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Griff Carver Jim Krieg

This book is about a kid named Griff Carver, that is a crosswalk safety patrol. The intersection was the toughest in town because there were a lot of problem kids in the third grade. Griff gets kicked out of his old school while he was on safety patrol. When he goes to another school, Rampart Middle School, he signs up to be on hallway patrol. He gets kicked out of hallway patrol when a kid has a counterfeit restroom pass and the kid always brings his book bag with him. Griff chases the kid down but loses him. At the end of the book, Griff climbs into the air duct to get over the auditorium, where the Principal and Griff's mom were. He goes through the air duct until he gets to the wood working station. There he tries to stop the making of the counterfeit passes that 8th graders are making. Then he earns his Hallway Patrol badge back.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 1 Terry Bission

This book is about a kid, Boba Fett, that lives on a planet called Kamino and it is home to an Army of Clones of his dad. Another thing is that on Kamino is that it is always raining, and he has no friends because there are no kids, just clones. Boba Fett's dad dies by Mace Windu hitting his dad with a light-saber during a battle in the arena on the planet called Genises. When Boba goes to the library on Kamino to get the book that he accidentally left there that his dad gave to him before he died. It wasn't actually a real book, it just looked like one, it had a hologram inside. Boba also gets 250 credits from the library because they had kept his book. At the end of this book Boba Fett goes to Corcent that is like the moon except with Aliens.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 2 Terry Bission

In this book, Boba goes to a planet called Raxus Prime that is covered in junk, like pieces of old ships. When he lands his dad's ship he discovers all the junk and toxic fumes. When he lands, he is on a hill of junk. A tunnel comes into view on another hill closely. He goes through the tunnel and he meets a guy with two names, Count Dooku that worked for the Republic and Count Tyranus that works for the Separatist. The Count is playing a deadly game because he created the Droid Army for the Separatist and he also created the Clone Troopers of Boba's dad for the Republic. The Troopers find Boba because the Republic blew up the Count's underground hideout with missiles. They then tell Boba to come with them. They go to a ship called Candaserri and they take him to a orphanage on the ship. He meets a kid named, Garr, and they go to a cloud city on Bespin and he gets his dad's ship back from Aurra Sing, who is a fierce bounty hunter like Boba and Jango. The weird thing about Aurra Sing is that she was trained to be a Jedi, but now she doesn't like the Jedi's.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 3 Elizabeth Hand

This book is about Boba Fett, who wants to get the fortune that his dad left him. Aurra Sing comes with him because she is the only person who knows where the fortune is, but Boba is the only one that can access the fortune using his DNA. When they get to their destination on Aargau, Aurra Sing has to go to put her weapons in Slave 1, which is Jango's ship and Boba goes to level two to search for his father's fortune. He finds the fortune on level two. He finds a Shapeshifter, an alien that can change shapes. His name is Nuri and he deducts 4/5 of Boba's money for helping Boba out. Then Boba ditches Aurra Sing and goes to another planet called Tatooine in Slave 1. He is going there to find Jabba the Hutt.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 4 Elizabeth Hand

This book is about a kid named Boba Fett. He goes to the planet Tatooine. When he drops his dad's helmet on the ground because he stumbled on some bricks. A girl named, Ygabba finds the helmet and starts to run away with it. When he catches up with her they are inside a Theed Cruiser that has been stolen. It has no engine or wings, all it has is the cabin for the army of kids of Gilramos Libkata. When he is on Tatooine, he discovers Jabba the Hutt is there and he travels on a sail barge. When he sees Jabba after their trip, Jabba gives Boba one assignment and that assignment is to find Gilramos Libkata and kill him. Boba finds Gilramos and he meets another bounty hunter, named Durge and he doesn't like Mandalorians warriors. When Boba throws a brick at Gilramos. Gilramos loses his big huge hat and Boba gets it and starts going away. Durge comes up with a laser blaster in his hands and kills Gilramos. He takes the hat back to Jabba and Ygabba and all the other kids are now safe from Gilramos and Boba gets a lot of money. Durge dies by shooting the blaster and there was some oil in the ship and the Theed Cruiser blows up.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 5 Elizabeth Hand

