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In The Mother-Daughter Book Club, four unlikley girls get put together in a book club organized by their mothers. At first, all of the girls are bored out of their right minds, but soon they get used to it. In this hilarious book, you will see how the girls overcome bullies, survive middle school, follow their dreams, and most of all, find out who their true friends are. Some parts will make you laugh, some parts you will want to cry, but anyways, this is a fantastic book.

The School of Fear- Class is not dismissed is again about Garrison, Madeliene, Lulu, and Theo but this time a new student is joining them. Her name is Hyacinth and she is petrified of being alone. As you have already suspected, she is a total cling-on and is annoying to boot. On top of all of that, their is a burgular robbing Mrs. Wellington of all of her wigs and beauty items. Read this thrilling book to see who is at the bottom of this all and how a special talent could possibly bring back a fellow student.

The School of Fear is about 4 kids who all are extremely afraid of different things. They all apply for The School of Fear in hopes that they will over-come their fears. What they don't know is that this is probably one of the scariest summers of their lives. In this comical book, you will see how your fears could help you someday. And if you liked this book, make sure you check out the second and third book to this series.

Eight Keys is about a girl named Elise and her friend Franklin. Now that they are both in middle school, they are starting to grow apart. On top of that, Elise has a locker-buddy who squashes her lunch everyday and she is having a hard time doing her homework. And a new baby and her aunt comes to their house to stay, that doesn't make things any easier. When Elise finds a key with her name on it, her whole history starts to unfold before her. A moving story with a happy ending.

The Calder Game is the third and last book to Chasing Vermeer :(. When Calder and his father go to England on a business trip, unexpected things start happening. A giant statue and Calder disapear in the night and nobody can find them. Tommy and Petra are brought in to England to help solve this mystery but they are having a tough time. Can they solve the mystery in time?? Read this thrilling and exciting book to find out. You don't want to miss the end to this amazing series!!!

Chasing Vermeer is about two kids named Calder and Petra who are in sixth grade. They have this really cool teacher named Ms. Hussey who has an interest in art. When a valuable Vermeer painting goes missing, Calder and Petra are determined to find it. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, this is a book you don't want to miss. And if you enjoyed this book, make sure to check out the other two books in the series- The Wright Three and The Calder Game

The Giver wasn't the greatest book I have ever read. It was really weird; example: there are no grandparents, all the old people go to this place called the house of the old. Another example is that the mother and father aren't related to their kids. In fact, the mother doesn't give birth to her children either. People called 'birthmothers' give birth to the kids and then the kids get placed in a family unit. Only the beginning of the book is good. Towards the end, it just get plain old weird. The one other book that I have read by Lois Lowry is Number the Stars and that was fanomanal!! It really makes The Giver seem terrible. All in all, it was OK. Hope that helps.

Sara8)

I know that it is a little late,but I just wanted to say:

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

The Apothecary is an amazing book about a girl named Janie and her friend named Benjamin. Benjamin's father is an apothecary and he works down the street at a drug store. Really he is a scientist and he has this special book called the Pharmocopoiea which holds different spells and elixers. What the apothecary is trying to do is stop the Soviets' nuclear bomb and save everyone from a nuclear disaster. Filled with many twists and turns, The Apothecary is definately one you don't want to miss out on. I cannot reccomend it enough!!!!!!! You have to read it. It will be the best book you have ever read in your life!!!!!!!!!!!