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5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!): Updated and Expanded!
By National Geographic Kids
From Africa, alligators, and astronauts to zippers, zebras, and Zambonis, this treasure trove of fascinating, fantastic facts will keep fun-seeking 7-to-10-year-olds entertained for hours! Did you know that houseflies taste with their feet—which are 10,000,000 times more sensitive than the human tongue? Or that Sesame Street's Big Bird is one foot shorter than a real-life ostrich? This collection of the world’s most entertaining and interesting facts from National Geographic Kids is bursting at the seams with bright, colorful page layouts and over 1,200 photographs about kids’ favorite subjects.
Egg and Spoon
By Gregory Maguire
Egg and Spoon is a Russian story about a peasant girl called Elena Rudina who lives in a countryside village, and a girl called Ekaterina, or Cat, who lives among a wealthy family and is heading to the Tsar. Elena's father passed away several years ago, her mother is very ill, and one of Elena's brothers are in the Tsar's army, Elena wishes to have some food, as they are too poor. Meanwhile, Cat is on a train heading towards St Petersburg. Afterwards, an accident happened, and both of the girls changed places, Elena on the train, and Cat in the village. Elena finds a firebird egg and Cat finds Baba Yaga(a witch in Russian legends) and her chicken legged house. At the end, Prince Anton(a prince that escaped from the Tsar's palace), Cat, Elena and Baba Yaga travel to the North Pole and meet an ice dragon who cannot sleep because of everyone's endless wants and wishes, and who is melting the ice with his fiery breath. Cat and Elena become good friends! This book is very magical and adventurous, full of Russian folk stories. I absolutely recommend it for everyone!
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous story of Treasure Island. It's about one boy, Jim Hawkins who aspires adventures. When he set out for an adventure, he had met so many characters like Captain Smollett, Dr. Livesey, Israel Hands, etc. Meanwhile during on his seafaring adventures, he had encountered so many obstacles and made few major decisions, some of them might cost him a life, experienced a battle on the ship and on the island. He also experienced violence and near-death, too. This book is a classic and I would recommend this book for everyone who likes suspenseful, adventures, and about pirates. - Happy Reading!
Matilda (Random House Modern Classics)
By Roald Dahl
Matlida Wormwood, just young five years old girl with vast knowledge about everything. She is also a very smart-mouthed which meaning she is sassy and smart at the same time when speaking. Matlida also taught herself how to read, and then ended up reading countless of books. Sadly, her parents were against the reading the books. They also treated her little bit unfairly than Matlida's older brother, Michael, nicknamed Mike. Not a lot of things has changed since Matlida had started going to school, learned that the school where she going to had a headmaster which was not very friendly, and this is where we will meet her, Mrs. Trunchbull. We also met Matlida's class, and her best friend, Lavender, and her teacher, Mrs. Honey. Later in the book, you will learn about Mrs. Honey's background and also a little bit about Mrs. Trunchbull's. - Happy Reading!
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
By Malala Yousafzai
This is an amazing book!😁 Malala yousfatsi is such an inspiring women. She had a hard life and worked through it. In this book you will learn about the challenges and little memories that make Malala who she is. One thing I like about her is she does not act like she is famous. She knows she is just a normal,regular person and she is very kind. I definitely recommend it, but if your younger than 8, some of the violence and the Taliban might scare you. In the book you also learn about a story of recovery. Overall, so far I think this book is really inspiring me and making me want to be an upstander more.
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
By Rick Riordan
Zeus, Aphrodite, Persephone, many others gods and goddesses over thousands years ago before any modern technologies and writings even existed. Percy Jackson, as he talks about few gods and goddesses as our knowledge expands as we learn little more about them plus with small humor. There's even a legends, many of them, are said about them, as Percy himself talks in his point of view (POV) about them. I would definitely recommend this for this is really good plus funny one! - Happy Reading!