The Hobbit- Book Review by Ashli (age 11)

The Hobbit was a very fun and exciting book by J.R.R Tolkien. I liked it because Bilbo was justanother hobbit, not a brave warrior who had set out to steal from the great dragon, Smaug.Another thing I liked about the book was that the characters kind of added Bilbo to

theirjourney, not Bilbo adding them to his. I particularly like how Tolkien told the story, and howthe characters presented themselves. The story had the kind of dialogue that you would haveexpected from a normal person, the way they talked and acted was very much imperfect,which to the books benefit, made it even better. This book is one of my favorites, and I wouldrecommend this book to anyone who loves adventure, humor, and suspense, or anyone inbetween the ages of 9 and whatever. It is a must read and you’ll find yourself not being able toput the book down!

Cosmic-Ashli's YA Corner

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce, is about a 12 year old boy who loves, "thrill rides"otherwise known as roller coasters, teacups,etc. He is "abnormaly" tall and almost gets to drive a car at a car dealer ship, but when he sees an advertismen about how you could be the best dad and let your child on a new ride called"the rocket" he has to ask his own who says No. So he calls by himself and gets to go but then he realizes
that he doesnt have a child, so he takes the one who used to pretend to be his daugter, Florida. This book is an exciting enchantment that is a thrill ride all on it's own.
I recemend this book for all ages and SERIOSLY recomend the autiobook so your whole family will have a laugh and that is totally cosmic.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth-Ashli's YA Corner

THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH was a book about a girl, Mary, who is confined to her village, surrounded by the unconsecrated, the only thing thats stands between them and her, is a fence. When marrage season comes, Mary is excited, it's the only happy thing thats happened to her in a long time, Mary talks about the ocean and love, a world different than the one that surrounds them now and untouched, the secrets it may hold. But when no one speaks for her, she moves to the sisterhood, a religion  that resembles the catholic church. She finds scary and lonely times but wonders about the worlds undiscovered secrets.  Then, when she finds unfamiliar footsteps in the snow, she knows that he Sisterhood has its own secrets.

The True Meaning of Smekday- YA with Ashli

In an effort to get my daughter critically thinking about the books she reads, I am going to have her right reviews for some of the books she reads.  She is about 10.5 years old.   Hopefully by discussing the reviews with her and going over her mistakes, she will learn something.  So, if you are looking for reviews on YA fiction you may want to keep an eye out for these reviews.

The True Meaning of Smekday is about a girl named Gratuity and her cat, Pig. Aliens attack Earth on Christmas Eve and her mom got sucked up in to an alien ship with a weird mole on her neck.  Now Gratuity is out to find her.  The king alien, Smek, re-names earth and calls it Smekland. The boov (the aliens) “generously” give land to the humans, they give them Florida, so Gratuity has to drive from Pennsylvania  to Florida and finds a boov who seems friendly enough but she’s not too sure about it. When they get  close to Florida the boov calls Gratuity “Turtlebar” what her mom called her .  She steams up at the mention of her mom and starts  attacking the boov who calls himself J.Lo( not the actress) then J.Lo  tells her how the people who got sucked up on Christmas eve how they had moles that held every word the said a lot or thought about a lot to teach them English and the boovs had the moles installed on their necks and that her mom was probably  was his teacher.  Gratuity lets him come with them and they reach Florida, which turns out to  be abandoned then find out that they had to go to Arizona . it's a long drive so J.Lo tells stories , in one part of one there is the gorg who didn’t want to be to be friends a after a while they see a  gorg  ship and J.Lo confesses that when he was at the place where Gratuity found him he accidentally sent a song that went kind of like this: Gorgs are dumb, dumb like soap, and their wives are  fatter than they should be. Then he remarks that they don’t even have wives.  In Arizona  a lot more things happen , read the book to find out …Smek day is very exciting and very funny .  I recommend this book to 5^th grade to 8^th grade but adults could read it too.

Ashli's Universal Soldier Review

This is my 10 year old's Universal Soldier review, unedited.
  "universal soldiur was a great movie because the story of how Luc and the seargent died and the way that since no one lived how the military brought them back to life by cooling cycles and the way that he went against orders and saved a news reporter who took pictures of classified info and they start a entensifying adventure together, It would be great for 10 year olds who are not afraid of a little violence but it would be just right for 12 year olds"