COG By: Greg Van Eekhout For my birthday I got a three-month subscription to Owl Crate Jr. from my “Aunt” Madeline. Once a month I get a couple books and some activities that go along with a theme in the mail. October’s theme was robots, and one of the books I got is COG. COG…
Category: Fourth Grade
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Does My Shirts By: Gennifer Choldenko This is a really good book, and my mom has read it too. Al Capone Does My Shirts is the first book in a series. I have read Book One, Two, and Three and have liked them all. Al Capone Does My Shirts is about a boy…
Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe
Bunnicula By: Deborah and James Howe Bunnicula was a really good book. I read Bunnicula in the Spine Crackers book club at the Adair County Public Library. Bunnicula is narrated by a dog named Harold. One night Harold’s family comes home, and they have a bundle with two eyes looking out. Inside the bundle is…
100 Paper Airplanes to Fold and Fly
100 Paper Airplanes to Fold and Fly A Usborne book 100 Paper Airplanes to Fold and Fly is a book with 100 pages of different designs, all that you can fold into individual paper airplanes. The book has instructions on how to fold the planes. There are four ways you can fold them; a dart,…
Framed! By James Ponti
Framed! By: James Ponti Framed is a really good book! It was a Mark Twain Award Nominee in 2018-2019.Framed is in a trilogy; the other books are called Vanished and Trapped. Framed is about a boy named Florian Bates. Florian has lived all over. He has lived in Boston, Rome, France, and now Washington, D.C….
Library Card — A FREE All Access Card to the World of Reading
This summer my library — the Adair County Public Library in Kirksville, Missouri — changed the policy on children and youth materials. You can check out up to 15 items at a time from the children and youth section, and while they still have due dates, they no longer charge late fees. My mom had…
Magyk By: Angie Sage
Magyk By: Angie Sage I read this book with one of my classes. It was really good! I am currently on the last book in the series. Magyk is about a family called the Heaps. The are just a normal family who lives in The Ramblings, a tall building with lots of rooms with…
Pi in the Sky By: Wendy Mass
Pi in the Sky By: Wendy Mass The Adair County Public Library is doing a Summer Reading Program. This year it is outer space theme, so they had an outer space display with a bunch of space books. I grabbed Pi in the Sky because it was fiction, (I love fiction), and it seemed interesting….
Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday By: Rachel Renee Russell
Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday By: Rachel Renee Russell I really like the Dork Diaries series. This is number 13 in the series, and it is REALLY good! I always wonder in a series if I need to start on number one or if I can just read the book. In this series…
The Magic Misfits By: Neil Patrick Harris
The Magic Misfits By: Neil Patrick Harris My friend Audrey recommended The Magic Misfits to me, so I bought a copy. She was right; it is really good. The Magic Misfits is about a boy named Carter. He lives with his uncle, who takes his ability to do magic tricks, and uses it to…