Reading Review with Christal

Title: Turtle in Paradise Author: Jennifer L. Holm Genre: Fiction Major Awards: Newbery Honor Book (2011); Golden Kite Award for Fiction Age: 9-13 This book is about a young girl who dreams of living in Paradise. Turtle is a young girl growing up through the Great Depression, and she's a typical eleven-year-old girl although she hates Shirley Temple. She believes life isn't what it's like in the movies and knows that it's complicated, messy and sometimes there aren't happy endings. Her mom is a hard-working housekeeper ad her latest boss doesn't allow children so Turtle gets sent to live with her Aunt Minnie, her mother's sister, in Florida. Growing up she was always mocked for never having her own house, but when she got to Florida, she realizes that the place is basically a dump. Turtle showed up on her aunt's doorstep and took her in even though she hadn't seen her sister in years. During her time here she got to know her cousin Beans and hu...

Title: 26 Fairmount Avenue Author/Illustrator: Tomie DePaola Genre: Fiction Major Awards: Newbery Award Honor Book (2000) Age: 7-11 This book is about how 26 Fairmount Avenue came to be. his story is told through little Tomie's eyes. At first they lived in an apartment on Columbus Avenue, with another family living upstairs. A big hurricane hit where they lived, and they had just started building their first house, only for it to be destroyed by the hurricane. Once the hurricane was over, there was a lot of cleaning up to do. So they came together and got it fixed up. It then talked about what the parents went through in their process deciding to build a house, and then it got destroyed. When Tomie was supposed to start Kindergarten he and his mother waled to school until they reached a corner and he wanted to walk by himself. He go to class and asked the teacher when he would learn to read and she told him not until 1st grade and he turned around and left and went home. His ...

Title: Last Stop on Market Street Author/Illustrator: Matt de la Peña/ Christian Robinson Genre: Fiction Major Awards: Newbery Medal (2016); Caldecott Honor Book (2016); Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book (2016); New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book (2015); Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book (2015) Age: 3-5 This book is about how a young boy learns to see the beauty in the world around him like his grandmother does. It was Sunday and after church, CJ and his grandma take the bus home, and they ride all through the town. CJ asked a lot of questions, and was very curious as to why they had to ride the bus, or why he didn't have iPod like these two older boys who got on the bus, and for every question his grandma had a wonderful answer. When he asked about the bus, she told him that the bus breathed life and for one thing it didn't have Mr. Denis, the bus driver, who always had a trick to show CJ. He had asked how come two of his friends ...