www.briarcliffmanorlibrary .org, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Jan. 2015

Meet the Critics on Page 6 The critics The rating system Skittles Totally Not Maxwell Kickstarter Excellent = Too good to be true HUD5-TP WishMaker Peanut Good = Good enough to be true Morty Jr. Disney Fan Paris OK = Socks with sandals Grammarconda Mak Attack Athena the Wise M. Bad = Regrettable M.C. Giggles Suit Up! Stewie Griffon Awful= Defenestration necessary

In this issue The Wild · Popular Science · Home on the Range · The Fire Within · Knightly and Son · House of Hades · In a Glass Grimmly · Ready Player One · Treasure Hunters · The One and Only Ivan · Warriors: Into the Wild · Lord of the Flies · · The Hunger Games · Bill Nye the Science Guy · You Wish · Eragon · Out of My Mind · The Blood of Olympus · The Hypnotist · Looking for Alaska

The opinions expressed in the reviews are not necessarily the opinion of the Library. The appropriateness of the materials reviewed is not for the Public Library to determine and the students are encouraged to review whatever they’d like— therefore, we encourage parents to be involved in and be aware of their children’s book, movie, television, gaming, internet and music choices. All non-original images are property of their various copyright owners. The Wild Knightly and Son Rated: G By Rohan Gavin Critic: Disney Fan Critic: HUD5-TP Rating: Defenestration necessary Rating: Too good to be true

This movie is one of the worst This is an amazing book I read movies Disney has ever over the summer. It is about a released. The plot is about a dad who is a detective until he young who is accidental- falls into a long coma. While ly shipped from a Central that happens, his son wakes Park Zoo to Africa and his him up and they solve a mystery for father goes to save him. important REASONS. Sound familiar? It’s the plot

of with Madagascar’s concept. Not The House of Hades to mention most of the jokes aren’t funny, the By Rick Riordan characters are annoying, and the animation looks Critic: Suit Up! incredibly out of place. There are a couple of funny lines provided by a koala as well as a catchy Rating: Good enough to be true song but they are not enough to save this movie. The only thing wild about this movie is how wildly Percy Jackson and Annabeth awful it is. are separate from the group.

They face their hardest Popular Science challenge yet with only the two of them. The real leaders are shown with Magazine who’s left. Critic: Kickstarter

Rating: Too good to be true An awesome magazine about In a Glass Grimmly the obvious. They showcase By Adam Gidwitz current and upcoming Critic: Grammarconda inventions and ideas that will Rating: Too good to be true change the world. Contents include skin cell printers, graphene and cool water In a Glass Grimmly is scary, craft things. Would read next month. disgusting, disturbing...and awesome! Jack and Jill and

