Chapter+Books

**Fun Chapter Books to Read!**
__ The Library Card __ __ By Jerry Spinelli __ This book is about 4 people whose names are Mongoose (a boy), Brenda (a girl), Sonesray (another boy), and April (another girl). They all have NOTHING in common,.....untila large blue library card with no name appears. It soon begins to change EVERYTHING!!!! No one knows it yet, but that strange card will be their ticket to the past and to the future! Read this wonderful book to see what's going to happen! There are more grear books by the same author like __Maniac Magee..__

Submitted by Janiyah

//Wonder// by R.J. Palacio

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Our class is reading the book //Wonder// by R.J. Palacio. August Pullman, the main character, is about to start public school for the first time. He was born with a facial deformity that required years of surgeries, so Auggie had been home-schooled until the fifth grade. He now is ready to face society and start to lead a "normal" life. As expected, not everyone is as tolerant of Auggie's looks as his family, and many hurtful things are said and done to him. Auggie is used to people staring and whispering, but when he hears his "friends" talking about him and saying hurtful things, it is devastating.There are many times in the book where our class has stopped reading and have had many important and necessary discussions about acceptance. The book is written from multiple perspectives, so the reader is able to see things through the eyes of different characters. It's an inspiring book, and I definitely recommend that you read it! - Mrs. Olbrias (5th grade teacher)

Kiley's Recommendation I have recently finished a book called //Night Journeys//. This amazing historical fiction book is about freedom. Back then many people had slaves. With that said Peter and Mr. Shinn are on a hunt to find some runaway slaves. One day Peter had mistakenly left his gun on an island called Morgan’s Rock. He had to find a way across the river alone, without a boat. In addition to that Peter would have to be crazy to swim over. While Peter is thinking of a way to cross over he spots a girl studying the river. He walks over to the girl and they make a plan to get across. After a very difficult journey across they both fall asleep on the island. Peter spots something unusual on the girl’s hand. As he looks more closely he realizes there engraved in the palm of her hand was an "M". Suddenly, he realizes he had just helped the escaped slave across the river! What will he do next? Read this book and find out!

__Shiloh__ by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor In the book __Shiloh__, we meet a boy named Marty. He lives in a small town in West Virginia. Marty is a hard working boy who loves animals. One day, as he is walking on a path, he meets a beagle. The dog follows Marty all the way home. Marty wants to keep him but he can’t. The dog belongs to Judd Travers, a mean man who treats his dogs badly. He kicks them and doesn't feed them. Marty makes a secret promise to Shiloh that he will save him. What is Marty’s plan? Will he be able to save Shiloh before Judd Travers hurts him? Read the book to find out! By Dylan

__Out Of My Mind__ by Sharon Draper Have you ever been ignored? Have you ever felt misunderstood? That always happens to a girl named Melody in a book called __Out__ __Of My Mind__. She is smart. She can remember everything she sees. But, people think that she doesn't know anything because she cannot talk, walk or even feed herself. She has a disease called cerebral palsy. In this book you will hear every thought she has. You will get to know her and you will want to be her friend. Will anyone else hear her? Will anyone else want to be her friend? Read to this great book find out! By Neel

//__ The Last Olympian, By Rick Riordan __//

The Last Olympian is a great book. To really understand it, I would recommend reading these books in order: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, and The Battle of Labyrinth. Most of the book takes place in New York, where Percy Jackson lives. The book is about how Kronos tries to take over Olympus. In New York, Kronos is battling Percy and almost all of camp Half Blood. The Ares cabin is not helping out though, but you can find out why when you read this book. Percy won the first battle, but most of Kronos’ army fled to safety. When night falls, Kronos’ army will attack again, even more powerful than before. Who will win the battle? Will there be a **//Third//** battle? Can Percy and the camp safe Olympus and New York? **// Read this book to find out! //** J
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//Middle World// by J & P Voekel Max is a video game extraordinier! His parents are famous archeologists. Instead of going on a summer vacation in Italy, his parents make him go to a Mayan dig. But when his parents go missing, everything goes bad! And bad soon goes to worst! Can Max save his parents from the villainous 12 Lords of Death? Read this book to find out!

