This book was really creative and unique, as is the rest of the series and other books by Kate and Sarah Klise. I very much enjoyed the way it was written in letters, newspapers, contracts, plane tickets, post cards, drawings, and other paper materials. The addition of a ghost who can only communicate through writing definitely helped with dialogue, which I can see being a very difficult thing to deal with in this style of writing. Overall, I loved the book's fast-paced and creative style. It was a quick read, a great book to blow through as soon as I get a few hours of alone time. I would recommend this series in general for 10-12 year olds, but even older readers like me can definitely get a kick out of them.
The Landry News
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When Cara Landry discovers that Mr. Larson, her worst teacher that does not want to teach them anymore, once won multiple best teacher of the year rewards before, she starts a newspaper that badmouths him. But after nearly costing him her job, Cara learns an important lesson. So I have a little backstory. I read this book a really long time ago but then I decided to reread it, which refreshed my memories of what happened.... After I finished this, I thought like, maybe I can start my own newspaper agency. I presented the idea to my friends, who were a little uneasy at first, then agreed to it. Since I was homeschooled, my only option to release it was at church. There we left it in the rooms, because we wanted to keep our identity a secret. Many people liked it, so we, or rather I, worked on it. I had teamed up with a no k-pop group because that time I was against it and our next issue was about how Kpop was bad... stuff like that, and many people were unhappy with that issue so they told us to stop and never write any issues again. I had already planned another issue but that one was never released. So the newspaper fad, caused by this book, ended, and so started many other fads. Now I am neutral about Kpop and we don't have a fad right now but that memory was really exciting and fun to refresh by reading this book again.
The Genius Files #2: Never Say Genius
By Dan Gutman
This is the second book in the series with Coke and Pepsi still on the road trip. They find that they have another enemy the "Archie Clone" and he is trying to kill them by trying to fry them in oil. This leads to another trail of the ciphers and it says thinks like June 3rd 2 o'clock, The star spangled banner, Greensboro Lunch Counter, John Bull, Dumbo the elephant, and finally Dorthy's red slippers. Then Archie also try's to kill them with hypothermia by ice cream. Then they go to the duck tape museum. Coke need to go to the bathroom and inside the bathroom fills with poisons gas and Coke struggles to get out. At the Smithosian Museum they almost get dropped on top of the Washington Memorial....until Mya and Bones help them blow the helicopter down.....until they attend Aunt Judy's wedding....
Ramona the Brave
By Beverly Cleary
I read this book it was such a great book I love Beverly Cleary's books she turned 103 on Friday and she is still alive!! :0 I'm doing an author project on a pacific author which is Beverly she won't give up on her books when her husband died in 2004 one of the most famous authors's wrote a note on Beverly's first book which is on Henry Huggins the author wrote the note was Judy Blume she is most famous for her Fudge series what Judy Blume wrote was “Dear Reader, You are so lucky! You're just about the read Beverly clears first published book. I just read it again, for the millionth time. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but still the story of Henry Huggins and how he comes to have a dog named Ribsy is the exaggerating. There’s no one else like her. She was my inspiration when I began to write. I’d go to the public library and come with armloads of books. As I read them I’d divide them into piles. These books are boring. I don’t want to write boring books. Boring pile. These books are pretty good. Good pile. And then there were books by Beverly Cleary. They never made it into a pile because I read them again and again.” I was surprised to hear that Judy Blume also loved Beverly Cleary's books! I hope you can make more books Beverly keep up the good work!
Fortune Falls
By Jenny Goebel
I finished this awesome novel last week and I loved this book! I would recommend this book to others because this book shows that you should believe in yourself and always be positive. Fortune Falls is a really awesome novel that all kids should read. The reason why other people should read this book is because it also shows a lot of emotional events that I think people should understand. Another reason why other people should read this book is because the moral of the story is to believe in yourself, and never let anybody stop you or anything. This novel was very awesome to read, and it was outstanding! Enjoy the book!
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions)
By Lemony Snicket
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Sounds cool. I see ppl sayin everywhere 'The cover looks cool, so im adding it to my "must-read" list!' I think 4hat that is silly. Dont u guys know the saying, "dont judge a book by its cover"??
"Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" (All the Wrong Questions)
By Lemony Snicket
In the beging S.Theodora Markson, Lemony Snicket's chaperone is blamed for murderer on the train Thistle Valley. Snicket and his associates will do what ever it takes to prove her innnocent. In the end Ellington Fient is desperate to find her father but the villan responsible for kidnapping him is her father since he is a villian Lemony Snicket feeds him to the once thought mythical, bomniating beast. Ellington Fient blames Snicket for murder and that he did not keep his promise. Snicket explains to her that her father was a villian and he needed to stop him. After that Lemony Snicket's apprentiship was over but work still needed to be done
Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions)
By Lemony Snicket
The plot's too complicated for me to explain. What I thought of it: Well, I didn't remember all of the details of the last 2 books, so that was kind of annoying. But it wasn't that much of a problem. It was just as good as all of the other books. Overall, I thought it was fine.
Threads
By Ami Polonsky
In the book, Threads, Clara finds a note written by a Chinese girl, Yuming, who is trapped in a pink factory with other children and a photograph in a purse. Somehow, Clara feels like this note was meant for her because her adoptive sister from China had died. Clara sets off to find Yuming and rescue her, but on the way she finds her own soul again. With one act of bravery, these two girl’s lives connect, in this powerful book full of hope and emotions.









