Book+Reviews

Welcome to the second part of your G9 English Summer Homework : Writing a Book Review.

On this page, you should write two book reviews. You are free to read whatever you'd like over the summer, but I suggest you start reading age-appropriate books. (i.e., Roald Dahl is not ok anymore), Later, when I have more time, I'll leave some suggestions for books to read.

But let's be clear--Can you write one of your book reviews about __Nothing but the Truth__ by Avi? ABSOLUTELY. Will this make your job over vacation easier? ABSOLUTELY! Each review needs to be only 3 paragraphs.

Introduce the subject, scope, and type of book
Specify the **type** of book (for example, fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography). Help your readers to review with perspective. Mention the book's **theme**. Sometimes you will need to include **background** to enable reader(s) to place the book into a specific context. For example, you might want to describe the general problem the book addresses or earlier work the author or others have done.
 * author** **title** **publishing information**

Briefly summarize the content

 * For a nonfiction book,**
 * For a work of fiction,** briefly review the story line for readers, being careful not to give away anything that would lessen the suspense for readers.

Provide your reactions to the book
===Conclude by summarizing your ideas
 * Describe the book:**
 * Respond to the author's opinions:** What do you agree with? And why? What do you disagree with? And why?
 * Explore issues the book raises:** What possibilities does the book suggest? Explain. What matters does the book leave out? Explain.
 * Relate your argument to other books or authors:** Support your argument for or against the author's opinions by bringing in other authors you agree with.
 * Relate the book to larger issues:** How did the book affect you? How have your opinions about the topic changed? How is the book related to your own course or personal agenda.

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Nothing But The Truth - Avi Andre Kabbani

Last year, we read the book Nothing But The Truth at Miss. Nogueira’s class. The book written by Avi, talks about a kid called Philip Malloy, which has some problems with his English teacher, Miss. Narwin. He also loves running at the track team. This book was published in 1991. It’s a good realistic fiction book, between a student and a teacher about who’s right. In Philips school, to do extracurricular activities you need to get good grades. That’s why Philip hated his English teacher; Miss. Narwin and he want to change classes, because she gave him a bad grade and that bad grade prevented him to run at the track team. Once in Miss. Narwin`s class, Phillip starts humming the national anthem. She got really mad at him and suspended him. He lies to everyone about how he got suspended and then the newspaper writes his story. When everyone discovers the truth he went to his new school. His new school doesn’t have a really mean teacher like Miss Narwin. But it doesn’t even have a track team. This is a really good book. It teaches us to don’t lie. The only problem is because it doesn’t have a lot of action but it’s still a good book. It’s not an ace but it’s a really good book. I recommend this book for kids and teenagers, who are 10 to 14 and are chasing a realistic fiction story.

The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket Andre Kabbani

In this Summer I read the book, “The Miserable Mill”. This is the fourth novel in the book series A series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The Book begins with the three kids, Sunny, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire on their way to the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. When they got there, they saw that they needed to work at the Mill in exchange, Sir their new guardian would keep them away from Count Olaf, their nemesis. While the kids are in the Mill they have to work really hard in order Sir will keep them away from Count Olaf. When they arrive to the eye-shaped building and they see Shirley, the receptionist, they realize that she’s Count Olaf disguised. After knowing that Shirley was Count Olaf, they realized that Sir wasn’t doing his job. So, the kids also realized that they needed to get rid away from Shirley. And that’s what they did. They made up a plan to get rid of Shirley (Count Olaf). But, they got expelled from the Mill, so did Shirley. The kids went to the school and Count Olaf escaped. I thought that this book was really good; it could have a little bit more of action. But, it’s really great it’s a little scary and mysterious but it’s a great book. It’s a really good continuation for the series, “A series of Unfortunate Events”.

The Giver - Louis Lowry Raphael Cohen

Don’t have you ever imagined being very curious and interested in a novel of new adventures?? The Giver was released in 1993 and came to the world with an awesome story! Louis Lowry wrote a fiction book for teen kids that talk about the life of a teenager in his totally different community. Jonas has to respect strange laws and survive without having opinion or freedom. When he is assigned to an important job at the community, he discovers about these hidden subjects and then the story gets more interesting as the protagonist wants to rid the community from sameness.

When the kids turn twelve they are assigned to jobs for the rest of their lives. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas was selected as The Receiver of Memories. Everyone was surprised because it is an imperative assignment for the community. His job is related on receiving memories from The Giver so that the habits of this group of people continue for many years. But, throughout the lessons Jonas discovers many things about the horrible life the community lives. This happens because pain doesn’t exist and the sameness reigns in the community. Examples are that they don’t see colors and don’t have feelings. Jonas got outraged and built a plan with the help of The Giver to escape of the community so that his memories could go to the people of the society.

At first, I couldn’t focus in the book because I didn’t understand that the story was passing on an odd society in the future, but after I didn’t stop reading and getting thrilled with the story. I loved the book mainly with the creativity that the author had as the ideas of this weird community and of the idea of the escape plan that was awesome. It is 198 pages of a pure excitement for the continuation of the next chapter!

The Giver Review by Daniel Khafif.

"The Giver" is a great book written by Louis Lowry. He was born on March 20, 1937 and won two Newbery Medals, one for “Number the Stars”, on 1990 and the other one for “The Giver”. Published on 1994, it is set in a future society which is at first presented as a perfect community, where everyone must be exactly the same with no variety. The protagonist is Jonas, a teenager. Jonas is the typical 12 year old boy, with nothing special. What Jonas don’t know is that he is predestinated to something big. In this community, as you reach twelve, you are assigned a job. At the twelve year ceremony Jonas name is skipped and then it's revealed that he is going to have a special job, the Receiver of Memory. The job as Receiver of Memory is basically holding all the memories of the world before the community, so that the sameness in which they live can continue. As the Receiver, Jonas finally sees all the flaws of the community and starts to react to it. What will happen to him, to the community and its members is a mystery that captivates you until the last chapters.

“The Giver" is a great book because it makes a critic to the path our world is going, and the lack of variety in it. This suits young adults and up, because there is some action, fiction, and we can clearly see how the author thinks about the world. Many people didn’t read until the end, which is a shame because there is where things get really interesting. Anyway, these book is available at the school’s library, so, if you need something to good to past time, I suggest you read it. The Lost Symbol Review by Daniel Khafif.

After writing great books like "Digital Fortress", "The Da Vinci Code", and "Angels and Demons", there was no doubt that Dan Brown's next book, "The Lost Symbol", published on 2009, would be a success. The story takes place after the two previous books, when Robert Langdon is suddenly summoned to Washington D.C. by an old Masonic friend. He is supposed to do a speech at the U.S. Capitol. Langdon is about to live the most head blowing adventure of his life.

Langdon soon discovers that there's no actual speech, that a psychopath kidnapped his friend and in order to save his life he must unveil an old Masonic legend which involves men turning into G’d. This is the start of a breathtaking run against time, with the C.I.A against him, to save his friend and to stop a lunatic in his apocalyptic plan to make what no other man have ever made. This book is sure going to make you fly across the pages to an amazing end.

I highly recommend this everyone that is into to mysteries, action, conspiracies and puzzles. This book is pure suspense and action at its finest. A book that may rival with the Twilight series and maybe even Harry Potter. Also read the others Dan Brown books, for they are as exciting as this one. Thanks for reading my reviews. PS.: To the people who made the rubric of this review in Mr. OC’s class, U.S. **Capitol** isn’t a typo, it’s the meeting place of the United States Congress.

Nothing But The Truth

by Larissa Rahmani I have read the book “Nothing but the Truth” by Avi. It’s a humor book, a fiction based on real facts that happens in school. The story is passed in the “Harrison High”. This book talks about a boy that hates his English teacher and always disrespect a rule: singing “The Star Spangled Banner”. Singing the national anthem its prohibited in the school, but Philip Malloy always disrespect and then the English teacher Miss Narwin, always get mad at him.

Phillip Malloy, does not SING the national anthem, he hums it. He does that only to provoc Miss Narwin. In his report card he got good grade in every subject, except in English, because of that he hates Miss Narwin. He wanted to change his homeroom, because he wanted a new homeroom teacher. Because of his low grade in English he cannot participate on the track team.

I think this book it’s a great book, because shows the real thoughts of the students and the teachers, and shows the school’s problem. I liked the way the author demonstrated this problems and this thoughts. I recommend this book to everyone. Specially to the ones who have problems with their teachers. I didn't like the end of the book, because the author made Phillip Malloy feel bad about not knowing how to sing the national anthem.

. **Book** Review 1: BY MILENA FARBER-CORRECTED VERSION- **
 * Ugenia Lavender (home alone) Review ** **

P ublished on 1 August of 2008, Geri Haliwell, author, singer and actor, written a book named “Ugenia Lavender”- Home Alone. She was born at England U.K and she was a member of a group named “SpiceGirls", that becamed very famous group. The book's setting is placed at a desert island and the protagonist is Ugenia Lavender who is lost in this island .The conflict of the book starts when Ugenia get lost in a island without food or drinks. This is a non-fiction story, but it can happen in real life and the book theme is an action.

Finally holiday! Her parents decided to travel. On the trip, Ugenia was always complaining, saying: “my life is BORING”. She decided to walk but she was going the wrong way, suddenly she discovered she was lost and Ugenia became extremely nervous about staying in a stranded desert with enormous gorillas, cannibals and volcanoes. But what she didn’t know was that she was participating on the movie, named “Hong Kong”

Sure you can read it, because the book give us a conclusion: " If you are somewhere you don't know, PLEASE BE CALM"! The book tells us to be calm if we’re lost somewhere we don’t know. I appreciate the end of the book because the problem was resolved. I disagree with Ugenia Lavender first because she went somewhere she didn't know and second because she wasn't calm when she was lost and third because she was happy about the movie while her family was consequently worried. I agree with the people who helped Ugenia's family to find her because they were very caring and risked-takers.

Book Review 2: **BY** **MILENA FARBER** **  -CORRECTED VERSION-  **
 * Nothing But The Truth **

T his quarter in Ms. Nogueira's class, we read a 1991 fiction book called “Nothing But The Truth”. This book was written by Avi Wortis.This book explains a very difficult situation. A Situation between the English teacher (Ms.Narwin) and the student about 14 years old, Philip Malloy. The problem occurs at Harisson High School.

The problem starts when Ms.Narwin gives a "D" to Philip Malloy in his final grade so he becomes very angry and because he got a lower grade he will not be in the track team, because he have got a lower grade, he starts being very bad and he starts humming the "The Star-Spangled Banner" in English class and Ms. Narwin asked him to stop but he refused to stop so Ms.Narwin gets irritated and she sends him to the principal's office, Dr Palleni so Dr.Palleni he gave Philip a two-days suspension. After that, Mr. Malloy, Philip's father, went to talk with the reporter to see if this rule exists of not practicing the National Anthem and the answer was “NO” a he told the entire problem to Ted, his friend but Ted was trying to resolve so he told all this confusion to everyone on the community. Inadvertently there was a reporter, Jennifer Stewer in Philip's house and he wrote the story of the problem and soon that news was in the newspapers and interviews, about all this confusion the school asked Ms.Narwin to leave and she went to Florida to live with her sister. So Philip’s parents found a new and private school for him to study, named Washington Academy. But his new school didn’t have track team and his first day of school the new teachers asked him to sing the National Anthem, but he starts crying and respond “ I don’t know the words”... Generally, this book is very interesting book because it shows that something might happen one day: a misunderstanding occurs that affects the community. I agree with Mr.Palleni because if I were the teacher I would get very upset with the student. I disagree with Philip because all he did to change school and change homeroom teachers was lying to his parents. What the book doesn’t care about first is that they don't see the other student's opinions (it’s not only the teacher and Philip Malloy in the class that is seeing the situation), second, because the book doesn't care about how the story's ending and it makes we reader think that the Author is antipathic. I recommend it to you because the book have an appropriate language and the entire book says to us, is that he must be a respectful student during class.

Nothing But The Truth Review by Caroline Braun


 * __Nothing But The Truth__ is a fiction book, written by Avi and published in 1991. The theme is misunderstanding. This story takes place on a high school, and at the main character's home. The big problem was a student that hummed the national anthem, which made the teacher angry. During the story, there were many problems involved Philip Malloy, as we are going to see at the next paragraph. I recommend this book if you are one of that people who like the type of the book as a journal, or something similar, or a book that tells about many misunderstandings. I don't recommend this book if you __really__ hate stories that are really repetitive about the same subject.**


 * "Nothing But The Truth" tells about a boy named Philip Malloy, which hates his English teacher as well his homeroon teacher, Miss Narwin. He thinks that she is boring and she doesnt smiles to any joke. Everyday the principal plays a tape of the "Star Spangled Banner" (anthem). Suddenly, Philip Malloy starts humming the anthem, and Miss Narwin gets really anoyed, and she asks him to stop. On the first time, Philip respects her and he stops humming. But in the second and third time, he ignores the teacher. Miss Narwin sends Malloy immediatly to the principal´s assistant which she thinks it would be the best to do. After some discution with Philip and the assistant, Albert (principal´s assistant) gives him a second chance for forgiving the English teacher, so he doesn't get a suspension for a couple of days. He doesn't want to forgive her, so he finally gets a two-three days suspension. This news is spread all over the USA and people think that a boy getting a suspension for singing the national anthem is tottaly ridiculous. So, they send letters all over the country to Phillip Malloy saying he is totally right about it, but the principal and the English teacher receive letters about how absurd was this happening. In the end, Philip gets in a private school ( it was his wish) but when the teacher asked him to sing the anthem he started crying because he doesn't knew the lyrics of it.

Personally, I didnt liked the story because it was way too repetitive. All they said in the WHOLE story was " the student Philip Malloy was suspended by singing the national anthem" and this what made the story boring. He did a HUGE deal for nothing. I desagreed when Phillip Malloy didnt apologize do Miss Narwin his HUGE problem, because if he did so, no misunderstanding would happen and everyone would be in peace. HURRAYY! The possibilities that the book suggest would be, if you respect at school, you will receive something in offer (if Malloy improved his English grade, he could be at the track team). What goes around comes around. (He moved to the school he wanted,BUT there wasnt any track team) He will need to deal with it. Even if the book could be a nonfiction one, it would not relate to my life at all. First, I would not EVEN begin to hum, I would be standing up as a zombie doing anything, so nothing relates to my personal agenda. :D**

The Chronicles of Narnia- The Last Battle Review by Caroline Braun


 * __Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle__** is a (way) fiction book written by C.S. Lewis, published in 1956. The theme of the book is hope, and lies. It talks about the last king in Narnia, which had a very calm life, with his partner, Jewel, the unicorn. But, at a normal day a centaur appears and warns them that strange and evil things are happening to his land. At the same time, King Tirian heard that the real Aslan had returned. So, he begins a jouney in which he finds new friends that could really help him throughout. The story is all about fantasy, involved with magic and really strange talking-beasts.

