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“Front Desk” is the first book of the Front Desk series. Mia Tang and her parents immigrated from China and had to deal with a lot of trouble when they first arrived. Her parents found a job at a restaurant, but got fired from that job. One day on the newspaper, Mia’s mom saw a motel looking for a job for Chinese immigrants. Along with the job, it came with a free room to sleep in, and free food. The motel was called the Calivista Motel. The owner of the motel, Mr. Yao, had a son named Jason Yao. Mr. Yao was not the nicest person. He tricked Mia’s parents by creating a loophole in the hiring agreement. Mia would sit at the front desk and check in customers, while her parents cleaned the rooms. Because Mia’s parents have a job, Mia was able to go to school. School wasn’t the best, because of Jason Yao and his friends. They would bully and torment Mia. However, Mia met some nice people such as Mrs. Douglas, her 5th grade teacher, and Lupe, Mia’s best friend, who was from Mexico. Mia’s pa...

Scythe is the first book of The Arc of a Scythe series. The author of the book is Neal Shusterman. It is set in the far future, where humans have conquered almost all natural causes of death due to advancements in technology. The scientist who discovered the advancement was Michael Faraday. The only people who can kill are scythes. The Thunderhead is a form of artificial intelligence that controls society. The Thunderhead cannot break its rules and is separate from the Scythedom. The Scythedom is an organization that is tasked with deciding which people die, because overpopulation is still a problem. Scythes can "glean" people, which means to permanently kill a person. A scythe must glean a certain amount of people a month. Two teenagers impress Scythe Faraday and he decides to give them an apprenticeship to become a scythe. When they go into the first conclave, Citra makes a mistake answering a question that Scythe Marie Curie, the Granddame of Death, gave and Rowan also fai...

Spy School is the first book of an amazing series and revolves around a young boy named Benjamin Ripley and his friends at spy school. Ben is a 13 year old boy living in Virginia going to your average old middle school. But Ben has level 16 math skills making him extremely smart. Coming home from school one day Ben finding 50 year old Alexander Hale sitting on his bed with a promotion for him to become a spy. Joining the school Ben leaves right that day to St. Smithen's Science Academy for Boys and Girls the cover name for the CIA's Academy of Espionage. Ben arrives at spy school and realizes that your don't learn how to be James Bond and go skydiving off of buildings in a fancy suit. Meeting a couple new people who soon quickly become his friends Ben realizes that life at SCHOOL is a lot harder than they make it seem. Ben quickly becomes the number one target for an evil organization called SPYDER and has to go on the run. Will Ben be able to stop SPYDER's plot before ...

Recently I read the book Tales from The Dugout by: Mike Shannon. This is a nonfiction book with many great baseball stories. Some of the stories take place in the dugout, on field, in the clubhouse, or in public. One of my favorite stories in this book is when the Cleveland Indians shortstop Mark Lewis is signing autographs for kids, then a grown man pushes through the kids and then demands his autograph. Mark Lewis signed but also wrote “To a rude man with no manners” that is why fans shouldn’t be mean or rude to others just to get an autograph. Another one of my favorite stories in this book is a story where Yogi Berra was in North Dakota playing in a golf tournament, knowing that North Dakota is one of the nation’s leading potatoes growing state. He said “You don’t have enough potatoes to fill my front yard” when the Red River Valley Potato Growers Association heard of Yogis remark they announced that they were loading an eighteen-wheel tractor trailer with 23 tons worth with potato...

A 15 year old boy named Chase, lives with his father on his house boat on the marina in Seattle, Washington. His dad was always drunk and smoking when he got home from his part time jobs and his mom left when he was a kid. Chase worked a part time job for a restaurant washing dishes. Chance runs every morning down at the marina. One day while running a man offers Chance a way to make easy money by delivering packages.  Chance accepts even though he doesn't the guy because he needs the money. The man tells him that up on the beach he is to check between the two rocks to get the package. He is to put the package in a certain mailbox. The man meets up with Chase at the end of each week and gives him an envelope of cash. Every month Chase gives money to his dad to pay the bill. After a while the man says that there will be a new type of package in the rocks.  When you see it, he is to bring it back to his boat until someone picks it up. The man said he will just know which box it ...

The book Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dawn is an action, mystery and fantasy book. I would recommend this book to 6-8 graders. This book revolves around five kids who try to stop the evil force known as the Overtakers. The Overtakers goal is to take Over Disney Word and the rest of the world. Every night when the kids go to sleep, they get teleported to Disney world as a hologram. However, the Overtakers are trying to kidnap the kids when they fall asleep. Due to this the kids can’t go to sleep for more than twenty minutes or they’ll be kidnapped. The Overtakers are a group of evil characters from the Disney franchise. Such as pirates, withes, killer clowns etc. The Overtakers  are a very deadly group of individuals who will stop at nothing to get what they want, WORLD DOMINATION! As the kids try to stop the Overtakers they will find new perilous danger. One thing I liked about this book was the characters, I liked how they were each unique in their own way. I think someone who en...