Book Reviews Ninth grade 2021

by Golden Girls

Joined Jan 2017
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Little Women-A Classic Tale Of Laughter And Tears
About the author: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist in the years 1832-1888. She published Little Women originally in two volumes in 1868 and 1869.
Genre: Coming of age and romance. -The book is aimed towards all ages.
Little Women is the story of four girls-pretty Meg, headstrong Jo, sweet Beth, and spoiled Amy-growing up with plenty of spirit but little money during the Civil War era in New England. We read about every woman’s story and watch them take their journey from childhood to adulthood.
The theme in Little Women is self sacrifice and that one must balance family with personal wishes in order to truly grow.
I really enjoyed Louisa’s writing style. Her writing has a way of making you feel like you’re inside the book and make you feel connected with all the characters. It’s like you really know them. I just couldn’t put the book down! I wanted to know more about the remarkable little women and their life changing decisions.
I am rating this book with 5 stars. I loved it.
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Name: Batsheva Blank

Expiration Date- a book from a different world

“funny how something so big only takes a turn of a heel to start”

Mikaela Bender started writing her first novel, “Expiration Date”, when she was only 16 years old and completed it within a year with 72 chapters. It’s hard to believe that the whole story was inspired by a writing prompt Bender saw on the social media “Pinterest”. The “Expiring” series is sci-fi and romance and is aimed at teenagers and young-adults.

The science fiction thriller is placed in the United States and follows 19-year-old orphan Iris Levine, the story’s protagonist. She lives in a world where everyone learns the date they are destined to die, which is tattooed on their arm at birth.

When Iris’ time arrives, however, a mysterious man saves her from dying. That glitch in the system starts a battle and a race against the “society”, which rules the citizens’ lives and deaths.

I think readers would enjoy this book because it’s different, I never saw a storyline like this- with so many discoveries on each page and a suspenseful plot that continues throughout the whole book. In addition, the writing style is great and abundant and gives uniqueness to itself that you can not understand unless you read the book.

If I had to rate this book I would give it 4 or 5 stars, I think this book is brilliant in all ways.

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Name: Neta Segal

“The puzzle ring”

The Australian author Kate Forsyth wrote lots of books including The Puzzle Ring. A fantasy, romance and mystery for children and teenagers.

The plot takes place in Scotland in the past.

Characters – The main character is Hannah Rose Brown, a twelve year old who lives in Australia and one day she discovers that her family is cursed. Hannah is a brave and interesting girl. She is wild and very impatient when it comes to her father. Hannah needs to face the risk she should take to find the truth about the curse and her father.

Meet Hannah’s world – Not the most popular girl in school discovered something which probably will change her life. She needs to face a big challenge to deal with, a risk she should take, new discovery and friends… Will she be able to handle all this??

Readers, get ready to dive into a new world – Amazing friendship, feel the scary adventures, things that are unbelievable, meet Donovan and Scarlett, what the “Fairy Hill” is and what is written in the diary…

This is a fantasy book and for kids over the age 11.

The moral of this book is – coping with challenges and never giving your aspirations.

I liked this book although there are other books I liked more. I most liked that kids can enjoy this book by connecting to the feelings and the behaviors of the characters.

I give this book 4 stars – I like it and I enjoyed it.

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Name: Noa Reisman

‘All American Girl’- The Girl Who Saved The President Of America’s Life

The book ‘All American Girl’ is written by the author Meg Cabot.

The story is about a 15 year old named Samanatha Madison, who lives in Washington D.C. Sam has an older sister who is the most popular girl in school, and a younger sister who is practically a genius.

The book begins when Samanatha’s parents catch her drawing during her lessons and they decide to send her to art classes. Sam doesn’t enjoy her art class and she escapes the lessons. Instead of going to the studio, Sam goes to the music shop next door. When she leaves the shop, she sees the president of America, and realizes that the suspicious man next to her wants to shoot the president. Without thinking too much, she jumps on the man, and lands on the floor with him on top, and breaks her arm. And that is how she saves the president of America’s! Read the book in order to see what happens next!

I found this book really entertaining. The book was very funny, but yet it still had an interesting plot, and brilliant characters. I really liked the author’s way of writing. The book was so well written that I forgot it was only a story!

The book has 398 pages, but because it is suitable for teenage girls, the reading goes quite quickly, and you don’t really notice the length of the book.

I give the book 5 stars, because I think it is just amazing!

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Adar Malka

Mary Poppins/ P.L.Travers 12 chapters(there are no pages).

Mary Poppins super woman with magic powers!

