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Eloise (Eloise Series)

Kay Thompson

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Total reviews: 113 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

ooh I just love Eloise! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Awesome book! Totally loved it--my three year old finds her fascinating. "Why does she want to pour a pitcher of water down the mail chute, mommy?" She's a naughty girl but such a wonderfully creative and self reliant one! I think she is a great role model for my little girls!

not what I want my child to emulate. 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

interesting to read as an adult. Wouldn't want to read to a young child.

My little ones found it disturbing 1 out of 5 stars.
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My 6 year old received this as a birthday gift. I thought: wow, great, very nostalgic. After reading it to her, she gave me a funny look and said "I didn't like that". While it does have some charming moments, she seemed to us to be a sad and lonely little girl. Her fantasy about her doll getting in an accident and gushing blood and being sawn in pieces was really too graphic for my children, even though they knew it was being made up. Just found it sort of depressing. Where are the parents?

Editorial Review:

Eloise is a little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York. She is not yet pretty but she is already a Person.

Henry James would want to study her.

Queen Victoria would recognize her as an Equal.

The New York Jets would want to have her on their side.

Lewis Carroll would love her (once he got over the initial shock).

She knows everything about The Plaza. She is interested in people when they are not boring.

She has Inner Resources.

If you take her home with you, you will always be glad you did.

Ribsy (Avon Camelot Books)

Beverly Cleary

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Classic 50's children's book is timeless 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ribsy is one of Beverly Cleary's series on the children of Klikitat Street in Portland Oregon. It is pure 50's childhood and very entertaining. I use this as an independent reading selection for groups of my fourth grade ESL students. They can easily read it on their own, helping one another on the vocabulary, and they stay interested. All have asked to take it home to finish it. If you're a teacher who is looking to keep your class occupied while you hone in on students with learning problems, then let them read any of this series and they will let you work with your group for a half hour without interruption.

If you're looking for a good gift for a child in 3d, 4th or 5th grade, this is one.

Editorial Review:

Henry Huggins's dog, Ribsy, is hopelessly lost in a huge shopping mall parking lot. It's raining hard, the pavement is slick, horns are honking, and drivers are shouting. When Ribsy thinks he has found the Hugginses' new station wagon at last, he jumps in the open tailgate window and falls asleep, exhausted. When he wakes up find himself in the wrong car, lots of little girls pet him and make plans to give him a bath. All Ribsy wants to do is go home to Henry. Instead, he's about to begin the liveliest adventure of his life.

Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner

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Total reviews: 285 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I received my book within 24 hours of ordering and it was in excellent condition. I would definately purchase again from Amazon.com.

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There's just no stopping little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going -- and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live -- the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog, Searchlight, to the plow and harvests the whole potato crop.
Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years' back taxes, or the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as ever, he stakes everything on one wild hope: that he and Searchlight can outrun the best dogsled racers in the country -- including the legendary Indian, Stone Fox. But the huge mountain man is every bit as intent on winning the big prize money as little Willy is. And he and his five beautiful Samoyeds haven't lost a race yet....
Based on a Rocky Mountain legend, John Reynolds Gardiner's story -- like its hero, little Willy -- has all the ingredients of a winner, right down to the unforeseen drama at the finish line.

A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Adventure Classics in Audio)

Jules Verne

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Total reviews: 129 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Journey to the Center review 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book for my 9 year old son and he really liked it.

ending was a dissapointment 1 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a dissapointed ten year old rating this book. Up until the end it
Was probably one of the best books I've ever read. It was full of adventure and excitement, but then I got to the end. The book did not live up to it's name. It would be more appropriately called "Journey Almost to the Centre of the Earth. I recommend this book only to people who like major dissapointments.

No Hollywood Spam 5 out of 5 stars.
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A true classic of adventure with real name places for authenticity. Only one place on earth, Iceland, can be the beginning point for such a fanastic venture. Even the early versions on screen added Hollywood schlock to ruin this fantastic story. Read this book, have an atlas handy, and escape. For more fun, become familiar wih the "Hollow Earth Theory".

