Make a Recommendation

[Stuart]

This discussion topic is designed to let students share books they enjoyed with other students. Use the add book/author tab at the top to include the book information. Then add three or four lines telling what genre the book is, who the main characters are, what you liked about it, and why you recommend it to others.

[Stuart]

Black Swan Green is a realistic and semi-autobiographical account of the adolescent life of the author, David Mitchell. The main character is a thirteen-year-old named Jason Taylor who is growing up in the early 80's in a small town in England. I really enjoyed the author's descriptive writing and portrayal of adolescent life. I think that if you like realistic fiction with an occasional mystical twist you will like this.

[Tanner]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is the story of a highly-functioning autistic kid trying to solve the mystery of who killed his neighbor's dog. Although the book starts out as a "mystery novel", the main character's past comes back to haunt him and shifts the concept of the book. This author puts himself inside the head of this autistic boy perfectly and his voice is amazing.

[Dylan]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth installment in a series about a young wizard's adventures at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. In the story, the evil wizard Voldermort rises back to power to terrorize the world of wizardry. This book is full of vivid imagery and thrilling mystery that will keep you engaged until the very end. J. K. Rowling does an excellent job of creating believable and lovable characters and i'm finding myself hopelessly addicted.

[Brendan.clements]

The Hobbit The Hobbit was a good book that was about a little Hobbit named Bilbo who goes on an adventure with a wizard named Gandolf and 13 Dwarfs. They go on an adventure to the dwarfs mountain that was taken by a dragon named Smog. They run into many problems on there adventure. Throught the story Bilbo becomes more and more brave and finds out he can do more then he ever thought. They end up killing the dragon but everyone wants the gold he was protecting so there ends up being a war between the dwarfs, elves, and humans but before they start the battle they get word of a gobblin army comeing and have to set aside there differences to fight the greater evil.

[Tylerhipps]

Taming the Star Runner
I like the book but the boy is a pretty bad influence because he wants to take a knife in the airport and his parents take the knife because he would've got them in so much trouble and they wouldn't have been able to take there flight

[Luke]

Chicago Bears
This a good book for Chicago Bears fan. I chose it because I like the linebacker they had, Dick Butkust. It also shows a lot of pictures of players. I will reccomend this book to football fans.

[Teresa]

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
This book is really funny. The boy tells every thing in his life that is both good and bad. One bad thing is that he loses one of his best friends when he gose to another school. One Good thing that happens is that he make a lot of friends at his new school. Which it is a white school and he is a indian.

[Ryley]

To Kill a Mockingbird
It is about two kids named Scout and Jem that live in Maycomb county with there father Atticus.There friend Dill always came to see them in the summer.He stayed with his Aunt who lived in Maycomb county.Scout was a tomboy so she hated to wear her uniform for school.Because she had to wear a dress for school.Scout and Jem's father was a lawer in Macomb county.

[Chelsey]

It was about this rich girl named Massie and her clique. And this girl Claire moved into Massie's guest house from Florida. Claire tried to take away Massie's friends so she could fit in. But Massie caught on to it and got her friends back. So at the end of the book Massie and Claire bonded cause thier dads were embarrassing both of them.

[Whitney]

The book is about this 11th grade girl that has been dumped by this guy she has liked for years. She took the break up hard so her grandmother bought her a book to help her get over the break up. She started to use the book but as she is different things happen to her that make her belive it doesnt work.

[Austin]

The History of the Miami Heat
This book has lots of info and it's the book for you if you like short books and the Miami Heat! It has lots of information that you would have never thought of that happened! It is very intresting and I recomend it for all basketball or any sports fans.

[Emily]

In this book the four main characters are Violet, Kalus, Sunny, and Count Olf. The kids have lost thier parents in a fire that ruined their house. They lived with a dear friend Mr.Poe who was good to them but his childeren treated them poorly. Then they moved in with Count Olf and thats when things got really bad.

[Katie]

In the book mysterious book Fade, There is a 14 year old boy name Paul. Paul loves mysterious an likes to solve them. Way before Paul was born his family took a family photo... Instead of his uncle being in the photo there was a empty space where he was standing. He had disappered. Paul trys to find out why, half of his family believes that it was a mistake of the camera... others won't even talk about it. Later on in the book Paul starts disappering just like his uncle did...

[Brooke]

In the book Something Upstairs, There is a boy named Kenny who moves from Los Angeles to Rhode Island. He now lives in a house of past events, built in the 1700's. After hearing and seeing strange things, Kenny begins to investigate. He soon finds out the house is haunted by a slave named Caleb from the past. Good book, go read it now.