Pamela Lyndon Travers(original name Helen Lyndon Goff) was an Australian English author, a journalist, a poetess and a literature critic. She was born in August 1899 in Maryborough in Australia, and died in April 1996. She published her first Mary poppins book in 1934. In 1977 she received a Knighthood because of her contribution to literature. Mary Poppins is a fantasy book which to children. The setting:Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London Characters: Mary Poppins the nanny of Jane Michael John and Barbara(twins). The kids are human and very likeable. Mary Poppins is a human but she has magic powers and she is rude so she isn’t likeable. All her magic are seen by kids only and not adults. I think that young children will enjoy this book very much because it includes magic, animals and people. Some of the adventures are based on the real world. It’s written in 3rd person. The author always stands on the side and describes the events that happened to all the characters. I feel the book isn’t so complete and there are some elements which are missing, most of the events are expected and there is no surprise effect in general. I am not intrested much in this book because there is no climax in it. The book is full of illustrations, the aim of the illustrations is to catch the children’s eyes. The rate of the book is three stars because the topic of the book is too childish.

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Hadar Haim

Misty Falls – Come To Discover What Made Her Lose Her Hold In The Ground….

“Misty Falls” is the fourth book of the ‘savant series’ which was written by the British author Joss Striling.

The story is a fantasy but with a hold of the reality, I’d say. Although the book is aimed for teenagers, I believe that adults could also enjoy it.

The story takes place in the present.

The plot of the book concentrates on Misty, a teenager who is the main character of the book. Misty is the oldest in her family – and she has one hell of a family…. Misty’s family are savants. And ‘What is a savant?’ you’re asking? A savant is a human who has a special gene that makes him go farther and faster from regular people. Each savant has his own gift, such as: controlling water, reading minds, or in Misty’s case – power of the truth. She knows when someone lies and can’t ever lie herself. Her inability to lie caused her lots of embarrassment. Throughout her life she struggles with her gift, and wishes for something more useful and less embarrassing.

During the book Misty goes through good and hard times- eventually you’ll see how she learns from everything about herself, her gift and her love once.

Joss Striling’s writing and forming of the character is absolutely wonderful. While reading the story I felt inside Misty’s mind and really feeling everything through her.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I recommend you to read the whole series!

I rate this book –

*****

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Shalva Weissman

Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone An Amazing Book Full Of Adventures

About the author: J.K Rowling born July 31 1965 in Yate, United Kingdom. Has three children, two girls and one boy.

The first novel was published on June 26 1997, the last novel was published on July 21, 2007.

Genre: Fiction/Adventures.

Age aim: fourth to sixth grade, ages 10-12.

Gender aim: both.

Chapters: seventeen.

J.K Rowling wrote seven books about a boy named Harry Potter, he lived with his aunt, uncle and cousin for 11 years. On his eleventh birthday he gets a letter telling him that he is a wizard and is invited to go to Hogwarts. Harry’s aunt, uncle and cousin treated him horribly for those eleven years so when he got the note he was more than excited to leave the house. Really fast into the year Harry becomes friends with Ron and Hermione. These three little kids find clues to where the sorcerer’s stone is and they try to keep it safe from a horrible wizard that wants to steal it.

My opinion of the book: I think this is an amazing book because it’s not like our normal life but it sounds so real.

My rating: 4.5 stars. It’s really interesting and fun to read.

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Reut Ben-Michael

THE TOWER OF NERO- THE LAST TRIAL

After 15 years, 21 books, and 5 series. The American author Rick Riordan closes the fantasy world of the Percy Jackson universe with the last book.

“The Tower of Nero” sums up the five-book series “The Trials of Apollo”.

Yes, this book is about the sun God Apollo, better known as Lester Papadopoulos.

Apollo, after being punished to earth by his father, Zeus, meets the 12-year-old Meg McCaffrey, a mortal demigod, who is the daughter of the goddess Demeter. Meg and Apollo need to travel to New York to defeat her evil stepfather, the emperor Nero, in order to save the world.

However, those are not the only obstacles the duo needs to defeat. Typhon, the old arch nemesis of Apollo, has taken over the oracle of Delphi and wants to destroy the world as we know it. But Lester and Meg are not alone; they have Nico Di Angelo, a 15-year-old son of Hades, Will Solace, a 15-year-old son of Apollo and the whole camp half-blood by their side.

The story itself is 396 pages long, and each page is mesmerizing and adventurous, and teaches the importance of friendship and to believe -, have faith in yourself: “Faith is the ability to write your own stories regardless of what the fates throw at us” (Apollo in ”the tower of Nero”). Riordan is able to make the reader laugh and cry, love and become attached to the characters, and learn important lessons from each book.

I give it five stars and recommend it to all teens.