At the other side of the land of King Tirian, lived the most cleverest,and most wrinkled of all apes, Shift, which used Puzzle, the donkey (his "friend") to do any job. One morning early in the year,both of them were walking at the shore of Caldron Pool, that is a big pool right under some cliffs. Shift, finds a yellow thing floating at the pool, and obviously, convinses the poor donkey, Puzzle, to hop into the pool to get the strange yellow thing to him. As they looked, swirled and turned, the ape realized it was a lion skin. And of course, after some arguing, Shift made Puzzle wear the skin on top of him.It looked like a lion. Then, an idea came the to Shift's head. Puzzle to pretend to be the Great Lion Aslan himself. The ape starts saying to Narnians that the donkey speaks for Aslan, and after the Narnians really belived, Shift demanded that they would work against their will. The news gets to King Tirian and Jewel the unicorn. At first they really belived that the real Aslan returned. When he affirmed that Shift was lying, he was tied up in a tree all alone. He shouted for Aslan's help and he received a "message" of 7 strange people. Minutes passed, and two children suddenly rescued him and Jewel, and their were a girl named Jill and a boy named Eustace. After a while, Tirian realized they had what it takes to battle. Jill could use the bow and arrow and Eustace could really fight with a sword by his age. They were ready to battle the Calormene. Through the battle, Eustace, Jill, and Poggin the Dwarf are thrown into the stable where the false Aslan, king of Narnia was kept (Puzzle). Tirian, earlier on, had thrown Shift into the stable and Tash (Calormene's God), who now haunted the stable, swallowed the ape whole.(YAYY! haha). The leader of the Calormene people, Rishda Tarkaan was captured by Tash, and both disappeared. Those who were loyal to Aslan the seven strange people on the vision of Tirian when he was tied up Poggin the dwarf such as others, joined into the real Narnia, because it was only a copy of it, but a different kind of one. A Narnia peacefull and so colorfull, so vivid that the author couldnt describe it. The end nobody knows, only if you read it. ;)

This was a really nice story, I enjoyed, it was totally diferent from any book i've read, and I recommend this book if you are into fantasy and stuff. If you hate strange animals that talk, special powers and battles DONT read the SAGA. :D. I agree completely with the author because the whole "team" of Tirian battled what they always wanted. I would do the same. The book sugests that if you have a great will to do something, go for it. Share your opinions, fight for your opinion. The book affected me by making me want to go to Narnia MORE AND MORE. C.S. Lewis described so well the place which persuades you SO much. Looks likes sometimes you're inside the book. Fun. I cant think in anything that is related to my agenda because this is pure fantasy, but I wish I could see talking beasts :)

//**Tami Dayan**//

Nothing But The Truth, it’s a great book with lot of dreams. That is written by **Edward Irving Wortis **. He is a great write for young readers. And he already win many awards with his books. But, Nothing But The Truth was published on 1991. The book talks about a boy, Philip Malloy, which is a student on Harrison High School. He is in love with a girl named Allison and he has many problems with his teacher named Miss Narwin. She teaches English and she is the homeroom teacher of Philip Malloy. One of Philip’s problems in class, it’s humming the Nation anthem. And they hate each other. After failing on English class, he cannot be on the track team. That was one of his dreams. Then he didn’t want to say about it for his parents. In the end of the book, Philip was transferred to another school and Ms Narwin takes a retirement. On the new school, doesn’t have running classes, so he tried playing soccer. After that, he was called to sing the National anthem. But he didn’t know the lyrics. And that’s how the book ends. This is a great book that shows differences. An story that a normal boy of school can live it. I recommend for kids and adolescence that likes stories of teenagers. My favorite part is when Alisson call Philip to know about what happen with him after getting a suspension. I like this book because includes ideas, school, teachers, relationship and more.
 * __Nothing But The Truth __**

One of my favorite book is named Stargirl, written by Jerry Spinelli, that writes books for children and adolescents. It's a romance, about a strange girl and a normal boy. This girl, Stargirl capture the boy, Leo Borlock's heart with just one smile. The story occurs in Mika, Arizona. Leo and Kevin are best friends and they started observing Stargirl. They find that she remembers all the birthdays, she use different clothes, she dance when is no music and many other strange things. Another girl, named Hillari, wants to know a little more about this mystery girl. And in the next day, Stargirl was completely with different outfit, but continuing with the same characteristics. Then, she starts becoming more popular and Leo recognized that she is normal. The popularity doesn`t take too long. And Leo felt in love with her. So, the whole school knew about the romance that they had and the students on school didn`t accepted it. Leo wanted to change her to normal again, with her real name, Susan, having the same life that she had it. But Stargirl, doesn`t want to be someone else. So, Leo ends the relationship. On a big game of the school, Leo decided just to see from far away. And Stargirl came with a beautiful dress and start dancing. After another big romance passed, she disappears and never came back. This book of fantasy and romance, it’s recommended for young readers that like mystery and magical stories. The author writes each character with the own personality. My favorite part was when Leo accepts the way that Stargirl was. I enjoyed reading this book on vacation, because it’s an amazing book.
 * __Stargirl __**

Nothing But The Truth By Bruna Buium

"Nothing But The Truth" was the book that we read on English class on 2009. This book talk about a boy called Philip Malloy, the protagonist, that try to enter on the track team and was not able because he got a "D" on his English class with Ms.Narwin. One day after he went to the principals ofice for humming the "Star Spangled Banner". Two days after the same thing, but because it was the second day a week he got a suspension for two days. Philip Malloy mother when knew it went speak with the reporter, and she said that hasn't the such rule of singing the National Anthem. The reporter called Mr. Palleni and Dr. Doane to say if they knew about the suspention, they said that didn't know anything about, but was Mr.Palleni that gave the suspention. Philip Malloy hate Ms.Narwin so with all this confusio Dr.Doane decide to change Philip homeroom teacher. I like this book because is a situation that can happen with everyone, this book made me reflect on my life of how I reacts with my teachers.

Eclipse By Bruna Buium

This vacation I read the twilight saga Eclipse. This specific book talk about Vampires and werewolf. It's a romance book with a little of action. This book was published on 2007 by Stephanie Meyer. On this book Bella need to decide between having a friendship with Jacob Black or having a relationship with Edward Cullen. On the end of the New Moon book Edward asked Bella to married him. But this to happened Bella needed to choose between this two options. Beside this Bella is having a fight with her father, Charlie, because he don’t like that her daughter is dating Edward, because of something that happened on the past with Edward’s family and the werewolf pack. Charlie want Bella to date Jacob an old friend of the family. Almost half of the book talk about a fight that the vampires from Seatle come to Forks with Victoria on a fight not forgetting that the werewolf pack helped the Forks vampires. While Jacob were helping he suffered an accident and stop moving his right part of the boddy. The most important members of the vulture come to see what is happening. On the end of this saga Bella decides to maintain her relationship with Edward and she decided to give up on her friendship with Jacob.

It’s a book very complicated book. Is a very nice book to read. I never thought I would be able to read 624 pages in 5 days. This year I’m creating I recommend this book for those who like romance with a little of action. And for those who already stated reading the collection. When you start you never stop.

Nothing But The Truth
By Nina Kignel

The whole story talks about a boy that "sings" the national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". His wants to enter the track team, but he's flunking on English so he doesn't enter. Parallel, all mornings, students need to hear the national anthem. One day, Philip starts to "murmur". His English teacher says he's kind of annoying, but he says he is just singing. After a huge history and reporters all day long, Philip moves to another school, private, that he doesn't have problems. In my opinion, the book has it's high's and low's. All the mystery part that Jeniffer Stewart gets on the book, it's really nice, but it end in a really simple way. It could be funnier, and could also have something nice at the end, not just "he moves to another school". The problem needs to have a bigger and funnier resolution. It's just a SIMPLE book!!!

The Princess Diaries By Nina Kignel

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This vacation, I read the book called "The Princess Diaries", by Meg Cabot. Meg Cabot was born at Indiana, USA in February 1, 1967. She has already wroten many books and series such as The Princess Diaries Series, The American Girl series, and others. The book I read, The Princess Diaries, was published on 2000 by Harper Trophy, is an young adult novel and it has 304 pp. The real name of the author isn't Meg Cabot, it is Meggin Patricia Cabot.The book is a really interesting book - for girls - that talks about a teenager's life. The Princess Diaries, talks about a teenager, called Mia Thermopolis, that has a lot of problems in her life, when all of a sudden, she discovers she is the princess of a small kingdom called Genovia. ======

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In this book, Mia, the protagonist, totally doesn't care about beauty, and is flunking in algebra. She has a best friend called Lilly Moscovitz, and she has a TV show called "Lilly Tells It like It Is". This show almost doesn't have audience, only a foot fanatic that always wants to see Lilly's foot. Besides, Mia's mom is dating her algebra teacher, Mr Giannini. Mia only sees her father (Philip Renaldo) sometimes in a year, and when he goes to New York, where she lives, he stays at the Plaza in front of Central Park. Mia is so weird, that when she goes to the Plaza to visit her father, the security guards don't let her get in because she doesn't seem so chic. She goes a lot to Paris (Miragnac) in her summer vacation to see Gandmère, her grandmother, and her father. ======

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When Mia discovers she's the princess of Genovia, a small reign in Europe, she simply starts to cry (totally diferent from other girls), and says that she doesn't like to be a princess, but her dad says to her that he has a cancer and that she's the only onde who can inherit the throne. As a normal reaction, the grandmother that Mia hates so much, Grandmère, calls a hair stylist called Paolo that totally transforms her. When Lilly sees her, she really gets confused, and says that she's becoming one of those girls that puts makeup and make a hair style just to come to school, but really, Lilly doesn't know that Mia is a princess, and Mia can't tell her because it is all a secret. I really enjoyed the book (I also read all the serie in portuguese, 1-10), and I recommend to every teenage girl. It basically talks about a confused girl that has many problems and doesn't know how to solve at least one. Just for you to know... the book doesn't have anything to do with the movie! It is TOTALLY diferent. ======

by Stephanie Bader I read a book called “Nothing but the truth” by Avi, this story is a fiction .This book is about a boy that is 14 years old and he is upset with his teacher, Miss Narwin, because of his grade so he had an enormous problem because he wanted to be in the track team. This story is about a boy, Philip Malloy, that is 14 years old. He is a very good runner and he wants to get on the track team, but he can only go in if he gets good grades. He was ok in all the grades except English because of that he became very mad. Then in many mornings he started to hum in the national anthem and the teacher, Miss Narwin, asked him to stop, but he refused to stop so Miss Narwin told Philip to go to Dr.Palleni. He went two times the same week, so Dr.Palleni gave him a choice of apologizing, but he refused so he was suspended. When he arrived home with his mom he told a completely different story .His dad was shocked with the story and told Philip to talk to Ted Griffen. Accidentally there was a reporter at his house. This reporter’s name was Jennifer Stewert. She heard his side of the story and thought it would be a good story to the paper so she made some calls to speak with:Dr. Gertrude Doane (principal Harrison High), Dr. Albert Seymor (Harrison School Superintendent) and Miss Narwin (Philip’s English teacher)and then she wrote the story on the paper. After that everyone read the story on different papers and media .His school tried to change the situation. The school asked Miss Narwin to leave for a little time. At the end Philip went to a private school And He didn’t know how to start singing the national anthem at his new school. In general I liked the book but there were some details that I didn’t enjoy. I liked the way the author wrote the book. I enjoyed very much to read this book but I didn’t appreciate very much the end of the book because it wasn’t so good like I expected. I think the author should describe more details of the end of the story. **
 * Nothing But The Truth

// -Nothing But The Truth -By: Avi //

In this quarter, in English with miss Nogueira we read a book named “Nothing But The Truth” by Avi Wortis. Its really a cool book, this book is a fiction book. We read the book during English classes. On this book most of the time have dialog so we poked up some persons, to read being each one some one on the story. I liked reading that way, because you feel that you are entering on the story. This book is a humor book. This book talks about a boy named Philip Maloy he have 14 years old, he is very good at running and he want to get on the track team of his school, but the systems in there is that he only can get into the track team if he had good grades in all subjects. But, he was good in all of the subject except on English, he gets above the average, he English teacher is named Miss Narwin that he hats her. In all mornings at school they listen to the national anthem, so he started humming in the national anthem, and on the rules of that school they can’t hum, so Miss Narwin sad to Philip stop humming, but he dint stop he was humming all the mornings and all the mornings Miss Narwin say to Philip stop but he dint stopped so Phlip was starting to be in a big trouble. So in one morning Miss Narwin told Philip to go to Dr. Palleni office. Dr. Palleni talked to him saying that is the rule so he have to respect, and in the other day he started doing again so Miss Narwin sent him another time to Dr. Palleni, he went two times on a week on his officer so the situation was being very complicated and Philip was already in big trouble. He sad to Dr, Palleni about Miss Narwin and how he hats her, so Dr. Palleni sad that he would talk with Miss Narwin. When he already talked to Miss Narwin, he called Philip to his officer so he sad that Philip have one option that is to apologizing to Miss Narwin, but he refused so Dr. Palleni have to suspend he, Dr. Palleni called his mother to talk about what was going on, and she understand he. When he was going home with he’s mom he told a different story that he hate miss Narwin and he want to change class room. When they were at dinner table his dad was shocked with the story that Philip told him so he told Philip to talk to Ted Griffen a friend of he. Accidentally there was a reporter at his house, and she sad that was a good story to be on the paper, so the reporter’s name was Jennifer Stewert, she did some calls, and she talked to Dr. Gertrude Doane, principal Harrison High, Dr. Albert Seymour ,Harrison School Superintendent and Miss Narwin ,Philip’s English teacher, so she get her pan and started writing, then a week passed and the story was already on the paper, everyone of his school read it. The school tried to explained better the situation and to don’t make more conflict the school asked Miss Narwin to leave for a while. Miss Narwin always write for her sister, named Anita and she explained what was happening. After all the conflict Phillip Maloy parents changed him from schools he went for a private school, And He didn’t know how to start singing the national anthem at his new school. I liked very much the book, because is talking about a boy about our age and how he pass he school days. I liked a lot. The book explained to me a lot how it is a school in U.S.A, how is different , and how it is similar. I liked knowing about this. And I recommend for persons who likes fictions books.

