Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin



This book was very adventurous.  I like it because every 20 pages or so there is a puzzle that you can try to solve.  It is about a kid named Winston who loves puzzles.  On his sister's birthday he buys her a special box that has a secret compartment with puzzle pieces in it.  Strange people start asking him about the puzzle pieces.  One time a person came up to him and said that there are more puzzle pieces than just the ones that Winston owns.  Winston figured out that the puzzle pieces lead to a hidden treasure so Winston and his sister team up with a librarian and two strangers who all have puzzle pieces of their own to try to find the treasure.  
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Red Zone by Tiki and Ronde Barber














Red Zone was an exciting book.  It is about Tiki and Ronde Barber on the Hidden Valley Junior High football team.  They try to win even though a few games ago their coach moved on to coach a high school.  They also have to fight the fact that most of their star players got the chicken pox.  The authors, Tiki and Ronde Barber, used to be in the NFL.  If you like football then you would like this book.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Big Nate In a Class By Himself By Lincoln Peirce



Big Nate is a funny book.  One day Nate,a sixth grader, opens a fortune cookie that says ''Today you will surpass all others''.  Nate keeps wondering when he will surpass all others because for the last six hours he's been doing the complete opposite of that.  He's tried to surpass all others in lots of different things but it hasn't gone very well.  
Big Nate has lots of cartoon illustrations in it.
You should read Big Nate.  The next book in the Big Nate series is Big Nate Strikes Again.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Swindle by Gordon Korman

   













I just read Swindle by Gordon Korman. It was really good. It is about a mean collector named S.Wendell Palomino (a.k.a Swindle) who cheats Griffin out of a rare Babe Ruth baseball card.  Griffin gathers a group of friends to try and get the card back.  They plan to pull a heist the night before Swindle sells the card at an auction.  The starting bid is $200,000!  But Swindle has a few suprises up his sleeve.  Read the book to find out what happens next.

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