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Summary: Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Review: Can you imagine growing up without your mother and not knowing who your real father was? Bud Not Buddy is a book about a young boy who has no parents and is still in search of his father. Bud adventures across the state meeting new and peculiar people while in seach for the man who he thinks is his father. Bud Not Buddy keeps you entertained with all the drama that this young child is going through.
This book is very descriptive and gives great detail about the places and people Bud visits. Bud Not Buddy presents itself with real life examples and enough description so that you're able to picture what Bud is seeing. As evidence, "The cooler was drenched with bags of blood and blood stained ice.". A book like this puts you right in Bud's shoes.
Bud Not Buddy targets audiences of all ages, from teens to young adults. The entire book has easy and understandable words keeping you from stumbling. Bud goes through tough times, so this storyline is appropriate for mature teens and young adults. The amount of emotion in this book might be too much for younger kids. For example, "My mom died when I was little" this might be something too overwhelming for younger children to imagine. Teens and young adults will understand and enjoy this book.
Emotion is shown throughout this book. In the beginning of the book you're sad because you find out what Bud is living through and in the end the whole mood of the story changes to a much happier mood. Seeing Bud fight and strive towards his goal is what makes Bud Not Buddy a motivational and heart-warming book.
Bud's determination to find his beloved lost father moves you as you read about his effort and perserverance.
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Summary: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Review: Do you like to read mysteries or adventure books? Well, if you do then you'll love this book: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Franweiler, written and illustrated by E. L, Konigburg.
This book is about a young girl and her younger brother who decide to runaway. They decide to runaway, so that when they finally return they will be more appreciated by their family. They end up living in the Metropolian Museum, in New York City. While living in the museum they start to unravel the mystery behind a statue which they refer to as "Angel".
From the Mixed-up Flies of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a book for children mostly between the ages of 10 and 14. That age group would enjoy this book the most because kids that age can relate to how the characters ae feeling in some of their situations. This book is also realitivly easy to read and comprehind.
As you read this book, you will notice that it is written as a continuous letter, written by Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Reading this book in letter form makes it a pretty quick read. It is considered a quick read because there is not so much dialouge, so you won't get confused very easily. Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is acting like a narrator so it is simple to understand and see what is going on.
So...to all of you mysterious and adverturous, early teen readers out there, this is the book for you, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler!
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Summary: Lots of Rats and One or Less Cats -By Ben Keener
Review: Do you like drama,animals,and weird science? Well,if you do,then read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.In this book a widowed mouse has to move her and her four children and heal her sick son Timothy,who has pneumonia.
This book was geared towards young teenagers.The words are a little difficult for someone younger to comprehend. But otherwise easy to understand.There are no words such as, supercalifragilistic expealidocious,or something absurd like that.
Once you read this book it will reel you in with, the mysteries of Nimh, the rats, and how an old man just kicks the bucket in the middle of nowhere.This story also has some sad parts in it.Parts like, the death of Mr. Frisby, Timothy's sickness, the capture of Mrs. Frisby, and the hardware store incident. Many things happen that lead to good or bad things. Dragon is a bad thing (or cat) and the rats are good little rodents.
I believe this book is an easy and quick read. It is a drama with a little sci-fi thrown in the mix. You're guaranteed to like this book from start to finish(sorry, no money back guarantee. What can I say, things are'nt ten cents anymore.)The plot and storyline are very creative and sure to get those gears turning.
Readers who like rodents, brats, cats, and more are sure to love Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.
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Summary: WHAT A GREAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The book "Treasure Island" is one of the greatest books ever made! The author of the book, Robert Louis Stevenson, is a literaly genius. His book had all the necessary parts to make the reader read for hours. It is a story of a young boy and a mean pirate, known as Long John Silver, and his terrible band of pirates. It is a story that has a perfect mix of good and evil, which leaves the reader wanting to know what is going to happen next. It all begins when Captain Billy Bones stays at the Admiral BenBow Inn where Jim Hawkins and his mother live. Jim shows the captain to his room and then tells him where the dining room is. When Jim asks for his name, he tells him to call him Captain. A few days later, a man comes to the Inn to visit Bill. Jim tells him there is no one there by the name of Bill, but there that there is someone called Captain. Just then the Captain opens the door and says "Black Dog". Then Bill asks Jim to leave them alone for a while. A few minutes later, Jim hears a loud smash and runs out to find out what is happening with both of them. Black Dog decides to leave the place after the fight. The next day the Captain faints and Dr. Livsey informs that the Captain has suffered a stroke and is not allowed to drink rum anymore. The next day a blind man comes to the Inn and asks to talk to Bill. Jim tells him that Bill is sick and isn't able to see anyone. The blind man grabs his arm and says he will break it if he doesn't tell him where the captain is. Jim gets very scared and leads him to Bill's room. The blind man gives Bill a piece of paper with a dot on it and on the back it says: "You have six hours until we return". Bill tells Jim the pirates were coming to the Inn in six hours and, if he didn't live long enough that he should take the key and open up his treasure chest and take the map. Jim doesn't understand what Bill is talking about and, when he turns around, Bill drops dead on the floor with a bottle of rum in his hand. This is just a small part of the excellent book. As you can see, this book is an amazing novel of adventure. It is much better than other books I have read, because it contains good plots, moral lessons and exciting action scenes.
