Boy No More by Harry Mazer

Boy No More by Harry Mazer

the book ireviewed is called a Boy No More by Harry Mazer. Its about a boy named Adam, it thakes place in 1941. davi who is Adams friend and is Japanese wants Adaam to give his dad a letter who is in a interment camp, but when Adam gets there he finds Davi and the rest of his family there als. Adam finds out how racist people are to Japanenes at that time. i like this book beacuse it takes place during world war 2 and it shows what life was like at the home front. it takes place in californa.

i give this book a 7 out of 10.

patrick d.2 p.6

Meet Molly By: Valerie Tripp

Meet Molly By: Valerie Tripp

Molly is nine years old. her dad is a doctor in the war. Every once in a while Molly's dad would send letters to them but couldn't say where he was or has been. Molly's housekeeper, Mrs. Gilford, planted a victory garden in the yard. Molly and Linda and Susan (molly's friends) decided to be hula dancers for Halloween. When the girls were walking back up the driveway Ricky (molly's brother) sprayed them with a hose as a trick. Ricky had to give the girls his candy and could only keep one candy. The girls were deciding on what to do to get back at him. While Linda distracted Ricky, Molly and Susan grabbed his dirty cloths and put them in bags. Susan ran to get Jill (molly's sister) and Dolores (Jill's friend) to go outside. when they were walking down the driveway they got cloths dumped on them. At the back of the book they talk about WWI in the 1940's. Which I thought was very interesting.

On a scale 1 to 10; I give this book a rating of: 7

This book is available from: Borders books and the OVMS library

This book was reviewed by Michele D1P3

The Battle for Iwo Jima By Tom McGowen

The Battle for Iwo Jima By Tom McGowen

This book is about World War II and the capture of the island of Iwo Jima. This War first began in September in Europe. The United States only joined the war because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. They first found out about the isIand of Iwo Jima because there were bombing raids coming from the Japanese. Then the battle of Iwo Jima began on February 19th. But before the battle had even started we already had ships sitting all the way around the island of Iwo Jima. We had captured one of their airfields on Feb.20. Then the Japanese started having Kamikaze attacks to our ships. Our soldiers captured Mount Suribachi and our soldiers marched our flag all the way up to the top of the hill and mounted it there. After that we pretty much had them. All we had to do after that was capture a few more bases and the war ended. The Japanese surrendered.

I give this book a 9 out of 10 and I thought that this book was very interesting.

Reviewed by; Alex D1P6

Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman By Richard P Feynman

“Surely you’re joking Mr. Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character
By Richard P Feynman

This book is an autobiography of Richard P Feynman, a physicist (a scientist of physics), a teacher at Berkeley and Caltech and who worked on the atomic bomb. Feynman died in 1988.

I thought this is the best nonfiction book ever. It is actually really funny. He talks about things that happened to him in college when he learned to be a safecracker, when he was the chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation (a metal plating company), when he tried to be a bloodhound, and other hilarious things he does.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being awful and 10 being great: I give this a 9.

Reviewed by; Matthew D2P1

Honor the Grandmothers by Sarah Penman

Honor the Grandmothers
Compiled and edited by Sarah Penman

I recently read a book called Honor the Grandmothers compiled and edited Sarah Penman. This book contained four stories told by Dakota and Lakota women. They talk about the way they lived through happiness and hardships in their past. For example, one woman told about surviving the Wounded Knee Massacre. The massacre occurred when white soldiers surrounded a Lakota Indian tribe and started shooting and killing Indians randomly. This woman experienced death among family members and close friends. Wounded Knee is important today because it is just one of the causes for some of the strained relationships between Native Americans and white Americans that still exist today. The other talked about raising a family and what it meant to her, so there were many different things talked about. It was very interesting to learn about how these women dealt with life and how it differed from ours. I suggest this book to those who enjoy reading about different cultural history.

On a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best) I give this book a rating of: 6

This book is available from the Anoka County Library.

Reviewed by: Allie D1P3

Heroes of the Holocaust By: Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun

Heroes of the Holocaust
True Stories of Rescues by Teens
By: Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun

Maria Andzelm from Poland, Henri Zylberminc from Belgium, Hilde Jacobsthal from Holland, Ferenc Schatz from Hungary, Liliane Belinne from Belgium, and Preben Munch-Nielsen from Denmark are all lifesavers of Jews from the Holocaust. Maria helped hide two men for two years and after the war was over later, she married one of them. Henri helped hide his Jewish friends in his empty house because his family was hiding. Hilde helped thousands of children escape from the train station overnight into a home with other people so they wouldn’t die. Ferenc helped Jews by giving them fake documents from the underground. Liliane helped Jews hide in good homes where they wouldn’t get caught. Preben helped Jews escape to another country by sneaking them onto a friend’s boat.

I give this book a 9/10 rating.

I got this book at the OVMS book fair. You can also get it Amazon.com.

Hannah F D1P3

The Holocaust by Abraham Resnick

The Holocaust by Abraham Resnick

The title of this book is The Holocaust by Abraham Resnick. This book is about real situation that happened during the holocaust. These event happened between the year 1933 through 1945.The holocaust is mainly about a man named Adolf Hitler who wanted to kill all the Jewish people in the world. This was a dream he had ever since he was a little kid. He first became the chancellor of Germany and then got power over all the Germans. Hitler made many laws against the Jews which made them worth nothing. He formed an army called Nazi‚s which stands for National Socialist German Workers Party. These people were like modern day gangs or thugs. He made concentration camps like Auschwitz. This camp is where people were placed to slowly die. Chelmno extermination camps began and 340,000 Jews and 20,000 Poles and Czechs were murdered by April 1943. This camp would exterminate people with Chemicals. There were gas extermination camps. Toward the end of the war the Nazi‚s were afraid of getting caught so they started doing death marches. One group of eight thousand people were lead to a cliff and they were either pushed or shot off the edge. There were so many more stories that could have been told. At the end of the war Hitler committed suicide. This book was very interesting and it was also very short. I would recommend it to people who like history.

I would rate this book an 8 out of 10 because it was really good
But I like sports books better.

You can get this book at the Anoka County Library.

By Alex D1P6

Something Girl by Beth Goobie

Something Girl by Beth Goobie

I think that everyone should read the book Something Girl by Beth Goobie. It is a shocking story about a girl named Sophie that lives with her mother and father, but her father beats her. After every beating Sophie cowers either in her room just waiting for her father to come in and continue beating her or she runs off to a fort she built with her best friend Jujubee. I think that people of all sorts would like this book because it keeps you entertained.

On a scale of 1 being the worst to 10 being the best i would rate it a 9.5

Book reviewed by Courtney D1P3