About me: I am Abhiram, and I am studying in seventh grade. My class is 7A. I enjoy reading and writing stories and also like to play soccer. My favourite subjects are English, Math and Science.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a North American classic written by the unparalleled Harper Lee. Using her graceful prose,  Ms. Lee introduces critical problems that plague the society and explores them through the eyes of an innocent young child living in the Southern United States during the great depression.

In Maycomb County, a quaint town in Alabama, every family that indulges in anything has a streak, whether it be a peculiar streak, a morbid streak, or something more serious. Here, young Scout Finch along with her brother Jem, and Dill Harris try to make Boo Radley come out. Boo is the son of the Radley family, who hasn't come out of the dilapidated

by Shreya Challa 10A
Title: Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
Genre: Adventure fiction
Rating: 4 stars
Recommended for: ages 9 and above
Reviewer: Shreya Challa

Do you ever feel like you're under a curse and nothing goes right? Stanley Yelnats feels like that everyday. And it all started with his great-great-grandfather! Why? Ever since his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather insulted a gypsy, almost nothing has ever gone right for the Yelnats.

So, of course, when Stanley gets arrested for stealing shoes from his sports hero even though he is innocent, he blames his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. But nobody believes he's innocent, so he gets sent to Camp Green Lake, where there's no lake. There was, a long time ago, but it soon dried up.