Books by Lauren Tarshis
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review 1: Something is happening to Emma Jean Lazarus. It is a new feeling. Could it be that she is in love? Emma Jean is the smartest girl in her grade and is thinking that she has a crush on Will. Emma Jean doesn't really know what a crush is though. So she asks her mom. She told her tha...
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review 1: I love this book and its predecessor so much. The deadpan way in which Emma-Jean looks onto her preadolescent peers' "problems" is just so hilarious and engaging. The one thing I would change about this book is the general predictability of the whole "secret-admirer" plot. I almo...
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review 1: I'm surprised such a short, quick read got me as emotional as this one did. Although the ending might be a bit too tidy given the circumstances (what luck that all 5 people a little boy knew on the Titanic survived...), I think this title paints an otherwise quite realistic and t...
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review 1: My 8 year old son bought this book at the book fair. He loved it and now wants to read the other books in the series. He has read a bunch of other books with me, but this is the first he read unprompted (and in one day, it was an easy read) and is actually excitedly waiting for...
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review 1: ****************************SPOILER ALERT****************************** I Survived Hurricane Katrina,2005 by Lauren TarshisThis book is a really great book, it takes place in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. The main character is a boy named Barry. It was a...
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review 1: This book is about a boy named Danny and Danny met a friend Aki in Hawaii. One day they suddenly saw airplanes in the sky. And then Aki's mom came running and said that she knows a place where they can hide to be safe. They went underground and went into a hole and then Danny ...
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review 1: In 1916 there were some shark attacks off the shores of New Jersey, as well as in a river that fed to the ocean. In this retelling, 10-year-old Chet comes frighteningly close to becoming one of the victims. Chet is staying with his Uncle while his parents go to California to lo...
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review 1: I don't want to say I really enjoyed this book because it is a tragic event, but I really liked how this event was represented in this book. This story really affected my emotions, maybe because I remember watching the news live that day in my senior geography class as the second...
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review 1: Racine BOB 2014-15. This is another of Lauren Tarshis series "I survived". While I liked some of her earlier books more, this historical fiction novel is definitely a good book. Quick, short read for children 8-12, it packs some history into an exciting book. Main character: ...
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review 1: I think the nazi invasion was a really good book.It went into the lives of two kids trying to survived the nazi invasion.I like how they explain how they were trying to survived the invasion and how it infected the two kids.it was a very good book,and i want to keep reading these...