Annie-reviewed by Antonio Patti

Annie is a movie about a ten-year old girl who has lost her parents and now lives in an orphanage with a horrible woman who drinks a lot of alcohol. She is treated horribly because every time the orphan keeper, Ms. Hannigan comes into the room they have to say, “We love you Ms. Hannigan” and if they don’t, they go into the paddle closet. Then Oliver Warbucks’ secretary, Grace, comes to adopt Annie for a week. When Annie gets to Oliver Warbucks’ house on 5th Avenue in New York, she is amazed at how big the mansion is. As Annie gets to know Mr. Warbucks, she even gets to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Daddy Warbucks supports The New Deal because of Annie. After that, Annie wants to find her parents, so Mr. Warbucks calls for J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the F.B.I, William Randolph Hearst, the head of the New York Times, and the chief of police. After that, a big drama plays out in which two bad people that are pretending to be her parents come pick her up, drive away. When they get to a bridge, Annie jumps out, reaches the bridge and starts climbing, followed closely by one of the bad people… and a whole lot of things play out after that. I don’t want to spoil the ending. I liked this movie because it is funny but also serious.

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Spy School Revolution-reviewed by Langley Pate

Spy School Revolution is the 8thbook in Stuart Gibbs’ Spy School Series. If you are a fan of action, adventure, and mystery (and Hamilton), Spy School Revolution is for you. In the newest addition to the Spy School Series, Ben Ripley must face an organization that started during the Revolutionary War. This organization is determined to corrupt America. When fighting this new organization Ben doesn't know whom he can trust anymore. I recommend going back to the first book and reading through the entire series. I enjoyed how every time I read it; I was left me on the edge of my seat. This is a great novel; so don't throw away your shot to read it!

Among Us-reviewed by Cece Lassiter

Among Us is a game about solving a murder mystery on a spaceship or an unknown planet. As you play the game, an imposter is among all the identical astronauts!

Among us is a funny and creative game! The astronauts you play as are very cartoonish. The game is very fun too. As a crewmate, you do certain tasks that are entertaining minigames to keep the spaceship or planet stable. When playing the game, you run around the spaceship doing these tasks, unless you’re the imposter. With the two roles, they both have really fun things you can do, such as being a crewmate you can spy on people to see if they are the imposter (Is that just me or...?). As the imposter, you can also randomly spy on people through the vents. I recommend this game for adrenaline-lovers.

Here are some tips to the game:

Crewmates: Use cams, use emergency meeting button for suspicious people, sus means suspicious, watch vents, use tools, and don’t act sus! Imposters: Murder people when no one is around, and there is a vent in the room. Use hacks from YouTube as well!

Among us is a cartoonish game with mild violence, so please be aware of that. Since there is a chat, also leave on chat filter too 😊. Among us is an online game, so you will need WiFi to play as well. Among Us is available on iOS, Android (PlayStore, and PC (Windows).

This is a really fun game to try out!


Stamped-Reviewed by Mrs. Elliott

I recently read Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Remix) by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

This book is an awesome retelling of the history and impact of racism in our country. It guides each of us to understand racism and consciously act against it. This book is eye-opening, extremely important, and inspirational!

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Guts-Reviewed by Stella Graham

Guts by Raina Telgemeier is the prequel to Smile and Sisters, both also written by Raina Telgemeier. Guts is an autobiography in the form of a graphic novel. It is a fantastic book, well written and with excellent illustrations that fit the plot perfectly, and really help the reader better visualize it actually happening in real life.

It follows the story of the author in 4th and 5th grade. She talks about how one night, she and her mom both have an upset stomach, which is really what starts out her phobia of throwing up and getting sick.

Back at school, everyone thinks of the year as “one long gross-out contest.” Everyone will make names for the water fountains, like “coffee, tea, milkshake- PEE!!”

The story takes a look at Raina’s friends and not-so-friends, also. One of her friends, Jane, likes to write comics with Raina. But when Jane starts befriending Raina’s bully, Michelle, Raina starts to feel a little lost, scared, and insecure. Guts is an amazing book with great illustrations, and some great comedy, as well.