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SHAY OHAYON

The 5^th wave

The 5^th wave is a young adult science fiction novel this book is very interesting because it is not like any other book that you ever read before. The book starts with the story of Cassiopeia “Cassie” Sullivan the book give us little hints about her past like the fact that she use to have a crush on ben parish , but the book is mostly focuses on her present life cassie is looking for her brother Sammy who got taken by the enemy . in the book we get to see cassie falling in love with Evan walker and going thru some crazy stuff. we can also experience the book from ben , Evan and Sammy’s point of view. the book was written by American author Rick Yancey.

I really liked reading this book the thing that I mostly liked is the way this book has been writing it really helped me experience this book I just couldn’t stop reading it. It is one of the best books that I ever read I for sure give this book a 5 star and I really recommend reading this book

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ELIYA MACHLOF- Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland was written by the English author named Lewis Carroll . Lewis was a logician, writer , photographer and many more things . The book Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy and aimed at children .The book also has a movie, video game and kids shows .

The protagonist is Alice . Alice is a fictional child , She’s 7 years old . Alice has an older sister, a cat a .She is described as a gentle ,smart , kind , and very curious .Her antagonist is the red queen , the red queen unloved as opposed to Alice . When Alice came to Wonderland the prince told the queen that she came and is ‘’threatening” her reign.

Meet our book plot, a curious young girl named Alice, follows a white rabbit until she manages to get through the door that leads to ‘wonderland’.There she meets a bunch of crazy people. Alice finds herself in the Red Prince trial, When the Red King and Queen order her to leave , what happened after? read the book and you will know 🙂

behind the story :

Lewis Carroll sailed by boat. During the cruise, Lewis told the three girls a story about a bored girl named Alice looking for an adventure . Three years later, Lewis became the same story in a book .

i give it 5 stars.

I think you should read the book because the book is funny , interesting especially to those who like fantasy .

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Roni Opatovski

The One-happily ever after anding?

The writer, Kiara Cass said that she began writing The Selection after thinking about Ester and Cinderella and how they ended up

America Singer has reached the final stages of “The Selection”. Out of 35 girls competing for Prince Maxon’s heart and the crown, only 4 girls are left- Elice, Kriss, Celeste and America. The book is the last in a science fiction and romance series for “The Selection” for teenagers, which takes place in the state of Illéa, after World War three, in the future. At this time, the country is divided into eight castes. America was in a low caste, five, so when she came to the selection she didn’t dream of going so far in the competition.

I enjoyed reading about the selection and the change and maturity of America and Maxon. During the series I really connected to the characters t, and I wanted to know what would happen to each character at the end of the story – and of course, who would win “The Selection”. I think the author’s writing is flowing and interesting. There were parts I laughed at and there were parts I almost cried in the book, and it stayed with me after reading for a long time. I especially liked the descriptions in the book, that made me feel almost like I was in the book. I’m sure I will read it again in the future.

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Noam Chopra

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone-

Full of mystery and special characters

Harry Potter- from a poor orphan to saving the world.

Harry Potter is a young boy whose parents were killed and is raised by his aunt and uncle who are horrible to him.

His life changes and becomes full of suspense and adventure when he becomes a wizard and fights evil with his best friends –Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to save the magic world.

J.K Rowling is a British author, and this was her first book.

Since the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published on 26 June 1997, it has received many positive reviews and has been translated into many languages around the world. The book has 223 pages and 17 chapters.

Harry Potter is a series of seven books that were also made into movies, based on the books.

The genre of the book is fantasy, romantic, thriller, mystery and drama. It is aimed at teenagers and children.

It is in the present, at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft in Scotland (fantasy world).

I really enjoyed reading the book and recommend it.I think that other readers would enjoy it because it is a whole new world that you can connect to and you can imagine what the world of magic looks like.

The book is full of suspense and you never want to stop reading.

I give the book 5 stars as I really liked it and I think everyone should read this book.

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Avishag Kacowicz

“The School Story” – Publishing a dream

Another wonderful story by Andrew Clements, the author of the bestseller “Frindle”.

The story teaches us about how life can change, if you believe in yourself. It’s a modern novel that took place in New York during a sixth grade school year.

Natalie, a 12 years old girl, who wrote a c after she heard that her mom needed a school story for her job at a publishing company. When Natalie’s best friend, Zoe read the novel she was sure it was so good that it must be published! But how can a 12 years old girl publish a book?

I loved the book! From the moment that I started to read , I just couldn’t stop and I’m sure that it would be the same for others. The book was so interesting and can inspire many teenagers to fulfill their dreams.

I rate this book 5 stars.

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Nechama May

The Son Of Neptune-a wonderful story with great characters

The Son Of Neptune is a great fantasy book written by Rick Riordan that is aimed at teenagers and is mostly about brave people that are doing the right thing.

