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Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
I would give Stormbreaker four out of five stars. It takes place in modern day United Kingdom. It is loaded with action! The book is about a thirteen-year-old who gets blackmailed into being a spy. Up until the fourth or fifth chapter it is a bit boring, but don’t let that fool you, it’s a great book. It really kicks up at the end. This is the first book in the Alex Rider series. I would highly recommend this book to anyone one who likes spy thrillers with intricate plots.
Review by Zach W. |
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The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Genre: This book is realistic fiction.
From the cover it doesn t look like it but there is some modern technology.
My Opinion: The Thief Lord is a great story if you get really into your books and can t stop since it s 304 pages! This is a very different book because it has some Latin in it and has a lot of Italian places, buildings and architecture.
Summary: The Thief Lord is about a young, naïve, boy named Bo and his sensible, cautious, older brother Prosper. Their mother and father died, and their aunt wants to take care of Bo and send Prosper off to some boarding school. They don’t like the idea and run off to Venice Italy where they meet the Thief Lord and his gang. But their aunt figures out where they are and sends a detective named Victor after them. The gang has a lot of adventures and meets a lot of people. Victor also tells them something very disturbing about the so-called Thief Lord. This is the first book I ‘ve read since the beginning of the school year and I LOVED IT!
P.S.- This book is available at the school media center. Get it before it s gone!
Review by Erin H. |
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
“A short story of much power and beauty,” says one critic. “Of Mice and Men is a gripping tale, states another. “ Brutality and tenderness mingle in these strangely moving pages…The reader is fascinated by a certainty of approaching doom.” These are opinions, but you might as well call them fact. Of Mice and Men is truly a short novel of wonderful taste, one of the best examples of American literature I’ve ever read.
The book takes place in the early nineteen-hundreds in the Salinas Valley, California, farming area and an actual place. You can expect detail of the setting since it is the author’s, John Steinbeck, childhood home. He worked many jobs in his young life. One of these jobs was being a farm laborer, the occupation of the novel’s two main characters. It all starts out as Lennie and George, both of the aforesaid characters, who are migrant workers, stop at the bank of the Salinas River. From there they head to their future job at a farm up the river. But this is not what the traveling pair of laborers want to do for they have a dream. But obstacles lay upon their path to success and may prove to be too much for the lumbering, slow-witted Lennie and the smarter but smaller George. The reader’s question is: will they make their dreams happen, and if not, what will happen then? Of Mice and Men keeps you guessing the ending throughout the book. Many possibilities run through your head, each stemming off the other. The book’s end is a long-awaited surprise, a fright and delight to the ever-patient reader.
Overall, as I’ve said before. Of Mice and Men, is well worth reading. It’s classic American literature, as are a few more of John Steinbeck’s books, and is a novel you’ll never want to miss.
Review by Peter O.
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