Submitted by John

__THE HUNGER GAMES__ by Suzanne Collins

The story takes place in a poor district of Panem. Katniss Everdeen is the fierce huntress and fearless leader in her family.When her father died, she took over as the head of the family. One day, she was hunting and meets Gale, her soon-to-be best friend. The one thing that scares Katniss is the dreaded Hunger Games. A female or a male is picked from each district to fight to the death until only one child is left. Effie Trinket, the drawer of the names, is on stage when she says, "Ladies first!" Only one name is called and it's, "Primrose Everdeen" (the sister of Katniss). Katniss was so upset because she had entered her name at least 40 times, and Prim only entered once! She cannot lose her sister.."STOP!!" she shouts. "I volunteer, I VOLUNTEER!!!" The guards holding Prim released her at that moment. Prim runs into the arms of Katniss. Will Katniss survive the deadly arena or will she lose to the other chosen children and lose everything? To find out if she survives, read the book to find out the dangerous fate of Katniss! Submitted by Olivia //__ Sent __// By Margaret Peterson The book is about two boys that were adopted when they were little babies. Twelve years later, they were trapped in a cave in the middle of the woods with a bunch of other kids. One of the boy's sister was in the cave too, but she was not adopted like the other kids. The two boys and the one girl traveled back in time to see where they had come from. All three of them get trapped in a dark room for at least three days. They get into a little trouble while they are stuck in the room and when they finally get out of the room they walk around the royal garden until they hear a church bell. A bunch of people are standing in front of the doors to the church so they have to push their way through. In the church they start to make a plan but they see a secret door. They open the door and go down in to find there are a lot of rooms they look for the smallest room. When they come out they walk for a couple of hours and find a war and have no choice but to walk across the field. They got stuck in the middle of the war. Will they survive or will they die? Read Sent to find out. Submitted by Abbey __A Bear Named Trouble__ by: Marion Dane Bauer

A Bear Named Trouble takes place in a zoo and in the forest. His mother means the world to him. When one day a male bear came in their cave and the mama bear tried to ignore him but the bear got closer and started to wander around. Then the mama bear started to follow the male bear leaving Trouble behind. Find out what happens to Trouble? Will he ever see his mother again? Read this book to find out.

Submitted by Angelina __The Janitor's Boy By: Andrew Clements!__

Every one should read, __The Janitor's Boy__, by Andrew Clements. It is a really good book about this main character named Jack and how he finds this secret key. Four questions I have are: why does Jack find door number 73? Why does it smell like bubble gum? Why does another person live at Jakes school?, how does Jack like being a janitor just like his dad? Why did Jack stick the gum under the music desk? Maybe Jack does not like his dad being the janitor's son. If you want to find out the answers to all those questions then you should read this book __The Janitor's__ Boy, by Andrew Clements!

Submitted by Brianna

A Bear Named Trouble

In the beginning, mama bear told Trouble not to go near humans because you can get killed. Mama bear and baby bear heard someone coming so mama bear was protecting baby bear so he wouldn't get killed. Then mama bear went with the big male in the woods and baby bear went along trying to look for his mom, but she was no where to be seen. Since he was hunting for his mom so long, he got hungry. He had to go hunt for food by himself. Baby bear got to a baby moose and he tried to kill it but the baby moose wouldn't let him. The baby moose hit baby bear in the jaw so now baby bear had to look for mushy food not crunchy food because of his jaw. Next baby bear found a trash can so he ate the food inside of the trash can. One morning Jonathon followed the bear to the zoo and the bear went under the fence but Jonathon stayed behind the fence. The bear saw Mama Goose and the bear went toward Mama Goose and ate Mama Goose. Jonathon was crying really hard because the goose was the only thing Jonathon really cared about in the zoo. Then Jonathon ran home really fast. He went to his dad who was still in bed and said, " The bear ate Mama Goose." Jonathon’s dad told him to stay home for today so he did. The next day Jonathon was at the bus stop and so he saw TV reporters at the zoo. He went to the zoo and he asked his dad, "Where is that bear?" and his father said that he was up there in the woods. So, Jonathon went up there in the woods and he found the bear hiding behind a tree. Jonathon almost got killed because someone was shooting darts at the bear so the bear would be sleepy. Then they took the bear to a zoo in Anchorage. What is the bear going to do at the zoo in Anchorage? I wonder if Jonathon is going to miss him? Submitted by Savannah

YO-YO MA

YO-YO MA by Meish Goldish is about Yo-yo Ma a good cello player. He would play in many places. Yo-yo ma started playing when he was 4 years old. Then he had surgery for his back. Will he make it through the surgery? Will he still play the cello again? If you read this book you will find out. You will also find where he has played and more. You might even hear him play the sweet music and if you see him he gets down with the music. Submitted by Sarah

//SUMMER MAGIC//

//Summer Magic// by Ruth Chew is a good book. In the beginning Sarah and Timothy go to a museum. Tim picked up a flower outside of the museum and he went in the museum the flower smelled so bad. When Sarah looked at the house she rubbed the flower on the glass. Then all of the sudden Sarah and Tim were in the past. The museum was not there. Where are they? Will they get back alive? Are they going to stay there? Read and find out what happens. Trust me, I know you will enjoy it. Submitted by Dylan