Frog go on a once again The Fire Within awesome yet disgusting adventure. They meet, kill, By Chris D’Lacey and befriend many people and creatures. Oh Critic: Peanut yeah, and they are in deep, deep danger. Want to Rating: Good enough to be find out more, do you? Come on I know you do. true Well stop waiting around and read the stinkin’ This book is about David Rain, book! Lucy and a bunch of clay drag- ons with weird names. Lucy Pennykettle and Liz Pennyket- tle believe these dragons are real. Crazy, right! Not really...Conker the Squirrel is also a big char- acter too. Find out if clay dragons are real or not in this good book! Ready Player One Treasure Hunters By Ernest Clive By James Patterson Critic: Kickstarter Critic: M.C. Giggles Rating: Too good to be true Rating: Too good to be true Probably one of the nerdiest This book by James Patter- books I’ve ever read, also son has great illustrations probably the best. Earth and the writing is amazing. It 2044, mostly devastated and is very suspenseful and it is polluted, where more than hard to tell who you can half the world doesn’t get a proper meal. trust. Bick, Beck, Storm, and “Parzival” lives in a vertical trailer park. His only Tommy are on their own to peaceful refuge is within a van in the middle of a keep their parents’ treasure colossal scrap pile. There, he puts on his haptic hunting business going. gloves and mask where he enters the Oasis, a They encounter many people video game world in which you can touch and feel who seem innocent, but everything and everything is realistic. Many use it most of the time, they’re not. Join the twin to escape the harsh reality they live in. While tirades: Bick and Beck, Thunder Storm, and attending school, he learns the creator of the Tailspin Tommy on an unbelievable quest. trillion-dollar Oasis, James Halliday, has died and left a 300 billion dollar fortune. The catch, find The One and Only multiple “Easter eggs” while being hunted down in real-life and in-game. Nerdy, yes, anyone can Ivan get into it though. My new favorite book btw. By Katherine Applegate Critic: Peanut Home on the Range Rating: Too good to be true Rated PG This book is off the charts! A Critic: Disney Fan gorilla named Ivan is living Rating: Too good to be true in a “domain” in a mall called “Big Top Mall.” How When it comes to Disney he got there, you ask? Read this awesome book! everyone loves Anyway, when his best friend Stella dies, an and Frozen. But everyone amazing adventure to escape comes to life. Want hates this one. Personally, I to know more? Read The One and Only Ivan! find it very funny. It was very clever with amazing songs. While it’s not as good as Hunchback and Lion King it’s amazing and I definitely recommend it. The film is about three Bill Nye the Science Guy cows whose farm is closing down. To get money TV Show to save the farm they go after a cattle rustler Critic: HUD5-TP named Alemeda Slim. It is by far the most under- Rating: Too good to be true rated Disney movie.

If you haven’t watched this show, you haven’t LIVED. He

is a scientist who has a show on Disney. He teaches sci- ence. He is the most educa- tional and funny man on the planet. You Wish By Mandy Hubbard Critic: Paris Rating: Good enough to be true It’s a typical, fiction, young adult book about wishes. Kayla gets a special cake for her sixteenth birthday, and suddenly all of her wishes come true. From all the past sixteen years of her life. So this wish list in- The Hypnotists cludes a pink pony, a life-sized Ken doll who walks By Gordon Korman and talks, and a dirt bike. All sorts of problems Critic: Mak Attack arise from these somewhat awkward wishes, but Rating: Good enough to be everything turns out good in the end. A fun, light, true ha-ha read! This book is a great suspense- ful novel. Jax Opus has a rare The Hunger Games case of the color of his eyes By Suzanne Collins changing making other Critic: Disney Fan people get hypnotized. When an incident happens where he hypnotized a bus driver driving Rating: Good enough to be true through stop lights and driving at a fast pace, he realizes that he has hypnotic powers. Later that It was not the best book I week, he gets a letter from Dr. Elias Malco asking read, but it was pretty him to join a special program to teach him about good. It’s about a girl his unique skill. To find out more, read one of named Katniss who Gordon Korman’s newest novels. competes in the annual

Hunger Games in place of her younger sister. It started off a bit boring but got much better and Looking for Alaska more intriguing as it went on. I would By John Green recommend it, but since most of you already read Critic: Totally Not Maxwell it, I don’t have to. Rating: Too good to be true

Disclaimer #1: Before reading this book, please note this is the type of thing that we have that disclaimer on the title page about “appropriate content” for. That said, this book is great. It’s about a boy who Alaska immediately nicknames Pudge because he’s skinny. He arrives at a board- ing school to try to find himself, but what Pudge finds is adventure, romance, wacky roommates, a boring teacher, some new friends,and, ultimately a tragic loss. I would recommend this book highly — to anyone able to read it. Disclaimer #2: This book is by John Green, the Fault in Our Stars guy, BUT it is awesome and would completely conflict with the notion that he is a bad author and I am starting to ramble and Totally Not Maxwell out. Out of My Mind Eragon By Sharon M. Draper By Christopher Paolini Critic: Athena the Wise M. Critic: Stewie Griffon Rating: Too good to be true Rating: Too good to be true Out of My Mind is about a If you like fantasy or medieval girl who can’t walk, can’t times, this is the book for you. talk, and can’t move (only The main character, Eragon, enough to vaguely point finds what appears to be a with her thumb). She’s hollow rock while hunting. probably the smartest girl in her school, only He returns to his home and uses it as a nice shelf nobody knows it. So, she’s stuck in a class with ornament until, one night, the egg hatches other kids with disabilities who are NOWHERE suddenly into a dragon named Saphira. This is no near as smart as her. Out of My Mind is a great ordinary dragon, however, as she is supposedly book and has a very inspiring story. the last of her kind. As the story progresses we

