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Jory Birch’s family is like no other. Jory’s stepfather, Caleb, is warning the family of some kind of danger that will approach dangerously close. He starts doing strange stuff to “protect” the family. After months, Jory doesn’t trust his stepfather all that much, Caleb and his signs are just too much. Opening up a new side at school, Jody starts to make friends, even though Caleb asks him to keep his guard up. He makes friends with a girl named Alice and a boy named Erik. After some close calls, he decides not to keep in touch with them after all. Soon, Caleb warns the family that the danger is coming, and is right in their backyard. A huge canyon is in the backyard and Caleb says to start digging. The family starts to sleep less, and Jory starts not doing so well at school - including some humiliating phone calls from his teacher. Jory and his stepsister Kit decide not really to trust their father. Eventually, Caleb betrays them all by revealing he has sent away Kit to keep the family “safe”, and Jory’s mom is horrified and heartbroken. Caleb runs away and now, Jory finally has a peaceful life. An amazing story! I enjoyed the cliffhangers and I love the cover! I recommend this to 9 -10 year olds.

What I really love about this book is that a girl (Gabriela) tries her best to do good on what she really loves doing, but in this book she does have a stuttering problem. Gabby really likes expressing her self by dancing but poetry is making Gabby feel more freely because of her stuttering problem.

In the book Honey, it goes from in the prospective of a young girl named Melody and a dog named Mo.But who is Honey,Melody goes around trying to figure out who this Honey is that her dad talks too late at night. Read the book to find out what happens next .

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i finished it recently i thought it was grea t it was like all the other enid blyton books ive read your just really wanting to know what happens its a lovely book .

Great plot and message. The theme of the story is rather sad yet very strong. I would strongly recommend this book to those who can cope with mature themes. But one way or the other, there really is a bit of heart ache near the end of the book.

This book was a fun read and I'm not even that big of a 1D fan. I like how you get to know so much about each guy and they feel so real like they could be anyone's friends.

Frazzled is a great novel for maybe 2nd - 7th graders and its soooooo good even i liked it and I'm hard to impress legit as my bff and well i rate this a...10 outta 10

This was a very good looking book I want it soooooo bad.

I am in year 7, and to give a summary of Boy Overboard I would say that it is a kids/tween novel. Boy Overboard is based on a young Afghani kid Jamal, who loves playing football (soccer). But that isn’t always easy when your goalkeeper has only one leg, and when land mines are lying around your football game. Jamal has a little sister Bibi who is even better at football than him. But the Taliban made it illegal for girls to play football. The Taliban also found out that Jamal and Bibi’s mum had an illegal school in their house, the family then had to evacuate their house and move to Australia. The journey to Australia was dangerous and scary for the family, and Jamal and Bibi got separated from their parents. The smugglers were very cruel and everyone got hungry, and things got violent. The kids soon found out Australia wasn’t as welcoming as they expected, but once Jamal and Bibi got their parents back; they realized that if they were together that’s all that mattered. When I first began reading Boy Overboard I didn’t find much of a hook. And I struggled to enjoy the book for a while. It wasn’t until Jamal’s mum was almost killed, also known as the stadium scene is when I started to find a hook, and start to enjoy the book. I found the scene stadium scene the first hook because that was when the story first started to become different to other books I’d read before, and it inclined me to want to read the book more. My two favorite scenes in Boy Overboard were the stadium scene and the scene where Jamal and Bibi found out the news of their parent’s boat sinking. The stadium scene was when the Taliban found out about the illegal schools, including Jamal’s mum’s school. The Taliban rounded up all the illegal teachers and were going to execute them. Jamal’s mum luckily got away. And the scene where Jamal and Bibi found out the news of their parent’s boat sinking is one of the final scenes, and I chose it because it seemed to have a hard impact on Bibi and Jamal. You could tell that they were hit hard by this news, just by the way that it was written. While reading the novel, it was obvious that there were a few enemies to the main characters such as the Taliban, the smugglers, the pirates, and the sailors. The Taliban were always despised by Jamal and his family, the main event between Jamal’s family and the Taliban was after Jamal’s Mum got caught for having an illegal school. The Taliban blew up Jamal’s house and then almost murdered his mother before she got away. The main event between Jamal’s family and the smugglers was probably after the smugglers dropped off a group of people at a boat dock, and left everyone there in the dark with no food or water. Jamal and Bibi and the Pirates only had one encounter, which was when the pirates abandoned Jamal and Bibi in the middle of the ocean with the rest of the people onboard. Jamal’s family had a few encounters with the sailor, but I think the moment with the highest conflict was when the sailor threw Bibi into the water, even when she didn’t know how to swim. At the beginning of the book, Jamal seems like an average Afghani kid for his conditions worried about safety, afraid of land mines, on edge and carefu. And of course, he loves football. As the book carried through Jamal started to show more signs of bravery and compassion. He was clearly affected by his rough journey to Australia, but I think that it helped him be more thankful for things like being with his family, and even being alive. When Jamal and Bibi lost their parents, you could tell that Jamal saw it as a time to step up and take care of Bibi. Whereas at the start of the book Bibi was very open-minded and feisty, and as the book carried through she started to be more respecting and patient. Bibi seemed to be rather rattled after the rough journey to Australia, but that helped her to be more thankful for little things.