//By:Priscila Arkalji//

-“I’d Tell You I Love you, But then I’d have to kill you” by Ally Carter On this summer I read the book named “I’d Tell You I Love you, But then I’d have to kill you” by Ally Carter, is a fiction book with a lot of adventure and romance. These Book talks about a girl named Cammie Morgan she is a student at the Gallagher Academy for exceptional woman, is a school for spies they have a lot of training of P.E, In there they get extra credit by braking CIA codes in computer class. And these girl meet a boy and she lie about her real life. Cammie Morgan mother work at the school as the principle and her dad died on a mission. In this year she is writing a report that talks about everything that happen. In this year enter a new girl named Macey for her everything is new on that school Cammie and her friends Liz and Bex went to her mother office to show Macey the school. Had a new teacher named Mr. Solomon he gave one night to Cammie and her friends a mission that was out of the school and for they don’t wear they uniforms, so was on that mission that Camie found a boy on the street named Josh they start talking and he ask her where she study everything and she lie about most of them she sad that she is home schooled and she has a cat named Suzie and much more. On that night Cammie sad what happen to her friends and they search about that boy they saw that the boy is fine he is a good boy. On a Saturday they were hearing music playing and they saw that was on josh house they went then Cammie got into and talk to josh she mat his friends, and then Josh sad were could we see each other again he ask her cell phone but she dint have so she sad to write a note to her and put on the front wall. The next week they have a date was on a big party they went they were dancing and then Josh mom and josh dad appear saying hi nice to meet you and more. Then Cammie saw her Mother dancing on there with Mr.Solomon so she had to get out of there so she went on to the front and were there her friend ‘s helping her but she wait till talk’s to Josh so wean josh came josh sad that he loves her and they stayed together. Then she went out to go back home. After that a friend of Josh tell josh that Cammie was from the Gallargher Academy so he sad no she’s not and the friend of Josh saying that he really saw her going to there, so Josh said that ok tomorrow I’m going to talk with her. On the next day Josh was talking to her then appears his friend screaming to Cammie saying that he knows she is from the Gallagher Academy and much more then josh sad stop and go out of here when Josh start talking to Cammie, Cammie sad yes everything what he sad is true I lied sorry. Josh was mat very mat and go out of there, Cammie stayed bad. On the next day Cammie has a mission and she was with her friends then instantly the light got down and a man got near her and get her she saw Mr. Solomon and then she saw Josh coming to help her and then Josh help her and Cammie sad sorry and Josh sad that’s ok. Then on the next day Josh was on the front of her school when she was going down to see him her mother went to talk with Cammie and Cammie sad all the true about Josh that she is dating him so her mom was sad ok but next time tell me! So That’s it the Book that I read by Ally Carter, This was my summery of the book! I liked! Is a different story about spies, and have a lot of romance and adventure and I like books with adventures. By: Priscila Arkalji

Nothing But the Truth Review by Daniel Abadi

This quarter I read the book “Nothing But the Truth” by Avi published on 1991. The theme is misunderstanding. This is a fiction story and talks about a boy named Philip Malloy that hates Miss Narwin (english teacher), because she gave him a bad grade. So he couldn’t enter on the track team. And he loves to run. So he tells a lie that gets bigger and bigger and the lie becomes a problem for him and for his teacher. On the story Philip tries to get out of Miss Narwin classroom. so he makes disturbance like humming the national anthem during classes. And then lies about what happenend to everyone. But hes lies get bigger and bigger and get all over the countrie. And with this lie he looses his friends and he needs to change school because everyone at school started to hate him because he lied. with this story I learned that when a person lies, he or she never gets what he wants, because he looses all hes friends and everyone started to hate him. And if you stayed curious to know what was the lie or what happened in the end. I recommend to read this fiction book that has a lot of misunderstanding and is a good story for teenager because the story is about a teenager of 14 years old. That have almost the same problems that we teenager have at school. But at my opinion I didn’t liked the story, because it was to repetitive always using the same information that “A STUDENT WAS SUSPENDED BY BEING PATRIOTIC”. The author could improve the end of the story with more details, because it was “weak”.

Point Blank Review by Daniel Abadi This vacation I red the book “Point Blank“ by Anthony Horowitz published in 2001.This is a fiction story and tells about a boy named Alex Rider, he is 14 years old and he became accidently a spy. So in this book MI6 (agency of spy) call him for a mission to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. In this story Alex Rider is an orphan and he had an uncle that was a spy but died on a mission so the MI6 called his nephew to continue the mission. So in this book the MI6 called Alex again for another mission. On this mission he went to a school on top of the swiss Alps. That school was for rebellious adolecences that had rich and powerful dads. Alex was sent to that school, because these juvenile delinquents had turned well-behaved, studious and identical. And some dads that were saying that his sons were very different, died in an mysterious accident. When Alex were there he discovered that the teenager were exchanged by clones that looked like them.when he discovered that, Dr. Grief (the director of the school) held Alex and telled all his plan that he cloned his self 16 times. The clones first were babys that would grow up and become replicas of him. So he changed the apperence of the clone to replace the real teenager and when the clone grows up they would rule the world like he whant because they would be powerfull and rich and he would do like hitler. So Alex tries to escape to tell what he knows to MI6. In the end he completed hes mission and he killed Dr. Grief. And they arrested all the **15 clones.** But if you want to know the story with more details. I recommend to read this awsome book. And I think that people from all ages will like this book, because have a lot of action and is a good story with a good conflict and climax and is not like the fairy tales that ends with "And they lived happily ever after" have a good ending with ACTION. And is because of these reasons that I loved this book and I liked the way the author used the words to tell the plot of the story with a lot of details. And I learned that if I am planning an evil plan and an secret agent of 14 years old discovers my plan. I need to kill him at the first chance, because he will always escape and come back to defeat me.

//__Eclipse (Stephenie Meyer) Review made by: Karen T.__ //

I just finished to read Eclipse. Seriously, before reading it, I could say that books were pointless and they used to creep me out. Not all of them..but most. The book was written by Stephenie Meyer, and it is the most breathtaking fiction I have ever read. It's full of romance and suspense, which makes it more hypnotic. I could say I got addicted to it.First International Paperback Printing :June 2008; First Hardcover Edition: August 2007.

Ok so, now I will introduce the characters of Eclipse to you. Let's start out with Bella. Bella //is// a pretty normal girl, which just turned 19 and graduated. It sounds typical and tedius, doesn't it ? But there is something different about her...she knows too much about .... Vampires. We could say she is dating one. In Forks, where she lives now, there is this Vampire family, the Cullens. People face vampires as natural murderers, but this family is different. They don't hurt humans. Edward is the "Bloodsucker " she is dating (acording to Jacob). What I could say about Edward is that he is overprotective, I mean it. He is also a mind-reader, but he can't read Bella's mind. Amazing right? With Bella's bad luck, we can consider being overprotective a quality. She is being chased by Victoria....A red eyed vampire...who thirsts for her blood... for her life... Well, you might be wondering who Jacob is... He is Bella's best friend. But there is something uncommon about him too ... he is a wolf. He and his family and his bunch of friends who are wolves live on La Push, a beach that is also located in Forks.

Vampires and wolves... that can't be any good. It actually is not. They HATE each other... What is it like having a best friend and a boyfriend that will ALWAYS HATE each other? Bella can answer. Well, in Eclipse Bella makes a big decision, which will certainly change her life forever in both ways: immortality would be gained(vampires are immortal), so she could spend her whole life with Edward, but she would also loose Jacob, because no relations can be stablished between vampires and werewolves. But there is a price she would have to pay to be changed into a Vampire, anyway, everyone needs to compromise. The sujested price is something that terrifies Bella.......I know this summary sounded a little confusing and outlandish to the readers who have no idea of what Twlight Saga is. I did my best. It's not a simple story. Seriously, read Eclipse. It's mouthwatering.

Nothing But The Truth- Avi By Gisele Dayan

The book Nothing But The Truth, we have read with Ms. Lara, talks about a boy named Phillip, and he always have a lot of problems with his English teacher, named Miss Narwin. The both don’t get a long. Everyday, Phillip Malloy is humming the anthem, that why Miss Narwin becomes really stressed. Phillip doesn’t stop it, so she send Phillip Malloy to Dr.Palleni, who have given Phillip a suspension, with out advertising Dr. Gertrude Doane, and all part responsible from the Harrison High School. When phillip arrived from the school, he told his parents the hole story,and they were really impressed. Jennifer Stewert, has told she was going to know better about this story, that she said it was an absurd. So what she maked? She become to make calls to all principals and all from Harrison High School. She posted on the newspaper all the story, and everyone was shocked with Harrison High School, they become to call all the time the school, and all… After all, Phillip have go into a private School.I liked the book, but the end was really dry, could have "an action,or something like that. And I think that the hole book only says about the suspension of Phillip, because of the national anthem, could have more actions and suspension. But at all i like it the book.. I don't recomend this book, because its really repetitive.

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer By Gisele Dayan The book that I read this vacation it was twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, who was the written a whole collection named: Twilight Saga. My year objective is to read the hole collection. The Twilight book, it has 498 pages, and it's very nice, kind of some of the best books I've ever read. The book begins to have an action, in the part that Bella met Edward, who's adopted. When she looks to him she falls in love with him.

One Day, a vampire came and bite Edward, so he became a vampire and was adopted by the others vampires. Edward has two brother and two sister that are vampires too. They study in a school in Forks, Edward on the first day of school met a girl called Bella, who came from a really small city, in Arizona, where she lived with her mother.Edward falls in love with bella. Edward only drink animal blood. When Bella went there, in the firsts months, she doesn't like at all forks, she hates. After that, Bella knows Edward is adopted, and when she knows he is a vampire she started enjoy living on forks. But, Edward was crazy to drink her blood, but he controlled him self. When they look each others, they falls in love. One day, a vampire comes to look for Bella and he wanted to drink she's blood, but edward defend she and saved her life.

The book at all.. Its a really nice book, and really romantic. Those who likes romantics books, I suggest because the hole story its around love. And when you read one Twilight saga, you get really addicted and you can't stop reading. I really never liked reading, really... But this book... Its very dificult someone don't like it except some boys, but many boys like it too. So I really suggest this book.

“Twilight” is a fiction book written by Stephenie Meyer. It relates the story of a seventeen year old girl, Isabella Swan (Bella), when she goes live in Forks with her father. As times passes, she got interested in Edward Cullen. She started to note some things about him and his family, they way they act… They were vampires, but good ones. Bella and Edward started dating and passed a great time together. It is a Romance type of story, but of course, it is not as simple as that. There are so many details about Edward’s life and so many things to discover, that it let the reader eager to know what is going to happen next. Adventures that are not…HUMAN. The story is based in the life of the main characters, Edward and Bella, and how much they like each other. By spending so much time with Edward, Bella could get in trouble and that is exactly what happened. Another group of vampires appeared, James, Laurent and Victoria. These vampires were bad ones, the ones who killed people. James was a tracker and wanted to kill Bella. Well, he tried, but Edward would do anything to keep Bella out of danger, he was a overprotective vampire. If you want to know better about the story, I suggest you read it. New Moon – Philipe Charak “New Moon” is also a fiction written by Stephenie Meyer. It is the continuation of “Twilight” story. Bella was now eighteen years old, and she passed her birthday with Edward’s family. Something bad happened and Edward make the most hard decision of his life. He left Bella thinking that this way he would keep her out of danger. Bella got depressed, but she started to pass most of her time with Jacob Black, her best friend. They passed many time together and make some reckless and stupid things too. Something that Bella did not know about her friend, was that he was a Werewolf. Werewolfs eat vampires, is the only thing they eat. Victoria was after Bella to revenge her mate, James. So Jacob could keep Bella out of danger with his great strength and abilities. Bella made a suicide mission, she cliff-dived during bad weather because she couldn’t hand anymore to be away from Edward, but Jacob, again, saved her life. After seven months, Edward called and Jacob took the line. He sad that Charlie, Bella’s father, was taking care of a funeral, his friend, funeral but Edward didn’t know that. Edward went to The Volturi. The Volturi is a family of old vampires that have extreme power. Edward went there to kill himself because his life was nothing without Bella. Alice advertised Bella of what Edward was thinking of, and the story ends with a race to Italy to prevent that Edward kill himself for nothing because Bella was alive.
 * Twilight – By:Philipe Charak

Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls Stage Fright By: Larissa Rahmani

I read the book “Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls Stage Fright” by Meg Cabot. Its a fiction and interesting book. In this book, a girl named Allie Finkle, follow some rules of friendship for her dream to come true. Will it work? The room 209, is doing a play for the school’s Open House. All the girls in this room wants the lead role, including Allie.

But luckily Allie has some rules that guarantee her this role. And her mom’s new job as film critic on the local cable show, Good News! , could help her to win the role. But then Allie finds out that her best friend Sophie, wants the part of Princess Penelope even more than she does. Can Allie follow the friendship’s rules and still make her dream come true? She has an enemy called Chayenne. Chayenne dislike Allie because she thinks Allie is so popular and beautiful, and all the boys like her. She's jelous about it. But Chayenne is a really good actrice. So she decide to try for Princess Penelope only to provoc Allie. But Allie will not desist.

So, I completely agree with Allie because she has a dream and she goes after it for her happiness. This book really affected me. Because it shows a really determinate girl that goes after her dreams, but never affecting her friendship. She never made her best friends feel bad about something she did. I recommend this book for every girl who has a dream.

The Vampire Diaries - The Awakening Alberto Hamoui

The Vampire Diaries is a romantic fiction written by Lisa Jane Smith. There are five of them: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion and The Return. It involves a deadly love triangle between Elena Gilbert, Stefan Salvatore and Damon Salvatore. Elena is the most popular girl, the one grils wants to be and the boys wants. Stefan is a brooding and misterios vampire who struggles to protect Elena from the evil, Damon is Stefan's bigger brother, he's a sexy and dangerous vampire and he's wants do kill his brother since XV century. And now he has a "appointment" with Stefan. In the first book Stefan reunites with Damon after more than 500 years, and Damon comes with all his Powers. Know Stefan need to protect his and Elena's life against Damon. Will he make it?????? This book made me like reading and my goal is to read all the five books... I'm really happy for this!! Kevin Williamson is a director who produced the new tv show based in the book. I realy recomend this books!

HOUR GAME

Hour Game by David Baldacci is the most well thought of thriller and mystey book I have ever read. It is quick paced and energetic. THe theme of the book is murder and I can say that this book is worth loosing sleep time to read it. A series of bloody murders is sweeping over a small town leaving disasters behind. All that was left after the murderer was a watch with the time set corespondent to the number of the deaths and a letter to the police. Michelle Maxwell and Sean King are the detectives of the case but nothing is helping them to get a bit closer to the murderer. The death toll rises and the police continues without q clue. Maybe there is more then one killer on the loose. As the investigators look desperatley for more clues they come across with the unusual Battle family. Thousands of other problems have to solved as you go further into the book. The novel will guarantee you entertainment from the first page to the last. The case is solved by an increadibly smart and unexpected way and will leave you begging for more. I loved this book and I recomend it to anyone who will have the courage to face the mysterious serial killer.The author keeps the suspense throughout the book in a profissional way and after reading this book I will never again read the same way. David Baldacci could not have writter a better novel.

-Perla Sachs Kindi - G9-?. **

The boy with the striped pyjamas review Gabriel Shammah

The boy with the striped pyjamas is a fiction book talking about the holocaust, written by John Boyne. The book talks about a German boy, Bruno. Bruno is 9 years old. Bruno’s father is a Nazis soldier but Bruno doesn’t know that. Bruno’s house is beside a concentration camp, and he think that the camp is a farm. After a while he visit the camp alone and he meet a boy with the same age named Shmuel, Bruno enter the camp and great adventures happen. I recommend the book because we see the Nazism like he was. With this book we can how the children react to the holocaust, Jewish children and German children. You can’t stop reading this book is very interesting.

