Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff presents a girl and her massive love for horses. This book is about a little girl and her mom died when she was five. then her dad and brother moved to America to rise horses. so she lived with her and uncle. when one day her dad called and said "I want you to mo...
Benjamin Torres9/29/14Period 3/4 Gingersnap Gingersnap was a great book. I gave it 3 stars because it had good details in the chapter, but sometimes in the end of a chapter, ther...
Lexile Level: 550Pages: 166 p.Summary: It's beginning of the New Era. The Great Depression has created hard times for everyone, but with election of a new president, 12 year-old Rachel is hopeful that things will change for her family. Her father will get his job back at the bank, there will be...
I bought this book with the Scholastic Best Books for Second Grade set they had for 2014-2015. My intention was to be buying some books for reading groups and for gifts at the end of the year. All I want to do with the set of these is give them to the parents of my low second graders. Beast's per...
I was disappointed with this historical fiction book. The premise was interesting enough - Ireland's Potato Famine of 1845-1852 and the indifference of England during that period. I also enjoyed reading that the author, Patricia Reilly Giff, has 6 great grandparents who lived through the famine...
This book is different. It’s not just a novel with words and pages and chapter titles. It’s not just a story. It’s a picture. The author has painted us a picture, one long, deep, full picture of Hollis Woods, a tough orphan no one can handle. Nothing has been left out of this picture. We see Holl...
When a boy named Richard Best's class has a candy corn jar guessing contest things for him get exciting but the fact that you have to read a page for each guess you make. He goes throught this rough time trying to guess how many in the jar and only has three more day's and he can just taste them....
I picked this book up to read because I was attempting to find 4 different chapter books for my 4th graders that deal with immigration (different times, places) to America that we could use for literature circles. This book is the continuing story of Nory Ryan and her family's life in Ireland. I ...
- Personal reactionI did not enjoy this book very much because of its historical background. I took World History class during elementary and middle schools. I really enjoyed the classes because learning histories of other countries was very interesting. However, while reading this book, I felt s...
Thirteen year old Dina sails from Germany to America by herself in 1870 convinced she is moving from a life of sewing for her mother to her rich uncle's home. She hopes never to have to sew again. She enters Uncle Lucas' tiny apartment in dirty, dingy Brooklyn to see a sewing machine enthroned in...