Leaving Gees Bend, by Irene Latham

This book is about a girl named Ludelphia Bennett who is blind in one eye. The story takes place in Alabama in 1932. She has to go get help after her mother gets sick from having a baby. She has to walk a long way with no shoes.

Ludelphia goes and gets Etta Mae to help, but everyone thought Etta Mae was a witch and made Ludelphia's mother sick.

My favorite part is when Ludelphia and Etta Mae scare off Mrs. Cobb, who is a mean lady.

Other parts I like are when Ludelphia has to start her quilt over again because her story is different. Every quilt tells a story.

My favorite character is Rose, the baby. Ludelphia named Rose.

I give this book :) :) :) :) :) (5 out of 5 happy faces). I recommend this book for people who like brave girls.

The Roar, by Emma Clayton

This book is about a twin sister named Ellie who got kidnapped and who everyone thought was dead. Ellie's twin brother, Mika, actually had a feeling that Ellie was still alive and started to look for her. This book is fantasy and takes place in the future.

My favorite part is when Mika figured out that the Animal Plague was just a lie.

Other parts I like are when Mika was looking for Ellie and actually went over "The Wall" to search for her and it was one of the most dangerous things to do .

My favorite character is Mika because he has an imaginary dog friend, Awen, and he followed him wherever Mika was and kept brushing Mika's legs.

I give this book :) :) :) :) (4 out of 5 happy faces). I recommend this book for people who like danger and have sisters.

The Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse

This book is about a girl named Mila who lived with the dolphins and people found her and taught her to act and talk like a human. In the end, she goes back with the dolphins.

My favorite part is when Mila goes back to the dolphins! Mila is also my favorite character.

Other parts I like are when the other girl Shay comes to learn to talk also.

I give this book :) :) :) :) (4 out of 5 happy faces). I recommend this book for people who love dolphins!

Dessert First, by Hallie Durand

This book is about a girl named Dessert and she fought to eat dessert first. Later, she finds some Double-Decker Chocolate Bars in the fridge and eats them all! The bars were for her Grandma`s birthday! Then she has an idea!

My favorite part was when she had her idea to make more Double-Decker Chocolate Bars. The book even has the recipe!

Other parts I liked are when Dessert gives up dessert for the Doody drive.

My favorite character was Dessert because she is funny.

I give this book :) :) :) :) :) (5 out of 5 happy faces!) I recommend this book for people who like dessert.

Eyes on the Goal, by John Coy

This book is about four friends who like to play soccer and go to a soccer camp. They were separated into three groups: Cosmos (level 1, easy); Solar Systems (level 2, medium); and Universe (level3, Hard).

My favorite part was when all of the four friends got to be in the final soccer All-Star game.

Other parts I liked are when a character nicknamed "Gus" got the director of the camp to put all the four friends on the same team for the soccer All-Star game.

My favorite character was a kid named Isaiah because he was a really good soccer player on the easy teams.

I give this book :) :) :) :) :) (5 out of 5 happy faces.) I recommend this book for people who love sports and soccer.

Leo and the Lesser Lion, by Sandra Forrester

This book is about a family that was happy until Leo their son drowned and died. Their daughter, Mary Bayliss, drowns too but comes back from the dead. She says, "I don't remember dying." After Leo's drowning, everybody's life changes.

My favorite part was when the family adopts two girls, Gwen (8 yrs old) and Isabel (5 yrs old), and they made everybody happy again.

I really liked the character Mary Bayliss because she was very interested in explorers and then changed her mind, all of a sudden, to become a nun, and then changed her mind back again to want to become an explorer. She helped take care of the two girls and fought to keep them together.

I give this book :) :) :) :) :) (five out of five happy faces!). I recommend this book for people who like helping others.

Brooklyn Nine, by Alan Gratz

This book is about a family whose love of baseball comes from all the way back to 1845 when the family came from Germany to America.

My favorite part was when a person named Michael Flint was pitching a perfect game and when, at the last of the 7th part, it says that the ball left his hand and was spinning right to the strike zone.

Other things I liked about this book are that it has a whole history of nine people in the same family over all the years from 1845 to 2002.

My favorite character was Snider Flint because he tried to learn all about a special bat that was made in the Civil War.

I give this book :) :) :) :) :) (five out of five happy faces!). I recommend this book for people who love baseball.