This book is about Boba Fett. He goes on many missions for Jabba the Hutt. Boba's second mission is to find a Noghri Assassin, Jhordvar. Boba finds the assassin and cuts of the hands off the assassin because he made the mistake of betraying Jabba and Boba puts them in a bag so he can bring them back to Jabba. When Jabba sees the hands he give Boba Fett another mission. That mission is to go to another planet called Xagobah, to find a person named Wat Tambor, a Separatist Techno Union Formean that wants the Republic to fall. When Boba gets there he goes into a Mazarian fortress to track down Tambor. When Boba finds him, Wat Tambor is with General Grievous and Boba gets injured by one General's bodyguards throwing something that hits Boba in the shoulder. General Grievous and the bodyguards are both robots.

Star Wars, Boba Fett, Book 6 Elizabeth Hand

This book is also about Boba Fett. When he gets off the planet Xagobah, a starship owned by Assajj Ventress attacks Boba Fett and he has to go to a moon of Xagobah to fix the wing on his dad's ship. Anakin Skywalker chases Assajj Ventress and helps Boba get the wing fixed. Then Boba goes back to Coruscant, another planet and he goes into the underworld so he can get new weapons from Hat Lo. He buys some weapons and a saber-dart, a very poisonous dart that uses compressed air to launch it. Then Boba goes to the Jedi Temple to find Mace Windu, the person who killed his dad and they start fighting. Then the Chancellor gives Boba a ton of credits of money and Boba puts the credits into the bank on Aargau.

Invasion: The Story of D-Day Bruce Bliven Jr.

This book is about D-Day during World War Ⅱ. On June 6, 1944 Normandy, France was controlled by the Germans. The United States attacked the beaches called Utah and Omaha at H-Hour, which means the hour of attack and this was from 6:30 to 7:30am. The British Army took over the beaches called Gold, Juno, and Sword at H-Hour. The boats that the soldiers rode in to the beach were LCVP boats that consisted of 32 men in each boat. Some of the LCVP boats carried amphibious trucks called Ducks and DD tanks. Since the waves were very high the Ducks and the DD tanks could not stay afloat and most of them sank. At the end of this book, the United States and the British get word that Hitler committed suicide and the Germans surrendered and gave up.

Frindle Andrew Clements This book is about a kid named Nick Allen who creates a new word frindle. When he and some other kids in the town start saying the word frindle a lot. Ms. Granger does not like that word, so a lot of the kids have to stay after school in her room and they have to write the word pen one hundred times. After a couple of months, the whole United States start to say the word frindle instead of pen. Then people al over the word start using frindle and it becomes a worldwide word. Ten years later the word frindle goes into the dictionary and that is what this book is about.

How To Grow Up and Rule The World Scott Seegert This book talks about how you can grow up and rule the world as a Supervillain. Vortex, the Incomprehensible, is trying to conquer the earth and rule it. It also talks about creating an evil name like Zardox, the Magnificent and it talks about different superheros that save people. It talks about different types of slow acting death traps for superheros like being slowly lowered to ultimate doom on a crane, moving slowly along a conveyor belt toward ultimate doom, and being imprisoned in a receptacle tank that is slowly being filled with a substance that will lead to ultimate doom and the book talks about different types of layers of evil schemes a villain could have.

No Talking Andrew Clements This book is about a contest, the boys against the girls of Laketon Elementary School after they learned about Gaundi being silent. The kids in the school made a deal that whoever talked more in 48 hours would have to have a big fat red L on their forehead. This meant that they are the losers of the contest. During the contest, one of the rules were that they could only say three words to answer any questions that anyone asked them. At the end of this book, the principle adds another day to the contest because she thought the contest was smart and all the grade levels participated. The contest ends with a tie and each team had 74 words against the other team.

