Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator By Jennifer Allison

Since Gilda Joyce's dad died, she has been driven to a state of mind where she speaks or communicates with the so called "other side". Then the ideal opportunity strikes when she has to visit her awkward cousins in San Francisco. A tortured ghost just starts roaming around their creepy Victorian mansion, and on top of that, her uncle seems to be hiding a handful of secrets ever since his sister committed suicide. So Gilda and her cousin Juliet decide to work to uncover family secrets and their findings are a lot to take in and Gilda Joyce's life might just change.                                                                                                                                                             By Rokibat ****

SKELETON CREEK By Patrick Carman

             Ryan wants to find all about Skeleton Creek but his friend Sarah is leading that dream in a dangerous path. After getting sent to the hospital a few times, Ryan gets separated from Sarah and is not allowed to talk to her anymore. When they keep trying to meet up. Ryan breaks his leg. Will Ryans mom figure out they were still communicating? Or will it keep it a secret and more disastrous stuff will happen? CRUNCH!

             The main character struggling was Ryan.

             Ryan was struggling with Sarah because he kept trying to persuade her not to go to Skeleton Creek again but she wouldn't listen.

             Ryan changed by at the start of the story he didn't take Skeleton Creek and Sarah that seriously but at the end he realized Skeleton Creek had more to it then the "machine", the forest itself and the town.

             Ryan's struggle with Sarah trying to keep her safe is like when I have a "talk" when she does something bad and I talk to her about it but she ignores me.


              Rating ***

              Ittai
     

THE HIDDEN STAIR CASE by Carolyn Keene

A 18 year old girl who is now about to be tied up on another mistirous case for a hunted house. Just as there about to new case a person comes and warns them Nancy and her house keeper Hannah beware your father is in danger. Nancy is getting  closer and closer to finding out the mystery of the hunted house for Mrs.Flora and her Aunt Rose Mary, and then the information was pilling up and up and up and CRASH!!!!!!!BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The ceiling comes crashing down on everyone and you would not even believe how fast it was as fast as as blink of a eye.........................................................Will everything go ok with the dad? Or will Nancy stop or will she figure out this mystery?

One thing that she was struggling with is when the whole ceiling came crashing down on her.

2 big conflicts in the store is she is worried about her dad that he is really in danger and the hunted house for her Aunt and Mrs.Flora so she had two cases on her hands

When I read this store there where not so many changes to the characters the Aunt Mrs.Flora  the dad and Nancy the main character.

I related a lot but one that stuck out to me was when Mrs.Flora saw a pair of eyes and was really frightened
and a person who I know is easily frightened too

RATING: ****

Julia

Day Of Doom By: David Baldacci

Amy and Dan has just gave the Vespers the last piece,and they didn't let the hostages go. Turns out they are using the stuff Amy and Dan stole for them to build a doomsday machine. Amy, Dan, and friends of theirs race against the clock to turn off the doomsday machine. They also have to find out who the mysterious Vesper 1 who has put this plan altogether. Can they save the world (Again)? Find who Vesper 1 is? Defeat the bad guys (For the millionth time)? Try not to get killed (by their parents killer and henchmen)? And save the hostages, Before it's too late?!!!

There was no struggle for the main character or for any of the characters.

The main characters didn't change.

The main characters didn't remind me of myself


RATING: ******

        

