“The Mystery on Apache Canyon Drive,” by Barry Forbes

The mystery writing author who wrote this book, Barry Forbes, had given my mom a copy of this book so she could say how she felt about it. She had asked me to read it and give me her thoughts. I thought it would be a perfect excuse to write a paper about this book….

The Once Future King by T.H. White

April 7, 2020 I am currently reading part two of “Once Future King”, and I think it is set quite a long time after he pulled the mythical and majestic sword out of the stone. It begins with a child telling his siblings the story, definitely not for the first time, of their grandparents. They…

“Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, and Birute Galdikas” by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks

Primates is a graphic novel about three who studied primates. Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees, Diane Fossey studied gorillas, and Birute Galdikas studied orangutans. The women were all good friends and hired by the same man Louis Leakey. He thought that women were more intelligent than men. He created a type of game/test with cards where…

“Lighter than my Shadow” by Katie Green

One day, I was at the library back in the teen study area while my mom and little brother and sister were checking out readers for them. I happened to be sitting in the area where it’s floor to ceiling graphic novels. You should know by now my LOVE for graphic novels. I was scrolling…

“Jack and Jill” by Louisa May Alcott

“Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after…”   A nursery rhyme what I am sure we have all heard over a hundred times. This book is considered a classic written by Louisa May Alcott. She is also…

“The Call of the Wild” by Jack London

“Call of the Wild” is not a book that I would normally pick up from the library to read, and truthfully I was kind of bored at the beginning. My mom always says that the best books start off slow because they want you to feel like you are in the book, that you are…

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” Book 1-3 by Lemony Snicket

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” by Lemony Snicket is a novel triology about 3 orphans named Sunny, Violet, and Klaus Baudelaire. Violet, the oldest, was 14, Klaus, the middle child, was 12, and Sunny was about 1 year old. They were interestingly odd children. Isn’t that weird to put it that way? Odd children, but…

“Habibi” by Naomi Shihab Nye

“Habibi” by Naomi Shihab Nye is a historical  fictional novel about a 14-year-old girl named Liyana. She was living happily with her brother, Rafik, mom, and Poppy in St. Louis. So when Poppy and her mom told Liyana and Rafik they were moving on the other side of the world to Jerusalem, she was not…

“The Trojan Horse” by Justine & Ron Fontes

“The Trojan Horse” by Justine Fontes, Ron Fontes, and Gordon Purcell is a graphic novel about the Greek Myth, the Trojan Horse. The Trojan Horse about how the Trojans desperately try to win back King Meneleus’s wife Helen back from the Greeks. They spend 10 years doing so. Then, the Trojans had come up with…

“Anya’s Ghost” by Vera Brosgol

So I read this book last year (2018), but I reread it this year to refresh my mind. I do like this book. Just a warning though, there is a little bit of cussing. “Anya’s Ghost” by Vera Brosgol is a graphic novel about a high school girl named Anya. She is like any other…