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Through rocks, mountains, lakes, rivers, all by foot. Some cry, some scream, some mourn for their loss. Ripped moccasins, ragged clothes. Disease, famine, death. Soft Rain, a Cherokee girl is living a wonderful life. Learning to read, hearing many stories from her beloved grandmother. Suddenly, one day she is forced out of her home with her mother. Hawk Boy, her brother, and her father are nowhere to be found. On a long hard journey with harsh conditions, her best friend Green Fern, passes on, due to a “white men” disease. In this time everyone helps each other. Many people pass on. When finally she regroups with her family the joy is overflowing. How will her new life be like? What is the West like? When Soft Rain crosses the final river those are her thoughts…

Glory is living in Hanging Moss in the year of 1964. Glory is best friends with Frankie. However Laura comes to Hanging Moss and things are changing. Not just small things but a change in the world. First, the pool gets closed by the town council. Glory is really worried about her birthday. She holds it at the pool practically as long as she can remember! What’s more is her older sister, Jesslyn, thinks more about her friends and doesn’t want to hang out with Glory anymore. People with color and people without are treated differently, and freedom people, people who believe everyone are equal are also treated unfairly. Glory begins to drift from Frankie because he and his brother are part of treating “colored” people unjustly, even pulling false statements about them! Glory learns to speak out about the issue and she thinks everyone is equal. She even writes a letter to the newspapers. She also encounters many other experiences...as in snooping what her sister is doing with a strange boy…

This historic adventure brings you on a journey around the Roman Empire. I read about the Celts of Britain that defeated the Roman empire. Also how Augustine comes to England to teach the England people about christianity. The monks wrote books by hand and engraved gold and silver and many colorful colors. Describing the beauty of the Constantinople and the emperor and empress. I like empress Theodora because she convinced emperor Justinian to stay and not run away while the townspeople were rebelling. It describes Muhammad's first vision and how the muslim religion was created. Also about the Yamato dynasty of Japan and how Japan improved its writing system with help from Korea and China. Also about the first people of Australia..this is a wide journey through time. I took a journey through time, no through history. I learned about the Mayans, Incas, and the Aztecs. Also about the spanish conquistadors and the slave trade. The amazing fight for why the earth was round, the revolution of Copernicus and Galileo. About Shakespeare and his famous plays like Macbeth. The fight for the throne in the War of the Roses. Ghana, the trade of gold and salt….this book is about the middle ages and the history of the middle ages.

Annie loves to run, like the wind. When Annie runs she forgets all her worries and she just feels the wind on her face. She always runs barefoot hearing the soft and firm ‘thump, thump’. She is learning new words, she loves to laugh, to draw and most of all to run. Max, is Annie’s friend. He is on the school track team. He asks Annie to go to the track team too. He takes leaves out of Annie’s hair, he pesters Annie, and sometimes he is moody. These two friends lives entangle because of running. What they both like best. Meanwhile, Annie has a mother with a “alien baby” inside her, which is a human when born(thankfully). Annie has a new baby Joey and a grandpa who is becoming forgetful..

This was actually a pretty decent book.It's about this young Japanese- American girl that lives with her brothers and sisters in Fresno, California.She gets treated different by everybody just because her race is japanese and she looks different.Her family then gets booted out of their home taking barely anything and are forced to get onto a bus to take them to an internment camp.They live an extremely hard life at the internment camp, living in the middle of the desert with wind blowing in their uncomfortable and unbareable living situations.They had to live in things called barracks, which were outside where all the dust could blow in.After a couple years living in these terrible conditions.The girl (Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston) and her family are finally able to move out of it with thousands and thousand of many other innocent Japanese americans who did absolutely no harm to anyone whatsoever.Just like how the african americans were taken as slaves and dubbed as dumb, and stupid, or as property because of race and skin color.Not fair at all.Jeanne goes to school, she has now grown up quite a bit and is no longer the scared, seven year old girl she was when her family got moved to the internment camp.She does batton twirling and other things.She makes friends with a girl and one day wants to join girl scouts.The next day the girl comes back and says no just because Jeanne is Japanese and is different then white people.The story then goes on and Jeanne becomes an adult and has her own kids,the story ends with her taking her kids on a road trip to visit the old,destroyed internment camp where she was basically held prisoner for no reason.It holds a lot of memories for her.I had to read tis book for summer read for English class and then write an essay on it.I really though it was an important book because it has to do with racial unfairness and injustice just because another person is different or their skin is a different color.That is the theme of this book.Overall,it was pretty well written, almost like a biographical kind of book and also historical too.Anyone who likes books or topics about history or world wars 1 or 2 would like this book.

