MACLEAN+READS+CLUB


 * [[image:IMG_3473.JPG]] || Hannah klemmensen is defending the book "Libertad" by Alma Fullerton. It is about two brothers that lived in the dumps of Guatemala until their mother dies. They try to make their way to America as illegal immigrants. It is a heart warming tale of courage! A great book for reluctant young readers. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3474.JPG]] || Lily Huttemann is defending the book, "The Tomorrow Tunnel" by Kristen Butcher. It is about two sisters, Dana and Ashleigh who find the book at a Garage Sale. They learn that by putting a personal belonging in the book, their dreams start predicting the future. The Tomorrow Tunnel is a very exciting story for people who love adventure and fantasy. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3476.jpg]] || Eva D'Odorico is defending the book, "Splat" by Eric Walters. It is about two boys that want to build on to the skatepark. So they come up with a tomato toss where people throw rotten tomatoes at the boys while they are skateboarding on a ramp they made. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3478.jpg]] || Sophie Dorman is defending the book, "Half Brother" by Kenneth Oppel. Half Brother is about a boy named Ben who moves to Victoria so his parents could do a project on teaching a monkey ASL (American sign language). It is an exciting book with lots of twists. There are some sad parts too! ||
 * [[image:IMG_3479.jpg]] || Cam Cosbey is defending the ﻿book, "Pete's Gold" by Luanne Armstrong. Pete's Gold is a book about a boy named Pete who's parents get devorced and has to spend the summer at his grandma's farm. When he's there he finds; a stash of gold and some new friends. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3480.jpg]] || Alisha Thatcher is defending the book, "Dear Toni" by Cyndi Sand-Eveland. Dear Toni is about a girl who has to write in a journal for 100 days in school. She has no friends, so in her journal she thinks we are her best friends. Later she moves to a gas station to take care of dogs. She meets a new friend named Winn. This is a great book for animal lovers and reluctant readers! ||
 * [[image:IMG_3481.jpg]] || Sammie Gaul is defending the book, "Diary of Laura's Twin" by Kathy Kacer. It's about a Jewish girl named Laura. She has to do her Bat Mitztah twinning project. She gets assigned to go to Mrs. Mandlecorns and she gets a diary of a Jewish girl in world war 2. Laura reads sad things, such as; people being killed, the girl felt sad about the orphans but look at how she's being treated.At the end of the diary you think she's going to get killed, but there is a twist to it. At her Bat Mitztah she finds out that Mrs.Mandlecorn was the girl in the book ! This isn't really an adventure book it's more of a mystery book. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3482.jpg]] || Ella Knight is defending the book, "A Perfect Gentle Knight" by Kit Pearson. This book is about a girl named Corrie and ever since Corrie's mother died her and her siblings started playing a fantasy game about the knights of the round table. But as her siblings start to get too old for the game she finds that her family is slowly falling apart. As Corrie tries to keep her family together she becomes more confident with herself and learns to never give up. This is a great story that you can make good connections with and is a realistic fiction book. ||
 * [[image:IMG_3483.JPG width="289" height="264"]] || Payton Reed is defending the book, "The Shadow of malabron" by Thomas Warton. ||


 * [[image:IMG_3475.jpg]] || Ali Ferguson is defending the book, "The Nine Lives of Travis Keating" by Jill MacLean. It is a heart warming book about a boy trying to save 7 abandoned cats at an old fisherman dock with the help of a girl named Prinny and a boy named Hector. One of the small ginger cats dies because some wild dogs smelled the food that Travis, Prinny, and Hector put out for the cats. Felix another ginger cat is really wounded too. Travis gets road blocks on the way and hopefully he can save the cats before it is too late! ||