Hoot Carl Hiaasen This book is about a kid named Roy Eberhardt that sees another kid running beside the bus with no shoes or backpack. When he finds the kid in the forest by the golf range, the kid tells Roy that people call him Mullet Fingers. The reason he is called Mullet Fingers is that he can catch a fish with his bare hands. Mullet Fingers and Roy become friends and try to stop people from destroying the burring owls nest. Roy goes to city hall to look at the permit but it isn't there, his dad has it. Roy's dad photocopies it and Roy discovers that the Environmental Impact Statement (E.I.S.) isn't there, so the people building the pancake house were building it illegally. Since they didn't file the E.I.S. the burring were protected by federal law. Then, Dana Matherson, a bully, hurts Roy by choking him. Later in this book, Mullet Fingers helps Roy by hanging Dana on the flag pole in just his underwear. At the end, Dana goes to juvie.

The Roar By Emma Clayton This book is about a kid named Mika that is a mutant with webbed feet and his sister that was kidnapped. She was kidnapped a couple years earlier. When Mika finds out that a new simulator game is coming out and he plays it for the first time he liked it. Later that week an announcement is made about the game and that there are prizes. The kids that enter want to win prizes and fly in a real pod fighter. Mika signed up and he starts playing in competitions. After he wins a couple competitions, his family goes to a giant dome where the leaders give out prizes that are hover cars for the winners and cutlery sets for the losers. At the end of this book he gets to live in a palace and steals a pod fighter, when he gets to the space station he finds his kidnapped sister.

Million Dollar Putt By Dan Gutman This book is about a kid named Bogie that is blind. He can ride a bike, parasail and play the guitar. When his classmates take him to the driving range he and his classmates find out that he is a very good golfer. He meets this girl named Birdie that can see and they become a team that can get a hole in one just by using their cell phones. They got entered into a golf contest and during the contest Birdie gets a heat stroke and has to be taken to the hospital so Bogie’s dad takes over her spot as teacher. They end up winning 1 million dollars from a golf club named Lua Kula.

Boardwalk Bust By Franklin Dixon This book is about Frank and Joe Hardy that are ATAC detectives. ATAC means Amateur Teens at Crime. Their mission in this book is to find out who is robbing jewelry stores and throwing the jewelry out of a plane onto the beach. The first piece of evidence is discovered when a guy with a medal detector finds it. When they get in Bump’s plane, who is the mayor, they find out that it was actually the mayor of the city who was the robber. When the police look through the mayor’s stuff they find a ton of jewelry.

Herbie goes to Monte Carlo By Vic Crume This book I about a car that can drive with no one at the wheel and his two friends. One is a mechanic and the other is a regular driver. They go on a boat to France. When they get there they learn the roads. When they are by the museum a big diamond is stolen and everybody that was near the building at the time was searched. The people that stole the diamond put it in Herbie’s gas tank. When they enter Monte Carlo, these two guys that stole the diamond start showing up to get it back. Herbie’s friends find the diamond and return it and they still win the race.

Schooled By Gordon Korman This book is about a hippie, Cap, which gets arrested twice. He is living with his grandmother on a farm called Garland. When his grandmother falls out of a plum tree, she breaks her hip. He gets arrested for driving without a license while taking her to the hospital. Since his grandmother is in the hospital he has to stay with a guidance counselor and her daughter that is mean to him. He becomes president of Claverage (C average) Middle School. At the end of the book, they think Cal was dead because he didn’t tell them he was leaving and going back to the farm. The 8th graders pay their respect to Cal in the parking lot because they were mean to him. He was actually there and he ends up telling them he was there. His grandmother sells the farm for $17 million Cal and she moved to a condo.

