LCE 6th grade Electronic Book Review Form

1. Student Reviewer’s Name: Diana H. T.
2. Date of review of book: March 28, 2006
3. Complete Book Title: The Beastly Arms
4. Author of Book: Patrick Jennings
5. Year the book was published: 2001
6. Genre: Realistic Fiction
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 3

8. Main conflict in the book: Nickel tries to find out the secret that is hidden in the Beastly Arms, which is an apartment. Mr. Beastly hides the secret away from him very well though.

9. Setting of the book: (place and time) Nickel lives in the city during modern times.

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Nickel Dill is the first main character in the book. He tries to uncover the secret that Mr. Beastly has hidden for a long time.
(2) Julius Beastly, whose real name is Julius Beasley, owns the Beastly Arms. He was keeping a secret to himself for a long time. He owns the building that has something that intrigues Nickel.

11. Are the characters believable and interesting?
The characters are believable, only Inez, Nickel’s best friend, and Mr. Beastly are interesting.

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book:
“When you’re responsible for something, or someone, they require your attention, your care. Maybe they don’t own you, exactly, but they rely on you. They trust you to do what’s right,” stated Mr. Beastly. (pgs. 170, 171)

13. Good reasons to read the book:
You should read the book because there are some very interesting statements in the book.

14. Any reasons not to read the book?
You shouldn’t read the book because some of the parts are very boring and repetitive.

Did you like this book or not? And why….
The book was okay. I didn’t really like that much because parts of the story was very boring. Not all of the parts of the story were very interesting.