Avoca School District 37 Student Blog

Scorpia
By: Anthony Horowitz
Book Blurb By: A.J.
This book is about a boy named Alex Rider who works for an English Intelligence named M16 for most of his teenage life. But after being beat up on the missions, practically killed, and hearing all new secrets about his dad, he decides to stop. And after taking a trip [...]

Manhunt
By: James L. Swanson
Book Blurb By: A.J.

The book Manhunt, takes place in the mid 18 hundreds, and is about an actor named John Wilkes Booth, who has a strong opinion about the president, Abraham Lincoln. All over Washington, the people knew that Lincoln and his wife were going to the famous play “My American Cousin” [...]

The True Meaning Of Smekday
By: Adam Rex
Book Blurb By: A.J. L.

This book is about a girl named Gratuity Tucci who is living in 2011 when earth is being attacked by an alien race called the Boov who is taking over human society! On her journey to find her mom, she encounters a Boov that tags [...]

Room One
By: Andrew Clements
Book Blurb By: A.J.
Room One is about a boy named Ted who is the only 6th grader in his school of 9. Since there is one room in the school, it’s being threatened to be shut down. Ted has a bigger problem: he found a family of 3 in an abandoned farmhouse [...]

The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
By: Dave Barry
Book Blurb By: A.J.
This book is about a boy named Doug Barnes that is having a Christmas pageant in a couple of days and has to prepare. How can he prepare when his little sister is really close to the family dog, and the [...]

Henry Ford, Boy With Ideas
By: Hazel B. Aird and Catherine Ruddiman
Book Blurb By A.J.

This book talks about the life of Henry Ford and his childhood, adulthood.  This book says the inventions he made as a kid and the cads he produced as an adult. He built his first car in a shed in the [...]

Granny
By Anthony Horwitz
Book Blurb by A.J.
The book Granny is about a boy named Joe and his treacherous grandma. They called her granny because grandma or grandmother did not fit, so they called her granny. Joe and his family are very wealthy and unusual. For Christmas, Joe wanted a very challenging toy robot that you build [...]

Things Not Seen
By Andrew Clements
Book Blurb By A.J.
The book Things Not Seen is about a boy named Bobby who one morning gets out of the shower and is invisible. He can not see himself in the mirror and nobody else can. What will Bobby do? I thought this was a good book because it was [...]