Two Book Reviews, By Seneca Spencer.

Me at the Crete Library

Hi, I'm Seneca and I am going to review two books I just read for school (I <3 Home school).  I use <3s for my ratings, five is the highest possible score.

Let's start with The Scarlet Stockings Spy written by Trinka Hakes Noble and illustrated by Robert Papp.  It is a part of the Tales of Young Americans series.  The book was very interesting and very sad, but it was more interesting than sad.  The artwork was very beautiful, my favorite picture was of Maddy Rose (the main character) and her mother, they both looked very happy in their little cottage house.

Maddy Rose was a spy (kind of) during the American Revolution.  She had a code to let her brother, who was in the army, know what the British were doing.  Her brother died in the war, but another boy took over for getting the messages from Maddy.  One day, Maddy found out that her brother was dead, and she got her brother's coat, and used her stockings and her petticoat and sewed an American flag.

I would recommend this book for someone who is interested in American history, kids my age (9) to 15 or 16, and even some adults!

This book gets <3 <3 <3 <3 <

The second book I am going to review today is titled Fun With Roman Numerals by David A. Adler, and illustrated by Edward Miller III (that's 3 in Roman Numerals, lol).  This book is helpful, educational, and fun.  The artwork is really cool!  There are really great pictures of every day things that use Roman Numerals.  My favorite page is the Roman men playing in the Superbowl and they have Roman Numerals on their jerseys.  It's very cool.  The back cover even has a chart with Roman Numerals all the way up to 1,000!  I'm going to copy it into my math notebook, so I will always have it, it is very helpful.  I want to learn to play with them with every day math problems, and start using them.

I recommend this book because it's educational and stuff.  It's also very fun, so really I would recommend it for people that want to learn about Roman Numerals and I can't even put an age group on this because anyone who has a good sense of humor would like this book and could learn from it. 

This book gets <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I hope that you enjoyed my reviews and I hope you find these books in your local library system!  Next time I will review Megamind!

<3
Seneca