Reviews by Kids!

Reviews by Sophia, age 10.


From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L Konigsburg.
Have you ever thought of running away from your parents? Well in this book Claudia is a girl who is going to run away from her parents and she gets her brother to go with her.They run to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Then they come upon a mystery which you will find out in the book. This is a great book.



The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall.

Have you ever thought of staying in a summer house, which is next to a mean garden freak? Well, in this book, Jane, Skye, Rosalind, and Batty, and their Dad and Dog, they all do. Whenever they go into their neighbors yard and she catches them, she yells at them. They meet their neighbors son, and he is nice, but his Mom wants to send him to a military academy, that his Grandfather had gone too. What the four girls and the one boy are trying to do, is to make the boys parents to let him stay at home, he doesn't want to go to the boarding school. They try, and try... and you'll see what happens!

Mazer, Norma Fox (2007). Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear. 148 pages. Grades 4-6.



Have you ever imagined what life might be like without your annoying sibling? Meet Sprig, a ten-year-old girl, who imagines the many ways in which she could get rid of her older sister, Dakota, who constantly teases and bosses her around. But, when their father leaves for work in Afghanistan, the sisters grow closer together through their mutual concern for his safety.

The Penderwicks are back!

Birdsall, Jeanne (2008). The Penderwicks on Gardam Street. 308 pages. Grades 4-8.

Jane, Skye, Rosalind, Batty, and hound, of course, are back in the sequel to The Penderwicks! When Aunt Claire arrives with a letter for their father written before their mother passed away, the girls are not happy to learn that their mother intended for their father to start dating.

They immediately hold an emergency meeting in which they plan to sabatoge the dating effort by finding the worst possible dates for their dad. But, when they meet their next door neighbor, Iantha, one of the Penderwicks imagines what it would be like to have her as a mother. In addition to the "Save the Daddy" plan, Skye and Jane switch homework assignments and suffer the consequences, albeit mostly humorous ones. Join the Penderwicks in this laugh out-loud sequel and find out if they manage to deter their father from dating or if they're in for a surprise.

Watch out Brothers Grimm, here come the Sisters Grimm!

Buckley, Michael (2005). The Fairy Tale Detectives. (The Sisters Grimm, bk. 1) 284 pages. Grades 4-6.


Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sisters who have been sent to live with their grandmother, whom they believed was dead. Their parents have been missing for over 2 years and they have lost hope of being reunited with them. When they arrive at their grandmother's home, Sabrina and Daphne find themselves in a fairy tale world complete with pixies, Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk), the Three Little Pigs, and of course Prince Charming. Before they have a chance to settle in, the Grimm family is on the case of a giant who has crushed a farmer's home. But, before the sisters can learn more about this unusal world and their new family,
their grandmother is kidnapped by the giant and the Grimm sisters must save her!