The Gadget

In the book, The Gadget, there is a young boy that comes from London to New Mexico to live with his father while he is working on something to win the war. This technology is new, and they don’t know what they’re doing, and a few people get hurt. The boy meets a kid named Alexi, and the housekeeper for him thinks Alexi is a German spy. What could his father be building? 

People who have some background in WWII would like this book. You should have some info because that is why the whole book was created in the first place. Also, if you don’t know about the war and its participants, you may not understand the book and it will seem dumb. Also you must know something about the Atom bomb and what it does. People who are in higher grades, such as 6-12, would like it.

I loved the plot and the characters of this novel. They had personal traits and they were very distinguished from one another. I liked how the book keeps secrets from you and you don’t really get the whole book until near the end when you find out.

I can’t think of one thing in the book that I didn’t like except, I really wanted to know what happened before I got to read it. It is like a puzzle, you put the pieces together, and the end is the missing piece.

I believe that the moral of the story is to not trust everyone and everything. Also, don’t be sneaky. If you want to find out something, ask, then, if you don’t find out, be sneaky. If he had not been sneaky, he would have never found out.

"I turned to Candace. After all it had been Candace who’d hated Maya first and it was her idea not to invite her to my party."

‘The Girls,’ is a novel by five teenage girls, Maya, Renée, Darcy, Brianna and Candace, who are best friends. Darcy is having a party and invites all the girls except for Maya. When Maya finds out she wasn’t invited, she gets upset and wonders why.

Candace is the leader of the clique. She can bring in a girl and kick her out. She brought Maya into the clique and is kicking her out.

Many of the girls at school want to be friends with Candace. They think she’s funny, friendly and gorgeous.

Darcy usually agrees with Candace. Because Candace doesn’t like Maya anymore, neither does she. Renée and Brianna go along with whatever the other girls decide.

Candace tries to get all of the girls against Maya. Darcy is against her, but Renée and Brianna don’t know why Candace is so against Maya. From their understanding, Maya hasn’t done anything to any of the girls to get them mad.

While the girls were at Darcy’s party, they were joking around and giving each other animal names. Brianna called Renée an elephant, but she did not mean it in a mean way; she even told Renée she didn’t intend to hurt her feelings if she did.

Candace decides to pick on Brianna by telling her that it was rude of her to call Renée an elephant. Renée knows that Brianna didn’t call her an elephant because she was fat or big; they were joking around. Candace continues to tell Brianna that it was obnoxious of her.

Because of this, Candace also decides to kick Brianna out of the clique.

At lunch Monday, Renée and Brianna see Maya. Do they make up with Maya? Or do they forget about her?

I enjoyed Girls on Film because the author, Zoey Dean gave so much detail on the events that were happening. When Anna finally gets her fantasy job as an intern she soon realizes that her boss is none other but her worst enemy, Cammie’s father. I liked how Zoey Dean also kept bringing in new, exciting characters into the book to keep the reader’s interest. Like after Anna’s first love interest, Ben Birnbaum ditches Anna on his family’s boat and almost nothing can get worse Zoey Dean brings in Adam Flood; a fun and interesting guy who also wants an intense relationship with Anna. In my opinion I think this book is best for teenage girls because some of the situations that happen are only how teenage girls would act. I also think that this book appeals to teenage girl because some of the characters in the book act like the snobby, un-original average teenage girls at typical middle schools.

This book has its ups and downs. The beginning is a bit confusing when her uncle shows some scholars pictures of cities in the Aurora Borealis. Some parts are a bit boring, but the book gets very exciting the farther you get into it. Some people may not want to waste their time reading it, though anyone who gives it a chance will not be disappointed.

The Green Mile - By Stephen King
Brad
Rating out of ten: 8

The Green Mile is definitely one of Stephen King’s more admirable novels. It’s packed full of suspense, miracles, and detail. The Green Mile is a fiction piece during The Depression. It is about a mediocre prison guard named Paul Edgecombe, who has the most excruciating, painful urinary infection. Paul’s a middle aged man who works at a penitentiary. This is where “Old Sparky” as they liked to call it, waits to fry its unwilling occupants. This electric chair and a gargantuan inmate will unlock a phenomenal secret. Read on as the guard uncovers the mystery and reveals the secret. And so begins the adventure with breathtaking miracles and suspense that’ll make your blood run cold. The perilous experience has an elaborate sense that creates a picture in your mind.

After all of this evidence, I would rate this novel an eight out of ten. I really enjoyed this outstanding book. It contains excellent details and description. The extraordinary events and miracles and overall suspense made The Green Mile a great book. Also, as I was reading, I got a sense of history out of it. Before, I had no idea about what went on during The Depression. From this book, I got a taste of what life was back then.

Obviously one of Stephen King’s treasured books, The Green Mile is absolutely magnificent and bizarre.