Nothing but the Truth Review Gabriel Shammah

We read nothing but the truth in Ms. Nogueira class in the end of 2009. The book written by Avy, talk about a boy, Philip Malloy, that loves running in the track team. In USA to do these extra activities you can’t have any grade under the average. Philip hate his English teacher, Ms. Narwin and he want to change classes. In the book he says to his friends that he will change class. He starts humming the national anthem and he was suspended for disrespecting the teacher when she sad to Philip stop. He lies to everyone and then the journal starts to write this story on newspaper. When the people discover the truth he had to change school, and this school didn’t had a track team. The meaning of the book is that you can’t lie, lie is never good. The book is a little repetitive, wasn’t the best book I ever read, but isn’t so bad. I think that the end could be better, could have more action more movement.

I have lived a thousand Years Growing up in the Holocaust Julie Behar I have lived a thousand years was write by Livia Bitton Jackson. Livia wrote other amazing books about the holocaust. It was published at 1999. Elli Friedmann a 13 year old girl fight for her life on a Concentration Camp, but all she wanted was to have a normal adolescence life, rich and full that included thought about boys, school, family and friends. However this perfect life dream quickly disappears.

At March 1994 that Nazis turned her and other Jews lives into suffering and work. Then Elli couldn`t go to school, talk to friends or walk freely in the street, without being humiliated. But that’s just the beginning of a horrible life that she wished that couldn`t exist!

This is a book that talks about our history, and Elli has the same age as me. The same thoughts. I could imagine myself in that situation. I thought this was only another of those books that you read and one week later you forget everything. This is an awesome book that makes someone sensible cry. I recommend this book for everybody. It’s a great story. I am very exited about reading the next novel of these colection I’ve read some books about the holocaust including Anne Frank and the boy with striped pijamas and this the one that I most like. I hope, with every breath that it won’t happen again, ever again!

The Outsiders Patricia Brand

Ponyboy is a Greaser Boy ( poor person) that fight to get through life. The Socials (rich people) are not nice to him, or any other greaser. Socials jump greasers! And in one of this attacks that this story begins…

Bob and some friends (socials) came and jumped Ponyboy and his best friend Jhonny, that ends up killing Bob. Pony and Jhonny ran away to a far church that is set on fire, one day! There were children inside, they ran in to save them, but…

Well, I loved the Book! And the Author is Ponyboy, so you can feel the situation! Its just as if you were the there, in the character`s place! This book teaches you to cherish what you have, because one day it might be gone.

Nothing But The Truth Patricia Brand

<span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Nothing but the truth is a documentary novel I read during English Classes and Vacation. Nothing but the Truth is a 1991 book written by Avi. The book was written in different styles, such as documents, letters and scripts. The focus of the book is a boy named Philip Malloy, who was suspended for humming the National Anthem.

Even though Philip knew that he was supposed to be quiet as the United Stated Nation Anthem is played, he “hummed”. Everything begun with Philip wanting to join the track team but cannot due to the fact that he is failing his English class. As a rebellion he started to hum. But, this “case” was enlarged … <span style="font-family: 'Candara','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> In my opinion, the book is nice! But I expected more, especially in the ending. The whole book makes a bunch of suspense to the case, and ends up not solving it all… The only sensation I got was that paparazzi are always, in any condition, trying to find out facts, and school`s reps do not give attention to all students as they should. It`s worth to read, interesting!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Nothing But The Truth! Julie

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; moz-background-clip: border; moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; moz-background-origin: padding;">Nothing but the truth is a book written as a documentary novel. It was published in 1993 by AVI The genre of this book is contemporary fiction. This book has 212 pages. The author describes with clarity the background. <span style="background: white; font-family: Times New Roman; moz-background-clip: border; moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; moz-background-origin: padding;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">AVI has written other books. This book tells the story of a boy named Philip Malloy who loves to run. Throughout the year Philip fight with his English teacher, Miss Margaret Narwing. the protagonist was suspense of the school for being a patriotic, by singing the national anthem of the United States Of America which is also known as the Star Spangle Banner. I liked this book until the middle because the story was interesting but start getting repetitive and the final I hated. The whole book says that Philip was suspense school because whistled the star spangle banner in English classes then in the end the protagonist changes school and the rule was that every day in the morning the students had to sing the national anthem of the United States of America. Then the teacher tells him to sing the anthem and Philip did not know the words. I recommend Nothing But The Truth for everyone that like easy books. I think this book is easy, specially the way that it is written. In a form of conversation and in the form of letters and emails.

The Vampire Diaries - The Struggle Alberto Hamoui

The Struggle is the second book of the serie The Vampire Diaries. It's a romantic fiction written by L. J. Smith. In this book Damon is determine to have Elena, he'd kill to posses her. Stefan asssumes he love Elena (everything she wanted), but she have some BIG secrets about Damon. And there's another problem: Caroline (Elena's worst friend) stole Elena's diary, who has all of her feelings about Stefan, all of her secrets, and Caroline palns to show it for the whole town. Now Stefan struggles to protect Elena from Damon, who uses he's Powers to make Elena love him, and they need to stop Caroline...how??? The Struggle is a awsome book and when you start reading you don't stop! I read in 2 days and I loved!!!! When I finish all the five books I'll start reading The Secret Circle from L. J. Smith....

Nothing But The Truth Lucie Antabi At this quarter in Ms.Nogueira’s class, we read ‘’Nothing But The Truth Novel’’. This book explain a very difficult situation between the English teacher Ms.Narwin and a student, Philip Malloy, that is in the ninth-grade at Harisson High School. When Philip receive his English grade at the last quarter it was a D, and he noticed that is a very lower grade, and he will not play on the track team, so he start being very angry with his English teacher. After this in all English class, Philip starts humming, Ms.Narwin always ask him to stop but he even listen to her she start being mad until she send him to the principal office. The principal of the school gave Philip two days of suspension. After Philip father went to the reporter to ask if the rule exists of not practicing the National Anthem and the answer was no. His father told his friend so Ted, try to resolve so he told everyone of the community what happen with Philip, but he never imagine that there was a reporter called Jennifer Stewert, and this reporter white a article about what Ted told, one day after this article was in all pages of the news paper. The school saw this, and ask Ms.Narwin to live, Ms.Narwin live and went to Florida.So Philip’s parents found a new and private school for Philip to study, that calls Washington Academy, but Philip new school didn’t have track team. On Phillip's first day of school the new teachers asked him to sing the National Anthem, but he wasn’t able…

I think that the book was ok because was not very interesting and don’t have action.. but I think that might happen so it was ok

Nothing But The Truth Lucie Antabi In Ms.Nogueira’s class last year, we read ‘’Nothing But The Truth Novel’’ by Avi Wortis.This book was written in 1991. This book explains a very difficult situation between the English teacher Ms.Narwin and a student, Philip Malloy, that is in the ninth-grade at Harisson High School. When Philip receive his English grade at the last quarter it was a D, and he noticed that is a very lower grade. Because of this grade he wasn’t able to do his favorite sport, Track Team. He starts being very angry with his English teacher and start causing problems. Philip starts humming in all English classes, Ms.Narwin always ask him to stop but he even listen to her. After some days she start being angry until she send him to the principal office. The principal of the school gave Philip two days of suspension. After Philip father went to the reporter to ask if the rule exists of not practicing the National Anthem and the answer was no. His father told his friend Ted, Ted try to resolve so he told everyone of the community what happen with Philip, but he never imagine that there was a reporter called Jennifer Stewert, and this reporter white a article about what Ted told, one day after this article was in all pages of the news paper. The school saw this, and ask Ms.Narwin to live, Ms.Narwin live and went to Florida.So Philip’s parents found a new and private school for Philip to study, that calls Washington Academy, but Philip new school didn’t have track team. On Phillip's first day of school the new teachers asked him to sing the National Anthem, but he wasn’t able… In my opinion the book was a little boring because the whole history talks about the same thing, a boy, Philip, that doesn’t like his English teacher. The book may have more actions to be not so boring to read. The book was normal!

How To Be Popular Lucie Antabi I read at this vacation the book ‘’How To Be Popular’’ by Meg Cabot. This book was whitening in. Talks about a girl, Steph Landry, she has been the target of jokes since sixth grade because she accidentally drops juice in Lauren Moffat's. She thinks about change school because she is tired. On the sixth grade on she was going out with your best friend, Jason, who was very nice and understanding friend. Steph are very anxious to change school because she is tired to be unpopular. But until she finds a book ‘How To Be Popular’’ causes her to change her mind and she decides to read this book. So after reading the whole book she begins to follow the tips. At the beginning of the year she changes your entire look and another way being. Jason, starts being very sad because she are leaving him alone. As more and more she is becoming more popular and she will have to make difficult options of her life. when time goes on she realizes how difficult this turn to be popular life and changes his mind, and she discover that the real friend ships she is leaving alone. I  really liked this book because it talks about how we often does not realize who is really is our true friend and the most important is not to be popular but to have a friend who you can count on. A recommended to people who doesn’t know how to act with friends.

Book Review 1 - Mister B. Gone – Clive Barker André Hamer Khafif

Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker is definitely a fiction novel which has many intriguing aspects (by the cover, the way it’s written; outer details). Also it involves an old-time literature because of the detail-aspects. In my opinion, it is very fun to read because it talks about a demon’s life. In the book Mister B. Gone is the main character and the demon from the book. He lives in a “Demon-nation world” and there are, in this “nation” many types of plans and constructions of how demons can kill their selves and other creatures. Basically, the whole book talks about the demon. It gives all the explanation of him, his plans, his ideology, which I think this aspects intrigue the reader to like the story (his evil plans, etc). This demon is (in the story) trapped in the book for six thousand years and he is trying to get to the releasing through the entire book by trying to have a relationship with the reader. In other words he tries to get out from this “demon-world” with the help of the reader and other creatures. What I do agree with the author is that he chose the right type of character for the story. Choosing the demon was excellent. What I do disagree is that the author tries to tell that the book is demoniac. This process makes the reader to don’t like the book. Fortunately, it didn’t happen to me. The book suggests possibilities of scare and fear. Now I believe that demons are PURE evil. This book relates to my personal life because rarely I have thoughts and feelings that devils have. Feelings of destruction and elimination.

Book Review 2 – Beowulf – Caitlín R. Kiernan André Hamer Khafif

Beowulf is an outstanding book. The book talks about a time after a short period after man’s evolution. It talks about horrible creatures and features which most of them are Beowulf “problems”. He is supposed to take care of these creatures to save King Hrothgar life. This King cried for help after his kingdom was damaged from a horrible creature called Grendel. Beowulf has the mission of protection. Unfortunately, Beowulf involves his life in this horrible mission. Basically, the whole book is an adventure novel. It is very interesting and very intriguing. It is a perfect book to read in cold and rainy nights, because of its great potential of alarming people of the serious and worrier creatures nowadays. As an adventure story, the book talks in “old-beautiful” language like you are reading some type of bible of ancient centuries. It is very common to see, in the book, pacts between man and gods. Those pacts create the destructions of kingdoms. What I agree with the author is that he uses examples of intelligence of man being sometimes destructed. I believe that he shows that man can make mistakes (pacts). What I disagree is that the author is not so “objective”. This means that the text it’s so “rich” that it can create misunderstandings. The possibilities that the book gives are possibilities of caos. Possibilities in which man enter in critical adventures. Possibilities of terrorism. The book affected me in a way that nowadays I believe sincerely in men error. I believe much more that men can make mistakes.

Ana Paula Kabbani
 * The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Review

A Mythology fiction by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson is a New York boy who suffers from dyslexia, who has a horrible stepfather and has been rejected by many private schools. But after all Percy has a much bigger problem. He is a half-blood, his mother is human and his father a Greek god. With his new friends, a satyr, and the daughter of Athena also a half- blood, Percy get in a huge adventure to figure out a conflict between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. Along the way they will fight with monstors following them and many traps. Looks like Percy is just a boy, but throughout the book you discover he is much more brave than we though he was. Mythology fans will love this book and people who doesn't sympathizes with it, will start liking it. It shows mythology in a fun and dangerous way, as major confusing adventure where it is connected to our own world, just like Ollympus is located in 600th floor in the Empire State Building and underworld, hell is located in Lost Angeles. I got absolutely amazed while reading this book, please read it!

The Sea Of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians book 2 Review Ana Paula Kabbani

When Annabeth (daughter of Athena and Percy's best friend) arrives on the scene with bad news.Percy has to embark on another quest. This time to save Camp Half-Blood,that is now vulnerable to attack because its defensors have been hurt. He also has to save Grover, who's found himself in a horrible quest and now is about to become a Cyclops's food. In this adventure there are also another accompany, Percy's class mate Tyson, a kis who lives on the streets and has Percy as his only firend, but throught the story we recognize he is much more than that. The three of them stravels through the Sea of Monsters in the face of enourmous creatures and legends to capture the Golden Fleece, which hopefully the poison can restore the magical protection of Camp Half-Blood. This time Rick Riordan comes with the sequence of The Lighting Thief and provides even more adventure and opens our imagination to this amazing mythology book.

Alberto Diwan- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">In the of 2009 in Ms.Nogueiras class we read the book called Nothing but the Truth, written by Avi. The book tells a story about a kid called Philip Maloy, Philip loves to run in the track team but when he gets a bad grade he can`t run anymore in the trackteam. Philip hates his english classes and his homeroom teacher Ms.Narwin, wanting all the days to chage classes. When he gets out of class 2 times in the same weekend he gets suspended but this suspension will cause more trouble than expected. In the book Nothing but the Truth we learn that a person wont get in any place with lies. I didn`t like the book because it repeats the same information all the time, a boy got suspended for... I would recomend this book for people the like informative book.

Boy Next Door- Meg Cabot Ju Shalev

__Boy Next Door__ is an amazing book by the author __Meg Cabot__. This book is a cute romantic book that is all written in e-mails. Melissa Cullen the New York city gossip journalist is known for writting about reaveling stories and romance tragedies like dating the wrong man. Arriving late on the morning in her work,she confesses to her friends at work that someone tried to murder her neighbor Mrs.Friedlander, an old woman who is now in coma. This is a realistic fiction book that was published in the year of 2002.

Mel has always been a good girl, so she told she would help her neighbor by taking care of her pets until the woman's nephew Max, a famous fashion photographer, come.Her friends told her Max was a dating guy who dating more than one girl at a time. But when she meets Max he is a funny, kind normal guy, Max is strange sometimes because he likes to be called John. In the photo shoots she begins to date him and learns to separate differences and care only about love. In a short time she starts thinking Max is not exactly what he seems to be. When a mysterious e-mail arrives explaining that there is more than Max than she knows, she starts writing things about him in her gossip articles to make him "pay". But when Mrs. Friedlander's attacker returns, Mel and Max get together besides their problems to catch the killer. I love this book, it is full of comedy and romance and also suspence, read it...!

