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Like most collections of middle grade scary stories, “Only If You Dare” is a mixture of truly creepy, not so creepy, and a few somewhat predictable. Josh Allen’s book does not resort to the traditional horror tropes, not a single vampire or witch, and based on the one completed illustration and a bunch of WIP drawings by Sarah J. Coleman, the art is going to be terrific. Appropriate for middle grade readers, but may be deemed too “tame” by those in junior high or high school. I really love a scary story and Josh Allen shows mastery with this collection of short middle grade horror fiction. It reads like episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark and as a 90s kid. I devoured all 13 stories and I hope there's another one from this author soon.

I expected this to be a kid friendly, off-kilter, but fairly predictable school daze comedy with a Vam-Wolf-Zom angle. Fair enough. I did not, however, expect the witty, deadpan, and clever bits, set pieces, and throwaway lines that really set this book, (the third in the series), apart from more pedestrian stuff. Our hero, Tom, is understandably befuddled by his triple-threat predicament. Rather than melting down, though, he handles his situation, and all of the complications that arise from it, with remarkable sang froid. As a consequence, the book is funny, upbeat, occasionally a bit edgy, and very smart. Tom keeps up a running commentary on all of the action, and his perceptive off the cuff observations, (on anything and everything), elevate the whole project. You could drop the entire plot and fashion this into a decent stand up comedy routine. All of this is aided immeasurably by a funny, manic wingman pal, a handful of smart and no nonsense girl friends, a misunderstood bully, a deadpan/mean/nice big sister, and about a dozen various adults who actually get some funny and wise lines of their own. So, the plot may be silly, but the execution is top notch. A fun find.

I love Splatoon books even if I'm new to the game. Well, I really can't wait to read this humorously written, yet touching series more, and dive into the complexities of both Goggles and the other characters' lives. I really do recommend this series because it is full of passion and poignancy, despite the fact it is in fact manga!! I MUST read all twelve stories!The book series is all tied together, so they all end and start into each other. Introduces a new character, Eight, an Octoling that has lost all memories of past life. Now, he, Goggles, Specs, Rider, Bobble Hat, and Headphones need to find the four 'thangs' that put together will lead them back to home...supposedly. Throughout the story, friendship, persistence, hardworking, and never giving up are essential bits and pieces that make up Eight and his friends personalities. And, finally, Eight goes to the land of the Inklings, where he can now play turf war!! My favorite book in the series! Now in my opinion I believe that some characters like Eight, Emperor, and Emperor's team truly did add on to the series positively. Eight is an individual and is different and proud of it, and a character mentioned extensively. Emperor and his team are mentioned extensively as well and are originally enemies in the Square King Cup but turn to be allies.This really, truly, honestly deserves five stars because of every character, except, personally Vintage did not really add on much to the series, though he was important. The S4 are the basis of all important characters, so, of course they are very important.

Seeds and Trees has a symbolic theme, when I say this I mean that the trees are a symbol for kindness and mean things people say or do. All though some younger kids may not get the message that Seeds and Trees is trying to tell you I fell like this book is enjoyable for kids of all ages even if they don't know the theme, because they might be thinking about how cool the prince is or the trees. But this book is great for 4th and up. It shows how kindness is always the way to go, because you get a good tree when you're kind and a bad tree when you're negative. Over all I totally recommend Seeds and Trees.

"Across the bay"- it is a story about a boy named Carlito who wanted to find his father. One day he took a ferry and went across the bay to look for dad. Sadly he did not find his father there. There are many pictures in this book describing what happened in this story.

"Black out" it is a great book to read. Book is about family who suddenly lost the power one summer night. There was black out in the city. That night was different. The whole family spent time together having fun, playing games. They liked it so much that after power back on they switched off the lights and had more fun.This book is great, shows how spending time with family can be really fun.Book has a lot of nice illustrations. I recommend this book.

This book is about a girl named Carmela and her birthday could not get any better. For her birthday she got a scooter and she was finally old enough to go to town with her brother. But she did not expect her brother to act the way he was acting he was working and ignoring her. In my opinion I think that this book shows that if somebody is giving negative to you then you should not be negative to them. This inspired me to be more kind to everyone. In this book I think they show kindness and compassion. If you like books that start out positive then negative and positive again then this book is for you.

In this book, there is a alone person. That alone person went to try to fit it put never found a way. This made we feel a way to know it's okay not to fit in. I love this book and i want you to read it. The theme is it's okay to be different. You would love this this book if you don't really fit in with other people. He was different and new he was different.

I can tell you that I did not enjoy this book. There are very few books that I do now like at all. Unfortunately, this was one of them. This book was predictable and twisted classic characters into strangers. Of course, I most likely have a biased opinion. I am a huge Nancy Drew fan and have read the whole original series. One very important thing to know is that this is a graphic novel. It is not a chapter book, but more like a comic book. That may be another reason why I did not enjoy it, as I like to read bigger books, and not pictures. One interesting thing about this book was that there were two books in one. So really there were two short graphic novels. I would not recommend this book to more advanced kids, however younger kids who enjoy graphic novels and comics may like this book. I give it a rating of 2 out of 5 stars.

This a funny store about a nerdy tech guy, a boy who hates school, a 90 year old women and a blackout.