New Books in the Library
Hello, again. I have enjoyed reading the comments of students who have joined the discussions that I have started.
Now I’m going to give you a chance to begin posting your opinions of the new books that are going up in the “Good Books” display. If you check out a book that has the message “I’m New…Blog Me,” please tell us what you think. Reply to this posting and then I will separate your comment so that others can respond to it.
Was it a “good” book? What makes you say so? Tell us about a scene or a character just don’t give away the whole story! If you did not particularly care for it. tell me why. Maybe you can suggest the type of reader for whom it might be appealing. Sign your post with your first name and last initial. Here is an example:
I just finished a new book by Gary Paulsen called The Legend of Bass Reeves. Who did you think were the heroes of the Wild West? Wyatt Earpe? Kit Carson? According to Paulsen the only true hero was an escaped slave who became a U.S. Marshall when he was 51 years old. Since there is not much written research on Bass Reeves, Paulsen calls his book “a true and fictional account.” In one scene, Bass comes face to face with a Comanche warrior with two fresh scalps on his spear. He was a fugitive surviving in Indian Territory until the Emancipation Proclamation made him a free man. As a marshall he brought dozens of criminals to justice, killed fourteen men in the line of duty but was never shot even though he never opened fire unless his opponent fired first.
Gary Paulsen is known for his gritty, survival stories. This one is based on the life of a man who dealt with the injustices in his own life and became an icon of fair-play in a wild and wooly time.
Mrs. H.
Drums,Girls and Dangerous Pie, is an awesome book, it’s sad but really cool too. Also a group of books that is really good is the books about Alice, and her brother Lester and dad Ben there really cool books and i’ve been reading lots!
I read a really good book called “Abduction” by Peg Kehret. It is about a little boy who is stolen from his mother by his drunken dad (they are divorced)…. It is full of adventure and action. You can’t put this book down!
I have read all of the the Lemony Snicket books called “The Series of Unfortunate Events” The whole series is great and very different than any other book in the library. The author tried to make it eerie by making each book have 13 chapters and he will only make 13 books. There are 3 small children and there parents die because there house mysteriously catches on fire.There is also a very very evil relative that is only taking them in to get there enormous fortune.
These books are interesting because at the end of each book it leaves you with suspence and question. You also want to find out what these poor kids have to go through next and what they are going to do to try and defeat or get away from Count Olaf.