The Tale of Despereaux

by Kate DiCamillo

reviewed by Anthony Chan

Fall 2016

REVIEW: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

ISBN#: 9780439701679

THE STORY:

A mouse, a princess, a rat, and a servant girl living in a castle from the medieval times in the nineteenth century. All of them are tied together by fate and destined to meet each other. Despereaux, the mouse, was born the same day Chiaroscuro, the rat, first stepped into the light upstairs. Roscuro, shortened name of Chiaroscuro, caused the death of the princess’s mother by falling into her bowl of soup after he heard the princess call her a rat as he was swinging on the chandelier. His first experience upstairs led him to a broken

Hoot

by Carl Hiassen

Reviewed by Jimmy Yao

Fall 2017

REVIEW: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

ISBN#: 0375821813

THE STORY:

Roy Eberhardt is a single child with two extremely caring and great parents. Roy lives in Florida in a city called Coconut Cove. Roy’s family travels from place to place so much that Roy can not remember how many or which schools he had attended, but he now goes to Trace middle school. Roy is just starting his new school and is already getting bullied by an older boy named Dana Matherson. One

The Screaming Staircase

by Jonathan Stroud
Reviewed by Shriyanshu Kode

The Story:

Lucy, a young girl, teams up with the Lockwood & Co. ghost hunting agency. Ever since the Problem occurred in London, there has been a need for people with a special skill called the Talent. Lucy has the special skill of listening to ghost whispers. After an ugly ending in her hometown she joins a new ghost hunting agency, Lockwood & Co., in London.

Lord of the Flies

By William Golding

Review by Nathan Young

Fall 2016

REVIEW: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

ISBN#: 0-571-05686-5

THE STORY:

A group of British children are stranded on an island and don’t know what to do or how to survive in this environment. The boys find each other and gather up to discuss what they have to do. Eventually, in order to recreate the society they lived in before, they host an election and vote a boy named Ralph as their leader, and they start to plan out how to survive.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

Reviewed by Adarsh Kamath

Fall 2016

REVIEW: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

ISBN# 978-1495238956

THE STORY:

Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy lives with his Aunt polly and his step brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn have always been troublemakers. After one of Tom’s troublesome affairs, he is ordered to whitewash a fence. When his friends come, he acts as if he loves the job and his friends are jealous which makes them want to do it for him. This a major example of