I recomend this amazing book to young adults, girls mostly will enjoy it better. As many others Meg Cabbots books like Avalon High and The Princess Diary, this is an hilarious book with romance and a lot of fun! Boy Next Door is a book that gets people into the story, when I read it I tried to put myself in Mel`s situation. I loved the way Meg Cabot wrote the book, making us, the readers, become interested. The discriptive words used to narrate the story made me feel exited about reading it! You MUST read Boy Next Door, you`ll really love it!

<span class="ecxlong_text"> Every Boys Got One- Meg Cabot Ju Shalev

I read the book __Every Boys Got One__, by Meg Cabot. It is a modern romance that makes us laugh. It`s a fiction that was published in 2005. It`s very addictive and I was obsessed with it! Meg Cabot is a great writer and I love all of her books.

In Every Boys Got One, Holly and Mark (a couple in love) decide to run away to get married in Italy, all because of a huge fight between their religions. Holly invites her best friend, the romantic and funny cartoonist Jane Harris, who gets very excited by the invitation. Mark also invites his best friend, the journalist Cal Langdon, who is famous around the world, who in fields of warand horrible places. In the airport, Jane and Cal start hating each other from the first sight and if anyone tries to make them friends, be certain that it will not work. Jane thinks that Cal is a cold, boring man who doesn't believe in love and doesn't know the famous cartoon she made. Cal thinks that Jane is a crazy woman who thinks that Coliseum is famous because of the commercial Britney Spears did there.

This is a romance and comedy book, that will make you get addicted since you start reading it. I loved it and I recommend to teenager girls who like reading romance. I liked how Meg Cabot describes the characters in the story. I also liked how she makes us very curious about the end of the story. I loved how the author wrote a whole story using e-mails and made us feel like we`re the characters in the story.

Angels & Demones by Dan Brown Book Review 1 Felipe Kauffmann

In his first novel, Robert Langdon goes in a rush to the Vatican City, because an old enemy had returned from the past, the Iluminati. The Iluminati kidnapped 4 preferiti, the favorites for papal succession, and promissed to kill them, at 8 P.M., 9 P.M., 10 P.M., and 11 P.M., and at 12P.M., they will explode a tube of antimatter that has the power to destroy the Vatican City. Robert can't stop the killer, that marks in the bodies or the 4 preferiti, the words of the 4 elements of science, fire, earth, water and air, and kills 3 of the preferiti. In the last 70 pages you can discover that who sent the killer was the Pope's chamberlain, that disovered that the pope has a sun, and Popes can't have children, according to the Catholic religion. In the end of the novel, the chamberlain and Robert jump from a helicopter, that they use to fly into the sky and let the bomb there, and after that the chamberlain is discovered, he kills himself, and the preferiti that survives is the new Pope. One day, when Bruno went to try to find Samuel's father. He passed the fence from bellow it, through a hole, and put the uniform, a striped pijama, and kept looking. The Nazis ordered for them to go into a big room, and the Nazis turned on a gas that killed all the people in there, including Samuel and Bruno. **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">By: Rebecca Cohen
===Are you tired of reading all those cliche books? If so, “Frogs and French Kisses” is the perfect book for you! It is a fiction written by __Sarah Mlynowski__ and it was published in 2007. It’s the sequence of the book “Bras and Broomsticks.” The protagonist of "Frogs and French Kisses" is Rachel, a girl who just discovered that her mother (who’s divorced) and her sister have powers. Yes, they are WITCHES! And now she'll have to deal with it.===

===After surpassing the fact that she’s the only one in her family who can’t make witchcrafts, (besides her dad, that doesn’t know anything about it), she gets in big trouble when she decides to advise her mother and sister to use their powers day by day. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Raf, the guy she likes, doesn't even care about her, so she convinces her sister to do a love witchcraft (so he'll fall in love with her), which ends up totally wrong. The love wicthcraft goes to the wrong guy and Rachel's life gets very complicated. Besides that, she realizes that her mother became a magic addicted and her sister thinks that, as a witch, it’s her obligation to save the world. Well, now it's Rachel's duty to end up with all this drama that she started. Do you think she'll make it? ===

===<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Read Frogs and French Kisses and find out! It really worth the time! I recommend it to adolescent girls, who like adventure and romance. I loved the book because after I started reading it I got addicted. I loved how the author mixed different elements and made a witch story, which included romance, and a lot of trouble. It’s certainly a fun book to read! Though I liked the end of the book, I expected more. That's all I can say!===


 * “Prom Nights from Hell” review **
 * By: Rebecca Cohen **
 * Are you bored of all those happily ever after? I guarantee you that “Prom nights from hell” is totally different from all the books you’ve read by now. It was published in 2007 and it’s a fiction written by: Meg Cabot, Stephanie Meyer, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe and Lauren Myracle. Yes, they’ve joined to bring you nightmares! This book is divided in five stories, one from each author. And each one’s scarier than the other. Together they show you that all your dreams for your prom night can become a nightmare by the blink of an eye. **


 * This terrific book includes monsters, vampires, angels, demons, zombies and death. It’s something you’ve never read before. Each author creates a paranormal story, together with suspense, romance, treason, and sense of humor too. It shows that you’re always in danger and that death is closer than what you think. Each author shows in a different way that appearances deceive, and a person may not be what you think she is. **


 * Are you ready to start this adventure and let your imagination flow? If you like horror I think yes. I liked the book because I saw how everything has two sides and how a prom night can be. I also liked how the authors got together to do this scary book, that it’s fun too. I loved how this book isn’t just another cliché one (which ends happily) and how every ending is different from what I’ve imagined. I think that the only aspect that could be better was if the authors created together just one story, instead of each one of them creating one apart. I recommend this book for teenagers of both genders who like paranormal and different stories. **

__Marley & me - by: John Grogan

In this vacation I’ve read the incredable book writen by John Grogan, Marley & me. The book was writen based in real facts about John and Jenny’s life, they were married and just beginning their life together. They even imagine what was waiting for them. They brought Marley, a sweet lavrador puppy. That quickly grew, and become a dog like no other. Marley ate everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and jewelry. Obedience school did not work for Marley, he was expelled. John and Jenny were becoming crazy with the idea to continue having Marley at home. The love speaks louder for the family, they couldn’t let Marley, even for his messy! Wich was good because the dog passed exilem moments together with the family. Their first pregnancy, when babies finally arrived home. Marley was always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. The book inspired me to write a review because the history is based on real facts of a normal family. Its not fantasy, Magic or anything else, its a friendship, care and family history. When I read the book, I felt if Marley was my dog, and imagened the reactions I would have in each situation. I recomend the book for those who wants to reflect about their life, for those that want to learn more about dogs and how to care them, or for those that Just want a calm and relaxing book. READ IT! Jessica Cohen

Who won the war? - by: Phyllips Reynolds Naylor This vacation one of the books I’ve read is Who won the war?, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. The book is one of a 12 books colection. The war between the Malloy girls and Hatford boys its almost over. After one year in Buckman it loks like the Malloy girls will be going home to Ohio.

As the clock ticks away at their final days, Jake and Eddie decided to finish the competition, tricks and challenges. For Eddie, its not done yet. She puts Jake up to the biggest dare of the year. She wants to prove once and for all that the girls are in charge. Jake can't back away and let the girls declare victory. I choosed to read this book because a friend has recomended me. Now, I want to recomend this book for all of you. It reminds me my infancy, times that for me, boys were ugly and disgusting. The book its real interesting and I pretend to read all the rest of the collection. Jessica Cohen

Jessica Cohen

Marley & me - by: John Grogan

The other book I’ve read this vacation was Marley & me. The book is about John and Jenny that were just beginning their life together. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy.

Marley quickly grew into a barreling, a dog like no other. He ate everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and jewelry. Obedience school did not work for Marley, he was expelled.

Marley had shared with John ans Jenny their first pregnancy, and their heartbreak over the miscarriage. He was there when babies finally arrived home. Marley was always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. The dog dies after a long period!

Jessica Cohen__

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; moz-background-clip: border; moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; moz-background-origin: padding;">By: Allan David Goldberg

Nothing But The Truth is a very good book which we read in the school year with Ms. Nogueira. Nothing But The Truth is a very good book with some interesting characters like Philip Malloy th protagonist and Ms. Narwin which is his teacher and the hole story is almost 100% written arround this two characters and their different problems and points of view.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The story starts because Philip Malloy sarts humming in Ms. Narwin`s class, whle the national anthem is played, and because of that he goes to the director. After that this little incident becomes a gigantic thing whic even newspapers were involved! The diferent opinios of Ms. Narwin and Philip are expressed all aroun the book making it very hard for you to chose a side to "cheer" for.

I recommend this book for anyone that likes realistic fiction and kind of a suspense between who will end up with the right argument. It is a book which makes you wanna read read and read more to find out what is going to happen in the end. Concluding, it`s a very interresting and cool book that most people should like.

Eclipse, Stephanie Meyers By, Allan David Goldberg In this vacation I read one of the books from the twilight saga, Eclipse, which is written by Stefanie Meyer. It is a fiction book about a girl/woman named Bella and her problems. The book also conrains a lot of action betwwen vampires and werewolfes, and obviously because of the vampires and werewolves this is a fiction book. Bella is dating a vampire named Edward Cullen, and a Werewolf named Sam which was her best friend when they were little loves her. In this book a group of recently transformed vampires is attackin many people in Seatle, so the Cullen (vampires) and the Werewolves uite strength to kill this recently transformed group and end Seatles suffering and so protectinf Forks, the city were they live. Eclipse is e very interesting book because it unites romance with action making tit perfect bor boys and girls. All the characters have different traits making them very interesting. This is one of the best books I have already readen so, I recommend it to everyone I know.

= = Nothng But the Truth- by Avi Adolfo Traksbetrygier

"Nothing But the Truth", published on 1991, is a fiction story where the plot is a student (Philip Malloy) that gets punished for doing "nothing" (being patriotic).Before vacations, we read this book during Ms. Nogueira's English classes. It was written by Avi. NBTT is a story about a boy called Philip Malloy that gets punished because he was humming "The Star Spangled Banner" ( the American national anthem) when it was played at the school. This ridiculous punishment is divulged to the US and everybody was against the school. Mrs. Narwin, Philip's English teacher, was the person he most hated in Earth. Just because of his low grade at her class, he could not participate of the school track team. In the end of the story, the students of the school where Philip studies start to hate him because Mrs. Narwin was fired out from the school and everybody liked her. On my opinion, "Nothing But the Truth" is a story that if you start reading it, you can't stop because it makes you think that you are participating from the story and it also makes you sad when you finish the book because it passed very fast. One fact I didn't like about the story is that it is very repetitive. I recommend "Nothing But the Truth" to people that fiction s

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets- J. K. Rowling Adolfo Traksbetrygier

"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", published on 2002, is a fiction story that passes on Hogwarts, where Harry Potter, for the second year, is going to study there. But, Harry's uncles don't want to let him go to Hogwarts. For Harry's luck, Ron, his friend, get Harry to go to Hogwarts. Harry Potter was advised that he was not suposed to go to Hogwarts because there's a disaster going to happen. But he went. There, he discovered he is a parselmouth (person that speaks to snakes). This is a very important fact because he will need to speak as a parselmouth to open the Chamber of Secrets, where a giant snake, called Sabilisk, is aterrorizing the magic school. On the end, Harry Potter kills the snake and discover that Tom Marvolo Riddle, the owner of the diary (Tom's "life"), is Lord Voldemort. But Harry kills him by destroying the diary. Another important detail from the story is that if you look directly to the snake, you die. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is a book that you NEED to read because it's one of the most important of Harry Potter's series, and one of the best written by Joanne Kathleen Rowling. I recommend this book to everyone that reads this review.

Cirque du Freak By Michelle Carasso Are you ready to discover a whole new world of creatures? Because that is what you will find in this amazing book by Darren Shan. Cirque Du Freak is a fiction book about a boy who needs to make a decision that will change his life forever so he can save his dying friend, and that decison just happens to be either to become a half-vampire or not! On this book you will learn that on Darren Shan's world the grotesque exists and could be hiding everywhere! Especially on the freak show in which our protagonist decides to go. Once there Darren, our protagonist, is amazed by Mr.Crepsley`s (who by the way is a vampire) deadly spider. He steals the spider, which is called by the name of Madam Octa, and brings her to his house. And just so you know I totally understand the desire of wanting something that is not yours, it drives you mad! And so will this book... Once on his house Darren controls Madam Octa by a mind connection, otherwise she would kill without mercy. Steve, his wild friend, helps him but when his little sister, lovely Annie, sees the spider and screams, the mind connection is broken and the spider strikes at the closest aim, Steve! Darren driven to panic goes to Mr.Crepsley. The vampire then proposes a deal: the antidote in change of Darren's servitude to Mr.Crepsley as his assistant, as his half-vampire assistant. Darren then has to make a decision that will hunt him for the rest of his life. The problem is, will he make the right one? So be ready to discover if Darren`s and Steve`s friendship be enough reason for Darren to give up his life and accept Mr.Crepsley`s offer. And if he does accepts it? What are half-vampires? Will Darren have to kill humans? You will have to read this astonishing book to find out. The book showed me the real value of friendship. It is full of adventures and creatures from other worlds. Once you start reading you are not going to stop! As you may have noticed the author is in the book! Really good for people who thought Twilight was just too romantic and girly! If you are ready to get freaked out don't miss this book. There is just nothing bad I can say about it, just maybe that it was published in the year of 2000 and so the words can be sometimes strange to some people. Other than that, it is the best book ever!

Switch By Michelle Carasso Claire Martin is a normal girl, except for the fact that she is a switcher. A switcher is a person who changes body for a night with another person involuntarily! But the catch is nobody knows for sure how it functions and so anything can happen. On this book by Carol Snow fiction is mixed with the real world. And because of that, it isn't just another book. Once I read the beginning of this book I couldn't stop reading it, and so will you! Really great for girls who like romance and the extraordinary because of its twisted girlfriend and boyfriend case. Claire was ordinary, and that was it. Claire had a crush on a boy called Nate Jamenson, a gorgeous looking guy. But Nate liked Larissa, a cherry blonde who couldn't care less about him. Then one night when Claire went to bed the switching happened and when she woke up she found herself in the beautiful body of Larissa. At first Claire was dazzled and never wanted to leave the body. But she knew she had to and surely would either she wanted or not. For Claire's surprise she stays more than one night in Larissa's body and ends up dating Nate, and who wouldn't? They both like each other and begin dating. But things get weird when Claire spends more days in Larissa's body. What will happen? Will she stay in this body forever? And what about the real Larissa? Do not miss this fiction in which you follow Claire as she tries to decide if staying in Larissa's body is a good or bad thing. The author is creative and writes awesomely! I hope you read it, and I know that if you do, you will not be dissapointed. If you don't like big books this a great one for you, thought for me it was one of the things I disliked.The book has a fenomenal ending and it is really new, it was published in 2008. So just stand up and go read it!

