Three Keys by Kelly Yang is a fantastic realistic fiction book for fourth and fifth graders, and is also a sequel of a great book (Front Desk). The Main character is Mia Tang, an 11 year old girl who moved to America from China to work at a motel 3 years ago. At the end of the first book Front Desk, Mia and her family finally own the motel and not their mean boss!!! Also, Mia has to deal with the Calavista Hotel's worried investors. And California's election for Governor is coming up, and with the favored contestant trying to pass a law about Immigrants, everyone in Mia's life is in danger, especially her best friend Lupe. Three Keys is a great book because it tells kids that people are not always nice and caring and in life, There are twists and turns, and it teaches you that you should fight for what you believe in. and you can make a change in everyone’s life. For example, in the book Mia and her friend Lupe go to a protest to protest about Immigration laws and that they should stay in America. Everyone at the protest was making a change, and you can do it too. So in the end, it is a book that is supportive and makes you feel like you can change the world and make it a better place. Recommended by J. Y.
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The book “Raymie Nightingale” by Kate DiCamillo is a great book that is good for kids fourth grade and up. In this realistic fiction book Raymie’s father leaves her and her mom one night and Raymie wants him back, so she tries to get in the newspaper to make her dad see her. Raymie decides to do a beauty pageant and needs a special talent. She calls up her dad's old worker and asks her for help. She suggests doing baton twirling. When Raymie goes to her baton twirling lesson she meets two girls named Louisiana and Beverly who will crack you up! I would recommend this book to anyone who has a heart to laugh. It is the sweetest thing how much these girls care for each other and care for the world. It makes you feel that if these girls can do something, so can you. When you read this book it feels like Raymie, Louisiana, and Beverly are all right there in front of you, and you will realize how special friendship really is. Recommended by A.C. The book “A Mango Shaped Space”, is by Wendy Mass and is a good book for everyone! (It’s one of my favorites.) This book is about a girl named Mia who struggles with having synesthesia (si-nuh-stee-zhuh). Synesthesia is when you hear or see a word or name and then in your mind you see a color. One cool thing is that i have it! It’s fun to have but i don’t really talk about it because not a lot of people have it so i do not want them to feel “left out.” Mia tries to get rid of her synesthesia because it's getting in the way of her math, so she ends up getting a therapist named Dr. Weiss. He tries to help Mia figure out how to get rid of it. Her mom thinks Mia has a brain tumor, but you know she doesn’t. Well I do not want to spoil the book too much for you, so I will wait till you read it. Recommended by T.C. Let me start by saying this is hard for me. I am at no loss of praise for the book; quite the contrary. I am attached to this book so much that my copy’s cover is so incredibly worn it is indecipherable. So much that when this project was assigned my immediate thought I had doubts about. I wasn’t sure I wanted to give up my cherished novel. I wasn’t sure I was ready to share. There is no such thing as Walk Two Moons in a nutshell. It is far more complex than that. First of all, it doesn’t fit into a single genre. When categorized It falls into realistic fiction. Bah. Only if I could segment this story into fifty pieces would I be able to satisfy on the placing. There is just so much value in each and every word, sentence, phrase…. I almost wish it wasn’t so rich. In every handsomely written novel you will read the characters stand in contrast to the back spread. Especially here in this small town in Ohio. Sal is one of her own compared to the local children, yet continues to treasure the Indian in her veins. Brave, ambitious and lost she struggles to maintain faith in the impossible--even if it is just a fish in the air. Sal soon befriends Phoebe, an utterly strange girl with wild tales, annoying comments and suspicions of every passerby of lunacy. Despite this, something about her is a magnet, attracting Sal to her like bees on honey. While Sal is cooped up with her quirky grandparents on a road trip for six days she entertains them with the outrageous story of Phoebe, her disappearing mother and the lunatic. As Sal sees Phoebe’s story following the path hers took she begins to see the reflection of the events mirrored back to her through Phoebe. And while she notices this she realizes that what happened with her mother was not her fault. That a person is not a bird and that you can’t cage a person. I am so so much about this book. Sharon Creech's exceeding style of writing is a personal favorite that is tossed with humor, sadness, metaphors, emotion, mysteries and cliffhangers. The characters are funny, cute, relatable, and distinct. The plot is never in a straight line. Each bend conquered reveals new things to ponder. No matter what your reading bygone is I would recommend this book. It is short and simple, but still contains all the qualities of a longer book. The chapters are never too lengthy, so a stopping point will never be hard to find. I got over my greed to share this with you, so I ask you to please not take it in vain. Share it with others; everyone deserves a chance to read this gorgeous novel. But for now, you have your own favorite and I have mine. They don’t have to be the same. In the end, everyone is happy. As Gram would say: "Huzza, huzza." Recommended by C.B. |
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