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The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen

My name is Zach. I am a seventh grader, and live in Ketchum, ID. I enjoy playing board games, reading, mountain biking, Nordic and alpine skiing, playing with my family, snowmobiling, and being outside.

Imagine a future where you could see events from the past in the form of a hologram. In The Time Hackers, the two main characters, Dorso and Frank, experience this reality. Scientists have discovered a way to recreate the past and bring it forward. Time travel is still very new to the world, so one of the laws of time states that you can’t go back in time and mess with the past. Imagine you go back in the past and kill your great-grandma. If you did that you would cease to exist. But you wouldn’t exist to kill your relative, thus a paradox.

Dorso becomes the target of a series of pranks using this time travel technology. It starts out with gross pranks that are mostly harmless, but they eventually escalate to being life threatening. When Dorso and Frank keep going back in time and almost dying, they have to work together to stop whoever is behind this before they mess with the time laws and destroy the universe.

This thrilling book has very deep material. It has plenty of ideas that send your mind reeling. It makes you think about time and how it affects the world. This book is somewhat targeted to more mature audiences, but is an easy read for most ages.

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I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis

My name is Slader. My favorite things to do is to play baseball, and watch my favorite movies. I am a 12 year old and in 7th grade.

I will be reviewing the I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. This book is a book by Lauren Tarshis. Lauren Tarshes is a very talented author. I Survived The Titanic is a historical fiction novel. This book was written in 2010. This book is very intense and packed with suspenseful moments. I definitely recommend you to read this book because it isn’t only fun and cool to read, but it teaches you all about the Titanic and the amount of people who made it off alive. I enjoyed every moment of this book and learned a surprising amount about The Titanic that I didn’t know. I learned that way more than half of the people on The Titanic didn’t make it off.

This book has won the Golden Kite Award for Fiction award. If you choose his book, you will enjoy every page of it. I recommend reading this book if you are in 6th to 7th grade. This book is very easy. If you are looking for a quick book to read this is definitely one at 112 pages. If you are into ships and history then you will like this novel. This is a family friendly and appropriately written book. 

I read this book in about 5 days and i enjoyed every part of it. This is one of my favorite books and I think you’ll like it. Also try the other books in the series. The books in the series are historical fiction, based on real events that people survived.

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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

My name is Elizabeth. I love reading, and my favorite book is My Sister’s Keeper. I am in the 8th grade and enjoy dance.

The Outsiders is a book written by S.E. Hinton. It is 192 pages, so it’s a fairly quick read, but it is super good. I read it in one night because I couldn’t put it down.

The Outsiders is a must read for kids and teens. The plot is about some greasers who live in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the year 1965. They feud with a group called the Soc’s (pronounced soshes). They are the rich kids in town, and they aren’t exactly nice to the greasers. The main character Ponyboy is who we see the book told through. He goes on an adventure with a few other greasers to escape the mistakes that he has made. The plot sucks you in, and you get to escape the real world while you read. The book doesn’t have a huge presence of adults, so you can be a little care free when you read The Outsiders.

This book is the best that I have ever read, and I highly recommend it. The Outsiders will stick with you for the rest of your life, and it will hackle you see the world differently. The story if The Outsiders has also been made into a movie, so when you finish with the book, you can watch the movie!

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The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I am Skade. I live in Hailey, ID with my mom, dad, brother and dog. I like to bike, swim and play basketball in my free time.

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry is a classic story about a man that crashes his plane in a desert as he is repairing his plane he meets a little prince with golden hair. The little prince is from a small planet with a rose and three volcanoes. The little prince has traveled from planet to planet meeting unique people. The people are described by their flaws: the king, the banker and the lamplighter.

Each individual views their world and the stars differently. The man that crashed his plane is very thirsty and suggests that they look for a well in the desert. They eventually find the  well and the man is no longer thirsty. On the way to the well, the Little Prince meets a fox.

The fox teaches him what it means to be tamed. The fox describes that by telling the little prince that you need to make that individual feel special. The Little Prince realizes that the rose on his planet is special and that he needs to care for it, so he returns to his planet. Antoine De Saint-Exupéry talks a lot about stars and how they have different meanings to people. This is a good book for people that like to read classic, short books.

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Always and Forever, Laura Jean by Jenny Han

My name is Skade. I am a high schooler. I live in Hailey, ID with my mom, dad, brother and dog. I like to bike, swim and play basketball in my free time.

Lara Jean is in a great place with her boyfriend Peter K. but, it doesn’t stay like that for long. When college acceptance letters roll in, Peter and Lara Jean have a plan to go to UVA. However, they discovered that they’re heading in different directions. Lara Jean got accepted into William and Mary and Peter is going to UVA. They both discuss a long-distance relationship. They came up with a plan. For sophomore year of college, Lara Jean will transfer to UVA. That plan goes downhill after Lara Jean got accepted into UNC. With all of the events that are going on they have been busy. Lara Jean’s dad is making a major commitment: marrying the girl he has been dating for the past 6 months.

This romance novels really drew me in. There are two other books in this series: To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You. Those are also great great romance novels that you won’t want to put down. I recommend this book for ages 12-17 who like romance novels. Also, there are two out of three movies on Netflix. You have to read the books in order to know what is going.

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I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis

My name is Slader. My favorite things to do is to play baseball, and watch my favorite movies. I am a 12 year old and in 7th grade.

I am going to be reviewing the I Survived The American Revolution, 1776. This book was written by Lauren Tarshis who is a very good author. This book is full of intense and suspenseful parts. For example, Nathaniel gets caught in the middle of a live gunfight. That is one of the reasons that it is so good, it keeps you interested the whole time. I would recommend this book if you are in 6th grade. This is a very short book with 144 pages. This is a good book for when you just want to read something quick and easy. The genre of this book is Historical Fiction. This isn’t only fun to read, but it teaches you some history. 

This story is told through the perspective of Nathaniel Fox, an eleven-year-old boy who gets caught in the middle of the Battle of Brooklyn, the largest battle fought during the American Revolution. I would also recommend this book if you are super into history. As I told  you earlier, it’s a fun way to learn. If you read 1 hour a day, like I do, you will get this done in about two days. I read this when I was in 6th grade. This novel has won the Golden Kite award and many others. I had a lot of fun reading this novel and I think you will too. If you enjoy this book, Lauren Tarshis wrote a whole series.

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