Alien Escape by Elisabetta Dami

This book is about The Space Mice in SPACE so the book technically takes place more than 1000 miles from the place I was born. Anyway, this book is about the space mice's space ship, the Mouse Star 1 was about to explode. To prevent this from happening, the space mice has to find a very rare element to replace the engine's batteries. Suddenly a group of mysterious aliens claimed that they can help. They were relieved but were the aliens as nice as they seem.
- Abdul, Grade 7, Vassal Lane Upper School

Space Taxi: Archie's Alien Disguise by Michael Brawer and Wendy Mass

Would you recommend this book? If so, who would you recommend it to, and why? If not, why not?


I would recommend this book to anyone because this book is really fun. In fact, I would also recommend the whole series to everyone. I really liked this book because it is a science fiction book and I'm not really good at science but I learned some things about gravity and some other things. But to tell you the truth this book is actually more to the fiction side.


- Abdul, 7th grade, Vassal Lane Upper School

Space Taxi: Water Planet Rescue by Michael Brawer & Wendy Mass

Archie Morningstar's dad drives a taxi through outer space and Archie is the copilot! With the help of a talking cat named Pockets, Archie and his dad helps fighting crimes across the universe. In the second book in this series, Archie, his dad, and Pockets flies to a planet to investigate a case. Someone was actually stealing the water from this underwater world. So it's up to them to solve this SPACE CASE.

- Abdul, 7th grade, Vassal Lane Upper School

Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight by Michael Brawer and Wendy Mass

What would you want to see happen to the characters after this book (or the last of the series) ends?

What I would like to see happen in this book or maybe in the last of the series is that they show the face of the alien that they said lived under Archie's kitchen sink. I would also want to know what does B.U.R.P(A Criminal Organization) stands for.

- Abdul, 7th grade, Vassal Lane Upper School

Red's Planet by Eddie Pittman

An alien abducts a girl with orange hair in a police car. She gets caught in an intergalactic war involving mythical space pirates, abducted aliens, and haywire droids that own everything.
Red is upset that everyone calls her red. I mean, what is it with orange hair? Is it, like, universal to call someone "Red" when they have red hair? She doesn't even have RED HAIR!!! It's Orange!!! And blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....

- Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom by Henry Gilroy, Ben Dewey, and Jeff Powell

The Separatists are making too many ships, and the war is tipping in their favor. Even more, only droids are allowed on the planet. A scanning system kills anything in the ships. How will they pass as not life forms?
R2's already covered. Also, they have a carbonite freezing system.
Hmmm....

- Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Crash Course by Henry Gilroy, Shawn Fillbach, Ronda Pattison, Ramon Perez, and Matt Fillbach

A spy is leaking republic information, and every time a major podracing event happens, the info is leaked. Anakin, Obi Wan, and Ashoka compete in a podracing tournament. Ashoka develops a relationship with the lead podracer, but Anakin warns Ashoka that all will not end well.
Who is the mole?

- Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Dark Empire 2 by Tom Veitch and John Whitman

The emperor has fallen - or has he?
Imperial executor Sedriss now commands the fearsome Galaxy Gun, a new weapon that threatens to end the rebel alliance once and for all. Luke races to find the last surviving Jedi in the galaxy, encountering Jedi trees, steam powered ships, and Boba Fett who survived the Sarlacc pit.
It's a wild ride as the emperor finally realizes that his end is coming.

-Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Dark Empire 1 by Tom Veitch

The Empire has risen again. 6 years after the destruction of the second Death Star, the rebels have captured 2 star destroyers. The new imperial World Devastators now devour the galaxy. Luke tries to fight, but ends up going to the dark side. He realizes that the emperor IS the dark side of the force.
Luke must fight before the darkness swallows both him and Leia, while the emperor races to find a new body to inhabit...

-Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Cleopatra in Space: The Golden Lion by Mike Maihack

Cleopatra is in space, and is not allowed to go explore the Golden Lion, a source of immeasurable energy. Cleopatra goes to the planet by herself, and ends up teaming with Antony to find the Golden Lion and stop Octavian from destroying it or using it.
Double crosses are on the way.
And then Triple crosses.

-Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Space Cat by Ruthven Todd

The Space Cat is about a cat named Flyball who accidentally went into a cab. The cab took the him to a space station. The captain of the spaceship accidentally brought Flyball into the spaceship. Probably the reason was because he didn't notice that Flyball was in the spaceship. Later after that, the cat was adopted by the captain. The story isn't really interesting. Maybe because it was published in 1952, but however, I actually kind of liked this book.

