Book Review: Cicada Summer
a. Why did you choose this book?
- The title of the book, “Cicada Summer”, captivates my eyes, I thought that this book would be about a vacation and I like that kind of novels. Then, when I read what this book is all about, it captures me, because I really like novels about mysteries and solving puzzles and problems. And that’s why I chose this book.
b. What was the book about?
- The book was about twelve-year-old narrator Lily, a motherless child, who has exiled herself to a self-imposed silence and isolation after a hinted-at tragedy that involved her older brother Pete. Interwoven with the story of a mysterious girl, named Tinny, who suddenly moves into their town. Lily and Tinny faced trials and problems which involves their family and love ones.
c. How did you rate this book? o Exciting o Interesting o Dull o Okay
A Book Review
I’m pretending to be Lily Mathis, as the girl who loves to read Nancy Drew books, who’s good in spying and keeping secrets. I have secrets of my own that no one can and should never find out.
It started with one hot summer day in the town of Olena. I’m on my class with the hundred cicadas on the oak tree buzzing outside Mrs. Kirk’s sixth-grade classroom. My classmates are hunched over their spelling tests, ready to spell adjective words. I’m invisible. Most people would say that’s a lie. They’d say that I’m not invisible because they can see me as plain as day, but most people are wrong. It’s not my skin that makes me invisible. It’s my silence. My silence and the trick I do with my eyes where I never look anybody in the face. I’ve been invisible for two years now. I promised myself that I’ll never use my words again, the words that could save my brother Pete from the accident that results my brother to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. I don’t care about the spelling bee. I walked down the hall and went into the school library. I grab one Nancy Drew book from one of the shelves. I walk to the cottonwood
- The title of the book, “Cicada Summer”, captivates my eyes, I thought that this book would be about a vacation and I like that kind of novels. Then, when I read what this book is all about, it captures me, because I really like novels about mysteries and solving puzzles and problems. And that’s why I chose this book.
b. What was the book about?
- The book was about twelve-year-old narrator Lily, a motherless child, who has exiled herself to a self-imposed silence and isolation after a hinted-at tragedy that involved her older brother Pete. Interwoven with the story of a mysterious girl, named Tinny, who suddenly moves into their town. Lily and Tinny faced trials and problems which involves their family and love ones.
c. How did you rate this book? o Exciting o Interesting o Dull o Okay
A Book Review
I’m pretending to be Lily Mathis, as the girl who loves to read Nancy Drew books, who’s good in spying and keeping secrets. I have secrets of my own that no one can and should never find out.
It started with one hot summer day in the town of Olena. I’m on my class with the hundred cicadas on the oak tree buzzing outside Mrs. Kirk’s sixth-grade classroom. My classmates are hunched over their spelling tests, ready to spell adjective words. I’m invisible. Most people would say that’s a lie. They’d say that I’m not invisible because they can see me as plain as day, but most people are wrong. It’s not my skin that makes me invisible. It’s my silence. My silence and the trick I do with my eyes where I never look anybody in the face. I’ve been invisible for two years now. I promised myself that I’ll never use my words again, the words that could save my brother Pete from the accident that results my brother to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. I don’t care about the spelling bee. I walked down the hall and went into the school library. I grab one Nancy Drew book from one of the shelves. I walk to the cottonwood