Book Reports

At the start of fifth grade, Maya’s friends, Jada and MJ are put in a different class without her, and Maya has trouble making new friends. Until Maya finds a robot named Ralph at the back of Mr. Mac’s convenience store closet.

The Everlastings, Doomed to – or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magical spring, wander about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they possibly can. When 10 year old Winnie Foster comes upon their secret the Everlastings take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing than it might appear to be. Problems arise when Winnie is followed by a man in a yellow suit who wants to sell the spring water for a fortune.

Wonder Woman does not fit in at Super Hero High. All the students have amazing powers — like, Frost can shoot ice beams from her hands! But Wonder Woman only has a lasso.

Their friend Kitten can’t go to the fair because she broke her leg.

The Bread Crumb Mystery: the Real Pigeons try to find out why there are no bread crumbs.
The Bat Trapper: The Real Pigeons try to find out who is trapping bats.
The Food Truck Mystery: The Real Pigeons try to find out who planted a FART BOMB is someone’s bag.

When Phoebe finds a moving talking statue of Athena, She tells Phoebe that there is a Prophecy that Phoebe will destroy all of Olympus. While she runs away with her friends (Angie and Damian) from some two headed dog madness, and uses some lightning to make a horse have wings they fly into ancient Greece only to find that most people want to kill her. The only way to overcome this Prophecy is for Phoebe and her friends get a horn or talon or feather from nine monsters.

One morning John goes to the doctor after eating to much candy before breakfast. He is banned from eating candy for the next couple months. When a candy shop mysteriously appears at the corner replacing the old corner shop John is drawn to it, eating a chocolate that everything he eats or touches with his mouth turns to chocolate.

When Rebecca Verdigris’s old family moonstone, that has been passed down for generations goes missing, Ada and Mary try to find it. But, they have to bring it back unharmed.

Long ago, there used to be Riders, which traversed the land bringing peace to the Elves, the Dwarves, and the Humans, but one of them got out of control- Galbatorix, who’s dragon died and left him with only half of himself. Eventually, he gathered a dozen riders and overtook the continent, creating the Empire. Now he is still alive (for the Riders have huge lifespans) and he lives in a palace. He has many servants, including the Urgals and the Ra’zac, which kill Eragon’s uncle Garrow. Eragon vows to get revenge and sets of after the Ra’zac with his dragon Saphira and the storyteller Brom, who may be more than he seems. This book is long, so that’s just the beginning conflict. He also needs to rescue an elf, fight a shade, finish the battle, find the varden, and much more.

There is a huge tank filled with molasses built by USIA in the middle of the neighborhood. The tank isn’t safe and it ends up exploding spilling 2.7 million gallons of sticky molasses into the neighborhood. In the end 21 people were killed and 150 were injured.