It's a road trip! Millie and Mike are bored in Kalamazoo and they embark on a pretend trip to Timbuktu. From a tandem bike to parachutes to riding a whale's tale, they trek. 'Whale ran aground in sunny Hawaii. Mike and Millie waved good-bye-i.' When reaching their destination, they miss Mom and Dad so they decide to jet home because as great as travelling is, coming home is even better. It's a road trip!

Reviewed by: meh

Date read: 7/29/2010

ISBN-10: 1593540914

ISBN-13: 9781593540913

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What do you do if you're bored at school, and nobody appreciates you at home? Well, Claudia Kincaid decides the only answer is to run away. She plans very carefully to be gone just enough time to teach her parents a lesson in 'Claudia appreciation'. She decides to hide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and to take her brother Jamie along, because he's got more money than she does. While they're there, Claudia becomes intrigued by a statue that was recently sold to the museum. She believes that Michelangelo created it, but there is controversy around it, and the only person who knows the truth is Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the person who sold it to the museum. Claudia and Jamie talk to Mrs. Frankweiler, an eccentric old woman, who decides to make a deal with Claudia and Jamie. This won the Newbery Medal in 1968.

Awards won: John Newbery Medal

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/12/2009

ISBN-10: 0689205864

ISBN-13: 9780689205866

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DJ is a star basketball player starting her junior year at Red Bend high school. She was on the football team as well as the basketball team in junior high. In every group picture that is taken, she is in the back row, where she wants to be, because she is so tall. Front and Center is the third book in the Dairy Queen trilogy. Win, DJ's older brother, feels DJ has the ability to play Division I basketball (which she denies) and encourages (demands) her to apply to Big Ten schools. DJ rejects being a leader with her high school team and gets sick to her stomach when she thinks college scouts are watching her. There is also a love story within the basketball story. Two classmates, Brian and Beamer, are vying for her attention. Read this adorable story with its great and hilarious characters and easy to follow story line. Does Beamer or Brian win out? Does she choose to verbally accept a scholarship from a Big Ten school or a small school near home?

Similar books: The Off Season by Catherine Murdock Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock

Reviewed by: cj

Date read: 8/16/2010

ISBN-10: 0618959823

ISBN-13: 9780618959822

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The kids in the eighth grade writers' workshop are in for a surprise: their teacher knows rock legend Nick Thompson, and he'll be dropping by to visit. As Nick Thompson sees it, 'A song's just a bowl of fruit, and I've just gotta figure out how to paint it.' He challenges them to take an ordinary event and to write about it in ways that are uniquely their own. What they create is a mixture of genres, forms, and perspectives that transforms something seemingly mundane into a work of art. This collection could inspire any writer looking for a new take on his or her subject.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 3/26/2010

ISBN-10: 0385732899

ISBN-13: 9780385732895

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This book is about a boy named Peter with a very crazy younger brother named Fudge who plans to marry Peter's enemy Sheila Tubman! This book is very funny.

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 2/13/2010

ISBN-10: 0525469273

ISBN-13: 9780525469278

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