BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM WHITFORD 8TH GRADERS

This blog has been created and updated by the students in Mrs. Foster's 8th grade humanities class at Whitford Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon. These are their reviews and reccomendations on books that they have read this year.

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Monday, April 23, 2007

The Book without Words By: AVI



I really thought this was an awesome book. This story "The Book Without Words" was an exciting and, at some points, scary book. The book is rather slow at first but then starts getting more exciting and thrilling towards the end.


It is set in the middle ages when sorcery and alchemy was illegal. This comes to be a problem for the main characters, Sybil, Odo and Master Thorston. Not only does Thorston get himself in trouble, he also gets in trouble with the city reeve or authority.


This story gets a little odd at some points. For example, Odo is a crow. Oh, I forgot to mention that he is a talking crow that can't fly. Later you find out he was transformed from a goat to a crow. Another example is when Master Thorston "dies" and then comes back to life overnight and acts as if nothing happened. This happens several more times in the book.


The characters in this book are what really make it interesting to read. They all have very diverse personalities. Thorston is a grouchy old sack of skin and bones. Sybil is a caring servant whose only wish is to not live in the streets and be poor. And then there is Odo. His goal in life is to find out Master Thorstons gold making secret. He is unkind but then grows loyal to Sybil later on.


The grammar and speech that the book used really led me to believe that I was in the middle ages. Just that little bit of speech helps the story out alot, in my opinion.


This book was totally unbelievable. Between Odo the talking crow and the "dead" Master Thorston coming to life it is outrageously unbelievable. Every once in a while books like this are fun to get into. It adds a little fun to reading.


I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story plot and a book that has awesome word choices and writing style. I would give this book a rating of 6 out of 10.


Writen and published by:Cameron

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