Tuesday, June 1, 2010

From the mixed-up matched up files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweller

The 162 page book From the mixed-up matched up files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweller by E. L. Konigsburg is a story about a girl named Claudia and her brother Jamie that run away. They run away to New York and stay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The caome across a statue that every one thinks was by Michelangelo. The try to prove it but no one beleives them because they are only kids. Then They meet Mrs. Frankweller and she provides the clues they need. This is a great book that anyone who likes mysteries should read.

The Journal of Ben Uchida

The 157 page book The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 by Barry Denenberg tells the story of a Japanese boy in a internment camp. The Japanese are forced into these camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor with the fear that some of them might be Japanese spies. Will Ben make it out Alive?