Nothing But the Truth -By Avi Karen Tenenbojm

We read a book during Ms. Nogueira's classes called Nothing But The Truth. This book is pretty boring..School introduced it in a way like if it talked about High School, as if it was a book teenagers would apreciate. I'm sorry, but it's such a pointless fiction. It talks about nothing that interests me. The book was writen by Avi, and published in 1991. Ok, the story is all about a student and a teacher. The (english) Teacher, called Miss Narwin, is a very serious "Lady", to be polite. And then we have the student, Philip Malloy, which is in her classes. Miss Narwin thinks Phil has way more potential then what he shows to have, and Phil thinks Miss Narwin is too boring and rigid. I consider Phil is stubborn, because he insits on singing " The Star Spangled Banner" - American Anthem- which disturbs Miss Narwin. The student says he sings for patriotism, which is not true, and Miss Narwin says that humming the Anthem pisses her off, which is silly. In the end, Malloy ends up moving to a particular school, that was what he wanted... and gets famous.. because his story was published on local news. I hope school chooses something " less boring" next time.. well, that's it. Short and direct =) Thank you for reading.

Ely Mansur Summary of the Book “Nothing but the Truth”. By: AVI

This is a story about a boy named Phillip Malloy, Who has just entered high school. He is an “ok” student, but he has some problems with his English teacher, Miss Narwin.

He loves track’n’field but he cannot enter the school’s track’n’field team because he got a “D” in English, which this is not acceptable for someone that want to compete for the school. Not forgetting that his parents have issues with money. Miss Narwin wants to take a summer course but she can’t because the school doesn’t enough money. I liked the book but I think it could be more intrigant. If this story was not written in the form of a diary, it would be nicer.

 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">THE GIVER REVIEW BY: ALBERTO BATTAT

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The Giver” is a fantasy/science fiction novel composed by Lois Lowry. With 198 pages long, the best-seller was published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Co. Curiously, at the same time Lois wrote the book several important events were happening in the world that made the book more relevant in the society. Like “The Giver”, in Bosnia,by the 1990's, many groups of people were attempting to control their communities. In fact, those “accumulations” used the Euthanasia and sameness values too. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The narrative reports the life of a twelve year old teenager named Jonas. Jonas lives in a perfect, Utopian community where there are no choices. The residents lives in a f <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">ully <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">peaceful existence: there's no pain, no crime, no rudeness. When Jonas turns 12, is given his live assignment in the society as the Receiver of Memory. Practically, he have to bear the collective memories before the community existence. The Giver, the last receiver, starts the process of teaching. Jonas learns about hates, pain and horror. Throughout, he realized that his “perfect” world is not so perfect. As lessons continues, he decides he can't pay the price... <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lowry shows that even an Utopian society has its faults and that a utopia really can't exist no matter how hard we try. I admired the book in terms of suspense and creativity, however, it's kinda of confusing to the reader during the story because distracts and deviates interlocutor focus. Overall, It's a amazing book actually in the ambiguous conclusion that left open the interpretation of the reader in the Giver ending and also whether or not Jonas and Gabriel really find out the world they were looking for. I recommend for **at least** to the seven grade.

 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">New Moon Review by Alberto Battat

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“New Moon” is the second fiction book in the Twilight saga written by Stephanie Meyer. The novel was originally released in 2006 in hardcover by Little Brown and Company. A <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ll over, the fantasy/romance contain 563 pages. The 1st on the New York times best-seller list, include as the the three main characters Edward, Bella and Jacob. The appealing title refers to the darkness phase of the lunar cycle, mentioning the darkness time of the protagonist Bella's life. Bella is the usual girl which had just turned 18. Though, she isn't so conventional as it looks like. Bella knows about Vampires. Actually, she is dating one and she is living with a family of Vampire kind. The family members are Edward Cullen, Alice Cullen, Emmett Cullen, Rosalie Hale, Jasper Hale, Esme Cullen, Carlisle Cullen. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This novel begins with Jasper almost attacking Bella. So Edward decides to leave forks thinking that staying with Bella is too dangerous. After being in extreme agony and distress because of Edward's departure, Bella starts dating with her best friend, Jacob. In the months that follow, Bella stay most of time with Jacob when she starts disrespecting Edward by doing stupid and reckless things such as cliff diving and riding a motorcycle. In fact, the lopsided of the relationship is more twisted when Bella discovers that Jacob is an werewolf and werewolves eat vampires. In addition, Bella find out that Victoria is behind her to revenge the death of her mate, James. Meanwhile, a misunderstanding makes Edward believe in Bella death. The pain makes Edward try to suicide himself by provoking Voltury, vampire royalty who are capable to kill all the Cullens. In the final pages, Alice and Bella rush to Italy trying to save Edward... I truly enjoyed the book and its highly recommended reading. Worth all those pages, even though I think Stephanie could be more precise. Throughout, Stephanie Meyer leads so much suspense to the readers, that you stay until early hours in the morning. I stayed eager to read the whole collection hoping Bella, Jacob and Edward will mature and learn to conduct their relationship in a more rational way. I think adolescent girls with about 13-14 years old will adore the story because of the abundant romantic situations during the novel.

There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom By Stephanie Bader In my vacation I read a book called “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom” by Louis Sachar. This book is a fiction that tells the story about a boy called Brandley Chalkerd that is the oldest boy in the 5th grade. He changed a lot during his passage in the fifth grade. He did not have any friends in school until a boy called Jeff got in the school. They met and started to be very close friends. Bradley Chalkerd told his every day story to a counselor, Carla Davis, that he used to visit every day because his teacher used to say that he had “serious behavior problems”. Jeff became friend of other boys that were not friends of Brandley and because of that Brandley and Jeff were not close friends anymore. Brandley became friend of his counselor that encouraged him to do his homework and to be a better person. Brandley became very upset when Miss Davis was transferred to another school but he could overcome this period and returned to be friend of Jeff and the other boys. He was invited to a birthday party of one of his friends named Colleen. He enjoyed her birthday party. In the school he improved his grades a lot and became a good boy. I liked very much this book because it shows how a person can change for better in a small period of his life. I liked very much the way the author wrote the story and his creativity. I didn’t appreciate the title of the book because it has nothing to do with the main idea of the book.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">Perla Kindi G9-?

This vacation I read “The original ilustrated Sherlock Holmes”. IT is a special book that includes all of the stories Sir Arthur Connan Doyle published in the Strand Magazine. He published short stories in every edition of the magazine and the book that i have read includes all of those spectacular mysteries. The general theme of the book is crime, but those are so amazing that they will surprize you. This book includes original ilustrations and 37 short stories and the Hound of Baskerviles. All of those are expertly made and puzzling to the very end (or at least until Holmes solves the case for us). The stories are narated by Watson (Holme's friend and ex-roommate) and they start almost always at Baker-street (Holme's house) and develop somewhere else. The stories are Watson's memories about when he lived with his friend or when he visited Holmes. You will find in this book mysteries that go from a strange firm where they only hired red-headed people to disapearings and inprisionments. It is amazing to see Holmes analyzing the scenes or looking at people and discovering much about them (I actualy learned a lot about the art of deduction.... be careful around me!) In my opinion Connan Doyle was a literary genious. I completly agree with him (or with Holmes) that if we observe we might learn a lot about people just by one look. What I most liked about the book is that we witnes Holmes being outsmarted for the first time by an actress. I think that one and the adventure of the speckled band are my favorites!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 54%;">-Perla

John Grogan wrote this amazing book, Marley & Me! The book is one of the New York Times bestseller! Marley & Me is the first book of the author.It was published in 2005. After a while, the book became a movie. This book is really sad, but its great for those who enjoy fun! You don't need to be a dog lover to read this book. My recomendation is for those who are dogs lover, adults would enjoy! This book takes place in Palm Beach Post. It is a non- fiction story (true story) about a man called John and a woman called Jenny. They wanted a dog, so they bought a baby labrador retriever, called Marley. That dog was their biggest challenge. He used to bite everything and eat the entire house. That couple tried everything for his behavior. John used to call him the worst dog in the world. After a time, Marley wasn´t well. He was lying outside in the cold, and didn´t respond for their owners. The vet tried to see what was going on. In the early morning, Marley was alright. After that, the sickness happend again. This time, they did´t have any chances. That was the time. That couple knew that without Marley, their life would never be the same. The vet had to give the injection to sacrifice Marley. Marley closed his eyes quietly saying goodbye to John. They could not live without a dog, so they went to buy another labrador retriever, ... and they bought Gracie, totally different from Marley. "Bad dogs, if we can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all". I love this book, it's funny, but I wasn´t expecting a bad end to a good story like that!!

Thali Kaufman Ely This vacation I read “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”-J.K.Rolling Harry, Ron, and Hermione get out of school so that they can find and destroy Voldemort's remaining three Horcruxes. They isolate themselves for the safety of their family and friends. They do not have much knowledge about the remaining Horcruxes except the possibility that two of them are objects that belonged to Hogwarts founders Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, and that the third is nagini, Voldemort's snake familiar. The locations of the two founders' objects are unknown, and Nagini is presumed to be with Voldemort himself. As they search for the Horcruxes, they learn details about Dumbledore's past, as well as Snape's true motives.d

BOOK REVIEWS –JACK SUTT

1-Nothing but the truth - By Avi

The story written by Avi, an famous author that was born in New York City in December of 1937, he wrotes hes first book in 1962 he writes till today and he’ve already earned lots of prices, Nothing but the truth was published in 1991 and it tells about a boy, called Philip Malloy in wich start having problems in school for example, grades, teachers, sports etc. In my opinion this are normal problems in adolecence but Phil try to resolve this problems in a different way that everyon, and he start lying, not for bed, he thought this was the way to get what he realy want, and thats where the big problem starts...

The big problem starts becaus Philip dreams is to be in the track team, but as every story there is a problem he wasn’t able to participate of the track team because he had a low grade in english class, in hes opinion he got this grade because of the teacher Miss Narwin in wich was also hes hometeacher he thought she was a horrible teacher and the reason he got the low grade is because she hate him! So Philip thinks that if he was transfered to another class hes english grades could improve...so he try realy hard to this, but the way he finds to do this is messing. Everythink he expect will happen the oposite for exemple he start to getting out of the class and beeing suspended. So he start lying and this made this story a nation story. Thinks doesn’t happen the way he wanted and this will make an huge confusion....

I recomend this book to young adults readers in wich like informative books, I liked becuse of the real facts that happen in an adolecent life, although the book don’t happen much thinks and the gender I most like is adventure in wich happen so many thinks the confuse us. In this story we can learn that a lie alway appers, and lying a person won’t get anywhere. Other thinks we can learn from lying is that the person can get a bad reputation that can prejudicate everyone. So we can learn that a person always need to tell the truth eventhough that may get in little trouble because if the person lies when everyone discover the truth the person will get in a huge trouble!!

2- David Coperfield

David Coperfield written by Charles Dickens, a very famous author and the first time it was printed was in 1849.This is very famous strory in wich tells about the life of a boy called David. This is very famous story to prove that some days ago i was watching a movie and the actor compare something to David Coperfield. This book is an old book that is very popular in the USA. This story tells about the life of a child in wich had a sad and happy life in the same time.

The book starts telling about a boy that have no dad, since there you can notice that David will get orfan very soon and this happens, but before he gets orfan hes moms marry with a very mean men. This men send him to a school, where he made lots of friends. So in David minds he didnt hade no one exept one lady that worked in his house, he loved her. After this sad storys happen he start treavelling trough Enlgand and meeting knew people working in different jobs etc. Some time after he stays in a family house in England where he meets Agna an verry close friend with him. More or less 2 years latter he find a girl he fall in love for her, he married with her!! At the same time an mean men what to steal Agna's dad and also marrie with her. Some time after David's wife get sick and die, but they where young so he planed to marry again, and the girl he want to marrie is Agna but there where others problems with the mean men, this man also stealed David's aunt where he lieved after hes ex-nany married. So what will happen??

This is a very nice book in wich make the person curios tho know what will happen next. I recomend this books to all types of reader specially the ones that like book in wich happen lots of things. This is a book in wich we read very fast because the enlish is not dificult. Something i learned from this book is that people need to go behind things they love without start beeing without stoping even if something sad happens. I loved this book!!

===What an awesome book! “The House on Garibaldi Street” is a nonfiction book written by Isser Harel in 1975, who was the Mossad`s (Israel Secret Service) head. He narrates how the Mossad found Adolf Eichmann after years of the end of the Holocaust, one of the most important German Nazis and the “architect” of the Holocaust, and captured him in Argentina to try him in Israel. This edition of the book was published in 1997. There is a lot of suspense in this story. There are lots of details from how they found him until his capture and finally his trial.===

===In 1957, when the Mossad`s chief receives the information that Adolf Eichmann was alive and living in Argentina, he started to investigate if this information was true or not. To do this, he sent people to check it. After locating one of his sons, the Mossad went further and discovered where his family was living, Eichmann`s new identity and other relevant information to help in recognizing their man. Every detail about him at was crucial. Then, after a long process of investigations and observations, they started to plan his capture. This time, all the people involved in the mission travelled to Argentina and captured him after a hard operation. They took him to the plane and brought him to the trial in Israel. He was declared guilty and hanged.===

===I loved this book because it is a true story and it tells every detail of this complex mission. It was a difficult thing to do, and the Mossad did it. It’s unbelievable what they did. It changed my vision about secret missions, because it`s really different from a James Bond movie. This story doesn't have fake parts. Now I realized how hard it is. My opinion totally changed. The Mossad did an amazing achievement that is related to my family, because my grandfather survived from the Holocaust and most of his family died. I felt great that this horrid man was captured, tried and hanged. I recommend this book to all people, specially to the adults of the Jewish comunity because it's a story that they will be pleasured to read and also to the teenagers because they will be the future men of the Jewish comunity and they have to know what happened to their families. Who isn't jewish should also read it because it`s a way to get to know better what happened to the Jewish people and how the Israel Secret Service works.===

===Another magnificent book written by J. K. Rowling. “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” is the second fiction book from the Harry Potter series. It was first published in 1998. In his second year at Hogwarts, Harry the Chamber of Secrets has been reopened and sudden attacks are happening. To prevent more attacks and catch the one who reopened it, he starts to investigate it and look for answers.===

===After vacation, Harry Potter returned to Hogwarts and in this year, strange things starts to happen. Blood messages appeared in the walls, students are taken inside the chamber and no one knows who is the responsible for these horrifying attacks. Then, Harry became curious and interested about it. He found Tom Marvolo Riddle`s diary, and he started to find some answers for these sudden attacks. He got back in the past and saw who was the one who opened it last time. After that, Harry got inside the Chamber, where Ginny, Ron`s sister, and Tom were. There, Riddle made some reveals. He tried to kill Harry, but he didn’t. Then, he vanished.===

===I liked this book because Harry wants to find a solution for stopping the attacks and he investigates it until he finds the information that he wants. He is a persistant person. It is a detailed book awesomely written. While reading, it seems you’re inside the story seeing it happen. It`s amazing. A relation that I can make between Harry Potter and me is that he is a very perseverant person and me too. I recommend this book to teenagers from all around the world that like fiction books because it is a very creative and cool story.===

