Book Summary by Michael Haddad

The Zack Files

I'm out of my body Please Leave a Message

That book is about a little boy and weird things happen to him. One day Zack invited his friend Spencer for a sleepover. When it was bedtime Spencer opened a book that can make you get out of your body just like a ghost. He opened the book to page thirteen and read the directions to get out of your body to Zack. They followed the directions and after some minutes, they were floatingin the air in there astral bodies. They went floating through the houses, walls and to the zoo. When they arived they went to see the lions . The cage was closed so they went through it into the lions cave. The lions couldn't' see them but could sence them so one ate Zack and Spencer. They floated out of him and went to the statue of Liberty. There they went up to the torch. When they came back down they went to watch a scary movie and Zack was so scared so they went home. Spencer tried to open the page to page 14 where the directions are to go back to normal but with his astral hand he couldn't so he told Zack. They were both worried about what Zack's dad would think. Spencer got the idea to go to there science teacher and she was wierd to. So theywent to her house . They were thinking maybe she could tell them how to go back to there bodys. They went through the walls of the house until they found her room. They tried to wake her up for several minutes but a little voice was saying "I'm here" She was in an astral body. When they saw her they were exited and they new that if she could ahve an astral body she can comem back to normal. So they asked her how to come back to normal and she said" You guys should find out". So they went back home. Well i told you a lot about that story maybe you could find out what happened after that part if you read it.

Book summary by Kevin Chabab

The Talent Thief

By Alex Williams


I just finished the best book. It's an extraordinary tale of an ordinary boy. 
BEWARE
There's a villain on the loose. He's a monster. Find out more about him and what he's going to do in
The Talent Thief
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Skeleton Key


By Anthony Horowitz

I love this book because I love ALEX Rider. He is my favorite character in Skeleton key. Skeleton Key is an adventure book. It is so nice. Please read it and enjoy!
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The House of the Scorpion

By Nancy Farmer

The house of the scorpion is a very interesting book. It has 380 pages. The characters are: Matti the clone, El Patron, a powerful drug lord...It's a very interesting book. PLEASE read it!

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Murder my Tweet

By Bruce Hare

This book talks about a walking lizard and his pet is a bird. They are under cover. The fight crime. A very good  story. Hope you read it!

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Ricky Rickotta's Mighty Robot

By Dav Pilkey

Illustrated by Martin Ontiveros

I love the book Ricky Rickotta's Mighty Robot because its an adventure book. I like adventure books. It talks about an evil William who lives on Mars. He is bored because he has no one to talk to and no one to tease. So he decided to take over earth so he kept on building robots when he finished ...

IT'S TIME TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!

Hope you read it.

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The Black Belt Club Night on the Mountain of Fear

By Dawn Barnes

This book is about four students who learn karate in the dojo. They try to defeat a very dangerous dragon. It is a very interesting story and I hope you read it!

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Halloweenies

by David Wisnieski

This story talks about three kids who go watch several monster and scary movies. One of the movies is called "Curse of Warewess". It talks about a lady called Ramona she gives a pedicure for a monster at a very spooky night. It's a spooky book . Read it if you dare!

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Shredderman

By Wenbevin Voun Draanen

Illustrated by Brian Biggs

This is the best book I read! It talks about a kid named Nolan who's afraid from a bully called BUBBA- Bixy.Bubba-Bixy bullies everyone and Nolan always stops him so he called himself SHREDDERMAN. This book is a very cool book. It has 16 chapters.

Have fun!

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The Plot on the Pyramid

By Terry Deary

Illustrated by Helen Flook

A long time ago a girl named Nephoris was sitting on sand throwing rocks at the river. Her dad was telling people what to do to build a pyramid for the king. He treated them like slaves.

I learned that when you treat people bad, people have to treat you bad. It's the best book when you read it!

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The Thief The Fool and the Big Fat King

By Terry Deary

Illustrated by Helen Flook

There lived a family who tell the people that they were poor to get a bride. The dad almost killed his son after that a girl knew it was a trick and they all ran to get their money and the king saw everything. Then when they went to the king, he challenged them to a competition in pranking the people.