-Abdul, 7th grade, Vassal Lane Upper School

Minion by: John David Anderson

If you could ask the author/illustrator of this book one question, what would it be?

Why is the main character a robber?

-6th grade

The True meaning of Smekday by: Adam Rex

If you could rewrite one part of the story, what would you change?

I would change the fact that the Boov are making ever one go to Florida so that humans had the choice to either go to Florida or stay in their native states. I would change it because then Florida would not stay very overcrowded and people would maby.e be able to live in peace with the Boov

-6th grade

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Would you recommend this book? If so, who would you recommend it to, and why? If not, why not?
This book was amazing! I have to say, I think it is now one of my absolute favorites! There are a bunch of 80s references throughout the book, most of which I find hilarious and quirky. The book takes place in 2045, where there is a virtual reality computer game OASIS, which you can attend school through, play game, chat with people and hang out with friends. But then the creator of the game dies, and starts a contest/scavenger hunt through OASIS to find three keys to unlock three doors to find an egg. Who ever finds the egg, will inherit all of his money. I would recommend this to anyone who likes sci-fi and adventure books, and who knows a bit about the 80s, because the who contest is has to do with the 80s.


-7th Grade

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I really enjoyed reading this complicated classic about a future where firemen start fires instead of putting them out. Some of the words were really complicated so a dictionary was useful, but the characters were very well developed and the story line was great, however I won't spoil anything for you. The second half of the book described how the book was written and different people wrote reviews and spoke about the book.


-6th grade

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

There are 12 districts which are poor and have no control and 1 capitol that is rich and has all the power. Every there is the annual hunger games which is a comp that the capitol hosts. Each year two contestants from every capitol that are chosen to compete with everyone. you go in an arena with twenty three other people. Your goal is to kill them all and be the last one standing. The story revolves around Katniss and Peeta of district 12 who are the last two standing in the the hunger games but only one of them can stay alive and win.


--8th grade

Bloodline by Claudia Gray

What would you want to see happen to the characters after this book (or the last of the series) ends?


THIS IS A STAR WARS SPOILER!!!!!



So at the end the resistance is born, I would really like to see what happens directly after that. I would also love to see what happens to Ransolm Casterfo. This book is amazing and I really recommend it to any Star Wars fans, but if you haven't already watch the movies first.


George, 8th grade, Vassal Lane Upper School

The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Would you recommend this book? If so, who would you recommend it to, and why? If not, why not?


This book is recommended to anyone who like stuff that is futuristic and who likes a deep yet understandable story. I found the book to be hard to keep track of at certain points though and the dialogue is loaded with meaning and can be hard to decipher. I reccomend this book to people who have a large vocabulary and a deep understanding for books such as these. The ending of the book is satisfying though and the next book is due to come out soon; The lord of opium. Other stuff to take into account is that bits of Spanish are strewn through the book but if you don't know what " mi madre " is and you can't guess than this is not a book for you.




--Avery, 8th grade, Rindge Ave Upper School

Animal Farm by George Orwell

If someone liked this book, what other books should they read?


Animal Farm is such an amazing book. Anyone who liked it would definitely like 1984 which was also written by George Orwell.It has some of the same themes and equally amazing writing. I would definitely recommend 1984 to anyone who enjoyed Animal Farm by George Orwell.


--Ava, 8th grade, Rindge Avenue Upper School

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

After the Maze, Thomas and his fellow epic Gladers (Newt, Winston, Frypan, Minho, Teresa, Etc) are saved and taken back to the normal world, where they discover that their "Normal" world have been hot with sun flares, and taken by a disease called the flare, that would turn people into vicious, murderers, driven by insanity. The Maze was the only beggining. Now its time for phase to of the Maze Trials, WICKED's Maze Trials.

WICKED: World In Catastrophe: Killzone Expirement Department. (WCKD)
When The Sun flares hit Earth, There wasn't enough time to stop them or warn anyone. Seconds after they hit, the Scorch was made. A devasted wasteland. After the Sun flares. There were many people living on Earth, but not enough resources. So these people, called the VC something created the flare virus, what the flare virus does, is that it makes you insane, a killer, cannibul (I think), and lets say your a crank, if you lose an arm, eye, Etc, then you wont feel anything or care. After the Sunflares and virus. Rich people, and all the surviving government in the world joined together to create WICKED and find a cure.

Also....
Read the first book!!!: The Maze Runner


--Shadnan, 7th grade, Rindge Avenue