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Reviews: P - Z
Savage Snow

by Paul Holt 

Savage Snow is an adventure novel about a record breaking blizzard in the city of Boston. It is a well written book with many morals and exciting events that characters go through trying to survive the monstrous blizzard, a dazed and confused group of teens, a bankrupt hotel business, and a triple murder in a Victorian style home in the suburb of Boston. The beginning of the book is slightly hard to keep track of because there are many characters but by the end it gets easier because the characters start meeting each other and you learn more about them and their personalities. With each character you find their personality can change greatly with just a night of storm. On a scale of ten, I give this book a nine. It is very well written in my opinion, although there seems to be something in my mind missing. Read it, and maybe you can come up with the missing link. 

Callie Zane Beers, 8th grade 
Slam

by Walter Dean Myers 

Get ready to hit the boards because here comes Greg "Slam" Harris. Slam is a great book and I loved it. I think that Walter Dean Myers did a very good job of catching this story from a teenager's point of view because it involves real stuff teens do. This book is a point signature book and has won three awards: Coretta King Award, An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, and the New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. I loved this book and I strongly suggest that you read this book. 

Justin Greenfield, 8th grade 
 

Someone was Watching

This book is full of exciting and surprising events. One of them was when Chris and Pat found out that Molly had not drowned, but that she had been kidnapped. Another occurred when Pat and Chris traveled to Florida by themselves to find Molly. In this book there were a few predictable parts, but not too many. The climax of this story happened in a believable way because I thought that they would end up going to Florida. There are a number of important events that lead to the outcome of the story like how Chris and Pat find out where Clover and Bud took Molly and when they get her they don't think that they will get away because Bud chases them. The ending of this story is predictable, but it is still really good. 

Lana Soma, 7th grade 
Whatever Happened to Janie

This book is about a girl who changes from Jennie Spring to Janie Johnson to Jennie Spring and back to Janie Johnson again. With this book, you don't want to stop reading. A girl named Jennie Spring is kidnapped and then given to other parents. She then finds her picture on a milk carton twelve years later. Janie needs to lighten up around people. Even before she saw her picture on the milk carton, she was tense around everybody except Reeve, her boyfriend. This book seems very real, except, I've never heard of someone who was kidnapped and then found alive. This is a good book, and I strongly urge you to read it. 

Nick Olson, 8th grade 
 

Wild Magic

by Tamora Pierce 

I like reading about enchanted places and things, so I really loved this book. This book started in the middle and went back and forth from past to present. Dione had always had a knack with animals, but since her mother, who was a hedge witch, said Dione didn't have magic, Dione believed her. Dione heard that a horse trainer was hiring, so she applied for the job. Ouma, the horse trainer, hired her, and they started toward the training camp where the horses were supposed to go. They were attacked by stormwings, found a mage, and were almost killed by spidren. In all of this Dione played a major part. She shot most of the storm wings down, found the mage in hawk's form, and warned the camp of the spidren. When they got to the training camp, Numiar, the mage, learned that Doine possessed the wild magic. To get the rest of this story read Wild Magic

CeCe Swalla, 7th grade 
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