THE RUNAWAY RACEHORSE BY Ron Roy

THE RUNAWAY RACEHORSE: Ron Roy
By Alvin

The three kids, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose, are off on a train to Forest’s house to see a very fast racehorse named Whirlaway run in Saratoga Springs. Dink’s Uncle Warren is also there. Warren and Forest both own the racehorse. When the kids ask if they can see Whirlaway in the shed they find out that Whirlaway is gone. After he and the kids find Whirlaway in the shed, but he started acting weird. Whirlaway backed away from his jockey, Sunny. He was usually friendly to her! On the day of the race in Saratoga, Whirlaway suddenly was very slow. He came in last to the finish in the race. The winner of the race is a horse named Dancer. The kids took a picture with the winner with the jockey and the horse's owner. At Forest’s home when the kids got their pictures from the drugstore they found out Dancer and Whirlaway are exactly alike except one has a dimond shape on his forehead(which is "Whirlaway") and one has shoe polish to cover the diamond shape on his head(which is "Dancer"). But why? Then Dink found out that the horse that Sunny rode wasn't Whirlaway--- Dancer is-- they switched names. Ruth Rose found out that the man in the picture was Mr. Bunks, Dancer's owner. Maybe Mr. Bunks had something to do with this. Then Josh came up with a conclusion, Whirlaway doesn't like sugar, so if Dancer eats the sugar cube, the kids will know this horse is not Whirlaway. Dancer didn't want the sugar, so they knew this was actually Whirlaway and Dink rubbed off the shoe polish on Whirlaway revealing a diamond shape. Whirlaway and Dancer are twins. When the police found out about this, they arrested Mr. Bunks and Forest got his horse back.

TIMMY FAILURE by Stephan Pastis

I liked the part when they told about the bunny Dickey it was weird who would 

name there bunny Dickey and the weird thing is hes in a bank.

Timmy has a struggle with making new friends.

He has trouble talking to other people when he makes new friends in his school or in his nabore hood.

Timmy made new friends in his school his behavior was a little better then what is was before and he did better.

he reminds me of my friend hes sometimes bad but not all of the times.

**** 

Pedro    

GHOST HORSES by Gloria Skurzynski

The main idea is when a mom geologist found something strange going on with the horses in the Chloride herd. Jack and Ashlia's mom puts the kids in a foster care.  Awhile later the mom comes and picks Jack and Ashlia up from the foster care and also takes two other kids from the foster care.

The kids struggle sometimes to help there mom with important things.

The mom struggles to keep all of the kids safe and the kids are doing there best to get along.

At the begining of the story the mom wasn't mechin as much as she was at the end of the story like for example, the mom was getting mechin in the middle of the story.

My mom relates to this character because she is always hard at work.

RATING:****

logan

GILDA JOYCE PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR - Jennifer Allison

        In this book Gilda Joyce told her class, she as going to San Francisco for the summer. When Gilda's father died she wanted to communicate with her father. When she arrives in San Francisco at her long lost cousin's house she figures out about Juliet's aunt. They struggle to become friends and try to figure out family secrets.

            Gilda the main character struggles to become friends with her cousin Juliet.

      The struggle for Gilda was Juliet. Juliet broke her ankle and she would only lay in her bed and wouldn't come out of her room. Juliet even didn't come down for dinner she would eat eggs and celery. Also the first time she time they talked Gilda asked about Juliet's foot she slammed the door on Gilda's face.

   Gilda change during the book because in the beginning Gilda was on her typewriter almost every second of the day typing about Juliet or her father besides at dinner time and other times but during end she started to get more and more involved with the mystery of Juliet's aunt Melanie. Also in the begging they hated each other but near the end they starred making friends with Juliet. They started to begin to solve the mystery together and try to be as sneaky as possible so Juliet's father, Mr. splinter wouldn't catch them.

     Gilda struggle was becoming friends with her long lost cousin Juliet. That relates to a problem I had because sometimes my cousin are sometimes a little crazy. But like Gilda they still love each other.

RATING: ****

Sophie



      

SMELLS LIKE PIRATES by Suzanne Selfors

This 12 year old boy named Homer W. Pudding has been accepted to a secret treasure hunting organization called L.O.S.T . His book has a map to the greatest treasure of all time. But he is not the only one who's trying to get it this girl thief named Lorelei who's trying to destroy L.O.S.T and tale all the treasure for her self. When Homer visits Lorelei in her new lair she was talking to two former women who worked for L.O.S.T, they still are but there spies and theirs for Lorelei. Finally when they were gone, Lorelei acted  like Homers friend. Te two agreed that they would split the treasure 50/50 but there's one thing that still isn't figured out...will Lorelei betray Homer in the end?  Nobody knows. mwahahah!!!!

