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