Crazy Weekend: A Novel

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Summary: Texas Librarian's Expert Opinion
Review: As an elementary school librarian I sincerely appreciated the fact that this book that was on a recommended list for the young readers of Texas and was worthy of the recommendation. Unfortunately it has been out of print for quite some time, but fortunately I'm willing to pay the higher price and will be purchasing more copies today compliments of Amazon.com's third party sellers. Now I can booktalk it and offer my 4th graders copies instead of a semester long waiting list for 1 copy. It's also a good book to recommend to reluctant readers in higher grades: lots of action, boy protagonists, suspense, "home alone" type tricks to catch the bad guys, etc. The blending of Spanish words throughout the text and a glossary in the back are a major plus. I've been doing booktalks for 14 years, this one's a cinch to do and well deserving of kids' reading time!

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Summary: Crazy Weekend
Review: Have you ever wanted to read a book that would keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time? Well this the book for you.
Crazy Weekend starts off like any other story. Two boys got off a train there names where Hector and Mondo. They are going o spend a weekend with Hectors Uncle. Hector's uncle finds them and takes them to se the sites of East L.A. they took pictures to sell to a newspaper company. After they were done, they went to their uncle's apartment. There they made a superbowl salad before they went to bed. When they got up and went to an old airport, uncle had to take pictures of farms for people. Whey they got into the plane and got going, uncle started taking pictures. When they got on the ground, and started going to uncle's best customer, they heard on the radio that an armored car had just been stolen and nobody had found it.
I really liked the book because it teaches you that if you can conquer their fears, anything can be done. If I was to rate this book to Old Yeller, I would give it an "8". That's how much I liked this book. I recommend the age range should be 10 and up. It has pretty difficult vocabulary.

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Summary: Crazy Weekend
Review: I did not like the book Crazy Weekend because there are to many spanish words. I also didnt like the book because it seems like they never do anything fun. I also didnt like it because it had huge words that I didnt understand.

The only best part was when they get to go from home to a different country. They got to go on an airplane and they talked about that in the story. It was pretty interesting at that point. After that it wasnt very interesting. I didnt like the parts when they talk about what they eat.

The most vivid part was when they meet other boys and they are having fun. It was interesting because one of the boys get hit with a ball. It was funny because they were in the middle of a field.