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Summary: a suprising page-turner
Review: I was just reminiscing about how this book was required reading for me over one summer vacation back in elementary school (yes, I had homework over the summer). I was a voracious reader but preferred books that gave insight into the experiences of girls or women. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jane Austen were much more my thing. So I put off reading this book until the last week before school started and then only picked it up because of my mother's nagging. I dragged myself through the first few pages and then I was shocked (a little horrified I confess) to find myself loving it! I couldn't stop turning the pages. I sucked up the book in a day and enjoyed it all immensely. It changed me. It expanded my "girlish" view of the world. The experience taught me to try books out before rejecting them. Who knows if I would ever have read "manly" authors such as Hemingway and Steinbeck if it had not been for that experience? I'm looking forward to reading it with my own two daughters. Anyway, I give it two thumbs up :-)
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Summary: Not just for 12 year old boys!
Review: This expertly written adventure tale is still as amusing and "page-turning" for the adult reader as it was when it was first made required reading in junior high school. Also makes a great book to be read aloud to youngsters... Harry Potter has wizards, Jack Hawkins has pirates! This edition is particularly desirable with the breathtaking illustrations by NC Wyeth.
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Summary: A timeless classic at an inexpensive price
Review: This classic by Robert Louis Stevenson should have a place on everyone's shelf. When we think of tales of pirates and buccaneers, we can not help but thing of Captain Flint and Long John Silver. Why this edition? Although this is by no means a keepsake, it is an inexpensive and well-done edition. It is unabridged and has an illustration of the treasure map as well as illustrations from other scenes in the book (such as Jim Hawkins' meeting Ben Gunn). It is easy to carry around when you are out on vacation or doing some hiking. You can't do that with a keepsake. The story is written in narrative fashion, mostly from the perspective of Hawkins, but sometimes from Dr. Livesey's point of view. Either way, it is fast paced and hard to put down. I would recommend this edition to anyone not willing to invest in a hardcover keepsake. You can not go wrong.
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Summary: Treasure Island
Review: When I first picked up this book, I thought it was a little boring. But after I got to about page 20 I started to figure out why this is a classical favorite of millions of people today. This is a story about a orphan boy named Jim Hawkins that finds a treasure map in a dead mans room and goes on a daring adventure that will change his life. He and the whole ship's crew go through many challenges during their voyage like mutiny, murders, and trying to fight the evil pirate (also the ships captain) , Long John Silver, that would kill his own friends to keep all the treasure for his own. This is a great suspense that you will never be able to put down. I highly recommend that you read this book.
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Summary: rediscover a classic
Review: Them that die'll be the lucky ones.
-Treasure Island The last few pirate movies (Hook and Cutthroat Island among them) have bombed so disastrously at
the box office that it's hard to tell whether it was simply because they weren't very good or whether
kids have abandoned the genre. I certainly hope it's the former, I'd hate to think that kids today are
missing out on all the great pirate tales that we used to thrill too. Foremost of these was, of course,
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I may well be wrong here, but it seems to me that Stevenson pioneered one of the central techniques of
children's literature ; placing a child at the center of what might otherwise be a typical adult adventure
novel. This simple but ingenious idea gives kids a character to identify with and allows the author to
write from the child's perspective. In the case of Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins narrates the story of how he and Squire Trelawney,
Dr. Livesey, and the enigmatic Long John Silver ended up on board the Hispaniola, looking for the
lost treasure of the notorious pirate Captain John Flint. Packed with betrayals, battles, mutinies, and
even a parrot squawking "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!", the book is the source for many of the
enduring and beloved clichés of the genre. This is a classic that each generation should discover anew. Heck, if enough kids start reading it again,
maybe Hollywood will even take another crack at a pirate movie, this time a decent one. GRADE : A+
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Summary: A Treasure of a Book
Review: Written in the early 1700s by Robert Louis Stevenson the old-fashioned style of writing adds to the realism of the adventure. Feel the heat scorching down on sweaty bodies and taste the gritty sand between clenched teeth as bullets whistle through the air of the disease ridden swampy island during the golden age of sailing ships and pirates.
Although we're meant to be cheering for that pesky Jim Hawkins I couldn't help having a soft spot for scheming long John Silver and hope he finally gets to meet up with his missus and his fortune, however ill gotten.
Read it and you'll see what I mean.
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