A poignant tale of the discovery of love.
CBR VI # 2 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
I went into this book thinking that I would get an answer to the cliffhanger ending of The Giver. Was Jonas and Baby Gabriel safe? Or was it the final delusions of a dying kid? Well, I was sorely disappointed when the book opened to depict a society completely different from the Community. What was the connection? Well, I just decided to go ahead and enjoy the book on its merits and not as a sequel. Kira lives in a mainly hunter-gatherer society (with a […]
Junior Cannonballer Ewandini
I read This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! because it was a Christmas present from my uncle. It looked interesting. It is the story about two friends who are foolish and are put into two different dorms at school. They are stuck two most annoying students in school and they will suffer nothing until they get into the same dorm. The main characters names are Bruno and Boots. Their headmaster aka The Fish, Elmer Drimsdale and George Wexford-Smith III. Elmer is a science geek. George […]
Jr. Cannonballer Ewandini’s CBR 6 Review #1
Ewandini is 8 years old. His mother, Mrs. Julien, asked him questions and he answered them to write the review: I read The Phantom Tollbooth because my mum said it was supposed be a good book. The story is about a boy named Milo and this weird tollbooth appears in his room and then he gets whisked away into the land of Expectations. Then he goes on an epic quest and fights demons to rescue Rhyme and Reason. The main characters are a boy named […]
CBR VI # 1
I like how when you read the book, it doesn’t really feel like the future. In fact, the setting seems positively retro with the bikes and the innocence, like the 50s or something. But its not. Jonas, he of pale eyes, lives in a Community where everything is regimented. Everything and everyone has its place and time. Your path is set from the moment you are born from your birthmother until the moment you are released from old age. Jonas is in the 11th year […]
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