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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
by
Cressida Cowell

I really enjoyed this book.  I would recommend it for anyone starting at about age six, especially if they love humorous books. 

It’s about a boy named Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, who is the son of a chief.  He needs to become a Viking.  The first thing he needs to do is catch a sleeping dragon.  He ends up getting the most common little garden dragon, and to top it off, it has NO TEETH!  Hiccup named him Toothless.  However, he did one thing wrong.  Hiccup can speak Dragonese, which is against the rules.  But, since he can talk to Toothless, he thinks he is able to train him better, but Toothless runs off and gets into trouble. 

Find out if Hiccup becomes a hero, if he gets exiled, or if he gets into even more trouble.  This book is an exciting, funny, adventurous, and downright silly book about a boy and his dragon. 

Meesha Clark

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I enjoyed this book. It was very exciting. It is about a girl named Cale Crane who lives on a farm with no horses at the time and Cale met a jockey named Manolin at her dad's work, which is at a racetrack. She also saw a horse named Sonya who likes to eat candy.

The people who owned Sonya entered her in the race even though Cale's dad suggested that they should let her rest and not race. Just as Sonya was pulling into the front, she collapsed to the ground and the vet said she broke her cannon bone. Cale's dad was fired and he took Sonya, Manolin and Balon (another person who worked with her dad) with him, hoping that he could heal Sonya enough to walk. Even Cale helped take care of Sonya.

Every night, Cale would sneak out of bed, grab two popcicles that she would leave outside to go give to Sonja. After a while, Sonya could stand. A while later, the vet said she didn't see why Sonya couldn't have a baby. But whenever they tried to get a famous race horse named Grand Slam, they didn't have enough money to borrow him, so they could get a baby.

Cale's grandpa told Cale to take a coffee can to her dad. Her dad wouldn't accept it because it was filled with money to breed the horse, so he could sell the foal. Cale found out that Sonya's full name was Sonador. That means Dreamer in Spanish.

The vet came back and said that Sonya couldn't have babies. After a while they put her in a race, a claimers race. Sonya came in third. But Sonya was claimed. Cale didn't want to hear this. Sonya was claimed for $15,000.

But, Cale's dad was able to get Sonya back and made Sonya Cale's horse. Cale decides to run Sonya in the breeder's cup classic! She makes it into the fourteen horses that run the race. But Cale needed more money if she was going to enter. So she went to a prince who loved spending money on the races. She asked him for $120,000, but if Sonya won, she had to pay him back double. Sonya went on and on until she did it. She won the classic.

This book was very exciting and I enjoyed it.

Meesha Clark

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