Dork Diaries

 

Title: Dork Diaries

Author: Rachel Renee Russell

Genre: Fiction

Recommended Ages: 7-13

Reviewd by: Sojourner F.

Dork Diaries Summary:
This book is about a girl named Nikki who keeps a diary about everyday life and at school a lot of drama goes on. This girl named McKenzie is like Nikki's enemy. Her freinds are Zoey and Chloe. Her crush is Brandon, but McKenzie and Nikki both like him.

Dork Diaries Review:
I think that this is a funny book and full of drama and aI love to read this book. One funny thing is anytime Brandon comes around she goes all crazy and gets all silly.

Runaway Dolls

Title: Runaway Dolls

Author: Ann Martin

Genre: Fantasy

Recommended Ages: 8-12

Reviewd by: Anonymous

Runaway Dolls Summary:
This book is about dolls getting shipped away. They were alive so they bust out of the box and run away. They found an owner they like and stayed with them. They told their owner that they are alive.

Runaway Dolls Review:
I think this book is interesting, because dolls are not alive, but what I don't get is, if you're trapped in a box, how can you escape?

Alice in Wonderland

Title: Alice in Wonderland

Author: Lewis Carol

Genre: Fantasy

Recommended Ages: 8 & up
Review written by: Isyse

Alice in Wonderland Summary:
The book is about  the girl who falls into a bunny hole and she sees all these weird animals and she starts to go on an adventure to go fight the queen so she can go home.

Alice in Wonderland Review:
I thought the book was very entertaining and interesting because I like books with a fantasy setting and a good adventure in it and I really like the illustrations.

Monument 14

 

Title: Monument 14

Author: Emmy Laybourne

Genre: Apocalyptic

Recommended Ages: 15 & up
Review written by: Ms. Candyce

Monument 14 Summary:
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus. But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran.

Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong. In Emmy Laybourne’s action-packed debut novel, six high school kids (some popular, some not), two eighth graders (one a tech genius), and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. While outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seems to be tearing the world—as they know it—apart.

Monument 14 Review:
I really enjoyed this book. The characters were all vastly different, which gave the story a type of variety that I usually don't see in YA books. Not to mention that the main character's voice was intriguing fun. I've been told that I have a dry sense of humor so my opinion might be biased, but I personally loved the protagonist's sarcasm. Although I will say that it took me at least 15 pages to figure out that the main character was a boy. The description doesn't let on, and we didn't hear his name until quite a few pages in (at least not that I saw).

I couldn't put this book down. In the beginning they were trapped in the store and I thought that the story would be sort of stagnant, but then the author threw in a bunch of other variables that made the story fresh and interesting. Personally, I'm not to fond of Dean's decision at the end of the book, but I'm looking forward to the sequel coming out next June. It should definitely be interesting.