- "If I won, you're not allowed to prank the people anymore"

- "But if we won" said the dad "we'll be a royal family and you will be a begger"

Who won? You'll find out if you read the book.

Welcome to the 2011 - 2012 G4 students

New year, new students, new book summaries, same teachers! Waiting for your summaries and drawings so we can publish them! Good Luck ....Read...Read....Read!

Book Review by Talal Alaeddine

The Maid, the Witch and the Cruel Queen

I like this story . I think you have to read it. It talks about a cruel queen that burns her enemies at the stake! Lors Scuggate gets ready for the visit by counting up victimes. But when he picks on an old, wise woman, he finds he's made a big mistake.

Grade 4 celebrating National Reading Week!

During the National Reading Week Grade 4 students have an activity where they can show their creativity. After choosing a book and reading it, they imagine a new cover for the book. i am sure you will see master pieces published on this blog soon! G4 students now...but who may become future Leonardo da Vincis or Michael Angelos later on!

Parrots

By Roberto Rahhal

If you want a nice pet to live in your house, you should choose a parrot. It will dirty the floor, but you can have fun with it and talk to it. I have one I took the book "Parrots" to read aobut my pet. If you only feed your parrot grains, it will die because parrots need parrots vitamines gust like humans. If cold air comes on parrots they will get sick and die. Sugar also kills parrots. Carefull my parrot bit me once. And it hurt a lot. But still... a parrot is a very nice pet...

Foolish Jack and the Beanstack

By George Cavalcanti

I like this book because it's a funny story. It has different titles and it talks about how foolish Jack and his mom lived. Every day they had milk so then he got beans. They started eating beans every day. it reminded me about Jack and the beanstalk but t eh difference is that Jack made a beanstalk not a beanstack.

Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
by David Mansour

Alex Rider is one of my favorite book series. This is the first one i read. It is full of action and adventure. I'd rather read the book than watch the movie because i can picture what's happening in my head. It is about a new computer a person is using to kill many children. I definitely suggest this book to other people.

Nicky goes to Paris

By Tammy Gebara

Nicki is a small girl who wants to travel to some country different then hers. Along with her, she takes her pet cat Miaw! She discovers the culture, the history, the sites and more...She visits all the wonderful places to see!

Goosebumps Horror Lands: The Horror at ChillerHouse

By David Mansour

I liked this book because it's scarey. It's about six kids who get trapped in an amusement park and they are being shot by crossbows. I suggest this book to others.

Book Review by Tammy Gebara

Mary Margaret meets her match
This book was long but simple. It is about a girl named Mary Margaret. Once Mary's mom had to work in a ranch, so they had to stay there for the weekend. Mary Margaret loved the ranch because she got to ride on horses. She found a horse over there that was suitable for her. I really enjoyed this story. To find out what happened next, borrow the book!

Freckle Juice

(Judy Blume)

This story is about a boy who wants freckles. A girl tells him the secret recepie called freckles juice. He has fun with the freckles so he tells the girl again. She gives him another secret recepie to remove the freckles. He is happy now!!!

Eloise in Paris

This is a story about a girl named Eloise. She travels to Paris with her Nanny. Eloise likes Paris a lot! She had a wonderful trip to Paris! By the way, she is very rich! This story was easy!

Book Review by Khalil Sayegh

Summer of the Sea Serpent

Jack and Anie had a merlin mission. It is called "Summer of the Sea Serpent" It talks about Jack and Anie . They have to get the sword of Light before night fall and give it to merlin the magician. Mirlin gives them a rythme to follow. The rythme started by telling them they have to call the water night for help and they did. The water night helped them. The next thing to do was to go into the spider queen cave. Anie was not scared of everything only spiders. She saw that the cave was filling with water so the spider queen created for them a ladder. They went up the ladder and saved themselves. Then Jack and Anie saw two seels and played with them and slept with them. In fact these seels were Teddy and Kathleen.
To find out what happened next, borrow the book!