Book Reports

Charlie hates being in Colby, and she really hates the canning jars in her room and the Cinderella pillowcases that Bertha got for her. Charlie is waiting for her mom to get her feet on the ground back in Raleigh so she go back to her mother and sister Jackie. Her only friend in Colby is Howard, and the rest of the kids treat her pretty badly. One of the only things that makes living in Colby better is her dog Wishbone, who she caught in a trap that Howard helped make.

When Gladys enters a New York Standard essay contest after being banned from the kitchen, her essay mistakenly lands in the applications for restaurant critic pile, just as Gilbert Gadfly, the normal restaurant critic for the New York Standard burns his tongue in a hot chocolate incident. The chief editor of the dining section picks her to review a new restaurant in the city called, “Classy Cakes,” but the train ride is one hour, and there’s no way she can get on the train without her parents noticing.

Thea found a treasure map for the Emerald Eye and sweet talked Geronimo into joining her expedition. They sail through a storm before reaching the island on their map. Trap was supposed to be an expert sailor but he only read 11 chapters of the giant sailing guide! They found the island but it turned out to be a popular vacation spot. As Geronimo flew home he saw that the whole island was shaped like an eye, it was really the treasure!

Geronimo and his group save the rainforest from loggers and protects the temple of the Yanomami. They also keep the Fire Ruby from being stolen by a group of misfit rodents.

Su Li, Hazel’s maid, was murdered in an elevator in a bank. Wu Shing, the elevator operator, kidnapped Hazel’s newborn baby brother, Teddy. The murder weapon was a pin Hazel lost. The suspects are Svensson (someone who wants money from Hazel’s father), Fu (someone who runs a tea shop and wants money), and Wa Fan (who wants money).

Cos and his crew were trying to save The Minors from the King’s silver mine. The King thought they were miners, but actually they were minors, get it? That means they were kids. The King trapped them in the mine and forced them to work so hard they looked old.

When Gregs parents leave for vacation, his big brother, Rodrick decides to throw a party, but someone writes “rodrick rules!” with sharpie on a door, so him and Greg have to replace the door with another one.

The conflict of the story starts when Resilience goes offline for many years because he fell off a cliff while exploring Mars on his own. Rania also gets sick and is in the hospital.

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Magnifico is supposed to be the hero, but Alfie Onion is doing all the work for his brother. They’re trying to save a princess in a castle with a spell that makes her sleep. The castle is surrounded by nasty, really nasty ogres! They have to trick the ogres with a potion that Belinda has made. Belinda is the daughter of the ogre that is trying to keep anyone away from the palace and she doesn’t get treated very nicely.