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Alexis D reviews Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm’s Woods by Manuro and Gorobei

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Hocus & Pocus: The Legend of Grimm's Woods by Manuro and Gorobei

Genre: Fiction

This is a Choose Your Own Adventure book and also a Graphic Novel. You chose whether you want to be Hocus or Pocus, Hocus being the boy and Pocus being the girl. Hocus and Pocus must save two young children, Margaret and John, who are lost in the woods. I can't explain what happens in the story because it's a Choose Your Own Adventure.

I ranked the book 4 stars because I could understand what was happening. Also you had the freedom to choose a lot of the story. It was more like a video game than a book because you had to do certain things, for example, for your magical pet. You had to feed it and put it to sleep. And it was a graphic novel. The reason it didn't get 5 stars because I couldn't relate to the characters. But I highly recommend it.

Try this book if you like any Choose Your Own Adventure book.

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Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin

Review by Alexis D, grade 6, 2018 Teen Book Reviewer

Genre: fiction

The main character, Ebo, is alone. Kwame, his brother, disappeared, he went to Europe for a better life. So Ebo went out looking for him, and hopefully find his sister along the way. He has to sail across the ocean and travel on the roof of a cramped bus where the driver won't stop if you fall off. Will he find his sister?

I give this book 2 stars because it was hard to follow along. The book is split into two parts, then and now. And some parts I had to read again and again until I understood. Also, I don't think people my age would like it. I'm in sixth grade, and most people my age like graphic novels. This is a graphic novel, but it's a little violent. I would recommend it to older readers looking to read an adventure story, younger readers wouldn't understand.