Category: Books

A Long Walk to Water is a book about two different people, a boy named Salva whose story took place in 1985 and a girl named Nya whose story took place in 2008. Salva lost all of his family and friends during the war in Sudan, so it makes me more grateful for my friends and…

The War That Saved My Life was one of my favorite books! This story was about a girl named Ada and a boy named Jamie who lived during WW2. This is a story about perseverance. Ada has a club foot, but that doesn’t stop her from wanting to do many things. She is very independent and…

The main point of this book was that girls can do things, too. The main character was Naima from Bangladesh. She hears her father talking to her mother and saying that I wish one of our daughters was a boy so that he could help him drive the rickshaw. So Naima decides to drive the…

This book by Grace Lin is about a girl named Minli who goes on a journey to ask the man of the moon to change her family’s fortune, and along the way she meets a lot of cool people. One of my favorite things about this book was that each person she met told a…

I really loved this book by Lindsey Eland. It was about a girl named Sunday who felt like she was forgotten as a middle child, and so this summer she wants to change that. Her dad is fixing up a library in Alma. When her family goes to help her dad, Sunday finds in the…

I got a book called Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins? Its about a girl who can turn invisible with a special necklace called rose quartz. I also just got a book called Flora & Ulysses. So far it talked about a vacuum called the Ulysses 2000x. Its indoor and outdoor, and it vacuumed up a…

Nat Bowditch was a great man from Salem, Massachusetts who lived in the late 1700’s. He loved to learn (especially math) and teach others. He was confident and persistent. After his mothers death his father signed him up to work at the chandlery as an indentured servant.  He couldn’t leave for 7 years.  Now he…

Heidi is a good book about a girl and her grandfather, living on the Alm. Heidi’s aunt didn’t want to take care of her anymore, so she took her to her grandfather, the Alm Uncle, and Heidi stays with him and lives in his loft full of hay. Skipping the first half of the book….…