Meet the fantasy world of Percy Jackson. A world full of monsters and Gods. There are three main characters: Percy Jackson, Hazel levesque and Frank Zhang.

The story begins when Percy Jackson wakes up without his memory, remembering one name: Annabeth.

Hazel has a secret that she wouldn’t tell to anyone, not even Frank. When she meets Percy she hopes he will break her Curse.

Frank has a different problem: he is a klutz. Everything he does goes wrong or breaks. He hopes he is the son of Apollo that way people will accept the fact that he is a good archer. Frank has one friend, Hazel, who he trusts with his life,

Together They will be sent on a quest to Alaska, where they will try to stop a Giant and maybe get Percy’s memory on the way. The three will meet wonderful creatures and the great inventors.

I really like this book because It has a great adventure and interesting characters. This is the second book in the series Heroes of Olympus and I think this is the best one. The book was very interesting and it was Written in an interesting way.

5- Stars

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Emma Tuval

Fault in our stars- an incredible and exciting novel John Green.

John Green is an American author.

His first novel- “Looking for Alaska” published in 2005.

“Fault in our stars” is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published in 2012.

it’s a romantic novel, realistic fiction which is aimed for teens.

The story is told from the point of view of Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16 year old girl with thyroid cancer that has affected her lungs.

Hazel is forced by her parents and doctor to attend a support group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a 17 year old boy whose osteosarcoma caused him to lose one of his legs.

She also meets Augustus’s friend- Isaac who has eye cancer.

Hazel’s world-view is very realistic- some might say a little pessimistic.

While Augustus cares a lot about being remembered by many people by doing something meaningful- being a “hero”.

They become friends and later on they fall in love.

They fly together to Amsterdam to talk to the author of Hazel’s favorite novel hoping to find out what happens to the characters after it ends.

They go through many exciting and sad experiences together.

I loved the book.

I think others will like it because it’s very exciting,

It’s interesting though a little sad, it’ll make you cry and it’ll make you laugh. the characters are loveable together and apart.

Hazel and Augustus both read each- other’s favorite novels which adds more depth about their character’s personality, making it easier to understand them.

I would definitely rate this book 5 stars.

I couldn’t stop reading it.

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Ella Rath

Keeper Of The Lost Cities – A story of action, magic and family all in one!

K.O.T.L.C was written by Shannon Messenger,back in the year 2012. Since she wrote her first book in the series, she has written another six books! Other than her bestselling series, she has since released a young adult series as well named “Sky Fall”. The first book of K.O.T.L.C is 488 pages long, and I would highly recommend the book to children ages 11-14.

Dive into a magical world, you didn’t know existed, with Sophie Foster, Fitz Vacker and their group of friends. Meet hundreds of mythical creatures and frightening, dangerous villains. Enjoy the sensation of laughing on one page and the next not being able to tearsteal your eyes away from the page for even one second – you don’t get that very often in books. Get to know what it’s like to have “powers” and get the feelling of learning at a school like ours but a school for magic.

I really loved the books, and I recommend them to any fan of Harry Potter, as well as anyone who is into fantasy. It is a fun gripping book and I promise that you will love it! I would rate the book five stars, because of how well it iswas written. Anyone who reads it, feels as though they are actually there as well! Read the book, and thank me later!

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger – Series Trailer – YouTube

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Maya Ben Ishay

Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief-The stories of mythology in the modern version

Percy Jackson Book Series was written by Rick Riordan.Riordan’s first full-length novel was Big Red Tequila. His big breakthrough was The Lightning Thief (2005), the first novel in the five-volume Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Percy Jackson is a modern-day fantasy book aimed mainly Towards teenagers.At the beginning of the book we meet Percy,a 12 year old boy with dyslexia and ADHD.He has been expelled from six schools and is about to be expelled again.On his school trip he finds out that his math teacher is a monster and came to kill him,but Percy Manages to escape at the last minute.Later in the story Percy finds out that his best friend Grover is a satire(half goat half person).Percy`s mom drives him and Grover to half-blood camp,where Percy discover the truth about the greek gods.he then meet Annabeth one of Athena’s kids that later on will become a close friend of him.On his first week in the camp Percy discover that he is the son of Poseidon.Percy is accused of stealing Zeus’ lightning and he has ten days to find the lightning and clear his name.He embarks on a quest with the help of Annabeth and Grover. He will face monsters, betrayals and threatening gods.Will Percy be able to clear his name and bring peace back to the Olympus? Read the book to find out.

I think other people will enjoy the book because the story is told in a modern language,Rick wrote the greek stories in a fun funny way that just makes you laugh your way through the book and the moment you start reading you just can`t put the book down,through the book you will feel connected to the characters,and the journey they are going through.

I give this book 5 stars highly recommend.

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Book Reviews Ninth grade 2021

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