The Wednesday War

     By Gary D. Schmidt

       I have read the book The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The story is based on months instead of chapters but the months are like chapters but longer.The story is about a student named Holling HoodHood and a teacher named Mrs.Baker. At the beginning of the story, which is Holling's first day at school, Holling starts to be hated by Mrs. Baker. An example of Mrs.Baker hating Holling was when the class were doing sentence structure. Mrs. Baker was giving short sentences to the other students but when Mrs. Baker gave Holling his sentence it was very long. About three months into the school year there is a cream puff mix up and Holling ended up having to give the class cream puffs.There is a lot of Shakespeare in the book since Mrs. Baker likes Shakespeare and also because Holling stays in the afternoon on Wednesday. During all of this there is a war going in Vietnam. Mrs. Baker's husband is in the war and he has been missing for about three months during the books. On the last month of the school year Mrs. Baker takes the class camping even though she hates camping. She does it anyway because they have found her husband and since she took her previous classes, she decided to take this one too.

By Kelly

The Mystery at Lilac Inn By: Carolyn Keen

The Mystery at Lilac Inn is the fourth book in the Nancy Drew series. Nancy and her friend Helen go to visit their friend Emily at an Inn that she recently bought. Emily's fiance, Dick, was in New York advertising the Inn. Nancy and Helen were going to be Emily's bridesmaids. Nancy heard about a mystery that involved rumors of Lilac Inn being haunted. Many dangerous things happened such as a spear and rock being thrown at Nancy, the cottage Helen and Nancy were staying in being time-bombed, and Helen being knocked out. Nancy was impersonated by a person who pretended to be four people too! The result of the thieves of Emily's diamonds, bad employment choices, and betrayers to the inn will be very shocking!

Mockingjay

I just finished the final book in The Hunger Games Series: Mockingjay. It was mainly about the districts in war with the Capital. The capital rescued certain people from the Catching Fire arena such as Peeta Mellark. The Capital tries to use Peeta against  Katniss who was currently in District thirteen, which is located underground. Thirteen rescued Beetee and Katniss from the arena. First, Katniss and her best friend from district twelve, Gale, go to District eight to see the wounded. While they are leaving the hospital, the capital drops more bombs, not knowing Katniss is there. Katniss is told to retreat through her earpiece but takes it off and tries to take down Capital hovercrafts. Gale joins her and they shoot down many; Katniss with her bow and arrow and Gale by her side. When the Capital retreats, Katniss and Gale go back to thirteen's hovercraft. Back at thirteen, a rescue group has just left to go save Peeta and Johanna Mason. Gale joined them and came back all alive with both Peeta and Johanna. Peeta has been tortured by the Capital with Tracker Jacker venom ( wasps) and is now hallucinating that everything bad that has happened to him is her fault. The biggest thing he blames on her was making the capital burn district twelve killing his family and friends. Thirteen cures Peeta while sending him to training for war with Johanna and Katniss. He has guards with him wherever he goes. The war begins and everyone in training goes to fight the Capital. The war goes on until there is a winner. You have to read the book to find out what happens to everyone.

The Candy Shop War

Hello, I just finished a very memorable book called the Candy Shop War. Sorry, I have no idea how to underline words on blogs. I remember thinking it was going to be very boring and drawn out at first, but I was quickly proven wrong. The author is Brandon Mull, who also wrote the Fablehaven series. I loved this book because of the witty jokes that are spread evenly through every chapter, the amazing description that told just enough for you to easily vision the character or event, but still allowed you to use your imagination to fill in the blanks. The book is mainly about a boy named Nate and his friends, Pigeon, Summer, and Trevor. They start off as an unsuccessful treasure hunting group, but everything changes dramatically when the four meet Mrs.White, a suspiciously kind old lady who is opening her own candy shop. She "accidentally" let's slip that she has magic candy, and soon both you and the characters are spiraling into danger, excitement, and candy.

Warriors series: power of the three: Dark River

I am reading my 14th Warrior's book, in the Power of the Three saga, called Dark River. It is about Thunderclan, Riverclan, and Windclan are going to  have a battle for no reason. It starts when Riverclan lost their land to twoleg kits (human children). They refuse to let the other clans know because they will think Riverclan is weak and attack. So, anyway Riverclan moves onto the gathering island, a sacred place where all clans are supposed to gather and speak about news in their clans. So While this is happening Hollypaw, a Thunderclan apprentice is begging Firestar, Thunderclan leader, to help Riverclan because she thinks its ridiculous to have a battle for no reason. So she slips away and goes to ask Willowpaw, a Riverclan medicine apprentice, whats going on. Mothwing, the Riverclan Medicine cat confirms she can see whats going. So Willowpaw shows Hollypaw the mess of the old Riverclan camp which Riverclan warriors are trying to make a huge moat around so they kids cant get over anymore and only cats can. Then when Hollypaw returns, Jaypaw, her medicine cat apprentice brother who is blind, and Leafpool, Medicine cat are taking a trip to Windclan to inform Onestar, Windclan leader, nothing bad is happening. So they go there, and they speak to onestar, who is convinced, that as long as his warriors dont hunt on Windclan ground then they dont have to fight and as long as Riverclan gets their land back, they dont have to fight. But then, a cry is heard, and a few of the Windclan's queen's kits, have gone missing. So Onestar declares there will, without a doubt will be a battle. Windclan thinks Riverclan stoll their kits because a patrol came back saying they saw Riverclan leaving their camp. Hollypaw thinks the Riverlcan would never steal the kits and tells her brothers about the situation. But it turns out, that Lionpaw knows exactly where the kits are. He was meeting with a Riverclan cat underground, it these tunnels leading to all different clans. One day the kits almost followed the windclan cat into the tunnels. So thats where he thinks the kits have gone.

Now I will keep reading to find out what happens!