The main character does not change in the book.

Homer struggles to get his hidden map.

Rating *****

By Cameron

CHET GECKO THE BIG NAP by Bruce Hale

Chet Gecko is about a gecko and a mockingbird who get a report that some one is acting like a zombie. Chet the gecko starts noticing some more zombies. One question remains...who is the ZOMBIEMASTER?

Chet Gecko does not change throughout the book.

I relate to Waldo because I have been accused for something I didn't do. 

RATING: ***

By Lochan

THE OWL KEEPER by Christine Brodien

The plot of this book is that their is a special town with a special tree could the owl tree that has special powers. and that tree has a owl keeper that takes care of all the silver owls.

The main characters  names are Max, Rose and Gran.

The main struggle is that Max finds out that two people are trying to turn him into a monster.and that the town wants to tear down the owl tree.

The main character changed  by becoming more mature.

RATING: ******

I relate to the main character  and I have been in things that have been hard to overcome.

Reed

CAM JANSEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN DIAMONDS by David Adler

Cam, Eric and Howie are at the mall waiting for Eric's mom to come out.

Cam, Eric and Howie chased the man because the fat man stole some diamonds from Parkers Jewelry store. Cam and Howie got caught by the robbers.

The house got surrounded by the cops and the couple and the fat man got arrested.

I just liked this book...I thought it was interesting and it moved quickly.
    Jordan

The baby cried a lot and it was funny.
    Jake

THE SECRET PANEL Franklin W. Dixon

Frank and Joe try to solve 3 mysteries. 1 includes a gang of television thefts, and 1 about a pick-lock, and one about a mansion with no locks. The Hardy s go through many tight situation including their aunt coming to stay at their house. How can they solve their mystery with their picky aunt hanging over their heads? Team up with Frank and Joe hardy to solve these baffling mysteries!

The main character in conflict with another character is Frank and Joe

Frank and Joe struggle to solve the three mysteries. There are multiple problems throughout the book but one of them is getting stuck behind a secret panel. While working on the 3 mysteries the Hardy boys get kidnapped and shut behind a secret panel with no way to get out!

I did not see any change in the main character throughout the story.

I didn't relate to there struggles because I have never gotten kidnapped neither has my friend been kidnapped.

*****  

THE DOLLHOUSE MURDERS by Betty Ren Wright

This book is about Amy, a girl whose dolls are never in the same spot. Every night she hears noises; her sister doesn't care. Amy drags her along. They hear stories about the murders of her grandparents. Join Amy and her sister on a thrilling adventure as they find out the truth about the dollhouse murders.

Amy was in conflict with nature because she was trying to figure out the truth about the dollhouse murders.

In the beginning she was scared for example, "I've never been so scared on my life". At the end she wants to find and isn't as scared for example "In the attic". She would never go in the attic in the beginning and now she does.

This book doesn't relate to me because I've never had any experiences with ghosts!

RATING: *****

Michael

SMELLS LIKE TREASURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Suzanne Selfors

Homer is an ordinary boy who's uncle is a treasure hunter when Homer finds a letter in the mail that says ''your time has come'' he knows whats coming.His uncle being in a secret society is long gone so Homer takes it upon himself to join with Zelda a woman with giantizm and dog, a mutt that can only smell lost treasure help him on his way? Lorily ,a rival treasure hunter challenges him for his spot. l.o.s.t cant decide who to pick so they send Homer and Lorily on a quest to find the coin anywhere in the world. Will Homer find it and claim his rightful place in l.o.s.t?

RATING: ?????

