Book Reviews — Grades 6-8
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The Pigman
by Paul Zindel 
- Jasmine M. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
This book is about a girl who is not very pretty who had a friend named John and they do weird things together. John smokes cigarettes, drinks beer, and disobeys his parents. Lorraine listens to her mom, sometimes lies to her mom, and always hangs out with John. One day, Lorraine was dared to make a prank call and she was caught up so then the next day, John and Lorraine had to collect ten dollars from an old man. He was supposed to pay the L&J Fund, a phony group. John and Lorraine felt bad about it and offered to take the old man to the zoo
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 2)
by John Flanagan 
- Jacob I. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
Will is an orphan who knows almost nothing about his parents. All he has ever been told was that his father died a hero. The king took him and several other orphans into his castle were they were to await the choosing. A time when these orphans were given the chance to choose how they would spend the rest of their lives. Will was denied his greatest wish of going into battle school to follow in his father’s foot steps. A ranger named Halt had attended the choosing that day and gave the king a note about Will. Unable to get his mind off the note Will slipped into the kings work room that night and attempted to read the note. The only reason he failed to read the note was because as he reach for it, halts hand suddenly grabbed him. Halt took Will to the king and the king told halt to allow will to read the note. The note said that halt would accept will as an apprentice, and so began Will’s adventures as a ranger.
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle (Vampire Diaries)
by L. J. Smith 
- Shoshi O. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.
Damon: dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he’d kill to possess her.
Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle (Vampire Diaries)
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Incident at Hawk's Hill
by Allan W Eckert 
- Jasmine M. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
There is a little boy who is six years old but is small for his age. He felt alone in this world and the only friends he felt he had were the animals. He lived on a farm and he loved to follow the animals around. One day, he followed a chicken out of the farm land and he technically ran away. His father sent out a search party to find him. Ben would hide away from anyone he saw. Finally, John saw movement in a badger hole and he decided to wait until something came back out. He finally saw Ben who started snarling like a badger and attacking John. John calmed Ban down and took him home. Everyone was excited to see him and they had a home coming party. Mr. MacDonald threatened to kill George Burton if he didn’t pack up and leave the country in three days.
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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Incident at Hawk's Hill
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Life in Prison
by Stanley Williams, Barbara Cottman 
- Jacob C. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
the book was manly about a person who was a gangbanger his whole life almost and he was on deathrow and his books have gotten nobel prizes for peace. He was the former leader of the crips his partner got killed so then he became the full owner. This book mostly talks about how you should not go to prison because eve f you think it is a gladiator school where you can go there to become tougher, it is not true it is a place where you do not get to do anything but eat,sleep, and have a little bit of work out time in the yard. This book talk all about Stanley’Tookie’williams life and how he does not want you to follow in his foot steps.
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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Holes
by Louis Sachar 
- Nicole H. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
There’s this kid named Stanley Yelnats and he has to go to this place called Camp Green Lake. He has to go there because he got accused of stealing some famous shoes. At Camp Green Lake they called him Caveman. At first it didn’t seem like the other kids there didn’t like Stanley. But, then Stanley gave X-Ray a gold tube. Then X-Ray got a day off.
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
by Michael D'Orso 
- Reanna M. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
Eagle Blue is a great, one of the best books i read. The Fort Yukon Eagle boys’ have courage, strength, and show effort in the game they play, basketball. The kids in Fort Yukon have it hard at home, and they needed some place to go to get away, and so they joined basketball. They worked hard to be at the top, and they did. They ranked one in State, and are still determining if they are going to State in Anchorage. I didn’t finish the book, but i am almost done. The Fort Yukon Eagles are tough kids who went to practice in below zero weather, about -40 or lower. I learned there are many problems that are occuring on the Yukon Flats. Like, Doyon wants to drill on the Flats and would ruin Fort Yukon’s village, and trapping. Other than that, this book is so far a great book.
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska
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World of Warcraft(r): The Burning Crusade Binder Bundle (World of Warcraft) (World of Warcraft)
by BradyGames 
- Khayree H. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
My teacher let me count my world of warcraft playing time for this because i read alot in it because talking to people and stuff like that
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World of Warcraft(r): The Burning Crusade Binder Bundle (World of Warcraft) (World of Warcraft)
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Game Plan
by Thomas J. Dygard 
- Khayree H. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
This book is about a football team that is going to there championship game in one week but there coach gets into a car accident and they dont know who to choose to coach the team no one that has any experience or skill is available so they choose the next best person… Beano Hatton. Beano is the student manager for the Barton High tigers and he knows most of the tigers plays. At first the players reject him as coach but after a while they all start believing in him and they go on to win the championship
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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Game Plan
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Lost Boys: A Novel
by Orson Scott Card 
- Khayree H. — 8th grade
- Team: Sullivan's Class
This was probably one of my favorite books i have ever read. The book started out as a family who was just moving to a new town. The oldest child was starting 2nd grade and he was afraid to start. Ever since he started the school he was always sad and alone and had no friends. Later the boy named stevie told his parents what was happening to him in school. His teacher always abused him ins chool and let the kids make fun of him because he couldnt understand their accent. She even told the otehr kids not to play with hima nd not to talk to him. Then Stevie started having imaginary friends and so his parent brought him to a councelor. And teh councelor wasnt helping Stevie at all so they pulled him out because they were tight on money. Stevie kept on getting more and more new imaginary friends. And during all this stuff there were lots of kids going missing. And later in the book the police let out a list of names of the boys who were going missing and every name matched the name of all of stevies imaginary friends. So Deanna and her husband Step called the police and told a detective about this and he thinks that something evil is with Stevie cause hes such a nice boy and he never lies and always listens to his parents. So later on Stevie gets his imaginary friends to tell who killed them and Stevie confronted the serial killer. Then Stevie finally figured out a way to show his friends but the only way he could have done it was if he was dead and the serial killer killed him. Stevie told his parents who was the serial killer and they got the person arrested. And thats all im going to tell you about this book
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- Submitted 7 months ago
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