Sophia's Book Review

The  Magic  School Bus Hops Home

I like this book because it has animals and

adventures and you learn about animal

habitats.This book is about animals habitats

Like a beavers need a quiet pond to live in.

So they make their own habitat.Beaver are

Rodents like mice and squirrels.I recommend

that  if you like  adventures and like animals

To read and you are getting smarter,smarter,

It is call hops home from the magic school bus.

The magic school bus is a good book because

Ms.frizzle soooo fun and funny and cool.

Ms frizzle kids look at Ms.frizzle clothes

And discover what kind of the field trip.  – Sophia

Dereck's Book Review

Chameleon!  I like the book because the chameleon camouflage in the trees

And i know that chameleon isn't a insect and i know that some chameleons

Look like trees and chameleons go step by step by step

And some chameleons look like a low and some

Chameleons are white.

It has eyes that move around to see insects 

Chameleons camouflage to catch their prey. -- Dereck

Ayleen's Book Review

The Magic School  Bus on the Ocean Floor

I like this book because i love the beach a lot,

and because on the ocean floor there are a lot of

living  creatures like and because the magic

school bus is adventurous , and you can find treasure .

This book is interesting because you are getting

smarter. And  some plants you see in the ocean are

living things,some animals will camouflage so they

won't being seen  ,and so they won’t be eaten up  .

 I recommend this book because it is interesting ,

And You  are getting smarter.The magic school bus

this is a good    book  because  Ms.Frizzle is soooo

Funny ,and fun because is always up for fieldtrips

She knows a lot of things about the earth,human bodys,and

living creatures. -- Ayleen

Small Worlds: Maps and Mapmaking

Small Worlds: Maps and Mapmaking

Karen Romano Young  (2002)

I love maps, exploration, cartography, etc.  I think students should make and read more maps, and this book shows many varieties beyond the traditional road map no one could ever refold.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Laurence Yep (1995)

Part history, part historical fiction; well done anti-war with a personal touch students will connect to.

The Wall

The Wall

by Peter Sis (2007)

nothing to do with Pink Floyd... an artist's story of growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia, the suppression of individual rights and the government's efforts at mind control... I found it strange that it's out now, 10-15 years after it would be more timely/relevant, and that it's designed like a children's story ("oh look Timmy, here's a pretty book about a baby suffering from ideological crimes")... but the art and the info inside is very cool, and it would be a nice quick companion to a history or art lesson... also talks about 60's rock and roll...

connections: Adolf, Anne Frank, The Giver, the Berlin Wall, contemporary government/race issues (E. Europe, Africa), artistic freedom of expression