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This asome book is about Duncan. Duncan is having a problem with his crayons. Each crayon writes a letter to Duncan. We enjoyed this book because it's hilarious! One of our favorite parts is when the shy peach crayon does not want to get out of the box! Read the book to see why. Also, we like the part when orange and yellow crayons are having an argument because it is funny! We think you should read this book because it will make you laugh.The Day the Crayons Quit is an amazing and radical book for kids of all ages! 3 Reply

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The Samurai's Tale is a deep, absorbing story about an interesting Samurai's youth. This mesmerizing tale of a boy who loses his father describes in great detail the troubles of a feudal warrior society and the different levels of poverty in Japan. The book was written as if you were there with the main character, Taro (who later becomes Murakami Harutomo), watching his life unfolds in the true detail. The foreign, but educated author behind it all, Erik Christian Haugaard, became a popular author renowned for children’s books after the release of The Samurai's Tale clearly expressing the various fans he got from writing the book. Now days, even after his death in 2009, people wonder how he conjured so much detail without any personal experience of Feudal Japan. One could describe it as Margaret Mitchell writing Gone with the Wind without any upbringing in a southern state. Like Gone with the Wind and many other detailed books, The Samurai's Tale is certainly a masterpiece with few other novels close to its level of superiority. The Samurai's Tale is set in Kai, an area in the middle of the Japanese Island Honshu, during the Japanese Onin War. It opens with a very young boy who learns of his father’s death and is captured by Lord Akiyama Nobutora to work in the servant kitchen of the castle. He is renamed Taro and worked as a helper to the head chef, Togan, who he later got a deep friendship with. When Togan suddenly dies, Lord Akiyama Nobutora moves him to the stables where he learns the way of the horse and asserts his superiority over the other kids. While working in the stables, he gained lots of love in Lord Akiyama Nobutora's heart by doing special, secret missions for him and Lord Takeda Shingen. He is moved to work alongside Lord Akiyama, Lord Akiyama Nobutora's son and he gets a new name: Murakami Harutomo. There, he helps Lord Akiyama seize Iwamura Castle from Lord Takeda Shingen’s enemy, Lord Oda Nobunaga. There, he falls in love with a girl named Aki-hime, the daughter of one of Lord Akiyama's officers. He and Aki-hime write poems to each other to express each other’s love. Meanwhile, Lord Takeda Shingen dies of old age and disease. His son, the Wakatono (Prince), takes over and makes ruthless decisions that secure the downfall of Lord Takeda Shingen’s campaign, including Lord Akiyama. Later, Murakami Harutomo marries Aki-hime and they both settle away from Iwamura where their masters were dishonored. This spells the end of Murakami Harutomo's childhood and as the book says, "In the raging fire of the world, there is no peace." Yet that is not altogether true, for in the love between two human beings that fire can be quenched and peace may be found. (234). In my opinion of this story, the author, Erik Christian Haugaard, is trying to convey to the readers how it is like to be in Japan and serve under a powerful Lord with your own other responsibilities going on. In The Samurai's Tale, this is shown with Taro being a messenger for Lord Akiyama, helping with the rice and rations for the army with Wada Kansuke, and writing poems and meeting with his love and lover, Aki-hime. This shows the feudalism between a vassal and his Lord while doing his own things and to a certain extent, the book describes the free time of the young samurai. Another aspect demonstrated in The Samurai's Tale which I had not realized before was the role of nature and poetry represented even in the common talk to two Samurai. In the book, Taro writes multiple poems to himself and later writes them to Aki-hime winning her love; as he matured throughout the book, he also mimicked the wiser, older Samurai using analogies mostly representing nature to prove points in what he was saying. An example of this style of speaking and thinking would be, Lord Zakoji wanted Lord Katsuyori to make peace with Oda and Tokugawa and to give up the thought of being ruler of Japan, leaving such dreams to others. But dreams are strong as iron. They say that a wild horse can be tied to a spider web; certain it is that a man can be tied by a dream. Overall, I liked this story because of the well-developed plot, realistic and detailed context, wise sayings and poems that reeled me into a deeper meaning of the book, and the awesome combination of drama, adventure, and action all creating a well-written book. Erik Christian Haugaard has concocted this master peace with all of these qualities and many fans of his works including new ones like me have accepted it with open arms.

omg this book must be the BOMB!! I really want to read it!

Amazing book you must read the rest of the series in order to understand Caspian's backstory tho but an Absolutly amazing book

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Samantha and Nellie are visiting England with their grandparents. They're thrilled when a friend invites them to stay at a grand manor house, right next to an ancient castle. But when they arrive Samantha and Nellie find out that a ghost may be haunting the grounds and a thief may be lurking in the library! Can Samantha and Nellie uncover the secrets of Lockston Castle... before something precious is lost forever? I love this book!

Boys Without Names by: Kashmira Sheth For eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over:.We stay, we starve, his Baba has warned. They flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family until school starts, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer. After he took the job he figured out why that was a bad decision. There is no factory, just a small, stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to make beaded frames for no money and little food. I liked this book because it was very in depth but it was also sad how he tried to earn money for his family and now he is a slave. The type of reader that would like this book is someone who likes a sad story but a good story. The genre realistic fiction.

I read this book because I really like the Geronimo Stilton series. In this book, it is springtime, and Geronimo has to come up with a new idea of a book to write. But you can't just write a book on command, right? Geronimo was hit with a writer's block. He couldn't think. He ended up biking on the countryside, where he came across the Stilton Family Farm. H got nostalgic for all his memories there, and decided to buy it... Right before a mysterious lady in a leopard limousine could. Who was that? Anyways, he told his family & friends at the Rodent's Gazette. They loved it, and moved in with Geronimo. By winter, they were finished renovating the farm. They took 3 seasons! Ack! One day, Geronimo went for a walk, and found a tree nobody had seen in like. a 100 years! He told his family. Then, Geronimo got a text: "You took the farm from me. Now keep your paws off the tree." Or something like that. I can't tell you the rest, but here's a hint: AUCTION. And I rate this 4 out of 5 stars.

This book is amazing if you like this series you are going to Love, this book. In this book Abby gets pulled into Oz, With Robin, Frankie, and Penny. They Meet Dorothy on the way. There are also fun bonus pages at the end. This book is so fun, adventurous, mysterious, and cool. Join the fun with the book Abby in Oz. Check this book out now.