The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett's

There was a rich girl named Mary who lost her family and had to live in England, in her uncle's house. There were in the house a secret garden that Mary soon discovered, with the the help of the bird Robbin, her new friend. On the next day, she met a boy named Dickon who could talk to the animals. They became friends and together took care of the garden. One night, she heard someone crying and found out it was her cousin, an invalid boy. She didn't know about him. Then, Mary, her cousin Collin, and Dickon began to play at the secret garden and Collin realized that he could walk and became very happy. When his father saw them playing together and found out about what was happening, he also became happy. (Isabela Lima -4th and Carolina Galvão - 3rd)

Teach us Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish

My favorite part of the book is when she makes the children plant light bulbes instead of onion bulbes (Savannah Hall - 2nd); when they plant light bulbes (João Bosco Lucena - 2nd); when they practice the play (Victor Hugo Gomes 2nd).

I like this part because it is funny and very silly (Savannah Hall - 2nd); they plant light bulbes and they have to plant onion bulbes (João Bosco Lucena - 2nd); they have to practice a play not practice how to play (Victor Hugo Gomes 2nd).

The main character reminds me of Junie B. Jones because she understand things wrongly (Savannah Hall - 2nd); my brother because he does thing when my mom or dad tell him not do it (João Bosco Lucena - 2nd); Garfield because he is funny (Victor Hugo Gomes 2nd).

I think the author is good at writting very silly and funny books (Savannah Hall - 2nd); doing funny stories (João Bosco Lucena - 2nd); writting funny stories (Victor Hugo Gomes 2nd).

Hungry, Hungry Sharks by Joanna Cole

Millions and millions of years ago, strange creatures lived in the world. There were dinosaures, crocodiles, turtles, leopard, whale, wolves, blue sharks, white sharks and others. There are many kind of sharks in the ocean: basking shark, blue shark, hammerhead shark, white shark, whale shark, etc. The most dangerous shark is the great white shark. Most fish lay eggs but most sharks do not. The white shark has just had a bunch of babies that had to go away as soon as they were born. They coudn´t stay there because mom would eat them. They had to look for their own food.
What to sharks eat? Do sharks eat people?
Read the book to find the answer!

(Michael Baggio and Jay-Seoung Yu - 3rd)

Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg

An afternoon, Judy and Peter were left alone by their parents at home . They were bored and decided to play in a park. There, they found a game box named "Jumanji" which is a jungle adventure game. They got excited and went back home to play the game. First, they read the instructions and found out that once you started to play the game, you could not be over until you reach the golden city of Jumanji. Peter started to play and shook the dice. He got number seven and, suddenly, a lion appeared. They got scared, but continued to play the game although other strange things would be happening - several monkey got there; a snake appeared; a volcano started to shake. They had to reach the gold city and kept going until they got there. When they did, everything went back to normal. Their parents arrived just in time.
(Carolina Galvão - 3rd, Isabela Lima - 4th, and Julia Vidal - 5th)