'No cream puffs. Just throw heat.' says her catcher. Twelve year old Madison Mitchell is the first girl in southern Michigan to play in the summer baseball league. Madison is the team's best pitcher and a very good all-round player. The whole country has picked up her story. However, the popular girls make fun of her and her best friend has deserted her. Her enemy, Billy threatens to bean her. And she has a crush on the totally wrong boy on her team. Follow Madison as she balances the pressures of publicity, helping her team win and being a regular person.

Reviewed by: hap

Date read: 2/20/2010

ISBN-10: 0375837752

ISBN-13: 9780375837753

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Wallace Wallace, accidental star of the football team, won't tell even the smallest lie. When he refuses to pretend to like his English teacher's favorite book, Old Shep, My Pal, his teacher sentences him to detention until he rewrites his book report. Since Wallace won't give in to write the kind of report his teacher wants, he's banned from football practice and stuck in rehearsals for the school's play. The play is Old Shep, My Pal, adapted from the book and directed by none other than his teacher, Mr. Fogelman. Wallace's truth-telling mouth just can't keep quiet, though, and soon the play takes a turn no one could have predicted.

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 3/30/2010

ISBN-10: 078682462X

ISBN-13: 9780786824625

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This is about a girl who is very into a horse. You have to read the book to find out what happens.

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 11/19/2009

ISBN-10: 0763624225

ISBN-13: 9780763624224

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Laketon Elementary has a nickname for their 5th grade kids, it 'The Unshushables'. But that all changes when Dave Packer reads about how the Mahatma Gandhi practiced complete silence for 1 day a week to bring order to his mind. Though Dave is known to talk nonstop, he is determined to give the idea a try. During school the next day, Dave runs into Lynsey, another chatterbox, and they end up challenging the boys against the girls in a no-talking contest for 48 hours. The only time they can talk is when an adult asks them a direct question at which time they can only answer in 3 word sentences. Can 'The Unshushables' really keep their months shut for the 48 hour contest? Will the parents and teachers figure out what is behind the changes in the kids' behavior? Read this entertaining book and find out.

Similar books: Frindle; Week in the Woods

Awards nominated: Bluestem 2011

Reviewed by: bklyczek

Date read: 5/10/2010

ISBN-10: 1416909834

ISBN-13: 9781416909835

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Commenter: Hap, grade 8

David's always getting in trouble. Whether he's tracking in mud, banging on pans, jumping on his bed, or playing with his food, he hears, 'No, David!' Here, we see David misbehaving again and again, in colorful, comic glory, like when he opens his mouth and we see a gaping hole like the night sky filled with half-chewed food. Won't David be hurt that the only words he hears are scolding? At the end, David's mom surrounds him in a warm hug.

Similar books: David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon; David Goes to School by David Shannon

Awards won: Caldecott Honor Book 1999

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 7/26/2010

ISBN-10: 0590930028

ISBN-13: 9780590930024

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