The Great Gilly Hopkins By Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins takes place in a small quiet town. Gilly is a foster child who is sent to live with the Trotters. She doesn't like her new foster family. She makes "friends" along the way meets Agnes Stokes, her new enemy. While she is living with the Trotters she gets a letter from her real mom. She is really excited!! Towards the end of the book, she meets her real grandma and her mom is coming to get her. Will Gilly finally see her mom? Will Gilly's mom be what Gilly imagined? Will Gilly decide to stay with the Trotters? Find out in The Great Gilly Hopkins! Submitted by Jillian

Jackie and Me By Dan Gutman

//Jackie and Me//, by Dan Gutman, takes place in Brooklyn, New York, 1942. Joey is doing a school project about a famous African American. He chooses Jackie Robinson. Since Joey can travel through time with baseball cards, he chooses to meet Jackie Robinson. But in that time no African American could play baseball. Could Jackie Robinson be the first African American to play baseball? Or will he suffer pain and consequences? Read //Jackie and Me// and you will find that all out. You won't be dissapointed! Submitted by Landon Riptide

In this great sequal to //Dark Life//, Ty’s parents are captured by Surfs. Ty and Gemma find a sunken land ship in the huge ocean. Who could do this horrible thing, killing thousands of innocent people? This leads our favorite Ty and Gemma back to investigating the water, even though Gemma says she's never going back in. Who could have sank the land ship? Could the Surfs be behind it? Will Ty and Gemma find Ty’s parents? Read this great book to find out!

Submitted by Liam

__Mr. Popper's Penguins__ By Richard and Florence Atwater Mr. Popper's Penguins takes place in the little city of Stillwater on 432 Proudfoot Avenue. Mr. Popper is a house painter and works only during the spring and summer months. Mrs. Popper has been saving enough money to get his family through the fall and winter months. Mr. Popper has a love for penguins. Mr. Popper gets a surprise delivery from his friends in Antarctica. It's a penguin. Mr. Popper wants a handle on the inside of the fridge so the penguin can get in and out also some air holes so the penguin can breath. They don’t have a lot of money left. How will they earn the money? Read the book to find out how they get money! P.S. The penguin did not feel well so they got another penguin, so now they have two! Double trouble!! Submitted by Morgan

Nancy drew My Book is called __Mystery at Lilac Inn__, by Carolyn Keene. Nancy Drew and her friend, Helen, are paddling to Lilac Inn on a canoe where their friend Emily has invited them to stay for her marrige. Lilac Inn was a small, but very pretty place. The gardeners were scattered all over the Inn, planting roses and lilacs all around the building. At dinner, Emily is presented with 20 Diamonds for the Inn her fiancé owns. The next morning Nancy finds out that the diamonds are stolen! Nancy also discovers that her pink dress and License have been stolen too. Is someone trying to set her up? Will Nancy ever find the diamonds? Read __Mystery at__ __Lilac Inn__ to find out! Submitted by Jillian

Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

Thirteen year old Brian Robeson was just heading to the Canadian oil fields to see his dad when suddenly the pilot controlling the plane had a heart attack. Brian had to take control and he had no choice but to crash land the plane. Now he has to survive the rough Canadian forests with only a hatchet to defend him self. Will Brian ever see his dad again? All will be answered if you read this book. Trust me you won’t be disappointed. Submitted by Robert

Dark life

In //Dark Life,// Ty, the main character, is searching a submarine… wait a minute this is the future… not your normal one though… the water has risen over most of the land. Now you know that Ty is searching a sub, he then meets a topsider named Gemma. They quickly become friends and quickly escape the Seablite gang, a band of criminals who have been terrorizing the under sea settlers for weeks. Will Gemma and Ty stop the gang?

Submitted by Liam

**__ Dark life Book 2 Rip Tide __** ** BY Kat Falls **

In this sequel to //Dark life//, Gamma and Ty must save Ty's parents after the township drifts men capture them. Meanwhile in the trash gyre, a few miles from Ty's under water home, Ty discovers the Nomad. It is a town ship sunken under water but not accidentally. It's sabotage. All the exits are chained and anchored to the sea floor. Plus there's no survivors,so it's all Ty's. Are his parents’ kidnapping related to the ship? Is someone out to get the townships citizens or worse... everyone? Is it the seablight gang again? All will be answered at the jaw-dropping ending! If you loved //Dark Life,// read //Rip Tide.// Submitted by Walter