A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff

A Tangle Of Knots is about a girl named Cady. Cady could make perfect cakes. That was her Talent. In this book Talent is with a capital T.She could make a cake that matches up with someone's personality. Cady was for adoption.Some people wanted to adopt her but Mrs.Mallory said Cady didn't match up with anyone of them. Mrs.Mallory was the adoption owner. She would match up kids with parents that wanted to adopt them. That was Mrs.Mallory's Talent. Toby is a man who got married in Africa and had a daughter. Toby's wife died and he sent his daughter to adoption. One day Toby is driving around into a adoption place where Cady was. He wanted to adopt Cady. So,he did. There is a lot of more people in this book. They are the owner, V, Marigold, Will, Zane, and Mrs. Asher. The owner wants to steal everyone's Talent in this book. V is a oboe player. Marigold is Zane and Wills sister. Will is a good hide and go seek boy. Zane is a spitter. And Mrs.Asher is Marigolds Wills.  - JN

Tangle of Knots is a book about different characters including Cady, a young orphan that has a talent for baking the perfect cake for any person. Another character is Miss. Mallory, who owns the orphanage. Her talent is matching up orphans to there perfect parents. Zane is the oldest Asher child. He has a talent for spitting. He is the trouble making type of kid. Next is Marigold, who plays the oboe, (not as good as V) and has not found her talent yet, but tries very hard to every day. Will is a 6-year old boy that has a talent for getting lost.   -MMD

Tangle Of Knots is about all of these orphans that have talents but The Owner tries to take them. Cady always tries to get to know the person that she is baking a cake for it is her method to find out the best cake for their personality. no one wants the owner to steel Cady's talent So in a baking when The Owner came to Steel Cady's talent with the ice they everyone tried to stop him. Cady has been in the Orphanage the longest people adopted her and then didn't want her anymore. Cady doesn't know why she tries to act her best when she get adopted but for some strange reason she cant until a man named Toby comes and adopts her for life.I like how all of the characters stick together and help everyone. I like how the book switched between every persons point of view so you get to know how every character felt except The Owner. I think they should do it from The Owner's point of view so we could know why The Owner wanted the talents I would give this book eight stars.  - RT  

Tangle of Knots is about a girl named Cady an orphan who has a special talent for baking. Then out of nowhere a man named Toby comes and adopts Cady. Meanwhile Marigold and her two brothers Zane and Will are back home doing different things. Marigold was looking for a talent, Zane was practicing his talent which was spitting and Will getting lost as usual, he has a talent for getting lost. At the same time the owner who tries to steal everyone's talent is looking for a way to steal Cady's talent for baking. Cady is entering the baking contest and is sure she will win because of her great talent for baking. But when Cady and Toby find out something interesting about there relationship and the Owner does something sneaky, things change.- MM

The Real Boy by Anne Ursu

I think the real boy is a little boring in the beginning but then it makes up for that when the book gets to the middle and end. If I wrote this book I would make it more interesting,exciting, and be more cool. If I could talk to the author I would tell him to make the book better. I like this book a little because it has monsters and magic. If I rated this book from one through ten I would choose three and a half or four. I would choose this because I don't think this book is very interesting. But I like it a little.   - TS

The Real Boy is about a boy named Oscar who is normal but he lives with the most powerful magician in the island. Caleb. Caleb's apprentice wolf is mean to Oscar and picks on him. SPOILER ALERT he dies. Then when Caleb leaves for a long time Oscar makes a friend named Callie. Callie tells Oscar many kids are getting sick. since Oscar is good with magic plants he goes with Callie to the village to help the kids. They can't find out whats wrong so they leave. Then Oscar and Caleb fight this dirt monster. Oscar is safe Caleb is not. SPOILER ALERT dies. Oscar finds out how do kill the monster. To kill it with magic. Once he does the island stops using magic. The begging is really bad the ending is really good.SPOILER ALERT the city kids are made of wood. -A.G.S   

The Real Boy is about a boy named Oscar who is a magicians hand. Oscar makes herbs for Celeb ( the magician) and his shop. The shop sells protective magic and lucky magic. Wolf Caleb's apprentice is really mean to Oscar sometimes. But one day Caleb leaves the shop to go on secret business and wolf leaves on an urgent mission, so Oscar is left alone. After a while Oscar get's  worried because Wolf should be back until Master Thomas comes in and says ( SPOILER ALERT ) Wolf dies. Then Oscar goes to Caleb's herb replenishment with Callie the Healer's apprentice and sees that SPOILER ALERT Caleb's Glass Houses are destroyed. After that Oscar and Callie are trying to find out about the plauglands which is the thing that almost killed everyone is spreading into the City. And find out that all the city children are getting sick from it. Oscar and Callie work on almost all the kids to make them better.   - TB

The real boy is about a boy named Oscar who needs to save the magic world. He has a master named Caleb. Wizard trees are the most powerful trees. SPOILER ALERT Caleb cuts them down. At the end of the book there is a monster and it is trying to kill Oscar. Oscar runs to the  plauguelands and runs in the ocean. The monster drowns and Oscar and the city is safe. Oscar is the most powerful wizard in the wizard world. - O.C

The Real Boy is about a boy named Oscar who is trying save the magic from all of the bad things in it like the monster that destroyed the glass house. He is trying to save the wizard trees that Oscar's boss Caleb SPOILER ALERT cut down. Oscar goes to try to save the wizard tree by getting a sack filled with magic thing and feeds it to the ground. The ground kept wanting more until Oscar ran out of food. When he ran out the monster that destroyed the glass houses came out and was chasing Oscar all the way threw the plaguelands. He ran all the way to the end of the plagueland, and there was the ocean. Oscar never seen the ocean before and he thought it looked scary to Oscar, but anyway he jumped in the monster was still chasing him so the monster was in the water. When the monster was in the water the waves were pulling it apart. He was so happy when the monster was gone. - M.R