watch the two become an inseparable pair of Warriors: Into the friends as they dodge danger and hunt enemies.

Wild Dumbo By Erin Hunter Rated G Critic: Skittles Critic: Disney Fan Rating: Too good to be true Rating: Too good to be true This is one of my favorite books!! When young house This holds memories of being cat Rusty gets an invitation to the first Disney movie I ever join Thunderclan, his life is saw. I absolutely love it. The about to change forever. His name is changed to film is about a baby elephant Firepaw, because his pelt shines like fire in the named Dumbo who is sunshine, and is apprenticed to none other than constantly ridiculed because of his big ears, but Bluestar, the leader of the clan. With his best with the help of a mouse named Timothy he friend Graystripe by his side, Firepaw starts his learns that his ears give him the ability to fly. This quest to earn his warrior name. movie is a Disney masterpiece and it is absolutely perfect. This is not only one of my favorite Disney

movies, but one of my favorite movies in general.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding The Blood of Olympus Critic: Mordy Jr. By Rick Riordan Rating: Too good to be true Critic: Suit Up! Picture this: you and a few Rating: Too good to be true other kids are stranded on a deserted island: For real! This is the last book of all the There is also a monster, Percy Jackson series. We’ve maybe. Follow these kids as been through so much they fight to survive—and through this series. There build a society on the island. I suggest have been two wars, many reading this if you like realistic fiction, cool but battles, two prophecies, and many deaths. Now harsh reality stories, and action! Piggy rules. we say goodby to a great series. I leave you with this. “Seven Half-bloods shall answer the call. To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath kept at the final breath. While foes bear arms at the doors of death.” Meet the Critics

Skittles HUD5-TP Hello. I am HUD5-TP but Books, Minecraft, my friends call me Hudstrap animals, Pokemon, (If I had any). Wow it’s dub- FNAF, and Caramel. stop time wub-wub-wub, That’s really it... drop unch wub-wub-wub- wub-unch-unch-unch Athena the Wise. M I ♥ Books. And Totally Not Maxwell knitting and I’m See! I wasn’t Erica! But smart. am I Maxwell? Or am I really Amy? Peanut Kickstarter Peanut + Books = Life. Morty Jr. That’s all there is to Trap, house, big bass kicks Baseball is love, say. and 808s are too much for baseball is life. I have hand(s). my $30 Apple earbuds. Turquoise. Roman soldiers. For Guess who. Grammarconda the Win. #TeamFurious Eat. Sleep. Read. Paris Suit Up! Bonjour! I am in ze 8th grade. Seven Half-Bloods shall I like ze Disney. M.C. Giggles answer the call. To storm I don’t take or fire the world must fall. Sparkles, glitter, more French. An oath kept at the final sparkles, sequins and breath as foes bear arms at most of all giggles the doors of death. #LOL P.S. Suit Up!!! Mak Attack I love reading. WishMaker Enough said. Disney Fan Some spin-off of I am in love with Disney the cliché genie movies. My favorite is The Stewie Griffon wish stereotype, but 4 wishes Hunchback of Notre Dame. because it’s my favorite number. I love You can expect reviews of No extra comment needed. sophisticated many Disney movies from me toddlers too! this year.