LCE 6th grade Electronic Book Review

1. Student Reviewer’s Name: Will L.
2. Date of review of book: 2/27/08
3. Complete Book Title: Danny Dunn and the Time Traveler
4. Author of Book: Jay Williams
5. Year the book was published: 1963
6. Genre: Science fiction
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 2

8. Main conflict in the book: Danny Dunn and his friends have an unusual family friend who has actually built himself a time machine and accidentally sent himself, Danny, and his friends back in time to the eighteenth century and in Ben Franklin’s house! They have strange encounters with the people from that time and no electricity to send themselves back! I don’t want to spoil the rest of this fantastic book for you now!

9. Setting of the book: (place and time) It first begins in Smalltown Ohio, 1954, but then complicates to the eighteenth century after they teleport through time.

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Danny Dunn is the main character of this book and is in the whole trilogy

11. Are the characters believable and interesting? Yes, the characters are most believable in every way;
they are similar to the ones of their time but unfortunately never existed.

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book: (include who said it, page number, and use
quotation marks!) “It’s no baloney and I’m hungry!” (P.g.117)

13. Good reasons to read the book: One of the many reasons to read this book is that it’s full of action
and adventure, its characters are exiting yet believable, and its funny at the same time.

14. Any reasons not to read the book? I would not find any reasons not to read this book except for that
in some parts are just boring because they just talk all the time.

15. Did you like this book or not? And why…. I enjoyed this book very much because it had an
interesting plot and exiting characters; I wish to read the rest the of the trilogy in the near future.