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Title of Book: The voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Author: Hugh Lofting
Publisher: Bantam Double Books for young readers
ISBN Number: -0-440-40002-3
Rich Scott
Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
Animal lovers would like this book. I would recommend this book to
someone from ages 7-14 and to someone who likes a little fantasy and a
little reality mixed.
Explain why you recommend this book to someone: the main
reason I recommended this book was because the book holds
your interest by ending chapters with a question to make you want to
read the next chapter. The book is about a doctor who takes a boy on a
voyage and the doctor can talk to animals and he has a zoo. I learned
many interesting facts about the animals that Dr. Dolittle met.

Title of Book: The war with Grandpa
Author: Robert Kimmel Smith
Publisher: Dell Publishing
ISBN Number: 0-440-49276-9
Aketha Stewart
Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
A person that likes wars, and also a person that don’t wont
Anyone to take their room.

Explain why you recommend this book to someone:
The book was funny. Why would someone go to war because of a room that
Grandpa did not know that he was going to get. It was
scary because you would never know what would happened to
the people that was fighting. Peter did not wont to give up his
Room he had since he was born.

Title of Book: Me, Mop, and the Moondancekid
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Bantam Dubleday Dell book for young   readers.
ISBN Number: 0-440-40396-0
Cody Jones
Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
9 and10 year olds.

Explain why you recommend this book to someone: the reason that
It good is that it has a lot of action. The children have a baseball
team and the are losers. They found a new coach who helped them to have
a better season. Read to find out how the season ended with the new
coach. Both boys and girls who like action if would   probably like
it.

Title of Book: The case of the Car-Barkaholic dog
Author: John R. Ericson
Publisher: Gulf publishing company
ISBN Number: 0-87719-198-0
Chanse McMinn
Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
Age 7-11
Explain why you recommend this book to someone: I would recommend this book to someone because it is funny, and because it is adventurous, like when Hank the cowdog went to a girls house (which he likes but she already has a boyfriend). Then he gets into a fight with her boyfriend, named Rambo. Rambo is a car-barkaholic dog, and a bully, and will try to beat up any dog that tries to get to his girlfriend. Now it’s a fight between Hank and Rambo. Who will win? Find out on this episode The Car-barkaholic dog!

Title of Book: Hank the cowdog The case of the Fiddle Playing fox
Author: John R. Erickson
Publisher: Gulf Publishing Company
ISBN Number: 0-87719-169-7
TRENT PRIEST

Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
I would give this book to someone 7-11 and to someone whom
likes Hank the cowdog books.

Explain why you recommend this book to someone:
I would recommend this book to someone because it is about a fox
that steals eggs from a chicken pen and foxes really do that. This
book was written because their was a case about a fiddle playing
fox that steals the chickens eggs, and there is not as many eggs
as it is suppose to be. So Hank the cowdog has to find the theif
durning the night when everyone is asleep.

Title of Book: Old Yeller
Author: Fred Gipson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN Number: 0-06-440382-3
Heather Walsh
Age Group or type of person that you recommend this book to:
9-15
Explain why you recommend this book to someone: I recommend this book
because it will make you feel right at home , since it takes place at
home. Also it will make you feel like you know the dog. It teaches if
one life ends everything does not have to go bad. It is about a dog that
finds a new owner and a boy who has many adventures with the dog Old
Yeller.


Title of Book: The Trumpet of the Swan
Author E. B White
Publisher: Haper Collins
ISBN Number: 0-06-026397-0     0-06-026398-9   0-06440048-4
Jordan Jackson
I recommend this book to: Girls and Boys 8-12
Explain why you recommend this book to someone: The Book was happy and
silly because the dad of Louis spoke to much and it was silly and Louis
and Serena feel in love and that made

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