To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Reviewed by: Ashley, Gr. 8
This book is an American classic tale of growing up and learning to accept the truth. Scout Finch and her brother Jem live in Maycomb Alabama which is a racist community against blacks. Their father Atticus is a well respected lawyer and since their mother died when Scout was two, the children have looked to their house-keeper Calpurnia as a motherly figure. When a black man Tom Robinson is accused of a capital offence to a white woman, Atticus is asked to defend him. As the children see the different aspects of the trials begin to come to life, they realize that the perfect little world that they lived in, is really hateful and cruel to an innocent man based on his skin-color. Scout and Jem grow and develop their maturity throughout the novel and begin to come of age as they realize what life really is like in someone else's shoes.
A Midsummer Night’s Dork by Carol Gorman
Reviewed by: Ashley, Gr. 8
Now that Jerry Flack is 6th grade class president, he plans to come up with new and cool ideas for their class. Jerry believes that as class President he's "dorkdom" will disappear. In order to raise money, Jerry and his friends decide to host an Elizabethan Festival in recognition with the book they are reading in English Class-A Midsummer's Night Dream (Shakespeare). But Jerry is asked to take on a dare, a challenge to save an innocent life. But will he be willing to embarrass himself at the Festival that he planned, in front of everyone? Read this book to find out what happened!!!
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