SUMMER SUGGESTIONS

Reveiw by Charlie Parrish ~ CODE TALKERS

CODE TALKERS by Joseph Bruchac ~ 240 pages ~

The book Code Talkers is a great book for historical fiction. Its all about World War II and the Navajo radio men in the U.S army. You follow them as they fight the Japanese in the Pacific theatre. This is a great book for Ms. Lewis's summer reading. Its not too long and the font is pretty big. I think it is a good bo0k for anybody.

6th Grade Review ~ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I really liked this book! It is an awesome book that really was interesting and fun to find out what Tom would mess up next. Mark Twain is really smart the way he gets Tom to fool his friends. This book is a decent size and good for reading requirements. It's also is a great historical book and has lots of old fashioned sides to it which makes it even more interesting. Great book- definitely a "need to read" for any Middle Schoolers. (anonymous)

Michael Zeevi Review ~ Beyond the Western Sea

AVI ~ 295 pages ~

Beyond the Western Sea is a two-book series about a family whose father immigrates to the US, then sends back money for his wife and two kids. There's also a parallel plot, in which a rich boy runs away to America. Read this heart-capturing story to find out what happens in their adventures.

THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATIONVolume 1: The Pox Party

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Teen Reads"Best Books of 2006"

M.T. Anderson ~ 368 pages ~ Sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother --- a princess in exile from a faraway land --- are the only ones in their household who are assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments --- and his own chilling role in them.

47 by Walter Mosley

TeenReads "Best Books of 2005"

~ 240 pages~ Read a Review & Excerpt

In his first book for young adults, Walter Mosley writes about 47, a young slave boy who lives under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed until he meets a mysterious runaway slave named Tall John. 47 then finds himself swept up in a struggle for his own liberation.