Editorial Review:

Through the eyes of young Gilbert, a peasant boy who Robin takes under his wing, readers will meet the world's most famous outlaw as he does battle with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham and his evil friends.

Henry Huggins (Spanish edition)

Beverly Cleary

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Total reviews: 37 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Fantastic 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have a number of Ramona CD's so thought I'd venture out into Henry Huggins. As much as I love Ramona, this Henry CD is the best, due in part to the voice of Neil Patrick Harris. My son loves to listen to a CD every night before going to bed, and he requests this one more often than any other. It's amazing to think that Beverly Cleary's book, written 50 years ago, can still appeal to youngsters today. It's timeless. Thank you Beverly Cleary!

Henry Huggins...sample. 1 out of 5 stars.
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This sample only shows the introduction! Where's the chapter 1? This sample needs to be extended; there's no storyline.

Editorial Review:

La vida cambia para Henry Huggins con la aparición de Ribsy, un perro flaco y desgarbado que encuentra un día a la salida de la Y.M.C.A. Juntos corren toda clase de aventuras, desde perder un hermoso balón de fútbol, hastacelebrar una Navidad "verde". Con Ribsy aprende el valor del trabajo, el respeto a la propiedad ajena y también que todos merecemos ganar un premio, incluso un perro feúcho y de raza desconocida. Pero lo más importante para Henry será averiguar con quién decidirá quedarse Ribsy.

The White Mountains

John Christopher

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Total reviews: 109 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Robotic Revolution 5 out of 5 stars.
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The White Mountains by John Christopher is a science fiction book and is the first in the Tripod series. This is a very good book filled with action and suspense. The story begins with a boy named Will, who is a year away from being Capped by the Tripods. The Tripods have been controlling Earth for about 100 years. People are Capped at age 14, at which time a device, called a "cap", is placed on their head. The cap allows the Tripods to control their thoughts and actions. For a brief time in each person's life, prior to Capping, they are free of the Tripods and can escape to a place called "the White Mountains."

There are many unique twists in this book and, as the plot develops, the reader is left with many questions. In the beginning, the setting of the story would appear to be medieval England but the reader soon learns it actually takes place 100 years in the future. The first twist occurs when the main character Will and his cousin Jack find the old ruins of a power plant. This gives the reader the first clue that something has destroyed a previously more advanced society and raises the first question about what has caused the destruction.

In the beginning of the story, Will freely accepts the fact that he will one day be Capped, just like everyone else in his society. However, he begins to question this tradition after his cousin Jack is Capped and is no longer the same. The Tripods are first first introduced in the book when Jack has his Capping ceremony. The Tripods appear to be tall, three-legged machines that stand about 30 feet high. The reader is once again faced with questions. Are the Tripods really robotic life-forms or vehicles for an alien race? Could they be the cause for the destruction? If so, why did they come to Earth instead of a planet like Mars? What is so special about Earth?

After Jack's Capping, a stranger comes into the village who Will first believes is a vagrant. A vagrant is somebody who has been unsuccessfully Capped and as a result wanders aimlessly with strange thoughts. Soon, Will realizes the stranger is quite normal and learns that he wears a fake cap. He tells Will of a time before the existence of Tripods and when men were free. The stranger describes to Will a place where the Tripods can't travel, called "the White Mountains." This causes him to question the custom of Capping even more.

Read The White Mountains to find out whether Will stays and accepts his fate, or runs away from the power of the Tripods to find refuge in the White Mountains. You will feel suspense and excitement as you find out what happens to Will and whether or not he can escape the Tripods. Cristian LA-7.

Editorial Review:

35th Anniversary Editon with new Text and a New Preface by the Author!

Long ago, the Tripods -- huge, three-legged machines -- descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.