This is story starts with two young children named Gretel and Hans Brinker. They are poor with a father, paralyzed, and a mother who is kind and warm-hearted. Hilda, a daughter of the rich mayor gives Hans eight kwartjes, or eight pieces of silver to buy skates for the skate race. Hans wants Gretel to have warm clothes while Gretel wants Hans to have the skates. Hans will pay Hilda back with a beautiful wooden necklace. Hans has a talent in carving and studies, Gretel in baking and singing. When Hans meets the doctor he wants to save his father….

Her Serene and Royal highness Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne is quite a ordinary princess. She got her gift from the fairy godmother Crustacea who was in a very bad mood when she came to the palace to give her gift to the princess. Everyone ignores Amy and she gets the freedom to do mostly what she prefers. The wisteria branches have created a ladder for her to climb and she climbs down and goes to the forest in her free time. She meets Claudia and exchanges clothes with her and becomes a kitchen maid in her own castle. One day she finds a boy named Peregrine, a quite ordinary prince just like her. They escape royal life on Thursdays and they have much fun in the forests. In the end Amy gets married to Perey and they live as happily as you can imagine.

Professor William Waterman Sherman wants some free, peace and quiet. Aboard the Globe, a hot air balloon he leaves San Francisco on a journey for a year, or so he says. The wind and the gulls happen to blow him to a island called The Pacific Island, Krakatoa. He meets Mr. F who explains to him that to others the island is an inhabited place so he says the a professor would have landed here anyway. They would have shot his balloon (so he could land) for this island is a secret. In Krakatoa there are volcanic land quakes, unimaginable wealth of diamonds, and much friendly people. The only catch, Professor William Waterman Sherman is not allowed to leave the island... The professor once again learns about the island’s government the “restaurant style” government, where each family(there are 20) owns a restaurant and they cook for the whole town once a week. There are various contraptions that make life easier, such as a bed that changes its own sheets. The professor now goes swimming often and he is telling his tale of San Francisco when the earth starts shaking violently and all jump to escape on the 21 balloon platform contraption. They live on Dutch cocoa and a dish of meat, sauerkraut, sausages, and gravy. Since the professor doesn’t have a parachute he must be remained to land the platform when all the others jump off to countries and close to the ground the F family, the professor’s friends does too. Now that is the tale of why he was stranded alone on with 21 balloons and 2 diamond cufflinks.

One day Sheree walks up to the farmer and the farmer says howde -doodle -doo.( The farmer is a rooster ).the framed really wants to go into town but he has so many chores.sheree says she will help .then all of the sudden all of the chickens run out.so sheree calls her friends .they come and help her do all of the chores.the point of this story is teamwork gets it done.I recommend this book to younger kids and I rate this book 3/5 stars because it's a cute book.😁 😁 Pizzagirl7 😁 😁

Do you know what a nisse is? If you don’t a nisse is a Norwegian mythical creature. It’s a similar a leprechaun. That’s what this book is about. Winterfrost by Michelle Houts it is about a girl named Bettina and her baby sister Pia and the nisse. Bettina and her baby sister Pia were home alone one week because an unexpected event made their parents leave. Bettina was in charge of the house, the barn and Baby Pia. A tradition for their family is on Christmas eve they leave out a bowl of rice pudding in the barn for the tiny nisse to eat. This Christmas the family forgets to put out rice pudding and the nisse feels neglected. The antagonist is the nisse and the protagonist is Bettina and Pia. One morning Bettina wakes up and there was a winterfrost which was very rare in Denmark. Bettina decides to put Pia in her crib to take a nap. As Pia was sleeping Bettina got tired too and slowly fell asleep. When Bettina wakes up she went to check on her and Pia was gone! Bettina got very worried so she went looking for her around the house and she wasn't there. She decides to look outside to see if she was there. As she walked out she saw something red moving super fast. She kept walking and she saw it again and again until she decided to follow it. It led her to a very very small house underneath a tree stump. She opened the door and she saw house full of nisse. I recommend this book to 10-13 year olds because Bettina is around that age.