CHEETAH CRITICS

Horowitz, Anthony.BEASTS AND MONSTERS

brangwinn — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Perseus went to hypervoreang. He cut Medusa’s head off for Polydectesas to have as a present! I liked this book because it was scary and weird. There are a few other stories.

Reviewed by Zeke (second grader 2011)

Schwartz, Alvin. MORE SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK

brangwinn — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:25:48 +0000

My favorite story was Oh Susanah. So here’s the story.Two girls lived in an apartment. When they wnet to bed one of the girls was haering the other girl humming “Oh Susannah”. When it was morning and the other girl gook off the blanket, the girl she heard humming was gone. What I didn’t like about this book is that it was freaky. What I liked about this boo was that the pictures were cool.

Reviewed by Munchkin (second grader 2011)

Scieszka, John. SPACEHEADZ

brangwinn — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:45:28 +0000

Michael K is is a new kid. He has to sit beside two other kids who are really from outerspace. Their names are Bob and Jennifer. They need 3.14 million and 1 earth people to be spaceheadz or earth will be turned off. Michael K typed up a spaceheadz website to get more spaceheadz people. I liked this book because it was very funny.

Review by EE grade 2

Bolger, Kevin. ZOMBIEKINS

brangwinn — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:38:30 +0000

Stanley finds a stuffed animal at a garage sale and takes it to school. It makes everyone turn into zombies. Miranda solved the problem by throwing taffy at the zombies. Then they turned to normal people. I liked it because there were zombies in the book.

Review by KS, second grade.

Spires, Ashley. BINKY TO THE RESCUE

brangwinn — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:50:00 +0000

Binky is a cat. Binky thinks the house is a space station. When Binky fell out of the window, he left Ted, his stuffed mouse outside. Binky had to rescue it. Binky dug a tunnel and saved Ted. I liked this book because it was funny.

Reviewed by ZF, second grade

Harkrader, LD. AIRBALL: MY LIFE IN BRIEFS

brangwinn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:29:42 +0000

Airball is about a boy who is horrible at basketball–but he loves it. So he gets into his 7th grade basketball team—and they wear underwear as a strategy because they haven’t won a game in so long. So the game of basketball leads the boy to chaos! I loved this book because it was so funny. If you need a good book tht has humor, read Airball.

Reviewed by Rachel P–4th grader–2008

Service, Patricia. STINKER FROM SPACE

brangwinn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:27:10 +0000

One of the best books I have read is Stinker from Space. It is about a boy and a girl named Jonathan and Karen. Karen and Jonathan both meet a being named Stinker. Stinker met them because his space ship broke down and he doesn’t know how to fix it so he needs some help. Jonathan and Karen want to help but they don’t know how to explain it to their parents. Stinker wants to get away from Zarnk so he doesn’t get caught. I absolutely loved the book. My favorite part was when Karen said “Zarnk” and then laughed and said “False alarm.” You absolutely need to read this book. I learned that if you need help ask politely.

T.L.T. –Fourth grader–2007-2008

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. AMONG THE HIDDEN

brangwinn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:25:30 +0000

I read one of the best books! It is about a boy named Luke. He is a third child. This is a mystery book that takes place in the future. The government says you can only have two children. Luke meets a girl named Jen. She is a third child, too! She is trying to make all the third children be free. I love this book because I love mystery books and I’m sure you’ll love this book, too.

Reviewed by: M.J.2310–Fourth grader 2007-2008

Schwartz, Alvin, SCARY STORIES 3

brangwinn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:23:41 +0000

If you’ve never heard of this book, well you should because it will chill your bones and you might creep your friends out but it’s cool. This book is about dead people and it’s about dead people who haunts homes. I really like this book because it’s really cool and some times it chills my bones but the one chapter that chills my bones the most is called, The Red Spot. This is why you should read this book and you better read it real soon or you’ll be sorry. I’m just kidding, or am I?
Reviewed by RW

Spinelli, Jerry.STARGIRL

brangwinn — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:21:32 +0000

“Stargirl” was all they could say, just out of nowhere she appeared. She was everywhere all at the same time. Stargirl wasn’t like any other person at Mica high she “basically kept the school alive” everybody thought. Everyday was a boring one at Mica high school, then came Stargirl. She knows everything about everyone even all of her classmates’ birthday and sings to them at lunch time. When she becomes a cheerleader that’s when everybody decides to hate her all because she cheers for the other opponents. It starts to get annoying when she always starts singing to people now. Then Leo discovers he secretly likes Stargirl and Stargirl likes him back. When ever there in school they always hold each others hand and walk down the hall way together. Every since Leo started to ignore him and Stargirl everybody started to ignore both of them. When Leo thinks Stargirl is getting to weird he tells her to “change her unique ways”. She listens to him and becomes Susan. But when Leo has had enough, of Stargirl they break up right before the octorall ball!! That means Stargirl is going alone without Leo. At the ball Stargirl does a weird dance that everybody loves and joins in with her. So now everybody all the sudden likes her and thinks she is not so “weird” as they thought she would be! I thought this book was sometimes just kind of dragged on in some chapters, which I did not want to read. Over all this book was a great story and I would recommend this book to anybody but probably not boys. Hope you will enjoy this great book!

Reviewed by spotdogingham95th Grader 2008-2009)