Summer Suggestions...

CONNOR M. reviews HOOT

HOOT, a hilarious story, takes place in a town in Florida called Coconut Cove. The protagonist, Roy Eberhardt, is the new kid in Coconut Cove and at Trace Middle School who’s not having a good time because he’s getting bullied often. One day on the bus he sees a barefoot boy running next to the bus, but faster. Later he finds the boy and figures out what he was doing. This boy was trying to save the burrowing who are about to be buried. Will he stand up and fight for the birds or give up? Find out, read HOOT.

HOOT by Carl Hiaasen
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Teddy G. Reviews: THE MUSIC OF DOLPHINS

The Music of Dolphins is an incredible book about a young girl named Mila who was raised in the ocean by dolphins. She was found on an island off Cuba. Is she a human? Yes she is! The real conflict is she acts like a dolphin. Two lovely people, Doctor Beck and Sandy (who were sometimes forced to lock Mila in her room so she wouldn’t escape to swim in water) nurtured her. Mila enjoyed life on land with her human friends, but really missed her family in the ocean. Does she return to her family of dolphins?

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
Review by Teddy Gray

Learn More About the Book: http://www.feralchildren.com/en/listbooks.php?bk=dolphins

REVIEW by DAVID W. - STC 2016

SCAT by CARL HIASSEN
When the class bully, Smoke, and the meanest teacher in school, Mrs. Starch, get in a squabble, nobody expects anything serious to happen. But when the grade goes on a fieldtrip, a wildfire starts; and when Mrs. Starch goes back into the blaze to get a student’s medicine, she disappears. Could Smoke, a known pyromaniac, have set the fire to get back at Mrs. Starch? The protagonist, Nick, and his friend, Marta, start an investigation. But when a baby panther, separated from his mother during the fire, appears, everything gets more intense. Will Nick and Marta ever find Mrs. Starch?

Shackleton's Stowaway

Shackleton's stowaway McKernan, Victoria

Author: McKernan,
Summary: A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice. (Summary from NoveList database)

THE MAZE

Author: Hobbs, Will

Summary: Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. (summary from NoveList database)

FLUSH

Flush Hiaasen, Carl


Summary: With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
(Summary from NoveList database)