===[[#x-Steps for Writing a Good Book Review-Nothing But the Truth – By: Avi In the few last months of 2009, we read with our teacher the book “Nothing But the Truth” written by Avi. The book is a realistic fiction which is all about misinterpretation, the story happens on a high school. Philip Malloy was a boy that really enjoyed running on the track team, but, there was a problem, he couldn’t be on the track team because of his below average grades on the English class. Miss. Narwin was Phillip`s English teacher and he hated her a lot, so Phil thought that if he made the teacher annoyed he`ll be transferred to another English class. Once in Miss.Narwin`s class Phillip started humming the national anthem, after the teacher called his attention three times, and he refused to stop, he was suspended. Not as Miss. Narwin thought, Philips suspension was reported in many newspapers and magazines because of his lies. Phil had to change school when the truth was discovered, and his new school didn’t even had a track team! I didn’t like this book so much, I thought it wasn’t interesting. With the book " Nothing But the Truth" I learned that lying is never a good option; the truth is always found out. Jacqueline A. Book review - "Nothing but the Truth" by Avi Beno G. S. The book "Nothing but the Truth" by Avi is a fiction story about a boy named Philip Malloy who studied at Harrison High. During his life at school Philip has been transferred to a class which the teacher didn't allow him to make any kind of noise when the national American anthem was played each morning.In his old class he could do so. So by not being informed of such rule he continued to do his habitual noise, doing the national anthem. As he kept doing such noise his teacher suspended him for not obeying her. Meanwhile, he receives lots and lots of letters from people all around the US supporting his based on a report made by a journalist who has been involved with Malloy and his family to gain his right to sing the national anthem. After all Philip moved to a new school where he can sing the anthem but surprisingly he doesn't know how to sing it just to hum... Can You Keep a Secret? Carolina Bigio At this summer, I read a book named " Can you keep a secret?" by Sophie Kinsella, it is a comedy book. It all talks about a girl named Emma, and she weighs 128 pounds, and not 118 pounds, like her boyfriend Connor thinks. She works at a company like marketing assistant, her dream is to be an marketing executive. She is jealous of her sister named Kerry,that have a wonderfull job and spends much more time with her parents than her, and want to show up to Kerry, her parents, Connor, her best friend Lissy and the rest of the world that she is able to be a marketing assistant. Things get complicated when she goes on a flight alone, and get nervous, so she decides spill half or her life to a stranger guy next to her, secrets like that she is afraid of airplaines, then when the flight finishes she walks on thinking she will never see that guy again. But, the day she goes work, she realizes that a guy that made a revolution in the company is coming, when she see his face she realizes that is the guy from the airplane! OUCH! Because he recognizes her face. What`s gonna happen next?? Only reading the book! I think Sophie Kinsella did great writing this book, and I agree with her choice of being all about secrets, this makes people feel more comfortable with theirselfes, realizing that everyone have secrets at one way or at another. This book is recommended for girls that like secrets, that will enjoy it!...]]Nothing But the Truth – By: Avi In the few last months of 2009, we read with our teacher the book “ __Nothing But the Truth” written by Avi. The book is a realistic fiction which is all about misinterpretation, the story happens on a high school. Philip Malloy was a boy that really enjoyed running on the track team, but, there was a problem, he couldn’t be on the track team because of his below average grades on the English class. Miss. Narwin was Phillip`s English teacher and he hated her a lot, so Phil thought that if he made the teacher annoyed he`ll be transferred to another English class. Once in Miss.Narwin`s class Phillip started humming the national anthem, after the teacher called his attention three times, and he refused to stop, he was suspended. Not as Miss. Narwin thought, Philips suspension was reported in many newspapers and magazines because of his lies. Phil had to change school when the truth was discovered, and his new school didn’t even had a track team! I didn’t like this book so much, I thought it wasn’t interesting. With the book " Nothing But the Truth" I learned that lying is never a good option; the truth is always found out. Jacqueline A. Book review - "Nothing but the Truth" by Avi Beno G. S. The book "Nothing but the Truth" by Avi is a fiction story about a boy named Philip Malloy who studied at Harrison High. During his life at school Philip has been transferred to a class which the teacher didn't allow him to make any kind of noise when the national American anthem was played each morning.In his old class he could do so. So by not being informed of such rule he continued to do his habitual noise, doing the national anthem. As he kept doing such noise his teacher suspended him for not obeying her. <span style="font-family: Helvetica,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Meanwhile, he receives lots and lots of letters from people all around the US supporting his based on a report made by a journalist who has been involved with Malloy and his family to gain his right to sing the national anthem. After all Philip moved to a new school where he can sing the anthem but surprisingly he doesn't know how to sing it just to hum... Can You Keep a Secret? Carolina Bigio At this summer, I read a book named " Can you keep a secret?" by Sophie Kinsella, it is a comedy book. It all talks about a girl named Emma, and she weighs 128 pounds, and not 118 pounds, like her boyfriend Connor thinks. She works at a company like marketing assistant, her dream is to be an marketing executive. She is jealous of her sister named Kerry,that have a wonderfull job and spends much more time with her parents than her, and want to show up to Kerry, her parents, Connor, her best friend Lissy and the rest of the world that she is able to be a marketing assistant. Things get complicated when she goes on a flight alone, and get nervous, so she decides spill half or her life to a stranger guy next to her, secrets like that she is afraid of airplaines, then when the flight finishes she walks on thinking she will never see that guy again. But, the day she goes work, she realizes that a guy that made a revolution in the company is coming, when she see his face she realizes that is the guy from the airplane! OUCH! Because he recognizes her face. What`s gonna happen next?? Only reading the book! I think Sophie Kinsella did great writing this book, and I agree with her choice of being all about secrets, this makes people feel more comfortable with theirselfes, realizing that everyone have secrets at one way or at another. This book is recommended for girls that like secrets, that will enjoy it!... __===

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Eclipse- By: Stephenie Meyer

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In my vacation I read the book “Eclipse” __**that was written by**__ Stephenie Meyer **__, it is the third book of the //<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Twilight Saga //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. The first book of the saga was published in 2005, when Stephenie was 29. The author of the Twilight Saga __****, now considered a new JK Rowling, was found as a housewife at Arizona taking care of her two babies. Eclipse is a fiction book, and is really romantic I recommend it to young adults, especially girls! Eclipse won the first New York Times bestseller and many other prizes… IT’S ADDICTING!

Bella is a totally ordinary girl, but she`s in love. Bella is in love with not a human actually, she`s fallen for a vampire called Edward. Edward is one of the members of the Cullen family that is a family of vampires, you `re maybe questioning yourself how are they like…well, the Cullens aren’t like other vampires that need human blood to survive, Edwards family have self control and do not kill humans. Bella has also a best friend, he`s a guy called Jacob which is a werewolf, he can be transformed into a wolf at anytime he needs to fight. Vampires have an awful relationship with werewolfs but they all need to get together in the book Eclipse to fight for Bella`s life. The book is romantic, adventurous and it also has suspense and mystery, with those we have all of the ingredients for an awesome book!

Eclipse is a great book! I love the descriptions of characters and adore to read what`s passing through Bella`s mind, a girl that suddenly discovers that she`s surrounded by mythical creatures. I found the book irresistible, I really recommend it to teenagers, and I think girls, principally, will really enjoy reading it! The book is hypnotic it gets the reader to go into the story! I wasn`t just reading the book, I was inside the intense vampire novel, that has an addicting effect on the reader. Read Eclipse, you won’t be repentant! **
 * Made by: Jacqueline A.**

BOOK: UGLIES BY: SCOTT WESTERFELD During this summer vacation I read the book Uglies by the awesome Mr. Scott Westerfeld. The book is absolutely juvenile science fiction; the story is set partly in Ugly Town and partly in the Smoke (read the book and find out what those are! Mouahuahuahaua). I mostly think that the theme of this book is turning pretty, and the fact that in a world of extreme beauty everyone normal is ugly. It is the first book of a trilogy :The Uglies Series. The book was published in Febuary 8th 2005, by Simon Pulse. It is 426 pages long on paperback print. Scott Westerfeld, the author was born in Dallas, Texas and now lives in Sydney, Australia. He started writing in the 90s, (hope he keeps writing until like, forever). The book Uglies is mainly about a 15 year old, called Tally Youngblood, who can’t wait to turn 16 and become a pretty. Her best friend, Peris, that has already become a pretty (term used in the book to describe people who have already got the operation) and got the operation, which turned him in to a big eyed, full lipped, and not fat either skinny, not too tall neither too short, just a perfect 16 year old boy. Tally promises Peris she’ll get into no trouble, until she turns sixteen so she can get the operation done, move to new pretty town, and they can be best friends again like in the old days. But she can only manage to keep her promise until she meets Shay, a girl who shows her a whole new perspective of the world Tally didn’t even know existed. A day before turning sixteen Shay runs away to never become a pretty and leaves Tally with some scrambled directions on how to follow her if she changes her mind and doesn’t want to stay ugly (term used by the author to describe normal people, the ones who still haven’t got the operation done) for a life time. On the day of her 16th birthday, in which Tally is supposed to get the operation done, Dr. Cable, a member of Special Circumstances, (which you’ll learn more about if you read the book) gives her two choices, find her friend and turn her in, or never become a pretty at all. Tally’s choice changes her life forever. Disregarding the fact that the book is initially a bit confusing, Mr. Westerfeld’s adventure is very much enjoyable. I found the book confusing because of the way the author tells it to the reader, ex: he calls everyone ‘she’ and ‘he’ so sometimes I got kind of confused trying to figure out who was saying what. I totally love his way of thinking, and his ideas, but I think he could be clearer when putting it to the paper. If I were the author I’d definitely change the voice of the book and put Tally (the main character) to tell the story! It’s kind of easier to read and picture the story when the person who’s living it tells it to you. I’d recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fiction, adventure, a sip of romance, friendship, trustworthiness, peer pressure and much more. I wouldn’t even hesitate when recommending this book, because it’s an amazing book which teaches the reader lessons for life, I’d say that anyone could actually read it, considering the fact that it doesn’t focus just in romance (kind of girlish) or just in adventure (as for the boys), it is a great mixture of themes. The reason why I got really intrigued were all the little fights. After reading the book it seemed to me that, we need to really keep our good friends, we have to be careful whom we trust, and never give out a friend’s secret”. I really understood the concept that other people’s feelings, and secrets, and thoughts are just as important as our own… It’s just a great and intriguing book, which might get you to rethink your attitudes. Tatiana Cohab <span style="color: #f50f0f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">corrected version

The Hobit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)

Bilbo, a simple hobbit, is smoking his pipe one day when <span class="ecxIL_AD">the wizard Gandalf appears and asks him to go on an adventure. He is confused and tells the wizard to come back the next day. The wizard does show up the next day, but only after thirteen dwarves have knocked at his door first. Bilbo is very frustrated by this, but he acts the part of the gracious host. <span class="ecxIL_AD">The dwarves eat, speaking of their imminent journey to an old home beneath Lonely Mountain. Long ago, a dragon named Smaug chased their forefathers from <span class="ecxIL_AD">the mountain and stole their treasure. The group now wants Bilbo to come along as their thief. Bilbo wakes late the next morning, and is hurried along by Gandalf to join his fellow travelers. They begin their journey. Before long, they have gone further from Hobbiton than Bilbo ever has before. One night, Gandalf disappears and they cannot make a fire because it is too wet and cold. However, they see a fire in the distance. Thorin, the leader of the dwarves, sends Bilbo ahead to investigate. There are three trolls eating mutton around a fire. Bilbo tries to pick a pocket but is captured. Soon, all of the dwarves are captured. Gandalf returns and causes trouble between the trolls, until the suns rises and the trolls turn to stone. The party travels for a while and arrives at a magical place called Rivendell. They stay here for a while and get fresh supplies. They leave and enter the mountains. Their path is dangerous and it begins to rain very hard. They take shelter in a cave and fall asleep. Bilbo wakes to see the ponies being stolen. They are all grabbed by goblins, except forGandalf, who makes himself disappear. In the great hall of the goblins, Gandalf reappears and kills the chief goblin right before the dwarves are to be killed. The party flees into the tunnels. Bilbo is dropped and is knocked out <span class="ecxIL_AD">in the darkness. When he wakes, he finds a ring and wanders until he runs into a creature named Gollum. Gollum challenges him to a riddle contest, and Bilbo wins. Bilbo realizes that the ring is Gollum's lost ring, and it makes him invisible. Gollum thinks Bilbo stole his ring, so he runs out of the caves to find Bilbo, while the invisible Bilbo actually follows Gollum out of the caves. Bilbo is reunited with his friends on the outside, but he doesn't tell them about the ring.

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

__One night the prize boar, Old Major, tells all the other farm animals he has realized that the misery of their daily lives is all due to the tyranny of human beings, and that if they work to overthrow the humans their lives will become easy and comfortable. After Old Major dies, <span class="ecxIL_AD">the pigs (led by the two boars Snowball and <span class="ecxIL_AD">Napoleon ) start teaching his ideas (which they develop into a system of thought called Animalism) to the other animals. A few months later, Mr. Jones gets drunk and forgets to feed <span class="ecxIL_AD">the animals, who become so hungry that they rebel and drive the human beings off <span class="ecxIL_AD">the farm. They rename the farm ' <span class="ecxIL_AD">Animal Farm ' and write the Seven Commandments of Animalism up on the wall of <span class="ecxIL_AD">the barn. Jones comes back with a group of armed men and tries to recapture the farm, but the animals, led by Snowball, defeat the men. Snowball and Napoleon argue constantly over plans for the future of the farm, never able to agree - especially over a windmill which Snowball wants to build to provide the farm with electric power, and which Napoleon ridicules. Napoleon calls in nine dogs whom he has specially trained and they chase Snowball off the farm. Squealer, the very persuasive pig who relays most of Napoleon's decisions to the other animals, tells them that Snowball was a traitor in league with Jones, and that the windmill was reallyNapoleon's idea anyway and will go ahead. The animals work hard - work on the windmill is slow and they rely heavily on Boxer the cart-horse, who is very strong and hard-working. Napoleon begins trading with nearby farms, and the pigs move into the farmhouse and sleep in the beds there - even though sleeping in beds like humans was forbidden by the original principles of Animalism.

