Book Reviews by Teens
Title: Alex Rider: Scorpia
Reviewer: Kyle
This is the fifth book in the adventure series starring Alex Rider. He is a 14 year old boy and is a spy that works for an organization called M16. Now he is trying to find out who his father was. Doing this takes him to the deadliest corporation in the worls, Scorpia. He has to find out who his father is, and at the same time, save all the children in Britain. Kyle says, “This book is packed with action. Once you pick it up, you will not be able to put it down. It kept me guessing what would happen to Alex until the very last page.”
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christieduong said,
October 6, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Title: Elephant Run
Reviewer: Christie
An adventurous story that revolves around a male teenager that faces many obstacles during World War II. His mother sends him from England to Burma to live with his father for his protection. However, the Japenese soon come to Burma and take the boy’s father and his friends as prisoners. The boy’s father arranges for him and a family friend to escape to India. The novel centers around the adventures that the teenager and his new friend have as they try and escape from Burma.
camilabobroff said,
October 18, 2007 at 2:14 am
I recently read a book called The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. This book contains letters from a boy to an unknown person. The boy basically talks about what is going on in his life, almost like writing a diary. He explains the problems he has with his family and friends. This book may not be appropriate for some people as it contains drug and ual references. I enjoyed this book but it was hard to follow at times. Everything is revealed at the end.
silverpaw said,
October 18, 2007 at 2:22 am
Title: River Secrets
Reviewer: Ying
What can I say? Never judge a book by it’s cover. The cover may be boring but the book is jam packed with exciting problems and magic makes the plot even better! There’s Razo, a midge that wants to be useful to the mission he’s on in a enemy territory. Razo along with other member’s of Bayern’s own are escorting an important person that is trying to prevent war. A group of power-hungy people don’t help because they want war. The ending? No way am I telling!
P.S. You know you want to read it
^_^
whit14 said,
December 1, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Title: Gym Candy
Reviewer: Whitney
Although this was more of a guy book, I thought it was pretty good. It’s about a high school football player who wants to be the best, and gets involved with steroids. The plot and storyline kept me reading.
sofiad said,
December 13, 2007 at 1:26 am
The advanced reader copy that I read was the book The girl who stopped swimming. The book was written by Joshilyn Jackson. The was about Laurel. Laurel is the mother of her 13 year-old daughter Shelby. Shelby’s best friend is found dead in the pool in their back yard. Laurel and her sister ,Thalia, try to unwrap the mystery behind why Molly was found dead in their pool and why was it in their pool. It is a really good book. The only thing is that it has some extremely innapropriate parts in it for younger children.
christieduong said,
March 9, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Title: Cafe Dominique
Reviewer: Christie
After her mother passes away, Brigitte moves to Paris to live with her grandparents. She is mainly excited about helping out at the cafe, but little does she know it is anything but what she expected. Among the few guests that the cafe attracts are Picasso and his revolutionary friends. Brigitte is caught in a conflict as she tries to please a loyal customer and finds that he is only spying on Picasso and his friends. Throughout the book, she struggles to understand the new ideas and culture of the french while she develops a friendship with a circus performer.
This is a great book for teens who have just started or have never learned about Marxism or the French Revolution. However, I felt that the book was a bit cluttered; I would have liked it to focus more on the revolutionary ideas and french history rather than the side stories.
sofiad said,
April 28, 2008 at 11:47 pm
In teen book club we read a book called Uglies by Scott Westerfield. I thought that it was a really good that I could not put down at all. It was about life in the future. In their city there is a system that makes people not do bad things, like robberies, wars and things like that. Their city is based on age. When you are about newborn to11 years old you stay with your parents, Crumblies. When you are 11 to 15 you go and live in a dorm and you are an ugly which is what everybody is. When you turn 16 you get turned into a pretty. Which is pretty much a really pretty version of you, with no flaws what so ever. When Tally finally turns 16 to turn pretty. She can’t until, she makes her decision turn her friend , Shay, in or never turn pretty at all.