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In this issue of KidzPost the theme is “All Things Round”, so we have two book reviews and one movie review on things round from apples to time.
This book is about a twelve-year-old girl named Annie, who loves to run. She runs barefoot with her best friend, Max. Her life has a rhythm just like the heartbeat, that pounds in her ears as she runs.
But then, things in her life start to change. Max begins to get moody, her mom becomes pregnant, and her grandfather starts losing his memory. Annie has been assigned to draw an apple 100 times in art class. When someone takes a bite out of the apple, Annie starts to look at change differently.
The really cool thing about this book is that it is written in free verse poetry. The writing style made it interesting and fun to read, but I wish the book was longer.
Review by Rosa
This book takes place in 1976, in New York City. The main character is a girl named Miranda, whose mother is going on a TV show called, “The $20,000 Pyramid”. Miranda’s family helps the mother practice for the show throughout the book, and this family pursuit is one of the running themes.
Miranda knows everything about her neighborhood, like how to avoid the crazy man on the corner. But everything turns upside down when her best friend gets punched by someone and refuses to talk to Miranda. Then she starts getting mysterious notes. The person who writes the notes seems to know about things in Miranda’s life before they happen. A whole mystery unfolds. This book does have a circle in it, but I can’t tell you without giving away the surprise ending. You will have to read the book to find out!
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Back to the Future has a lot to do with karma, which means what goes around, comes around, or what happens in the past affects the future.
This movie is about time travel. It’s not just technical science stuff; there are mind-blowing stunts, lots of action, and a plot that has lies and deception. Think that’s boring? Think again.
There are actually three movies in the series. In the first movie, a mad scientist, Doc Brown makes a time machine car. In October 1985, he and his young friend, Marty McFly, were about to test the car when Doc’s karma caught up with him. He had stolen plutonium to make the car from a group of terrorists, who had paid Doc to make a bomb for them. Doc tricked the terrorists and gave them fake explosives. When they found out they shot Doc several times, then went after Marty.
Marty quickly got in the car and traveled back to 1955, the date that Doc was going to travel to until he got shot. Marty, a teenager in 1985, was now stuck inside 1955, with no way to get back. The car had only enough plutonium to get there.
While Marty is trying to figure out how to get back to 1985 he sees a man about get run over, so he pushes him out of the way and the car hits Marty instead. It turns out the person that he saved was his dad, George. A teenage girl (his mom) witnesses the accident and invites Marty into her house to help him. Marty soon figures out that he just interfered with the way his parents were supposed to meet. If his parents didn’t meet that means he and his siblings would never be born. If they don’t meet soon, Marty and his siblings will totally disappear out of existence!
What follows is three movies exploring the unplanned consequences of time travel, with Marty and Doc moving back and forth between the past, future and present. They have to keep reliving events to fix the mistakes they made by moving back and forth in time.
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This movie was produced by one of the greatest filmmaker of all time, Stephen Spielberg, and directed by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis. Trust me, this movie is one the best of all time and will be around for a long time.
Review by Avery
Illustration by Alisha
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