Set in 17th century London, I, Coriander is the story of a girl who finds things very strange. Things go on around her that she doesn’t understand like her father is constantly saying, “Don’t touch these, don’t touch those,” especially with these silver shoes that she found with the letter “C” for Coriander, but apparently she can’t have them. And then things get much more complicated. Her mom dies at the sight of a crow, her dad marries a woman who is way too religious, […]
Louis Armstrong Is Amazing
I have read several books from the Who Was series. I recently re-read Who Was… Louis Armstrong because I had to do a Black History Month project and I remembered reading it and loving it. Who Was… Louis Armstrong by Yona Zeldis McDonough tells the story of Louis Armstrong’s life and how he didn’t get much proper schooling, he spent most of his schooling in a corrective school because him and his friends were going to shoot off a few cap guns in the street and […]
The Genius Files: Mission Don’t Stop Reading!
I got The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable in the library and at first I was, like, “this looks kinda cool,” so I decided to read it. I actually sat down and read it in the library. This is a story about a man who starts an organization of genius kids whose job it is to help save America. The man’s name is Dr. Warshaw. It goes horribly wrong and now it’s his job to destroy his own organization. The main characters are a boy named Coke, […]
Geronimo Stilton’s 4th Adventure That’s Not Really His 4th Adventure
Geronimo Stilton is a mouse who is an author, but his cousin Trap is a junk salesman, and his sister Thea helps him work at the Rodent’s Gazette, a newspaper for mice. In this book, it is his fourth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy. The last dragon egg is stolen and they are only created every 1,000 years. The whole dragon race is in danger. Geronimo Stilton has to go deep into the darkest side of the Kingdom of Fantasy to get it back […]
Junior Cannonballer Ewandini
I read This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! because it was a Christmas present from my uncle. It looked interesting. It is the story about two friends who are foolish and are put into two different dorms at school. They are stuck two most annoying students in school and they will suffer nothing until they get into the same dorm. The main characters names are Bruno and Boots. Their headmaster aka The Fish, Elmer Drimsdale and George Wexford-Smith III. Elmer is a science geek. George […]
Jr. Cannonballer Ewandini’s CBR 6 Review #1
Ewandini is 8 years old. His mother, Mrs. Julien, asked him questions and he answered them to write the review: I read The Phantom Tollbooth because my mum said it was supposed be a good book. The story is about a boy named Milo and this weird tollbooth appears in his room and then he gets whisked away into the land of Expectations. Then he goes on an epic quest and fights demons to rescue Rhyme and Reason. The main characters are a boy named […]