Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a girl and her tribe who live on an island. One summer the Aleuts arrive at their island to hunt otter. After getting into a fight with the Aleuts, Karana, the girl, and her tribe have it hard. There is not as much food, and they have lost their leader. So they decide to leave the island. But a girl is left behind. Karana. This book is so sad, reading about Karana struggle for survival.


-Isabella, 8th Grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

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

Northwood by Brian Falkner

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


I love this book. The black lions are very interesting. This book is full of mystery and I love history of the figuring it out but then I sort of sometimes get angry when the characters that's really stupid and don't figure out the mystery until like page 365. A great book to read during the summer and the chillingly Beautiful book to read during the winter. And I think that this is an amazing book and I really would like everyone to read it. An amazing book to read for animal lovers mystery lovers and girls.


--Mariela, 6th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School

Kalahari, by Jessica Khoury

This book is incredible. It is about 5 teens that get stranded in the Kalahari Desert in Africa, after an educational field trip goes wrong. They are alone, without a guide in a place that is tough to survive in even if you know what you're doing. Sarah, the daughter of a zoologist is the only one in the group that can help them. They feel like they are pretty well off, when an encounter with the strangest animal Sarah has ever seen, a silver lion, completely sets off everything they did and knew. Later, they find out that that lion is part of something bigger. Much bigger. It also has EVERYTHING to do with Sarah's mother. This enchanting book kept me reading till the very last page. Romance, suspense, horror, death. All of that makes a wonderful book, and all of that is in "Kalahari". READ IT!! - Emmie, Grade 7, Cambridge Street

Fallout by Todd Strasser

This a story of the summer of 1962, the time of nuclear war. Scott's dad builds a bomb shelter, just in case, for himself and wife and two sons.
then it happens.
Now his family AND the eight neighbors are crammed into the shelter.
A shelter meant for four.
- Grade 6

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

If someone liked this book, what other books should they read?
First I wanted to summarize what this wonderful book is about! Brian is a 13 year old boy who had to face his parents getting divorced. He now spent his summers with dad and school years with mom. On his way to his dad his pilot in the 2 passenger plane he was on had a severe heart attack leaving Brian left with the plane. Brian lands the plane nearly dead and starts making a shelter. Read Hatchet to figure out what happens next! I personally reccomend reading his survival series they are outgoing to children of my age and older (10+). Read this book, I hope you get as hooked to it as I did.
- Wasika, Grade 6, Cambridge Street