GILDA JOYCE THE LADIES OF THE LAKE Jennifer Allison

In my book Gilda Joyce (the main character) is going to an all girls school. Lots of people say the school has the ghost of  a girl named Dolores Lambert that died by drowning in a frozen lake. Throughout the book Gilda was trying to find more information about Dolores Lambert. In the book Gilda goes around the school and tries to ask some people some questions about Dolores or they tell Gilda a time of when they saw the ghost of Dolores Lambert roaming around the school.

The main character was Gilda Joyce and she struggled with another character .

Throughout the story Gilda struggles to find out more about the ghost of  Dolores Lambert and what the ghost did around the school.

At the end of the book Gilda signed up for a paper writer club to write about the ghost and what scary things it does around the school.

Gilda is like me because I think it's fun to read mystery books or to do it because it is like being a detective trying to figure out a problem.

RATING: ****

Olivia

THE GREAT HAMSTER MASSACRE by Katie Davies

Anna and Tom wanted a pet for a long time. After years of begging their mom finally caves in. So their mom gave them the option of hamsters but so Tom & Anna said yes to getting the hamster but soon after they got them both of the hamsters die.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The main charterers  are Tom, Anna and Suzanne                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The problem for the main charterers is they don't know what happened too the poor hamsters.                                                                                                                                                                                     The characters did not change during the story.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           I did not relate to this story in any way
RATING: ????

Nick

THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW By Wilma Yeo

 Kiley Mulligan Culver is a babysitter for a little rich girl named Leedie Ann Alcott (About 5 years old). One day when Kiley came home from school  she saw police cars all around the Alcott house, her dad told her that Leedie Ann had gone missing. At first everyone thought she was just lost, but then after a year, people think she was kidnapped. Now Kiley found out there is someone in Leedie Ann's bedroom, is  Leedie Ann or is it her ghost.

 The main character is Kliey Mulligan Culver

 The conflict is that Leedie Ann was missing and Kiley was all alone. Her Best Friend, Sarah loved her, but Sarah's mother...not so much. So her mom said '' Sarah isn't aloud to  be near Kiley or friends with Kiley.

 When Sarah left Kiley, Kiley was lonely, Sarah's mom hated her and at the end of the book Sarah's mom thought about how Kiley found and saved Leedie Ann.

Rating: *****      

                                                     Adriana

THE TROUBLE WITH CHICKENS by Doreen Cronin

Plot: A dog named J.J. Met a chicken named Moosh. Behind Moosh there were 2 chicks named Dirt and Sugar. There were two other chicks named Poppy and Sweetie but they went missing. It was J.J.'s job to find out where they went.

Conflict: J.J. Was in conflict with Vince because Vince stole the Poppy and Sweetie and he had to find a way to get them back.

Character change: The conflict for J.J. Is that it that Poppy and Sweetie go missing and J.J. Has to look in his enemy's house to see if the chicks are there.

Relate: The main character changed through the book because at the beginning of the book he didn't really care about the chickens because in the beginning on page 5 it said " her name was Millicent. I called her Moosh, just because it was easier to say and it seemed to annoy her." At the end of the book His feelings  definitely changed because at the end he wanted to help the chickens. In the book on page 63 it says "We practiced RHBWR for an hour." His feelings definitely changed.

Rating: ****

Abby

THE 39 CLUE THE MAZE OF BONES By Rick Riordan

               
                          Dan and Amy Cahill were chosen from one of the many people to come in the great hall to their grandmother's will who is now buried, Grace Cahill. The people had choices to get either $1,000,000 or go on a quest that will make them the most powerful living being in the world. Amy and Dan picked the quest and now they don't know what's in front of them.

                          One of the problems Amy and Dan had was competitors. There were people like Jonah Wizard, Ian and Natalie Kabra, Alstair Oh, Irina Spasky, and the Starlings, Ted, Ned, and Sinead.


                           The problem that Amy and Dan has had was they were targeted. Everybody knew Dan and Amy were Grace Cahill's favorites of all. Every person knows who to get stuff and find information from, Dan and Amy.



                                                                     Tomo