But for a brief time in each persson's life -- in childhood -- he is not a slave. For Will his time of freedom is about to end -- unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Puffin Modern Classics)

Roald Dahl

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

by Sara C. Hildren 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is an amazing book that follows Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It has many hair-raising chapters and also many exciting ones. If you have read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator next!

THE ONLY DAHL STORY WE HAVEN'T LIKED 1 out of 5 stars.
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I am the mother of a two children, ages seven and five. We have read and reread nearly all of Roald Dahl's children,s stories. In general, I love this author. His stories are entertaining, even magical, and so beautifully written. When reading Dahl, I am always aware that my children are exposed to high quality literature with a richness of vocabulary and ideas. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is the only exception to our general delight with Roald Dahl. It is dark and lacks the sense of optimism, the charm, the magic of his other stories. Neither of my children enjoyed this book and I did not either. My advice would be to stop after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and not pick up this sequel. Instead, grab Matilda, the BFG, or James and the Giant Peach and treat yourself and your kids to a real treasure!

Editorial Review:

Now that Charlie has won the chocolate factory, what’s next? Even wilder adventures, that’s what! Join him, Grandpa Joe, and, of course, Willy Wonka for the amazing, intergalactic sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

Sunrise Over Fallujah

Walter Dean Myers

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.

In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club;

and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair."

Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.

Travel Team

Mike Lupica

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K. Cox's book review 5 out of 5 stars.
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Travel Team by Mike Lupica is an exciting book about a twelve year old boy named Danny. Danny is a very good basketball player who has been cut from his team because he is too short. Danny and his father form their own team from the other children who were cut and have a shot at beating the Vikings.

Travel Team is a very exciting and funny book. The only with the book is that it used some words that it could have done without such as the cursing. The Travel Team is worth reading because it has a great plot and Mike Lupica uses third person narration which is makes me feel like I'm there with Danny and it is usually easier to understand, which makes it a great book for kids.

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Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court, but no one has a bigger love of the game, or a better sense of how to hit the open player with the perfect pass. Then the local travel team—the same travel team Danny’s dad, Richie Walker, led to the national championship on ESPN when he was a kid— cuts Danny because of his height. But Danny isn’t about to give up on basketball. It turns out that he’s not the only kid who was cut for the wrong reasons. Now Danny and his dad are about to give all the castoffs a second chance and prove that you can’t measure heart.

The Demonata #5: Blood Beast

Darren Shan

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Howl for more! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Reviewed by Karma Barry (age 13) for Reader Views (1/08)

"The Demonata: Blood Beast" has an excellent plot with something new around every page. Darren Shan has a creative way of combining suspense, humor and fear so that you will want more, but at the same time will be wary to continue should you want to sleep with the lights off.

I would suggest "The Demonata" series for vampire/werewolf/horror-loving teens of about age 13 or 14 and up; also possibly age 12, and maybe 11; below that and there may be restless nights and/or nightmares involved.

Luckily, I don't have any experiences that could relate too closely to those of the characters involved. But even if there are things that would be the same, it would probably be fashion sense or appearances. I'm not sure who that's unfortunate for, me or the characters.

I hope that there are more books for this series and whole-heartedly encourage Shan to write more books in general. I can almost certainly be sure of one thing concerning future books by Shan-- I'll be reading the first page undoubtedly followed shortly by the last!

After facing dangers of all kinds, teenager Grubbs Grady will have to face the worst thing yet - his self! Horror and suspense will collide as he gathers strength from within himself, and strange things happen around him in "The Demonata: Blood Beast."

Editorial Review:

"Locked inside Dervish's study. Breath coming quickly, raggedly. Trembling wildly. I still feel sick and dizzy, but maybe that's fear. I force myself to breathe normally, evenly. When I'm in control, I study my reflection, looking for telltale signs. Am I turning into a werewolf? I don't know..."

Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole.

He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?