The Pushcart War By Jean Merrill This book is about a fight between the pushcarts and the trucks. The war started when a truck driver named Mack ran into a pushcart that was owned by Morris the florist. Then the pushcart peddlers started making special weapons called the peashooter. They were tubes that shot tacks that were put into peas. At the end of the book, the leaders of the trucking firms, the pushcart owners and the council all go to the Council building and it is decided that all the big trucks will taken off the streets so that traffic will not be as bad.

Mr. Poppers Penguins By Richard and Florence Atwater This book is about a house painter, Mr. Popper, which loves to sit around the house and read about the Arctic and the Antarctic. Admiral Drake sends him a penguin from the Antarctic. After a couple of weeks the penguin gets lonely and Mr. Popper writes a letter to an aquarium and then they send him another penguin. In a couple of weeks ten more penguins hatch at Mr. Popper’s house and he sign a 10-week contract for $5000 a week. Later Admiral Drake comes and tells Mr. Popper that he wants to bring the penguins to the Arctic and Admiral Drake asks Mr. Popper to come with him to the Arctic.

The Toilet Paper Tigers By Gordon Korman The Toilet Paper Tigers is a book that talks about baseball. Their team consists of a coach that does not know a thing about baseball, players who are afraid of the ball and a right fielder that falls asleep during the game. After they finish the regular season games, the head ref calls the coach and the coach tells the team that there are still more games to come. At the last game of the playoffs, their car breaks down and a group of choppers called the Terror of Tigers bring them to the game two minutes before the game would be forfeited. They won the championship because the pitcher threw a curveball, which he didn’t think he could do.

Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce Big Nate is about a kid named Nate Wright. He goes to school at P.S. 38. He has a couple friends, Francis and Teddy that play on his fleece ball team. Gina is his archenemy that is also on his fleece ball team. Another thing about Gina is that she got sent to detention because she was yelling at Nate about a project that they had to do together about Ben Franklin in the library. Also, a kid named Randy is his archenemy and he runs into a table that Nate and Teddy are bringing back to the cafeteria and as a payback he trips Nate at the Championship of the Fleece Ball games.

The Sword Thief By Peter Lerangis The Sword Thief is a book about two kids named Dan and Amy. At their Grandmother’s house, after she died, they have a choice to get 1 million dollars or do a quest. Most people took the million dollars and only a few did the quest. They chose the quest and turned down the million dollars. The quest was taking them around the world to find 39 clues that would give them ultimate power of the world. They go to Japan to find the clue about the elements of alchemy. They find a lot of gold and they get locked in a cave with a rock door with their cousins. At the end, they find out that they have to go to Egypt.

Icefire By Chris D’Lacey In this book, David is late for a meeting with Mr. Burgstorm and four other kids. When he gets there it magically starts snowing because David wished it with his wishing dragon. Mr. Burgstorm gives him an assessment to write a 2,000 word essay on the whether or not dragons exist. At the end of the book he turns in his essay. Mr. Burgstorm reads it and David is allowed to go to the Polar Base with a couple other students and Mr. Burgstorm.

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games is about the girl named Katniss, whose sister is nominated for the 27th Hunger Games. Katniss then volunteers to go to the Hunger Games for her sister and for 2 weeks she trains for the games. At the beginning of the 3rd week the competition starts and in the first 30 minutes 8 people were killed in the fighting. At the end of the game the person that made up the games said there could be 2 winners in the same district. District 12 won because of Katniss and another kid.

The Series of Unfortunate Events The Hostile Hospital By Lemony Snicket My book was about when Claus, Violet and Sunny went to the hospital in a VDF van. When they got to the hospital from the Last Chance Store they go down to where the Library of Records is located. A couple of hours later, Esme Squalor came into the Library of Records and knocks over all the filing cabinets and Violet gets trapped and knocked out. When Claus and Sunny find Violet they were forced to do surgery on their sister. When they were about to start someone came in and said there was a fire so they ran away with their sister into the Ward of Nasty Rashes and they escaped into Count Olaf’s car.