There are plots afoot

“A Series of Unfortunate Events:

The Reptile Room”

Lemony Snicket

This story starts on Lousy Lane, a horrible lane to have to be on. The three Beaudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, are on this road going to their new home.

When they get to their new home, the hedges are shaped like snakes. They stay in the house until a person named Stephano comes. He is actually Count Olaf, an evil person who will do anything to get the Beaudelaire fortune. He is making up a plan to get the fortune. What is it and will it happen?

Reviewed by Mia, 4th Grade

Miller Elementary

Burbank

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“Airborn”

Kenneth Oppel

A boy named Matt Cruise works on an airship called Aurora. One day, the airship gets hit by a pirate’s airship and falls toward the ocean. Will it sink or make it? Read the book to find out.

Reviewed by Max, 10

Towers Elementary

Torrance

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“Goosebumps: The Blob That Ate

Everyone”

R. L. Stine

Zackie Beauchamp and his two friends, Adam and Alex, find a typewriter in a burned-down antique store. Zackie brings it home and starts typing. Every scary word he types comes true. But something wrong happens when his best friend Adam types a scary story about a meat-eating pink blob. Do they stop the blob in time?

Reviewed by David, 10

Dorris Place Elementary

Los Angeles

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“A Horse Called Wonder”

Joanna Campbell

Twelve-year-old Ashleigh Griffen and her family move to Townsend Acres after a deadly disease wipes out her family’s horse-breeding farm. Ashleigh said she would never give her heart to another horse after the tragedy.

The Griffens are now breeding managers at Townsend Acres and Ashleigh is hating it. Soon Ashleigh befriends a mare called Townsend Holly. When Holly gives birth to a sickly foal, no one believes the foal is worth saving. No one except Holly. Read the book to find out what happens to the foal.

Reviewed by Willow, 9

Ivanhoe Elementary

Los Angeles

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