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Middle School Critics Middle School Critics 360 Wired Magazine · The Hitchhik- (awful) Elephantsandpeanuts er’s Guide to the Galaxy · Elea- nor and Park · Huckleberry Finn Yoshi · Son of Neptune · The Edge of (bad) Totally Not Erica Normal · The House of Hades · 42MO A Very Harry Potter Musical · (ok) Professor Mysterious Teh House of Hades (again) · The Many Faces of Space Ashes of Rose · The Emperor’s (good) No New Groove · The Thief Lord · Thoth The National Baseball Hall of (excellent) A Price Fame: Cooperstown · Michael I am Zim Vey · Sherlock · Eleanor and Electrical Wizard Park (again) · The Railway Series Cooper (I can walk) Meet the Critics on Page 7 Feminist Lily Evans 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. Wired Magazine teaches him. Huck’s mom is dead and his Monthly magazine dad is always poor and drunk. In my opinion Huckleberry Finn is a great book Critic: 360 for anyone, especially if you love long Rating: adventurous books. Don’t worry, you don’t need to read Tom Sawyer first, I Offering clever insight on know I didn’t. technology, innovations… Eleanor & Park happenings around By Rainbow Rowell the world, Critic: Elephantsandpeanuts business, etc. Wired magazine is an Rating: excellent magazine for snippets of news and current stories. Eleanor and Park is the kind of book that makes you want to listen to 80s The Hitchhiker’s music and hug people. Guide to the You may never read a Galaxy book like this. You really should. Eleanor and Park is an incredibly honest, By Douglas Adams realistic, love story. It follows two Critic: Many Faces of teenagers in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1986, Space as they meet, become friends, and Rating: eventually fall in love and stuff. But it’s not all mushy-happy-love– Eleanor is The Hitchhiker’s Guide putting up with a ton of bullying, both is a funny book about 2 aliens, 2 humans, from students at her school, and her and a gloomy robot. It’s a great book for abusive stepfather. I love this book for the funny book lovers. So read and KEEP lots of reasons. The romance is CALM!! believable—it’s not a “love at first sight” thing. It takes time. There’s also a lot of The Adventures of good music references in it. And if you Huckleberry Finn still aren’t convinced, THE AUTHOR’S By Mark Twain NAME IS RAINBOW! You’ll love this book—especially if you like John Green’s Critic: Professor Mystery books. Rating: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a normal boy with a thirst for ad- venture. After his ad- ventures with Tom Sawyer, Huck inherits a large fortune. He is adopted by a widow who lives with her sister who The Son of Neptune By Rick Riordan Critic: 42MO Rating: This book was another masterpiece. If you read The Lost Hero this is for you. Percy’s on a The House of quest and lost his Hades memory. Hazel has come back from the By Rick Riordan dead. Frank’s life depends on a half-burned Critic: Thoth stick. All three of them are on a quest to Rating: get back death. This book has a perfect balance of action and Roman mythology. The latest installation in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series, this book did not exactly meet the success it hoped for. The book was pretty good, lacking its predecessor’s The Edge of Normal barftastic lovey-dovey [shudders] parts. Webseries Now, I can’t say anything about the plot without spoiling the first 8 books. I can Critic: Elephantsandpeanuts say that it picked up right where the last Rating: book left off: on a cliffhanger– LITERALLY. Anyway, read Riordan’s Do you like angst? How about teenage girls Percy Jackson books or feel the curse of with superpowers? What about GLBT Thoth. Peace out. representation? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you should watch “Edge of Normal”! It’s a web series about a A Very Potter Musical Starkid (on youtube) bunch of girls with superpowers. It’s on youtube, and there’s only one season (you Critic: FLE HILARIOUS!!! Harry can watch it in under an hour) but there can Rating Potter + Musical = be a 2nd if they get enough support. It’s a AWESOME!!! It is a great web series — try watching it! must-watch play. So WATCH IT!!! The House of Hades By Rick Riordan Critic: Totally Not Erica Rating: The Emperor’s As Percy and New Groove Annabeth trek movie through Tartarus, the Critic: I am Zim rest of the heroes Rating: continue to battle a vast array of monsters in the Overworld. The Emperor’s New IF you liked the rest of the Riordan books, Groove is a Disney you will be sure to enjoy this new one. I movie made in 2000. would recommend it to anyone who It is about a selfish enjoys mythology and fantasy stories. emperor named Kuzco who is turned into a llama by his advisor Ashes of Rose Yzma. He must learn to be trustworthy By Mary Jane Auch when his only hope is a peasant named Pacha. This is a really great movie, one Critic: Yoshi of Disney’s best. It is funny beyond Rating: belief. (“Tell us where the talking llama is and we’ll burn your house to the All of the 8th grade has ground. Don’t you mean OR? Tell us to read this book, but I where the talking llama is or we’ll burn feel as if it’s too...okay. your house to the ground?”) This is a I guess it’s a good must see Disney film. book, but then again it’s supposed to be a historical fiction book about the Triangle The Thief Lord Shirtwaist Factory Fire. It’s supposed to By Cornelia Funke be about the Fire, but it’s weird because Critic: A Price the fire only happens after the first 26 Rating: chapters of the 30 chapter book. There are too many feelings and not enough This takes place in stuff happening. There are a few good Venice, where two things though, like when the main charac- orphans are hiding ter Rose doesn’t just sit around crying or from the world so throwing up — which is actually what she that they won’t be is doing the majority of the book. Read it split up and taken to their aunt. There, if you want, but you’re they meet a rag-tag bunch of children going to be forced to being supported by a high-heel wearing read it in 8th grade boy named Scipios. What they don’t anyway. know is that there is a detective on their trail. If you like Dragon Rider or the Inkheart trilogy then read The Thief Lord. Hall of Fame Players COOPERSTOWN By Bruce Herman Critic: Cooper (I Can Walk) Rating: This book is about base- Sherlock ball and famous players of the game. It British TV series mentions at least every Hall of Fame player, Critic: A price something about them (Whether it is ten Rating: pages of quotes, stats and facts, or the percentage of people who voted them into Okay. No spoilers starting now. Sherlock the Hall), and it is very entertaining to read, is a British tv series as a modern twist on whether you didn’t know that the pitcher’s Sir Arthur Connan Doyle’s Sherlock mound was a real thing, or you can quote Holmes. It is written by the person who players that most people have never heard wrote Doctor Who (Mo faaaat!) Steven of...and, since I love baseball, I for one love Moffat. While there were only 6 epi- this book. sodes, they are long and very well writ- ten. It’s entertaining because there are Michael Vey series mysteries you can solve yourself and By Richard Paul Evans everything can be a clue. If you liked Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes the book, Critic: Totally Not Erica or just want to solve mysteries, then you Rating: should watch this series. P.S. If you are emotional, bring tissues to season fina- Picture a normal 10th les. Spoiler block over. grade boy. Well, he isn’t so normal. Michael can be Eleanor and Park electric. And...well, I can’t By Rainbow Rowell say anything more without this becoming a spoiler. Critic: FLE Just read it or be cursed forever! Rating: Eleanor and Park is a fabulous story of two very awkward, relatable teens and their very very awkward relationship. From totally awesome 80s body moving stuff to super epic comics, Eleanor and Park is extremely crucial to read or a llama will DIE!!! DON’T MAKE A LLAMA DIE!!! The Railway Series, Volume 1 By Christopher Awry Critic: I am Zim Rating: I am reviewing the first couple of books for Do you like to the railway series. read nonfiction? The Three Railway Engines. In the first story we meet Edward. In the second story The Briarcliff Manor Public Library Edward helps Gordon up a hill. In the third is expanding our teen and fourth story it tells the story of Henry collection of great nonfiction! who thinks the rain will spoil his paint and stays in a tunnel which he is boarded up in.
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