The book is very amazing because it had a lot of sports that are not very popular. It is also very interesting. I would recommend it for everybody. If you aren’t into sports, you can still learn a ton of different sports. I learned about a bunch of new sports that I didn’t even know existed. I would definitely say it’s a 10 out of 10 book. It is a page turning book.
Review by Abigail
Trash revolution by Erica Fyvie and Bill Slavin is a good book for anyone who likes science or can’t find anything else to read. If you give it a try, you will like it.Trash revolution is about how different things are made, new things that will make our environment safer in the future, and what we can do now to prevent pollution and save the earth. Highly recommended. Includes index, glossary, and more information pages.
Review by Barrett
The book Locked up for freedom by Heather E. Schwartz is a nonfiction text which tells an unbelievable story about a group of girls who survive through the worst times in 1963. They were locked up for fighting for their rights as free women. They only had one shower for more than thirty people. They had overflowing toilets with human feces pouring out but they survived the worst of it to see how their world would change for the better. The book has many photos that tell the story about how it was, it also had captions to help explain the photos. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars (for a nonfiction book) because of how much it pulled me in with the intriguing thought of what life was like for people protesting for their right to be actually free.
Review by Sophie
What would you do if you and your family had to flee the place where you lived, carrying only the things you could fit in a backpack? If you stayed, you would almost certainly be killed, and if you run… you may die anyway. Refugee, by Alan Gratz, is a novel that follows three teenagers who flee with their families from their countries that are torn apart by violence and political turmoil. The reader follows each of the characters as they encounter hardship after hardship, facing insurmountable odds. By the last 100 pages, the reader can’t put the book down, because the situations the characters find themselves in are incredibly dire. Death is on the line, and there appears to be no end in sight.
Refugee is a powerful book for helping readers understand the struggles and dangers refugees and immigrants face as they face horrific odds in order to find a safe place to live with their families. You will feel frustration, anger, and fear… even as you cheer wildly for these characters to succeed. There are moments of loss and grief along the way. Be prepared to feel all the emotions as you set sail with Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud in search for a new homeland.
Review by Elizabeth Cornelious
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator was published on the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. This biography reads like a gothic novel, and shocks the reader with stories of scandal, family disownment, adultery, out of wedlock pregnancies, miscarriages, suicide, blackmail, and a very strange love story. The reader learns that Mary was mistreated by her step mother and denied the opportunity to attend school. She educated herself by reading books from her father’s extensive library and was frequently found reading by her mother’s grave. Eloping at the age of sixteen with the married Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, both Mary and Percy were disowned by their parents and struggled to support themselves and their children.
While dining with the British poet Lord Byron, Mary got the inspiration for her story of a mad scientist who brings a corpse back to life. Frankenstein was published when Mary was only twenty. Fame and success greeted her, but so also did great grief and despair. Mary was widowed at the age of twenty-four when Percy drowned in a sailing accident.
Her biography reads like a Gothic novel, full of one disaster after another, ending with her own death, from brain cancer, at the age of 53. In a final morbid, but dramatically romantic act, her son had her buried along with the ashes of her husband’s cremated heart; a keepsake she had wrapped in poems and locked in her desk drawer for the twenty-nine years since his death.
The American Sign Language teacher at River Ridge High School reviewed this book and found it to be inadequate. She says it very much needs to be accompanied by a DVD that has a person forming the symbols, which the ASL textbook used in high school classes does have.
The book contains units on using sign language with young children, using sign language to manage the classroom and teach social skills, sign language for babies, sign language for toddler, sign language for preschoolers, and sign language for an inclusive classroom. There is also an appendix with ASL picture books, resources, and stories for early childhood classrooms.
I am enjoying this new series of science books for young readers dealing with insects. INSECTS UP CLOSE give amazing photos of the insect in question along with the text in large font. There are usually two sentences per page turn. The sentences have between 4 to 9 words per sentence. The book is divided into three parts : What are Milkweed Bugs?, Life on the Plant, and From Egg to Adult!, prior to the small glossary, website, and index.
This is an insect with which I am not familiar. They are black and orange and live on and near milkweed. The book’s inset shows the milkweed bug’s body to be about 1.3 cm long. Their body changes from egg to adult are not as spectacular as those of a moth, or butterfly, or mosquito.
I am enjoying this new series of science books for young readers dealing with insects. INSECTS UP CLOSE give amazing photos of the insect in question along with the text in large font. There are usually two sentences per page turn. The sentences have between 4 to 9 words per sentence. The book is divided into three parts : What are Mosquitoes?, Mosquito Life, and From Water to Air, prior to the small glossary, website, and index.
It just might be a tie as to which is worse- a mosquito in real life or a giant enlarged one in a photo. The colorful compound eyes and spikes on legs and antennae will keep the readers attention glued on the photos. There are also photos of mosquito pupae and larva.
I am enjoying this new series of science books for young readers dealing with insects. INSECTS UP CLOSE give amazing photos of the insect in question along with the text in large font. There are usually two sentences per page turn. The sentences have between 4 to 9 words per sentence. The book is divided into three parts : What are Termites?, Life in the Nest, and Growing Up, prior to the small glossary, website, and index.
The reader will see a termite queen, workers, soldiers, and nymphs. There is also a nest with termites and a huge termite nest taller than a person.
I am enjoying this new series of science books for young readers dealing with insects. INSECTS UP CLOSE give amazing photos of the insect in question along with the text in large font. There are usually two sentences per page turn. The sentences have from 4 to 9 words per sentence. The book is divided into three parts : What are Moths?, Moth Life, and From Caterpillar to Moth, prior to the the small glossary, website, and index.
Moths have scales on their wings, but the photo of the scales clarify this concept. The moth’s feathery antennae, which help it to smell, are shown along with their (what looks like a) furry body. The reader is also treated to close-up of a cocoon beside a moth, as well as, an insert showing an outline of a io moth’s actual size.
Simply amazing! I will never look at moths the same way again.