Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace

Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace is awesome! I read it about 4 times. It's about a small boy with a big imagination. He has two sisters; a little sister named Lucy and a big sister named Piper. He also has a dog named Argyle. Frankie doesn't think he's studying very much because he doesn't really have time when he's doing all the fun things he does with his family, but math is everywhere, so he's actually studying and having fun at the same time! His dad is good at baking and they baked a new kind of muffin. They had to measure ingredients and divide the batter equally so that all the muffins would be the same size. That's math! The comic parts of the book are really good.

Natalie, 8

Jeremy Bender vs. the Cupcake Cadets

I loved Jeremy Bender vs. the Cupcake Cadets. It is about a boy and his friend named Slater and there's this group of only girls called the Cupcake Cadets and his father has a very expensive KrisKraft boat and when Jeremy and Slater were cleaning the engine there was this special stuff you had to put in it, but instead Slater grabbed some grape juice and they put it all over the boat and Jeremy knew if his dad found out he would be dead meat. So the Cupcake Cadets are having a sailboat race and Jeremy decided to dress up like a Cupcake Cadet and join the group so that they could win the boat race and get the money to fix the boat before his father finds out what they did. That meant he had to dress up like a girl! He used his sister's wig and her old Cupcake Cadet uniform. There was another troop of Cupcake Cadets and their leader is Miss Sanchez and she is the arch enemy of Miss Randall, the leader of the other group of Cupcake Cadets, the one Jeremy and Slater join. They have a game of field hockey, and there's something else I must tell you, it's not normal field hockey, the girls from Miss Sanchez's group, Group 224, are big and mean, so it's more like a war than like field hockey. 

Natalie, 8

Sidekicks

I really loved Sidekicks. I loved it so much I read it all in one afternoon--the same day I got it! The characters are: the dog Roscoe, aka Metal Mutt; the cat, Claw, aka Static Cat; the hamster, Fluffy; and a chameleon, Shifty, aka The Chameleon. The Chameleon is very funny!  He says and does really funny things.

 
Their owner is a superhero and they want to be superheroes too, and in the end they are. The owner's name is Captain Amazing and he can fly and he's allergic to peanuts. He fights crime and his pets do too. One of my favorite parts is that there's a giant hippo at this restaurant who is hogging all the food and he's eating some fish when the chameleon becomes invisible and makes the fish look like it is actually alive which scares the hippo and he runs away.

I would recommend this book to anyone who likes comics or superhero animals!

Natalie, 7

Invisible Inkling

I really loved Invisible Inkling!  It's a great story about this invisible creature named Inkling that is Hank's best friend. She is an invisible bandapat, an endangered species. She is mostly orange, with black stripes on part of her, and looks mostly like a cat, an orange cat. When Hank goes to school one morning, he runs into a bully, a boy named Gillicut. Gillicut steals Hank's sprinkles - the best part of his lunch every day - until one day when Inkling comes to school . . .. She pounces on Gillicut, grabs his pizza in her teeth and smacks him across the face-- first with the tomatoes and cheese side, then with the crust side!  The teacher Miss Cherry is going crazy blaming Hank for this mess, when he's not really doing it.  Hank can't really explain Inkling to Miss Cherry so he gets in big trouble.  The idea of an invisible creature slapping a boy with pizza is actually pretty funny!  Inkling loves squash-- another favorite scene of this book is when Hank, his mother and Inkling go to the supermarket and Inkling finds some squash.  Inkling runs up to the top of the pile of squash and grabs one of them then she runs down the pile of squash and tries to go outside.  Unfortunately, Hank's mother sees Inkling and she thinks Inkling is a rat trying to steal the squash!! She hits him with the broom several times, fortunately though, Inkling is not seriously hurt.  These two scenes are what I like best about this

book-- because I LOVE funny books.

Natalie, 7

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie

I love Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie so much that I read it all in one night. It's about Eleanor, who's going into third grade, and she thinks third grade won't be good, but it turns out to be great. She was afraid her friends would  have forgotten about her, but they didn't. Eleanor's first and favorite babysitter moved away to Florida and Eleanor is very sad. She gets a  new babysitter named Natalie, (that's my name too!) and she ends up loving her, too. One cool thing about this book was that it had really  short chapters so I could read a lot of chapters without stopping.

Natalie, 7

Judy Moody, Girl Detective

Judy Moody, Girl Detective is very funny and has very good characters. I really enjoyed reading it because it seemed so exciting. I really like when something really exciting happens, like when they almost catch the bad guys. It is not like the other Judy Moody books very much; at the beginning, it's like she is a real detective and they talk in a different way.

Anybody that likes Judy Moody will love this book!

Natalie, 7