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About Samantha S.

My personality is very happy and energetic, and I love to laugh. I am responsible, respectful, and a great listener. I love anime and manga especially action, romance, and comedy genres. I love all kinds of food, and my favorite color is pink.

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

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ironman3_posterThis movie starts in Switzerland. When Tony Stark is in the elevator to exit the building on New Year’s Eve, he meets a guy, Kingsley, with a new idea. So Tony told Kingsley that he will meet him on the roof of the building. Tony leaves the man standing there waiting without showing up. Then thirteen years later Tony Stark takes his titanium suit as a hobby. Kingsley returns with years of therapy and tells Pepper, Tony’s girlfriend, about his excellent idea about redeveloping the brain to recover itself almost instantly. Pepper comments that it would be a great change, but it may be used for very harmful things, and refuses to work with Kingsley…

I think that this amazing movie is fun for older kids and is very entertaining. This movie is very adventurous and intense. I believe that this movie is perfect for every kind of child, 10 and older, and adults. If you enjoyed the first two Iron Man movies, go see this one, based on the Marvel comics.

-Samantha S., 7th grade

Book Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

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alice_wonderland_coverAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a fun fantasy book for all ages. The story begins with Alice and her sister on a bank of a river. Alice peers into her sister’s textbook, and she tries to think what is the use of a book without pictures and dialogues. When Alice begins to pick daisies to create a daisy-chain, she spots a rabbit mumbling to himself. She thinks that is natural until the rabbit pulled a pocket-watch and looks at it. The girl becomes curious and follows the White Rabbit down the deep rabbit-hole.

Soon after she lands, she wanders through a long hall with doors on each side and finds a tiny door behind a curtain without a window. Later she encounters and talks to a blue caterpillar that is smoking a hookah. When the White Rabbit sees Alice, he thinks that Alice is Mary Ann, his house-maid, and tells her to fetch a pair of gloves and a fan. Afterward Alice meets the Queen of Hearts and plays a game of croquet. The croquet game uses a live flamingo as a mallet and a hedgehog as the ball.

Were Alice’s adventures real… or was it all a dream?

You’ve probably seen the Disney adaptation of this classic book, but did you know there’s a sequel? Read more about Alice’s adventures in Through the Looking Glass.

-Samantha S., 6th grade

Book Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

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tom_sawyer_coverThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a great book to read for anyone who loves classic stories.  It is about a naughty boy named Tom doing a lot of mischievous tricks and risky adventures. He has a brother named Sid and a sister named Mary. Aunt Polly, who takes care of Tom, loves him even though he is a firebrand. Huckberry Finn, whose nickname is Huck, is Tom’s best friend as well as the partner in all of his adventures.

One of Tom’s crazy adventures is when he and his friend were in a graveyard trying to revive a dead person with a dead cat at midnight. Before they begin their process they see three men, Muff Potter, Dr. Robinson, and Injun Joe in the same graveyard. They quickly hide behind the bushes because they do not want to be seen by the three men. Instead, they witnessed Injun Joe murder Dr. Robinson for revenge, and then Injun Joe accuses Muff Potter for the crime. So scared, Tom and Huck run to a shed and complete a blood oath that they will never talk about the crime scene to anyone or they will die and rot.

Besides going on adventures, Tom also likes to tricks the children to do his white washing (putting new coat of paint on his aunt’s fence) and trade his trinkets for the tickets that can be used to trade in for the Bible to impress the new girl, Becky Thatcher– when a student receives a Bible, it shows others that they had been a good student.

I think teenagers today are going to like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Even though this book is a classic, there are still some naughty teenagers and they might want to read about how kids were in the 1800s.

– Samantha S., 6th grade