Kids Book Reviews

Alicia B
Age 9
Jade Dragon by Carolyn Marsden
ISBN 0763640611
 
Ginny was the only Chinese person in the second grade.  Then another person came to her school, her name was Stephanie.  She is also Chinese.  Ginny thinks Stephanie could be her new friend.  Stephanie really does not know Chinese culture.  But Ginny still wants to be Stephanie’s friend.  Stephanie only likes white people and American culture.  Stephanie was adopted.  Ginny was raised the Chinese way by her Chinese parents. Ginny wished she was more American. When Stephanie came to Ginny’s house she did not like the Chinese food and she did not understand why Ginny did not have toys in her room.  But Stephanie saw Ginny’s jade dragon and she wanted it.  Ginny had to sneak to give Stephanie the dragon. Ginny did not want her mom to know she gave Stephanie the dragon because it was special.  It was kept in glass cabinet.   Now Ginny and Stephanie are friends.   
 
I did not think I was going to like this book when I started reading it.  But I really liked the book as I read it.  This is a book about friendship.  You can be different from someone and still be their friend. Someone can look just like you and be very different.  Ginny had to learn not to buy someone’s friendship.  This is a good book to read with a friend.    
 
 
Alex V
Age 8
Dragonsdale by Salamandra Drake
ISBN 0545034035
 
This is a wonderful, exciting, and very cool book. I loved this story so much and could hardly put the book down. Dragonsdale is the exciting story of a girl named Cara; the daughter of a Dragon Master. Cara owns a competing dragon named Skydancer. His life was threatened when he lost a race and because Cara loved her dragon so much, she decided to run away with him.
Eventually, she returned to Dragonsdale and began competing again. This time, Cara and Skydancer successfully completed the Triple championships.
I love dragons, so I really enjoyed this book---if you love dragons, hold on to your reins, you are in for a good ride.
This is the best dragon book that I have ever read!!!!
 

Bria M.
Age 11
Candy Apple #8 I’ve got a Secret by Lara Bergen
ISBN 0545034272
 
I really liked this book. To me this book showed how lies can mess up a great friendship. This is book about a girl named Amanda who went to camp and made friends with a girl named Allie. Amanda told Allie that she had boyfriend named John back home, which was a lie. When camp is over and everyone gets back to their normal lives, Allie moves to Amanda’s town. But Amanda is a different person back home than she was at camp, and she certainly does not have a boyfriend. Amanda is sure Allie will get along with her best friend Kate. But will Amanda lose her friendships with both Kate and Allie? You have to read this exciting book find out. I promise you won’t regret it.

After testing out-of-the-mouths-of-babes reviews this summer to great amusement, I’ve decide to partner up with a school full of chatty bibliophiles.
 
Welcome to the Discovery Academy in Lithonia, GA! These bright & bold middle schoolers will be submitting reviews of some of their favorite & not-so favorite titles this school year for everyone to enjoy.  Keep coming back as they will rotate every few weeks.  
 

Jordan
Age 9
Call Me Hope by Gretchen Olson
ISBN 0316012394
 
This book is about an 11 year old girl whose mom is verbally abusive.  She wants to run away but decides not to. Instead she creates a point system and writes points for every bad thing her mom says to her.  She then reads a book called Anne Frank:  The Diary of a Young Girl and uses ideas to survive verbal abuse.
 
Will Hope tell her mom how she feels when she says mean things to her?  I will not tell you the whole story, but I'll tell you about the end.  At the end Hope finally stands up to her mom and tells her how she feels and they become the best friends ever.  I won't recommend this book to immature kids because it has a few bad works in it otherwise, it's a great book!
 
 
 
 
Kingston S
Age 9
Dog Lost by Ingrid Lee
ISBN 0545085780
 
 
This is about a boy named Mackenzie and his dog Cash - a pit bull. Cash saved two lives. The fist person she saved was an old lady that had a kettle burning. It caught fire on a cobweb and the fire spread. This was so dangerous because the smoke really affected her lungs if she had stayed in there for a few more minutes she would have died.           
Cash saved her just in time.

The second person Cash saved was a teenage boy named Darren who was drowning in freezing water. Cash almost died too. She was a heroine.
 
The sad part of this story was when another pit bull attacked a boy and he had to get 26 stitches. After this happened, the community passed a law requiring all pit bulls to wear muzzles in public. I didn’t like this part because it was unfair.
            
This was a good story (a few too many curse words) and I understood it. I had fun reading it, and pet lovers like me will love this story. Yaaaaayyyyyyy!!!!!!!!