From Cow to Ice Cream by Bertram T. Knight
Blurb by: James
Non-Fiction
First, dairy cows get milked twice each day and some of their milk is sent to ice cream factories. At the factories many things are going on. There are huge mountains of raw sugar in a warehouse. Then the sugar goes to a refinery. It [...]

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Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case by Donald J. Sobol
Blurb by: James
Mystery
Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case by Donald J. Sobol is a book about a boy detective who solves cases for his dad and the kids of the neighborhood. His dad is the police chief of their town, Idaville. A lot of the cases have to [...]

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Fantastic Feats and Failures by the Editors of YES Mag
Blurb by: James
Non-Fiction
This book describes how important it is to be a precise engineer and not make any simple mistakes. Sometimes simple mistakes can cause thousands of deaths. Some were feats and others were failures. Some were feats and failures all in one. One example of [...]

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The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman
Blurb by: James
Historical Fiction
When a Jewish spirit, otherwise known as a dybbuk possesses The Great Freddie, a ventriloquist Freddie is both mad and happy. Freddie is humiliated when the dybbuk, Avrom Amos tells things that Freddie would never of said. He is happy when he gets a lot [...]

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Bob the Chef
This is a limerick that I wrote. I thought that it was fun to use rhyme. I also found some funny photos that match my poem perfectly.

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The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
Blurb by: James
Adventure
In the fifth book of the well-known series A Series of Unfortunate Events the Baudelaires are sent to live and study at a boarding school called Prufrock Prepetory School. The three main characters are Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, and Sunny Baudelaire. Violet is the eldest, being 14 [...]

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Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Blurb by: James
Fantasy
Fantastic Mr. Fox is about three farmers who’s names are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. They all grow different meats and Bean grows cider. In a hill nearby lives a fox family. They rely on the farmer’s food to survive. Every night, Mr. Fox snuck  food from the farmers [...]

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Sandy Koufax by Matt Doeden
Blurb by James
Biography
Sanford Braun was born on December 30, 1935. He lived in Brooklyn and his dad died when he was young. His mom remarried and he took his new father’s last name, which was Koufax. Sandy went to Cincinnati University and played on the varsity basketball and baseball team. Sandy’s [...]

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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Book Review by James

Science Fiction

Sylvia is a 8-year old girl who is an orphan that lives with her Aunt Jane. Aunt
Jane is a very old and brittle woman. Sylvia is going to her cousin Bonnie’s
mansion. While she is on the train to Willoughby Chase when wolves interfere with
the [...]

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Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson
Blurb by: James
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Gilly Hopkins is a 12-year old that is in foster care and wants to see her mom. She goes to Trotter’s house and at first doesn’t like it. She has to work with William Ernest who she does not like either. When she has to get [...]

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