The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Review- corrected Ana Paula Kabbani

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief is a mythology fiction, by Rick Riordan. Riordan was born in Texas but went to San Francisco to study English and History. He was known for his mysterious series for adults "Tres Nevarre" and after that in 2005, he published the first book of Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. This book is 400 pages long, but full of adventure and entertainment. The story takes place primarily in New York, but passes trough very different places along the way. Percy Jackson is a young man who suffers from dyslexia, who has a horrible stepfather and has been rejected by many private schools. But after all Percy has a much bigger problem. He is a half-blood, his mother is human and his father a Greek god. With his new friends, a satyr, and the daughter of Athena also a half- blood, Percy gets in a huge adventure to figure out a conflict between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. Along the way they will fight with monstors and many traps. Looks like Percy is just a boy, but throughout the book you discover he is much braver than we though he was. Besides the fact that the story is too "Harry Potterish", mythology fans will love this book and people who doesn't sympathizes with it, will start liking it. It shows mythology in a fun and dangerous way, as major confusing adventure where it is connected to our own world, just like Ollympus is located in 600th floor in the Empire State Building and underworld, hell is located in Lost Angeles. I recommend this book mostly to people who doesn't like reading at all, because after this book, there's no doubt that they will change their minds.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters revirew- corrected Ana Paula Kabbani The second book of Percy Jackson & The Olympians series, the mythology fiction Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters takes us on an even bigger adventure than the previous book. The author, Rick Riordan who had published the mysterious series for adults "Tres Nevarre", made the second book of the series a breathtaking bestseller in all kinds of ways. When Annabeth (daughter of Athena and Percy's best friend) arrives on the scene with bad news.Percy has to embark on another quest. This time to save Camp Half-Blood,that is now vulnerable to attack because its defensors have been hurt. He also has to save Grover, who's found himself in a horrible quest and now is about to become a Cyclops's food. In this adventure there are also another accompany, Percy's class mate Tyson, a kid who lives on the streets and has Percy as his only friend, but throught the bool we figure out there's a story behind his strange one-eye. The three of them travels through the Sea of Monsters in the face of enourmous creatures and legends to capture the Golden Fleece, which hopefully the poison can restore the magical protection of Camp Half-Blood. This book gives us a sort of open imagination, to understand what characters are going trough. It's a very well written book, but the only thing that bothers me is that everything always goes as planned, and there's always a happy ending, well kind of. Things needs to go wrong sometimes, in my point of view. I recommend this to every one, not an exeption because it's this type of book that makes people want to read and show how it's fascinating. Please read, I'm absolutely sure that you will not regret it, it's incredible.__

Nothing But The Truth-Avi FreddyBerakha

This year we read at school Nothing "Nothing But The Truth, Truth", by Avi.  Nothing "Nothing But The Truth Truth" is a fiction book, published on 1991. This story takes place on Phillip Malloy’s high school. The problem was that Philip felt to sing and hum every time the national anthem was played, but his English teacher, Miss Narwin wouldn’t let him sing. The book is all a misunderstanding, that takes to a lot drama and conflicts. Philip Malloy which, the main character, wouldn’t leave with his English homeroom teacher. He always says she’s boring and ignorant, which cause a big conflict between both of them. Everyday when the principal played “The Star Spangled Banner”, Philip started humming, what would annoy Miss Narwin. Miss Narwin asks him to stop every time but, he would ignore her and continue humming until she send him to the principal. What I guess is that Philip Malloy always continued humming and ignored his teacher because his father told him that no matter what happened he would be on his side, what would encourage him to continue challenging his teacher. When Philip was send to the principal the principal gave him a chance to apologize his teacher, which was denied by Philip, what got to him 3 day suspension. One of the reasons why Philip hated his teacher was that he was a good runner, like his father, but because he had bad grade on English he couldn’t run because of a scholar rule. Philip lied to his father telling him he didn’t wanted to run and that was the only reason that he wasn’t running, but Mr. Malloy knew Philip was an awesome runner like he was and he didn’t understand why Philip wouldn’t run. Philip’s suspension was commented in all radios stations and got spread out to all the country. Philip received letters from all over the country and all were on his side while the school was getting a lot of letters of people who didn’t understand how could a student be suspended for singing the national anthem. Philip problem gets resolved when he was transferred to a private school, like he wished, and the reason why he just hummed the anthem and didn’t really singed it was discovered. I didn’t like the book because after the second time he was sent to the principal it becomes to get boring and there was no real reason for him to go to the principal. The book would be better if it had more action and adventure. I think all would be solved if PHILIP and Miss Narwin just stopped being lazy and one ignore each other. I recommend this book to people from 10 to 18 years old that like drama. I guess Avi should put more emotion on his books and give at least a good reason for the drama, so his books would be more interesting.

Final book review __Nothing but the Truth__ by Michelle Menache During the last quarter of English class in 2009 I read a novel called __Nothing but the Truth__, by Avi Wortis. The book was published in 1991. It’s a fiction, based on real facts. In the story there are many misunderstandings between the English teacher, Miss Narwin and the 14 year old student Philip Malloy. The student is punished for disrespect by singing inappropriately “The Star Spangled Banner”. The problem occurs at Harrison High. Philip has many problems in his life, regarding money and all, but the book talks especially of problems regarding school. The conflict starts when the protagonist receives his grades and discovers the only low grade he got was in English. He never had a good relation with his English (and also homeroom) teacher, but that made it even worse because he wanted to try out for the track team. To enter track team Phil needs passing grades in all subjects, so that enables him of entering it. His dream was ruined. The ninth grader then becomes very mad and upset. He wanted to get out of Miss Narwin’s classes because he though it was the easiest way to get a better grade and enter the team. Every single day when the national anthem was played he hummed out load only to annoy her. The rules of Harrison High said you were supposed to stay quiet while the “The Star Spangled Banner” was played. She warned him, but as he didn’t stop he was sent out of the class for disobedience. After repetitive times, he got suspended for two days. The principal gave him a second chance and said that if Phil apologized he wouldn’t get the suspension, but he refused to do it. His father didn’t conform himself and called the reporter to know if that rule which he considers anti-patriotism really existed and was legal. As a result the piece of news was spread all over USA. The teacher received critics by letters from all parts of the country and was harmed, even though she was an excellent professional. The novel is simple, but well written, although it doesn’t attract the reader very much. The novel is repetitive, but interesting because of the fact that it talks about every day’s activities and experiences, things and ways students and children our age do it. We can easily assimilate the novel to our life, our problems, our thoughts, our values and the way we are educated. We can see the result in each one and how incorrect actions affect not only the person who is practicing it, but also the community and others involved. The protagonist Philip Malloy is not a correct person because he lied and that harmed and affected the life of many people. Miss Narwin was a correct teacher that had her life ruined because of a lie created by an angry student. We learn that even sometimes the truth and the bluntness hurts, we should live in the best way and not to ruin others. Even Phil that intended to get out of Narwin’s class did it the wrong way and regretted his actions. We should always try to find the right way in life, even getting it wrong, because it’s never too late to apologize and to live our lives with no regrets.

Final book review __The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants__ by Michelle Menache

__The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants__ is a marvelous book. Ann Bashares wrote all four volumes of the saga. The first one was published in 2001, by Delacorte Press. It’s a fiction based on real facts. The story happens during summer vacation in several places. Four best friends had never been a part, till this vacation came. Four inseparable friends after a long time always together, will be apart during summer vacations. Each one of them will be in a different place in the world and they’ll need to deal with their problems alone. They are very upset about it, but then, they discover a magic pant that might make them remember how their pals love them and that even apart, they’re not. It fits in all four of them, even thought all four have very different appearances. They promise each other they’ll keep in touch (even a part), sending letters, asking for help, telling what’s passing with them, sharing happiness, but mostly, passing their best moments in the pants and after sending it to the next pal. It passed from Lena in Greece, to Carmen at her dad’s house, to Bridget at a soccer camp and to Tibby at her home. In the traveling pants they must love their selves and know they are wonderful, and not fat or ugly or anything else, just marvelous. During the summer of all of them they pass though good and bad moments, although, they never forget each other and kept in touch as they had promised. All of the stories are pretty interesting, but very different. Differently from the movie, the book is awesome. The whole book is joyful, since the unconventional way it’s written, till the moment when it touches your feelings, and makes you think. It’s in the beginning a little difficult to understand, but after pages and more pages it becomes easily understandable and very interesting in which chapters are divided by proverbs or other funny or thoughtful meanings. Ann Bashares made a wonderful job in the book because it attracts your attention, so you always want to know what happens next. I felt, imagined and realized how essential my friends are to me, but in a different way, I identified myself with them more than I could imagine. The four friends are very different in characteristics and physically, but present similarities with everyone, or certainly, with every girl. Their different characteristics are what make their friendship strong. Lena “wore practical clothes, “stodgy, dull and pathetic”, according to her friends. She didn’t like people having more reasons to look at her, to think that how she looked made them know her.” Bridget was the sportiest, compromised and always went after what she wanted, until the end. Carmen likes to be with her family and with her friends. Tibby is the rebel, but cares about people and their feelings, especially them being friends. These are some characteristics that I identify myself with who I am and how are my friendships made. Sometimes they have fears, are ashamed, mad, amazed… Other times rebel, crazy, irrational, careless… and during the book the reader might put their selves on the characters’ place to understand their situation. Sometimes, you might think you’d do the same thing, even these attitudes sometimes being irrational. Like us, depending on our mood, on the circumstances, and others vary from those characteristics in extremes. Although always having as a priority telling the truth. All of them trust each other and their true friendship, even having different personalities and different qualities. They care about each other and never lie to each other, because this type of friendship consisting in these values are the only ones who last forever, even between fights, distances, best or worse moments and any type of conflict. The way they act, care about each other is something we can learn from the story and leave for the rest of our life. This book shows an example of life, how can it be joyful and how it makes you feel enthusiastic about it, not mattering what type or way of life you have. Forcing you to believe any of those ways is pretty good thanking for each awesome day.

 A Serie Of Unfortunate Events - Eratz Elevator- Lemony Snicket Freddy Berakha

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” is a book of collection, by Lemony Snicket. It is a realistic-fiction series, published on 1991. The series talk about the Baudelaire orphans who have a huge heritage that is trying to be robbed by Count Olaf their nemesis. The 6th book, “The Eratz Elevator”, talks about Klaus fantastic idea to make an eratz hope to go down the elevator. That was on their tutor’s fake elevator, to look for their friends, the triples Quagmare,, who have been kidnapped by Count Olaf. The story occurs on George Washington Boulevard. The book brings a great story with many adventures, tense and drama. The story begins, when Mr. Poe, who is responsible for the Baudelaire’s brothers, takes them to their new tutor house, Mr. and Mrs. Squarlor, that is located in the highest apartment, on the highest building, in a dark street and tell them he was going to look for the triples Quagmare. When the Baudelaire’s get to their new home, they are well received. Each one had their own room, with their own toys. The apartment was enormous because Mrs. Squalor was the 3rd auctioneer of the city. At George Washington Boulevard they would, define things as in or out to show if it was “cool or not”. Orphans were in. Mr. Squarlor was an awesome person and the brothers had notice it. They also knew, he hated to discuss and if orphans became out Mrs. Squarlor could kick them out and Mr. Squalor would not discuss with her, even that he would disagree. One day Olaf came to the Squalor’s apartment, pretending to be Gunther the in auctioneer, once more with a costume that wouldn’t make the brothers not recognize him. Violet, Klaus and Sunny noticed the only floor with two elevators was the floor they were in. Baudelaire got really curious about what the second elevator whole had in it. When the Baudelaire were looking into the hole when Ms. Squarlor pushed them into the whole and they found their friends, triple Quagmare, locked. Sunny, the baby, had to use her sharp teeth to climb the elevator and make an eratz hope of tight ties of ties, curtains and other material, to pull out their other 2 bigger brothers. When they were down in the elevator the triple Squarlor told them they heard something about they were going to be auctioned and the item would be called C.S.C. and would be the 50th item. On the day of the in auction Mrs. Squarlor locked the Baudelaire brothers on her apartment and went to the auction The Baudelaire had to go on a tunnel that went around all the city. They were able to recognize the places by the sound they could hear from above. One time they got to some place that nothing could be heard and they went up to check. They got themselves to the place their mansion was before it got burned. They got shocked and they didn’t knew how was that involved to the accident. After they got out of the tunnel they runned right away to the place where the auction would take place. It was on the item 48, they were right in time. When Gunther noticed the brothers were there, he jumped right away to the 50th item and sold the C.S.C. to Mr. Squarlor but nothing was found there. C.S.C. was a tramp that the Baudelaire got into…And once more Count Olaf could escape with the triple Quagamare. What I love on Lemony Snicket is that he puts an emotion and a tense on his books that u cant stop reading it. He asks people not to read it, what just doesn’t let you deny to read it. I recommend this book to everyone that likes adventure and drama combined. People from 8 up to 17 years old would like to read it. What I didn’t like was the way Count Olaf got discovered. After a good realistic and detailed book, at the end of the book they have a silly way that is really rare to happen. But I would still recommend this book to anyone that likes a good and dramatic adventure that always gets to a sad, dramatic and unfortunate ending.

THE BOOK THIEF MARKUS ZUSAK One day, whether we like it or not, we all grow up. As we grow up, the TV shows we used to watch, gaah, they become child stuff. The games we used to play, we simply prefer to forget about them… they’re just a waste of time; there are many other, way more useful things to do. Our friends, some of them continue the same, and some of them just aren’t our friends anymore. And finally, the books we used to read will just seem as a bunch of childish crap. What if this time has arrived? And by now we should just be able to throw those children books out the window and move on to more adult books? Do you want to know how I moved on? I moved on by reading the most amazing book. A book that changed my life and that will definitely change yours if you just give it a shot. **__The Book Thief__**, written by the stunning Mr. Markus Zusak. Markus Zusak has won several awards such as Michael L. Printz Honor book by the Young Adult Library Services Association in 2007, Kathleen Mitchell Award 2006 (literature) and most recently in 2008, the Ena Noel Award - the [|IBBY Australia][|Ena Noël] Encouragement Award for Children's Literature. He was born in 1975 in Sydney, Austalia and is a well succeeded novelist. If there is one book, in my whole life that I read and found nothing to complain of, this book is it! **__The Thief Book__** book is written in the most amazing way. I absolutely loved the way the author puts Death to narrate it, which makes the book really innovative and interesting to read. I find it really cool when Zusak puts some of Death’s opinions and feelings when telling the story. I’d recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a novel and a piece of history. With a bit of sarcasm the author gets you to sometimes laugh while reading, and absolutely cry on the end. Really people, this is a must read amazing book which’ll get you to read every bit of its pages.
 * __The Book Thief__**, narrated by the point of view of death relates a story of a nine year old called Liesel Meminger who is sent to live with a foster family in, Molching in a poor neighborhood called Himmel, because her mother is sent to a concentration camp in Dachau. The story is set during and before the World War II. The story begins when Liesel’s brother dies on the way to Mulching, after the gravedigger bury his brother he accidentally lets fall a book, the The //Gravedigger's Handbook.// And that, dear reader is the first book within many that our book thief steals. When Liesel gets to Himmel Street, which by the way means sky in German, Himmel Street could be anything you want it to be, but not sky. The Street seemed to Liesel like hell itself, only worst. As each day passes our main character starts to bond with her foster parents. Hans Hubermann, her foster father was without a doubt a good man. Exactly the type of father who’d wake up in the middle of the night to calm Liesel down from a nightmare. He played accordion, smoked cigars, taught his foster child to read, and was the sweetest person ever. Rosa Hubermann, Liesel’s foster mother, is known for her foul-mouth and lack of respect, but deep inside love runs vividly trough her veins. Rudy Steiner, Liesel’s best friend and neighbor. Rudy is in love with Liesel and is not ashamed to tell her!

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