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  The book Partypooper by Jeff Kinney is the highly anticipated latest installment in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. For a bit of background, this book is the 20th book in the series! The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is a well loved book collection and a staple for many middle-grade readers. Personally, I started reading this series in third grade and just never grew out of it. Every October, I tune in and read the latest book. This series follows a middle school boy named Greg Heffley.  The book Partypooper follows Greg’s family and how they forget his birthday. Greg didn’t realize they forgot his birthday, because he just thought they were planning a surprise party for him. Word gets out in the neighborhood that some kid’s parents forgot their birthday, and now Greg’s mom is getting slandered on social media.  To make it up to Greg, they throw him a “do-over” party. Gerg has big ideas for this party but his mom wants to have a different kind of party. Will this truly...

 Hi guys, this is the sequel to my previous blog on The Super Life of Ben Braver. Compared to the previous book, this one sees some similarities and differences that I wanted to highlight in this blog. The book begins with Ben returning to the Kepler Academy, the school for kids that have "superpowers", although Ben does not have any, he's allowed to come back for saving the school the previous year. At first, it seems like it's going to be a normal year; no more supervillians, no more fires, and no more evil, but Ben soon starts to get more sad about being at the school. At first, he thought it would be an amazing experience, but as he watches his classmates powers grow even better, while he still has none, he feels left out.  After the start of the year, Ben discovers that there was a fan club made for him, for saving the school last year. He begins to go to underground meetings where students have power fights, where they see who has the strongest power. Ben wins e...

     I'm just going to start off by saying that this book was a great read. I picked up this book at my grandpa's house while he was moving out to the nursing home and wanted to read it because it had been on the list of banned books for the banned books reading project last year. I will say that this book does have reasons to be banned in certain areas due to its mature themes of death, grief and some suggestive material.     The book starts with our main character, a Native American boy named Arnold Spirit who goes by the name of Junior on the reservation where he grew up. He says when he was born his brain had too much grease, so the doctors had to take it out and that messed him up a bit whether it be his horrible eyesight, his lisp and stutter or his skinny body. He lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation with his alcoholic mother and father, sister, grandmother, and many, many cousins. In his free time, he likes to draw comics, play basketball or hang out ...

  Book Review of Trial of the Sun Queen by Marina Price I think that Trial of the Sun Queen is an overall very good book that I would recommend. It is a fantasy book with lots of world building and character development. The main character, Lor, has lived in the worst prison in this world called Nostraza for her entire life despite her committing no obvious crime. One day, she gets mysteriously stolen from the prison, finding herself in the lavish rooms of a castle. However, of course this is a fantasy book, so she must compete in a set of tests called the Trials of the Sun Queen. The castle she is in is called the sun palace, where she is competing in deathly trials (designed to kill the contestants) to attempt to be chosen as the sun queen. The other contestants have trained their entire life for this contest while Lor is only put there as tribute to show the people of the Sun Kingdom why the people of elite society are better. (This is a bit of a SPOILER so skip this sentenc...

       Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe series brings you into a Dystopian sci-fi future where death has been eradicated by the Thunderhead, which is the mind of an all-knowing AI. Still, someone must keep the population under control. The Scythedom is the group of elite killers tasked with keeping the population in check by ‘gleaning,’ which is another word for murder. This book is dark, strange, and quite a page-turner. The story follows two teenagers who are chosen to become scythes and undergo apprenticeship under the scythes who choose them, learning about the role they will take on for the rest of their lives as they face ethical dilemmas that come with the responsibility of taking people's lives. What really brings these serious topics to life is Shusterman’s unique style. Writing style: Shusterman has a writing style that I thoroughly enjoyed. Here are a few interesting examples from either journals or internal character dialogue: “ There’s a lot written a...