Worst of Friends

Worst of Friends starts out explaining the differences between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. In the middle of the book, it says that they had different ideas about what power the president should have. So they got super angry with each other and then they weren't friends anymore. The Republicans adopted Tom's ideas and the Federalists, probably Democrats now, agreed with John. The night before Thomas Jefferson was sworn in  was when John left the White House in the middle of the night. And then a few years later, John sent a letter to Thomas and then they kept on sending letters back and forth until Thomas said they should forget about what happened last time. And then they were friends again. The End.

Nino, 8

The Candymakers

Four kids: Logan Sweet, Daisy Carpenter, Miles O'Leary, and Philip Ransford III go to this factory called Life is Sweet. They learn how to make candy because they entered this contest to make a candy. And in the end, they all decide to help Philip win with his Harmonicandy. Philip wins, and receives a $1000 prize. The end.

The book tells the story from four different points of view, the children's points of view, so it turns out different every time at the end, because different things happen to them.

- Nino, 8

 

Survive! Inside the Human Body

This is the third volume of Survive! Inside the Human Body.

Geo and Dr. Brain travel to the brain and learn all about the cerebrum and synapses. Then they discover that Phoebe has a tumor in her brain so they take a sample of it to find out whether it's benign or malignant. They escape through the eye, and with the help of Kay, they find out that it's benign, but the tumor is pressing on the brain stem which could kill Phoebe. Kay and Geo go back inside Phoebe inside the SS Hippocrates (their ship). Dr. Brain uses the syringe they're in and injects near Phoebe's spine. They destroy the tumor with microbubbles and all is well.

I learned about that wrinkles that separate the different sections of the brain and can also save space because the brain, if there were no wrinkles, would be about the size of a newspaper. Ze End.

[Mom's Note: This is a graphic novel translated from Korean, sorta along the same lines as Magic School Bus.]

- Nino, 8

The Griffin and the Minor Canon

There's this griffin who has never seen his reflection. And then he finds out that there is this stone image of him on a church (the church doors). So he goes over there to check it out. And he's in a field, and basically all the people in the village get freaked out. So this dude, the minor canon, goes out to speak to him. So the minor canon comes back after talking and people find out that the griffin wants to see his image so some angry people try to destroy the griffin's image. But the minor canon protects the church so they can't crush it. And then the people (oh, I'm probably spoiling the story by now) send the minor canon away because they figure out that the griffin probably stays with him because he likes the minor canon. So the griffin gets really angry when he finds him gone. He tries to do everything that the minor canon did and since everybody freaked out, they did everything good, like the school children behaved better, the sick people leaped out of bed because they didn't want to be visited by him, and then he got really angry when they told him that the minor canon was gone. So they all freaked out again and brought the minor canon back. The End. - Nino, 8