By Wendy Mass
Alli was raised on a camp ground. Her parents bought the site because there was going to be a full eclipse there. The eclipse is in two weeks and after it, she's moving back to California. Bree is a city girl with parents that study space. Her family is taking over the camp ground after the eclipse. In the two weeks before the eclipse these girls make unexpected friends and a hope for the future.
This book was amazing! I give it a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
September 23, 2010
September 21, 2010
Weedflower
By Cynthia Kadohata
Sumiko was a farm girl who happily lived with her aunt, uncle, little brother and two cousins. She always helped her family on their farm in California. She was the only Japanese girl in her entire school. She barely had any friends and even if she did she was too busy to play with them. Then World War II broke out. Sumiko and her family were anxious. If the Japanese attacked, it would end badly for the Japanese-Americans. Then there was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Officers came and took Sumiko's uncle and grandfather to a camp in North Dakota. Slowly, all the Japanese families were evacuated from California. With the rest of her family, Sumiko was sent to a temporary home at a race track, then on to a camp in Arizona. There Sumiko meets an unexpected friend and learns a thing or two about life.
This book was amazing! I love Kadohata's work! She is amazing! This book gets a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
Sumiko was a farm girl who happily lived with her aunt, uncle, little brother and two cousins. She always helped her family on their farm in California. She was the only Japanese girl in her entire school. She barely had any friends and even if she did she was too busy to play with them. Then World War II broke out. Sumiko and her family were anxious. If the Japanese attacked, it would end badly for the Japanese-Americans. Then there was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Officers came and took Sumiko's uncle and grandfather to a camp in North Dakota. Slowly, all the Japanese families were evacuated from California. With the rest of her family, Sumiko was sent to a temporary home at a race track, then on to a camp in Arizona. There Sumiko meets an unexpected friend and learns a thing or two about life.
This book was amazing! I love Kadohata's work! She is amazing! This book gets a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
September 19, 2010
A Corner of the Universe
By Ann M. Martin
Hattie Owen was a normal girl in the 60's. She lived in a small town, went to school daily, and her family owned a boarding house. But everything changed that one summer. She finds out she has another uncle who is 21. Hattie's grandparents shipped him away to a school for the mentally challenged when he was 12 and now that school is closing down. His name is Adam and he an ecstatic, fun-loving man that wants nothing more than to have a friend and repeat I Love Lucy lines. He had a special way of taking everything normal and flipping it upside down. After that summer, Hattie will be changed forever.
This book was very good at the end but it kind of dragged in the beginning. I give it a 3 out of 5 * * *
Hattie Owen was a normal girl in the 60's. She lived in a small town, went to school daily, and her family owned a boarding house. But everything changed that one summer. She finds out she has another uncle who is 21. Hattie's grandparents shipped him away to a school for the mentally challenged when he was 12 and now that school is closing down. His name is Adam and he an ecstatic, fun-loving man that wants nothing more than to have a friend and repeat I Love Lucy lines. He had a special way of taking everything normal and flipping it upside down. After that summer, Hattie will be changed forever.
This book was very good at the end but it kind of dragged in the beginning. I give it a 3 out of 5 * * *
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